The invention discloses a PDCCH candidate / channel
estimation number distribution / mapping method and
terminal equipment. The method comprises the following steps: 1, if the total number of the PDCCH candidates of the
terminal equipment in the
current time slot is greater than the maximum number of the PDCCH candidates supported by the
terminal equipment, or the channel
estimation number required bythe terminal equipment exceeds the maximum channel
estimation number supported by the terminal equipment, allocating / mapping PDCCH candidates or channel estimates among a plurality of monitoring opportunities of the
current time slot according to the at least one piece of information, wherein the at least one piece of information comprises at least one of an OFDM symbol position of a monitoring opportunity, a scheduled
cell priority associated with a search space set, a service priority, a channel priority, a DCI format corresponding to a PDCCH candidate monitored by the search space set, andan RNTI. According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the
processing capacity of the UE can be fully utilized, the control
resource allocation is maximized, the
control channel allocation blocking probability is reduced, and meanwhile, the
processing capacity of the UE is not exceeded.