CN111263398B

CN111263398B - Service transmission measuring method and device

Info

Publication number: CN111263398B
Application number: CN201811458619.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡星星; 张宏平; 曾清海; 张宏卓
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-11-30
Filing date: 2018-11-30
Publication date: 2021-08-31
Anticipated expiration: 2038-11-30
Also published as: WO2020108551A1; CN111263398A

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for measuring service transmission, comprising the following steps: the first network equipment receives a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity; the first network equipment receives a mapping relation, wherein the mapping relation comprises a mapping relation between a service quality QoS flow and a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) and/or a mapping relation between the DRB and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session; the mapping relationship is used for converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity, and the first granularity is a DRB granularity or the second granularity is a DRB. The embodiment of the application enables the first network device or other devices to convert the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network device into the granularity of the service transmission result which is desired to be presented.

Description

Service transmission measuring method and device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for measuring service transmission.

Background

In a wireless network, a terminal may be connected to multiple base stations, and the multiple base stations may provide services to the terminal. The multiple base stations may be base stations belonging to the same system, such as base stations all having a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system or base stations all having a New Radio (NR) system, or base stations of different systems, such as base stations of which some are LTE systems and some are NR systems. Among the base stations, the base station having control plane signaling interaction with the core network is called a master base station, and the other base stations are called secondary base stations SN.

Traffic transmission measurement is an important means in monitoring the quality of wireless networks. Generally, the main base station may notify the secondary base station to perform service transmission measurement, and the secondary base station reports a service transmission measurement result corresponding to the secondary base station to the main base station.

In the prior art, the service measurement result reported by the secondary base station often cannot meet the requirement of the service transmission measurement result that the primary base station or other equipment wants to present, and this problem needs to be solved urgently.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for measuring service transmission, so that a main base station or other equipment can convert the granularity of a service transmission result sent by a secondary base station into the granularity of a service transmission result to be presented.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for measuring service transmission, including:

the first network equipment receives a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity;

the first network equipment receives a mapping relation, wherein the mapping relation comprises a mapping relation between a service quality QoS flow and a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) and/or a mapping relation between the DRB and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session;

wherein the mapping relationship is used for converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity, and the first granularity is DRB granularity or the second granularity is DRB.

According to the scheme, when one of the granularity of the service transmission result which is required to be presented by the first network equipment or other equipment and the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network equipment is the DRB granularity, the first network equipment receives the mapping relation between the QoS flow and the DRB and/or the mapping relation between the DRB and the PDU session from the second network equipment, and the purpose that the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network equipment can be converted into the granularity of the service transmission result which is required to be presented by the first network equipment or other equipment is achieved.

In one possible design, the first granularity is a DRB granularity, and the second granularity is any one of a QoS flow granularity, a PDU session granularity, a QoS feature granularity, a network slice granularity, and a terminal granularity; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the second granularity is DRB granularity, and the first granularity is any one of QoS flow granularity, PDU session granularity, QoS characteristic granularity, network slice granularity and terminal granularity.

In one possible design, after the first network device receives the mapping relationship from the second network device, the method further includes:

and the first network equipment converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation.

In the design, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity and presents the service transmission measurement result to the user.

In one possible design, the converting the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a traffic transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relationship includes:

and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission measurement.

This design provides a specific implementation of converting the traffic transmission measurement results of the first granularity to traffic transmission measurement results of a second granularity: the conversion needs to be performed according to the kind and mapping relationship of the measurement parameters corresponding to the service transmission measurement.

In one possible design, the measurement result of the traffic transmission with the first granularity includes a measurement result of the first traffic transmission with the first granularity, and further includes:

the first network equipment receives a request message from second network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

the first network equipment sends the request message to the terminal;

the first network device receiving a traffic transmission measurement result of a first granularity, comprising:

the first network device receives the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity from the terminal.

The present design provides a method for performing service transmission measurement corresponding to the terminal when the second network device does not have the capability of directly sending RRC message to the terminal.

In a possible design, if the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device and a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained by the terminal, the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes:

the first network device receives the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

The present design provides a scheme for a first network device to obtain, from a second network device, a second service transmission measurement result of a first granularity obtained after service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device, and a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained by a terminal.

In a possible design, if the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device, the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes:

the first network device receives a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

The present design provides a scheme for a first network device to obtain, from a second network device, a second service transmission measurement result of a first granularity obtained after service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device.

and the first network equipment sends address information to the second network equipment, wherein the address information comprises a general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) channel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

The design ensures that the measurement result of each object actually subjected to the service transmission measurement has a corresponding GTP channel address so as to realize the sending of the measurement result of each object actually subjected to the service transmission measurement to the first network equipment, and after the second network equipment sends the mapping relation to the first network equipment, the first network equipment sends the GTP channel address for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network equipment, and the sent GTP channel address is more accurate.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for measuring service transmission, including:

the first network equipment sends a reporting granularity;

and the first network equipment receives the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

In the scheme, the granularity (reporting granularity) of the service transmission data measurement result which is to be presented by the first network device or other devices is sent to the second network device or the terminal, so that the granularity of the service transmission measurement result reported by the second network device or the terminal can meet the requirement of the service transmission measurement result which is to be presented by the first network device or other devices.

In one possible design, the reporting granularity is located in a measurement message, and the measurement message further includes at least one of a measurement granularity, a measurement parameter, and an identifier of a measurement object.

In a possible design, the reporting granularity and the measurement granularity are any one of a DRB granularity, a quality of service QoS flow granularity, a protocol data unit PDU session granularity, a QoS feature granularity, a network slice granularity, and a terminal granularity, respectively.

In a possible design, the measurement result of service transmission with reporting granularity includes a first measurement result of service transmission with reporting granularity acquired by a terminal, and further includes:

the first network equipment receives a request message from second network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the first network equipment sends the request message to the terminal;

the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity includes:

and the first network equipment receives the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the terminal.

In a possible design, the determining, by the first network device, a service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement, and the determining, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes:

and the first network equipment receives a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

The present design provides a scheme for a first network device to obtain, from a second network device, a second service transmission measurement result of a reporting granularity obtained after service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device.

In a possible design, the service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired after service transmission measurement is performed by a second network device and a first service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired by a terminal, and the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity includes:

and the first network equipment receives the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for measuring service transmission, including:

the second equipment sends a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity to the first network equipment;

the second device sends a mapping relation to the first network device, wherein the mapping relation comprises a mapping relation between a quality of service (QoS) flow and a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) and/or a mapping relation between the DRB and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session;

wherein the mapping relationship is used for converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity, and the first granularity is a DRB granularity or the second granularity is a DRB granularity.

According to the scheme, when one of the granularity of the service transmission result which is required to be presented by the first network equipment or other equipment and the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network equipment is DRB granularity, the second network equipment sends the mapping relation between the QoS flow and the DRB and/or the mapping relation between the DRB and the PDU session to the first network equipment, and the purpose that the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network equipment can be converted into the granularity of the service transmission result which is required to be presented by the first network equipment or other equipment is achieved.

In one possible design, the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by a terminal; further comprising:

the second device sends a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

the second device receives a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity from the terminal, where the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

The present design provides a method for performing service transmission measurement corresponding to the terminal when the second network device has the capability of directly sending RRC message to the terminal.

In one possible design, further comprising:

the second equipment performs service transmission measurement to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

wherein the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity comprises a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

In one possible design, further comprising: and the second equipment sends a request message to the first network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity.

In one possible design, after the second network device sends the mapping relationship to the first network device, the method further includes:

the second network device receives address information from the first network device, the address information including a general packet radio service tunneling protocol, GTP, tunnel address for sending the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

The design realizes that the service transmission measurement result of each object actually subjected to service transmission measurement can have a corresponding GTP channel address so as to realize the transmission of the service transmission measurement result of each object actually subjected to service transmission measurement to the first network equipment.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for measuring service transmission, including:

the first equipment receives the reporting granularity;

and the first equipment sends the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

According to the scheme, the first device obtains the granularity (reporting granularity) of the service transmission data measurement result which the first network device or other devices want to present, so that the granularity of the service transmission measurement result reported by the first device can meet the requirement of the service transmission measurement result which the first network device or other devices want to present.

the first device sends a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message comprises a reporting granularity and is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

and the first equipment receives the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity from the terminal, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity comprises the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

In one possible design, after the first device receives the reporting granularity, the method further includes:

the first equipment carries out service transmission measurement to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity;

the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity acquired by the first device.

In one possible design, further comprising:

the first device sends a request message to a first network device, wherein the request message comprises a reporting granularity, and the request message is used for indicating a terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

The present design provides a corresponding method of traffic transmission measurement when the second network device does not have the capability to send RRC messages directly to the terminal.

In a possible design, if the first device is a terminal, the receiving, by the first device, the reporting granularity includes:

the first device receives a request message from a second network device or a first network device, wherein the request message is used for indicating a terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the sending, by the first device, the measurement result of the service transmission with the reported granularity includes:

and the first equipment sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network equipment or the second network equipment.

The present design provides a method for performing service transmission measurements when the second network device does not have the capability to send RRC messages directly to the terminal.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an MDT measurement method, including:

the terminal acquires MDT measurement configuration information from first network equipment in a first communication system;

the terminal carries out MDT measurement on a first cell under a second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, wherein the first cell is a cell in which an idle terminal cannot reside; the first communication system is different from the second communication system;

and the terminal sends the MDT measurement result to second network equipment under the first communication system.

The scheme realizes the purpose of recording MDT measurement for the cell which can not reside in the idle state terminal.

In one possible design, the performing, by the terminal, MDT measurement on the first cell according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result includes:

and if the terminal is in an idle state and the terminal is located in the target cell under the first communication system, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In one possible design, the MDT measurement configuration information includes: the identifier of the target cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the target cell belongs, or an identifier of a tracking area TA to which the target cell belongs, or a frequency point of the target cell.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In one possible design, the MDT measurement configuration information further includes: the identifier of the first cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the first cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the first cell belongs, or a frequency point of the first cell.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In one possible design, the MDT measurement configuration information includes a maximum number of the first cells.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In one possible design, further comprising:

the terminal receives a broadcast message of the first network equipment;

the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result.

According to the scheme, the purpose of recording the MDT measurement of the cell which can not reside in the terminal in the idle state is achieved through the broadcast message and the measurement information carried by the MDT measurement configuration information.

In a possible design, the performing, by the terminal, MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result includes:

and if the terminal is in an idle state and the terminal is positioned in the target cell under the first communication mode, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In a possible design, the broadcast message includes a frequency point of a first cell and indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that a terminal located in a cell covered by the first network device does not use the first cell indicated by the frequency point as a neighboring cell when performing cell selection or reselection.

The design can avoid the influence of the MDT measurement process on the cell selection or reselection process.

In one possible design, the broadcast message further includes: the identifier of the target cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the target cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the target cell belongs, or a frequency point of the target cell.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In one possible design, the MDT measurement configuration information further includes: an identity of a first cell on which the MDT measurement needs to be performed, or an identity of a public land mobile network, PLMN, to which the first cell belongs, or an identity of a tracking area, TA, to which the first cell belongs.

The design can reduce the power consumption of the terminal.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a device for measuring service transmission, including:

a receiving module, configured to receive a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a mapping relationship, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session;

In one possible design, the method further includes, after the receiving module receives the mapping relationship from the second network device: and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation.

In one possible design, the conversion module is specifically configured to: and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission measurement.

In one possible design, the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by a terminal, and the receiving module is further configured to:

receiving a request message from a second network device, wherein the request message is used for instructing the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

the terminal further comprises a sending module, wherein the sending module is used for sending the request message to the terminal;

the receiving module is specifically configured to: receiving a first traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the terminal.

In a possible design, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device and a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained by the terminal, and the receiving module is specifically configured to: receiving the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

In a possible design, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, which is obtained after service transmission measurement is performed by a second network device, and the receiving module is specifically configured to: receiving a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

In one possible design, the sending module is further configured to, after the receiving module receives the mapping relationship from the second network device: and sending address information to the second network equipment, wherein the address information comprises a general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) channel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a measurement apparatus for service transmission, including:

a sending module, configured to send a reporting granularity;

and the receiving module is used for receiving the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

In a possible design, the measurement result of service transmission with reporting granularity includes a first measurement result of service transmission with reporting granularity acquired by a terminal, and the receiving module is further configured to: receiving a request message from a second network device, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the sending module is further configured to send the request message to the terminal;

the receiving module is specifically configured to: and receiving the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the terminal.

In a possible design, the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement, and the receiving module is specifically configured to: and receiving a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

In a possible design, the service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired after the second network device performs service transmission measurement and a first service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired by the terminal, and the receiving module is specifically configured to: and receiving the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

In a possible design, the sending module is further configured to send address information to the second network device, where the address information includes a Gprs Tunneling Protocol (GTP) channel address used for sending the traffic transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a device for measuring service transmission, including:

a sending module, configured to send a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity to a first network device;

the sending module is further configured to send a mapping relationship to the first network device, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session;

the mapping relationship is used for converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity, and the first granularity is a DRB granularity or the second granularity is a DRB granularity.

In one possible design, the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by a terminal; the sending module is further configured to: sending a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

the receiving module is configured to receive a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity from the terminal, where the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

In one possible design, the system further comprises a measurement module configured to: performing service transmission measurement to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

In a possible design, the sending module is further configured to send a request message to the first network device, where the request message is used to instruct the terminal to obtain the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity.

In one possible design, the receiving module is further configured to, after the sending module sends the mapping relationship to the first network device: receiving address information from a first network device, the address information including a general packet radio service tunneling protocol, GTP, tunnel address used to send the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a service transmission measurement apparatus, including:

a receiving module, configured to receive the reporting granularity;

and the sending module is used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

In a possible design, the measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity includes a first measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity acquired by the terminal, and the sending module is further configured to: sending a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message comprises a reporting granularity and is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the receiving module is further configured to receive the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity from the terminal, where the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

In one possible design, the system further comprises a measurement module, wherein the measurement module is used for performing service transmission measurement after the first device receives the reported granularity to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity;

In one possible design, the sending module is further configured to: and sending a request message to the first network equipment, wherein the request message comprises a reporting granularity, and the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

In a possible design, the measurement apparatus for service transmission is a terminal, and the receiving module is specifically configured to:

receiving a request message from a second network device or a first network device, wherein the request message is used for indicating a terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the sending module is specifically configured to: and sending the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network equipment or the second network equipment.

In a possible design, the measurement apparatus for service transmission is a second network device, and the receiving module is further configured to receive address information from the first network device, where the address information includes a Gprs Tunneling Protocol (GTP) channel address used for sending the measurement result of service transmission at the reported granularity.

In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an MDT measurement apparatus, including:

the receiving module is used for receiving MDT measurement configuration information from first network equipment in a first communication system;

the measuring module is used for carrying out MDT measurement on a first cell under a second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, wherein the first cell is a cell in which an idle terminal cannot reside; the first communication system is different from the second communication system;

and the sending module is used for sending the MDT measurement result to second network equipment under the first communication system.

In one possible design, the measurement module is specifically configured to:

and if the MDT measuring device is in an idle state and the MDT measuring device is positioned in the target cell under the first communication mode, performing MDT measurement on the first cell according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result.

In one possible design, the receiving module is further configured to: receiving a broadcast message of the first network device;

the measurement module is specifically configured to: and according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message, performing MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication mode to obtain an MDT measurement result.

In one possible design, the measurement module is specifically configured to:

and if the MDT measuring device is in an idle state and the MDT measuring device is positioned in the target cell under the first communication mode, performing MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result.

In an eleventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a measurement apparatus for service transmission, including: a processor coupled with a memory;

the memory is used for storing a computer program;

the processor is configured to invoke a computer program stored in the memory to implement the method of any of the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth aspects.

In a twelfth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a readable storage medium, which includes a program or instructions, when the program or instructions are run on a computer, the method of any one of the first aspect, the second aspect, the third aspect, the fourth aspect, or the fifth aspect is performed.

In this application, when one of the granularity of the service transmission result that the first network device or another device wants to present and the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network device is the DRB granularity, the second network device sends the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB and/or the mapping relationship between the DRB and the PDU session to the first network device, so that the purpose that the first network device or another device can convert the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network device into the granularity of the service transmission result that wants to present is achieved.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a possible system architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a protocol stack of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a first signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a signaling interaction diagram ii of a service transmission measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a signaling interaction diagram three of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a fifth signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a sixth signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a first signaling interaction diagram of an MDT measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a signaling interaction diagram ii of an MDT measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a first schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 13 is a first schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram three of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram five of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram six of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 19 is a seventh schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 20 is a schematic structural diagram of an MDT measurement apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

First, the related concepts of the present application will be explained.

The traffic transmission measurements include one or more of: minimization of drive-tests (MDT) measurement, L2 measurement.

MDT measurements include logged MDT (logged MDT) and immediate MDT (immediate MDT). The immediate MDT mainly performs measurements for a terminal in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state, and records the measurements performed by the MDT mainly for the terminal in an idle state. The immediate MDT may measure at least one of: data quantity measurement, throughput rate measurement, packet transmission delay measurement, packet loss rate measurement, processing delay measurement and the like of the terminal. And the logged MDT may measure one or more of the following: random Access Channel (RACH) failure measurement, signal strength measurement, connection establishment failure measurement, and Radio Link Failure (RLF) failure measurement.

L2 measures statistics for the network side for some network performance for radio link management, radio resource management, network maintenance, etc. Some of the L2 measurements are counted for a terminal, such as the throughput of the service, the traffic flow, the processing delay of the terminal, and the air interface delay of the terminal.

A Quality of Service (QoS) flow based QoS architecture is adopted in a5 th generation Core network (5G Core Netwrok, 5 GC). A QoS flow refers to a traffic flow having the same traffic handling characteristics (such as scheduling policy, queuing management policy, etc.). The minimum granularity of traffic classification in the 5GC is QoS flows, and the 5GC assigns a QoS flow Identification (ID) to each QoS flow to the base station. A Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session connection exists between the terminal and the core network to provide data services. In order to adapt the architecture of QoS in 5GC, the base station side introduces a new wireless protocol layer, Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) layer, for mapping each QoS stream from 5GC to the Data Radio Bearer (DRB) of the radio access layer, i.e. the data packets corresponding to QoS streams are put on corresponding DRBs for transmission according to the service attributes corresponding to QoS streams, that is, the relationship between PDU session, QoS stream, and DRB is that a PDU session can include multiple QoS streams below, these multiple QoS streams under the PDU session can be mapped to multiple DRBs (i.e. at least one QoS stream can be mapped under one DRB), QoS streams in different PDU sessions are mapped to different DRBs (i.e. different PDU sessions can not be mapped to the same QoS stream under different PDU sessions), different services have different QoS characteristics (a QoS characteristic in the standard is referred to as 5QI), and one QoS flow may correspond to at least one QoS characteristic.

Network Slicing) is essentially a process that allows differentiation according to the customer's needs. Through network slicing, an operator can take clients with different Service requirements as different tenant types, and the operator determines corresponding slice types according to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and subscriptions (subscriptions) of the clients. For example, a physical network of an operator is divided into a plurality of virtual networks, and each virtual network is divided according to different service requirements, such as time delay, bandwidth, security, reliability and the like, so as to flexibly meet network application scenarios of different customer requirements. Wherein a network slice may include one or more PDU sessions.

The terminal can simultaneously correspond to a plurality of network slices; wherein, no matter the terminal corresponds to several network slices, the terminal and the network have only one signaling connection.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a possible system architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 1, a communication system includes a first network device, a second network device, and a terminal.

Wherein the terminal is capable of communicating with the first network device and the second network device, i.e. dual-connectivity (DC). The first network device may be a primary base station in a dual connectivity scenario, the second network device may be a secondary base station in the dual connectivity scenario, and the first network device and the second network device may be base stations of different communication systems or base stations of the same communication system.

In the following, some terms in the present application are explained to facilitate understanding by those skilled in the art:

the network device may be an evolved Node B (eNB or eNodeB) in Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE), or a relay station or an access Point, or a base station in a 5G network, such as a Transmission and Reception Point (TRP) and a controller, which is not limited herein. In a possible manner, the network device may be a base station (e.g., a gNB) of a CU and DU separation architecture, as shown in fig. 2, and fig. 2 is a schematic protocol stack diagram of the network device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The RAN device may be connected to a core network device (for example, the core network may be a core network of LTE, or a core network of 5G). CU and DU can be understood as the division of the base stations from a logical functional point of view. CUs and DUs may be physically separate or deployed together. A plurality of DUs can share one CU. A DU may also connect multiple CUs (not shown). The CU and DU may be connected via an interface, such as an F1 interface. CUs and DUs may be partitioned according to protocol layers of the wireless network. Functions of Radio Resource Control (RRC), Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP), and Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layers are set in the CU, and functions of Radio Link Control (RLC), Media Access Control (MAC) layer, Physical (PHY) layer, and the like are set in the DU. It is to be understood that the division of CU and DU processing functions according to such protocol layers is merely an example, and may be performed in other manners. For example, a CU or DU may be partitioned to have more protocol layer functionality. For example, a CU or DU may also be divided into partial processing functions with protocol layers. In one design, some of the functions of the RLC layer and the functions of protocol layers above the RLC layer are provided in the CUs, and the remaining functions of the RLC layer and the functions of protocol layers below the RLC layer are provided in the DUs. In another design, the functions of a CU or DU may also be divided according to traffic type or other system requirements. For example, dividing by time delay, setting the function that processing time needs to meet the time delay requirement in DU, and setting the function that does not need to meet the time delay requirement in CU. In another design, a CU may also have one or more functions of the core network. One or more CUs may be centrally located or separately located. For example, the CUs may be located on the network side to facilitate centralized management. The DU may have multiple rf functions, or may have a remote rf function.

The functionality of a CU may be implemented by one entity or by different entities. For example, the functionality of the CU may be further split, e.g. the Control Plane (CP) and the User Plane (UP) are separated, i.e. the control plane (CU-CP) and the CU user plane (CU-UP) of the CU. For example, the CU-CP and CU-UP may be implemented by different functional entities, which may be coupled with the DUs to collectively perform the functions of a base station. In one possible approach, the CU-CP is responsible for the control plane functions, mainly including RRC and PDCP-C. The PDCP-C is mainly responsible for encryption and decryption of control plane data, integrity protection, data transmission and the like. The CU-UP is responsible for user plane functions, including mainly SDAP and PDCP-U. Where the SDAP is primarily responsible for processing data of the core network and mapping data flows (flows) to bearers. The PDCP-U is mainly responsible for encryption and decryption of a data plane, integrity protection, header compression, serial number maintenance, data transmission and the like. Wherein the CU-CP and CU-UP are connected via the E1 interface. The CU-CP represents the connection of the gNB to the core network via the Ng interface. Via F1-C (control plane) and DU connection. CU-UP is connected with DU via F1-U (user plane). Of course, there is also a possible implementation where PDCP-C is also in CU-UP.

A terminal: the wireless terminal can be a wireless terminal or a wired terminal, and the wireless terminal can be a device with a wireless transceiving function, can be deployed on land, and comprises indoor or outdoor, handheld or vehicle-mounted; can also be deployed on the water surface (such as a ship and the like); and may also be deployed in the air (e.g., airplanes, balloons, satellites, etc.). The terminal may be a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal, an Augmented Reality (AR) terminal, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in self driving (self driving), a wireless terminal in remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), and the like, which are not limited herein. It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE).

Various objects such as various messages/information/devices/network elements/systems/devices/actions/operations/procedures/concepts may be named in the present patent application, but these specific names do not constitute limitations on related objects, and the named names may vary with factors such as scenes, contexts or usage habits, and understanding of technical meaning of related objects should be mainly determined by the functions and technical effects embodied/performed in the technical solutions.

The following describes the service transmission measurement method according to the present application with reference to specific embodiments.

Fig. 3 is a signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 3, the method according to the embodiment includes:

step S201, the terminal sends a first service transmission measurement result of a first granularity to the second network device, where the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is obtained after the terminal performs service transmission measurement.

Specifically, the terminal of this embodiment is a terminal having service transmission with the second network device.

In a dual connectivity scenario corresponding to the architecture shown in fig. 1, the second network device of this embodiment may be a secondary base station, and the first network device may be a primary base station.

The first network device may send a measurement message to the second network device to start the service transmission measurement, where the measurement message is used to notify the second network device to perform the service transmission measurement.

The second network device may perform traffic transmission measurements based on one or more of the following conditions: measurement parameters, measurement objects, measurement granularity and reporting granularity. Wherein one or more of these conditions may be specified by the first network device through the measurement message, or may be a default definition or agreed upon by the system according to a protocol. It can be understood that, if a certain condition is not carried in the measurement message, the second network device may set the condition according to a protocol convention or a default definition to perform the service transmission measurement.

For example, the measurement message may include measurement parameters and/or an identifier of a measurement object, and the measurement message may include neither the measurement parameters nor the measurement object; if the measurement message does not include the measurement parameter, the measurement parameter may be protocol-agreed, and if the measurement message does not include the measurement object, the measurement object may be protocol-agreed. For another example, neither the measurement granularity nor the reporting granularity may be included in the measurement message, or the measurement granularity and/or the reporting granularity may be included in the measurement message.

Wherein the measurement parameter may comprise at least one of: and measuring throughput, throughput rate, time delay, packet loss rate, uplink processing time delay, downlink processing time delay and air interface time delay. The measurement object may be one or more, e.g. one or more DRBs, and/or one or more QoS flows and/or one or more PDU sessions and/or one or more QoS characteristics and/or one or more network slices and/or the whole terminal, it being understood that, taking DRBs as an example, which DRBs are the measurement objects or which DRBs need to be measured, the measurement message includes the identity of these DRBs. It is understood that, for each measurement parameter, each measurement object needs to measure the measurement parameter.

For convenience of description, one or more parameters used for terminal measurement may be referred to as a first parameter, and one or more parameters used for second network device measurement may be referred to as a second parameter. For example, the first parameter may be at least one of uplink processing delay, downlink processing delay, air interface delay, and the like. If the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include a first parameter to be measured by the terminal, the second network device may send a request message to the terminal, where the request message is used to instruct the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. Wherein the first granularity may be a DRB granularity, or the first granularity may be any one of: QoS flow granularity, PDU session granularity, QoS feature granularity, network slice granularity, terminal granularity.

In one possible implementation, the second network device may determine the content in the request message from the measurement message. The conditions included in the request message may correspond to the conditions included in the measurement message. For example, if the measurement message includes the measurement object, the request message also includes the measurement object, and if the measurement parameter in the measurement message includes the first parameter, the request message also includes the first parameter.

For another example, if neither the measurement granularity nor the reporting granularity is included in the measurement message, neither the measurement granularity nor the reporting granularity is included in the request message. If the measurement granularity is included in the measurement message, the measurement granularity is also included in the request message. If the measurement message includes the reporting granularity, the request message also includes the reporting granularity.

And after receiving the request message, the terminal measures according to the first parameter to obtain a first service transmission measurement result with a first granularity.

The terminal performs service transmission measurement according to the measurement granularity and/or the report granularity, and the method has the following conditions:

(1) the measurement message includes the measurement granularity and does not include the reporting granularity, the request message includes the measurement granularity and does not include the reporting granularity (at this time, the first granularity is the measurement granularity), and the terminal measures the first parameter according to the first granularity to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

(2) If the measurement message includes the reporting granularity and does not include the measurement granularity, the request message may include the reporting granularity and does not include the measurement granularity (at this time, the first granularity is the same as the reporting granularity), the terminal measures according to the preset measurement granularity, and if the preset measurement granularity is different from the first granularity, the terminal needs to convert the first service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. In an optional implementation manner, the terminal may also measure the second parameter according to the first granularity, that is, the reported granularity, to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

(3) If the measurement message includes the reporting granularity and also includes the measurement granularity, the request message may include the measurement granularity and the reporting granularity, the measurement granularity and the reporting granularity may be the same or different, the reporting granularity is the first granularity, the terminal measures the first parameter according to the measurement granularity to obtain the first service transmission measurement result of the measurement granularity, and if the measurement granularity is different from the first granularity, the terminal needs to convert the first service transmission result of the measurement granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. Of course, in order to save resources, the terminal may also ignore the measurement granularity, and directly measure the measurement according to the reported granularity to obtain the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

For example, the first parameters are uplink processing delay and downlink processing delay, the measurement objects are DRB1 and DRB2, and the first granularity is DRB granularity, the terminal obtains the uplink processing delay and the downlink processing delay corresponding to DRB1 and the uplink processing delay and the downlink processing delay corresponding to DRB2 to obtain the measurement results of the uplink processing delay and the downlink processing delay under the DRB granularity (the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity), where the first service measurement result of the first granularity includes the uplink processing delay measurement result and the downlink processing delay measurement result corresponding to DRB1 and the uplink processing delay measurement result and the downlink processing delay measurement result corresponding to DRB 2.

Optionally, when the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network device, the terminal may also send the wireless signal quality measurement result obtained by measurement in the serving cell corresponding to the first network device and the serving cell corresponding to the second network device. The serving cell corresponding to the first network device and the serving cell corresponding to the second network device may belong to different communication systems, or may belong to the same communication system.

It can be understood that, if the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement does not include the first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, or the second network device determines that the measurement result of the terminal does not need to be obtained, for example, the second network device has the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity reported by the terminal, or the second network device does not obtain the service transmission measurement result of the terminal for other reasons, step S201 "the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the second network device" may be skipped, but there is interaction between the first network device and the second network device. That is, step S201 is optional.

Step S202, the second network device sends a service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device, where the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity and/or a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, which is obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement.

The second network device may send the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device, including: and the second network equipment sends the corresponding relation between the service transmission measurement result with the first granularity and the measurement object to the first network equipment.

After receiving the measurement message from the first network device, the second network device may send a feedback response to the measurement message to the first network device, where the feedback response may include the first information and/or the second information; wherein the first information comprises an identification of the measurement object for which the measurement is rejected, or the first information comprises an identification of the measurement object for which the measurement is rejected and a reason for the rejection; the second information includes an identification of the measurement object that can be measured.

And if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement comprise second parameters needing to be measured by the second network equipment, the second network equipment measures the second parameters according to the measurement messages after receiving the measurement messages, and a second service transmission measurement result with the first granularity is obtained.

Exemplarily, if the second parameter to be measured by the second network device includes throughput and throughput, the measurement objects are DRB1 and DRB2, and the first granularity is DRB granularity, the second network device obtains the throughput and throughput corresponding to DRB1 and the throughput and throughput corresponding to DRB2, that is, the second traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes the throughput measurement result and throughput measurement result corresponding to DRB1 and the throughput measurement result and throughput measurement result corresponding to DRB 2.

Specifically, as described above, the measurement message may include the measurement granularity and/or the reporting granularity, or may not include the measurement granularity and the reporting granularity.

If the measurement message includes the measurement granularity and/or the reporting granularity, there are the following situations:

(1) the measurement message includes the measurement granularity, and does not include the reporting granularity, the first granularity is the measurement granularity, and at this time, the second network device measures the second parameter according to the first granularity to obtain the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

(2) If the measurement message includes the reporting granularity and does not include the measurement granularity, the first granularity is the same as the reporting granularity, at this time, the second network device measures the second parameter according to the preset measurement granularity to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity, and if the preset measurement granularity is different from the first granularity, the second network device converts the second service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity into the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. Of course, the second network device may also measure the second parameter according to the first granularity, that is, the reported granularity, to obtain the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

(3) If the measurement message includes the reporting granularity and also includes the measurement granularity, the measurement granularity and the reporting granularity can be the same or different, and the reporting granularity is the first granularity. And the second network equipment measures a second parameter according to the measurement granularity to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the measurement granularity, and if the measurement granularity is different from the first granularity, the second network equipment converts the second service transmission measurement result of the measurement granularity into the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. Certainly, in order to save resources, the second network device may also ignore the measurement granularity, and directly perform measurement according to the reported granularity to obtain the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

After obtaining a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, the second network equipment sends the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the network equipment; if the second network equipment acquires the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity from the terminal, the second network equipment also sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network equipment; if the second network device does not need to measure or does not have the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, but has the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity of the terminal, the second network device sends the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device.

If the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, and if the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

The second network device may send the traffic transmission result of the first granularity to the first network device in various ways, for example, through a user plane or a control plane.

If the Service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is sent to the first network device by the second network device through the user plane, the second network device needs to acquire a General Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol (GTP) channel address for sending the Service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. The GTP tunnel address used to send the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity may be carried in the measurement message.

On the premise that the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, the first service transmission measurement result of the terminal acquired by the second network device may also be a measurement result of another granularity different from the first granularity. At this time, the second network device needs to convert the first traffic transmission measurement result of the other granularity of the terminal into the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity. One possible situation is that, no matter whether the measurement message carries the measurement granularity and/or the report granularity, the request message does not carry the measurement granularity and the report granularity, the terminal measures according to the preset measurement granularity to obtain a first service transmission result of the preset measurement granularity, and the terminal sends the first service transmission result of the preset measurement granularity to the second network device; if the preset measurement granularity is different from the first granularity, the second network device converts the first service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, or the second network device directly sends the first service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity to the first network device. It should be noted that the present disclosure is only exemplary and not limited thereto.

Step S203, the second network device sends a mapping relationship to the first network device, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session, and the mapping relationship is used to convert a service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of the second granularity.

Specifically, the mapping relationship may be carried in a feedback response of the second network device to the measurement message, and the mapping relationship may also be sent to the first network device together with the service transmission result of the first granularity. It is understood that step S202 and step S203 may refer to two independent transmission operations for transmitting different contents, or may refer to transmission of different contents in the same transmission operation.

Under a dual-connection scenario, a PDU session corresponding to the terminal, a QoS flow corresponding to the PDU session, a QoS characteristic corresponding to the QoS flow, and a network slice corresponding to the PDU session are all determined by the core network device, and the core network device may notify the PDU session corresponding to the first network device terminal, the QoS flow included in the PDU session, the QoS characteristic corresponding to the QoS flow, and the network slice corresponding to the PDU session. Since the terminal of this embodiment is a terminal having service transmission with a second network device, which DRB the QoS flow in the PDU session of the terminal is mapped to is determined by the second network device, and the first network device does not know which DRB the QoS flow in the PDU session of the terminal is mapped to, in a scenario where the first granularity is DRB granularity or the second granularity is DRB granularity, if the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is converted into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity, the second network device needs to send the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB and/or the mapping relationship between the DRB and the PDU session to the first network device.

The combination of the first granularity and the second granularity of the present embodiment may be in the form of:

the first granularity is DRB granularity, and the second granularity is any one of QoS flow granularity, PDU session granularity, QoS characteristic granularity, network slice granularity and terminal granularity; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

For the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB, the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB related to the object actually subjected to measurement may be sent to the first network device, where the object actually subjected to measurement is an object that needs to be measured and can be measured (for example, the object that can be measured in the measurement message is an object that needs to be measured and can be measured). For example, if the terminal should have DRB1, DRB2, DRB3, and DRB4, and the objects actually measured are DRB1 and DRB2, the mapping relationship includes an identifier of DRB1, an identifier of QoS flow mapped to DRB1, an identifier of DRB2, and an identifier of QoS flow mapped to DRB 2.

Also for the mapping relationship between the PDU session and the DRB, the mapping relationship between the PDU session and the DRB related to the object actually measured may be sent to the first network device.

Further, the GTP tunnel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity may not be carried in the measurement message, but after the second network device sends the mapping relationship to the first network device, the first network device sends the GTP tunnel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network device.

Specifically, the first network device may obtain the actually measured object through the mapping relationship, so that the first network device may establish a GTP tunnel address for the actually measured object, and the GTP tunnel address corresponding to each actually measured object is the GTP tunnel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. That is, after the second network device sends the mapping relationship to the first network device, the first network device sends the GTP tunnel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network device, and the sent GTP tunnel address is accurate.

Step S204, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship.

Specifically, in one scheme, after receiving the mapping relationship, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship, which specifically includes: and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission measurement.

In one mode, if the first granularity is DRB granularity and the second granularity is QoS flow granularity, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is a service transmission measurement result of the DRB, the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity is a service transmission measurement result of the QoS flow, the mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB, and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission includes at least one of throughput, throughput rate, uplink processing delay, downlink processing delay, air interface delay, and packet loss rate; converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission, comprising:

a1, obtaining each QoS flow mapped by the DRB according to the mapping relation;

a2, dividing the throughput measurement result corresponding to one DRB by the number of QoS flows mapped by the DRB to obtain the throughput measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB for each measurement object DRB;

a3, for each measurement object DRB, dividing the throughput rate measurement result corresponding to one DRB by the quantity of each QoS flow mapped by the DRB to obtain the throughput rate measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB;

a4, for each measurement object DRB, determining the uplink processing delay measurement result corresponding to one DRB as the uplink processing delay measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB;

a5, for each measurement object DRB, determining a downlink processing delay measurement result corresponding to one DRB as a downlink processing delay measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB;

a6, for each measurement object DRB, determining an air interface delay measurement result corresponding to one DRB as an air interface processing delay measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB;

a7, for each measurement object DRB, determining the packet loss rate corresponding to one DRB as the packet loss rate measurement result corresponding to each QoS flow mapped by the DRB.

The operations of a 2-a 7 can be selectively executed according to actually included measurement parameters.

In another mode, if the first granularity is QoS flow granularity and the second granularity is DRB granularity, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is a service transmission measurement result of QoS flow, the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity is a service transmission measurement result of DRB, and the mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between QoS flow and DRB;

if the measurement parameter includes throughput, throughput rate, uplink processing delay, downlink processing delay, air interface delay, and packet loss rate, converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relationship, including:

b1, obtaining the DRB mapped by the QoS flow of the measurement object according to the mapping relation;

b2, summing the throughput measurement results corresponding to each QoS flow mapped to the same DRB to obtain the throughput measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB;

b3, summing the throughput rate measurement results corresponding to each QoS flow mapped to the same DRB to obtain the throughput rate measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB;

b4, determining the maximum value or the average value of the uplink processing delay measurement results corresponding to each QoS flow mapped to the same DRB as the uplink processing delay measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB;

b5, determining the maximum value or the average value in the downlink processing time delay measurement results corresponding to the QoS flow mapped with the same DRB as the downlink processing time delay measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB;

b6, determining the maximum value or the average value of the air interface delay measurement results corresponding to the QoS flows mapped to the same DRB as the air interface delay measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB;

b7, determining the maximum value or the average value of the packet loss rate measurement results corresponding to each QoS flow mapping the same DRB as the packet loss rate measurement result corresponding to the corresponding DRB.

The operations of b 2-b 7 can be selectively executed according to the actually included measurement parameters.

In another scheme, a first network device receives a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity, and sends the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to other devices, the first network device sends a mapping relation to other devices after receiving the mapping relation, and the other devices convert the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity. I.e. step S204 is optional.

Step S201 to step S204 are a method for measuring service transmission that can be implemented, regardless of whether there is a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement. It can be understood that, if there is no second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, there is a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, and when the first granularity or the second granularity is the DRB granularity, the service transmission measurement method may further be: the method comprises the steps that a first network device directly sends a measurement message to a terminal, and the terminal obtains a first service transmission measurement result of a first granularity according to the measurement message and then sends the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device; the first network device sends a first message to the second network device, wherein the first message is used for indicating the second network device to send the mapping relation to the first network device. And the second network equipment sends the mapping relation to the first network equipment according to the first message. The first network device converts the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship, or the first network device transmits the mapping relationship and the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to other devices, and the other devices convert the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship.

Further, it can be known from the above explanation that the first network device knows the PDU session corresponding to the terminal, the QoS flow included in the PDU session, the QoS characteristic corresponding to the QoS flow, and the network slice corresponding to the PDU session, and therefore, if neither the first granularity nor the second granularity is the DRB granularity, the first network device may not need to convert the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship sent by the second network device.

In addition, since different PDU sessions may include QoS flows with the same identifier, in a scenario where neither the first granularity nor the second granularity is the DRB granularity, that is, if the first granularity is any one of the PDU session granularity, the network slice granularity, the QoS characteristic granularity, and the terminal granularity, and the second granularity is any one of the PDU session granularity, the network slice granularity, the QoS characteristic granularity, and the terminal granularity (the first granularity and the second granularity are different), the first network device converts the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity into the first service transmission measurement result with the second granularity according to the QoS flow corresponding to the terminal PDU session and/or the QoS characteristic corresponding to the QoS flow and/or the network slice corresponding to the PDU session notified by the core network device, or the first network device may transmit the first service transmission measurement result with the corresponding relationship and the first granularity to other devices, and other equipment converts the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the first service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the corresponding relation. If the first granularity is the QoS flow granularity, the second network device may send, to the first network device, the PDU session corresponding to the QoS flow corresponding to the service measurement result of the first granularity.

In this embodiment, when one of the granularity of the service transmission result that the first network device or another device wants to present and the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network device is the DRB granularity, the second network device sends the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB and/or the mapping relationship between the DRB and the PDU session to the first network device, so that the purpose that the first network device or another device can convert the granularity of the service transmission result sent by the second network device into the granularity of the service transmission result that wants to present is achieved.

It should be understood that the sequence numbers of the above processes do not mean the execution sequence, nor the step corresponding to the sequence number of the above processes must be executed, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

A description will be given below of a service transmission measurement method corresponding to the case where the measurement parameter of service transmission in the embodiment shown in fig. 3 includes both a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal and a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device. Fig. 4 is a signaling interaction diagram ii of a service transmission measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application; as shown in fig. 4, the method of this embodiment may include:

step S301, the first network equipment sends a measurement message to the second network equipment;

step S302, the second network device measures a second parameter according to the measurement message to obtain a second service transmission measurement result with a first granularity;

step S303, the second network equipment sends a request message to the terminal;

step S304, the terminal measures the first parameter according to the request message to obtain a first service transmission measurement result with a first granularity;

step S305, the terminal sends a first service transmission measurement result with a first granularity to second network equipment;

step S306, the second network device sends the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity comprises the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity and/or the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

step S307, the second network device sends a mapping relation to the first network device, where the mapping relation includes a mapping relation between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relation between a DRB and a PDU session and/or a PDU session mapped by the QoS flow, and the mapping relation is used to convert a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity;

step S308, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship.

The specific implementation and beneficial effects of steps S301 to S308 are explained with reference to the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 3 and fig. 4 are diagrams illustrating a service transmission measurement method in a case where a second network device needs to send a mapping relationship to a first network device, and another service transmission measurement method in a case where the second network device needs to send a mapping relationship to the first network device is described below with reference to fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method of service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 5, the method according to the embodiment includes:

step S401, the terminal sends the obtained first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device.

Specifically, the terminal of this embodiment is a terminal having service transmission with the second network device. Under the architecture shown in fig. 1, the second network device of the present embodiment may be a secondary base station, and the first network device may be a primary base station.

For step S401, in the first scheme, if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device and a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, the difference between step S401 and step S201 is that the second network device sends a request message to the first network device in step S401, the first network device forwards the request message to the terminal, and the terminal sends a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device; further, the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity and the corresponding relation of the measurement object to the first network device. The remaining specific implementation of step S401 in this scheme is the same as step S201, and is not described herein again.

The reason why the second network device needs the first network device to forward the request message is as follows: in dual connectivity, the second network device may not have the capability to send RRC messages directly to the terminal.

For step S401, in the second scheme, before the terminal sends the obtained first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device, the terminal directly receives the measurement message from the first network device, and the terminal obtains the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity according to the measurement message. In this scheme, if the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal and a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the terminal and the second network device respectively receive the measurement message from the first network device, if the measurement message received by the terminal includes the measurement parameter, the measurement parameter included in the measurement message received by the terminal is the first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, and if the measurement message received by the second network device includes the measurement parameter, the measurement parameter included in the measurement message received by the second network device is the second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device.

It can be understood that step S401 does not exist if the first parameter to be measured by the terminal is not included in the measurement parameters in the traffic transmission measurement. I.e. step S401 is optional.

Step S402, the second network device sends the measurement result of the service transmission with the first granularity to the first network device, where the measurement result of the service transmission with the first granularity includes: a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity and/or a first traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity. And the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is obtained after the second network equipment performs service transmission measurement.

Specifically, the sending, by the second network device, the measurement result of the service transmission with the first granularity to the first network device includes: and the second network equipment sends the corresponding relation between the service transmission measurement result with the first granularity and the measurement object to the first network equipment.

The process of obtaining the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity after the second network device performs the service transmission measurement refers to the explanation in step S202, and details are not repeated here.

If step S401 exists and step S401 is implemented by using the first scheme, after the terminal sends the obtained first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device, the first network device may further send the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network device, and at this time, the second network device also sends the first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device. At this time, if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity sent by the second network device includes: if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement do not include the second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity sent by the second network device includes: a first traffic transmission measurement of a first granularity.

If step S401 exists and step S401 is implemented by using the first scheme, but after the terminal sends the obtained first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device, the first network device does not send the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the second network device, and if the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result with the first granularity sent by the second network device includes: if the measurement parameters of the second service transmission measurement result with the first granularity do not include the second parameter to be measured by the second network device, step S402, that the second network device sends the service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device, may be skipped.

If step S401 exists, and step S401 is implemented by using the second scheme and the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement do not include the second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, step S402 "the second network device sends the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device" does not exist. If step S401 exists, where step S401 is implemented by using the second scheme and the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity sent by the second network device in step S402 includes: a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

If step S401 does not exist, and the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity sent by the second network device in step S402 includes: a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

Step S403, the second network device sends a mapping relationship to the first network device, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session and/or a PDU session mapped by the QoS flow, the mapping relationship is used to convert a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity, and the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity and/or a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

Specifically, the remaining specific implementation of step S403 refers to step S203 in the previous embodiment, and is not described in detail in this embodiment.

It is understood that step S402 and step S403 may refer to two independent transmission operations for transmitting different contents, or may refer to transmission of different contents in the same transmission operation. It is understood that, if step S402 does not exist, the first network device may not send the GTP tunnel address of the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the second network device.

If step S402 does not exist, the mapping relationship may be that after the terminal sends the obtained first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity to the first network device, the first network device sends a request for obtaining the mapping relationship to the second network device, and the second network device sends the mapping relationship to the first network device according to the request for obtaining the mapping relationship.

Step S404, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relationship.

Wherein, the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a second parameter to be measured by the second network device, and the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity; the measurement parameters in the traffic transmission measurement include a first parameter to be measured by the terminal, and the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

Specifically, the specific implementation of step S404 refers to step S204 in the previous embodiment, and details are not repeated in this embodiment.

A description will be given below of a corresponding service transmission measurement method when the measurement parameter of service transmission in the embodiment shown in fig. 5 includes both a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal and a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device. Fig. 6 is a fourth signaling interaction diagram of a measurement method for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application; as shown in fig. 6, the method of this embodiment may include:

step S501, the first network device sends a measurement message to the second network device.

Step S502, the second network device measures the second parameter according to the measurement message to obtain the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

Step S503, the second network device sends the second service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device.

Step S504, the second network device sends a request message to the first network device.

Step S505, the first network device sends a request message terminal.

Step S506, the terminal measures the first parameter according to the request message, and obtains a first service transmission measurement result with a first granularity.

Step S507, the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device.

Step S508, the first network device sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the second network device.

Step S509, the second network device sends the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity to the first network device.

Step S508 to step S509 are optional.

Step S510, the second network device sends a mapping relationship to the first network device, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session and/or a PDU session mapped by the QoS flow, and the mapping relationship is used to convert a service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of the second granularity. The traffic transmission measurements of the first granularity include first traffic transmission measurements of the first granularity and first traffic transmission measurements of the second granularity.

Step S511, the first network device converts the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into the service transmission measurement result of the second granularity according to the mapping relationship.

The specific implementation and beneficial effects of steps S501 to S511 refer to the related explanations in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, and are not described herein again.

The following describes a measurement method of traffic transmission without the need for the second network device to send a mapping relationship to the first network device with reference to fig. 7 and 8.

Fig. 7 is an interaction diagram of a fifth measurement method for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 7, the method of the embodiment includes:

step S601, the first network equipment sends a reporting granularity to the second network equipment;

specifically, in the dual connectivity scenario under the architecture shown in fig. 1, when performing traffic transmission measurement, the first network device may send a measurement message to the second network device, where the measurement message is used to notify the second network device to perform the traffic transmission measurement. Wherein the reporting granularity may be carried in a measurement message. The reported granularity is the granularity of the service transmission measurement result measured by the first network device.

The measurement message may also include measurement granularity and/or measurement parameters and/or an identification of the measurement object. Wherein, the measurement granularity and the reporting granularity can be the same or different. For the measurement parameters and measurement objects, reference is made to the description in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, which is not described again in this embodiment.

The reporting granularity and the measurement granularity are any one of DRB granularity, QoS flow granularity, PDU session granularity, QoS characteristic granularity, network slice granularity and terminal granularity.

Step S602, the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the second network device.

Specifically, if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include a first parameter to be measured by the terminal, the second network device sends a request message to the terminal, where the request message is used to notify the terminal to measure the first parameter, and obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity. The first parameter may be at least one of an uplink processing delay, a downlink processing delay, and an air interface delay. The request message includes a reporting granularity. Further, if the measurement message includes the measurement object, the request message may also include the measurement object, and if the measurement message does not include the measurement object, the request message may also not include the measurement object; if the measurement parameters in the measurement message include the first parameters, the request message also includes the first parameters; if the measurement parameter in the measurement message does not include the first parameter, or the measurement message does not include the measurement parameter, the request message may not include the first parameter or may include the first parameter; if the measurement message does not include the measurement granularity, the request message does not include the measurement granularity either, and if the measurement message includes the measurement granularity, the request message may include the measurement granularity or may not include the measurement granularity.

And the terminal measures the first parameter according to the request message to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

Specifically, if the request message does not include the measurement object and the measurement granularity, after receiving the request message, the terminal measures a first parameter corresponding to the object, which can be measured, corresponding to the measurement granularity according to the preset measurement granularity according to the request message, to obtain a measurement result of the first parameter at the preset measurement granularity, and if the preset measurement granularity is different from the reported granularity, the terminal converts the measurement result of the first parameter at the preset measurement granularity into a measurement result of the first parameter at the reported granularity, where the measurement result of the first parameter at the reported granularity is a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity. Wherein, the preset measurement granularity can be DRB granularity.

If the request message comprises the measurement object and the measurement granularity, after receiving the request message, the terminal obtains a measurement result of the first parameter under the measurement granularity according to the first parameter of the measurement object included in the measurement granularity measurement request message according to the request message, if the measurement granularity is different from the reported granularity, the terminal converts the measurement result of the first parameter under the measurement granularity into a measurement result of the first parameter under the reported granularity, and the measurement result of the first parameter under the reported granularity is the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

And the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the second network equipment.

Step S603, the second network equipment sends the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network equipment; the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity comprises a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity and/or a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity; and reporting the second service transmission measurement result of the granularity to the second network equipment after the service transmission measurement is carried out.

In one mode, the sending, by the second network device, the measurement result of the service transmission with the reported granularity to the first network device includes: and the second network equipment sends the corresponding relation between the service transmission measurement result with the reported granularity and the measurement object to the first network equipment.

After receiving the measurement message from the first network device, the second network device may send a feedback response to the measurement message to the first network device, where the feedback response refers to the description in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and is not described in detail in this embodiment.

And if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement comprise second parameters needing to be measured by the second network equipment, the second network equipment measures the second parameters according to the measurement information after receiving the measurement information, and a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity is obtained.

Specifically, if the measurement message does not include the measurement object and does not include the measurement granularity, the second network device measures a second parameter of the object, which is corresponding to the measurement granularity and can be measured, according to the preset measurement granularity to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity, and if the preset measurement granularity is different from the reported granularity, the second service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity is converted into the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity. For example, the second network device presets the measurement granularity as a DRB granularity, and the measurement message does not include a measurement object, so that the measurement object is each DRB that can be measured and corresponds to the terminal.

If the measurement message includes the measurement object and includes the measurement granularity, the second network device measures a second parameter of the object capable of being measured in the measurement message according to the measurement granularity to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the measurement granularity, and if the measurement granularity is different from the reported granularity, the second service transmission measurement result of the measurement granularity is converted into the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

After the second network equipment obtains the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, the second network equipment sends the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the network equipment; if the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity is received from the terminal, the second network device also sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network device.

And if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement comprise the first parameters which need to be measured by the terminal, the service transmission measurement results of the reported granularity comprise the first service transmission measurement results of the reported granularity.

In addition, the step S602 is explained based on the request message including the reporting granularity, so that the terminal can only send the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity to the second network device. In one mode, the request message may not carry the reporting granularity and the measurement granularity, and the terminal obtains a first service transmission result of a preset measurement granularity and sends the first service transmission result of the preset measurement granularity to the second network device; if the preset measurement granularity is different from the reporting granularity, the second network equipment converts the first service transmission measurement result of the preset measurement granularity into the first service transmission result of the reporting granularity.

Further, if the Service transmission measurement result of the first granularity is sent to the first network device by the second network device through the user plane, the second network device needs to acquire a General Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol (GTP) channel address for sending the Service transmission measurement result of the first granularity. The GTP tunnel address used to send the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity may be carried in the measurement message.

The GTP tunnel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity may not be carried in the measurement message, and after the second network device sends the feedback response of the measurement message, the first network device learns the actually measured objects, and then establishes a GTP tunnel address for each actually measured object, obtains the GTP tunnel address used for sending the second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, and then sends the GTP tunnel address to the second network device.

In this embodiment, the granularity of the measurement result of the service transmission data that the first network device or other devices want to present is sent to the second network device, so that the granularity of the measurement result reported by the second network device can meet the requirement of the measurement result of the service transmission that the first network device or other devices want to present.

Fig. 8 is an interaction diagram six of a measurement method for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 8, the method of the embodiment includes:

step S701, the first network equipment sends a reporting granularity to the second network equipment;

specifically, the first network device sends a measurement message to the second network device, where the measurement message includes a reporting granularity. For the rest of the specific implementation, reference is made to step S601 in the previous embodiment, and details are not described here.

Step S702, the first network equipment sends a reporting granularity to the terminal;

specifically, if the measurement parameter includes a first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, in the first scheme, referring to the description of step S602, but different from step S602, in step S702, the second network device sends a request message to the first network device, and the first network device sends the request message to the terminal, and the reported granularity is carried in the request message; the rest is the same as step S602.

In a second scheme, if the measurement parameter in the service transmission measurement includes a first parameter to be measured by the terminal, the first network device directly sends a first measurement message to the terminal, where the first measurement message includes a reporting granularity. The first measurement message is used for informing the terminal to perform service transmission measurement, so as to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

Step S703, the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network device; and reporting the first service transmission measurement result of the granularity to the terminal after the terminal performs service transmission measurement.

Specifically, after receiving the request message or the first measurement message, the terminal performs service transmission measurement according to the request message or the first measurement message to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

The method for sending the first service transmission measurement result with reported granularity to the first network device by the terminal includes: and the terminal sends the corresponding relation between the first service transmission measurement result with the reported granularity and the measurement object to the first network equipment.

If there is no first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, step S702 and step S703 may be skipped, that is, step S702 and step S703 are optional.

Step S704, the second network device sends the measurement result of reporting granularity to the first network device, where the measurement result of reporting granularity includes the first measurement result of reporting granularity and/or the second measurement result of reporting granularity. And reporting the second service transmission measurement result of the granularity to the second network equipment after the second network equipment performs service transmission measurement.

Specifically, the sending, by the second network device, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network device includes: and the second network equipment sends the corresponding relation between the service transmission measurement result with the reported granularity and the measurement object to the first network equipment.

And if the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement comprise second parameters needing to be measured by the second network equipment, the second network equipment performs service transmission measurement according to the measurement message to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity. The process of the second network device performing service transmission measurement according to the measurement message to obtain the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity refers to the description of step S603 in the previous embodiment, and is not described here again.

If step S702 exists and step S702 is implemented according to the first scheme, after the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network device in step S703, the method may further include: the first network device sends a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to a second network device, the second network device sends the first service transmission measurement result to the first network device, at this time, if a second parameter needing to be measured by the second network device exists in measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity sent by the second network device comprises the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity and a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, and if the second parameter needing to be measured by the second network device does not exist in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity sent by the second network device comprises the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

If step S702 exists and step S702 is implemented according to the first scheme, after the terminal sends the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network device in step S703, the first network device does not send the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the second network device, at this time, if a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device exists in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity sent by the second network device includes the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, and if a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device does not exist in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, step S704 does not exist.

If step S702 exists and step S702 is implemented according to the second scheme, at this time, if a second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device exists in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity sent by the second network device includes the second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, and if the second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device does not exist in the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement, step S701 and step S704 do not exist.

If step S702 does not exist, the measurement parameters in the service transmission measurement include the second parameter that needs to be measured by the second network device, and do not include the first parameter that needs to be measured by the terminal, the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity sent by the second network device includes the second service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

It can be understood that, if step S704 does not exist, the first network device may not send the GTP tunnel address of the traffic transmission measurement result with the reported granularity to the second network device.

If the idle terminal cannot reside in some cells under a certain communication system, and therefore the cells cannot be subjected to MDT measurement, the coverage conditions of the cells under the communication system cannot be known; for example, for multi-system dual connectivity (that is, one terminal can be simultaneously connected to two communication system base stations, such as a 4G base station and a 5G base station, where one base station is a main base station and the other base station is an auxiliary base station), if a cell in a coverage area of the auxiliary station cannot reside in an idle terminal, the dual connectivity of the dual system becomes a non-independent (NSA) scenario, at this time, the terminal corresponding to the auxiliary station cannot record MDT measurement on the cell in the coverage area of the auxiliary station, and thus cannot know a coverage condition of the cell in the communication system corresponding to the auxiliary station. In view of the above problems, the present embodiment proposes a method for performing a logged MDT measurement. Fig. 9 is a first signaling interaction diagram of an MDT measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 9, the method of the present embodiment includes:

step S801, the first network equipment sends MDT measurement configuration information to the terminal; the first network device is a network device under a first communication system.

Specifically, the first network device of this embodiment may be a network device that establishes an RRC connection with the terminal in the first communication system. The MDT measurement in this embodiment may be a logged MDT measurement, and all the MDT measurements mentioned later are logged MDT measurements. It should be noted that the terminal and the network device having the RRC connection are configured to establish the RRC connection between the terminal and a certain cell under the network device.

In this embodiment, a cell in the first communication system is referred to as a second cell, a cell in the second communication system is referred to as a first cell, and an idle terminal cannot reside in the first cell.

The MDT measurement configuration information includes an MDT measurement period and a duration of the MDT measurement. Optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information includes an MDT measurement period and a duration of the MDT measurement performed on the first cell, and a measurement period and a duration of the MDT measurement performed on the first cell. The MDT measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to perform MDT measurement on the first cell when entering an idle state.

Because the first cell under the second communication system is not continuously covered, the MDT measurement does not need to be performed on the first cell all the time, and in order to reduce power consumption, the MDT measurement may be performed on the first cell only in some second cells under the first communication system, so that the MDT measurement configuration information may include in which second cells the MDT measurement is performed on the first cell, and these second cells may be referred to as target cells, that is, the MDT measurement configuration information may further include: information of a target cell, the information of the target cell comprising: an identifier of the target cell, or an identifier of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) to which the target cell belongs, or an identifier of a Tracking Area (TA) to which the target cell belongs, or a frequency point of the target cell.

The MDT measurement configuration information may include which first cells are MDT measured, that is, the MDT measurement configuration information may further include information of the first cells, where the information of the first cells includes: an identifier of the first cell, or an identifier of a PLMN to which the first cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the first cell belongs, or a frequency point of the first cell.

The MDT measurement configuration information may further include a maximum number of first cells performing the MDT measurement.

Step S802, the terminal performs MDT measurement on a first cell under a second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, wherein the first cell is a cell in which an idle terminal cannot reside, and the first communication system is different from the second communication system.

Specifically, when the MDT measurement in this embodiment is recording the MDT measurement, when the terminal enters an idle state, the terminal performs the MDT measurement on the first cell covered by the second network device according to the MDT measurement configuration information, so as to obtain an MDT measurement result.

If the MDT measurement configuration information includes the message of the first cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell indicated by the message of the first cell in the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result.

If the MDT measurement configuration information includes the maximum number of the first cells performing the MDT measurement, the terminal performs the MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cells under the first number of second communication systems according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result. The first number is equal to or less than the maximum number.

If the MDT measurement configuration information includes the message of the target cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and if the terminal is in an idle state and is positioned in the target cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result. And the target cell is a second cell indicated by the message of the target cell in the MDT measurement configuration information. Alternatively, the terminal being located in the target cell may also refer to the terminal residing in the target cell.

Further, if the MDT measurement configuration information includes both the message of the target cell and the message of the first cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and if the terminal is in an idle state and the terminal is located in a target cell under the first communication system, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication system indicated by the message of the first cell according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result.

In addition, the terminal may perform MDT measurement on the second cell in the first communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain a second MDT measurement result, in addition to performing MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information (a subsequent part in this step is referred to as a first MDT measurement result).

In one scheme, in order to reduce the number of MDT measurement result records of the terminal, when the terminal performs MDT measurement at a certain location, if a first MDT measurement result can be obtained, the first MDT measurement result and a second MDT measurement result are recorded, and if the first MDT measurement result cannot be obtained, the second MDT measurement result can be obtained, the second MDT measurement result is not recorded.

Step S803, the terminal sends the MDT measurement result to a second network device in the first communication system; the MDT measurement result is the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system obtained in step S802.

Specifically, the second network device and the first network device may be the same or different.

The terminal is in an idle state when recording the MDT measurement. Therefore, if the MDT measurement result is to be sent to the second network device in the first communication system, the RRC connection needs to be established with the second network device first. . That is to say, after the terminal changes from the idle state to the connected state, the terminal establishes RRC connection with which network device in the first communication system, and the terminal sends the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system to which network device in the first communication system.

Before the terminal sends the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system to the second network device, the method further includes:

the terminal sends indication information to the second network equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the terminal records the MDT measurement result of the first cell under the second communication mode;

and the terminal receives a request message from the second network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to send the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication mode to the second network equipment.

Specifically, the indication information may be carried in an RRC Connection setup Complete (RRC Connection setup Complete) message. After receiving the request message, the terminal sends the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication mode to the second network equipment; in addition, the terminal may also send the MDT measurement result of the second cell in the first communication system. The terminal may send the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system and the MDT measurement result of the second cell in the first communication system, which are measured at the same position, to the second network device as a group.

In the dual connectivity scenario, if the terminal also sends the MDT measurement result of the second cell to the second network device, the coverage area of the NSA may be evaluated.

In addition, if the terminal is switched or reselected from the second cell in the first communication system to a third cell covered by a third network device in the second communication system, the cell covered by the third network device can reside in an idle terminal, and the terminal can also send the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system to the third network device.

Correspondingly, before the terminal sends the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication system to the third network device, the method further includes:

the terminal sends indication information to the third network equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the terminal records the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication mode;

and the terminal receives a request message from the third network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to send the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication mode to the third network equipment.

Specifically, the indication information may be carried in an RRC Connection setup Complete (RRC Connection setup Complete) message when an RRC Connection is established between the terminal and the second network device. After receiving the request message, the terminal sends the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication mode to the third network equipment; in addition, the terminal may send the MDT measurement result of the second cell to the third network device. The terminal may send the MDT measurement result of the first cell and the MDT measurement result of the second cell measured at the same location as a set to the third network device.

The method of the embodiment achieves the purpose of recording the MDT measurement of the cell which can not reside in the idle state terminal.

Another implementation of the MDT measurement is described below. Fig. 10 is a signaling interaction diagram of a MDT measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 10, the method according to the embodiment includes:

step S901, the first network device sends MDT measurement configuration information to the terminal, and the first network device is a network device in a first communication system.

The MDT measurement configuration information comprises an MDT measurement period and the duration of MDT measurement; optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information includes an MDT measurement period and a duration of the MDT measurement performed on the first cell, and a measurement period and a duration of the MDT measurement performed on the first cell. The MDT measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to perform MDT measurement on the first cell when entering an idle state.

The MDT measurement configuration information may also include: information of the first cell where MDT measurements are possible and/or information of the target cell and/or the maximum number of first cells where MDT measurements are possible. The information of the first cell performing the MDT measurement in this embodiment includes an identifier of the first cell, or an identifier of a PLMN to which the first cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the first cell belongs; the meaning and content of the information of the target cell are the same as those of the information of the target cell in the previous embodiment, and are not described herein again.

Step S902, the first network device sends a broadcast message to the terminal;

specifically, the broadcast message includes: frequency points of a first cell where MDT measurement is possible; further, the broadcast message further includes indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that the first cell of the frequency point is not used as a neighboring cell when a terminal located in any cell covered by the first network device performs cell selection or reselection.

The information of the first cell and/or the information of the target cell and/or the maximum number of first cells performing MDT measurement may not be included in the MDT measurement configuration information but included in the broadcast message.

Step S903, the terminal performs MDT measurement on a first cell under a second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result, wherein the first cell is a cell where an idle terminal cannot reside, and the first communication system is different from the second communication system.

Specifically, if the broadcast message or the MDT measurement configuration information does not include: the information of the first cell, the information of the target cell and the maximum number of the first cells for performing MDT measurement, and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication system indicated by the frequency point according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result.

If the broadcast message or the MDT measurement configuration information includes: the information of the first cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication system indicated by the information which belongs to the frequency point indication and also belongs to the first cell according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result.

If the broadcast message or the MDT measurement configuration information includes: and the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication mode according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result, wherein the MDT measurement result comprises the following steps:

and when the terminal is positioned in the target cell, the terminal performs MDT measurement on the first cell under the second communication system indicated by the frequency point according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result. The target cell is the second cell indicated by the information of the target cell.

If the broadcast message or the MDT measurement configuration information includes: if the maximum number of the first cells for performing the MDT measurement is greater, the terminal performs the MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message, so as to obtain an MDT measurement result, including:

and the terminal performs MDT measurement on a first number of first cells in the first cells under the second communication system indicated by the frequency point according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result. The first number is equal to or less than the maximum number.

In addition, the terminal may perform MDT measurement on the first cell in the second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain an MDT measurement result (a subsequent part in this step is referred to as a first MDT measurement result), and may also perform MDT measurement on the second cell in the first communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information and the broadcast message to obtain a second MDT measurement result.

Step S904, the terminal sends the MDT measurement result to the second network device in the first communication system. The MDT measurement result is the MDT measurement result of the first cell in the second communication scheme obtained in step S903.

Specifically, the specific implementation of step S904 refers to the description in step S803 in the previous embodiment, and is not described herein again.

It is to be understood that, in the above embodiments, the method implemented by the first network device may also be implemented by a component (e.g., a chip or a circuit) available to the first network device, in the above embodiments, the method implemented by the second network device may also be implemented by a component (e.g., a chip or a circuit) available to the second network device, and in the above embodiments, the method implemented by the terminal device may also be implemented by a component (e.g., a chip or a circuit) available to the terminal device.

Fig. 11 is a first schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 11, the communication apparatus 500 described in this embodiment may be the first network device (or a component that can be used for the first network device) or the second network device (or a component that can be used for the second network device) mentioned in the foregoing method embodiment, or may be the terminal (or a component that can be used for the terminal) mentioned in the foregoing method embodiment. The communication apparatus may be configured to implement the method corresponding to the terminal or the first network device or the second network device described in the foregoing method embodiment, specifically referring to the description in the foregoing method embodiment.

The communication device 500 may comprise one or more processors 501, where the processors 501 may also be referred to as processing units and may implement certain control or processing functions. The processor 501 may be a general purpose processor or a special purpose processor, etc. For example, a baseband processor, or a central processor. The baseband processor may be configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be configured to control the communication device, execute software programs, and process data of the software programs.

In an alternative design, processor 501 may also have instructions 503 or data (e.g., intermediate data) stored therein. The instructions 503 may be executed by the processor, so that the communication apparatus 500 executes the method corresponding to the terminal or the first network device or the second network device described in the above method embodiment.

In yet another possible design, the communication device 500 may include circuitry that may implement the functionality of transmitting or receiving or communicating in the foregoing method embodiments.

Optionally, the communication device 500 may include one or more memories 502, on which instructions 504 may be stored, and the instructions may be executed on the processor, so that the communication device 500 performs the methods described in the above method embodiments.

Optionally, the memory may also store data. The processor and the memory may be provided separately or may be integrated together.

Optionally, the communication device 500 may further include a transceiver 505 and/or an antenna 506. The processor 501 may be referred to as a processing unit and controls a communication apparatus (terminal or network device). The transceiver 505 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, a transceiving circuit, a transceiver, or the like, and is used for implementing transceiving functions of a communication device.

For the specific implementation process of the transceiver 505 and the processor 501, reference may be made to the above description of the embodiments, and details are not described here.

The processor 501 and transceiver 505 described herein may be implemented on an Integrated Circuit (IC), an analog IC, a Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC), a mixed signal IC, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), an electronic device, or the like. The processor and transceiver may also be fabricated using various 1C process technologies, such as Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS), Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), Bipolar CMOS (bicmos), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), and the like.

Although in the above description of the embodiment, the communication apparatus 500 is described by taking a terminal or a network device as an example, the scope of the communication apparatus described in the present application is not limited to the terminal or the network device described above, and the structure of the communication apparatus may not be limited by fig. 11. The communications apparatus 500 may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the device may be:

(1) a stand-alone integrated circuit IC, or chip, or system-on-chip or subsystem;

(2) a set of one or more ICs, which optionally may also include storage components for storing data and/or instructions;

(3) an ASIC, such as a modem (MSM);

(4) a module that may be embedded within other devices;

(5) receivers, terminals, cellular telephones, wireless devices, handsets, mobile units, network devices, and the like;

(6) others, and so forth.

Fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application. The terminal can be applied to the terminal described in the above embodiments of the present application. For convenience of explanation, fig. 12 shows only main components of the terminal. As shown in fig. 12, the terminal 600 includes a processor, a memory, a control circuit, an antenna, and an input-output device. The processor is mainly used for processing communication protocols and communication data, controlling the whole terminal, executing software programs and processing data of the software programs. The memory is used primarily for storing software programs and data. The radio frequency circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing the radio frequency signals. The antenna is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, keyboards, etc., are used primarily for receiving data input by a user and for outputting data to the user.

When the terminal is started, the processor can read the software program in the storage unit, interpret and execute the instruction of the software program, and process the data of the software program. When data needs to be sent wirelessly, the processor outputs a baseband signal to the radio frequency circuit after performing baseband processing on the data to be sent, and the radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signal and sends the radio frequency signal outwards in the form of electromagnetic waves through the antenna. When data is sent to the terminal, the radio frequency circuit receives radio frequency signals through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signals into baseband signals and outputs the baseband signals to the processor, and the processor converts the baseband signals into the data and processes the data.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that fig. 12 shows only one memory and processor for ease of illustration. In an actual terminal, there may be multiple processors and memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, and the like, which is not limited in this application.

As an alternative implementation manner, the processor may include a baseband processor and a central processing unit, where the baseband processor is mainly used to process a communication protocol and communication data, and the central processing unit is mainly used to control the whole terminal, execute a software program, and process data of the software program. The processor in fig. 12 integrates the functions of the baseband processor and the central processing unit, and those skilled in the art will understand that the baseband processor and the central processing unit may also be independent processors, and are interconnected through a bus or the like. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal may include a plurality of baseband processors to accommodate different network formats, a plurality of central processors to enhance its processing capability, and various components of the terminal may be connected by various buses. The baseband processor can also be expressed as a baseband processing circuit or a baseband processing chip. The central processing unit can also be expressed as a central processing circuit or a central processing chip. The function of processing the communication protocol and the communication data may be built in the processor, or may be stored in the storage unit in the form of a software program, and the processor executes the software program to realize the baseband processing function.

Fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission according to an embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 13, the apparatus according to the embodiment includes: a receiving module 131;

a receiving module 131, configured to receive a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity;

the receiving module 131 is further configured to receive a mapping relationship, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session;

Optionally, the first granularity is DRB granularity, and the second granularity is any one of QoS flow granularity, PDU session granularity, QoS feature granularity, network slice granularity, and terminal granularity; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement and a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained by the terminal, and the receiving module 131 is specifically configured to: receiving the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity, which is obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement, and the receiving module 131 is specifically configured to: receiving a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the second network device.

The measurement apparatus for service transmission in this embodiment may be configured to execute the technical solutions of the first network device in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to fig. 6, and the implementation principles and technical effects are similar, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a second measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 14, the apparatus of the present embodiment further includes, on the basis of the apparatus shown in fig. 13: a conversion module 132 and a sending module 133;

the conversion module 132 is configured to, after the receiving module 131 receives the mapping relationship from the second network device: and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation.

Optionally, the conversion module 132 is specifically configured to: and converting the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a service transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relation and the measurement parameter corresponding to the service transmission measurement.

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by the terminal, and the receiving module 131 is further configured to:

the sending module 133 is configured to send the request message to the terminal;

the receiving module 131 is specifically configured to: receiving a first traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity from the terminal.

Optionally, the sending module is further configured to, after the receiving module 131 receives the mapping relationship from the second network device: and sending address information to the second network equipment, wherein the address information comprises a general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) channel address used for sending the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

Fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a third measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 15, the apparatus of the present embodiment includes: a transmitting module 151 and a receiving module 152;

a sending module 151, configured to send a reporting granularity;

a receiving module 152, configured to receive the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

Optionally, the reporting granularity is located in a measurement message, and the measurement message further includes at least one of a measurement granularity, a measurement parameter, and an identifier of a measurement object.

Optionally, the reporting granularity and the measurement granularity are any one of a DRB granularity, a quality of service QoS flow granularity, a protocol data unit PDU session granularity, a QoS characteristic granularity, a network slice granularity, and a terminal granularity, respectively.

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity acquired by the terminal, and the receiving module 152 is further configured to: receiving a request message from a second network device, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the sending module 151 is further configured to send the request message to the terminal;

the receiving module 152 is specifically configured to: and receiving the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the terminal.

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity obtained after the second network device performs service transmission measurement, and the receiving module is specifically configured to: and receiving a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

Optionally, the service transmission measurement result in the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result in the reporting granularity obtained after the second network device performs the service transmission measurement and a first service transmission measurement result in the reporting granularity obtained by the terminal, and the receiving module 152 is specifically configured to: and receiving the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity from the second network equipment.

Optionally, the sending module 151 is further configured to send address information to the second network device, where the address information includes a general packet radio service tunneling protocol GTP channel address used for sending the measurement result of the service transmission with the reported granularity.

The measurement apparatus for service transmission in this embodiment may be configured to execute the technical solutions of the first network device in the method embodiments shown in fig. 7 to fig. 8, and the implementation principles and technical effects are similar, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourth measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 16, the apparatus of the present embodiment includes: a sending module 161;

a sending module 161, configured to send a service transmission measurement result of a first granularity to a first network device;

the sending module 161 is further configured to send a mapping relationship to the first network device, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and a DRB and/or a mapping relationship between a DRB and a PDU session;

Optionally, the sending module 161 is further configured to send a request message to the first network device, where the request message is used to instruct the terminal to obtain the first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity.

The measurement apparatus for service transmission in this embodiment may be configured to execute the technical solutions of the second network device in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to fig. 6, and the implementation principles and technical effects are similar, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram of a fifth measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 17, the apparatus of the present embodiment further includes, on the basis of the apparatus shown in fig. 16: a receiving module 162 and a measuring module 163.

If the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity comprises a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by the terminal; the sending module 161 is further configured to: sending a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity;

the receiving module 162 is configured to receive the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity from the terminal, where the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes the first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

Optionally, the measurement module 163 is configured to: performing service transmission measurement to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity; wherein the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity comprises a second traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

Optionally, the receiving module 162 is further configured to, after the sending module 161 sends the mapping relationship to the first network device: receiving address information from a first network device, the address information including a general packet radio service tunneling protocol, GTP, tunnel address used to send the traffic transmission measurement of the first granularity.

Fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram six of a measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 18, the apparatus of the present embodiment includes: a receiving module 181 and a transmitting module 182.

A receiving module 181, configured to receive the reporting granularity;

a sending module 182, configured to send the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity.

Optionally, the measurement apparatus of the service transmission is a second network device, the measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity includes a first measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity acquired by a terminal, and the sending module 182 is further configured to: sending a request message to the terminal, wherein the request message comprises a reporting granularity and is used for indicating the terminal to acquire a first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity;

the receiving module 181 is further configured to receive the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity from the terminal, where the service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity includes the first service transmission measurement result of the reporting granularity.

Optionally, the measurement apparatus of the service transmission is a terminal, and the receiving module 181 is specifically configured to:

the sending module 182 is specifically configured to: and sending the first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity to the first network equipment or the second network equipment.

Optionally, the measurement apparatus of the service transmission is a second network device, and the receiving module 181 is further configured to receive address information from the first network device, where the address information includes a general packet radio service tunneling protocol GTP channel address used for sending the measurement result of the service transmission with the reported granularity.

The measurement apparatus for service transmission in this embodiment may be configured to execute the technical solutions of the second network device or the terminal in the method embodiments shown in fig. 7 to fig. 8, and the implementation principles and technical effects are similar, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 19 is a seventh schematic structural diagram of a measurement apparatus for service transmission provided in the embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 19, the apparatus of the present embodiment includes: a measurement module 183.

The measurement module 183 is configured to perform service transmission measurement after the first device receives the reported granularity, so as to obtain a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity;

The measurement apparatus for service transmission in this embodiment may be configured to execute the technical solutions of the second network device in the method embodiments shown in fig. 7 to fig. 8, and the implementation principles and technical effects are similar, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 20 is a schematic structural diagram of an MDT measurement apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 20, the apparatus of the present embodiment includes: a receiving module 201, a measuring module 202 and a sending module 203;

a receiving module 201, configured to receive MDT measurement configuration information from a first network device in a first communication system;

a measurement module 202, configured to perform MDT measurement on a first cell in a second communication system according to the MDT measurement configuration information to obtain an MDT measurement result, where the first cell is a cell in which an idle terminal cannot reside; the first communication system is different from the second communication system;

a sending module 203, configured to send the MDT measurement result to a second network device in the first communication system.

Optionally, the measurement module 202 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information includes: the identifier of the target cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the target cell belongs, or an identifier of a tracking area TA to which the target cell belongs, or a frequency point of the target cell.

Optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information further includes: the identifier of the first cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the first cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the first cell belongs, or a frequency point of the first cell.

Optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information includes a maximum number of the first cells.

Optionally, the receiving module 201 is further configured to: receiving a broadcast message of the first network device;

Optionally, the measurement module 202 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the broadcast message includes a frequency point of a first cell and indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that a terminal located in a cell covered by the first network device does not use the first cell indicated by the frequency point as a neighboring cell when performing cell selection or reselection.

Optionally, the broadcast message further includes: the identifier of the target cell, or an identifier of a public land mobile network PLMN to which the target cell belongs, or an identifier of a TA to which the target cell belongs, or a frequency point of the target cell.

Optionally, the MDT measurement configuration information further includes: an identity of a first cell on which the MDT measurement needs to be performed, or an identity of a public land mobile network, PLMN, to which the first cell belongs, or an identity of a tracking area, TA, to which the first cell belongs.

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

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

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

Claims

1. A method for measuring traffic transmission, comprising:

2. The method of claim 1,

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, after the first network device receives the mapping relationship from the second network device, further comprising:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the converting the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity into a traffic transmission measurement result of a second granularity according to the mapping relationship comprises:

5. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity comprises a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by a terminal, further comprising:

the first network equipment sends the request message to the terminal;

6. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device and a first service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained by the terminal, and then the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes:

7. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the first granularity obtained after the service transmission measurement is performed by the second network device, and then the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the first granularity includes:

8. The method of claim 6, after the first network device receives the mapping relationship from the second network device, further comprising:

9. A method for measuring traffic transmission, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that a first network device sends a reporting granularity, wherein the reporting granularity is located in a measurement message, and the measurement message further comprises the measurement granularity;

and the first network equipment receives the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, and if the reported granularity is different from the measurement granularity, the service transmission measurement result is a measurement result obtained by converting the measurement result of the measurement parameter of the measurement object under the measurement granularity into the measurement result of the measurement parameter under the reported granularity.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the measurement message further comprises at least one of a measurement parameter and an identification of a measurement object.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the reporting granularity and the measurement granularity are any one of a DRB granularity, a quality of service (QoS) flow granularity, a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session granularity, a QoS feature granularity, a network slice granularity, and a terminal granularity, respectively.

12. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity includes a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity acquired by the terminal, and further comprising:

the first network equipment sends the request message to the terminal;

13. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity obtained after a second network device performs service transmission measurement, and the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity includes:

14. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein the service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity includes a second service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired after the second network device performs the service transmission measurement and a first service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity acquired by the terminal, and the receiving, by the first network device, the service transmission measurement result at the reporting granularity includes:

15. A method for measuring traffic transmission, comprising:

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity comprises a first traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity acquired by a terminal; further comprising:

17. The method of claim 15 or 16, further comprising:

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising: and the second equipment sends a request message to the first network equipment, wherein the request message is used for indicating the terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result with the first granularity.

19. The method according to claim 15 or 16, wherein after the second device sends the mapping relationship to the first network device, further comprising:

the second device receives address information from the first network device, the address information including a general packet radio service tunneling protocol, GTP, tunnel address for sending the traffic transmission measurement result of the first granularity.

20. A method for measuring traffic transmission, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that first equipment receives reporting granularity, wherein the reporting granularity is located in a measurement message, and the measurement message further comprises the measurement granularity;

and the first equipment sends the service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity, and if the reported granularity is different from the measurement granularity, the service transmission measurement result is the measurement result of the measurement parameter of the measurement object under the measurement granularity converted into the measurement result of the measurement parameter under the reported granularity by the first equipment.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity includes a first measurement result of the service transmission with the reporting granularity acquired by the terminal, further comprising:

22. The method of claim 20 or 21, wherein after the first device receives the reporting granularity, further comprising:

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

24. The method of claim 20, wherein if the first device is a terminal, the first device receiving the reporting granularity comprises:

the first device receives a request message from a second network device or a first network device, wherein the request message is used for indicating a terminal to obtain a first service transmission measurement result of the reported granularity;

25. A readable storage medium comprising a program or instructions for performing the method of any of claims 1-8 or 9-14 or 15-19 or 20-24 when the program or instructions are run on a computer.

26. A measurement device for traffic transmission, comprising: a processor coupled with a memory;

the memory is used for storing a computer program;

the processor is used for calling the computer program stored in the memory to realize the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, 9 to 14, 15 to 19, 20 to 24.