CN109151883B

CN109151883B - Communication method, communication apparatus, and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN109151883B
Application number: CN201710459314.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 耿婷婷; 曾清海
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-06-16
Filing date: 2017-06-16
Publication date: 2021-02-09
Anticipated expiration: 2037-06-16
Also published as: CN109151883A; WO2018228393A1

Abstract

The application discloses a communication method, a communication device and a storage medium, wherein the transmission of measurement information is carried out through physical layer signaling or MAC layer signaling, the transmission of layer 3 signaling in the transmission process of the measurement information can be reduced, and the system overhead is reduced. In this embodiment of the present application, a first network device receives first measurement information, the first network device is a network device that provides a service to a terminal device, the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or an MAC layer signaling, the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams in a first cell corresponding to a second network device and a cell identifier of the first cell corresponding to the second network device, and the first measurement information is carried in the physical layer signaling or a media access control MAC layer signaling, which can reduce transmission of layer 3 signaling in a measurement information transmission process, and reduce system overhead.

Description

Communication method, communication apparatus, and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a communication method, a communication apparatus, and a storage medium.

Background

In a distributed radio access network, in order to reduce the base station deployment cost, the upper layer part protocol in the protocol stack on the radio access network side is usually centralized. For example, the radio access network side of a Distributed radio access network may be divided into Central Units (CUs) and Distributed Units (DUs).

In one possible scenario, Radio Resource Control (RRC)/Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Protocol stacks are distributed in the central unit, and Radio Link Control (RLC)/Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol stacks are distributed in the distribution unit. For example, one concentration unit may correspond to at least one distribution unit, that is, one concentration unit may serve as a control device for one or more distribution units, and one distribution unit may constitute one cell, or a plurality of distribution units may constitute one cell.

For the distributed radio access network similar to the above, a reasonable measurement information reporting method is needed.

Disclosure of Invention

Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method, apparatus, and storage medium, where measurement information is transmitted through a physical layer signaling or an MAC layer signaling, so that transmission of a layer 3 signaling in a measurement information transmission process can be reduced, and system overhead is reduced.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, in which a first network device receives first measurement information; the first network device is a network device providing service for the terminal device, the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) layer signaling, the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams in a first cell corresponding to the second network device and a cell identifier of the first cell corresponding to the second network device, and N is a positive integer. The first measurement information is carried in the physical layer signaling or the media access control MAC layer signaling, so that the transmission of the layer 3 signaling in the measurement information transmission process can be reduced, and the system overhead is reduced.

In one possible design, after the first network device receives the first measurement information, the first network device sends the first measurement information to the control device. Optionally, if the first network device further receives the second measurement information, the first network device may also forward the second measurement information to the control device. The first network device may forward the first measurement information and/or the second measurement information through the first indication information. Therefore, the control device obtains the measurement information of the first network device and/or the second network device, and can better manage and control the mobility of the terminal device.

In one possible design, in order to enable the first network device to perform more accurate determination according to the first measurement information, the first measurement information further includes signal quality of each of the N beams, so that the first network device may determine the current environment in which the terminal device is located based on the signal quality of the N beams.

In one possible design, after the first network device receives the first measurement information, the method further includes: the first network equipment determines that the signal quality of M beams in the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition, and sends first indication information to the control equipment; wherein the first indication information includes: an identity of the first cell and an identity of at least one beam of the M beams, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N. That is to say, the first network device performs, according to the signal quality of N beams in the received first measurement information, determination in combination with an indication information reporting condition, and sends, to the control device, first indication information if the first network device determines that the signal quality of M beams in the N beams meets the indication information reporting condition, where the first indication information may provide reference information for the control device whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device, and may share the workload of some control devices for determining whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device.

In one possible design, before the first network device sends the first indication information to the control device, the method further includes: the first network equipment receives the indication information reporting condition from the control equipment. Therefore, the control equipment can send the indication information reporting condition according to the specific condition, and the flexibility of the system is improved.

In one possible design, the indication information reporting condition includes at least one of the following: the signal quality of the M beams is above a first threshold; the signal quality of the R beams of the first network device is below a second threshold; the signal quality of the first cell is better than the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

To provide flexibility in the scheme, in one possible design, the signal quality of the M beams is above a first threshold, including at least one of: the signal quality of each of the M beams is above a first signal quality threshold, the average of the signal qualities of the M beams is above a second signal quality threshold, and the signal quality of each of the M beams is above a third signal quality threshold and M is greater than a quantity threshold; alternatively, the signal quality of the R beams is below a second threshold, including at least one of: the signal quality of at least one of the R beams is below a fourth signal quality threshold and the average of the signal qualities of the R beams is below a fifth signal quality threshold. Alternatively, the signal quality of the beam of the second network device is better than the signal quality of the beam of the first network device, comprising at least one of: the average value of the signal quality of the M beams is higher than the average value of the signal quality of the R beams of the first network device, the difference between the average value of the signal quality of the M beams and the average value of the signal quality of the R beams is not less than a first difference threshold, the best signal quality of the M beams is higher than the best signal quality of the R beams of the first network device, the difference between the best signal quality of the M beams and the best signal quality of the R beams is not less than a second difference threshold, and the value of N is higher than the measured number of beams of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

In one possible design, the first indication information further includes at least one of: a signal quality of the first cell; signal quality of the M beams. Therefore, the control equipment can obtain more stable or more detailed quality information of the target cell or the beam, and better perform switching judgment.

Optionally, in order to increase flexibility of the system, in the embodiment of the present application, in addition to the first network device acquiring the first measurement information through the above optional implementation, the first network device may also acquire the measurement information through other manners, where the measurement information may include measurement information of the first network device and/or measurement information of the second network device. For example, in one possible embodiment, the first network device receives second indication information sent by the control device; the first network equipment determines according to the second indication information that: and acquiring the measurement information of the second network equipment through the first measurement information.

Further, in order to enable the terminal to report the measurement report more in line with the needs of the network device, in a possible design, before the first network device receives the first measurement information, the first network device sends a measurement information reporting condition to the terminal device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

Further, in order to more accurately judge the current environment of the terminal device, in one possible design, the first network device receives second measurement information; the second measurement information is carried in the physical layer signaling or the MAC layer signaling, and the second measurement information includes a beam identifier and signal quality of each of R beams of the first network device, where R is a positive integer.

In one possible design, the first network device is a first distribution unit, the second network device is a second distribution unit, and the control device is a central unit.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a communication method, where the method includes measuring a beam of a second network device to obtain first measurement information, where the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each of N beams of a first cell and a cell identifier of the first cell, where N is a positive integer, and the second measurement information includes a beam identifier of each of N beams of the first cell and a cell identifier of the first cell, where the N is a positive integer; and sending first measurement information to first network equipment, wherein the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) layer signaling, and the first network equipment is network equipment for providing service for the terminal equipment. The first measurement information is carried in the physical layer signaling or the media access control MAC layer signaling, so that the transmission of the layer 3 signaling in the measurement information transmission process can be reduced, and the system overhead is reduced.

In a possible design, before sending the first measurement information to the first network device, it is determined that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device, so that the terminal device performs switching according to the above scheme in a scene of crossing network devices but not crossing control devices, transmission of layer 3 signaling in a measurement information transmission process can be saved, and system overhead is reduced.

In one possible design, it is determined that a first network device and a second network device are connected to the same control device, and identification indication information of the control device connected to the first network device and identification indication information of the control device connected to the second network device are received; and if the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment is the same as the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment, determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment. In this manner, the terminal device is burdened with steps of partial judgment of the control device.

In one possible design, determining that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device includes: receiving control equipment indication information sent by first network equipment or control equipment connected with the first network equipment, wherein the control equipment indication information is used for indicating whether second network equipment and the first network equipment are connected with the same control equipment or not; and determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment according to the received control equipment indication information. Therefore, the terminal equipment can determine whether the second network equipment and the first network equipment are connected with the same control equipment or not by receiving the indication information of the control equipment, so that the terminal equipment can select proper signaling to send the measurement information, and the flexibility of the scheme is improved.

Further, in order to enable the terminal to report the measurement report more in line with the needs of the network device, in a possible design, before sending the first measurement information to the first network device, the terminal receives a measurement information reporting condition sent by the first network device or a control device connected to the first network device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

In one possible design, the first network device is a first distribution unit; the second network device is a second distribution unit and the control device is a centralized unit.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, in which a control device receives first measurement information sent by a first network device. Optionally, the control device further receives second measurement information sent by the first network device. Therefore, the control device obtains the measurement information of the first network device and/or the second network device, and can better manage and control the mobility of the terminal device.

In one possible design, the control device receives first indication information sent by a first network device; wherein the first indication information includes: an identity of the first cell and an identity of at least one beam of the M beams, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N. In this way, the first indication information may provide reference information for the control device whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device, and may share the workload of some control devices to determine whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device.

In one possible design, the control device sends the indication information reporting condition to the first network device. Therefore, the control equipment can send the indication information reporting condition according to the specific condition, and the flexibility of the system is improved.

Optionally, in order to increase flexibility of the system, in the embodiment of the present application, in addition to the first network device acquiring the first measurement information through the above optional implementation, the first network device may also acquire the measurement information through other manners, where the measurement information may include measurement information of the first network device and/or measurement information of the second network device. For example, in one possible design, the control device sends the second indication information to the first network device, and thus, the first network device determines, according to the second indication information: and acquiring the measurement information of the second network equipment through the first measurement information.

Further, in order to enable the terminal to report the measurement report more in line with the needs of the network device, in a possible design, the control device may send a measurement information reporting condition to the terminal device before the first network device receives the first measurement information; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

Reference may be made to the above discussion of the first aspect and/or the second aspect for the limitation of the first indication information, the indication information reporting condition, and the like in the third aspect.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and the communication apparatus has a function of implementing the method example in the first aspect; the communication device includes: a communication module and a processor; the communication module is used for carrying out communication interaction with other equipment, and the communication module can be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a Bluetooth module and the like.

The processor is configured to implement the functions of the processing module in the third aspect, for example, a scheme that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition is determined.

Optionally, the communication device may further include a memory for storing programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. The memory may comprise RAM, and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor executes the application program stored in the memory to realize the functions.

In one possible approach, the communication module, the processor and the memory may be connected to each other by a bus; the bus may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc.

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and the communication apparatus has a function of implementing the method example of the second aspect; the communication device includes: a communication module and a processor;

the communication module is used for carrying out communication interaction with other equipment, and the communication module can be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a Bluetooth module and the like.

The processor is configured to implement the functions of the processing module in the second aspect, for example, a scheme that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition is determined.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and the communication apparatus has a function of implementing the method example in the third aspect; the communication device includes: a communication module and a processor;

And the processor is configured to implement the functions of the processing module in the second aspect, for example, a scheme including determining whether the terminal device is switched according to the received first indication information, and the like.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus, configured to implement any one of the foregoing first aspect or the first aspect, where the communication apparatus includes corresponding functional modules, respectively configured to implement the steps in the foregoing methods.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus, configured to implement the method of any one of the second aspect or the second aspect, including corresponding functional modules, respectively configured to implement the steps in the above method.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus, configured to implement the method of any one of the third aspect or the third aspect, including corresponding functional modules, respectively configured to implement the steps in the above method.

In a tenth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium, which stores instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation manner of the first aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect.

In a twelfth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the third aspect or any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

In a thirteenth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product containing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation manner of the first aspect.

In a fourteenth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product containing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect.

In a fifteenth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product containing instructions that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the third aspect or any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

In a sixteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, where the method includes receiving resource indication information, where the resource indication information includes indication information of a resource used for transmitting uplink data; determining a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, wherein the association relation information comprises information used for determining the association relation between the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the logical channel; and sending the uplink data corresponding to the logic channel on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data. Therefore, the terminal device can find the logical channel corresponding to the resource used by the terminal device for transmitting the uplink data.

Here, the association relation information may be sent by the network device or preset, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

In an optional implementation, the resource indication information may be included in the association relationship information, and then the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data is determined according to the resource indication information and the association relationship information, or may be understood as the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data is determined according to the association relationship information.

In one possible design, the association relationship information includes an association relationship between the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel; determining a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, including: and determining a logical channel associated with the resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the association relationship between the uplink resource and the logical channel identifier. Therefore, the logical channel corresponding to the uplink data can be dynamically assigned, and the flexibility is improved.

In one possible design, the association relationship information includes an identifier of a logical channel and an association relationship of an HARQ process, and an association relationship of an uplink resource and an HARQ process; determining a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, including: determining an HARQ process associated with resources used for transmitting uplink data according to the association relationship between the uplink resources and the HARQ process, and determining a logical channel associated with the HARQ process according to the identification of the logical channel and the association relationship of the HARQ process; the method for sending the uplink data of the logical channel on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data comprises the following steps: and transmitting the uplink data of the logical channel through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data. Therefore, on one hand, the embodiment of the present application is also applicable in a scenario that different MAC layer entities may correspond to different HARQ processes, and on the other hand, a logical channel corresponding to uplink data is indirectly determined by combining two association relations.

In one possible design, the resource indication information further includes a category identifier of a category to which the resource used for transmitting the uplink data belongs; the incidence relation information comprises the incidence relation between the category identification of the uplink resource and the identification of the logical channel; determining a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, including: and determining the logical channel associated with the category identification of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the association relationship between the category identification of the uplink resource and the identification of the logical channel. Therefore, the terminal device receives the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel sent by the network device, and the network device can indicate the category identifier of the UL grant in the DCI, thereby reducing the transmission frequency of the association relationship and reducing the network load.

In one possible design, the resource indication information further includes: the category identification of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data; the incidence relation information comprises the incidence relation between the identification of the logic channel and the HARQ process, and the incidence relation between the category identification of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the HARQ process; determining a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, including: determining the HARQ process associated with the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the association relationship between the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the HARQ process; determining a logical channel associated with the HARQ process according to the identification of the logical channel and the association relationship of the HARQ process; the method for transmitting the uplink data through the logical channel on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data comprises the following steps: and transmitting the uplink data of the logical channel through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data. Therefore, the terminal device receives the association relationship between the category identifier of the resource and the HARQ process sent by the network device, and the association relationship between the logical channel and the HARQ process, and the network device can only indicate the category identifier of the UL grant in the DCI, thereby reducing the transmission frequency of the association relationship and reducing the network load.

In one possible design, the resource used for transmitting the uplink data includes any one of the following: uplink time domain resources used by the uplink data; uplink frequency domain resources used by the uplink data; and uplink time-frequency resources used by the uplink data.

In a seventeenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, where the method includes sending resource indication information to a terminal device, where the resource indication information includes indication information of a resource used for transmitting uplink data; and receiving uplink data corresponding to a logical channel on resources used for transmitting the uplink data, wherein the logical channel is determined according to the resource indication information and the association relation information, and the association relation information comprises information for determining the association relation between the resources used for transmitting the uplink data and the logical channel. The related contents such as the association relationship information, the resource indication information, and the like may refer to the contents discussed in the sixteenth aspect, and are not described herein again.

Eighteenth aspect, the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and the communication apparatus has the function of implementing the method in the sixteenth aspect; the communication device includes: a communication module and a processor;

The processor is configured to implement the functions of the processing module in the eighteenth aspect, for example, a scheme that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition is determined.

Nineteenth aspect, the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and the communication apparatus has the function of implementing the method example in the seventeenth aspect; the communication device includes: a communication module and a processor;

A processor, configured to implement the functions of the processing module in the seventeenth aspect, for example, a scheme that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition is determined.

In a twentieth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus for implementing any one of the methods in the sixteenth aspect or the sixteenth aspect, which includes corresponding functional modules respectively configured to implement the steps in the above methods.

In a twenty-first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus, configured to implement the method of any one of the seventeenth aspect or the seventeenth aspect, where the communication apparatus includes corresponding functional modules, respectively configured to implement the steps in the above method.

In a twenty-second aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the sixteenth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect.

In a twenty-third aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the seventeenth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect.

In a twenty-fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product containing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the sixteenth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect.

In a twenty-fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product comprising instructions that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the seventeenth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a protocol layer of a radio bearer according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2a is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2b is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2c is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2d is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2e is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2f is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another communication method provided in the embodiments of the present application;

fig. 3a is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3b is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3c is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3d is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Fig. 1 shows a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applied. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system may include a control device 101, at least two network devices, a terminal device 104, and a core network 105. Two network devices are exemplarily shown in fig. 1, a network device currently providing a service to the terminal device 104, that is, a network device currently accessed by the terminal device 104 is referred to as a first network device, and a neighboring network device of the first network device, which can detect a signal by the terminal device 104, is referred to as a second network device, such as the first network device 102 and the second network device 103 in fig. 1. The control device 101 is connected to a core network 105. There may be one or more second network devices, and the embodiment of the present application is described as an example.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the first network device may be a first distribution unit; the second network device may be a second distribution unit and the control device a central unit. Possibly, the first network device, the second network device and the control device have different names in different network structures or different scenarios.

In this embodiment, the control device 101 and at least two Network devices may form an Access point device on a Radio Access Network (RAN) side in a distributed Radio Access Network.

The control device 101 is connected to a core network in a communication network, and the control device 101 is connected to and communicates with at least two network devices. Optionally, the control device 101 and the at least two network devices may be connected through an optical fiber, or the control device 101 and the at least two network devices may be connected through other communication lines.

A wireless connection is established between any one of network device 102 and network device 103 and terminal device 104 through a wireless interface (which may also be referred to as an air interface or air interface). The radio interface may be, for example, a radio interface based on various mobile communication technologies, for example, a radio interface based on a fourth generation mobile communication network technology (4G) standard including Time Division Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) and Frequency Division duplex Long Term Evolution (FDD-LTE) communication technologies, or a radio interface based on a fifth generation mobile communication network technology (5G) standard.

The radio connection between the terminal device 104 and the radio access network side comprises one or more radio bearers (including a signalling bearer and a data bearer). The radio bearer is a generic term of a series of protocol layers allocated by the radio access network side (in the implementation environment of the present application, corresponding to the control device 101+ the network device 102+ the network device 103) to the terminal device 104 and a configuration of each protocol layer, for example, the radio bearer may include functions and configurations of PDCP, RLC, and MAC protocol layers. Further, the radio bearer may also include the functionality and configuration of the physical layer PHY protocol stack. The radio bearer provides data communication capacity from the terminal equipment to the access network, and the complete protocol stack formed by the series of protocol layers reflects the transmission process of signaling or data in the network from the upper layer protocol of the sending side to the lower layer protocol of the sending side and then from the lower layer protocol of the receiving side to the upper layer protocol of the receiving side.

For example, fig. 1a exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of a protocol layer of a Radio bearer provided in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1a, a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer 111, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer 112, and a Physical (PHY) layer 113 are correspondingly configured in a network device 102, and an RLC layer 121, an MAC layer 122, and a PHY layer 123 are correspondingly configured in a network device 103. A Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer 131 and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer 132 are configured in the Control device 101. The terminal device 104 is configured with a MAC layer 141, two RLC layers, an RLC layer 142 and an RLC layer 143, a PDCP layer 144, and an RRC layer 145. Alternatively, the RLC layer may not be necessarily limited to 2 RLC layers, and only two RLC layers are schematically shown in the figure. The terminal device 104 may further include a MAC layer 141, an RLC layer, a PDCP layer 144, and an RRC layer 145.

In the embodiment of the present application, other protocol stack division modes also exist, for example, according to the configuration of the network, when the CU and the DU are deployed, the RRC may be divided into the CU, and the PDCP, RLC, and MAC protocol stacks may be divided into the DU. Specific other possible protocol stack partitioning modes can refer to TR 38.801 v14.0.0.

During wireless transmission, when signaling or data is transmitted from the radio access network side to the terminal device through the radio bearer, the radio access network side sequentially passes through the RRC layer and the PDCP layer of the control device, then sequentially passes through the RLC layer, the MAC layer, and the PHY layer of the network device for processing, and then transmits the processed signaling or data to the terminal device through the radio frequency unit of the radio access network side, and the processed signaling or data is received by the radio frequency unit of the terminal device and sequentially passes through the PHY layer, the MAC layer, the RLC layer, and the PDCP layer of the terminal device for processing. Correspondingly, when signaling or data is transmitted from the terminal equipment to the radio access network side through the radio bearer, the processing sequence of each protocol layer is opposite to the sequence described above, specifically, the signaling or data is transmitted to the radio access network side by the radio frequency unit after passing through the PDCP layer, the RRC layer, the RLC layer and the MAC layer of the terminal equipment, is received by the radio frequency unit of the radio access network side, and then is processed sequentially through the PHY layer, the MAC layer and the RLC layer of the network equipment, and the PDCP layer and the RRC layer of the control equipment.

In practical applications, the configuration of each protocol layer of the radio bearer is not limited to the above form, for example, in a 5G or next generation mobile communication network, other protocol layer configurations may be adopted, for example, more or less protocol layers are included in the complete protocol stack of one radio bearer, and the functions of each protocol layer may be different from the corresponding protocol layers in fig. 1 a.

The terminal device 104 in the embodiment of the present application may also be referred to as a User Equipment (User Equipment), which is a device with a wireless transceiving function, and may be deployed on land, including indoors or outdoors, handheld or vehicle-mounted; can also be deployed on the water surface (such as a ship and the like); and may also be deployed in the air (e.g., airplanes, balloons, satellites, etc.). The terminal device may be a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with Wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an Augmented Reality (AR) terminal device, a Wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a Wireless terminal in self driving (self driving), a Wireless terminal in remote medical (remote medical), a Wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), a Wireless terminal in transportation security (transportation security), a Wireless terminal in smart city (smart city), a Wireless terminal in smart home (PDA), a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (Local Loop, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Personal Digital Assistant (wlan), a Personal Digital Assistant (WLL), and a Wireless communication device with Wireless transceiving function, Computing devices or other processing devices connected to wireless modems, vehicle devices, wearable devices, terminal devices in future 5G networks, and the like.

In the embodiments of the present application, the term "base station" includes, but is not limited to, a node, a station controller, an Access Point (AP), or any other type of interface device capable of operating in a wireless environment.

The term "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship.

In this embodiment of the present application, the beam may be called beam, for example, the transmission beam may refer to the distribution of signal strength formed in different spatial directions after the signal is transmitted through the antenna, and the reception beam may refer to the distribution of signal strength of the wireless signal received from the antenna in different spatial directions. It is to be understood that one or more antenna ports of a beam may also be considered as a set of antenna ports, that is to say that one set of antenna ports comprises at least one antenna port.

Specifically, the beam may refer to a precoding vector having a certain energy transmission directivity and may be capable of identifying the precoding vector through the index information, where the energy transmission directivity refers to that, in a certain spatial position, a signal subjected to precoding processing by the precoding vector has a better receiving power, such as meeting a receiving demodulation signal-to-noise ratio, and in other spatial positions, a signal subjected to precoding processing by the precoding vector has a lower receiving power, and does not meet the receiving demodulation signal-to-noise ratio. Different communication devices may have different precoding vectors, i.e. correspond to different beams, and one communication device may use one or more of a plurality of different precoding vectors at the same time, i.e. may form one beam or a plurality of beams at the same time, depending on the configuration or capabilities of the communication device. A beam may be understood as a spatial resource. The beam may be identified by identification information, and optionally, the identification information may correspond to a resource Identifier (ID) corresponding to the user, for example, the identification information may correspond to an ID or a resource of a Channel state information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configured; or may be an ID or a resource of a correspondingly configured uplink Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). Alternatively, the identification information may also be identification information that is explicitly or implicitly carried by a Signal or channel carried by a beam, for example, the identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information that indicates a beam by a Synchronization Signal or a broadcast channel transmitted by the beam, and includes, but is not limited to, identification information that indicates the beam by a Synchronization Signal block (SS block) transmitted by the beam, where the SSblock includes at least a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) and/or a secondary Synchronization Signal (SSs) and/or a broadcast channel (PBCH). It will be appreciated that the above description of beams applies to beams within each cell when the communication device corresponds to one or more cells.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the identity of the cell or the cell identity may include at least one of the following: global Cell Identity (GCI) of a Cell, Physical Cell Identity (PCI), frequency, Synchronization Signal (SS) pattern, and beam information of a Cell.

For the extension of signal quality, the signal quality in the embodiment of the present application is a broad concept, and may be understood as a parameter for measuring the signal receiving condition, for example, at least one of the following may be included: signal Received Power (RSRP), Signal received Quality (RSRQ), and the like.

In the embodiment of the present application, the layer 3 signaling may include RRC layer signaling; the layer 2 signaling may include signaling of at least one of a PDCP layer, an RLC layer, and a MAC layer; the layer 1 signaling may include PHY layer signaling. In the embodiment of the present application, the layer 1 and/or layer 2 measurement information includes measurement information transmitted using layer 1 and/or layer 2 signaling; the layer 3 measurement information includes measurement information transmitted using layer 3 signaling.

Example one

Based on the above, to further introduce the solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application, fig. 2 schematically illustrates a flowchart of a communication method provided in the embodiments of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2, the method includes the following contents.

Step 201, the terminal device measures a beam of the second network device to obtain first measurement information, where the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams of the first cell and a cell identifier of the first cell, where N is a positive integer, and the beam identifiers are corresponding to the second network device.

In this embodiment of the present application, the second network device is a neighboring network device of the first network device, and the neighboring network device of the first network device that can be measured by the terminal device may include one or more neighboring network devices.

The first network equipment is network equipment for providing service for the terminal equipment. In this embodiment, a network device may correspond to one or more cells (cells), and the signal quality of a beam of at least one cell corresponding to the network device may be measured by a terminal device, and then the measured signal quality of the beam of the at least one cell may be reported to the network device. The at least one cell that may be measured may include the first cell and other cells. It is understood that, when a network device corresponds to a cell, the signal quality of the beam of the cell to which the network device corresponds may also be referred to as the signal quality of the beam of the network device.

It can be understood that the first measurement information may include a beam identifier of each of the N beams, and further may include a cell identifier of a cell corresponding to the N beams of the second network device. For example, assuming that there are beams 1-10 of cell 1 and beams 1-10 of cell 2 that can be measured, the first measurement information may include cell 1: identification information cell 2 of beam 1-10: and (5) identification information of beam 1-10. Cell 1 or cell 2 may be regarded as a first cell, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Further, in order to enable the first network device to better manage mobility of the terminal device, the first measurement information may further include signal quality of each of the N beams, and further may further include signal quality of the first cell.

Step 202, the terminal device sends first measurement information to the first network device.

The first measurement information may be carried in layer 1 signaling and/or layer 2 signaling, for example, the first measurement information may be carried in physical layer signaling or medium access control MAC layer signaling. For another example, the first measurement information may be carried in signaling of at least one of a PDCP layer, an RLC layer, a MAC layer, and physical layer signaling.

Correspondingly, the first network device receives the first measurement information.

In the embodiment of the application, the first measurement information is transmitted through physical layer signaling or MAC layer signaling instead of layer 3 signaling (for example, RRC signaling) in the process of transmitting the first measurement information from the terminal device to the first network device, so that transmission of layer 3 signaling in the process of transmitting the measurement information can be reduced, and system overhead is reduced.

Optionally, the terminal device may also measure a cell and/or a beam of the first network device to obtain second measurement information, and optionally, the terminal device may send the second measurement information to the first network device, and accordingly, the first network device receives the second measurement information. The second measurement information may be carried in layer 1 signaling and/or layer 2 signaling, for example, the second measurement information may be carried in physical layer signaling or medium access control MAC layer signaling. For another example, the second measurement information may be carried in signaling of at least one of a PDCP layer, an RLC layer, a MAC layer, and physical layer signaling. And the content included in the second measurement information may be similar to the first measurement information, for example, the second measurement information includes a beam identifier of each of R beams of the second cell corresponding to the first network device, where R is a positive integer.

In the second measurement information, the signal quality of the R beams may also be included, such as the signal quality of each of the R beams or the signal quality of at least one of the R beams. Further, the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the R beams may also be included. Further, the cell identifier of the cell corresponding to the R beams of the first network device may also be included.

Optionally, in order to increase flexibility of the system, in the embodiment of the present application, in addition to the first network device acquiring the first measurement information through the above optional implementation, the first network device may also acquire the measurement information through other manners, where the measurement information may include measurement information of the first network device and/or measurement information of the second network device.

For example, the first network device receives second indication information sent by the control device, where the second indication information is used to determine a manner of obtaining the measurement information, and specifically, the manner in which the second indication information indicates that the first network device obtains the measurement information may be receiving the measurement information sent by the terminal device, or the manner in which the second indication information indicates that the first network device obtains the measurement information may also be obtained by the first network device based on an uplink reference signal sent by the terminal device.

In a possible case, when the second indication information indicates that the first network device acquires the measurement information in a manner of receiving the measurement information sent by the terminal device, the first network device acquires the measurement information according to the received first measurement information of the second network device and/or the received second measurement information of the first network device sent by the terminal device. In another possible case, when the second indication information indicates that the manner of obtaining the measurement information is that the first network device obtains based on the uplink reference signal sent by the terminal device, the first network device measures the uplink reference signal sent by the terminal device to generate the measurement information of the first network device, and the second network device measures the uplink reference signal sent by the terminal device to generate the measurement information of the second network device. It can be understood that, when the second indication information indicates that the manner of obtaining the measurement information is that the first network device obtains the measurement information based on the uplink reference signal sent by the terminal device, the first network device may also receive the first measurement information of the second network device and/or the second measurement information of the first network device sent by the terminal device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the timing for acquiring the second indication information is not limited, for example, before the first network device receives the first measurement information, or after the first network device receives the first measurement information. Further, in an optional implementation, before the first network device receives the first measurement information, the first network device obtains the second indication information, and may inform the terminal device in some ways that the first measurement information and/or the second measurement information do not need to be reported.

Further, after the first network device obtains the first measurement information, various optional embodiments are provided in the examples of the present application, and in an optional embodiment, the first network device forwards the first measurement information to the control device. Optionally, if the first network device further receives the second measurement information, the first network device may also forward the second measurement information to the control device. The first network device may forward the first measurement information and/or the second measurement information through the first indication information. Therefore, the control device obtains the measurement information of the first network device and/or the second network device, and can better manage and control the mobility of the terminal device.

In another optional implementation, the first measurement information may further include a signal quality of each of the N beams. Then, after the first network device obtains the first measurement information, if the first network device determines that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets the indication information reporting condition, the first network device sends the first indication information to the control device, where M is a positive integer less than or equal to N. That is to say, the first network device performs, according to the signal quality of N beams in the received first measurement information, determination in combination with an indication information reporting condition, and sends, to the control device, first indication information if the first network device determines that the signal quality of M beams in the N beams meets the indication information reporting condition, where the first indication information may provide reference information for the control device whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device, and may share the workload of some control devices for determining whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device.

Based on the above-mentioned scheme that the first network device sends the first indication information to the control device, an embodiment of the present application provides a possible application scenario, where the application scenario is that the terminal device switches between two network devices, and the control devices corresponding to the two network devices are the same, that is, the control devices corresponding to the first network device and the second network device are the same, so that after the terminal device switches, although the network device connected to the terminal device changes, the control device connected to the terminal device does not change, and therefore, the RRC connection between the terminal device and the RAN may not change. In addition, after the terminal device is switched between two Network devices corresponding to the same control device, the connection between the terminal device and the core Network is not changed, because the connection between the terminal device and the core Network is realized through the connection between the control device and the core Network, that is, the connection between the terminal device and a Radio Access Network (RAN) and the connection between the terminal device and the core Network are not changed. Optionally, the embodiment of the present application may also be applicable to other scenarios, for example, a scenario that a control device connected to a terminal device changes, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, a scenario in which the terminal device is switched between two network devices corresponding to the same control device may include a switching scenario of an intra-CU inter-DU.

It can be understood that the first indication information sent by the first network device to the control device may include a beam identifier of at least one beam of the M beams, optionally, an identifier of a first cell of the second network device, and the first indication information may further include a cell signal quality of a cell corresponding to the second network device and/or a beam signal quality of the M beams.

By the above scheme, the first network device can perform pre-judgment according to the first measurement information, and when the indication information reporting condition is met, the first indication information is sent to the control device to provide the reference information for the control device, so that the workload of some control devices for judging whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device can be shared.

In an optional implementation, if the first network device obtains first measurement information of the second network device and second measurement information of the first network device, the first network device determines signal qualities of M beams of N beams of a first cell corresponding to the second network device, and signal qualities of R beams of a second cell corresponding to the first network device meet an indication information reporting condition, and sends the first indication information to the control device.

Optionally, the first indication information may further include a beam identifier of at least one beam of the R beams. Optionally, the first indication information may further include at least one of a beam signal quality of at least one beam of the R beams of the first network device, a cell identifier of the second cell, and a cell signal quality of a cell corresponding to the first network device.

In the above optional embodiment, the condition for reporting the indication information may be that the signal quality of M beams is better, that the signal quality of R beams is poorer, or that the signal quality of the first cell is better than the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

The signal quality of the M beams of the second network device is better, which may be that the signal quality of the M beams of the second network device is higher than a first threshold; the poor signal quality of the R beams of the first network device may be that the signal quality of the R beams of the first network device is below a second threshold. In the embodiment of the present application, the first and second thresholds are merely for distinguishing and are not limited.

It can be understood that the condition for reporting the indication information may have various embodiments, and the embodiment of the present application does not limit this.

The following lists several cases that the reporting condition of the indication information is that the signal quality of M beams is good: the signal quality of each of the M beams of the second network device is above a first signal quality threshold; the average of the signal qualities of the M beams of the second network device is above a second signal quality threshold; the signal quality of each of the M beams of the second network device is above a third signal quality threshold, and M is greater than the first number threshold.

Then, enumerating several cases that the reporting condition of the indication information is that the signal quality of the R beams is poor: the signal quality of at least one of the R beams of the first network device is below a fourth signal quality threshold; the average of the signal quality of S of the R beams of the first network device is below a fifth signal quality threshold, S being a positive integer no greater than R.

Then enumerate several cases that the signal quality of the first cell is better than the signal quality of the corresponding cell of the first network device under the reporting condition of the indication information: the average of the signal qualities of the M beams of the second network device is higher than the average of the signal qualities of the S beams of the first network device; the difference value between the average value of the signal qualities of the M wave beams of the second network equipment and the average value of the signal qualities of the S wave beams of the first network equipment is not less than a first difference threshold value; the best signal quality of the M beams of the second network device is greater than the best signal quality of the S beams of the first network device; the difference between the best signal quality in the M beams of the second network device and the best signal quality in the S beams of the first network device is not less than a second difference threshold, and the value of N is greater than the measured number of beams of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

Any two values of the first signal quality threshold to the fifth signal quality threshold may be equal or different, and the first difference threshold and the second difference threshold may be equal or different. Alternatively, S may be equal to R.

It can be understood that the indication information reporting condition refers to a condition for determining whether to send the first indication information, where the indication information reporting condition may be preset, or may be configured by the control device to send to the first network device, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the present application. In addition, optionally, the reporting condition of the indication information may be different according to different requirements or network settings or scenarios.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first to fifth of the first to fifth signal quality thresholds are merely for distinction and have no limiting meaning.

Optionally, the first indication information may include an identifier of the first cell and beam identifiers of all beams in the M beams, or in some scenarios, for example, under a condition that there is a limit to the number of beams reported by the first network device, the first indication information includes an identifier of the first cell and a beam identifier of at least one beam in the M beams.

Further, in this embodiment of the application, the first indication information further includes at least one of the following: the signal quality of the first cell and the signal quality of at least one beam in the M beams enable the control device to obtain more stable or more detailed quality information of the target cell or beam, and better perform switching judgment.

After the control device receives the first indication information, optionally, under the condition that it is determined that the terminal device needs to be switched to the second network device according to the first indication information, the terminal device is switched to the second network device. It is to be understood that the handover to the second network device is herein understood as a handover to a cell corresponding to the second network device, for example, the first cell.

That is to say, the first indication information in the embodiment of the present application provides a result of pre-determination for the control device, so that the control device can further determine whether to switch the terminal device to the second network device according to the first indication information, thereby simplifying a determination process for determining whether to switch the terminal device to the second network device by the control device.

In another alternative embodiment, the control device may directly switch the terminal device to the second network device according to the first indication information. Optionally, the control device may select one or more beams from the M beams included in the received first indication information as the target beam to be switched of the terminal device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, on the terminal device side, the first measurement information may be sent through layer 1 and/or layer 2 signaling, and may also be sent through layer 3 signaling. Optionally, in order to determine whether to use layer 1 and/or layer 2 signaling or layer 3 signaling for sending the measurement information, the terminal device may perform a judgment once, determine whether the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device through the judgment, and execute step 202 after determining that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device. It will be appreciated that the determination of which signaling to send the second measurement information may also be made in a similar manner as sending the first measurement information.

The terminal device may determine whether the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device in various ways, which is exemplified by the following way a1, way a2, and way a3 in this embodiment of the application.

Mode a1

The terminal device receives control device indication information sent by a first network device or sent by a control device connected with the first network device, and determines that the first network device and a second network device are connected with the same control device according to the received control device indication information, wherein the control device indication information is used for indicating whether the second network device and the first network device are connected with the same control device. Optionally, the indication information of the control device may be sent to the terminal device through a report condition of the measurement information. Therefore, the terminal equipment can determine whether the second network equipment and the first network equipment are connected with the same control equipment or not by receiving the indication information of the control equipment, so that the terminal equipment can select proper signaling to send the measurement information, and the flexibility of the scheme is improved.

As an example, the terminal device receives a neighbor cell list, where the neighbor cell list includes neighbor cells of the first network device, and control device indication information is added in the neighbor cell list to indicate whether each neighbor cell and a cell corresponding to the first network device are connected to the same control device, for example, the neighbor cell list includes a neighbor cell 1 and a neighbor cell 2, where the control device indication information of the neighbor cell 1 is 1, which indicates that the network device of the neighbor cell 1 and the first network device are connected to the same control device, and the control device indication information of the neighbor cell 2 is 0, which indicates that the network device of the neighbor cell 2 and the first network device are not connected to the same control device.

Mode a2

The method comprises the steps that terminal equipment receives identification indication information of control equipment connected with first network equipment and identification indication information of control equipment connected with second network equipment, wherein the identification indication information is sent by the control equipment connected with the first network equipment; and if the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment is the same as the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment, determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment. In this manner, the terminal device is burdened with steps of partial judgment of the control device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the identification indication information may be an identification, or may be related information capable of indicating an identification. For example, the identification indication information of the control device connected to the first network device may be the identification of the control device connected to the first network device directly, or may be a flag value. For example, the identification indication information of the control devices connected to the first network device and the second network device is a flag value, for example, the flag value of the control device connected to the first network device is 0, and if the flag value of the control device connected to the second network device is 0, the terminal device determines that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device; if the flag value of the control device connected to the second network device is not 0, for example, 1, the terminal device determines that the first network device and the second network device are connected to different control devices.

Mode a3

For example, each network device may broadcast identification indication information of the control device connected to the network device, and the identification indication information of the control device may be an identification or related information capable of indicating the identification. In this way, the terminal device may receive the identifier indication information of the control device connected to the first network device, which is sent by the first network device; receiving identification indication information of control equipment connected with second network equipment, which is sent by the second network equipment; and if the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment is the same as the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment, determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment.

Further, in order to make the terminal report the measurement report more compliant with the needs of the network device, an optional implementation is provided in this embodiment of the present application, before step 202, the terminal device receives a measurement information reporting condition sent by the first network device or the control device connected to the first network device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information. Optionally, the measurement information reporting condition may be carried in layer 3 signaling, such as RRC signaling.

Optionally, the measurement information reporting condition may be sent to the terminal device by the control device connected to the first network device, or may be preset in a storage location accessible by the terminal device or other terminal devices, and the terminal device may directly determine the measurement information reporting condition. Optionally, one second network device may correspond to one measurement information reporting condition, or multiple second network devices may correspond to one measurement information reporting condition, where multiple measurement information reporting conditions may be sent through multiple layer 3 signaling respectively, or sent through one layer 3 signaling.

It is understood that the content of the measurement information reporting condition may refer to the description in the existing protocol TS 36.331 v14.2.2. It can be understood that the measurement information reporting condition in the existing protocol is cell specific, and in the embodiment of the present application, the measurement information reporting condition may be modified to a beam.

Optionally, there may be a plurality of measurement information reporting conditions, and the measurement information reporting conditions corresponding to the layer 1 and/or layer 2 signaling manner and the measurement information reporting conditions corresponding to the layer 3 signaling manner may be the same or different. And when the terminal judges that the first network equipment and the second network equipment belong to the same control equipment and the signal quality of the wave beam in the first measurement information and/or the second measurement information meets the measurement information reporting condition corresponding to the layer 1 signaling and/or the layer 2 signaling, carrying the first measurement information in the physical layer signaling or the MAC layer signaling and sending the first measurement information to the first network equipment.

If the terminal judges that the first network equipment and the second network equipment do not belong to the same control equipment, and the signal quality of the wave beam in the first measurement information and/or the second measurement information meets the measurement information reporting condition corresponding to the layer 3 signaling, the first measurement information is carried in the layer 3 signaling and sent to the first network equipment, and optionally, the second measurement information can also be carried in the layer 3 signaling and sent to the first network equipment. If at least one of the measurement information reporting conditions corresponding to the layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 signaling is not met, optionally, the terminal device does not report the first measurement information.

The measurement information reporting condition may include various forms, for example, the measurement information reporting condition may be that the signal quality of the beam of the cell corresponding to the second network device is good, for another example, the measurement information reporting condition may be that the signal quality of the beam of the cell corresponding to the first network device is poor, and for another example, the measurement information reporting condition may be that the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the second network device is better than the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

For example, the measurement information reporting condition includes at least one of the following: the signal quality of each of the M beams of the first cell is above a sixth signal quality threshold; an average of the signal qualities of the M beams is above a seventh signal quality threshold; the signal quality of each of the M beams is above an eighth signal quality threshold, and M is greater than a second number threshold; the signal quality of at least one beam in the R beams of the second cell corresponding to the first network equipment is lower than a ninth signal quality threshold value; an average of signal qualities of S beams of the R beams is lower than a tenth signal quality threshold, S being a positive integer no greater than R; the average of the signal qualities of the M beams is higher than the average of the signal qualities of the S beams; the difference between the average value of the signal qualities of the M wave beams and the average value of the signal qualities of the S wave beams is not less than a third difference threshold value; the best signal quality of the M beams is greater than the best signal quality of the S beams; the difference between the best signal quality of the M beams and the best signal quality of the S beams is not less than the fourth difference threshold. Any two of the sixth to tenth signal quality thresholds may be equal or different. The third difference threshold and the fourth difference threshold may or may not be equal. Any two signal quality thresholds of the first to tenth signal quality thresholds may be equal or different, the first to fourth difference thresholds may be equal or different, and the first number threshold and the second number threshold may be the same or different.

The conditions in the above measurement information reporting conditions may be used in combination, for example, the combined conditions are that the signal quality of each of the N beams is higher than the sixth signal quality threshold, and the average value of the signal qualities of the R beams is lower than the tenth signal quality threshold.

In an optional embodiment, the measurement information reporting condition may further include a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource configuration. Optionally, if the measurement information reporting condition includes the CSI-RS resource configuration, the terminal device may perform measurement according to the configured CSI-RS resource configuration to obtain a measurement result of the beam; if the measurement information reporting condition does not include the CSI-RS resource configuration, the terminal device may default to measure a Synchronization Signal (SS) to obtain a measurement result of the beam.

Optionally, if the first network device of the terminal device is not changed, but a beam providing a service for the terminal device in the first network device is changed, the beam information may also be carried through layer 1 and/or layer 2 signaling, so as to implement beam switching of the terminal device in one network device. It is to be understood that the beam information herein refers to the signal quality of the beam and/or the identity of the beam.

The network device may perform some or all of the steps in the above embodiments, and these steps or operations are merely examples, and the embodiments of the present invention may also perform other operations or variations of various operations. Further, the various steps may be performed in a different order presented in the above-described embodiments, and it is possible that not all of the operations in the above-described embodiments are performed.

It is understood that, in the foregoing embodiments of the present application, the method/step implemented by the terminal device may also be regarded as being implemented by a chip or a chip system inside the terminal device.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and is configured to implement a corresponding procedure or step in the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, for example, a corresponding procedure or step executed by a first network device in the foregoing embodiments. Fig. 2a exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2a, the communication apparatus 210 may include a receiving module 211, and may further include a processing module 212 and a transmitting module 213.

A receiving module 211, configured to receive first measurement information; the first network device is a network device providing service for the terminal device, the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) layer signaling, the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams in a first cell corresponding to the second network device and a cell identifier of the first cell corresponding to the second network device, and N is a positive integer.

In one possible design, the sending module 213 is configured to send the first measurement information to the control device.

In one possible design, the first measurement information further includes a signal quality of each of the N beams.

In one possible design, the processing module 212 determines that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets the condition for reporting the indication information, and sends the first indication information to the control device through the sending module 213; wherein the first indication information includes: an identity of the first cell and an identity of at least one beam of the M beams, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N.

In one possible design, the receiving module 211 is further configured to receive an indication information reporting condition from the control device.

The alternative schemes of the reporting condition of the indication information are various, and the details refer to the contents in the above method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In one possible design, the first indication information further includes at least one of: a signal quality of the first cell; signal quality of the M beams.

In one possible design, the sending module 213 is further configured to send the second indication information; the processing module 212 is further configured to determine, according to the second indication information: and acquiring the measurement information of the second network equipment through the first measurement information.

In a possible design, the sending module 213 is further configured to send the measurement information reporting condition to the terminal device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

In one possible design, the receiving module 211 is further configured to receive second measurement information; the second measurement information is carried in the physical layer signaling or the MAC layer signaling, and the second measurement information includes a beam identifier and signal quality of each of R beams of the first network device, where R is a positive integer.

It is to be understood that the functions of the modules in the communication apparatus 210 may refer to the implementation of the corresponding method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, for example, corresponding processes or steps executed by the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments. Fig. 2b exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2b, the communication apparatus 220 may include a processing module 222 and a sending module 223, and may further include a receiving module 221.

A processing module 222, configured to measure a beam of a second network device to obtain first measurement information, where the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams of a first cell and a cell identifier of the first cell, where N is a positive integer, and the first beam identifier of each beam of N beams of the first cell corresponds to the second network device; the sending module 223 is configured to send first measurement information to a first network device, where the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a media access control MAC layer signaling, and the first network device is a network device that provides a service to a terminal device.

In one possible design, the processing module 222 is further configured to determine that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device.

In one possible design, the processing module 222 is configured to: receiving, by the receiving module 221, identification indication information of a control device connected to a first network device and identification indication information of a control device connected to a second network device; and if the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment is the same as the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment, determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment.

In one possible design, the processing module 222 is configured to: receiving, by a receiving module 221, control device indication information sent by a first network device or sent by a control device connected to the first network device, where the control device indication information is used to indicate whether a second network device and the first network device are connected to the same control device; and determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment according to the received control equipment indication information.

In a possible design, the receiving module 221 is configured to receive a measurement information reporting condition sent by the first network device or a control device connected to the first network device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

It is to be understood that the functions of the modules in the communication apparatus 220 may refer to the implementation of the corresponding method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a control device or a chip inside the control device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the foregoing method embodiments, such as corresponding processes or steps executed by the control device in the foregoing embodiments. Fig. 2c schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2c, the communication apparatus 230 may include a processing module 232, a sending module 233, and may further include a receiving module 231.

In one possible design, the receiving module 231 is configured to receive the first measurement information sent by the first network device. Optionally, the control device further receives second measurement information sent by the first network device. In this way, the processing module 232 obtains the measurement information of the first network device and/or the second network device, and can better manage and control the mobility of the terminal device.

In one possible design, the receiving module 231 is configured to receive first indication information sent by a first network device; wherein the first indication information includes: an identity of the first cell and an identity of at least one beam of the M beams, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N. In this way, the first indication information may provide reference information for the control device whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device, and may share the workload of some control devices to determine whether to switch the terminal device from the first network device to the second network device.

In one possible design, the sending module 233 is configured to send the indication information reporting condition to the first network device. Therefore, the control equipment can send the indication information reporting condition according to the specific condition, and the flexibility of the system is improved.

Optionally, in order to increase flexibility of the system, in the embodiment of the present application, in addition to the first network device acquiring the first measurement information through the above optional implementation, the first network device may also acquire the measurement information through other manners, where the measurement information may include measurement information of the first network device and/or measurement information of the second network device. For example, in one possible design, the sending module 233 sends the second indication information to the first network device, so that the first network device determines, according to the second indication information: and acquiring the measurement information of the second network equipment through the first measurement information.

Further, in order to enable the terminal to report the measurement report more suitable for the network device, in a possible design, before the first network device receives the first measurement information, the sending module 233 may send the measurement information reporting condition to the terminal device; the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

It is to be understood that the functions of the modules in the communication apparatus 230 may refer to the implementation of the corresponding method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

It should be noted that the division of the unit in the embodiment of the present application is schematic, and is only a logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation. The functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be substantially implemented or contributed to by the prior art, or all or part of the technical solution may be embodied in a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the method of the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and is configured to implement a corresponding procedure or step in the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, for example, a corresponding procedure or step executed by a first network device in the foregoing embodiments. The communication device has the functionality of the communication device 210 as shown in fig. 2 a. Fig. 2d schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2d, the communication device 240 may include a communication module 241 and a processor 242.

The communication module 241 is configured to perform communication interaction with other devices, and the communication module 241 may be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a bluetooth module, or the like. The communication module 241 corresponds to the receiving module 211 and the sending module 213 in fig. 2a, and can execute the method flow executed by the receiving module 211 and the sending module 213 in fig. 2 a.

The processor 242 is configured to implement the functions of the processing module 212 in fig. 2a, for example, including determining that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams meets the condition for reporting the indication information.

Optionally, the communication device 240 may further include: the memory 244 stores programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. Memory 244 may comprise RAM and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor 242 executes the application program stored in the memory 244 to implement the above-described functions.

In a possible manner, the communication module 241, the processor 242 and the memory 244 may be connected to each other by a bus 243; the bus 243 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, fig. 2c is shown with only one thick line, but does not show only one bus or one type of bus.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, for example, corresponding processes or steps executed by the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments. The communication device has the functionality of the communication device 220 as shown in fig. 2 b. Fig. 2e schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2e, the communication apparatus 250 may include a communication module 251 and a processor 252.

The communication module 251 is used for performing communication interaction with other devices, and the communication module 251 may be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a bluetooth module, or the like. The communication module 251 corresponds to the receiving module 221 and the sending module 223 in fig. 2b, and may execute the method flows executed by the receiving module 221 and the sending module 223 in fig. 2 b.

The processor 252 is configured to implement the functions of the processing module 222 in fig. 2b, for example, a scheme that determines that the signal quality of M beams of the N beams satisfies an indication information reporting condition, and the like.

Optionally, the communication device 250 may further include: the memory 254 stores programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. The memory 254 may comprise RAM and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor 252 executes the application program stored in the memory 254 to implement the above-described functions.

In a possible manner, the communication module 251, the processor 252 and the memory 254 may be connected to each other by a bus 253; the bus 253 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, fig. 2d is shown with only one thick line, but does not show only one bus or one type of bus.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a control device or a chip inside the control device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the illustrated method embodiments, such as corresponding processes or steps executed by a terminal device in the foregoing embodiments. The communication device has the functionality of the communication device 230 as shown in fig. 2 c. Fig. 2f illustrates a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2f, the communication apparatus 260 may include a communication module 261 and a processor 262.

The communication module 261 is configured to perform communication interaction with other devices, and the communication module 261 may be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a bluetooth module, or the like. The communication module 261 corresponds to the receiving module 231 and the sending module 233 in fig. 2c, and may execute the method flows executed by the receiving module 231 and the sending module 233 in fig. 2 c.

The processor 262 is configured to implement the functions of the processing module 232 in fig. 2c, for example, a scheme that includes determining whether the terminal device is switched according to the received first indication information, and the like.

Optionally, the communication device 260 may further include: the memory 264 stores programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. The memory 264 may comprise RAM, and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor 262 executes the application program stored in the memory 264 to implement the above-described functions.

In a possible manner, the communication module 261, the processor 262 and the memory 264 may be connected to each other by a bus 263; the bus 263 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, fig. 2f is shown with only one thick line, but does not show only one bus or one type of bus.

Example two

The second embodiment can be implemented alone or in combination with any possible implementation scheme of the first embodiment and the first embodiment, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited. Based on the above, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication method. The communication scheme provided by the embodiment of the present application may be applicable to a scenario in which a wireless access network side has multiple MAC layer entities, but a terminal device side has only one MAC layer entity, for example, the scenario may be as shown in fig. 1 a. On the radio access network side, a cell may correspond to a plurality of network devices, such as the first network device 102 and the second network device 103 shown in fig. 1a, each network device includes one MAC layer entity, that is, a cell includes a plurality of MAC layer entities. On the terminal device side, for a serving cell, the terminal device includes a MAC layer entity, such as the MAC layer 141 entity shown in fig. 1 a; or, at the terminal device side, multiple serving cells may correspond to one MAC layer entity, and different serving cells at the radio access network side may correspond to different MAC layer entities.

In an alternative embodiment, there are several radio bearers for the terminal device, and there are several RLC layer entities and PDCP layer entities, that is, the radio bearers and PDCP layer entities and the RLC layer entities are in one-to-one correspondence. Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the logical channel is a transmission channel between an RLC layer entity and an MAC layer entity, and the logical channel and the RLC layer entity may be in one-to-one correspondence, for example, the terminal device includes 4 radio bearers, so that the terminal device side may respectively correspond to 4 PDCP layer entities and 4 RLC layer entities, and the logical channel between the RLC layer entity and the MAC layer entity is also 4. In another alternative, in a multi-connection scenario, one radio bearer may correspond to two RLC layer entities and two logical channels. Optionally, one radio bearer may also correspond to one RLC layer entity and two logical channels. The embodiments of the present application do not limit this.

It is understood that each protocol layer entity mentioned above refers to a functional entity located in a corresponding protocol layer and implementing a corresponding logical function, and the logical function may refer to a protocol definition.

At a sending end, after data of different Logical channels of the sending end reaches an MAC layer entity of the sending end, the MAC layer entity may use an identifier (LCH ID) of the Logical Channel to mark which Logical Channel the data received by the MAC layer entity comes from according to information of the Logical Channel from which the data comes, and then put the data of the Logical channels into a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process to send to a receiving end. At the receiving end, the MAC layer entity of the receiving end receives data including a plurality of logical channels, and may also identify the logical channel of each data according to the logical channel ID, and the MAC layer entity transmits the corresponding data to the corresponding RLC layer entity through the corresponding logical channel according to the logical channel ID.

For downlink data, because the wireless network side has a plurality of MAC layer entities, different logical channels and MAC layer entities on the wireless network side have a corresponding relationship, for example, logical channel 1 and logical channel 2 correspond to MAC layer entity 1, and logical channel 3 and logical channel 4 correspond to MAC layer entity 2. For downlink data from the wireless network side to the terminal device, although the terminal device side only has one MAC entity to receive the downlink data, the MAC entity of the terminal device side can determine, according to the logical channel ID of the received downlink data, which logical channel the received downlink data should be sent to the corresponding RLC layer entity.

In an alternative embodiment, at the network side, each MAC layer entity may use all available HARQ processes. For example, the available HARQ processes are HARQ process 0 to HARQ process 7, the HARQ processes corresponding to each MAC layer entity are HARQ process 0 to HARQ process 7, that is, each MAC layer entity can select from HARQ process 0 to HARQ process 7 when selecting the HARQ process for data or signaling.

In another optional embodiment, at the network side, the corresponding relationship between the MAC layer entity and the HARQ process may also be associated according to negotiation or predefinition at the wireless network side, for example, the MAC layer entity 1 corresponds to downlink HARQ processes 0 to 5, and the MAC layer entity 2 corresponds to downlink HARQ processes 6 to 7. In this way, the MAC layer entity 1 can select from the downlink HARQ processes 0 to 5 when selecting the downlink HARQ process for the received data, and the MAC layer entity 2 can select from the downlink HARQ processes 6 to 7 when selecting the downlink HARQ process for the received data.

The embodiment of the present application provides a communication method for uplink data sent from a terminal device to a wireless network, so that the terminal device can find a logical channel corresponding to a resource used by the terminal device to transmit the uplink data. Fig. 3 exemplarily shows a flowchart of a communication method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the communication method may be implemented by a terminal device, or may be implemented by a chip inside the terminal device, and the following description takes the terminal device as an execution subject for example.

As shown in fig. 3, the communication method may include:

step 301, the terminal device receives resource indication information from the network device, where the resource indication information is used to indicate time-frequency location information of a resource used for transmitting uplink data.

Optionally, the resource used by the uplink data includes any one of an uplink time domain resource used by the uplink data, an uplink frequency domain resource used by the uplink data, and an uplink time-frequency resource used by the uplink data.

In an optional implementation, for the resource indication information, the network device may send the resource indication information to the terminal device through DCI signaling, where the terminal has uplink data or signaling to send the uplink data or signaling.

Step 302, the terminal device determines a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relationship information, where the association relationship information includes information for determining an association relationship between the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the logical channel.

In this embodiment, the association relationship information may include one or more corresponding relationships, as long as the association relationship information can be used to determine a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data.

Step 303, sending the uplink data corresponding to the logical channel to the network device on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

That is to say, in this embodiment of the present application, after determining the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data through step 302, the uplink data on the logical channel is transmitted on the resource, and in this embodiment of the present application, the uplink data sent to the MAC layer entity through the logical channel is referred to as the uplink data corresponding to the logical channel. In the embodiment of the present application, the uplink data includes control plane data and/or data plane data.

Through the scheme, when the terminal transmits the uplink data by using the uplink resource allocated by the network in the embodiment of the application, the logical channel corresponding to the uplink resource is determined according to the association relation information, so that the uplink data of the corresponding logical channel is transmitted on the uplink resource, and the problem that the network cannot correctly or repeatedly receive the uplink data due to the fact that the terminal transmits the uplink data on the wrong logical channel on the uplink resource is solved.

As above, the association information may include one or more corresponding relationships, and the following examples a to d exemplify what the association information may include.

Example a

The association relation information includes an association relation of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel.

Then, in step 302, a logical channel associated with the resource used for transmitting the uplink data may be determined according to the association relationship between the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel. In the embodiment of the present application, the resource used for transmitting the uplink data is an uplink resource. Therefore, the logical channel can be determined directly according to the resource used for transmitting the Uplink data, and the Uplink resource may include an Uplink grant, which may also be referred to as a UL grant for short.

Table 1 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association between the uplink resource (taking the uplink resource as the UL grant as an example) and the identifier of the logical channel included in the association relationship information. The logical channel may be written as a local channel or LCH. The identifier of the logical channel associated with the uplink resource may be one or multiple, and finally, the terminal device may select one or multiple logical channels from the identifiers of all the logical channels associated with the uplink resource, and transmit uplink data of the selected logical channels on the UL grant.

TABLE 1 Association of uplink resources and logical channel identifiers

UL grant

Logical channel 1 and logical channel 2

It can be understood that the resource indication information may be included in the association information, for example, the association information may directly include a UL grant and a logical channel identifier, where the logical channel identifier included in the association information is an identifier of a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data, so that the terminal device may directly determine, according to the association information, a UL grant used for transmitting uplink data and a logical channel identifier corresponding to uplink data allowed to be transmitted on the UL grant. In the embodiment of the present application, the association relationship Information may be carried in Downlink Control Information (DCI) sent by the wireless network side to the terminal device. In the embodiment of the present application, the logical channel corresponding to the uplink data can be dynamically specified by using the scheme provided by example a, so that the flexibility is improved. In this embodiment, the network device may be a DU.

Example b

The association relation information includes the identification of the logical channel and the association relation of the HARQ process, and the association relation of the uplink resource and the HARQ process.

Then, in step 302, the HARQ process associated with the uplink resource may be determined according to the association relationship between the uplink resource and the HARQ process; and determining the logical channel associated with the HARQ process according to the identification of the logical channel and the association relationship of the HARQ process, and finally obtaining the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data by the scheme. Further, the uplink data corresponding to the logical channel may be sent to the network device through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

Therefore, on one hand, the embodiment of the present application is also applicable in a scenario that different MAC layer entities may correspond to different HARQ processes, and on the other hand, a logical channel corresponding to uplink data is indirectly determined by combining two association relations. In the embodiment of the present application, one or more HARQ processes corresponding to the uplink resource may be used, and when transmitting uplink data, one or more of all HARQ processes corresponding to the uplink resource may be used to transmit the uplink data. In the embodiment of the present application, one or more HARQ processes corresponding to a logical channel may be used. Table 2 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association between the identifier of the logical channel and the HARQ process included in the association information, and table 3 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association between the uplink resource and the HARQ process included in the association information.

TABLE 2 correlation of logical channel identification and HARQ process

Logical channel 1 and logical channel 2	HARQ process 0 to HARQ Process 5
		Logical channel 3 and logical channel 4	HARQ process 6 to HARQ process 7

Table 3 uplink resources and HARQ processes

UL grant

HARQ process 0 through HARQ process 5

It can be understood that the association relationship information illustrated in table 3 and the association relationship information illustrated in table 2 may be sent in the same cell or different cells, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Example c

In an optional embodiment, the resource indication information further includes a category identifier of a category to which the resource indicated by the resource indication information belongs. The category identifier is used to indicate category information of the resource, and the category identifier of the resource may be written in english as UL grant id. The uplink resource in this embodiment specifically refers to a resource configured to transmit uplink data.

The association relationship information includes an association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel, so that when the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data is determined, the logical channel associated with the category identifier of the uplink resource can be determined according to the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the logical channel, and the logical channel associated with the category identifier of the uplink resource is the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

Table 4 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel included in the association relationship information. The category of the resource may identify one or more associated logical channels.

Table 4 association relationship between category identifier of uplink resource and identifier of logical channel

UL grant ID1	Logical channel 1 and logical channel 2
		UL grant ID 2	Logical channel 3 and logical channel 4

In an optional implementation manner, the uplink resources and the category identifiers of the uplink resources are carried in downlink DCI sent to the terminal device by the wireless network side, and the terminal device determines the corresponding logical channels according to the received category identifiers of the UL grant in combination with the association relationship in table 4. The association relation information is sent to the terminal by the wireless network side, and may be sent to the terminal device in advance or preset. Through the scheme provided by example c, the wireless network side may dynamically indicate the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data, and the terminal may determine, through the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel in table 4, the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data, and determine the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data. In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device receives the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel, which is sent by the network device, and the network device can indicate the category identifier of the UL grant in the DCI, so that the transmission frequency of the association relationship is reduced, and the network load is reduced.

Example d

The association relationship information includes the association relationship between the identifier of the logical channel and the HARQ process, and the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the HARQ process. In an optional embodiment, the resource indication information further includes a category identifier of a category to which the resource indicated by the resource indication information belongs. The category identifier is used to indicate category information of the resource, and the category identifier of the resource may be written as a UL grant ID. In this case, when determining the logical channel corresponding to the resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the association relationship information, the HARQ process associated with the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data may be determined according to the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the HARQ process, and further the logical channel associated with the HARQ process may be determined according to the association relationship between the identifier of the logical channel and the HARQ process. Further, the uplink data of the logical channel may be sent to the network device through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data. In the embodiment of the present application, one or more HARQ processes corresponding to the category identifier of the uplink resource may be used. In the embodiment of the present application, one or more HARQ processes corresponding to a logical channel may be used. In this embodiment of the present application, when sending uplink data of a logical channel to a network device through a HARQ process on a resource used for transmitting the uplink data, the HARQ process may be all or part of all HARQ processes corresponding to the determined resource used for transmitting the uplink data, and the logical channel may be all or part of all logical channels corresponding to the determined resource used for transmitting the uplink data. Table 5 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association between the identifier of the logical channel and the HARQ process included in the association information, and table 6 exemplarily shows a schematic table of the association between the class identifier of the uplink resource and the HARQ process included in the association information.

TABLE 5 Association relationship between the identities of logical channels and HARQ processes

Logical channel 1 and logical channel 2	HARQ process 0 through HARQ process 5
		Logical channel 3 and logical channel 4	HARQ process 6 to HARQ process 7

Table 6 association relationship between category identifier of uplink resource and HARQ process

UL grant ID1	HARQ process 0 through HARQ process 5
		UL grant ID 2	HARQ process 6 to HARQ process 7

In an optional implementation manner, the uplink resource and the category identifier of the uplink resource may be carried in DCI sent by the wireless network side to the terminal device.

The association relation information is sent to the terminal by the wireless network side, and may be sent to the terminal device in advance or preset. And the terminal equipment determines the corresponding logical channel according to the received type identification of the UL grant and by combining the association relation of the tables 5 and 6. In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device receives the association relationship between the category identifier of the resource and the HARQ process sent by the network device, and the association relationship between the logical channel and the HARQ process, and the network device can only indicate the category identifier of the UL grant in the DCI, so that the transmission frequency of the association relationship is reduced, and the network load is reduced.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, HARQ processes allocated by different MAC layer entities on the wireless network side may have partial overlap, may not have overlap at all, or may all be the same. Specifically, coordination may be performed between network devices, such as coordination between a first network device and a second network device, or distribution by a control device. The specific allocation situation of the network device side HARQ process may include: in one case, the MAC layer entity 1 allocates HARQ processes 0 to 5, and the MAC layer entity 2 allocates HARQ processes 3 to 7; in another case, the MAC layer entity 1 allocates HARQ processes 0 to 5, and the MAC layer entity 2 allocates HARQ processes 6 to 7; in the third case, the MAC layer entity 1 allocates HARQ processes 0 to 5, and the MAC layer entity 2 allocates HARQ processes 0 to 5.

In this embodiment of the present application, optionally, a part of Medium Access Control elements (MAC CE) sent by the wireless network side, such as a Timing Advance Command (TAComman) or Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration, may be the network device 1, and the network device 2 may both send the information, but the network device 1 and the network device 2 need to negotiate first to obtain consistency of the sent content. As another alternative, the TA Command or the DRX configuration can only be sent from one network device, and the control device configuration indication is required to be sent to a network device that can send the TA Command or the DRX configuration, for example, the control device indicates that the network device 1 can send the TA Command or the DRX configuration. The behavior of the terminal device can be normalized at this time: the terminal device considers only the TA Command or DRX configuration received from the network device 1 to be valid, and if it is received from the network device 2, the terminal device considers to be invalid or disregards the TA Command or DRX configuration sent by the network device 2. Or, as another optional scheme, the TAC may also be sent by the network device, respectively, that is, a TA corresponding to the network device may be used when the terminal and different network devices perform data transmission.

Generally, each network device transmits a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) configuration, and further, the network device may indicate an applicable HARQ process when transmitting the SPS configuration.

In another optional embodiment, the MAC/RLC/PDCP layer control signaling sent by the terminal device, such as the MAC layer control signaling, may be sent through the MAC CE, may also be considered to be sent only to or through one of the network devices, or may be sent to or through any network device. If the MAC CEs are transmitted to or through only one of the network devices, the uplink resources of the MAC CEs may be transmitted according to the above step specification, so that the MAC CEs may be transmitted to only one of the network devices. The Buffer Status Reports (BSR) and the Power Headroom Reports (PHR) sent by the terminal device may be sent to 2 network devices respectively, or sent to one of the network devices, such as the network device 1, and then forwarded to the network device 2 by the network device 1.

Based on the above description, an embodiment of the present application further provides a communication scheme, which may be used alone, or in combination with any possible implementation manner in the first embodiment, or in combination with any possible implementation manner in the second embodiment and any possible implementation manner in the first embodiment. In this optional embodiment, correspondingly, the terminal device receives indication information indicating to receive a plurality of PDCCHs, and receives the plurality of PDCCHs according to the indication information. Further, the terminal device may receive the multiple PDSCHs according to the PDSCH time-frequency locations indicated by the multiple PDCCHs.

Specifically, the wireless network side may configure the terminal device to decode a large search space, and optionally, the search space may have 2 Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs), and the terminal device receives a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) at different time-frequency positions according to the indications of the 2 PDCCHs. Or the wireless network side directly configures the terminal equipment to receive 2 PDCCHs at different positions, and the terminal equipment can receive the corresponding PDSCH at different time-frequency positions according to the instruction of the PDCCHs. In the embodiment of the present application, 2 PDCCHs are taken as an example for description, and the number of PDCCHs in specific implementation is not limited. In an optional implementation manner, the terminal device determines to receive indication information of the network side before receiving multiple PDCCHs in the same TTI, where the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal receives multiple PDCCHs in the same TTI. Specifically, the indication information may also indicate the number of PDCCHs received by the terminal in the same TTI. In the embodiment of the present application, 2 PDCCHs are introduced as an example of different time-frequency resources, and in a specific implementation, any two PDCCHs of the multiple PDCCHs are in the same time-frequency resource or in different time-frequency resources.

In another optional implementation, the terminal device may report capability information of the terminal device, so that the wireless network side may perform the configuration. Specifically, the capability information may be various, such as a capability of supporting multiple PDCCHs, or a capability of supporting the number of PDCCHs; or the capability of supporting association (for example, the association between the identifier of the logical channel and the HARQ process, the association between the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel, and the like in the second embodiment).

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, for example, corresponding processes or steps executed by the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments. Fig. 3a illustrates a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3a, the communication apparatus 310 may include a receiving module 311, a processing module 312, and a transmitting module 313.

The receiving module 311 is configured to receive resource indication information, where the resource indication information includes indication information of a resource used for transmitting uplink data; the processing module 312 is configured to determine a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting the uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relationship information, where the association relationship information includes information used for determining an association relationship between the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the logical channel; the sending module 313 is configured to send uplink data corresponding to the logical channel on a resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

In one possible design, the association relationship information includes an association relationship between the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel; the processing module 312 is configured to determine a logical channel associated with a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the association relationship between the uplink resource and the logical channel identifier.

In one possible design, the association relationship information includes an identifier of a logical channel and an association relationship of an HARQ process, and an association relationship of an uplink resource and an HARQ process; the processing module 312 is configured to determine, according to an association relationship between an uplink resource and an HARQ process, an HARQ process associated with a resource used for transmitting uplink data, and determine, according to an identifier of a logical channel and the association relationship between the HARQ process, a logical channel associated with the HARQ process; the sending module 313 is configured to send uplink data of the logical channel through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

In one possible design, the resource indication information further includes a category identifier of a category to which the resource used for transmitting the uplink data belongs; the incidence relation information comprises the incidence relation between the category identification of the uplink resource and the identification of the logical channel; the processing module 312 is configured to determine, according to the association relationship between the category identifier of the uplink resource and the identifier of the logical channel, the logical channel associated with the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

In one possible design, the resource indication information further includes: the category identification of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data; the incidence relation information comprises the incidence relation between the identification of the logic channel and the HARQ process, and the incidence relation between the category identification of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the HARQ process; the processing module 312 is configured to determine, according to the association relationship between the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the HARQ process, the HARQ process associated with the category identifier of the resource used for transmitting the uplink data; determining a logical channel associated with the HARQ process according to the identification of the logical channel and the association relationship of the HARQ process; the sending module 313 is configured to send uplink data of the logical channel through the HARQ process on the resource used for transmitting the uplink data.

In one possible design, the resource used for transmitting the uplink data includes any one of the following: uplink time domain resources used by the uplink data; uplink frequency domain resources used by the uplink data; and uplink time-frequency resources used by the uplink data. For a specific example, reference may be made to the above method item, which is described herein again.

In one possible design, the receiving module 311 is further configured to receive association information.

It is to be understood that the functions of the modules in the communication apparatus 310 may refer to the implementation of the corresponding method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, such as corresponding processes or steps executed by the network device in the foregoing embodiments. Fig. 3b schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3b, the communication apparatus 320 may include a sending module 323 and a receiving module 321, and may further include a processing module 322.

The sending module 323 is configured to send resource indication information to the terminal device, where the resource indication information includes indication information of a resource used for transmitting uplink data; the receiving module 321 is configured to receive uplink data corresponding to a logical channel on a resource used for transmitting the uplink data, where the logical channel is determined according to the resource indication information and the association relationship information, and the association relationship information includes information used for determining an association relationship between the resource used for transmitting the uplink data and the logical channel. There are various embodiments for implementing the association relationship information, which can specifically participate in the above-mentioned contents, and the details are not described herein.

It is to be understood that the functions of the modules in the communication apparatus 320 may refer to the implementation of the corresponding method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, for example, corresponding processes or steps executed by the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments. The communication device has the functionality of the communication device 310 as shown in fig. 3 a. Fig. 3c schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3c, the communication device 330 may include a communication module 331 and a processor 332.

The communication module 331 is configured to perform communication interaction with other devices, and the communication module 331 may be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a bluetooth module, or the like. The communication module 331 corresponds to the receiving module 311 and the sending module 313 of fig. 3a, and can execute the method flow executed by the receiving module 311 and the sending module 313 of fig. 3 a.

The processor 332 is configured to implement the function of the processing module 312 in fig. 3a, for example, determine a logical channel corresponding to a resource used for transmitting uplink data according to the resource indication information and the association relation information.

Optionally, the communication device 330 may further include: the memory 334 stores programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. Memory 334 may comprise RAM and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor 332 executes the application program stored in the memory 334 to implement the above-described functions.

In a possible manner, the communication module 331, the processor 332 and the memory 334 may be connected to each other by a bus 333; the bus 333 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, only one thick line is shown in FIG. 3c, but this does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus.

Based on the foregoing embodiments and the same concept, embodiments of the present application provide a communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a chip inside the network device, and is configured to implement corresponding processes or steps in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, for example, corresponding processes or steps executed by the network device in the foregoing embodiments. The communication device has the functionality of the communication device 320 as shown in fig. 3 b. Fig. 3d schematically illustrates a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3d, the communication device 340 may include a communication module 341 and a processor 342.

The communication module 341 is configured to perform communication interaction with other devices, and the communication module 341 may be an RF circuit, a WiFi module, a communication interface, a bluetooth module, or the like. The communication module 341 corresponds to the receiving module 321 and the sending module 323 in fig. 3b, and may execute the method flows executed by the receiving module 321 and the sending module 323 in fig. 3 b.

The processor 342 is configured to implement the functions of the processing module 322 in fig. 3b, such as sending resource indication information to the terminal device through the communication module 341.

Optionally, the communication device 340 may further include: the memory 344 stores programs and the like. In particular, the program may comprise program code comprising instructions. Memory 344 may comprise RAM and may also include non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as at least one disk memory. The processor 342 executes the application programs stored in the memory 344 to implement the above-described functions.

In one possible approach, the communication module 341, the processor 342, and the memory 344 may be interconnected via a bus 343; the bus 343 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, only one thick line is shown in FIG. 3d, but this does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the invention to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy Disk, hard Disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the embodiments of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the embodiments of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is also intended to encompass such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A method of communication, comprising:

measuring a beam of a second network device to obtain first measurement information, wherein the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each beam of N beams of a first cell corresponding to the second network device and a cell identifier of the first cell, and N is a positive integer;

sending the first measurement information to a first network device, wherein the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) layer signaling, the first network device is a network device providing service for a terminal device, and the first network device and the second network device are connected with the same control device;

the first network device is a first distribution unit, the second network device is a second distribution unit, and the control device is a centralized unit.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to sending the first measurement information to the first network device, further comprising:

and determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device comprises:

receiving identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment and identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment;

and if the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the first network equipment is determined to be the same as the identification indication information of the control equipment connected with the second network equipment, determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the first network device and the second network device are connected to the same control device comprises:

receiving control device indication information sent by the first network device or sent by a control device connected with the first network device, wherein the control device indication information is used for indicating whether the second network device and the first network device are connected with the same control device;

and determining that the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment according to the received control equipment indication information.

5. The method of any of claims 1 to 4, wherein before sending the first measurement information to the first network device, further comprising:

receiving a measurement information reporting condition sent by the first network device or a control device connected with the first network device;

wherein the measurement information reporting condition is used for determining whether to report the first measurement information.

6. A method of communication, comprising:

the first network equipment receives first measurement information;

the first network device is a network device providing service to a terminal device, the first measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) layer signaling, the first measurement information includes a beam identifier of each of N beams in a first cell corresponding to a second network device and a cell identifier of the first cell corresponding to the second network device, and N is a positive integer; the first network equipment and the second network equipment are connected with the same control equipment;

7. The method of claim 6, wherein after the first network device receives the first measurement information, further comprising:

and the first network equipment sends the first measurement information to control equipment.

8. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein the first measurement information further comprises a signal quality of each of the N beams.

9. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein after the first network device receives the first measurement information, further comprising:

the first network equipment determines that the signal quality of M beams in the N beams meets an indication information reporting condition, and sends first indication information to control equipment;

wherein the first indication information includes: an identity of the first cell and an identity of at least one beam of the M beams, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein prior to the first network device sending the first indication information to the control device, further comprising:

and the first network equipment receives the indication information reporting condition from the control equipment.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the indication information reporting condition comprises at least one of:

the signal quality of the M beams is above a first threshold;

the signal quality of the R beams of the first network device is below a second threshold;

the signal quality of the first cell is better than the signal quality of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the signal quality of the M beams is above a first threshold, comprising at least one of:

a signal quality of each of the M beams is above a first signal quality threshold, an average of the signal qualities of the M beams is above a second signal quality threshold, and the signal quality of each of the M beams is above a third signal quality threshold and M is greater than a quantity threshold; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the signal quality of the R beams is below a second threshold, including at least one of:

the signal quality of at least one of the R beams is below a fourth signal quality threshold, the average of the signal qualities of the R beams being below a fifth signal quality threshold; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the signal quality of the beam of the second network device being better than the signal quality of the beam of the first network device, comprising at least one of:

the average of the signal qualities of the M beams is higher than the average of the signal qualities of the R beams of the first network device, the difference between the average of the signal qualities of the M beams and the average of the signal qualities of the R beams is not less than a first difference threshold, the best signal quality of the M beams is higher than the best signal quality of the R beams of the first network device, and the difference between the best signal quality of the M beams and the best signal quality of the R beams is not less than a second difference threshold, and the value of N is greater than the measured number of beams of the cell corresponding to the first network device.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the first indication information further comprises at least one of:

a signal quality of the first cell;

signal quality of the M beams.

14. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein the method further comprises:

the first network equipment receives second indication information sent by the control equipment;

the first network equipment determines according to the second indication information that: and acquiring the measurement information of the second network equipment through the first measurement information.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein prior to the first network device receiving the first measurement information, further comprising:

the first network equipment sends a measurement information reporting condition to the terminal equipment;

16. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein the method further comprises:

the first network equipment receives second measurement information;

the second measurement information is carried in a physical layer signaling or an MAC layer signaling, and the second measurement information includes a beam identifier and a signal quality of each of R beams of the first network device, where R is a positive integer.

17. A communication device, characterized in that the communication device is adapted to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 5.

18. A communication device, characterized in that the communication device is adapted to perform the method of any of claims 6 to 16.

19. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when invoked by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 5.

20. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when invoked by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 6 to 16.