Embodiment
Embodiment of the present invention network equipment sends MDT indication information to user terminal, and user terminal in generation MDT measurement result, and after supporting MDT according to MDT indication information determination network equipment, reports MDT measurement result to network equipment.Because whether network side in the embodiment of the present invention network equipment of the current connection of informing user terminal can process MDT measurement result, make user terminal only report MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can process MDT measurement result, thus avoid user terminal to report the situation of MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can not process MDT measurement result.
Wherein, the embodiment of the present invention can be applied in LTE system, and also can be applied in other needs in the system of user terminal to send up MDT measurement result.
The network equipment of the embodiment of the present invention can be base station (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 present invention is described in further detail.
As shown in Figure 1, the embodiment of the present invention reports the system of MDT measurement result to comprise: network equipment 10 and user terminal 20.
Whether network equipment 10, support the MDT indication information of MDT for determining indication network side apparatus, and send the MDT indication information determined to user terminal 20.
User terminal 20, for receiving the MDT indication information from network equipment 10, after supporting MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation according to MDT indication information determination network equipment 10 to network equipment.
In specific implementation process, network equipment 10, after determining self not support the MDT indication information of MDT, can not send MDT indication information to user terminal 20; Accordingly, if user terminal 20 does not receive MDT indication information, then determine that network equipment 10 does not support MDT indication information.Certainly, instruction, after determining that self does not support MDT, can not supported that the information of MDT is as MDT indication information, such as 0 by network equipment 10 yet;
Instruction self, after determining that self supports MDT, can be supported that the information of MDT is as MDT indication information, such as 1 by network equipment 10, preferably, network equipment 10 can also according to the MDT measuring amount preset and the corresponding relation measuring mark, determine the measurement mark that the MDT measuring amount self supported is corresponding, and the measurement determined is identified as MDT indication information, accordingly, user terminal 20 can be determined to measure MDT measuring amount corresponding to mark according to the corresponding relation of the MDT measuring amount preset and measurement mark, when needs are measured, directly can measure the MDT measuring amount determined, and generate MDT measurement result according to the result measured, the size measuring resource and MDT measurement result can be saved like this, if user terminal 20 is measured, the measurement result of the MDT measuring amount determined only can be comprised in MDT measurement result, the size of MDT measurement result can be saved like this.
Wherein, the measuring amount of embodiment of the present invention MDT includes but not limited to one or more of following measuring amount:
Periodical downlink pilot measurements (Period Down pilot measurement); Serving Cellbecomes worse than threshold (service district becomes poorer than setting thresholding); Transmit powerheadroom becomes less than threshold (PHR becomes poorer than setting thresholding); Random accessfailure (random access failure); Paging Channel Failure (paging channel takes defeat); BroadcastChannel failure (broadcast channel takes defeat); Radio link failure report (radio link failure report).
Embodiment of the present invention network equipment 10 does not support that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment 10 does not support that but MDT function and network equipment 10 support MDT function current closedown MDT function;
Embodiment of the present invention network equipment 10 supports that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment 10 supports that all MDT measuring amount and network equipment 10 support part MDT measuring amount.
If network equipment 10 supports part MDT measuring amount, MDT measurement result comprises the MDT measuring amount that network equipment 10 is not supported, network equipment 10 only needs to process the result of the MDT measuring amount that self supports in MDT measurement result.
Wherein, network equipment 10 can send to the user terminal 20 be connected with self the MDT indication information determined; When user terminal 20 can be switched to the community of network equipment 10 management, network equipment 10 by the source network side apparatus be connected with user terminal 20, can send MDT indication information to user terminal 20.A point situation is described below.
Situation one, network equipment 10 send to the user terminal 20 be connected with self the MDT indication information determined.
For situation one, network equipment 10 can adopt broadcast announcement mode, and namely MDT indication information can be placed in broadcast message by network equipment 10, and broadcast transmission contains the broadcast message of MDT indication information.
Broadcast message can be MIB (Master Information Block, control information block) or SIB (System Information Broadcast, system information broadcast) 1.For different application scenarioss, broadcast message can also be other information, such as time 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, MDT indication information notice is needed the user terminal known, as by RRC signaling.
Which kind of advice method of concrete employing can be consulted to determine by network equipment 10 and user terminal 20, can also specify in the protocol.
Wherein, there is various ways can send MDT indication information by trigger network side apparatus 10, such as:
Network equipment 10 can when the MDT state of self changes, the MDT indication information informing user terminal 20 after instruction being changed;
Behind the community that network equipment 10 can manage at new user terminal 20 access network side apparatus 10, by MDT indication information informing user terminal 20;
Network equipment 10 can the cycle by MDT indication information informing user terminal 20;
Network equipment 10 can needs user terminal 20 report MDT measurement result or for user terminal 20 configure MDT measurement parameter time, by MDT indication information informing user terminal 20.
It should be noted that, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to above-mentioned triggering mode, and the mode of MDT indication information informing user terminal 20 all can be suitable for the embodiment of the present invention by trigger network side apparatus 10 by other.
Situation two, user terminal 20 can be switched to network equipment 10 manage community time, network equipment 10 by the source network side apparatus be connected with user terminal 20, can send MDT indication information to user terminal 20.
If user terminal 20 needs to switch, then the network equipment be connected with user terminal 20 can send handover request message to multiple network equipment 10 meeting switching condition;
Accordingly, network equipment 10 receive from other network equipments for the handover request message of user terminal after, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments and MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
Here handover request ack message can be when allowing user terminal 20 to be switched to the community of network equipment 10 management, the switching request acknowledgement message generated, can also be when not allowing user terminal 20 to be switched to the community of self-management, the handover request failed message of generation.
Preferably, if network equipment 10 does not allow user terminal 20 to be switched to the community of self-management, then user terminal 20 can not be switched to the community that network equipment 10 manages, also network equipment 10 MDT measurement result would not be reported to network equipment 10, so can not comprise MDT indication information in the message returned.
Because it be network equipment is that user terminal 20 configures MDT measurement parameter that activated user terminal 20 carries out one of condition measured, if source network side apparatus is after needing the user terminal 20 switched to configure MDT measurement parameter, user terminal 20 needs to switch, then MDT measurement result can be sent to the network equipment after switching by user terminal 20; Contrary, if source network side apparatus is not for needing the user terminal 20 switched to configure MDT measurement parameter, user terminal 20 also can not send MDT measurement result after handover, so objective network measurement equipment can not be used in the message returning to source network side apparatus comprise MDT indication information, but after user terminal 20 switches, by broadcast mode or separately advice method, like this can saving resource further by MDT indication information informing user terminal 20.
Concrete, whether source network side apparatus can carry and be used to indicate to the configuration indication information of user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter in handover request message, and such as 1 represents configuration indication information, and 0 represents and do not configure indication information; Accordingly, according to the configuration indication information in handover request message, network measurement equipment 10 judges that whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter; And after determining that other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments.
Wherein, if user terminal 20 has been closed MDT function (comprising MDT measurement result to report or MDT measurement) at source network side apparatus, so after determining objective network side apparatus instruction MDT, MDT function can have been opened;
If user terminal 20 source network side apparatus be unlocked MDT function (comprise MDT measurement result report or MDT measure), so determine objective network side apparatus instruction MDT after, MDT function can be closed.
As shown in Figure 2, the networking side apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention comprises: indication information determination module 100 and indication information sending module 110.
Whether indication information determination module 100, support the MDT indication information of MDT for determining indication network side apparatus.
Indication information determination module 100 determines that the mode of MDT indication information and network equipment in Fig. 1 10 determine that the mode of MDT indication information is identical, does not repeat them here.
Indication information sending module 110, for sending the MDT indication information determined to user terminal, is used to indicate user terminal according to after MDT indication information determination network equipment support MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Wherein, indication information determination module 100 can when self supporting MDT, according to MDT measuring amount and the corresponding relation measuring mark, determines the measurement mark that MDT measuring amount that network equipment is supported is corresponding, and identify the measurement determined as MDT indication information.
Wherein, indication information sending module 110 can send MDT indication information by broadcast message.
Indication information sending module 110 can receive from other network equipments for the handover request message of user terminal after, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments and MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
Indication information sending module 110 can also judge according to the configuration indication information in handover request message that whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter; And after determining that other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments.
The mode that indication information sending module 110 sends MDT indication information is identical with the mode that network equipment in Fig. 1 10 sends MDT indication information, does not repeat them here.
As shown in Figure 3, the user terminal of the embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiver module 200 and reporting module 210.
Receiver module 200, for receiving the MDT indication information from network equipment;
Reporting module 210, after the MDT indication information determination network equipment for receiving according to receiver module 200 supports MDT, reports the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
If MDT indication information is the MDT measuring amount of network equipment support, corresponding measurement identifies; Reporting module 210 can also according to MDT measuring amount and the corresponding relation measuring mark, the MDT measuring amount that the measurement determining to receive mark is corresponding, according to the result after measuring the MDT measuring amount determined, generates MDT measurement result.
Reporting module 210 generates and generates identical with the mode sending MDT measurement result with the mode sending MDT measurement result with user terminal in Fig. 1 20, does not repeat them here.
Wherein, reporting module 210 can also be closed in the MDT function of self, and after supporting MDT according to MDT indication information determination network equipment, opens MDT function.
As shown in Figure 4, the embodiment of the present invention the first report the method for MDT measurement result to comprise the following steps:
Step 401, network equipment determine the MDT indication information whether indication network side apparatus supports MDT.
Step 402, network equipment send the MDT indication information determined to user terminal, be used to indicate user terminal according to after MDT indication information determination network equipment support MDT, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Wherein, can also comprise after step 402:
Step 403, user terminal receive the MDT indication information from network equipment.
Step 404, user terminal report the MDT measurement result of generation after supporting MDT according to MDT indication information determination network equipment to network equipment.
In specific implementation process, according to MDT indication information, user terminal judges whether network equipment is supported MDT and generate MDT measurement result not have to be related in sequential.User terminal first may generate MDT measurement result, is then receiving MDT indication information; Also MDT indication information may first be received, in generation MDT measurement result.
Network equipment, after determining self not support the MDT indication information of MDT, can not send MDT indication information to user terminal; Accordingly, if user terminal does not receive MDT indication information, then determine that network equipment does not support MDT indication information.Certainly, instruction, after determining that self does not support MDT, can not supported that the information of MDT is as MDT indication information, such as 0 by network equipment yet;
Instruction self, after determining that self supports MDT, can be supported that the information of MDT is as MDT indication information, such as 1 by network equipment; Preferably, network equipment can also according to the MDT measuring amount that presets and the corresponding relation measuring mark, determines the measurement mark that the MDT measuring amount self supported is corresponding, and identifies the measurement determined as MDT indication information; Accordingly, in step 404, user terminal can be determined to measure MDT measuring amount corresponding to mark according to the corresponding relation of the MDT measuring amount preset and measurement mark, when needs are measured, directly can measure the MDT measuring amount determined, and generate MDT measurement result according to the result measured, the size measuring resource and MDT measurement result can be saved like this, if user terminal is measured, in MDT measurement result, only can comprise the measurement result of the MDT measuring amount determined, the size of MDT measurement result can be saved like this.
Wherein, the measuring amount of embodiment of the present invention MDT includes but not limited to one or more of following measuring amount:
Period Down pilot measurement; Service district becomes poorer than setting thresholding; PHR becomes poorer than setting thresholding; Random access failure; Paging channel takes defeat; Broadcast channel takes defeat; Radio link failure report.
Embodiment of the present invention network equipment does not support that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment does not support that but MDT function and network equipment support MDT function current closedown MDT function;
Embodiment of the present invention network equipment supports that MDT includes but not limited to: network equipment supports that all MDT measuring amount and network equipment support part MDT measuring amount.
If network equipment supports part MDT measuring amount, MDT measurement result comprises the MDT measuring amount that network equipment is not supported, network equipment only needs to process the result of the MDT measuring amount that self supports in MDT measurement result.
In step 402, network equipment can send to the user terminal be connected with self the MDT indication information determined; When user terminal can be switched to the community of network equipment management, network equipment by the source network side apparatus be connected with user terminal, can send MDT indication information to user terminal.A point situation is described below.
Situation one, network equipment send the MDT indication information determined to the user terminal be connected with self.
For situation one, in step 402, network equipment can adopt broadcast announcement mode, and namely MDT indication information can be placed in broadcast message by network equipment, and broadcast transmission contains the broadcast message of MDT indication information.
Broadcast message can be MIB or SIB1.For different application scenarioss, broadcast message can also be other information, and such as during E-UTRAN, broadcast message can also be SIB2.
In specific implementation process, the indication extension supporting MDT can be added in system information, for LTE, if add MDT indication information to SIB1, need the support instruction increasing mdtIndication in the release9 version expansion of SIB1:
mdtIndication-r9 ENUMERATED{supported}OPTIONAL,--Need OP
In step 402, network equipment can also adopt independent advice method, MDT indication information notice is needed the user terminal known, as by RRC signaling.
Which kind of advice method of concrete employing can be consulted to determine by network equipment and user terminal, can also specify in the protocol.
Wherein, there is various ways can send MDT indication information by trigger network side apparatus, such as:
Network equipment can when the MDT state of self changes, the MDT indication information informing user terminal after instruction being changed;
Behind the community that network equipment can manage at new accessing user terminal to network side apparatus, by MDT indication information informing user terminal;
Network equipment can the cycle by MDT indication information informing user terminal;
Network equipment can needs user terminal to send up MDT measurement result or for user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter time, by MDT indication information informing user terminal.
It should be noted that, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to above-mentioned triggering mode, and the mode of MDT indication information informing user terminal all can be suitable for the embodiment of the present invention by trigger network side apparatus by other.
Situation two, when user terminal can be switched to the community of network equipment management, network equipment can by the source network side apparatus is connected with user terminal, to user terminal transmission MDT indication information.
If user terminal needs to switch, then the network equipment be connected with user terminal can send handover request message to multiple network equipment meeting switching condition;
Accordingly, in step 402, network equipment receive from other network equipments for the handover request message of user terminal after, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments, be used to indicate other network equipments and MDT indication information is sent to user terminal.
Here handover request ack message can be when allowing user terminal to be switched to the community of network equipment management, the switching request acknowledgement message generated, can also be when not allowing user terminal to be switched to the community of self-management, the handover request failed message of generation.
Preferably, if network equipment does not allow user terminal to be switched to the community of self-management, then user terminal can not be switched to the community of network equipment management, also network equipment MDT measurement result would not be reported to network equipment, so can not comprise MDT indication information in the message returned.
To be network equipment be because activated user terminal carries out one of condition measured user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, if source network side apparatus is after the user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter needing to switch, user terminal needs to switch, then MDT measurement result can be sent to the network equipment after switching by user terminal; If contrary source network side apparatus is not for needing the user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter switched, user terminal also can not send MDT measurement result after handover, so objective network measurement equipment can not be used in the message returning to source network side apparatus comprise MDT indication information, but after user terminal switches, by broadcast mode or separately advice method, like this can saving resource further by MDT indication information informing user terminal.
Concrete, whether source network side apparatus can carry and be used to indicate to the configuration indication information of user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter in handover request message, and such as 1 represents configuration indication information, and 0 represents and do not configure indication information; Accordingly, in step 402, according to the configuration indication information in handover request message, network measurement equipment judges that whether other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter; And after determining that other network equipments are to user terminal configuration MDT measurement parameter, send the handover request ack message containing MDT indication information to other network equipments.
In step 404, if user terminal has been closed MDT function (comprising MDT measurement result to report or MDT measurement) at source network side apparatus, so after determining objective network side apparatus instruction MDT, MDT function can be opened;
If user terminal source network side apparatus be unlocked MDT function (comprise MDT measurement result report or MDT measure), so determine objective network side apparatus instruction MDT after, MDT function can be closed.
As shown in Figure 5, embodiment of the present invention the second reports the method for MDT measurement result to comprise the following steps:
Step 501, user terminal receive the MDT indication information from network equipment.
Step 502, user terminal report the MDT measurement result of generation after supporting MDT according to MDT indication information determination network equipment to network equipment.
Wherein, step 501 is identical with step 404 with the step 403 in Fig. 4 with step 502, does not repeat them here.
As shown in Figure 6, the method that the embodiment of the present invention switches comprises the following steps:
Step 601, user terminal are reported to source base station by needing the measurement result switched.
Step 602, source base station determine user terminal to be switched to target BS according to court verdict.
If source base station determines user terminal not to be switched to target BS according to court verdict in step 602, then jump out this flow process.
Step 603, source base station initiate handover request to target BS, and carry corresponding handover information.
When step 604, target BS judge to receive this user terminal according to the situation 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 is switched to target BS, and carries corresponding handover information and MDT indication information.
Step 606, user terminal, according to related command and information, are switched to target BS.
If before step 601, user terminal carries out MDT measurement, and in step 606, user terminal is according to MDT indication information, and determine that target BS supports MDT, then user terminal after handover, and MDT measurement result is sent to target BS; If user terminal is according to MDT indication information in step 606, determine that target BS does not support MDT, then user terminal after handover, do not send MDT measurement result to target BS.
Wherein, configuration indication information can also be carried in the handover request that in step 603, source base station is initiated to target BS; Accordingly, if target BS finds to comprise configuration indication information in handover request in step 604, and be that user terminal is configured with MDT measurement parameter according to configuration indication information determination source base station, then target BS sends switching request acknowledgement message to source base station, and carries handover information and MDT indication information; If if target BS finds to comprise configuration indication information in handover request, and according to configuration indication information determination source base station not for user terminal is configured with MDT measurement parameter, then target BS sends switching request acknowledgement message to source base station, and carries handover information.
Those skilled in the art should understand, embodiments of the invention can be provided as method, system or computer program.Therefore, the present invention can adopt the form of complete hardware embodiment, completely software implementation or the embodiment in conjunction with software and hardware aspect.And the present invention can adopt in one or more form wherein including the upper computer program implemented of computer-usable storage medium (including but not limited to magnetic disc store, CD-ROM, optical memory etc.) of computer usable program code.
The present invention describes with reference to according to the flow chart of the method for the embodiment of the present invention, equipment (system) and computer program and/or block diagram.Should understand can by the combination of the flow process in each flow process in computer program instructions realization flow figure and/or block diagram and/or square frame and flow chart and/or block diagram and/or square frame.These computer program instructions can being provided to the processor of all-purpose computer, special-purpose computer, Embedded Processor or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine, making the instruction performed by the processor of computer or other programmable data processing device produce device for realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.
These computer program instructions also can be stored in can in the computer-readable memory that works in a specific way of vectoring computer or other programmable data processing device, the instruction making to be stored in this computer-readable memory produces the manufacture comprising command device, and this command device realizes the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.
These computer program instructions also can be loaded in computer or other programmable data processing device, make on computer or other programmable devices, to perform sequence of operations step to produce computer implemented process, thus the instruction performed on computer or other programmable devices is provided for the step realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.
Although describe the preferred embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art once obtain the basic creative concept of cicada, then can make other change and amendment to these embodiments.So claims are intended to be interpreted as comprising preferred embodiment and falling into all changes and the amendment of the scope of the invention.
As can be seen from above-described embodiment: embodiment of the present invention network equipment determines the MDT indication information whether indication network side apparatus supports MDT; Network equipment sends the MDT indication information determined to user terminal, be used to indicate user terminal according to after MDT indication information determination network equipment support MDT, report the MDT measurement result of generation to network equipment.
Because whether network side in the embodiment of the present invention network equipment of the current connection of informing user terminal can process MDT measurement result and (comprise and whether support MDT, or whether close all or part of measurement reporting functions of MDT), user terminal is made only to report MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can process MDT measurement result, thus avoid user terminal to report the situation of MDT measurement result to the network equipment that can not process MDT measurement result, save interface-free resources.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various change and modification to the present invention and not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if these amendments of the present invention and modification belong within the scope of the claims in the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention is also intended to comprise these change and modification.