Measurement and control method and device thereof
Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for measuring and controlling the same.
Background
With the increasing of mobile data traffic, spectrum resources are increasingly strained, network deployment and traffic transmission using only authorized spectrum resources may not meet traffic demand, so a long term evolution (L TE, <tttranslation = L "&tttl &ttt/t >tong terminal evolution) system may consider to deploy transmission (Unlicensed L TE, abbreviated as U-L TE or L TE-U) on Unlicensed spectrum resources to improve user experience and extend coverage.
L bt (listen Before talk) principle on unlicensed spectrum introduces:
the non-authorized spectrum is not planned to be a specific application system, and can be shared by various wireless communication systems such as Bluetooth, WiFi and the like, and the various systems use shared non-authorized spectrum resources in a resource preemption mode, so that coexistence between L TE-U deployed by different operators and coexistence between L TE-U and WiFi and other wireless communication systems are a focus and a difficulty of research, 3GPP requires ensuring fair coexistence between L TE-U and WiFi and other wireless communication systems, an unlicensed frequency band is taken as an auxiliary carrier to be assisted by a main carrier of the licensed frequency band, L BT is taken as a basic means for L TE-U to compete access, and approval of almost all companies is obtained, the nature of the BT L BT technology is that an 802.11 system adopts a carrier sense/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) mechanism, the resource preemption mode of the WiFi system on the non-authorized spectrum is shown in figure 1, the channels are monitored at first, when the idle time of the channels reaches DIFS (distributed inter-Frame Space), the current channels are judged to be idle channels, then various stations wait for entering the channels, and the stations are used for avoiding collision of other stations, and are required to be released for avoiding other stations, and further ensuring the resources to be occupied by other stations.
L TE, when operating on the carrier of the unlicensed band, it is also necessary to use L BT mechanism to compete for resources in order to guarantee fair sharing of spectrum resources with other devices or systems.
L AA measurements are described below:
l AA system, there is hidden Node problem, UE communicates with site first Node (Node), but there is site second Node near UE, for down transmission, first Node will firstly do L BT to judge if the unauthorized carrier channel is idle before sending signal to UE, but because site first Node is far away from site second Node, the first Node can not monitor the signal sent by the second Node, therefore, even at the time of second Node transmitting signal, L BT detection by the first Node will also get the wrong conclusion that the channel is idle, therefore the first Node will send signal to UE as usual, but UE may not receive the signal of the first Node normally because of the interference of the nearby second Node.
In order to detect hidden nodes in the unlicensed band, in the L TE system, the eNB configures the UE connected to it to perform Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) measurement.
The time and period of RSSI measurement by the UE;
reporting period of RSSI measured value;
the RSSI threshold value.
The UE carries out statistical processing based on the measurement values in the period and reports the following measurement values to the eNB:
a percentage of measured RSSI above a threshold;
average of the measured RSSI.
The measurement gap (gap).
In order to implement cell handover between different frequencies or different systems, the system needs to configure the UE to stop data transmission and reception in the current operating frequency band within a certain time period, and adjust the transceiver to measure the channel quality of the different frequency or different system cell, where the time period is called as measurement gap.
The pattern for measuring gap in the existing L TE system is as follows:
TABLE 1 gap Pattern configuration supported by UE
However, in the RSSI measurement, the measurement time configured on the network side may be independent from the current measurement gap, for example, in the carrier selection, the UE is required to measure the RSSI of the carrier when the serving cell does not transmit the DRS, so as to obtain the strength of the signal transmitted by other devices operating on the carrier. At this time, the UE and the network side need not only stop data transmission and reception in the current operating frequency band within the measurement gap, but also stop data transmission and reception in the current operating frequency band at the RSSI measurement time, which results in a long service interruption time. Assuming that the repetition period of the measurement gap is 40ms and the period of the RSSI measurement is also 40ms (the measurement length is also 6ms), the UE cannot transmit and receive data in 12ms every 40ms period in the serving cell. If the service load between the UE and the network side is heavy, the service interruption time cannot be allowed to be too long.
In summary, the UE in the prior art performs L AA measurements with too many interruptions.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the application provides a measurement and control method and device, which are used for realizing variable regulation of RSSI measurement period, thereby ensuring acceptable service interruption time and avoiding excessive service interruption.
On the UE side, a measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
receiving a notice sent by a network side for changing the RSSI measuring period;
and changing the RSSI measurement period according to the notification.
By the method, the variable regulation of the RSSI measurement period is realized, so that the acceptable service interruption time is ensured, and the excessive service interruption is avoided.
Preferably, before receiving the notification sent by the network side for changing the RSSI measurement period, the method further comprises:
and receiving RSSI measurement configuration information sent by a network side.
Preferably, the RSSI measurement configuration information includes an RSSI measurement period and a measurement time, or includes a main RSSI measurement period and a main RSSI measurement time, an auxiliary RSSI measurement period and an auxiliary RSSI measurement time.
Preferably, when the RSSI measurement configuration information includes a main RSSI measurement period and a main RSSI measurement time, and an auxiliary RSSI measurement period and an auxiliary RSSI measurement time, the changing the RSSI measurement period according to the notification specifically includes:
if the current RSSI measurement adopts the RSSI measurement configuration information of the main RSSI measurement period and the main RSSI measurement time, the RSSI measurement configuration information of the auxiliary RSSI measurement period and the auxiliary RSSI measurement time is used for RSSI measurement according to the trigger of the notification;
and if the current RSSI measurement adopts the RSSI measurement configuration information of the auxiliary RSSI measurement period and the auxiliary RSSI measurement time, the RSSI measurement is carried out by using the RSSI measurement configuration information of the main RSSI measurement period and the main RSSI measurement time instead according to the trigger of the notification.
Preferably, when the RSSI measurement configuration information is received, the RSSI measurement configuration information of the main RSSI measurement period and the main RSSI measurement time is activated by default;
or after receiving the RSSI measurement configuration information and before receiving the notification, the method further includes:
and receiving a signaling for activating RSSI measurement configuration sent by a network side, and activating RSSI measurement configuration information of a main RSSI measurement period and a main RSSI measurement time or activating RSSI measurement configuration information of an auxiliary RSSI measurement period and an auxiliary RSSI measurement time according to the signaling.
Preferably, when the RSSI measurement configuration information includes an RSSI measurement period and a measurement time, the changing the RSSI measurement period according to the notification specifically includes:
if the RSSI measurement configuration information is activated currently, deactivating the RSSI measurement configuration information according to the triggering of the notification;
and if the RSSI measurement configuration information is deactivated currently, activating the RSSI measurement configuration information according to the trigger of the notification.
Preferably, when the RSSI measurement configuration information includes an RSSI measurement period and a measurement time, the changing the RSSI measurement period according to the notification specifically includes:
if the current RSSI measurement is carried out according to the RSSI measurement configuration information, stopping the RSSI measurement once every a preset number of RSSI measurement periods according to the trigger of the notification;
if the current RSSI measurement is carried out according to the RSSI measurement period of every preset number, stopping the RSSI measurement once, and resuming the RSSI measurement according to the RSSI measurement configuration information according to the trigger of the notification.
Preferably, the point of validity of the changed RSSI measurement period is from the receipt of the notification or from the next RSSI measurement period.
Preferably, the validity period of the changed RSSI measurement period is within a preset time length from the validity point of the RSSI measurement period, or expires from the validity point of the RSSI measurement period until the next notification is received.
On the base station side, a measurement control method provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:
determining a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) measurement period of User Equipment (UE) needing to be changed;
sending a notification to the UE to change an RSSI measurement period.
Preferably, before determining that the received signal strength indication, RSSI, measurement period of the user equipment, UE, needs to be changed, the method further comprises:
and sending RSSI measurement configuration information to the UE.
Preferably, the RSSI measurement configuration information includes an RSSI measurement period and a measurement time, or includes a main RSSI measurement period and a main RSSI measurement time, an auxiliary RSSI measurement period and an auxiliary RSSI measurement time.
Preferably, a notification to change the RSSI measurement period is sent to the UE by layer 2 or layer 1 signaling.
The embodiment of the application provides a measuring device, includes:
a receiving unit, configured to receive a notification sent by a network side to change a RSSI measurement period;
and the changing unit is used for changing the RSSI measuring period according to the notice.
The embodiment of the application provides a measurement control device, includes:
a determining unit, configured to determine that a RSSI measurement period of a UE needs to be changed;
a notification unit, configured to send a notification of changing an RSSI measurement period to the UE.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a measurement control method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a measurement method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of two measurement configurations provided by an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.
Detailed Description
The embodiment of the application provides a measurement and control method and device, which are used for realizing variable regulation of RSSI measurement period, thereby ensuring acceptable service interruption time and avoiding excessive service interruption.
On a network side, for example, on a base station side, referring to fig. 1, a measurement control method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
s201, determining a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) measurement period of User Equipment (UE) needing to be changed;
s202, sending a notice of changing the RSSI measurement period to the UE.
That is, on the network side, the present application provides an aperiodic triggered measurement method, for example, including:
the eNB configures an RSSI measurement period and measurement time to the UE through an RRC layer; or configuring a main RSSI measuring period and measuring time and an auxiliary RSSI measuring period and measuring time;
the eNB triggers the UE side to change the current RSSI measurement time by L2 or L1 signaling.
On the UE side, referring to fig. 2 correspondingly, a measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
s101, receiving a notice sent by a network side for changing a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurement period;
and S102, changing the RSSI measurement period according to the notification.
That is, at the UE side, changing the current RSSI measurement period may be one of the following actions, including:
when the UE has two sets of main and auxiliary RSSI measurement configurations, according to L1/L2 signaling (namely, the notification) indication, the activated RSSI measurement configuration is changed, namely, if the UE is currently using the main RSSI measurement configuration (at the moment, the main RSSI measurement configuration is the activated measurement configuration), after receiving L2/L1 signaling, the activated RSSI measurement configuration is changed to the auxiliary measurement configuration (namely, the main RSSI measurement configuration is deactivated, the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration is activated), and vice versa, the activation and deactivation of the measurement configuration can be immediately effective after receiving L1/L2 signaling, or can be effective at the starting moment of the next RSSI measurement period (the RSSI measurement period is the original RSSI measurement period, is not a new changed RSSI measurement period, and is the same as the following principle) after receiving L1/L2 signaling, the effective effectiveness can be continued until next time when receiving L1/L2 signaling about changing the RSSI measurement configuration, or can be effective only in a preset time (for example, one main RSSI measurement period);
when the UE has an RSSI measurement configuration, the UE starts or stops the RSSI measurement (also can be regarded as activating/deactivating the RSSI measurement configuration) according to the signaling indication of L1/L2, the start and stop of the measurement can be taken effect immediately after receiving L1/L2 signaling or at the beginning of the next RSSI measurement period after receiving L1/L2 signaling, the effectiveness can be continued to the next time of receiving L1/L2 signaling indication or can be only taken effect in one RSSI measurement period;
when the UE has an RSSI measurement configuration, the UE stops the RSSI measurement at intervals of a preset number of RSSI measurement periods (for example, an RSSI measurement period) according to the signaling indication of L1/L2 until the signaling indication of L1/L2 is received again, and recovers the configured RSSI measurement;
the L1 on the UE side may be configured to activate one type of RSSI measurement configuration information by default when receiving the RSSI measurement configuration information of the RRC layer, for example, the configuration information may include a main RSSI measurement period and a main RSSI measurement time, or the configuration information may include an auxiliary RSSI measurement period and an auxiliary RSSI measurement time.
Example 1 RSSI measurement break time is adjusted by the primary and secondary RSSI measurement configuration in conjunction with L1/L2 signaling.
Referring to fig. 3, the method comprises the following steps:
the first step is that the UE side receives two RSSI measurement configurations (configured by RRC (namely L3) signaling) configured by the eNB, wherein the two RSSI measurement configurations comprise a main RSSI measurement configuration and an auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration;
secondly, the UE side L1 performs RSSI measurement according to the main RSSI measurement configuration (the default main RSSI measurement configuration is activated when the configuration is received), and the UE stops receiving and sending data at the measurement time corresponding to the main RSSI measurement configuration;
third, the UE side receives L2 or L1 signaling and requires to change the activated RSSI measurement configuration (for example, the network side considers that the service load on the UE is light and can accept the interruption of data receiving and sending for a longer time, and the UE side is triggered to adjust the current RSSI measurement configuration through L2 or L1 signaling, so as to obtain better and denser RSSI measurement);
the UE side replaces the main RSSI measurement configuration with the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration to carry out RSSI measurement, namely L carries out RSSI measurement according to the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration, and meanwhile, the UE stops receiving and sending data at the measurement time corresponding to the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration;
step five, when a L or L1 signaling is received by the UE side and the main RSSI measurement configuration is required to be activated (or the activated RSSI measurement configuration is required to be changed or the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration is required to be stopped being applied), L activates the main RSSI measurement configuration, the RSSI measurement is carried out again according to the main RSSI measurement configuration, and meanwhile, the UE stops sending and receiving data at the measurement time corresponding to the main RSSI measurement configuration;
as for the fourth and fifth steps, another implementation manner is that after receiving the signaling that L2 or L1 requires activation or adjustment of RSSI measurement configuration, the UE side replaces the main RSSI measurement configuration with the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration when the UE side L1 performs RSSI measurement only in the RSSI measurement period corresponding to the current or next main RSSI measurement configuration, and the rest continues the main RSSI measurement configuration, which requires that the main RSSI measurement configuration period is a multiple of the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration period.
In addition, in the second step, a default activation mode may not be adopted, but:
the UE side L1 receives the L1/L2 signaling, activates the corresponding RSSI measurement configuration, and performs the corresponding RSSI measurement according to the activated RSSI measurement configuration, for example, if the L1/L2 signaling requires activation of the main RSSI measurement configuration, the UE side L1 performs the corresponding RSSI measurement according to the RSSI measurement time in the main RSSI measurement configuration.
Embodiment 2, directly through L1/L2 signaling, stopping/starting the corresponding RSSI measurement specifically includes:
the method comprises the following steps: the UE side RRC layer receives RSSI measurement time and measurement period configured by the eNB;
secondly, the UE side L1 measures the RSSI according to the RSSI measurement configuration, and the UE stops receiving and sending data at the measurement time corresponding to the RSSI measurement configuration;
step three, the UE side receives the signaling of L1 or L2 and requires to stop the current RSSI measurement (for example, the UE service load is heavy, and needs a shorter interruption time, and the eNB stops the RSSI measurement of the UE through the signaling of L1 or L2);
and step four, the UE side receives the signaling of L1 or L2 and resumes the RSSI measurement.
For steps three and four, possible implementations further include:
after the UE side receives L1 or L2 signaling about stopping RSSI measurement, the measurement is stopped and only effective in one RSSI measurement period, namely the UE immediately or in the next RSSI measurement period stops RSSI measurement and then continues RSSI measurement, or
After receiving the L1 or L2 signaling, the UE side stops RSSI measurement every other RSSI measurement period in subsequent RSSI measurement until receiving the L2 or L1 triggering signaling again, and resumes the previously configured RSSI measurement (i.e. the original RSSI measurement period is doubled).
The above-mentioned stop/start may also be understood as activating or deactivating the RSSI measurement configuration for a certain time instant.
In the second step, the UE side L1 defaults to activate the configuration after receiving the RSSI measurement configuration of L3, and then activates or deactivates the RSSI measurement configuration at a certain time according to L1/L2 signaling, and another possible way of the second step is that the UE side L1 starts (or activates) the RSSI measurement configuration only through L1/L2 signaling after receiving the RSSI measurement configuration of L3, and performs corresponding RSSI measurement according to the RSSI measurement time in the RSSI measurement configuration.
On the UE side, referring to fig. 4, a measurement apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
a receiving unit 11, configured to receive a notification sent by a network side to change a RSSI measurement period;
a changing unit 12, configured to change the RSSI measurement period according to the notification.
On the base station side, referring to fig. 5, a measurement control apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
a determining unit 21, configured to determine that a RSSI measurement period of a UE needs to be changed;
a notification unit 22, configured to send a notification of changing the RSSI measurement period to the UE.
In summary, the embodiment of the present application provides an aperiodic measurement and triggering scheme thereof, including:
the eNB configures an RSSI measurement period and measurement time to the UE through an RRC layer; or configuring a main RSSI measuring period and measuring time and an auxiliary RSSI measuring period and measuring time;
the eNB triggers the UE side to change the current RSSI measurement time by L2 or L1 signaling.
Wherein the UE side changes the current RSSI measurement time, which may be one of the following actions:
when the UE has two sets of main and auxiliary RSSI measurement configurations, according to L1/L2 signaling indication, changing the activated RSSI measurement configuration, namely if the UE is currently using the main RSSI measurement configuration (at the moment, the main RSSI measurement configuration is the activated measurement configuration), after receiving L2/L1 signaling, changing the auxiliary measurement configuration (namely, deactivating the main RSSI measurement configuration and activating the auxiliary RSSI measurement configuration), and vice versa, wherein the activation and deactivation of the measurement configuration can be immediately effective after receiving L1/L2 signaling or can be effective at the beginning time of the next RSSI measurement period after receiving L1/L2 signaling, and the effective effectiveness can be continued to the next time of receiving L1/L2 signaling for changing the RSSI measurement configuration or can be effective only in one main RSSI measurement period;
when the UE has the RSSI measurement configuration, the UE starts and/or stops the RSSI measurement according to the L1/L2 signaling indication, the start and/or stop of the measurement can be effected immediately after receiving L1/L2 signaling or at the beginning of the next RSSI measurement period after receiving L1/L2 signaling, the effectiveness can be continued to the next received L1/L2 signaling indication or can be effective in only one RSSI measurement period;
when the UE has the RSSI measurement configuration, the UE stops the RSSI measurement at intervals of an RSSI measurement period according to the signaling indication of L1/L2 until the triggering signaling of L2 or L1 is received again, and recovers the configured RSSI measurement;
the UE side L1 may activate a certain configuration by default when receiving configuration information of the RRC layer.
By the scheme, the RSSI measurement period can be flexibly adjusted, so that the UE side is ensured to have acceptable service interruption time.
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.