CN110366212B

CN110366212B - Method and terminal for detecting condition switching result

Info

Publication number: CN110366212B
Application number: CN201810253422.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 梁敬; 吴昱民; 陈力; 郑倩
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-03-26
Filing date: 2018-03-26
Publication date: 2021-08-24
Anticipated expiration: 2038-03-26
Also published as: WO2019184621A1; CN110366212A

Abstract

The invention provides a method and a terminal for detecting a condition switching result, which solve the problem of determining whether condition switching fails in the condition switching at present. The detection method comprises the following steps: when an access process is initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained, wherein the target cell is one of at least one candidate cell which meets a switching condition; and determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value. According to the relation between the statistic value and the preset threshold value, the conditional switching result of switching from the source cell to the target cell is determined, and therefore the terminal can accurately know whether the conditional switching fails or not according to the conditional switching result.

Description

Method and terminal for detecting condition switching result

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and a terminal for detecting a conditional switching result.

Background

In a 5G system, a User Equipment (UE) adopts a Dual Connectivity (DC) architecture, where the DC architecture includes two cell groups: a Master Cell Group (MCG) corresponding to a Master Node (MN) on the network side, and a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) corresponding to a Secondary Node (SN) on the network side. The MCG includes a Primary cell (Primary cell, PCell) of a Primary cell group and a Secondary cell (Secondary cell, SCell) of the Primary cell group, and the SCG includes a Primary cell (Primary SCell, PSCell) of the Secondary cell group and a Secondary cell (Secondary cell, SCell) of the Secondary cell group, where the PCell and the PSCell may also be collectively referred to as an SpCell.

The 5G technology has started to study Conditional Handover (Conditional Handover) in which the UE does not perform Handover immediately after receiving a Handover command, but performs Handover after the conditions accompanying the Handover command are satisfied. At present, no relevant design exists for determining whether the condition switching fails and initiating the specific flow of reconstruction in the condition switching.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a method and a terminal for detecting a condition switching result, which are used for solving the problem of determining whether condition switching fails in the condition switching process at present.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for detecting a conditional switching result, where the method is applied to a terminal, and includes:

when an access process is initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained, wherein the target cell is one of at least one candidate cell which meets a switching condition;

and determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:

an obtaining module, configured to obtain a statistical value when initiating an access procedure to a target cell, where the target cell is one of at least one candidate cell that satisfies a handover condition;

and the determining module is used for determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistic value and a preset threshold value.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor implements the steps of the method of detecting the result of a conditional switch as described above.

In a fourth aspect, 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 being executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method for detecting a conditional switching result as described above.

The embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

in the embodiment of the invention, when an access process is initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained; and determining a condition switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for detecting a conditional switch result according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating interaction between a terminal and a source node and a target node according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is one of the structural block diagrams of the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a second block diagram of the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. 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. The claims and expressions used and/or described in the specification mean at least one of the objects connected.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for detecting a condition switching result according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the detection method according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to a terminal, and includes:

step 101: when initiating an access process to a target cell, obtaining a statistical value, wherein the target cell is a cell which meets a handover condition in at least one candidate cell.

Specifically, a timer or a timer and a counter may be started at a preset time before the access procedure is initiated to the target cell, and the statistical value may be obtained according to the started timer or counter.

The timer may be t30x, and the counter may be N3 xx.

Step 102: and determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value.

In the embodiment of the invention, the condition switching result comprises condition switching failure and condition switching success, and the condition switching failure comprises single condition switching failure and final condition switching failure.

The preset threshold is pre-configured, or configured immediately, or agreed by the protocol.

For example, when the statistical value does not reach the preset threshold, the conditional handover result of the handover from the source cell to the target cell may be determined as the final conditional handover failure.

The detection method of the embodiment of the invention obtains a statistical value when initiating an access process to a target cell; and determining a condition switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result.

Further, before the step 102, the method further includes:

applying first conditional switch configuration information, wherein the first conditional switch configuration information is conditional switch configuration information meeting a switch condition;

deleting at least one second conditional switching configuration information, wherein the second conditional switching configuration information is the conditional switching configuration information except the first conditional switching configuration information in the conditional switching configuration information;

the evaluation of whether the handover condition is fulfilled in the at least one second conditional handover configuration information is stopped.

Further, the step 101 of obtaining a statistical value when initiating the access procedure to the target cell includes:

when initiating an access process to a target cell, acquiring a statistical value;

or, when initiating at least two access processes to the target cell, obtaining a statistical value.

Wherein obtaining a statistical value comprises: starting a first timer at a preset moment before initiating an access process to a target cell; and acquiring a first timing duration of the first timer, and taking the first timing duration as the statistic value.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the system may support one conditional handover attempt, or may support at least two conditional handover attempts, which are described below separately.

System for supporting a conditional handover attempt

In the case that the system supports a conditional handover attempt, when the step 101 initiates an access procedure to the target cell, acquiring a statistical value includes:

when initiating an access process to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained.

Specifically, a first timer is started at a preset time before an access process is initiated to a target cell for one time; and acquiring a first timing duration of a first timer, and taking the first timing duration as the statistic value.

The first timer may be t30x, and the preset time includes: a time when configuration information of conditional handover of at least one candidate cell is received; or, the time of applying the configuration information of the conditional handover of the at least one candidate cell; or triggering the time of the conditional handover after evaluating that at least one candidate cell satisfies the conditional handover.

The step 102 of determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical value and the preset threshold includes:

when the first timing duration reaches a first preset threshold, determining that the condition switching result is the final condition switching failure;

when the first timing duration does not reach a first preset threshold and meets a preset condition, determining that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful, and controlling the first timer to stop timing;

the first preset threshold is pre-configured, or configured immediately, or agreed by a protocol.

The preset conditions include at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully receiving the physical downlink control channel PDCCH transmission scrambled by the cell radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI;

successfully applying the configuration of the target cell issued by the base station;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

and successfully transmitting the terminal auxiliary information requested to be transmitted by the base station.

Further, after determining that the condition switching result is a final condition switching failure, performing at least one of the following actions:

the configuration state of the main cell or the auxiliary cell of the original main cell group is applied, or the configuration state of the main cell or the auxiliary cell of the original auxiliary cell group is applied, or the configuration state of the original service cell is applied;

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

initiating a related process defined by a source Radio Access Technology (RAT) when the RAT is different from the switched target RAT;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

Wherein the failure information comprises at least one of:

at least one of an indication of a conditional handover failure, a triggering condition at the time of the failure, a configuration at the time of the failure, a cell identity, a cell measurement result, and a number of times of the conditional failure.

As a first optional implementation manner, the step of reporting the failure information includes:

indicating that failure information is reported through a preset message;

acquiring reporting request information sent by the base station according to the preset message;

reporting the failure information according to the reporting request information;

wherein the preset message comprises: a rebuild request message or a rebuild complete message.

As a second optional implementation manner, the step of reporting the failure information includes:

directly reporting the failure information through a preset message;

In addition, during the operation of the first timer, at least one of the following actions is performed:

after a target main cell is detected, starting measurement of a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM), and prohibiting starting of a timer of the RLM by adopting an RLM counter;

when receiving the failure indication of the random access process, not triggering the infinite link recovery process;

triggering a radio link failure when receiving an indication that the RLC reaches a maximum number of retransmissions;

wherein the target primary cell comprises a primary cell of a primary cell group and a primary cell of a secondary cell group.

Under the condition that the system supports one condition switching attempt, a first timer is started, a condition switching result is determined according to the relation between the first timing duration of the first timer and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result, and an RRC connection reestablishment process and the like are initiated after the condition switching failure is determined finally.

The following describes an implementation flow of the system supporting a conditional handover attempt with reference to fig. 2.

As shown in fig. 2, the implementation flow includes:

step S11: the source node sends handover request information to one or more target nodes.

Step S12: and the target node feeds back a switching confirmation message to the source node.

Step S13: and the source node sends the configuration information of the condition switching to the UE.

Step S14: after receiving the configuration information of the condition switching, the UE continuously evaluates whether the candidate cell meets the condition, and after meeting the condition, the UE selects a corresponding configuration information to start the subsequent process.

It should be noted that, in the process performed in step 3 and step 4, the terminal may start one or more timers for detecting the final condition switching result, and the starting time may be one of the following cases:

a. a time when configuration information of conditional handover of at least one candidate cell is received;

b. the time of applying the configuration information of the conditional handover of at least one candidate cell;

c. and triggering the time of the conditional handover after evaluating that at least one candidate cell satisfies the conditional handover.

Wherein, when a timer (such as t30x) for detecting the final condition switching result runs, the terminal executes at least one of the following actions:

upon receiving the random access procedure failure indication, not triggering an infinite link recovery procedure (e.g., RRC connection re-establishment);

The RLM counter includes a synchronous counter (e.g., N310) and an asynchronous counter (e.g., N311), and the RLM timer may be t 310.

The subsequent process includes at least one of:

stopping the evaluation of whether the switching condition in the at least one second conditional switching configuration information is fulfilled;

and initiating an access process in the selected target cell.

Step S15: and the UE initiates an access process to the selected target cell.

At this time, the UE can acquire the timing duration of the timer, and if the condition switching is successful before the timer is overtime (the timing duration does not reach a first preset threshold), the timer is controlled to stop timing; and if the timer is overtime (the timing duration reaches a first preset threshold), determining that the conditional switching fails.

Wherein, when the UE judges that at least one of the following conditions is satisfied, it is determined that the condition switching is successful:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the configuration of the target cell issued by the base station (e.g., the UE-specific signaling of the target cell);

successfully applying system information (e.g., at least one of system messages SIB1 and SIB2 of the target cell) broadcast by the base station;

the terminal assistance information requested by the base station (e.g., UE assistance information sent to the target cell) is successfully sent.

Further, if the conditional switch fails, the UE behaves as one of the following:

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

In the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that the system supports one condition switching attempt, the first timer is started, and the condition switching result is determined according to the relation between the first timing duration of the first timer and the preset threshold, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result, and initiate an RRC connection reestablishment process and the like after the condition switching failure is determined finally.

(II) System support at least two conditional Handover attempts

In the case that the system supports at least two conditional handover attempts, when initiating the access procedure to the target cell in step 101, acquiring a statistical value includes:

when at least two access processes are initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained.

Here, the initiating the at least two access procedures to the target cell may specifically be initiating the at least two access procedures to one target cell, or initiating the at least two access procedures to a plurality of target cells.

As a first optional implementation manner, when initiating at least two access procedures to a target cell, acquiring a statistical value includes:

starting a first timer at a preset moment before initiating at least two access processes to a target cell; and acquiring a first timing duration of the first timer, and taking the first timing duration as the statistic value.

In this first implementation manner, the step 102 of determining a conditional handover result for performing handover from the source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical value and the preset threshold includes:

As a second optional implementation manner, the step 101 of obtaining a statistical value when initiating at least two access procedures to the target cell includes:

starting a second timer and a counter at a preset moment before initiating at least two access processes to a target cell; and acquiring a second timing duration of a second timer and a count value of the counter, and taking at least one of the second timing duration and the count value as the statistic value.

Further, if the second timing duration and the count value are taken as the statistical values, that is, the statistical values are the second timing duration and the count value, the step 102 determines the conditional handover result for the handover from the source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical values and the preset threshold, including:

when the second timing duration reaches a second preset threshold or the count value reaches a third preset threshold, determining that the condition switching result is the final condition switching failure;

when the second timing duration does not reach a second preset threshold, the count value does not reach a third preset threshold and a preset condition is met, determining that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful, and stopping timing by the second timer and controlling the counter to stop counting;

the second preset threshold and the third preset threshold are pre-configured, or configured immediately, or agreed by a protocol;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

Further, if the count value is taken as the above-mentioned statistical value, that is, the statistical value is the count value; the step 102, according to the relationship between the statistical value and the preset threshold, determining a conditional handover result for performing handover from the source cell to the target cell includes:

when the count value reaches a fourth preset threshold value, determining that the condition switching result is the final condition switching failure;

when the count value does not reach a fourth preset threshold value and meets a preset condition, determining that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful, and stopping timing by the second timer and controlling the counter to stop counting;

wherein the fourth preset threshold is pre-configured, or is configured immediately, or is agreed by a protocol;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

Further, in a case that the system supports at least two conditional handover attempts, the detection method in the embodiment of the present invention further includes:

starting a third timer at a preset moment before initiating at least two access processes to a target cell;

and when the third timing of the third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold, determining that the condition switching result is a single condition switching failure, and re-initiating an access process to the target cell.

Further, the detection method of the embodiment of the present invention further includes:

and resetting a third timing duration of the third timer or restarting the third timer at a preset time before the access process is restarted to the target cell.

Wherein, the above-mentioned count value of obtaining the counter includes:

and acquiring the count value of the counter according to the times that the third timing time of each third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold value.

Specifically, every time the third timing of the third timer reaches the fifth preset threshold, the count value of the counter is incremented by 1.

In addition, it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes:

acquiring configuration information of the second timer and configuration information of a counter;

the configuration information of the second timer comprises that each terminal applies one second timer or one second timer applied by SCG change configuration information, or at least two second timers applied by SCG change configuration information; the configuration information of the counter is that one counter is applied to one terminal.

Further, during the operation of the second timer, at least one of the following actions is performed:

Under the condition that the system supports at least two conditional switching attempts, a first timer is started or the first timer and a counter are started, and a conditional switching result is determined according to the relation between the statistical value of the started statistical device and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the conditional switching fails according to the conditional switching result, and an RRC connection reestablishment process and the like are initiated after the final conditional switching failure is determined.

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

The specific process of reporting the failure information is the same as the reporting process in the system supporting one conditional handover attempt, and is not described herein again.

The following describes an implementation flow of the system supporting at least two conditional handover attempts with reference to fig. 2.

As shown in fig. 2, the implementation flow includes:

It should be noted that, in the process performed in step 3 and step 4, the terminal may start one or more timers (e.g., t30x) for detecting the final condition switching result and zero or at least one counter (e.g., N3xx) for detecting the final condition switching result, and the starting time of the timers and the counter may be one of the following cases:

For the above-mentioned timer, a single case may be one of the following configurations, and a plurality of cases may include, but are not limited to, any combination of the following configurations, and for each type of timer, a plurality of cases may also be activated:

1. the timer is configured for one UE, and can be used for detecting the final condition Handover failure (HOF), and the timing is not stopped when the single condition Handover failure occurs; the method can also be used for detecting single condition switching failure, and after the timer is overtime and the single condition switching failure occurs, a new condition switching is initiated and the timer is reset.

2. The timer is configured for one command, that is, there is an independent timer for each configuration information of conditional switch, and the timing duration of the timers of the configuration information of different conditional switches may be the same or different.

3. The timer is configured to be used for configuration information of a plurality of conditional switches, that is, configuration information of a plurality of conditional switches shares one timer, for example, the timer may be used for detection of a single conditional switch failure, after the timer is expired and the single conditional switch failure occurs, a new conditional switch is initiated, and the timer is reset.

For the above-mentioned counter configuration to be used for one UE, i.e. one counter per UE application. This counter can be used for final detection of the HOF, and the counter count value is +1 in case of single conditional switch failure.

In addition, when a timer (e.g., t30x) for HO failure runs, at least one of the following actions is performed:

The subsequent process includes at least one of:

and initiating an access process in the selected target cell.

Step S15: and the UE initiates an access process to the selected target cell.

At this time, the UE can acquire the timing duration of the timer, and for the single condition switching process, if the condition switching is successful before the timer is overtime (the timing duration does not reach a first preset threshold), the timer is controlled to stop timing; and if the timer is overtime (the timing duration reaches a first preset threshold), determining that the conditional switching fails.

successfully accessing the target cell;

Further, if a single conditional handover failure occurs, the UE selects a configuration (e.g., another target cell configuration) from the target cell configurations satisfying the trigger condition to initiate the conditional handover procedure again, and resets the timer for the single handover (if a timer is configured for each new single conditional handover procedure) or restarts a timer (if a timer is configured for the new conditional handover procedure independently).

For the timer or counter used to detect the detection of the final HOF:

1. if the timer for final HOF detection is started and only started, the conditional handover process is successfully completed before the timeout of the timer, the timer stops timing, the conditional handover is not successfully completed before the timeout of the timer, the HOF is triggered after the timeout of the timer, and the final handover fails.

2. If the counter for the final HOF detection is started and only started, the conditional handover procedure is successfully completed before it reaches the maximum value, the counter stops counting, the conditional handover is not successfully completed before it reaches the maximum value, the HOF is triggered after the counter reaches the maximum value, and the final handover fails.

3. If the timer and counter for the detection of the final HOF are started at the same time, and the conditional switch procedure is successfully completed before the timer times out and the counter reaches the maximum value, the timer and the counter are stopped. If the conditional handover process is not successfully completed, the HOF is triggered after the timer times out or the counter reaches the maximum value, and finally the handover fails.

The maximum value of the timer or the counter can be pre-configured, instant configured or protocol specified.

It should be noted that, for the process of multiple condition switching, there may be two timers, for example, t30x and t30y, where t30x is used to determine that 1 condition switching attempt fails, and t30y is used to determine that the whole multiple condition switching fails; or 1 timer (t30x) and 1 counter (n30x), wherein t30x is used for judging that 1 condition switching attempt fails, and n30x is used for judging that the whole multiple condition switching fails.

If the final handover fails, the behavior of the UE is any combination of one or more of the following:

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the multiple condition switching process, the condition switching result may be determined by two timers or by one timer and one counter, for example, the condition switching result may be determined by t30x and t30y, where t30x is used for determining the failure of 1 condition switching attempt, t30y is used for determining the failure of the whole multiple condition switching attempts, and for example, the condition result may be determined by t30x and a counter n30x, where t30x is used for determining the failure of 1 condition switching attempt, and n30x is used for determining the failure of the whole multiple condition switching attempts.

The method for detecting the conditional switching result of the embodiment of the invention obtains a statistical value when initiating an access process to a target cell; and determining a condition switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result.

Fig. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal 300, including:

an obtaining module 301, configured to obtain a statistical value when initiating an access procedure to a target cell, where the target cell is one of at least one candidate cell that meets a handover condition;

a determining module 302, configured to determine a conditional handover result of the handover from the source cell to the target cell according to a relationship between the statistical value and a preset threshold.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining module is configured to obtain a statistical value when initiating an access procedure to a target cell;

or, the method is used for acquiring a statistical value when initiating at least two access procedures to the target cell.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining module includes:

the first control submodule is used for starting a first timer at a preset moment before an access process is initiated to a target cell;

and the first acquisition submodule is used for acquiring the first timing duration of the first timer and taking the first timing duration as the statistical value.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the determining module includes:

the first determining submodule is used for determining that the condition switching result is the final condition switching failure when the first timing duration reaches a first preset threshold;

the second determining submodule is used for determining that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful and controlling the first timer to stop timing when the first timing duration does not reach a first preset threshold and meets a preset condition;

wherein the first preset threshold is pre-configured, or is configured immediately, or is agreed by a protocol;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

the second control submodule is used for starting a second timer and a counter at a preset moment before at least two access processes are initiated to the target cell;

and the second acquisition submodule is used for acquiring a second timing duration of a second timer and a count value of the counter, and taking at least one of the second timing duration and the count value as the statistic value.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the statistical values are the second timing duration and the count value;

the determining module comprises:

a third determining submodule, configured to determine that the condition switching result is a final condition switching failure when the second timing duration reaches a second preset threshold or the count value reaches a third preset threshold;

a fourth determining submodule, configured to determine that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful when the second timing duration does not reach a second preset threshold, the count value does not reach a third preset threshold, and a preset condition is met, and stop timing by the second timer and control the counter to stop counting;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the statistical value is the count value;

the determining module comprises:

a fifth determining submodule, configured to determine that the condition switching result is a final condition switching failure when the count value reaches a fourth preset threshold;

a sixth determining submodule, configured to determine that the condition switching result is that the condition switching is successful, and the second timer stops timing and controls the counter to stop counting when the count value does not reach a fourth preset threshold and meets a preset condition;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining module further includes:

the third control sub-module is used for starting a third timer at a preset moment before initiating at least two access processes to the target cell;

and the fourth control submodule is used for determining that the condition switching result is single condition switching failure when the third timing length of the third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold value, and restarting an access process to the target cell.

and the fifth control submodule is used for resetting the third timing duration of the third timer or restarting one third timer at the preset moment before the access process is restarted to the target cell.

and the third obtaining submodule is used for obtaining the count value of the counter according to the times that the third timing length of each third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold value.

the fourth obtaining submodule is used for obtaining the configuration information of the second timer and the configuration information of the counter;

the configuration information of the second timer comprises that each terminal applies one second timer or one second timer applied by SCG change configuration information, or at least two second timers applied by SCG change configuration information;

the configuration information of the counter is that one counter is applied to one terminal.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the preset time includes:

a time when configuration information of conditional handover of at least one candidate cell is received;

or, the time of applying the configuration information of the conditional handover of the at least one candidate cell;

or triggering the time of the conditional handover after evaluating that at least one candidate cell satisfies the conditional handover.

The terminal of the embodiment of the invention further comprises a first processing module, which is used for executing at least one of the following actions:

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the failure information includes at least one of the following items:

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the first processing module includes:

the indication submodule is used for indicating that failure information is reported through a preset message;

In the terminal of the embodiment of the present invention, the first processing module is configured to directly report the failure information through a preset message;

The terminal of the embodiment of the invention further comprises: a second processing module, configured to, during operation of the second timer, perform at least one of the following actions:

The terminal of the embodiment of the invention further comprises: a third processing module to perform at least one of:

The terminal of the embodiment of the invention obtains a statistical value when initiating an access process to a target cell; and determining a condition switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including: the detection method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, each process in the detection method embodiment of the condition switching result is realized, the same technical effect can be achieved, and the details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

The 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 the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process in the above-mentioned method for detecting a conditional switching result, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described here 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.

In order to better achieve the above object, as shown in fig. 4, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, which includes a memory 420, a processor 400, a transceiver 410, a user interface 430, a bus interface, and a computer program stored on the memory 420 and operable on the processor 400, wherein the processor 400 is configured to read the program in the memory 420 and execute the following processes:

Where in fig. 4, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with various circuits of one or more processors, represented by processor 400, and memory, represented by memory 420, 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 herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 410 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a transceiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For different user devices, the user interface 430 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with a desired device externally, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 400 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 420 may store data used by the processor 400 in performing operations.

Optionally, the processor 400 reads the program in the memory 420, and is further configured to perform:

starting a first timer at a preset moment before initiating an access process to a target cell;

and acquiring a first timing duration of the first timer, and taking the first timing duration as the statistic value.

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

starting a second timer and a counter at a preset moment before initiating at least two access processes to a target cell;

and acquiring a second timing duration of a second timer and a count value of the counter, and taking at least one of the second timing duration and the count value as the statistic value.

Optionally, the statistical value is the second timing length and the count value;

the processor 400 reads the program in the memory 420, and is further configured to perform:

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

Optionally, the statistical value is the count value;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

Optionally, the preset time includes:

Optionally, the processor 400 reads the program in the memory 420, and is further configured to perform at least one of the following actions:

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

Optionally, the failure information includes at least one of:

indicating that failure information is reported through a preset message;

directly reporting the failure information through a preset message;

during the operation of the second timer, performing at least one of the following actions:

Optionally, the processor 400 reads the program in the memory 420, and is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the terminal 500 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 501, a network module 502, an audio output unit 503, an input unit 504, a sensor 505, a display unit 506, a user input unit 507, an interface unit 508, a memory 509, a processor 510, and a power supply 511. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 5 is not intended to be limiting, and that the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the 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.

The processor 510 is configured to obtain a statistical value when initiating an access procedure to a target cell, where the target cell is one of at least one candidate cell that meets a handover condition; and determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value.

According to the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, when an access process is initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained; and determining a condition switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistical value and a preset threshold value, so that the terminal can accurately know whether the condition switching fails according to the condition switching result.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 501 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 510; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 501 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 501 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides wireless broadband internet access to the user through the network module 502, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse web pages, access streaming media, and the like.

The audio output unit 503 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 501 or the network module 502 or stored in the memory 509 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 503 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 500 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 503 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 504 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The input Unit 504 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 5041 and a microphone 5042, and the Graphics processor 5041 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing device (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 506. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 5041 may be stored in the memory 509 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 501 or the network module 502. The microphone 5042 may receive sounds and may be capable of processing such sounds 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 501 in case of the phone call mode.

The terminal 500 also includes at least one sensor 505, such as light sensors, motion sensors, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display panel 5061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display panel 5061 and/or a backlight when the terminal 500 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 terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 505 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 506 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 506 may include a Display panel 5061, and the Display panel 5061 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 507 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 507 includes a touch panel 5071 and other input devices 5072. Touch panel 5071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near it (e.g., operations by a user on or near touch panel 5071 using a finger, stylus, or any suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 5071 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 510, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 510. In addition, the touch panel 5071 may be implemented in various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 5071, the user input unit 507 may include other input devices 5072. In particular, other input devices 5072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

Further, the touch panel 5071 may be overlaid on the display panel 5061, and when the touch panel 5071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 510 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 510 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 5061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 5, the touch panel 5071 and the display panel 5061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 5071 and the display panel 5061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, and is not limited herein.

The interface unit 508 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 500. 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 508 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 500 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 500 and external devices.

The memory 509 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 509 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 by 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 509 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 510 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 509 and calling data stored in the memory 509, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal. Processor 510 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 510 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 510.

The terminal 500 may further include a power supply 511 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 511 may be logically connected to the processor 510 through a power management system, so that functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption are performed through the power management system.

In addition, the terminal 500 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a condition switching result is applied to a terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

determining a conditional switching result for switching from a source cell to the target cell according to the relation between the statistic value and a preset threshold value;

before the step of determining a conditional handover result for handover from a source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical value and a preset threshold, at least one of the following steps is performed:

deleting at least one second conditional switching configuration information, wherein the second conditional switching configuration information is the conditional switching configuration information except the first conditional switching configuration information in the conditional switching configuration information, and the first conditional switching configuration information is the conditional switching configuration information meeting the switching condition;

stopping the evaluation of whether the switching condition in the at least one second conditional switching configuration information is fulfilled; the step of obtaining a statistic value when initiating an access process to a target cell includes:

when at least two access processes are initiated to a target cell, a statistical value is obtained;

the step of obtaining a statistic value when initiating at least two access processes to the target cell includes:

acquiring a second timing duration of a second timer and a count value of the counter, and taking the second timing duration and the count value as the statistical value;

the method further comprises the following steps:

when the third timing length of the third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold value, determining that the condition switching result is a single condition switching failure, and re-initiating an access process to a target cell;

resetting a third timing duration of the third timer or restarting the third timer at a preset time before the access process is restarted to the target cell;

acquiring the count value of the counter includes:

2. The detection method according to claim 1, wherein the statistical value is the second timing length and the count value;

the step of determining a conditional switching result for switching from the source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical value and a preset threshold value includes:

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

3. The detection method according to claim 1, wherein the statistical value is the count value;

the preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

successfully accessing the target cell;

successfully applying the system information broadcasted by the base station;

4. The detection method according to claim 1, further comprising:

5. The detection method according to claim 1, wherein the preset time comprises:

6. The detection method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein after determining that the condition switching result is a final condition switching failure, at least one of the following actions is performed:

recording failure information;

reporting failure information;

initiating an RRC connection reestablishment process;

and deleting all the conditional switch configuration information.

7. The detection method according to claim 6, wherein the failure information comprises at least one of:

8. The detecting method according to claim 6, wherein the step of reporting the failure information includes:

indicating that failure information is reported through a preset message;

9. The detecting method according to claim 6, wherein the step of reporting the failure information includes:

directly reporting the failure information through a preset message;

10. The detection method according to claim 1, further comprising:

11. The detecting method according to claim 1, wherein before the step of determining the conditional handover result for the handover from the source cell to the target cell according to the relationship between the statistical value and the preset threshold, the detecting method further comprises:

the first condition is applied to switch the configuration information.

12. A terminal, comprising:

a determining module, configured to determine a conditional handover result for performing handover from a source cell to the target cell according to a relationship between the statistical value and a preset threshold;

the terminal further comprises: a third processing module to perform at least one of:

the acquisition module is used for acquiring a statistical value when initiating at least two access processes to a target cell;

the acquisition module includes:

the second obtaining submodule is used for obtaining a second timing duration of a second timer and a count value of the counter, and taking the second timing duration and the count value as the statistic value;

the acquisition module further comprises:

a fourth control sub-module, configured to determine that the conditional handover result is a single conditional handover failure when a third timing length of the third timer reaches a fifth preset threshold, and reinitiate an access procedure to the target cell;

the acquisition module further comprises:

a fifth control sub-module, configured to reset a third timing duration of the third timer or restart one of the third timers at a preset time before the access procedure is re-initiated to the target cell;

the acquisition module further comprises:

13. A terminal, comprising: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which computer program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps of the method of detecting a result of a conditional switch according to any of claims 1 to 11.

14. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method for detecting a conditional switch result according to any one of claims 1 to 11.