Background technology
In mobile communication system, the interference inhibition between the residential quarter is the research emphasis in the mobile communications network.For the covering and the professional continuity that guarantee network, the covering that will keep certain between the residential quarter is overlapping; Simultaneously, for prevent the minizone repeat cover and mutually performance and the efficient of interference effect communication network, the overlapping covering between the residential quarter again can not be excessive.Therefore, it is exactly to guarantee service feature and to cover under the successional condition that the interference between the residential quarter suppresses, and reduce the interference between the residential quarter as far as possible.
At present, subscriber equipment (User Equipment abbreviates UE as) need be measured the signal quality of different districts, in order to select proper cell to carry out resident.After UE and residential quarter connected, UE still needed the signal quality of neighbor cell is measured, in order to select proper cell to switch, satisfied the mobility requirement.Under connected state, the detailed process of measurement is: network side will be measured control message and send to UE, wherein, comprise the attribute of event type, measuring object and the needs measurement of measurement in this measurement control message; UE carries out parameter initialization according to the event type of measuring in the control message, and obtains each measuring object attribute and the measurement result separately in whole measuring objects of measuring in the control message; UE carries out the event assessment according to initialized parameter or predetermined threshold to the measurement result of each measuring object, and the duration by assessing the trigger condition of determining to satisfy in whole measuring objects measurement event more than or equal to scheduled measurement triggered time measurement of length object, generate measurement report and measurement report be sent to network side according to the measurement result of the measuring object of determining.
At Long Term Evolution (Long-Term Evolution, abbreviate LTE as) in the system, measuring object is unit with the frequency, measuring configuration comprises measuring object, measures sign, (for example measures the form that reports, Event triggered or periodic report) etc., wherein, measure sign corresponding to a certain measuring object and the specific structure of measuring, the measurement sign that the different measuring structure of same measuring object is corresponding different.Wherein, it is corresponding one by one with measurement event to measure structure, and the measurement event of definition generally comprises the lag parameter Hys of the trigger condition of event, the certain threshold Thresh that leaves condition, event, event and the side-play amount Offset of event etc. at present.
In the LTE system, in order to satisfy the mobility requirement of UE under the connected state, require UE adjacent residential quarter to be measured and reported the measurement event that satisfies trigger conditions, some measurement event to adjacent residential quarter have been defined at present, for example, the trigger condition of definition measurement event is that the signal quality of adjacent residential quarter is higher than the signal quality of a certain threshold value or adjacent residential quarter than the high specific side-play amount of signal quality of current service cell.
The signal quality of residential quarter can be expressed as the function of three parameters, these three parameters are respectively power (the Reference Signal Received Power of the reference signal that receives of UE, abbreviate RSRP as, unit is dBm) or quality (the Reference Signal Received Quality of the reference signal that receives of UE, abbreviate RSRQ as, unit is dB), the special parameter of place, residential quarter frequency and the special parameter of residential quarter.
But, present measurement event can not intactly reflect the disturbed condition of the residing wireless environment of UE and suffered neighbor cell, because when UE moves at the edge to current service cell, the signal quality of current service cell is descending, the signal of neighbor cell is strengthening, measurement event according to present definition, just can trigger measurement report when only the signal quality that surpasses Serving cell signal quality or neighbor cell at the signal quality of neighbor cell surpasses a certain threshold value, in fact, when approaching, the signal quality of neighbor cell equals but still during less than the signal quality of current service cell, neighbor cell also is very serious to the interference of UE and UE to the interference of these neighbor cells, need UE to report the signal quality of neighbor cell than the measurement event of the low particular offset of current service cell signal quality at present, because the adjacent cell quantity lower than current service cell signal quality is many, therefore can cause a large amount of measurement reports to report, many reported result can seriously influence networks efficiency and performance.
Summary of the invention
At present terminal a large amount of measurement reports being reported network side can seriously influence the problem of networks efficiency and performance and propose the present invention, and for this reason, the present invention aims to provide a kind of measurement and handles method and apparatus, to address the above problem.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of measurement processing method.
According to measurement processing method of the present invention, be applied to comprise the mobile communication system of at least one terminal, comprise following operation: terminal generates measurement report according to the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition, and measurement report reported network side, wherein, trigger condition is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold.
Preferably, whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell: (Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys)<(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset), wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Offset is predetermined offset.
Preferably, whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is higher than predetermined threshold: Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys〉Thresh, wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Thresh is predetermined threshold.
Preferably, after the measurement result generation measurement report of terminal according to the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition, said method also comprises: if neighbor cell satisfies the condition of leaving, then in the measurement report of follow-up transmission, remove the measurement result of neighbor cell, wherein, the condition of leaving is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and perhaps the signal quality of neighbor cell is lower than predetermined threshold.
Preferably, whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell: (Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys)〉(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset), wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Offset is predetermined offset.
Preferably, whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is lower than predetermined threshold: Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys<Thresh, wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Thresh is predetermined threshold.
Preferably, terminal reports network side with measurement report and comprises: if a plurality of side-play amounts are set in the method, neighbor cell satisfies trigger condition, when namely the signal quality of this neighbor cell signal quality that is higher than predetermined threshold and this neighbor cell is than the low different side-play amount of the signal quality of current service cell, then terminal pins generates corresponding measurement report respectively to each side-play amount, and selects the measurement report of the minimum side-play amount correspondence in a plurality of side-play amounts to report network side.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of measurement processing unit.
Measurement processing unit according to the present invention comprises: measurement module, be used for neighbor cell is measured, and obtain measurement result; Select module, be used for selecting to satisfy the neighbor cell of trigger condition, wherein, trigger condition is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold; Generation module is used for for the neighbor cell of selecting module to select, and the measurement result generation measurement report according to measurement module wherein, carries the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition in the measurement report; Reporting module is used for measurement report is reported network side.
Preferably, said apparatus also comprises: detection module, whether satisfy for detection of neighbor cell and to leave condition, wherein, the condition of leaving is that the signal quality of neighbor cell is lower than predetermined threshold than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell or the signal quality of neighbor cell; Generation module also is used for generating measurement report according to the testing result of detection module, and wherein, this measurement report is the measurement report of removing the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies the condition of leaving.
By the present invention, the trigger condition that employing arranges measurement event is that the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of described neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold, solve present terminal and a large amount of measurement reports is reported network side can seriously influence the problem of networks efficiency and performance, and then improved the performance of network.
Embodiment
Functional overview
Consider that present terminal reports the problem that network side can seriously influence networks efficiency and performance with a large amount of measurement reports, the invention provides a kind of measurement and handle method and apparatus, a kind of new measurement event and a kind of method of optimizing measurement report have been defined in this method, particularly, terminal generates measurement report according to the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition, and measurement report reported network side, wherein, the trigger condition of measurement event satisfies following two conditions simultaneously: the signal quality of (1) neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell; (2) signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold.Describe the present invention below with reference to the accompanying drawings and in conjunction with the embodiments in detail.
Method embodiment
According to embodiments of the invention, a kind of measurement processing method is provided, be applied to mobile communication system, this mobile communication system comprises at least one base station and at least one UE, this method comprises: terminal generates measurement report according to the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition, and measurement report reported network side, wherein, trigger condition is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold.
Particularly, the trigger condition of the new measurement event of setting must satisfy following two conditions simultaneously:
Condition A: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low specific side-play amount (this side-play amount is called the side-play amount of this measurement event) of the signal quality of current service cell, and whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell:
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys)<(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset),
Wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, and Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Offset is predetermined offset.
Condition B: the signal quality of this neighbor cell is higher than specific thresholding (this thresholding is called the thresholding of this measurement event), determines according to following formula whether the signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold:
Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys>Thresh,
Wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, and Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, and Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Thresh is predetermined threshold.
After this, if neighbor cell satisfies the condition of leaving, then in the measurement report of follow-up transmission, remove the measurement result of neighbor cell, wherein, the condition of leaving is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and perhaps the signal quality of neighbor cell is lower than predetermined threshold.
Particularly, the condition of leaving of new measurement event only need satisfy one of following two conditions at least:
Condition C: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the high specific side-play amount (this side-play amount i.e. the side-play amount of this measurement event) of the signal quality of current service cell, and whether the signal quality of determining neighbor cell according to following formula is than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell:
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys)>(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset),
Wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, and Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Offset is predetermined offset.
Condition D: the signal quality of this neighbor cell is lower than specific thresholding (this thresholding i.e. the thresholding of this measurement event), determines according to following formula whether the signal quality of neighbor cell is lower than predetermined threshold:
Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys<Thresh,
Wherein, Mn is the measurement result of the signal of neighbor cell, and Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, and Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Hys is the lag parameter that prevents that ping-pong from setting, and Thresh is predetermined threshold.
Need to prove, if new measurement event arranges a plurality of side-play amounts, and measuring object satisfies trigger condition, namely the signal quality of this measuring object is higher than predetermined threshold, and the signal quality of this measuring object is during than the low different side-play amount of the signal quality of current service cell, then terminal pins generates corresponding measurement report respectively to each side-play amount, and selects the measurement report of the minimum side-play amount correspondence in a plurality of side-play amounts to report network side.
Particularly, when new measurement event arranges a plurality of different side-play amount, can produce a plurality of measurement reports for same measuring object, this moment, UE can carry out the quantity that logic merges to reduce measurement report to measurement report, wherein, logic merges signal quality that the signal quality refer to when neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold and this neighbor cell when hanging down different side-play amounts than the signal quality of current service cell, selects the measurement report of minimum side-play amount.
By this embodiment, the trigger condition that employing arranges measurement event is that the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of described neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold, allow UE only report useful measurement report, reduce a large amount of unnecessary measurement reports, and then improved the performance of network.
Be described in detail below in conjunction with the implementation procedure of example to the embodiment of the invention.
Embodiment one
In this embodiment, new measurement event in the LTE system has only a side-play amount, new measurement event is defined as the signal quality of neighbor cell than the low specific side-play amount Offset of signal quality of current service cell, choose Offset=0 this moment, and the signal quality of this neighbor cell is higher than thresholding Thresh, and its concrete mathematic(al) representation comprises:
The trigger condition of this measurement event must satisfy inequality 1 and inequality 2 simultaneously, wherein, and inequality 1:
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys)<(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset)
Inequality 2:
Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys>Thresh
The condition of leaving of this measurement event satisfies in inequality 3 and the inequality 4 at least, wherein, and inequality 3:
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys)>(Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Offset)
Inequality 4:
Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys<Thresh
In above-mentioned mathematic(al) representation, Mn is the measurement result of neighbor cell signal, Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Hys is in order to prevent the lag parameter of this measurement event that ping-pong is set.Offset is the side-play amount of this measurement event.
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the signal of the current service cell measured in section sometime according to the UE of the embodiment of the invention one and adjacent cell, and as shown in Figure 1, after UE and network connected, UE is movement in Serving cell.
In initial time shown in Figure 1, the signal quality of adjacent cell is lower than the signal quality of Serving cell, satisfy inequality 1 this moment, yet the signal quality of adjacent residential quarter still is lower than thresholding at this moment, and namely inequality 2 does not satisfy, and can not trigger this measurement event this moment.As time goes on, behind process time point shown in Figure 1, this moment, the signal quality of adjacent residential quarter was higher than thresholding, and namely inequality 2 is also satisfied.
In segment as shown in Figure 1, two conditions of trigger event are all satisfied, at this section in the period, this residential quarter becomes the suitable cell that satisfies trigger condition, if new measurement event is the measurement event of Event triggered, satisfy the duration of trigger condition when this neighbour residential quarter more than or equal to scheduled measurement triggered time length, the measurement result that UE should the neighbour residential quarter generates measurement report and measurement report is sent to network side; If new measurement event is periodic measurement event, UE generates measurement report and sends to network side in the measurement result that specific time point will satisfy this neighbour residential quarter of trigger condition.
Network side carries out parameter adjustment to reach the purpose that reduces neighbor cell interference according to the acquisition measurement report.Continue to pass when the time, surpass interval as shown in Figure 1, the signal quality of adjacent residential quarter has surpassed the signal quality of Serving cell at this moment, and inequality 3 is set up, and, satisfies the condition of leaving of this measurement event that is, and this measurement event does not just need to report network side.
By this embodiment, realized that new measurement event in the LTE system has only the measurement processing method of a side-play amount.
Embodiment two
In this embodiment, the new measurement event of LTE system has two side-play amounts, below above-mentioned logic merging process is described.
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram according to the signal of the current service cell of the UE when having disposed two side-play amounts of the embodiment of the invention two survey in section sometime and adjacent cell, as shown in Figure 2, the Offset that selects is respectively 0 and-2, when Offset is 0, the measurement of this neighbour residential quarter correspondence is designated measures sign 1; The measurement of correspondence is designated and measures sign 2 when Offset is-2, the signal quality of Serving cell that UE surveys subtracts 2 result and dots among Fig. 2, be that dotted line has represented that Offset is-2 situation, in interval shown in Figure 2, should the neighbour residential quarter satisfy the trigger condition of measurement event this moment, signal quality that namely should the neighbour residential quarter is higher than predetermined threshold, and two following inequality are set up simultaneously:
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys)<(Ms+Ofs+Ocs)
(Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys)<(Ms+Ofs+Ocs-2)
In above-mentioned mathematic(al) representation, Mn is the measurement result of neighbor cell signal, Ms is the measurement result of the signal of current service cell, Ofn is the frequency special parameter of neighbor cell place frequency, Ofs is the frequency special parameter of current service cell place frequency, Ocn is the cell-specific parameters of neighbor cell, and Ocs is the cell-specific parameters of current service cell, and Hys is in order to prevent the lag parameter of this measurement event that ping-pong is set.Offset is the side-play amount of this measurement event.
From top description as can be seen: measuring sign 1 this moment and measure sign 2 all should the report network side, in order to reduce the quantity of measurement report, implements logic and merges, and selects the corresponding measurement sign 2 of minimum side-play amount-2 to report.If new measurement event is the measurement event of Event triggered, satisfy the duration of trigger condition when this neighbour residential quarter more than or equal to scheduled measurement triggered time length, UE is only needing reporting measurement sign 2 as a result the time to the network side reporting measurement.
By this embodiment, realized that new measurement event in the LTE system has the measurement processing method of two side-play amounts.
Device embodiment
According to embodiments of the invention, a kind of measurement processing unit is provided, Fig. 3 is the structured flowchart according to the measurement processing unit of the embodiment of the invention, as shown in Figure 3, this device comprises: measurement module 32, selection module 34, generation module 36, reporting module 38 are described said structure below.
Measurement module 32 is used for neighbor cell is measured, and obtains measurement result; Select module 34, be used for selecting to satisfy the neighbor cell of trigger condition, wherein, trigger condition is: the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold; Generation module 36, be connected to measurement module 32 and select module 34, be used for for the neighbor cell of selecting module 34 to select, according to the measurement result generation measurement report of measurement module 32, wherein, carry the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies trigger condition in the measurement report; Reporting module 38 is connected to generation module 36, is used for the measurement report that generation module 36 generates is reported network side.
Fig. 4 is the preferred structure block diagram according to the measurement processing unit of the embodiment of the invention, as shown in Figure 4, this device also comprises: detection module 40, be connected to generation module 36, whether satisfy the condition of leaving for detection of neighbor cell, wherein, leaving condition is that the signal quality of neighbor cell is lower than predetermined threshold than the high predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell or the signal quality of neighbor cell; Generation module 36 also is used for generating measurement report according to the testing result of detection module, and wherein, this measurement report is the measurement report of removing the measurement result of the neighbor cell that satisfies the condition of leaving.
Pass through the above embodiment of the present invention, the trigger condition that employing arranges measurement event is that the signal quality of neighbor cell is than the low predetermined offset of signal quality of current service cell, and the signal quality of described neighbor cell is higher than predetermined threshold, solved present terminal a large amount of measurement reports has been reported the problem that network side can seriously influence networks efficiency and performance, and solved the interference problem of neighbor cell in the mobile communications network, and then improved the performance of network.
Obviously, those skilled in the art should be understood that, above-mentioned each module of the present invention or each step can realize with the general calculation device, they can concentrate on the single calculation element, perhaps be distributed on the network that a plurality of calculation elements form, alternatively, they can be realized with the executable program code of calculation element, thereby, they can be stored in the storage device and be carried out by calculation element, perhaps they are made into each integrated circuit modules respectively, perhaps a plurality of modules in them or step are made into the single integrated circuit module and realize.Like this, the present invention is not restricted to any specific hardware and software combination.
The above is the preferred embodiments of the present invention only, is not limited to the present invention, and for a person skilled in the art, the present invention can have various changes and variation.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of doing, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.