CN109951895B

CN109951895B - Method and device for reporting capability information of user equipment

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Publication number: CN109951895B
Application number: CN201711383400.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姚琴波
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-12-20
Filing date: 2017-12-20
Publication date: 2021-01-29
Anticipated expiration: 2037-12-20
Also published as: WO2019120161A1; CN109951895A

Abstract

The application provides a method and a device for reporting capability information of user equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method comprises the following steps: generating capability information of the UE, wherein the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency Band Combinations (BC), and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, wherein each first reporting classification in at least one first reporting classification in the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of BC with adjustable sequences; and reporting the capability information of the UE. By the method and the device, the influence on base station scheduling can be reduced.

Description

Method and device for reporting capability information of user equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for reporting capability information of a user equipment.

Background

In fifth generation mobile communication technology (5G), a User Equipment (UE) needs to attach to a network when the UE wants to use the network. In the process of attaching to a network, when a UE receives a UE Capability request (UE Capability information) sent by a base station in the network, the UE sends UE Capability information (UE Capability information) to the base station, where the UE Capability information includes a Band Combination (BC) parameter, a supported security algorithm, and the like, each BC in the BC parameter records frequency Band information of each frequency Band by using the frequency Band (Band) as an index, and the frequency Band information includes information such as Carrier Aggregation (CA) condition, peak rate, and the like. That is, the BC parameter includes a plurality of BCs.

The BC parameters are divided into three classes in the communication protocol, that is, a frequency band which does not support carrier aggregation, a frequency band which supports carrier aggregation of two frequency bands, and a frequency band which supports carrier aggregation of other numbers of frequency bands, when the three classes of BC parameters are reported, the BC parameters can be divided into a plurality of reporting classes which respectively correspond to different carrier aggregation levels, and can also be called bandwidth classes which support carrier aggregation, for example, the BC parameters can be divided into a carrier aggregation level a, a carrier aggregation level B, a carrier aggregation level C, a carrier aggregation level D, a carrier aggregation level E, a carrier aggregation level F, a carrier aggregation level I, and the like, the carrier aggregation level a corresponds to the reporting class formed by the frequency bands which do not support carrier aggregation, the carrier aggregation level B corresponds to the reporting class formed by the frequency bands which support carrier aggregation of two frequency bands, and the carrier aggregation level C corresponds to the reporting class formed by the frequency bands which support carrier aggregation of two frequency bands (the bandwidth range of the carrier aggregation level B and the same), the carrier aggregation level D corresponds to the reporting classification made up of the frequency bands supporting the carrier aggregation of three frequency bands, the carrier aggregation level E corresponds to the reporting classification made up of the frequency bands supporting the carrier aggregation of four frequency bands, the carrier aggregation level F corresponds to the reporting classification made up of the frequency bands supporting the carrier aggregation of five frequency bands, and the carrier aggregation level I corresponds to the reporting classification made up of the frequency bands supporting the carrier aggregation of eight frequency bands, so that there are 7 reporting classifications. When the UE sends the capability information of the UE to the base station, under each reporting classification, the BC is reported according to a preset sequence, for example, the preset sequence is BC1, BC2, and BC3 … …, and the reporting sequence is also BC1, BC2, and BC3 … …. When the base station receives the capability information of the UE, it may schedule time-frequency resources for the UE based on carrier aggregation condition information of the frequency band in the BC parameter, and the like.

Since uplink transmission resources are limited, for each reporting classification, the UE sends BC parameters according to a preset sequence, and the last BC may not have enough transmission resources to report, so that if the BC that cannot be reported is the important BC, scheduling of the base station is affected.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problem in the prior art, embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for reporting capability information of a user equipment. The technical scheme is as follows:

in a first aspect, a method for reporting capability information of a user equipment is provided, where the method includes: generating capability information of the UE, wherein the capability information comprises at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency Band Combinations (BC), and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, wherein each first reporting classification in at least one first reporting classification in the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of BC with adjustable sequences, and reporting the capability information of the UE.

Optionally, in the solution shown in the embodiment of the present invention, in a process that the UE is attached to the network, after the base station creates context information of the UE, the base station may send UE Capability information to the UE, and after the UE receives the UE Capability information, the UE may generate the Capability information, or when the UE detects that the Capability information of the UE changes (for example, detects that the UE switches a cell), the UE may generate the Capability information. Optionally, the capability information includes BC parameters, supported security algorithms, and the like. Optionally, the BC parameters include each reporting class and the plurality of BCs corresponding to each reporting class.

In one possible implementation, each BC is configured to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the frequency band.

In the solution shown in the embodiment of the present invention, each BC at least indicates a support condition of carrier aggregation, and specifically, each BC may be configured to indicate a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier supported by a frequency band corresponding to the BC and/or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by a frequency band corresponding to the BC.

In one possible implementation, in the at least one reporting classification, each of at least one second reporting classification other than the at least one first reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of non-adjustable-order BC. Optionally, in the scheme shown in the embodiment of the present invention, the sequence of the multiple BC whose sequence is not adjustable may be a preset sequence.

In one possible implementation, the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC includes at least one of: the method comprises the steps of detecting a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, detecting a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, detecting a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the cell is located, and detecting a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator where a current position of the UE is accessed to a network.

In one possible implementation, the first BC has an ordering priority M, the second BC has an ordering priority N, the third BC has an ordering priority O, and the fourth BC has an ordering priority P, wherein the ordering priority M takes precedence over the ordering priority N, the ordering priority N takes precedence over the ordering priority O, and the ordering priority O takes precedence over the ordering priority P.

In a possible implementation manner, the multiple sequentially-adjustable BCs further include a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, where the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, where the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by a preset operator of the access network, and the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

In one possible implementation, the serving cell includes at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell.

In a possible implementation manner, the frequency band in which the at least one primary cell is located is a sixth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, the frequency band in which the at least one secondary cell is located is a seventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC; the sixth BC has a sorting priority Q and the seventh BC has a sorting priority R, wherein the sorting priority Q takes precedence over the sorting priority R.

In one possible implementation, the at least one primary cell includes at least one of a primary cell group and a primary cell of a secondary cell group, and the at least one secondary cell includes at least one of a secondary cell of the primary cell group and a secondary cell of the secondary cell group.

In a possible implementation manner, the frequency band of the master cell in the master cell group is an eighth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, the frequency band of the master cell in the auxiliary cell group is a ninth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, the frequency band of the auxiliary cell in the master cell group is a tenth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, the frequency band of the auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is an eleventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC; the eighth BC has a sorting priority S, the ninth BC has a sorting priority T, the tenth BC has a sorting priority U, and the eleventh BC has a sorting priority V, wherein sorting priority S has priority over sorting priority T, T sorting priority U has priority over sorting priority U, sorting priority U has priority over sorting priority V.

In a second aspect, a user equipment is provided, where the user equipment includes a processor and a transmitter, and the processor implements the method for reporting capability information of the user equipment provided in the first aspect by executing instructions.

In a third aspect, an apparatus for reporting capability information of a user equipment is provided, where the apparatus includes at least one module, and the at least one module is configured to implement the method for reporting capability information of a user equipment provided in the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, where instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer-readable storage medium is run on an apparatus for reporting capability information of a user equipment, the apparatus is caused to perform the method for reporting capability information of a user equipment provided in the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, a computer program product containing instructions is provided, which when run on an apparatus for reporting capability information of a user equipment, causes the apparatus to perform the method for reporting capability information of a user equipment provided in the first aspect.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects: in the embodiment of the present invention, a terminal generates capability information of a UE, where the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency band combinations BC, and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, where each first reporting classification in at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs, and reports the capability information of the UE. In this way, since the order of the BC in the reporting classification can be adjusted, when the UE reports the BC parameter under the condition of limited transmission resources, the most required BC of the base station can be set at the forefront, and the most effective information is reported, so that the scheduling of the base station is not affected.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system for reporting capability information of a ue according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for reporting capability information of a ue according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of sending capability information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a reporting sequence according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for reporting capability information of a ue according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present invention, the following first describes application scenarios related to the embodiments of the present invention and concepts related to the terms.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for reporting Capability information of user equipment, and as shown in fig. 1, an application scenario of the method may be that when a UE receives a UE Capability inquiry sent by a base station, the UE determines Capability information of the UE, and then sends the UE Capability information to the base station to inform the base station of the Capability of the UE, and the base station may perform overall scheduling on transmission resources based on the Capability information sent by each UE, so as to achieve optimal scheduling as much as possible.

Serving cells (Serving cells): the serving cells include Primary cells (PCell) in a Master Cell Group (MCG), Secondary cells (PSCell) in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), and Secondary cells (SCell) in the Master Cell Group and the Secondary Cell Group. For example, a UE is simultaneously connected to two base stations (which may be referred to as dual connectivity), one base station is a Macro base station (Macro evolution Node B, MeNB), the other base station is a Small base station (Small evolution Node B, SeNB), a cell corresponding to at least one service carrier configured on the Macro base station is referred to as a master cell group, a cell corresponding to at least one service carrier configured on the Macro base station is referred to as an auxiliary cell group, the master cell in the master cell group is a cell for which a connection is currently established by the UE, the auxiliary cell in the master cell group is a cell corresponding to a frequency band in which carrier aggregation is performed with a frequency band in which the master cell of the master cell group is located, the master cell in the auxiliary cell group is a cell in which a connection is currently established by the UE, the auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is a cell corresponding to a frequency band in which carrier aggregation is performed with a frequency band in which the master cell of the auxiliary cell group is located, and it needs to be noted that the frequency band is a frequency range in which the service carrier belongs. The carrier, whether belonging to the primary cell or the secondary cell, is located in the frequency band, and is a section of frequency bandwidth allocated to the UE by the base station for communication operation. The carriers in different frequency bands can realize carrier aggregation between frequency bands, and the carriers in the same frequency band can realize carrier aggregation in the frequency band.

Target measurement cell: the base station informs the UE of the cells to which measurements are made, possibly including the serving cell.

Detected cell: the detected cells are in addition to the target measurement cell that the base station informs the UE to measure, for example, the base station informs the UE that the target measurement cell measured is 1, 2, 3, 5, and the UE detects that one cell 4, 4 is the detected cell.

UE: also called terminal equipment. A terminal device can also be called, among other things, an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment. The terminal device may be a Station (ST) in a WLAN, and may be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, a handheld device with Wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a Wireless modem, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, and a next generation communication system, for example, a terminal device in a 5G Network or a terminal device in a future evolved Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) Network, and the like.

A base station: the UE can be selectively supported by a Global System of Mobile communication (GSM) System, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) System, a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) System, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a Long Term Evolution (LTE) System, an LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) System, an LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), a Universal Mobile telecommunications System (Universal Mobile telecommunications System, UMTS), a world wide Microwave Access (world Interoperability for Microwave) communication System, a future fifth Generation (5, 5) Radio System, or a New NR (Radio network) System.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for reporting capability information of a UE, where an execution main body may be a UE, and the UE may be a Mobile phone, a Mobile Station (MS), a Mobile Terminal (Mobile Terminal), and the like, for example, the Terminal may be a Mobile phone, a computer with a Mobile Terminal, and the like, and the Terminal may also be a portable, pocket, handheld, computer-embedded, or vehicle-mounted Mobile device, which exchanges voice and/or data with a radio access network. As shown in fig. 2, the UE may include a receiver 210, a processor 220, a transmitter 230, and a memory 240, wherein the receiver 210 may be used to enable the reception of data and messages. The transmitter 230 may be used to implement data and message transmission, the processor 220 may execute various functions and data processing by running software programs and modules, and the memory 240 may be used to store instructions executable by the software programs and modules, and data required to be stored during data transmission.

The processor 220 may include one or more processors, any one or more of which may be a control center of the UE, connect various parts of the whole UE through various interfaces and lines, execute various functional applications and data processing by running software programs and modules, thereby performing overall monitoring on the UE and implementing the methods mentioned in the following embodiments to implement reporting of capability information of the UE. Alternatively, the processor 220 may include one or more processing units, which may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), or the like. While performing the transmitting operation, the processor 220 performs the transmitting operation by controlling or driving the transmitter 230; in performing the receiving operation, the processor 220 performs the receiving operation by controlling or driving the receiver 210.

The Memory 240 may be implemented by any type of volatile Memory or non-volatile Memory or combination thereof, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), Read-Only Memory (ROM), magnetic Memory, flash Memory, magnetic disk or optical disk.

Before implementation, first, the carrier aggregation level of each reporting classification in the BC parameter, the number k of the supported maximum resource blocks, the number of the frequency bands supporting carrier aggregation, and the like are introduced, as shown in table one:

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Level of carrier aggregation	Number of maximum resource blocks supported	Number of frequency bands
			A	k≤100	1
B	25<k≤100	2
			C	100<k≤200	2
D	200<k≤300	3
			E	300<k≤400	4
F	400<k≤500	5
			I	700<k≤800	8

After introducing the BC parameter, basic information included in the BC is introduced, and the basic information of the BC corresponding to the frequency band not supporting carrier aggregation may be as follows. Taking BC1 as an example:

the above Band Parameters represent frequency Band Parameters, the Band info represents frequency Band information, the Band 1 represents frequency Band 1, the BC1 represents a BC corresponding to the frequency Band 1, the Ul Parameters represent an uplink parameter, the CA Band width Class represents a carrier aggregation level, the carrier aggregation level is a, the Dl Parameters represent a downlink parameter, the CA Band width Class represents a carrier aggregation level, and the carrier aggregation level is a. The BC corresponding to the frequency band supporting carrier aggregation also includes a frequency band for carrier aggregation with the frequency band.

As shown in fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for reporting capability information of a user equipment, where corresponding processing steps may be as follows: step 301, generating capability information of the UE. The processor 220 mentioned above may be used to implement step 301. In implementation, as shown in fig. 4, in the process that the UE attaches to the network, after the base station creates context information of the UE, the base station may send UE Capability information to the UE, and after the UE receives the UE Capability information, the UE may generate Capability information, where the Capability information includes a BC parameter, a supported security algorithm, and the like. Alternatively, the UE may generate the capability information when detecting that the capability information of the UE changes (for example, detecting a handover cell of the UE).

The BC parameter may be obtained as follows: the BC parameters can be divided into three types, that is, BC parameters of a frequency band not supporting carrier aggregation, BC parameters of a frequency band supporting carrier aggregation of two frequency bands, and BC parameters of a frequency band supporting carrier aggregation of other numbers of frequency bands.

Specifically, the UE determines its own hardware model (e.g., number of antennas, etc.), and a system program, which may be included in a software program stored in the memory 240. The UE then determines all BCs that it can support using the hardware model, system program, etc. The UE may determine the reporting classification to which each BC belongs, using a BC partition rule specified in the communication protocol, so as to determine at least one reporting classification included in the capability information.

For any report classification, if the order of the BC in any report classification is specified in the communication protocol, the order of the BC included in any report classification is determined to be unadjustable, or the order of some BC in any report classification is specified in the communication protocol, the order of the part of BC is unadjustable, the report classification with unadjustable order is removed, and the order of the BC included in the rest report classifications is adjustable. Thus, it can be determined whether each reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequence-adjustable BC, and if a certain reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequence-adjustable BC, the reporting classification is determined to be a first reporting classification, at least one reporting classification includes at least one first reporting classification, and each first reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequence-adjustable BC.

Optionally, each BC is configured to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the frequency band. In implementation, each BC at least indicates a support condition of carrier aggregation, and specifically, each BC may be configured to indicate a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier supported by a frequency band corresponding to the BC and/or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by a frequency band corresponding to the BC. For example, the carrier aggregation level of the uplink carrier supported by the frequency band is B, which indicates that the uplink of the frequency band can support carrier aggregation of two frequency bands.

Optionally, the plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs includes at least one of: the method comprises the steps of detecting a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, detecting a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, detecting a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the cell is located, and detecting a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator where a current position of the UE is accessed to a network.

The serving cell, the target measurement cell, and the detected cell are already described above, and are not described herein again. The fourth frequency band customized by the operator of the network to which the current location is accessed may be obtained by the UE using the current location information, or may be a frequency band that indicates the frequency band deployed by the operator at the current location point.

Optionally, the first BC has a sorting priority M, the second BC has a sorting priority N, the third BC has a sorting priority O, the fourth BC has a sorting priority P, the sorting priority M has priority over the sorting priority N, the sorting priority N has priority over the sorting priority O, and the sorting priority O has priority over the sorting priority P.

In implementation, in the first category of reporting, a higher priority in the ranking indicates a higher position of the BC. The first reporting classification includes a first BC and a second BC, and a relative order of the first BC and the second BC from front to back may be the first BC and the second BC; the first reporting classification comprises a first BC and a third BC, and the relative sequence of the first BC and the third BC from front to back can be the first BC and the third BC; the first reporting classification comprises a first BC and a fourth BC, and the relative sequence of the first BC and the fourth BC from front to back can be the first BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification comprises a second BC and a third BC, and the relative sequence of the second BC and the third BC from front to back can be the second BC and the third BC; the first reporting classification comprises a second BC and a fourth BC, and the relative sequence of the second BC and the fourth BC from front to back can be the second BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification includes a third BC and a fourth BC, and the relative order of the third BC and the fourth BC from front to back may be the third BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification comprises a first BC, a third BC and a fourth BC, and the relative sequence of the first BC, the second BC and the fourth BC from front to back can be the first BC, the second BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification comprises a first BC, a third BC and a fourth BC, and the relative sequence of the first BC, the third BC and the fourth BC from front to back can be the first BC, the third BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification comprises a second BC, a third BC and a fourth BC, and the relative sequence of the second BC, the third BC and the fourth BC from front to back can be the second BC, the third BC and the fourth BC; the first reporting classification includes a first BC, a second BC, a third BC and a fourth BC, and the relative order of the first BC, the second BC, the third BC and the fourth BC from front to back may be the first BC, the second BC, the third BC and the fourth BC.

Optionally, the serving cell may include at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell. In an implementation, there may be one or more serving cells, which may include at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell.

Optionally, a frequency band in which the at least one primary cell is located is a sixth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, a frequency band in which the at least one secondary cell is located is a seventh frequency band, the BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC, the sixth BC has a sorting priority Q, the seventh BC has a sorting priority R, and the sorting priority Q is prior to the sorting priority R.

In an implementation, there may be a plurality of first frequency bands where the serving cell is located, and each frequency band corresponds to one BC, so there may also be a plurality of first BCs corresponding to the first frequency band, where the first frequency band may be a sixth frequency band and a seventh frequency band, and the first BC may be a sixth BC and a seventh BC.

The first reporting category includes a sixth BC and a seventh BC, and the relative order of the sixth BC and the seventh BC from front to back may be the sixth BC and the seventh BC. The first reporting category includes a sixth BC, a seventh BC, a second BC and a third BC, and the relative order of the several BC from front to back may be the sixth BC, the seventh BC, the second BC and the third BC.

Optionally, the at least one primary cell includes at least one of a primary cell of the primary cell group and a primary cell of the secondary cell group, and the at least one secondary cell includes at least one of a secondary cell of the primary cell group and a secondary cell of the secondary cell group. In an implementation, there may be one or more of the at least one primary cell, and likewise there may be one or more of the at least one secondary cell.

Optionally, a frequency band of a master cell in the master cell group is an eighth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, a frequency band of the master cell in the auxiliary cell group is a ninth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, a frequency band of an auxiliary cell in the master cell group is a tenth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, a frequency band of the auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is an eleventh frequency band, and a BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC; the eighth BC has a sorting priority S, the ninth BC has a sorting priority T, the tenth BC has a sorting priority U, the eleventh BC has a sorting priority V, sorting priority S has priority over sorting priority T, T sorting priority U, sorting priority U has priority over sorting priority V.

In an implementation, there may be a plurality of the sixth frequency bands where the primary cell is located, and each frequency band corresponds to one BC, so there may be a plurality of sixth BCs corresponding to the sixth frequency band, where the sixth frequency band may be an eighth frequency band and a ninth frequency band, and the sixth BC may be an eighth BC and a ninth BC.

The above-mentioned seventh frequency band where the secondary cell is located may be multiple, and each frequency band corresponds to one BC, so that the seventh frequency band may correspond to multiple seventh BCs, the seventh frequency band may be a tenth frequency band and an eleventh frequency band, and the seventh BC may be a tenth BC and an eleventh BC.

For example, in a first reporting category, the eighth BC, the ninth BC, the tenth BC and the eleventh BC are included, and the relative order of the several BC may be from the front to the back to the eighth BC, the ninth BC, the tenth BC and the eleventh BC. For another example, a first reporting category includes an eighth BC, a ninth BC, a tenth BC, an eleventh BC, a second BC, a third BC, and a fourth BC, and several of them may be, in relative order from front to back, the eighth BC, the ninth BC, the tenth BC, the eleventh BC, the second BC, the third BC, and the fourth BC. In short, the relative order of the first BC to the other BC is unchanged, regardless of the number of the first BC.

Optionally, the multiple sequentially adjustable BCs further include a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, where the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, and the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

In an implementation, the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by an operator of a preset access network, that is, a frequency band customized by an operator of a network used by the UE. The fifth BC is a BC corresponding to a frequency band customized by another regional operator, and different from the fourth BC, the fifth BC has the lowest ranking priority, that is, the fifth BC can be ranked in the last reporting classification to which the fifth BC belongs, so that, at the current location point, the fifth BC corresponding to the fifth frequency band does not affect the base station to schedule time-frequency resources for the terminal even if the fifth BC corresponding to the fifth frequency band is not reported.

Optionally, in the at least one reporting category, each of at least one second reporting category except the at least one first reporting category corresponds to a plurality of BC whose sequence is not adjustable.

In implementation, in at least one report category, in addition to the first report category, the UE further includes at least one second report category, each second report category corresponds to a plurality of sequentially nonadjustable BCs, the sequence of the plurality of sequentially nonadjustable BCs may be a preset sequence, the preset sequence may be preset by a technician and stored in the UE, and generally refers to a storage sequence of the BC in the BC parameter when the UE stores the BC parameter. For example, for a certain reporting category including BC1, BC2, and BC3, the preset sequence may be BC1, BC2, BC3, and the like. The BC parameters include each reporting category and the plurality of BCs corresponding to each reporting category. The order of the plurality of BC with respect to each other may or may not be adjustable.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, in the first reporting category, a twelfth BC corresponding to a frequency band in which a cell detected by the current location point of the history is located may also be included, where the twelfth BC has a sorting priority W, and the sorting priority V is higher than the sorting priority W.

And step 302, reporting the capability information of the UE. In implementation, after determining the capability information of the UE, the UE may determine the time-frequency resources allocated to the UE by the base station, and then may map the capability information of the UE to the time-frequency resources and report the capability information to the base station. The transmitter 230 mentioned above may be used to implement step 302. In particular, the transmitter 230 may be implemented under the control of the processor 220. That is, the reporting or sending operation in this embodiment is performed by the processor 220 controlling or driving the transmitter 230. The transmitter 230 is the executive and the processor 220 is the executive.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the first frequency band and the second frequency band may also include or are the same frequency band, that is, the first BC and the second BC may include the same BC, and the first frequency band and the fourth frequency band may include or are the same frequency band, for this case, if the first frequency band and the second frequency band appear in the same first report category, the first frequency band and the second frequency band are all processed according to the sorting priority corresponding to the first BC.

It should be further noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, there may be a plurality of second frequency bands where the target measurement cell is located, and there may also be a plurality of third frequency bands where the detected cell is located, so that there may be a plurality of second BCs and a plurality of third BCs, where the ordering priorities of the plurality of second BCs may be the same, and the ordering priorities of the plurality of third BCs may be the same.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, a scheme for adjusting the sequence of the BC when the sorting sequence of the BC in a certain report classification is known is further provided, and a corresponding processing procedure may be as follows: when the UE stores the BC, the BC in each report category is stored according to a preset sequence, for example, for a certain report category including BC1, BC2, and BC3, the preset sequence may be BC1, BC2, BC3, and the like.

The terminal may determine whether the order of the BC in each report category may be adjusted based on the communication protocol, and if the order of the BC in a certain report category is specified in the communication protocol, determine that the order of the BC included in the report category is not adjustable, or specify the order of some BC in a certain report category in the communication protocol, the order of the BC in the part is not adjusted, and the order of the BC included in the remaining report categories may be adjusted except for the report categories in which the order is not adjustable. In this way, only the reporting classification of the adjustable order is adjusted, but the reporting classification of the unadjustable order is not adjusted, so the communication protocol is not changed.

For a certain report classification, the sequence of the BC is a preset sequence, and if it is determined that the sequence of the BC is adjustable, the specific process of adjusting the sequence of the BC according to the rule in step 301 on the basis of the preset sequence may refer to step 301, which is not described herein again. For example, as shown in fig. 5, the reporting classification corresponding to the carrier aggregation level a includes BCo, BCp, BCm, BCn, and BCi, the communication protocol specifies that the order of BC is BCo, BCp, BCm, BCn, and BCi, and it is clear that the reporting order is not adjustable, and the reporting order is BCo, BCp, BCm, BCn, and BCi. The reporting classification corresponding to the carrier aggregation level B includes a first BC, a second BC, BCa, BCb, and BCc, where the first BC may be BC1 and BC2, the BC1 is an eighth BC corresponding to an eighth frequency band in which a primary cell in the primary cell group is located, the BC2 is a ninth BC corresponding to a ninth frequency band in which a primary cell in the secondary cell group is located, the second BC may be BC3, the preset order is BCa, BC1, BCb, BCc, BC2, and BC3, and the adjusted order (which may also be referred to as a reporting order) may be BC1, BC2, BC3, BCa, BCb, and BCc. The reporting classification corresponding to the carrier aggregation level C includes a third BC, BCd, BCe, and BCf, where the third BC may be BC5, the preset sequence is BCd, BCe, BC5, and BCf, and the adjusted sequence may be BC5, BCd, BCe, and BCf. The reporting classification corresponding to the carrier aggregation level D includes a fourth BC, BCk, BCh, a fifth BC, and BCg, the fourth BC is BC6, the fifth BC is BC7, the preset sequence is BCk, BCh, BC7, BCg, and BC6, and the adjusted sequence may be BC6, BCk, BCh, BCg, BC7, and the like.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a terminal generates capability information of a UE, where the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency band combinations BC, and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, where each first reporting classification in at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs, and reports the capability information of the UE. In this way, since the order of the BC in the reporting classification can be adjusted, when the UE reports the BC parameter under the condition of limited transmission resources, the most required BC of the base station can be set at the forefront, and the most effective information is reported, so that the scheduling of the base station is not affected.

Fig. 6 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for reporting capability information of a ue according to an embodiment of the present invention. The apparatus may be implemented as part or all of an apparatus in software, hardware, or a combination of both. The apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present invention may implement the process described in fig. 3 in the embodiment of the present invention, and the apparatus includes: a generating module 610 and a reporting module 620, wherein:

a generating module 610, configured to generate capability information of the UE, where the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency band combinations BC, and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, where each first reporting classification in at least one first reporting classification in the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially adjustable BC, and specifically, the generating function in step 301 and other implicit steps may be implemented; a reporting module 620, configured to report the capability information of the UE, which may specifically implement the reporting function in step 302 and other implicit steps.

Optionally, each BC is configured to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the frequency band. Optionally, in the at least one reporting classification, each of at least one second reporting classification except the at least one first reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of BC whose sequence is not adjustable.

Optionally, the plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs include at least one of: a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the detected cell is located, and a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator of a network to which the current position of the UE is accessed.

Optionally, the first BC has an ordering priority M, the second BC has an ordering priority N, the third BC has an ordering priority O, and the fourth BC has an ordering priority P, wherein the ordering priority M has priority over the ordering priority N, the ordering priority N has priority over the ordering priority O, and the ordering priority O has priority over the ordering priority P.

Optionally, the multiple sequentially adjustable BCs further include a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, where the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, where the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by a preset operator of the access network, and the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

Optionally, the serving cell includes at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell. Optionally, a frequency band in which the at least one primary cell is located is a sixth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, a frequency band in which the at least one secondary cell is located is a seventh frequency band, and a BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC; the sixth BC has a sorting priority Q and the seventh BC has a sorting priority R, wherein the sorting priority Q takes precedence over the sorting priority R.

Optionally, the at least one primary cell includes at least one of a primary cell of the primary cell group and a primary cell of the secondary cell group, and the at least one secondary cell includes at least one of a secondary cell of the primary cell group and a secondary cell of the secondary cell group.

Optionally, a frequency band of a master cell of the master cell group is an eighth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, a frequency band of the master cell in the auxiliary cell group is a ninth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, a frequency band of an auxiliary cell in the master cell group is a tenth frequency band, a BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, a frequency band of an auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is an eleventh frequency band, and a BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC;

the eighth BC has a sorting priority S, the ninth BC has a sorting priority T, the tenth BC has a sorting priority U, and the eleventh BC has a sorting priority V, wherein the sorting priority S has priority over the sorting priority T, the T sorting priority over the sorting priority U, and the sorting priority U has priority over the sorting priority V.

In the above embodiments, all or part of the implementation may be realized by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof, and when the implementation is realized by software, all or part of the implementation may be realized in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer program instructions which, when loaded and executed on a device or processor, cause a process or function according to an embodiment of the invention to be performed, in whole or in part. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optics, digital subscriber line) or wirelessly (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by the base station or a data storage device, such as a server, data center, etc., that can comprise an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (such as a floppy Disk, a hard Disk, a magnetic tape, etc.), an optical medium (such as a Digital Video Disk (DVD), etc.), or a semiconductor medium (such as a solid state Disk, etc.).

The above description is only one embodiment of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for reporting capability information of User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

generating capability information of the UE, wherein the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency Band Combinations (BC), and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, wherein each first reporting classification in at least one first reporting classification in the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of BC with adjustable sequences;

and reporting the capability information of the UE.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each BC is used to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the frequency band.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein each of the at least one second reporting classification other than the at least one first reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially unadjustable BC's in the at least one reporting classification.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC comprises at least one of: a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the detected cell is located, and a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator of a network to which the current position of the UE is accessed.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first BC has a sorting priority M, the second BC has a sorting priority N, the third BC has a sorting priority O, and the fourth BC has a sorting priority P, wherein the sorting priority M has priority over the sorting priority N, the sorting priority N has priority over the sorting priority O, and the sorting priority O has priority over the sorting priority P.

6. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC further comprises a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, and the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, wherein the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by an operator of a preset access network, and the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

7. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the serving cell comprises at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the frequency band of the at least one primary cell is a sixth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, the frequency band of the at least one secondary cell is a seventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC;

the sixth BC has a sorting priority Q and the seventh BC has a sorting priority R, wherein the sorting priority Q takes precedence over the sorting priority R.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one primary cell comprises at least one of a primary cell group and a primary cell of a secondary cell group, and wherein the at least one secondary cell comprises at least one of a secondary cell of the primary cell group and a secondary cell of the secondary cell group.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the frequency band in which the master cell in the master cell group is located is an eighth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, the frequency band in which the master cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is a ninth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, the frequency band in which the auxiliary cell in the master cell group is located is a tenth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, the frequency band in which the auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is an eleventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC;

11. A user equipment, the user equipment comprising:

a processor, configured to generate capability information of the UE, where the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency band combinations BC, and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, where each first reporting classification in at least one of the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs;

and the transmitter is used for reporting the capability information of the UE.

12. The UE of claim 11, wherein each BC is configured to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the band.

13. The UE of claim 11 or 12, wherein each of at least one second reporting classification other than the at least one first reporting classification in the at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially unadjustable BCs.

14. The user equipment of claim 11, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC comprises at least one of: a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the detected cell is located, and a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator of a network to which the current position of the UE is accessed.

15. The user equipment of claim 14, wherein the first BC has a sorting priority M, the second BC has a sorting priority N, the third BC has a sorting priority O, and the fourth BC has a sorting priority P, wherein the sorting priority M has priority over the sorting priority N, the sorting priority N has priority over the sorting priority O, and the sorting priority O has priority over the sorting priority P.

16. The UE of claim 14 or 15, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs further comprises a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, and wherein the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, and wherein the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by an operator of a preset access network, and wherein the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

17. The user equipment of claim 14 or 15, wherein the serving cell comprises at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell.

18. The UE of claim 17, wherein the at least one primary cell is located in a sixth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, the at least one secondary cell is located in a seventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC;

19. The user equipment of claim 17, wherein the at least one primary cell comprises at least one of a primary cell of a group of primary cells and a primary cell of a group of secondary cells, and wherein the at least one secondary cell comprises at least one of a secondary cell of the group of primary cells and a secondary cell of the group of secondary cells.

20. The UE of claim 19, wherein a frequency band in which a master cell in the master cell group is located is an eighth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, a frequency band in which a master cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is a ninth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, a frequency band in which an auxiliary cell in the master cell group is located is a tenth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, a frequency band in which an auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is an eleventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC;

21. An apparatus for reporting capability information of a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

a generating module, configured to generate capability information of the UE, where the capability information includes at least one reporting classification, each reporting classification indicates a carrier aggregation level and corresponds to a plurality of frequency band combinations BC, and each BC corresponds to a frequency band, where each first reporting classification in at least one reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially adjustable BCs;

and the reporting module is used for reporting the capability information of the UE.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein each BC is configured to indicate at least one of a carrier aggregation level of an uplink carrier or a carrier aggregation level of a downlink carrier supported by the frequency band.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 or 22, wherein in the at least one reporting classification, each of at least one second reporting classification other than the at least one first reporting classification corresponds to a plurality of sequentially unadjustable BC.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC comprises at least one of: a first BC corresponding to a first frequency band where a serving cell of the UE is located, a second BC corresponding to a second frequency band where a target measurement cell is located, a third BC corresponding to a third frequency band where the detected cell is located, and a fourth BC corresponding to a fourth frequency band customized by an operator of a network to which the current position of the UE is accessed.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the first BC has a sorting priority M, the second BC has a sorting priority N, the third BC has a sorting priority O, and the fourth BC has a sorting priority P, wherein the sorting priority M has priority over the sorting priority N, the sorting priority N has priority over the sorting priority O, and the sorting priority O has priority over the sorting priority P.

26. The apparatus of claim 24 or 25, wherein the plurality of sequentially adjustable BC further comprises a fifth BC corresponding to a preset fifth frequency band, wherein the fifth BC is different from the fourth BC, and wherein the fifth frequency band is a frequency band customized by an operator of a preset access network, and wherein the fifth BC has a lowest ranking priority.

27. The apparatus of claim 24 or 25, wherein the serving cells comprise at least one of at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the at least one primary cell is located in a sixth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the sixth frequency band is a sixth BC, the at least one secondary cell is located in a seventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the seventh frequency band is a seventh BC;

29. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the at least one primary cell comprises at least one of a primary cell of a group of primary cells and a primary cell of a group of secondary cells, and wherein the at least one secondary cell comprises at least one of a secondary cell of the group of primary cells and a secondary cell of the group of secondary cells.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein a frequency band in which a master cell in the master cell group is located is an eighth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the eighth frequency band is an eighth BC, a frequency band in which a master cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is a ninth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the ninth frequency band is a ninth BC, a frequency band in which an auxiliary cell in the master cell group is located is a tenth frequency band, the BC corresponding to the tenth frequency band is a tenth BC, a frequency band in which an auxiliary cell in the auxiliary cell group is located is an eleventh frequency band, and the BC corresponding to the eleventh frequency band is an eleventh BC;