Embodiment
Embodiment of the invention network equipment sends the MDT indication information to user terminal, and user terminal is generating the MDT measurement result, and after determining that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, reports the MDT measurement result to network equipment.Because whether the network equipment that network side can the current connection of informing user terminal in the embodiment of the invention can handle the MDT measurement result, make user terminal only report the MDT measurement result, thereby avoid user terminal to report the situation of MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can not handle the MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can handle the MDT measurement result.
Wherein, the embodiment of the invention can be applied in the LTE system, also can be applied in other systems that need user terminal to send up MDT measurement result.
The network equipment of the embodiment of the invention can be that the base station is (such as macro base station, evolution base station, Home eNodeB etc.), also can be RN (relaying) equipment, RNC (Radio Network Controller, radio network controller), can also be other network equipment.
Below in conjunction with Figure of description the embodiment of the invention is described in further detail.
As shown in Figure 1, the embodiment of the invention reports the system of MDT measurement result to comprise: network equipment 10 and user terminal 20.
Network equipment 10 is used to be identified for the MDT indication information whether the indication network side apparatus supports MDT, and sends the MDT indication information of determining to user terminal 20.
User terminal 20 is used to receive the MDT indication information from network equipment 10, determine that according to the MDT indication information network equipment 10 is supported MDT after, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
In specific implementation process, network equipment 10 can not send the MDT indication information to user terminal 20 after determining self not support the MDT indication information of MDT; Accordingly, if user terminal 20 is not received the MDT indication information, then definite network equipment 10 is not supported the MDT indication information.Certainly, network equipment 10 can not support the information of MDT as the MDT indication information, such as 0 indication after determining self not support MDT yet;
Network equipment 10 can support the information of MDT as the MDT indication information, such as 1 indication self after determining self to support MDT; Preferable, network equipment 10 can also and be measured the corresponding relation that identifies according to predefined MDT measuring amount, determine the measurement sign of the MDT measuring amount correspondence that self supports, and the measurement that will determine sign is as the MDT indication information, accordingly, user terminal 20 can and be measured the corresponding relation that identifies according to predefined MDT measuring amount and determine to measure the corresponding MDT measuring amount of sign, when needs are measured, can directly measure definite MDT measuring amount, and generate the MDT measurement result according to the result who measures, can save the size of measuring resource and MDT measurement result like this, if user terminal 20 has been measured, the measurement result that can only comprise definite MDT measuring amount in the MDT measurement result can be saved the size of MDT measurement result like this.
Wherein, the measuring amount of embodiment of the invention MDT includes but not limited to one or more of following measuring amount:
Periodical downlink pilot measurements (the cycle descending pilot frequency is measured); Serving Cellbecomes worse than threshold (it is poorer than setting thresholding that service district becomes); Transmit powerheadroom becomes less than threshold (it is poorer than setting thresholding that PHR becomes); Random accessfailure (access failure at random); Paging Channel Failure (paging channel takes defeat); BroadcastChannel failure (broadcast channel takes defeat); Radio link failure report (Radio Link Failure report).
Embodiment of the invention network equipment 10 does not support that MDT includes but not limited to: but network equipment 10 does not support MDT function and network equipment 10 to support the MDT function the current MDT of closing function;
Embodiment of the invention network equipment 10 supports that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment 10 supports all MDT measuring amount and network equipment 10 to support part MDT measuring amount.
If network equipment 10 is supported part MDT measuring amount, comprise network equipment 10 unsupported MDT measuring amount in the MDT measurement result, 10 of network equipments need be handled the result of the MDT measuring amount self supported in the MDT measurement result.
Wherein, network equipment 10 can send the MDT indication information of determining to the user terminal 20 that is connected with self; When user terminal 20 can switch to the sub-district of network equipment 10 management, network equipment 10 can send the MDT indication information to user terminal 20 by the source network side apparatus that is connected with user terminal 20.Below the branch situation describe.
Situation one, network equipment 10 send the MDT indication information of determining to the user terminal 20 that is connected with self.
For situation one, network equipment 10 can adopt the broadcast announcement mode, and promptly network equipment 10 can place broadcast message with the MDT indication information, and broadcast transmission contains the broadcast message of MDT indication information.
Broadcast message can be MIB (Master Information Block, control information piece) or SIB (System Information Broadcast, system information broadcast) 1.At different application scenarioss, broadcast message can also be other information, and during such as E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal Terrestrial RadioAccess Network, the general land wireless network of evolution), broadcast message can also be SIB2.
Network equipment 10 can also adopt independent advice method, notifies the user terminal that need know with the MDT indication information, such as passing through the RRC signaling.
Concrete which kind of advice method that adopts can be consulted to determine by network equipment 10 and user terminal 20, can also stipulate in agreement.
Wherein, there is multiple mode to send the MDT indication information by trigger network side apparatus 10, such as:
When network equipment 10 can change at the MDT state of self, with the MDT indication information informing user terminal 20 after the indication variation;
Network equipment 10 can be behind the sub-district of new user terminal 20 access network side apparatus 10 management, with MDT indication information informing user terminal 20;
Network equipment 10 can the cycle with MDT indication information informing user terminal 20;
Network equipment 10 can be when needs user terminal 20 reports the MDT measurement result or be user terminal 20 configuration MDT measurement parameters, with MDT indication information informing user terminal 20.
Need to prove that the embodiment of the invention is not limited to above-mentioned triggering mode, other can trigger network side apparatus 10 all be suitable for the embodiment of the invention with the mode of MDT indication information informing user terminal 20.
Situation two, when user terminal 20 can switch to the sub-district of network equipment 10 management, network equipment 10 can be by the source network side apparatus that is connected with user terminal 20, to user terminal 20 transmission MDT indication informations.
If user terminal 20 need switch, then the network equipment that is connected with user terminal 20 can send handoff request message to a plurality of network equipments 10 that meet switching condition;
Accordingly, network equipment 10 is after the handoff request message of receiving from other network equipments at user terminal, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments that the MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
The handover request ack message here can be when allowing user terminal 20 to switch to the sub-district of network equipment 10 management, the switching request acknowledgement message that generates, can also be when not allowing user terminal 20 to switch to the sub-district of self-management, the handoff request failed message of generation.
Preferable, if network equipment 10 does not allow user terminal 20 to switch to the sub-district of self-management, then user terminal 20 can not switch to the sub-district of network equipment 10 management, network equipment 10 just can not report the MDT measurement result, so can not comprise the MDT indication information in the message of returning yet to network equipment 10.
Because one of condition that triggering user terminal 20 is measured is a network equipment is user terminal 20 configuration MDT measurement parameters, after if the source network side apparatus is the user terminal 20 configuration MDT measurement parameters that need to switch, user terminal 20 needs to switch, and then user terminal 20 can send to the MDT measurement result network equipment after the switching; Opposite, if the source network side apparatus is the user terminal 20 configuration MDT measurement parameters for needing to switch not, user terminal 20 can not send the MDT measurement result yet after switching, so can noting be used in, the objective network measurement equipment comprises the MDT indication information in the message that returns to the source network side apparatus, but after user terminal 20 switches, by broadcast mode or separately advice method MDT indication information informing user terminal 20 can further be saved resource like this.
Concrete, the source network side apparatus can carry the configuration indication information that is used to indicate whether to dispose the MDT measurement parameter to user terminal in handoff request message, and such as 1 expression configuration indication information, indication information is not disposed in 0 expression; Accordingly, network measurement equipment 20 judges that according to the configuration indication information in the handoff request message whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter; And after definite other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments.
Wherein, if user terminal 20 has been closed MDT function (comprising that the MDT measurement result reports or MDT measures) at the source network side apparatus, behind definite objective network side apparatus indication MDT, can open the MDT function so;
If user terminal 20 after definite objective network side apparatus is indicated MDT, can be closed the MDT function so in the source network side apparatus MDT function (comprise the MDT measurement result reports or MDT measure) that has been unlocked.
As shown in Figure 2, the networking side apparatus of the embodiment of the invention comprises: indication information determination module 100 and indication information sending module 110.
Indication information determination module 100 is used to be identified for the MDT indication information whether the indication network side apparatus supports MDT.
Indication information determination module 100 determines that the mode of MDT indication information is identical with the mode of network equipment 10 definite MDT indication informations among Fig. 1, does not repeat them here.
Indication information sending module 110 is used for MDT indication information that send to determine to user terminal, after being used for indicating user terminal and determining that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Wherein, indication information determination module 100 can according to the corresponding relation of MDT measuring amount and measurement sign, determine the measurement sign of the MDT measuring amount correspondence that network equipment is supported, and the measurement that will determine sign be as the MDT indication information when self supports MDT.
Wherein, indication information sending module 110 can send the MDT indication information by broadcast message.
Indication information sending module 110 can be after the handoff request message of receiving from other network equipments at user terminal, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments that the MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
Indication information sending module 110 can also judge that whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter according to the configuration indication information in the handoff request message; And after definite other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments.
The mode that indication information sending module 110 sends the MDT indication information is identical with the mode of network equipment 10 transmission MDT indication informations among Fig. 1, does not repeat them here.
As shown in Figure 3, the user terminal of the embodiment of the invention comprises: receiver module 200 and reporting module 210.
Receiver module 200 is used to receive the MDT indication information from network equipment;
Reporting module 210 after being used for determining that according to the MDT indication information that receiver module 200 receives network equipment is supported MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
The measurement sign of the MDT measuring amount correspondence that if the MDT indication information is a network equipment to be supported; Reporting module 210 can also and be measured the corresponding relation that identifies according to the MDT measuring amount, determines that the measurement of receiving identifies corresponding MDT measuring amount, and the result according to after the MDT measuring amount of determining is measured generates the MDT measurement result.
User terminal 20 generates identically with the mode of transmission MDT measurement result among the mode that reporting module 210 generated and sent the MDT measurement result and Fig. 1, does not repeat them here.
Wherein, reporting module 210 can also be closed in the MDT function of self, and after determining that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, opens the MDT function.
As shown in Figure 4, the embodiment of the invention reports the method for MDT measurement result to comprise the following steps: for first kind
Step 401, network equipment are identified for the MDT indication information whether the indication network side apparatus supports MDT.
Step 402, network equipment send the MDT indication information of determining to user terminal, after being used for indicating user terminal and determining that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Wherein, can also comprise after the step 402:
Step 403, user terminal receive the MDT indication information from network equipment.
After step 404, user terminal determine that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
In specific implementation process, user terminal judges according to the MDT indication information whether network equipment is supported MDT and generate the MDT measurement result not have and must concern on sequential.User terminal may generate the MDT measurement result earlier, is receiving the MDT indication information then; Also may receive the MDT indication information earlier, generate the MDT measurement result.
Network equipment can not send the MDT indication information to user terminal after determining self not support the MDT indication information of MDT; Accordingly, if user terminal is not received the MDT indication information, then definite network equipment is not supported the MDT indication information.Certainly, network equipment can not support the information of MDT as the MDT indication information, such as 0 indication after determining self not support MDT yet;
Network equipment can support the information of MDT as the MDT indication information, such as 1 indication self after determining self to support MDT; Preferable, network equipment can also and be measured the corresponding relation that identifies according to predefined MDT measuring amount, determine the measurement sign of the MDT measuring amount correspondence that self supports, and the measurement that will determine sign is as the MDT indication information; Accordingly, in the step 404, user terminal can and be measured the corresponding relation that identifies according to predefined MDT measuring amount and determine to measure the corresponding MDT measuring amount of sign, when needs are measured, can directly measure definite MDT measuring amount, and generate the MDT measurement result according to the result who measures, can save the size of measuring resource and MDT measurement result like this, if user terminal is measured, the measurement result that can only comprise definite MDT measuring amount in the MDT measurement result can be saved the size of MDT measurement result like this.
Wherein, the measuring amount of embodiment of the invention MDT includes but not limited to one or more of following measuring amount:
The cycle descending pilot frequency is measured; It is poorer than setting thresholding that service district becomes; It is poorer than setting thresholding that PHR becomes; Access failure at random; Paging channel takes defeat; Broadcast channel takes defeat; The Radio Link Failure report.
Embodiment of the invention network equipment does not support that MDT includes but not limited to: but network equipment does not support MDT function and network equipment to support the MDT function the current MDT of closing function;
Embodiment of the invention network equipment supports that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment supports all MDT measuring amount and network equipment to support part MDT measuring amount.
If network equipment is supported part MDT measuring amount, comprise the unsupported MDT measuring amount of network equipment in the MDT measurement result, network equipment only need be handled the result of the MDT measuring amount self supported in the MDT measurement result.
In the step 402, network equipment can send the MDT indication information of determining to the user terminal that is connected with self; When user terminal can switch to the sub-district of network equipment management, network equipment can send the MDT indication information to user terminal by the source network side apparatus that is connected with user terminal.Below the branch situation describe.
Situation one, network equipment send the MDT indication information of determining to the user terminal that is connected with self.
For situation one, in the step 402, network equipment can adopt the broadcast announcement mode, and promptly network equipment can place broadcast message with the MDT indication information, and broadcast transmission contains the broadcast message of MDT indication information.
Broadcast message can be MIB or SIB1.At different application scenarioss, broadcast message can also be other information, and during such as E-UTRAN, broadcast message can also be SIB2.
In specific implementation process, can in system information, add the indication expansion of supporting MDT, be example with LTE, if add the MDT indication information to SIB1, need in the expansion of the release9 of SIB1 version, increase the support indication of mdtIndication:
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In the step 402, network equipment can also adopt independent advice method, notifies the user terminal that need know with the MDT indication information, such as passing through the RRC signaling.
Concrete which kind of advice method that adopts can be consulted to determine by network equipment and user terminal, can also stipulate in agreement.
Wherein, there is multiple mode to send the MDT indication information by the trigger network side apparatus, such as:
When network equipment can change at the MDT state of self, with the MDT indication information informing user terminal after the indication variation;
Network equipment can be behind the sub-district of new accessing user terminal to network side apparatus management, with MDT indication information informing user terminal;
Network equipment can the cycle with MDT indication information informing user terminal;
When network equipment can dispose the MDT measurement parameter in needs user terminal to send up MDT measurement result or for user terminal, with MDT indication information informing user terminal.
Need to prove that the embodiment of the invention is not limited to above-mentioned triggering mode, other can the trigger network side apparatus all be suitable for the embodiment of the invention with the mode of MDT indication information informing user terminal.
Situation two, when user terminal can switch to the sub-district of network equipment management, network equipment can be by the source network side apparatus that is connected with user terminal, to user terminal transmission MDT indication information.
If user terminal need switch, then the network equipment that is connected with user terminal can send handoff request message to a plurality of network equipments that meet switching condition;
Accordingly, in the step 402, network equipment is after the handoff request message of receiving from other network equipments at user terminal, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments that the MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
The handover request ack message here can be when allowing user terminal to switch to the sub-district of network equipment management, the switching request acknowledgement message that generates, can also be when not allowing user terminal to switch to the sub-district of self-management, the handoff request failed message of generation.
Preferable, if network equipment does not allow user terminal to switch to the sub-district of self-management, then user terminal can not switch to the sub-district of network equipment management, network equipment just can not report the MDT measurement result, so can not comprise the MDT indication information in the message of returning yet to network equipment.
Because one of condition that the triggering user terminal is measured is a network equipment is user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, after if the source network side apparatus is the user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter that needs to switch, user terminal needs to switch, and then user terminal can send to the MDT measurement result network equipment after the switching; If opposite source network side apparatus is the user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter for needing to switch not, user terminal can not send the MDT measurement result yet after switching, so can noting be used in, the objective network measurement equipment comprises the MDT indication information in the message that returns to the source network side apparatus, but after user terminal switches, by broadcast mode or separately advice method MDT indication information informing user terminal can further be saved resource like this.
Concrete, the source network side apparatus can carry the configuration indication information that is used to indicate whether to dispose the MDT measurement parameter to user terminal in handoff request message, and such as 1 expression configuration indication information, indication information is not disposed in 0 expression; Accordingly, in the step 402, the network measurement equipment judges that according to the configuration indication information in the handoff request message whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter; And after definite other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message that contains the MDT indication information to other network equipments.
In the step 404,, behind definite objective network side apparatus indication MDT, can open the MDT function so if user terminal has been closed MDT function (comprising that the MDT measurement result reports or MDT measures) at the source network side apparatus;
If user terminal after definite objective network side apparatus is indicated MDT, can be closed the MDT function so in the source network side apparatus MDT function (comprise the MDT measurement result reports or MDT measure) that has been unlocked.
As shown in Figure 5, the embodiment of the invention reports the method for MDT measurement result to comprise the following steps: for second kind
Step 501, user terminal receive the MDT indication information from network equipment.
After step 502, user terminal determine that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Wherein, step 501 and step 502 are identical with step 403 and step 404 among Fig. 4, do not repeat them here.
As shown in Figure 6, the method for embodiment of the invention switching comprises the following steps:
The measurement result that step 601, user terminal will need to switch is reported to source base station.
Decision switches to target BS to user terminal according to court verdict for step 602, source base station.
If decision does not switch to target BS to user terminal to source base station according to court verdict in the step 602, then jump out this flow process.
Step 603, source base station are initiated handoff request to target BS, and carry corresponding handover information.
When step 604, target BS can be admitted this user terminal according to the situation judgement of self, send switching request acknowledgement message to source base station, and carry handover information and MDT indication information.
Step 605, source base station send switching command to user terminal, and indicating user terminal switches to target BS, and carries corresponding handover information and MDT indication information.
Step 606, user terminal switch to target BS according to related command and information.
If before the step 601, user terminal has carried out MDT to be measured, and user terminal is determined target BS support MDT according to the MDT indication information in the step 606, and then user terminal sends to target BS with the MDT measurement result after switching; If user terminal is according to the MDT indication information in the step 606, determine that target BS do not support MDT, then user terminal does not send the MDT measurement result to target BS after switching.
Wherein, source base station can also carry the configuration indication information in the step 603 in the handoff request that target BS is initiated; Accordingly, if target BS is found to comprise the configuration indication information in the handoff request in the step 604, and determine that according to the configuration indication information source base station is that user terminal has disposed the MDT measurement parameter, then target BS sends switching request acknowledgement message to source base station, and carries handover information and MDT indication information; If if target BS is found to comprise the configuration indication information in the handoff request, and determine that according to the configuration indication information source base station has not disposed the MDT measurement parameter for user terminal, then target BS sends switching request acknowledgement message to source base station, and carries handover information.
Those skilled in the art should understand that embodiments of the invention can be provided as method, system or computer program.Therefore, the present invention can adopt complete hardware embodiment, complete software implementation example or in conjunction with the form of the embodiment of software and hardware aspect.And the present invention can adopt the form that goes up the computer program of implementing in one or more computer-usable storage medium (including but not limited to magnetic disc store, CD-ROM, optical memory etc.) that wherein include computer usable program code.
The present invention is that reference is described according to the flow chart and/or the block diagram of method, equipment (system) and the computer program of the embodiment of the invention.Should understand can be by the flow process in each flow process in computer program instructions realization flow figure and/or the block diagram and/or square frame and flow chart and/or the block diagram and/or the combination of square frame.Can provide these computer program instructions to the processor of all-purpose computer, special-purpose computer, Embedded Processor or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine, make the instruction of carrying out by the processor of computer or other programmable data processing device produce to be used for the device of the function that is implemented in flow process of flow chart or a plurality of flow process and/or square frame of block diagram or a plurality of square frame appointments.
These computer program instructions also can be stored in energy vectoring computer or the computer-readable memory of other programmable data processing device with ad hoc fashion work, make the instruction that is stored in this computer-readable memory produce the manufacture that comprises command device, this command device is implemented in the function of appointment in flow process of flow chart or a plurality of flow process and/or square frame of block diagram or a plurality of square frame.
These computer program instructions also can be loaded on computer or other programmable data processing device, make on computer or other programmable devices and to carry out the sequence of operations step producing computer implemented processing, thereby the instruction of carrying out on computer or other programmable devices is provided for being implemented in the step of the function of appointment in flow process of flow chart or a plurality of flow process and/or square frame of block diagram or a plurality of square frame.
Although described the preferred embodiments of the present invention, in a single day those skilled in the art get the basic creative notion of cicada, then can make other change and modification to these embodiment.So claims are intended to all changes and the modification that are interpreted as comprising preferred embodiment and fall into the scope of the invention.
From the foregoing description as can be seen: embodiment of the invention network equipment is identified for the MDT indication information whether the indication network side apparatus supports MDT; The MDT indication information that network equipment send to be determined to user terminal after being used for indicating user terminal and determining that according to the MDT indication information network equipment is supported MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Because whether the network equipment that network side can the current connection of informing user terminal in the embodiment of the invention can handle the MDT measurement result (comprise and whether support MDT, or do not closed all or part of measurement reporting functions of MDT), make user terminal only report the MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can handle the MDT measurement result, thereby avoid user terminal to report the situation of MDT measurement result, saved interface-free resources to the network equipment that can not handle the MDT measurement result.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.