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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2020
Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;
Deshan Miao, Beijing, CN;
Shaohui Sun, Beijing, CN;
DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., Beijing, CN;
Abstract
Disclosed are a beam switching method and apparatus, relating to the field of wireless communications, and used for reducing beam switching time and reducing the signaling overhead of switching. The method comprises: determining a beam that needs to be switched, and obtaining the beam identifier of a switched beam and physical random access channel (PRACH) resource indication information; and after the switching of the beam is completed, transmitting, to a network device on the time frequency resource of the switched beam indicated by the PRACH resource indication information, a PRACH signal used for indicating that the switching of the beam is completed. By means of the beam switching method, a beam switching process does not need to transmit an RRC signaling to the network device, and does not need to wait to establish an RRC connection with the network device.