CN109600783A

CN109600783A - Cell measurements report method, cell measurements method of reseptance and equipment

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Publication number: CN109600783A
Application number: CN201710916386.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李秋香; 李新; 陈宁宇; 徐芙蓉; 高向东; 徐晓东; 胡南
Original assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Co Ltd
Current assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-09-30
Filing date: 2017-09-30
Publication date: 2019-04-09
Also published as: WO2019062529A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of cell measurements report method, cell measurements method of reseptance and equipment, this method comprises: determining the cell measurements of Target cell；The cell measurements are reported by message 3 (Msg3) or message 5 (Msg5) or uplink direct-sending message, solve the problems, such as that network side can not obtain the network coverage.

Description

Cell measurement value reporting method, cell measurement value receiving method and equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a cell measurement value reporting method, a cell measurement value receiving method, and a device.

Background

One important item in wireless network optimization is RSRP (Reference Signal Receiving Power), RS (Reference Signal) -SINR (Signal to interference plus Noise Ratio).

However, the Narrow-Band cellular Internet of Things (NB-IoT) does not support RSRP and RS-SINR measurement reporting. The function of ECID (enhanced cell ID) positioning and the like can report RSRP, but the function depends on the deployment and the application of a positioning server and does not have the universality of comprehensively evaluating the network quality. Currently there is no good solution to assess the coverage level of the network at the base station side. The terminals of the internet of things are widely distributed, especially, a plurality of users are distributed indoors, a road test is unlikely to obtain a comprehensive sample, and positioning of network weak coverage is more important.

The NB-IoT does not require measurement and reporting of measurement reports of neighboring cells and serving cells in a connected state, on one hand, the NB-IoT mainly faces to a static scene, and the requirement for switching is not high. On the other hand, from the perspective of reducing the complexity and power consumption of the terminal, no measurement reporting flow is introduced. The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership project, third Generation Partnership project) does not consider the requirement of current network optimization, and does not define the content of reporting RSRP, RS-SINR, and RSRQ (reference signal receiving quality) of the serving cell, so the network side cannot acquire RSRP, RS-SINR, and RSRQ of the serving cell.

In the existing scheme, RSRP of a service cell and a neighboring cell is not measured and reported, and RS-SINR is not measured and reported. The network cannot acquire the RSRP of the position of the UE (terminal), cannot position the cell with weak coverage, cannot acquire the RS-SINR and cannot position the cell with poor channel quality.

Therefore, the existing NB-IoT has a problem that the network side cannot acquire network coverage.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above technical problems, embodiments of the present invention provide a cell measurement value reporting method, a cell measurement value receiving method, and a device, which solve the problem that a network side cannot acquire network coverage.

In a first aspect, a method for reporting a cell measurement value is provided, which is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

the cell measurement values are reported via message 3 or message 5.

Optionally, the target cell is a serving cell and/or other cells of the terminal.

Optionally, the cell measurement value is one or more of reference signal received power RSRP, reference signal received quality RSRQ, and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio RS-SINR.

Optionally, the reporting the cell measurement value through a message 3 or a message 5 includes:

and when the cell measurement value is less than or equal to a cell reporting threshold value, reporting the cell measurement value through a message 3 or a message 5.

Optionally, the cell reporting threshold value is agreed by a protocol or configured by a network side or determined by a terminal.

Optionally, the configuration of the cell reporting threshold by the network side specifically includes:

the cell reporting threshold value is configured by a network side through a system broadcast message or configured by the network side through a message 4.

In a second aspect, a method for receiving a cell measurement value is further provided, where the method is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

and receiving the cell measurement value of the target cell reported by the terminal through the message 3 or the message 5.

Optionally, the cell measurement value of the target cell reported by the receiving terminal through the message 3 or the message 5 includes:

and receiving the cell measurement value reported by the terminal through the message 3 or the message 5 when the cell measurement value is less than or equal to the cell reporting threshold value.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a system broadcast message, or configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a message 4.

In a third aspect, a method for reporting a cell measurement value is further provided, where the method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

and reporting the cell measurement value through a radio resource control message or an uplink direct transmission message.

Optionally, the cell measurement value is in the radio resource control message in a non-access stratum, NAS, data manner; or,

the cell measurement value is carried in the NAS dedicated information field DedicatedInfoNAS field in the uplink direct transfer message.

In a fourth aspect, a method for receiving a cell measurement value is further provided, where the method is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

and receiving the cell measurement value reported by the terminal through a radio resource control message or an EPS session management data transmission message ESM DATATRANSPORT message.

Optionally, the DATA type identification field ESM dataranging identity in the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message indicates that the type of the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message is a terminal measurement report.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and transmitting the cell measurement value to other network element equipment.

In a fifth aspect, there is also provided a terminal, including:

a processor for determining a cell measurement value for a target cell;

and the radio frequency unit is used for reporting the cell measurement value through a message 3 or a message 5.

Optionally, the configuration of the cell reporting threshold by the network side specifically includes: the cell reporting threshold value is configured by a network side through a system broadcast message or configured by the network side through a message 4.

In a sixth aspect, there is also provided a network device, including:

and the transceiver is used for receiving the cell measurement value of the target cell reported by the terminal through the message 3 or the message 5.

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to receive a cell measurement value reported by the terminal through the message 3 or the message 5 when the cell measurement value is smaller than or equal to a cell reporting threshold value.

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to: and configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a system broadcast message, or configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a message 4.

In a seventh aspect, a terminal is further provided, including:

a processor for determining a cell measurement value for a target cell;

and the radio frequency unit is used for reporting the cell measurement value through a radio resource control message or an uplink direct transmission message.

Optionally, the cell measurement value is in the RRC message in NAS data; or,

the cell measurement value is carried in a DedicatedInfoNAS field in the uplink direct transfer message.

In an eighth aspect, there is also provided a network device, including:

and the transceiver is used for receiving the cell measurement value reported by the terminal through the radio resource control message or the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message.

Optionally, an ESM DATA TRANSPORT messaging identity field in the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message indicates that the type of the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message is a terminal measurement report.

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to: and the network element equipment is used for transmitting the cell measurement value to other network element equipment.

In a ninth aspect, there is further provided a terminal, including: a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and operable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method for reporting cell measurement values according to the first aspect; or, implementing the steps of the method for reporting cell measurement value according to the third aspect.

In a tenth aspect, there is also provided a network device, including: a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the cell measurement value receiving method according to the second aspect; alternatively, the steps of the cell measurement value receiving method according to the fourth aspect are implemented.

In an eleventh aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is further provided, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method for reporting a cell measurement value according to the first aspect, the second aspect, the third aspect, or the fourth aspect.

Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal reports the cell measurement value to the network device through the message 3 or the message 5, or the terminal reports the cell measurement value through the radio resource control message or the uplink direct transmission message, so as to solve the problem that the network device cannot acquire network coverage.

Compared with the traditional measurement Control (measurement Control) or measurement Report (measurement Report) mode, the embodiment of the invention simplifies a lot of contents without complex measurement object and measurement Report scheme configuration. In addition, the embodiment of the invention can report the measured value of the service cell once when the terminal accesses the network every time, and can acquire the coverage level of the network. For example, NB-IoT mainly aims at low-speed and stationary users, and compared with the conventional event-based or periodic trigger reporting measurement report, the embodiment of the present invention obtains the measurement value (e.g., RSRP, SINR, RSRQ, etc.) of the cell through "access-based" trigger reporting, and can also achieve the purpose of evaluating the network coverage level.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a hardware diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is one of the hardware diagrams of the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of a method for reporting a cell measurement value according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a method for receiving a cell measurement value according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a second flowchart of a method for reporting a cell measurement value according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a second flowchart of a method for receiving a cell measurement value according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a second hardware diagram of the terminal according to the embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The cell measurement value reporting method, the cell measurement value receiving method and the device provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a wireless communication system. Referring to fig. 1, a schematic architecture diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown. As shown in fig. 1, the wireless communication system may include a network device 10 and a UE11, UE11 may be in communication with network device 10. In practical applications, the connections between the above devices may be wireless connections, and fig. 1 illustrates the connections between the devices by solid lines for convenience and convenience in visual representation.

It should be noted that the communication system may include a plurality of UEs, the network device and may communicate (transmit signaling or transmit data) with a plurality of UEs.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be a base station or an MME (mobility management entity), a commonly used base station, an evolved node base station (eNB), or a network device in a 5G system (e.g., a next generation base station (gNB) or a Transmission and Reception Point (TRP)). The following describes each constituent element of the network device according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to fig. 2.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, and fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device 200 provided in an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2, the network device 200 includes: a processor 201, a transceiver 202, a memory 203, a user interface 204 and a bus interface.

Among other things, the processor 201 may be responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing. The memory 203 may store data used by the processor 201 in performing operations.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the network device 200 may further include: a computer program stored on the memory 203 and executable on the processor 201 to implement the flow of the cell measurement value receiving method of the embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 301 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 203 being 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 in connection with embodiments of the present invention. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 202 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For different UEs, the user interface 204 may also be an interface capable of interfacing externally to a desired device, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The terminal provided by the embodiment of the invention can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like.

As shown in fig. 3, the terminal 300 shown in fig. 3 includes: at least one processor 301, memory 302, at least one network interface 304, and a user interface 303. The various components in terminal 300 are coupled together by a bus system 305. It will be appreciated that the bus system 305 is used to enable communications among the components connected. The bus system 305 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 as bus system 305 in fig. 3.

The user interface 303 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 will be appreciated that the memory 302 in embodiments of the invention may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a Read-only memory (ROM), a programmable Read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable Read-only memory (erasabprom, EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable Read-only memory (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be a Random Access Memory (RAM) which functions as an external cache. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as static random access memory (staticiram, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (dynamic RAM, DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (syncronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDRSDRAM), Enhanced synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous link SDRAM (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus SDRAM (DRRAM). The memory 302 of the subject 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 302 holds the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or a subset thereof, or an expanded set thereof: an operating system 3021 and application programs 3022.

The operating system 3021 includes various system programs, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, and the like, and is used for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application programs 3022 include various application programs such as a media player (MediaPlayer), a Browser (Browser), and the like, for implementing various application services. A program implementing the method of an embodiment of the present invention may be included in the application program 3022.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the steps in the method for reporting the cell measurement value are implemented by calling a program or an instruction stored in the memory 302, specifically, a program or an instruction stored in the application program 3022.

The method disclosed in the above embodiments of the present invention may be applied to the processor 301, or implemented by the processor 301. The processor 301 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 301. The processor 301 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, or 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 modules may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, or other storage media as is known in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory 302, and the processor 301 reads the information in the memory 402 and completes the steps of the method in combination with the hardware.

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but 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.

Referring to fig. 4, a flow of a method for reporting a cell measurement value is shown, where an execution subject of the method is a terminal, and the method includes the following specific steps:

step 401, determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

in the embodiment of the present invention, the target cell is a serving cell and/or another cell of the terminal, and the other cell may be a neighboring cell, for example, a neighboring cell of the serving cell, but is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that the number of the above-mentioned cell measurement values may be one or more, and in the embodiment of the present invention, the number of the serving cell measurement values is not limited. The cell measurement value may be a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), or a reference signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (RS-SINR), but is not limited thereto.

And step 402, reporting the cell measurement value through a message 3(Msg3) or a message 5(Msg 5).

The following description will take the cell measurement value as the serving cell RSRP measurement value, and the other cases are similar to this.

For example, rsrpResultSCell (serving cell signal strength measurement) is carried in message 3(RRCConnectionRequest-NB (narrowband RRC connection establishment request), RRCConnectionResume-NB (narrowband RRC connection establishment recovery), etc.), and indicates RSRP measurement result of the serving cell. The rsrpResultSCell field occupies N bits of spare 22bit in RRCConnectionRequest-NB or an extended new field in the above-mentioned message criticalExtensionsFuture, N being a positive integer greater than 1.

For example, rsrpResultSCell is carried in message 5(RRCConnectionSetupComplete-NB (narrowband RRC connection setup complete message), rrcconnectionsecumplete-NB (narrowband RRC connection resume complete message), etc.), and a new field is extended in criticalExtensionsFuture (future important extension).

In the embodiment of the present invention, the serving cell RSRP measurement value is defined as follows:

example 1: the range of the interval is defined by using 7 bits according to the definition fields and the range of the RSRP in the existing standard, wherein the RSRP is (-140 + rsrpResultSCell) dBm, and the actual RSRP is-43 dBm to-140 dBm.

rsrpResultSCell RSRP-Range (RSRP Range)

RSRP-Range:. INTEGER (0..97) (INTEGER of 0 ~ 97)

Example 2: NB-IoT focuses more on edge RSRP coverage performance, so the range of RSRP intervals can be defined with fewer bits, e.g., 6 bits, RSRP (-140 + rsrpResultSCell) dBm, with the actual RSRP representing the range-77 to-140 dBm.

rsrpResultSCell RSRP-Range

RSRP-Range:INTEREGER (0..63) (INTEGER of 0 ~ 63)

Example 3: the RSRP is represented in steps of 2, e.g., 5 bits, and RSRP (-140 +2 × rsrpResultSCell) dBm the actual RSRP represents a range of-77 to-140 dBm.

rsrpResultSCell RSRP-Range

An RSRP-Range:INTEREGER (0..31) (an INTEGER of 0-31).

In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, when the cell measurement value is less than or equal to the cell reporting threshold value, the cell measurement value is reported through a message 3 or a message 5. When the cell measurement value is larger than the cell reporting threshold value, the cell measurement value does not need to be reported.

The cell reporting threshold is agreed by a protocol, configured by a network side, or determined by a terminal, for example, the cell reporting threshold is configured by the network side through a system broadcast message or configured by the network side through a message 4(Msg 4). Examples are as follows:

example 1: ServingCellRSRPReportthreshold (serving cell signal strength reporting threshold) RSRP-Range (reference signal received power Range) is defined in systemlnformationblocktype 1-NB (narrowband system broadcast message type 1) or systemlnformationblocktype 2-NB (narrowband system broadcast message type 2). Wherein the RSRP-Range definition method may refer to the foregoing examples.

Example 2: servingcellrsrporthreshold RSRP-Range is configured in message 4 (RRCConnectionSetup-NB/rrcconnectionsesume, etc. messages). Wherein the RSRP-Range definition method may refer to the foregoing examples.

In the embodiment of the invention, the terminal can report the cell measurement value through the message 3 or the message 5, so that the network side can acquire the network coverage condition. Further, the terminal may report the cell measurement value through the message 3 or the message 5 only when the cell measurement value is less than or equal to the serving cell reporting threshold value, so that the terminal may focus on the measurement value distribution of the weak coverage cell.

In the embodiment of the invention, the cell measurement value can be reported through the existing RRC (radio resource control) message. The problem that the network coverage cannot be obtained by the network can be solved by reporting the cell measurement value in the existing RRC message in the NB-IoT, and the introduced field length is small, so that the complexity and excessive power consumption overhead can not be brought to the terminal.

Referring to fig. 5, a flow of a cell measurement value receiving method is shown, where an execution subject of the method is a network device, such as a base station, and the method includes the following specific steps:

and step 501, receiving the cell measurement value of the target cell reported by the terminal through the message 3 or the message 5.

In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the target cell is a serving cell and/or another cell of the terminal, for example, a neighboring cell.

In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the cell measurement value is one or more of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR).

In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the receiving terminal reports the cell measurement value through the message 3 or the message 5 when the cell measurement value is less than or equal to the cell reporting threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the cell reporting threshold may be configured as follows: and configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a system broadcast message, or configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a message 4.

Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device may obtain the cell measurement value reported by the terminal by receiving the message 3 or the message 5, so that the network device can obtain the network coverage condition.

Referring to fig. 6, a flow of another method for reporting a cell measurement value is shown, where an execution subject of the method is a terminal, and the method includes the following specific steps:

step 601, determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

step 602, reporting the cell measurement value through a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message or an uplink direct transfer (ULInformationTransfer-NB).

In the embodiment of the present invention, the RRC message may be RRCConnectionSetupComplete-NB, rrcconnectionsumecomcomplete-NB, or the like.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the cell measurement value is in the RRC message in the form of NAS (non access stratum) data; alternatively, the cell measurement value is carried in a DedicatedInfoNAS field (NAS dedicated info field) in the uplink direct transfer message.

It should be noted that, the format of the cell measurement value can refer to the foregoing embodiments, and will not be described herein.

Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device may obtain the cell measurement value through the radio resource control message or the uplink direct transmission message, so as to solve the problem that the network side cannot obtain the network coverage.

Referring to fig. 7, a flow of another cell measurement value receiving method is shown in the figure, where an execution subject of the method is a network device, for example, the network device is an MME, and specific steps are as follows:

step 701, receiving a cell measurement value reported by a terminal through a radio resource control message or an ESM DATA TRANSPORT message (EPS session management DATA transmission message).

For example, the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message identity field in the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message indicates that the type of the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message is a terminal measurement Report (UE measurement Report).

The ESM DATA TRANSPORT message identity field (8bit) in the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message gives a new meaning to the undefined value of the field, for example, gives a uemeasurement Report as the meaning of the following value "11101100", and the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message identity field refers to the DATA type identification field.

In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, after step 701, the method further includes step 702, and transmitting the cell measurement value to other network element devices.

Optionally, the other network element devices are OMC (operation and maintenance center) devices or newly added network element devices, and when the MME receives the cell measurement value, the MME transmits the cell measurement value to the OMC device or the newly added network element device, and the OMC device or the newly added network element device receives the cell measurement value.

Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device may obtain the cell measurement value reported by the terminal by receiving the radio resource control message or the ESMDATA TRANSPORT message, so that the network device can obtain the network coverage condition.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the mobile terminal 80 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 81, network module 82, audio output unit 83, input unit 84, sensor 85, display unit 86, user input unit 87, interface unit 88, memory 89, processor 810, and power supply 811. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture illustrated in fig. 8 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, and that a mobile terminal may include more or fewer components than those illustrated, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

Wherein, the processor 810 is configured to determine a cell measurement value of a target cell; a radio frequency unit 81, configured to report a cell measurement value through a message 3 or a message 5; or, the radio frequency unit 81 is configured to report the cell measurement value through a radio resource control message or an uplink direct transfer message.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 81 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message sending and receiving process or a call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 810; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, the radio frequency unit 81 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 81 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides wireless broadband internet access to the user via the network module 82, such as to assist the user in sending and receiving e-mails, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 83 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 81 or the network module 82 or stored in the memory 89 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 83 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 80 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 83 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 84 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input Unit 84 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 841 and a microphone 842, the Graphics processor 841 Processing image data of still pictures or videos obtained by an image capturing apparatus (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 86. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 841 may be stored in the memory 89 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 81 or the network module 82. The microphone 842 may receive sound and may be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 81 in case of the phone call mode.

The terminal 80 also includes at least one sensor 85, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 861 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 861 and/or the backlight when the terminal 80 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the posture of the mobile terminal (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), and vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping); the sensors 85 may also include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 86 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 86 may include a Display panel 861, and the Display panel 861 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 87 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 87 includes a touch panel 871 and other input devices 872. The touch panel 871, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 871 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 871 using a finger, a stylus, or any suitable object or accessory). The touch panel 871 may include two parts of 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, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 810, receives a command from the processor 810, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 871 can be implemented by various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 87 may include other input devices 872 in addition to the touch panel 871. Specifically, the other input devices 872 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

Further, the touch panel 871 can be overlaid on the display panel 861, and when the touch panel 871 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 871, the touch panel 871 is transmitted to the processor 810 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 810 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 861 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 871 and the display panel 861 are illustrated in fig. 8 as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 871 and the display panel 861 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 88 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 80. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 88 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 80 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 80 and an external device.

The memory 89 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 89 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 89 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 810 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 89 and calling data stored in the memory 89, thereby integrally monitoring the mobile terminal. Processor 810 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 810 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 810.

The terminal 80 may also include a power supply 811 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and preferably, the power supply 811 may be logically coupled to the processor 810 via a power management system to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions via the power management system.

In addition, the terminal 80 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the cell measurement value reporting or cell measurement value receiving method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

In various embodiments of the present invention, it should be understood that the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present invention.

In addition, the terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably herein.

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

In the embodiments provided herein, it should be understood that "B corresponding to a" means that B is associated with a from which B can be determined. It should also be understood that determining B from a does not mean determining B from a alone, but may be determined from a and/or other information.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed method and apparatus 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.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may be physically included alone, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, or in a form of hardware plus a software functional unit.

The integrated unit implemented in the form of a software functional unit may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The software functional unit is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions to enable a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network-side device) to perform some steps of the transceiving method according to various embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, it should be understood that modifications and adaptations to those embodiments may occur to one skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present invention and are within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for reporting a cell measurement value is applied to a terminal, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

the cell measurement values are reported via message 3 or message 5.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the target cell is a serving cell and/or other cells of the terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cell measurement value is one or more of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reporting the cell measurement value via message 3 or message 5 comprises:

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the cell reporting threshold is determined by a protocol convention or by a network side configuration or by a terminal.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the configuration of the cell reporting threshold value by the network side specifically comprises:

7. A method for receiving cell measurement values is applied to network equipment, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the target cell is a serving cell and/or other cells of the terminal.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the cell measurement value is one or more of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR).

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the receiving the cell measurement value of the target cell reported by the terminal through message 3 or message 5 comprises:

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

12. A method for reporting a cell measurement value is applied to a terminal, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

determining a cell measurement value of a target cell;

13. The method of claim 12,

the cell measurements are in the radio resource control message as non-access stratum, NAS, data; or,

14. A method for receiving cell measurement values is applied to network equipment, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

and receiving the cell measurement value reported by the terminal through a radio resource control message or an EPS session management DATA transmission message ESM DATA TRANSPORT message.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein a DATA type identification field ESM DATA TRANSPORT identity in said ESM DATA TRANSPORT message indicates that the type of said ESM DATA TRANSPORT message is a terminal measurement report.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

and transmitting the cell measurement value to other network element equipment.

17. A terminal, comprising:

a processor for determining a cell measurement value for a target cell;

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the target cell is a serving cell and/or other cells of the terminal.

19. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the cell measurement value is one or more of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR).

20. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the reporting the cell measurement value via message 3 or message 5 comprises:

21. The terminal of claim 20, wherein the cell reporting threshold is agreed by a protocol or configured by a network side or determined by the terminal.

22. The terminal of claim 21, wherein the configuration of the cell reporting threshold value by the network side specifically comprises: the cell reporting threshold value is configured by a network side through a system broadcast message or configured by the network side through a message 4.

23. A network device, comprising:

24. The network device of claim 23, wherein the target cell is a serving cell and/or other cells of the terminal.

25. The network device of claim 23, wherein the cell measurement value is one or more of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and reference signal-to-signal-plus-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR).

26. The network device of claim 23, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive a cell measurement value reported by the terminal through message 3 or message 5 when the cell measurement value is smaller than or equal to a cell reporting threshold value.

27. The network device of claim 23, wherein the transceiver is further configured to: and configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a system broadcast message, or configuring the cell reporting threshold value through a message 4.

28. A terminal, comprising:

a processor for determining a cell measurement value for a target cell;

and the radio frequency unit is used for reporting the cell measurement value through a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message or an uplink direct transmission message.

29. The terminal of claim 28,

the cell measurements are in the RRC message as NAS data; or,

30. A network device, comprising:

31. The network device of claim 30, wherein an ESM DATA TRANSPORT message identity field in the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message indicates the type of the ESM DATA TRANSPORT message as a terminal measurement report.

32. The network device of claim 30, wherein the transceiver is further configured to: and the network element equipment is used for transmitting the cell measurement value to other network element equipment.

33. A terminal, comprising: a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method for reporting cell measurement values according to any of claims 1 to 6; or, implementing the steps of the method for reporting cell measurement values according to claim 12 or 13.

34. A network device, comprising: a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the cell measurement receiving method according to any of claims 7 to 11; alternatively, the steps of implementing the cell measurement value receiving method of any of claims 14 to 16.

35. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method for reporting cell measurement values according to any one of claims 1 to 6; or implementing the cell measurement value receiving method of any of claims 7 to 11; or, implementing the method for reporting cell measurement value according to claim 12 or 13; or implementing the steps of the cell measurement value receiving method of any of claims 14 to 16.