CN109413690B

CN109413690B - Multi-beam measurement reporting method, mobile terminal and network side equipment

Info

Publication number: CN109413690B
Application number: CN201710712262.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 丁昱; 潘学明; 孙鹏
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-08-18
Filing date: 2017-08-18
Publication date: 2020-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 2037-08-18
Also published as: WO2019034052A1; CN109413690A

Abstract

The invention provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, a mobile terminal and network side equipment, wherein the multi-beam measurement reporting method comprises the following steps: determining a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) calculation rule of a mobile terminal, determining state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reporting the state indication information to a terminal high layer. According to the scheme of the invention, due to the determination of the RLM calculation rule, the state indication information needing to be reported can be determined, so that the wireless link monitoring and measurement of the mobile terminal can be realized even under a multi-beam scene.

Description

Multi-beam measurement reporting method, mobile terminal and network side equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a multi-beam measurement reporting method, a mobile terminal, and a network side device.

Background

Currently, analog beamforming is transmitted in full bandwidth, and each polarization direction array element on the panel of each high frequency antenna array can only transmit analog beams in a time division multiplexing manner. The shaping weight of the analog beam is realized by adjusting parameters of equipment such as a radio frequency front end phase shifter and the like. In academia and industry, a polling method is usually used to train analog beamforming vectors, that is, array elements in each polarization direction of each antenna panel sequentially send training signals (i.e., candidate beamforming vectors) at a predetermined time in a time division multiplexing manner, and a terminal (User Equipment, UE for short) feeds back a beamforming report after measurement, so that a network side can use the training signals to implement analog beamforming transmission during next beamforming training or service transmission.

The network side may configure setting information of a beam reporting (beam reporting) for the UE through a high-level signaling, where the setting information at least includes content information of the beam reporting, time domain related information (e.g., periodic, aperiodic, semi-persistent, etc.) of the beam reporting, frequency domain granularity (frequency granularity) information of the beam reporting, and the like. The content information in the beam report may include: at least one of optimal transmit beam identification information selected by the UE, physical layer measurements of beams selected by the UE (e.g., L1-RSRP), grouping information of beams selected by the UE, and the like. Based on the Beam measurement and the Beam report of the UE, the network side can select the corresponding Beam for signal transmission, and simultaneously indicate the corresponding Beam information of the UE, and the UE relies on the Beam indication (Beam indication) information of the network side for signal reception.

In a high-band communication system, since a wavelength of a radio signal is short, it is easy to cause a situation such as a blockage in signal propagation, and a signal propagation interruption occurs. If the wireless link reconstruction in the prior art is adopted, the time consumption is long, so a beam failure recovery (beam failure recovery) mechanism is introduced, that is, a beam failure detection reference signal (beam failure detection reference signal) is monitored in a physical layer, and whether the quality of the reference signal meets the beam failure triggering condition or not is evaluated. Once the trigger condition is met, the UE may send a beam failure recovery request (beam failure recovery request) message to the network side device, where the request message may include information of a new candidate beam recommended by the UE to the network side device; and after receiving the request message, the network side device may send a response (response) message to the UE, where the response message may include indication information for instructing the UE to switch to a new candidate beam, indication information for instructing the UE to restart beam search, or other indication information. The beam failure recovery mechanism can be quickly switched to a backup BPL (beam pairing link, which comprises a transmitting beam and a receiving beam) to continue transmitting control messages and data, so that the beam rapid recovery is realized.

Due to factors such as interference and fading, a link between the network side device and the UE may fail to operate for a long time, and at this time, the UE needs to initiate a radio link failure process. The definition of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system for radio link failure is whether a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR), i.e., SINR, is continuously lower than a predetermined threshold.

However, in the prior art, for example, New Radio (NR), it is not clear how to perform Radio link monitoring and measurement in a multi-beam scenario.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, a mobile terminal and network side equipment, which are used for realizing wireless link monitoring and measurement in a multi-beam scene.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, applied to a mobile terminal, including:

determining an RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal;

determining the state indication information needing to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule;

and reporting the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, applied to a network side device, including:

sending rule configuration information to the mobile terminal;

the rule configuration information is used for indicating the RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, so that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule and reports the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal, including:

a first determining module, configured to determine a radio link monitoring RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal;

a second determining module, configured to determine, according to the RLM calculation rule, state indication information to be reported;

and the reporting module is used for reporting the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network side device, including:

the sending module is used for sending the rule configuration information to the mobile terminal;

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal, including a memory, a processor, and a measurement reporting program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to the mobile terminal.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network-side device, including a memory, a processor, and a measurement reporting program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to the network-side device.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a measurement reporting program is stored thereon, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to a mobile terminal.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a measurement reporting program is stored thereon, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to a network-side device.

The multi-beam measurement reporting method of the embodiment of the invention determines the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reports the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system architecture of a multi-beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a multi-beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating another multi-beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a second schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a third schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a fourth schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 8 is a fifth schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 shows a sixth schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a network-side device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a seventh schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is an eighth schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a second schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Fig. 1 is a schematic system architecture diagram of a multi-beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the system architecture provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes: network side equipment 101 and mobile terminal 102.

The network-side device 101 may be a base Station (BTS) in Global System for mobile communications (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a base Station (NodeB, NB) in Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), an evolved Node B (eNB, eNodeB) in LTE, a base Station in New radio Access technology (New RAT, New Access point, or future 5G network), and the like, which is not limited herein.

Mobile terminal 102 may be a wireless terminal that may be a device that provides voice and/or other traffic data connectivity only to a user, a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem. The mobile terminal 102 may communicate with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN). The mobile terminal 102 may be a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted mobile device that exchanges language and/or data with a radio access network, such as a Personal Communication Service (PCS) phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like. The Mobile Terminal 102 may also be referred to as a system, a Subscriber Unit (Subscriber Unit), a Subscriber Station (Subscriber Station), a Mobile Station (Mobile), a Remote Station (Remote Station), a Remote Terminal (Remote Terminal), an access Terminal (access Terminal), a User Terminal (User Terminal), a User Agent (User Agent), a User Equipment (User Equipment), etc., and is not limited herein.

Referring to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, which is applied to a mobile terminal, where the method includes the following steps:

step 201: the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal is determined.

The RLM (Radio Link Monitor) calculation rule of the mobile terminal may be configured by the network side, or may be determined according to a predefined rule. The predefined rule is, for example, a protocol agreement or a predefined agreement between the network side and the mobile terminal.

Specifically, step 201 may include:

the method comprises the steps that a mobile terminal receives rule configuration information sent by network side equipment, wherein the rule configuration information is used for indicating an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side equipment;

and the mobile terminal determines the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

Further, step 201 may further include:

the mobile terminal determines the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to a predefined rule.

Step 202: and determining the state indication information needing to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule.

The RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal is used for indicating how the mobile terminal reports the state indication information for indicating the state of the mobile terminal in a multi-beam scene, the state indication information is the result of monitoring a wireless link, and the mobile terminal determines according to the signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel. The Control Channel may be a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel). The signal measurements are for example signal to interference and noise ratio SINR and/or signal to noise ratio SNR.

When the mobile terminal obtains the corresponding signal measurement result, the resource for measuring the useful signal and the resource for measuring the interference signal, which are configured for each beam direction of the mobile terminal by the network side device, may be first determined according to the resource configuration information of the network side device, and then the useful signal and the interference signal of the control channel are respectively measured according to the resource configured by the network side device, so as to obtain the corresponding signal measurement result. If the mobile terminal includes M beams, the network side device may configure resources for measuring a useful signal and resources for measuring an interference signal for each beam direction of the M beams.

Specifically, the resources configured by the network side device for measuring the useful signal may include at least one of the following resources: the resource occupied by the reference signal simulating the signal intensity of the current cell, the resource of the periodic broadcast signal in the current cell, the resource of the PDCCH signal in the current cell and the like. The resource for measuring the useful signal may be Cell-Specific (Cell-Specific), i.e., configured uniformly in all cells, or may be terminal-Specific (UE-Specific), i.e., configured individually for each mobile terminal.

The resources configured by the network side device for measuring the interference signal may include at least one of the following resources: the method comprises the steps of simulating resources occupied by reference signals interfered by other cells, resources occupied by PDCCH signals actually sent by other cells, interference measurement resources located at PDCCH positions of other cells, interference measurement resources located in a PDCCH preset search space, interference measurement resources located in a PDCCH common search space, interference measurement resources located in a PDCCH special search space and the like. Wherein, the other cells are the cells causing interference to the current cell. The resource for measuring the interference signal may be Cell-Specific, i.e., configured uniformly by all cells, or UE-Specific, i.e., configured individually by each mobile terminal.

Further, for each beam direction of the mobile terminal, the network side device may uniformly configure a measurement behavior parameter for the mobile terminal, where the measurement behavior parameter may include at least one of the following information: measurement period, measurement average window, period reported to terminal high layer, etc.

Step 203: and reporting the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

After determining the state indication information to be reported, the mobile terminal can directly report the state indication information to the terminal high level, so that the terminal high level can know the state of the mobile terminal. It should be noted that the reporting in this step is usually from the terminal physical layer to the terminal higher layer. Step 203 may thus comprise: the mobile terminal reports the state indication information to the terminal high layer through the terminal physical layer.

In the embodiment of the present invention, due to the difference of the RLM calculation rules, the content indicated by the status indication information determined by the mobile terminal may be different. Specifically, the status indication information may be used to indicate that the mobile terminal is in a synchronized status (i.e., a primary synchronized status), may also be used to indicate that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-synchronization status (i.e., a primary out-of-synchronization status), and may also be used to indicate that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-synchronization status and/or at least one synchronized status (e.g., a primary synchronized status and a primary out-of-synchronization status, a secondary synchronized status, a secondary out-of-synchronization status, a secondary synchronized status and a primary out-of-.

Next, the process of determining the status indication information to be reported by the mobile terminal according to different RLM calculation rules will be described in different cases.

Situation one

In this case, the RLM calculation rule is used to instruct the mobile terminal to report only the status indication information corresponding to the signal measurement result capable of characterizing the quality of the control channel in the main beam direction. That is, no matter how many beams the mobile terminal includes, i.e., 10 beams or 20 beams, the mobile terminal only reports the status indication information corresponding to the signal measurement result that can characterize the quality of the control channel in the main beam direction. In this case, step 202 may include:

the mobile terminal obtains a signal measurement result which can represent the quality of a control channel in the main beam direction; wherein the signal measurement may comprise a SINR and/or an SNR;

the mobile terminal compares the signal measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a first comparison result, and/or compares the signal measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a second comparison result; the first threshold value is Qout, the second threshold value is Qin, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

the mobile terminal determines the state indication information needing to be reported according to the first comparison result and/or the second comparison result; if the first comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than a first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the second comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; i.e. the status indication information indicates an out-of-sync status or an in-sync status.

Therefore, the wireless link monitoring is realized only by the signal measurement result in the main beam direction, the wireless link monitoring process can be simplified, and the terminal processing amount is reduced.

Situation two

In case two, the RLM calculation rule is used to instruct the mobile terminal to report the state indication information corresponding to the signal measurement result capable of characterizing the quality of the control channel in the N beam directions. The mobile terminal comprises M wave beams, N is smaller than or equal to M, and M is a positive integer larger than or equal to 2. As for which N beams of the M beams are selected, the network side may configure the selected beams, or the mobile terminal may select the selected beams according to the actual situation of the terminal. In this case, step 202 may include:

the mobile terminal respectively obtains a signal measurement result which can represent the quality of a control channel in each beam direction of N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results; wherein the signal measurement may comprise a SINR and/or an SNR; the N signal measurement results are respectively and independently obtained;

the mobile terminal respectively compares the N signal measurement results with the first threshold value to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively compares the N signal measurement results with the second threshold value to obtain N fourth comparison results; the first threshold value is Qout, the second threshold value is Qin, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

the mobile terminal determines the state indication information needing to be reported according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal indicated by the state indication information is in the out-of-step state is increased once; if the fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal indicated by the state indication information is in the synchronous state is increased once; i.e., the status indication information may indicate that the mobile terminal is in a multiple out-of-sync state and/or a multiple in-sync state.

For example, if the UE1 needs to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results in 10 beam directions, the UE1 obtains 10 third comparison results and 10 fourth comparison results, where 5 of the third comparison results are that the signal measurement results are smaller than the first threshold, and 2 of the fourth comparison results are that the signal measurement results are larger than the second threshold, the status indication information determined by the UE1 may indicate that the UE1 is in the 5-time out-of-synchronization state and the 2-time in-synchronization state.

Therefore, the wireless link monitoring is realized by means of a plurality of signal measurement results in a plurality of beam directions, and compared with the first situation, the monitoring precision can be improved, and the state of the mobile terminal can be reflected more accurately.

Situation three

And under the third condition, the RLM calculation rule is used for instructing the mobile terminal to report the state indication information corresponding to the signal joint measurement result capable of representing the quality of the control channel in the N beam directions. The mobile terminal comprises M wave beams, N is smaller than or equal to M, and M is a positive integer larger than or equal to 2. As for which N beams of the M beams are selected, the network side may configure the selected beams, or the mobile terminal may select the selected beams according to the actual situation of the terminal. In this case, step 202 may include:

the mobile terminal performs linear average calculation or weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results to obtain a signal combined measurement result; when the weighting calculation is performed, the weighting value of each signal measurement result can be determined by the mobile terminal according to the network side configuration information or a predefined rule;

the mobile terminal compares the signal joint measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a fifth comparison result, and/or compares the signal joint measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a sixth comparison result; the first threshold value is Qout, the second threshold value is Qin, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

the mobile terminal determines the state indication information needing to be reported according to the fifth comparison result and/or the sixth comparison result; if the fifth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the sixth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; i.e. the status indication information indicates an out-of-sync status or an in-sync status.

Therefore, the wireless link monitoring is realized by means of the combined measurement results of the signals in the multiple beam directions, compared with the first condition, the monitoring precision can be improved, the state of the mobile terminal can be more accurately reflected, and compared with the second condition, the wireless link monitoring process can be simplified, and the processing amount of the terminal is reduced.

Situation four

And under the fourth condition, the RLM calculation rule is used for instructing the mobile terminal to report the state indication information corresponding to the signal joint measurement result capable of representing the quality of the control channel in the N beam directions. The mobile terminal comprises M wave beams, N is less than or equal to M, M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, the N wave beams are divided into L wave beam groups, and L is less than or equal to N. As for which N beams of the M beams are selected and how the L beam groups are divided, the selection may be configured by the network side, or may be selected by the mobile terminal according to the actual situation of the terminal. In this case, step 202 may include:

the mobile terminal respectively obtains the signal joint measurement results which can represent the quality of a control channel in the direction of all beams in each beam group in the L beam groups to obtain L signal joint measurement results; the L signal joint measurement results are respectively and independently obtained, and when each signal joint measurement result is obtained, the L signal joint measurement results can be obtained in a mode of the first case or the third case;

the mobile terminal respectively compares the L signal joint measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain L seventh comparison results, and/or respectively compares the L signal joint measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain L eighth comparison results; the first threshold value is Qout, the second threshold value is Qin, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the L seventh comparison results and/or the L eighth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the seventh comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal indicated by the state indication information is in the out-of-step state is increased once; if the eighth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal indicated by the state indication information is in the synchronous state is increased once; i.e., the status indication information may indicate that the mobile terminal is in a multiple out-of-sync state and/or a multiple in-sync state.

For example, if the UE2 needs to report status indication information corresponding to the signal joint measurement results in the directions of 10 beams, the 10 beams are divided into 4 beam groups, and the UE2 obtains 4 seventh comparison results and 4 eighth comparison results, where 1 of the seventh comparison results is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold, and 2 of the eighth comparison results is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold, the status indication information determined by the UE2 may indicate that the UE2 is in the out-of-synchronization state for 1 time and the in-synchronization state for 2 times.

Therefore, wireless link monitoring is achieved by means of the signal joint measurement result obtained by beam grouping, and compared with the third case, monitoring precision can be improved, and the state of the mobile terminal can be reflected more accurately.

In this embodiment of the present invention, after step 203, the method for reporting a measurement further includes:

and the mobile terminal triggers a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through a terminal high layer according to the state indication information.

For example, if the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-synchronization state exceeds a preset threshold according to the state indication information, or the difference between the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-synchronization state and the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronization state exceeds a preset threshold, the terminal high layer may trigger a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process.

Because the reported state indication information is the result of the monitoring calculation of the wireless link, the quality of the wireless link can be effectively reflected, and therefore, the beam failure recovery process and/or the wireless link failure process are/is triggered according to the state indication information, and the high-efficiency execution of the beam failure recovery process and/or the wireless link failure process is facilitated.

Referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a multi-beam measurement reporting method, which is applied to a network side device, where the method includes the following steps:

step 301: and sending the rule configuration information to the mobile terminal.

The multi-beam measurement reporting method of the embodiment of the invention can ensure that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule by sending the rule configuration information to the mobile terminal and reports the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

Specifically, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in a main beam direction;

or, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M;

or, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to a signal joint measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M.

The foregoing embodiment describes the multi-beam measurement reporting method of the present invention, and the mobile terminal and the network side device of the present invention are described below with reference to the embodiment and the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 4, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal, which includes a first determining module 41, a second determining module 42, and a reporting module 43, which are described in detail below.

Wherein, the first determining module 41 is configured to determine the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal.

The second determining module 42 is configured to determine, according to the RLM calculation rule, the status indication information that needs to be reported.

The reporting module 43 is configured to report the status indication information to a terminal high layer.

The mobile terminal of the embodiment of the invention determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule by determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, and reports the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 5, the first determining module 41 includes a receiving unit 411 and a first determining unit 412.

The receiving unit 411 is configured to receive rule configuration information sent by a network side device, where the rule configuration information is used to indicate an RLM calculation rule configured by the network side device for the mobile terminal.

The first determining unit 412 is configured to determine the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

Optionally, the first determining module 41 is specifically configured to:

determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to a predefined rule.

Optionally, the reporting module 43 is specifically configured to:

and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer through a terminal physical layer.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the RLM calculation rule may be used to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in the main beam direction. Referring to fig. 6, the second determining module 42 includes a first obtaining unit 4201, a first comparing unit 4202 and a second determining unit 4203.

The first obtaining unit 4201 is configured to obtain a signal measurement result in the main beam direction, where the signal measurement result is capable of characterizing control channel quality.

The first comparing unit 4202 is configured to compare the signal measurement result with a first threshold to obtain a first comparison result, and/or compare the signal measurement result with a second threshold to obtain a second comparison result.

The second determining unit 4203 is configured to determine the status indication information according to the first comparison result and/or the second comparison result.

If the first comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the second comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Specifically, the signal measurement result is a signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR and/or a signal to noise ratio SNR.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the RLM calculation rule may be used to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M. Referring to fig. 7, the second determining module 42 includes a second obtaining unit 4204, a second comparing unit 4205 and a third determining unit 4206.

The second obtaining unit 4204 is configured to obtain a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in each of the N beam directions, respectively, to obtain N signal measurement results.

The second comparing unit 4205 is configured to compare the N signal measurement results with a first threshold respectively to obtain N third comparison results, and/or compare the N signal measurement results with a second threshold respectively to obtain N fourth comparison results.

The third determining unit 4206 is configured to determine the status indication information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results.

The state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the RLM calculation rule is used to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M. Referring to fig. 8, the second determining module 42 includes a third obtaining unit 4207, a calculating unit 4208, a third comparing unit 4209 and a fourth determining unit 4210.

The third obtaining unit 4207 is configured to obtain signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in each of the N beam directions, respectively, to obtain N signal measurement results.

The calculating unit 4208 is configured to perform linear average calculation or weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results to obtain the signal joint measurement result.

The third comparing unit 4209 is configured to compare the signal joint measurement result with a first threshold to obtain a fifth comparison result, and/or compare the signal joint measurement result with a second threshold to obtain a sixth comparison result.

The fourth determining unit 4210 is configured to determine the status indication information according to the fifth comparison result and/or the sixth comparison result.

If the fifth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the sixth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Specifically, when performing weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results, the weighted value of each signal measurement result is determined by the mobile terminal according to network side configuration information or a predefined rule.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the RLM calculation rule is used to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, N is less than or equal to M, the N beams are divided into L beam groups, and L is less than or equal to N. Referring to fig. 9, the second determining module 42 includes a fourth obtaining unit 4211, a fourth comparing unit 4212 and a fifth determining unit 4213.

The fourth obtaining unit 4211 is configured to obtain signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in the directions of all beams in each of the L beam groups, respectively, to obtain L signal joint measurement results.

The fourth comparing unit 4212 is configured to compare the L signal joint measurement results with a first threshold value respectively to obtain L seventh comparison results, and/or compare the L signal joint measurement results with a second threshold value respectively to obtain L eighth comparison results.

The fifth determining unit 4213 is configured to determine the status indication information according to the L seventh comparison results and/or the L eighth comparison results.

The state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the seventh comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the eighth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the invention, the mobile terminal further comprises a triggering module.

And the triggering module is used for triggering a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through the terminal high layer according to the state indication information.

Referring to fig. 10, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network side device, which includes a sending module 1011, which is described in detail below.

The sending module 1011 is configured to send rule configuration information to the mobile terminal.

The network side device of the embodiment of the invention can ensure that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule and reports the state indication information to the terminal high layer by sending the rule configuration information to the mobile terminal.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal, which includes a processor, a memory, and a measurement reporting program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, implements each process of the foregoing multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to the mobile terminal, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.

Specifically, fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of the mobile terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention. The mobile terminal 1100 shown in fig. 11 includes: at least one processor 1101, memory 1102, a user interface 1103, and at least one network interface 1104. Various components in mobile terminal 1100 are coupled together by a bus system 1105. It is understood that the bus system 1105 is used to enable communications among the components. The bus system 1105 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus in addition to a data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled in fig. 11 as the bus system 1105.

The user interface 1103 may include, among other things, a display, a keyboard, or a pointing device (e.g., a mouse, trackball, touch pad, or touch screen, among others.

It is to be understood that the memory 1102 in embodiments of the present invention can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Volatile Memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache Memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double data rate Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (ddr DRAM), Enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchronous link SDRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1102 of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 1102 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or a subset thereof, or an expanded set thereof: an operating system 11021 and application programs 11022.

The operating system 11021 contains various system programs such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, etc. for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application 11022 contains various applications such as a Media Player (Media Player), a Browser (Browser), etc. for implementing various application services. Programs that implement methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention may be included in application 11022.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal 1100 further includes: a measurement reporting program stored in the memory 1102 and operable on the processor 1101, specifically, a measurement reporting program in the application 11022, when executed by the processor 1101, the following steps are implemented: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determining the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

The methods disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention described above may be implemented in the processor 1101 or by the processor 1101. The processor 1101 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by instructions in the form of hardware, integrated logic circuits, or software in the processor 1101. The Processor 1101 may be a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete Gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware component. The various methods, steps and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present invention may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory 1102, and the processor 1101 reads the information in the memory 1102 and completes the steps of the above method in combination with the hardware thereof.

It is to be understood that the embodiments described herein may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the Processing units may be implemented within one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), general purpose processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, other electronic units configured to perform the functions described herein, or a combination thereof.

For a software implementation, the techniques described herein may be implemented with modules (e.g., procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. The software codes may be stored in a memory and executed by a processor. The memory may be implemented within the processor or external to the processor.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: receiving rule configuration information sent by a network side device, wherein the rule configuration information is used for indicating an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, and determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to a predefined rule.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer through a terminal physical layer.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in a main beam direction; the measurement reporting procedure, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in the main beam direction, comparing the signal measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a first comparison result, and/or comparing the signal measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a second comparison result, and determining the state indication information according to the first comparison result and/or the second comparison result; if the first comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the second comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the signal measurement is SINR and/or SNR.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting procedure, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a first threshold to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a second threshold to obtain N fourth comparison results, and determining the status indication information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to a signal joint measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting procedure, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, performing linear average calculation or weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results to obtain a signal joint measurement result, comparing the signal joint measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a fifth comparison result, and/or comparing the signal joint measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a sixth comparison result, and determining the status indication information according to the fifth comparison result and/or the sixth comparison result; if the fifth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the sixth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, when performing weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results, the weighted value of each signal measurement result is determined by the mobile terminal according to network side configuration information or a predefined rule.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, N is less than or equal to M, the N beams are divided into L beam groups, and L is less than or equal to N; the measurement reporting procedure, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining signal joint measurement results capable of representing control channel quality in the direction of all beams in each beam group in the L beam groups to obtain L signal joint measurement results, respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain L seventh comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain L eighth comparison results, and determining the state indication information according to the L seventh comparison results and/or the L eighth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the seventh comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the eighth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1101, may further implement the following steps: and triggering a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through the high layer of the terminal according to the state indication information.

The mobile terminal 1100 is capable of implementing each process implemented by the mobile terminal in the foregoing embodiments, and details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

The mobile terminal 1100 of the embodiment of the present invention determines the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determines the status indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reports the status indication information to the terminal higher layer.

Fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, the mobile terminal 1200 in fig. 12 may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a vehicle-mounted computer.

The mobile terminal 1200 of fig. 12 includes a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit 1210, a memory 1220, an input unit 1230, a display unit 1240, a processor 1260, an audio circuit 1270, a Wi-fi (wireless fidelity) module 1280, and a power supply 1290.

The input unit 1230 may be used, among other things, to receive numeric or character information input by a user and to generate signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal 1200. Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the input unit 1230 may include a touch panel 1231. The touch panel 1231, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect touch operations of a user (e.g., operations of the user on the touch panel 1231 by using a finger, a stylus pen, or any other suitable object or accessory) thereon or nearby, and drive the corresponding connection device according to a preset program. Alternatively, the touch panel 1231 may include two portions, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device and converts it to touch point coordinates, which are provided to the processor 1260 and can receive commands from the processor 1260 for execution. In addition, the touch panel 1231 may be implemented by various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1231, the input unit 1230 may also include other input devices 1232, and the other input devices 1232 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like.

Among other things, the display unit 1240 may be used to display information input by or provided to the user and various menu interfaces of the mobile terminal 1200. The display unit 1240 may include a display panel 1241, and optionally, the display panel 1241 may be configured in the form of an LCD or an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

It should be noted that touch panel 1231 can overlie display panel 1241 to form a touch display screen, and when the touch display screen detects a touch operation thereon or thereabout, the touch display screen can communicate to processor 1260 to determine the type of touch event, and processor 1260 can then provide a corresponding visual output on the touch display screen based on the type of touch event.

The touch display screen comprises an application program interface display area and a common control display area. The arrangement modes of the application program interface display area and the common control display area are not limited, and can be an arrangement mode which can distinguish two display areas, such as vertical arrangement, left-right arrangement and the like. The application interface display area may be used to display an interface of an application. Each interface may contain at least one interface element such as an icon and/or widget desktop control for an application. The application interface display area may also be an empty interface that does not contain any content. The common control display area is used for displaying controls with high utilization rate, such as application icons like setting buttons, interface numbers, scroll bars, phone book icons and the like.

The processor 1260 is a control center of the mobile terminal 1200, connects various parts of the entire handset using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal 1200 and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the first memory 1221 and calling data stored in the second memory 1222, thereby integrally monitoring the mobile terminal 1200. Optionally, processor 1260 may include one or more processing units.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal 1200 further includes: a measurement reporting program stored in the memory 1220 and operable on the processor 1260, wherein the measurement reporting program when executed by the processor 1260 performs the steps of: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determining the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, further implements the following steps: receiving rule configuration information sent by a network side device, wherein the rule configuration information is used for indicating an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, and determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, further implements the following steps: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to a predefined rule.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, further implements the following steps: and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer through a terminal physical layer.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in a main beam direction; the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, may further implement the following steps: obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in the main beam direction, comparing the signal measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a first comparison result, and/or comparing the signal measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a second comparison result, and determining the state indication information according to the first comparison result and/or the second comparison result; if the first comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the second comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the signal measurement is SINR and/or SNR.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a first threshold to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a second threshold to obtain N fourth comparison results, and determining the status indication information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to a signal joint measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, performing linear average calculation or weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results to obtain a signal joint measurement result, comparing the signal joint measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a fifth comparison result, and/or comparing the signal joint measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a sixth comparison result, and determining the status indication information according to the fifth comparison result and/or the sixth comparison result; if the fifth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the sixth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, N is less than or equal to M, the N beams are divided into L beam groups, and L is less than or equal to N; the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, may further implement the following steps: respectively obtaining signal joint measurement results capable of representing control channel quality in the direction of all beams in each beam group in the L beam groups to obtain L signal joint measurement results, respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain L seventh comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain L eighth comparison results, and determining the state indication information according to the L seventh comparison results and/or the L eighth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the seventh comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the eighth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor 1260, further implements the following steps: and triggering a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through the high layer of the terminal according to the state indication information.

As can be seen, the mobile terminal 1200 according to the embodiment of the present invention determines the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determines the status indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reports the status indication information to the terminal higher layer.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network-side device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a measurement reporting program that is stored in the memory and is executable on the processor, where the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, implements each process of the foregoing multi-beam measurement reporting method embodiment applied to the network-side device, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.

Referring to fig. 13, fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is capable of implementing details of the multi-beam measurement reporting method applied to the network side device and achieving the same effect. As shown in fig. 13, the network-side device 1300 includes: a processor 1301, a transceiver 1302, a memory 1303, a network interface 1304, and a bus interface, wherein:

in fig. 13, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 1301 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 1303 linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1302 may be a plurality of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The network interface 1304 may also be an interface capable of connecting/disconnecting a desired device to/from a different network-side device, such as a common public wireless interface.

The processor 1301 is responsible for managing a bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 1303 may store data used by the processor 1301 in performing operations.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the network side device 1300 further includes: the program stored in the memory 1303 and operable on the processor 1301 may specifically be a measurement report program. When executed by the processor 1301, the measurement reporting program may implement the following steps: sending rule configuration information to the mobile terminal; the rule configuration information is used for indicating the RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, so that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule and reports the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in a main beam direction; or, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; or, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to a signal joint measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M.

Thus, the network side device 1300 according to the embodiment of the present invention can determine the status indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule by sending the rule configuration information to the mobile terminal, and report the status indication information to the terminal higher layer.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a measurement report program is stored thereon, where the measurement report program, when executed by a processor, implements each process of the foregoing multi-beam measurement report method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

Specifically, when the computer-readable storage medium is applied to a mobile terminal, the measurement report program, when executed by the processor, may implement the following steps: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal, determining the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule, and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, further may implement the following steps: receiving rule configuration information sent by a network side device, wherein the rule configuration information is used for indicating an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, and determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, further may implement the following steps: determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to a predefined rule.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, further may implement the following steps: and reporting the state indication information to the terminal high layer through a terminal physical layer.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report only status indication information corresponding to a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in a main beam direction; the measurement reporting program can also realize the following steps when being executed by the processor: obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in the main beam direction, comparing the signal measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a first comparison result, and/or comparing the signal measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a second comparison result, and determining the state indication information according to the first comparison result and/or the second comparison result; if the first comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the second comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the signal measurement is SINR and/or SNR.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting program can also realize the following steps when being executed by the processor: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a first threshold to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a second threshold to obtain N fourth comparison results, and determining the status indication information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to a signal joint measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the measurement reporting program can also realize the following steps when being executed by the processor: respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results, performing linear average calculation or weighted calculation on the N signal measurement results to obtain a signal joint measurement result, comparing the signal joint measurement result with a first threshold value to obtain a fifth comparison result, and/or comparing the signal joint measurement result with a second threshold value to obtain a sixth comparison result, and determining the status indication information according to the fifth comparison result and/or the sixth comparison result; if the fifth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state; if the sixth comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal joint measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, N is less than or equal to M, the N beams are divided into L beam groups, and L is less than or equal to N; the measurement reporting program can also realize the following steps when being executed by the processor: respectively obtaining signal joint measurement results capable of representing control channel quality in the direction of all beams in each beam group in the L beam groups to obtain L signal joint measurement results, respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain L seventh comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the L signal joint measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain L eighth comparison results, and determining the state indication information according to the L seventh comparison results and/or the L eighth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in at least one out-of-sync state and/or at least one in-sync state; if the seventh comparison result is that the signal joint measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the out-of-step state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; if the eighth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times that the mobile terminal is in the synchronous state, which is indicated by the state indication information, is increased once; the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Optionally, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, further may implement the following steps: and triggering a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through the high layer of the terminal according to the state indication information.

Specifically, when the computer-readable storage medium is applied to the network-side device, the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, may implement the following steps: sending rule configuration information to the mobile terminal; the rule configuration information is used for indicating the RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device, so that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule and reports the state indication information to a terminal high layer.

Computer-readable media, which include both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement the information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention 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 functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units 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 invention may be embodied in the form of 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, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a U disk, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A multi-beam measurement reporting method is applied to a mobile terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

determining a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) calculation rule of the mobile terminal;

reporting the state indication information to a terminal high layer;

the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M;

the determining, according to the RLM calculation rule, the status indication information to be reported includes:

respectively obtaining a signal measurement result capable of representing the quality of a control channel in each beam direction of the N beam directions to obtain N signal measurement results;

respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain N fourth comparison results; the first threshold value is an out-of-step threshold value, the second threshold value is a synchronous threshold value, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

determining the state indicating information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state or a synchronous state.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the RLM calculation rule for the mobile terminal comprises:

receiving rule configuration information sent by a network side device, wherein the rule configuration information is used for indicating an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device;

and determining the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the RLM calculation rule for the mobile terminal comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reporting the status indication information to the terminal higher layer comprises:

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the signal measurement is a signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR, and/or a signal to noise ratio, SNR.

6. The method of claim 1,

when each third comparison result is that the signal measurement result is smaller than the first threshold value, the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state;

or,

and the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in a synchronous state under the condition that at least one fourth comparison result is that the signal measurement result is greater than the second threshold value.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein after the reporting of the status indication information to the terminal higher layer, the method further comprises:

and triggering a beam failure recovery process and/or a radio link failure process through the high layer of the terminal according to the state indication information.

8. A multi-beam measurement reporting method is applied to network side equipment, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

sending rule configuration information to the mobile terminal;

the rule configuration information is used for indicating the RLM calculation rule configured by the network side device for the mobile terminal, so that the mobile terminal determines the state indication information to be reported according to the RLM calculation rule and reports the state indication information to a terminal high layer;

the RLM calculation rule is used for indicating the mobile terminal to report state indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of representing control channel quality in N wave beam directions, wherein the mobile terminal comprises M wave beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state or a synchronous state.

9. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a first determining module, configured to determine an RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal;

a reporting module, configured to report the status indication information to a terminal high layer;

the RLM calculation rule is configured to instruct the mobile terminal to report status indication information corresponding to signal measurement results capable of characterizing control channel quality in N beam directions, where the mobile terminal includes M beams, and N is less than or equal to M; the second determining module includes:

a second obtaining unit, configured to obtain a signal measurement result capable of characterizing control channel quality in each of the N beam directions, respectively, to obtain N signal measurement results;

the second comparison unit is used for respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a first threshold value to obtain N third comparison results, and/or respectively comparing the N signal measurement results with a second threshold value to obtain N fourth comparison results; the first threshold value is an out-of-step threshold value, the second threshold value is a synchronous threshold value, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value;

a third determining unit, configured to determine the status indication information according to the N third comparison results and/or the N fourth comparison results; the state indication information is used for indicating that the mobile terminal is in an out-of-step state or a synchronous state.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the first determining module comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive rule configuration information sent by a network side device, where the rule configuration information is used to indicate an RLM calculation rule configured for the mobile terminal by the network side device;

a first determining unit, configured to determine the RLM calculation rule of the mobile terminal according to the rule configuration information.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the first determining module is specifically configured to:

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the reporting module is specifically configured to:

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the signal measurement result is SINR and/or SNR.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 9,

or,

15. The mobile terminal according to any of claims 9 to 14, characterized in that the mobile terminal further comprises:

16. A network-side device, comprising:

17. A mobile terminal comprising a memory, a processor and a measurement reporting program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, characterized in that the measurement reporting program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

18. A network side device comprising a memory, a processor and a measurement reporting program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the measurement reporting program when executed by the processor implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method of claim 8.

19. A computer readable storage medium having a measurement reporting program stored thereon, wherein the measurement reporting program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method of any one of claims 1 to 7.

20. A computer readable storage medium having a measurement reporting program stored thereon, wherein the measurement reporting program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the multi-beam measurement reporting method of claim 8.