A method for indicating a power saving mode, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receiving first Downlink Control Information (DCI), where the first DCI is DCI that is not used for scheduling data, and the first DCI is used to indicate a first cell of the terminal to switch to or activate a target power saving mode.

This application provides a communications method and a communications apparatus. A first station in a first multi-link device sends first information to a second multi-link device, where the first information is used to indicate a frequency at which a station in a power saving mode in the first multi-link device receives a beacon frame. In this way, the second multi-link device may learn about, based on the first information, a frequency at which a station in the first multi-link device receives a beacon frame, thereby helping the second multi-link device effectively manage a cache service of each station in the first multi-link device and manage a data buffer space.

A power saving mode switching method, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The power saving mode switching method, which may be performed by the terminal, includes: perform a switching operation at a first moment before on duration of a DRX cycle, where the switching operation is used to switch a first cell of the terminal to a target power saving mode.

A power saving mode switching method, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The power saving mode switching method, which may be performed by the terminal, includes: perform a switching operation at a first moment before on duration of a DRX cycle, where the switching operation is used to switch a first cell of the terminal to a target power saving mode.

A downlink reception triggering method, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. A method on a terminal side includes transmitting a first uplink signal, where the first uplink signal is used to trigger a first downlink reception.

A channel monitoring method is provided. The method comprises: during the duration of skipping physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, if a terminal device sends first information, the terminal device resuming PDCCH monitoring. Further disclosed in the present application are another channel monitoring method, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The UE starts a first timer (such as a discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer), after sending an uplink (UL) data transmission to a network entity. The UE then starts a second timer (such as a DRX retransmission timer) when the first timer expires. The UE then determines whether to wake up or sleep for a duration of the second timer based on a prior block error rate (BLER).

A method for a UE to perform a MUSIM operation is provided. The method includes connecting to a first network associated with a first USIM; transmitting a request message to the first network, the request message including assistance information to request a time gap for the MUSIM operation; receiving a first time gap configuration from the first network in a case that a type of the time gap requested by the UE is aperiodic, the first time gap configuration indicating a starting SFN and a starting subframe of a first configured time gap; and in a case that the UE receives the first time gap configuration, switching to a second network, while keeping a connection to the first network, during the first configured time gap according to the first time gap configuration, the second network being associated with a second USIM.

A method for a UE to perform a MUSIM operation is provided. The method includes connecting to a first network associated with a first USIM; transmitting a request message to the first network, the request message including assistance information to request a time gap for the MUSIM operation; receiving a first time gap configuration from the first network in a case that a type of the time gap requested by the UE is aperiodic, the first time gap configuration indicating a starting SFN and a starting subframe of a first configured time gap; and in a case that the UE receives the first time gap configuration, switching to a second network, while keeping a connection to the first network, during the first configured time gap according to the first time gap configuration, the second network being associated with a second USIM.

A user equipment (UE) and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a downlink (DL) signal including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and/or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and/or transmitting an uplink (UL) signal including a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and/or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the UE monitors the PDCCH when the UE is in active time of a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The method can reduce the power consumption of the UE.