CN111601347A

CN111601347A - Reporting method, configuration method, terminal and network side equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111601347A
Application number: CN201910531130.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张艳霞; 吴昱民
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-06-19
Filing date: 2019-06-19
Publication date: 2020-08-28
Anticipated expiration: 2039-06-19
Also published as: WO2020253746A1; CN111601347B

Abstract

The invention provides a reporting method, a configuration method, a terminal and network side equipment. The reporting method applied to the terminal comprises the following steps: receiving reported configuration information sent by network side equipment; reporting first information of a first cell to the network side equipment according to the reporting configuration information; the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal; the first information includes at least one of: frequency point information; cell identification information; information about the reference signal. The invention can enable the network side equipment to obtain the first information of the first cell, and further can carry out effective cell measurement configuration according to the first information of the first cell, thereby improving the reliability of mobility management.

Description

Reporting method, configuration method, terminal and network side equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a reporting method, a configuration method, a terminal and network side equipment.

Background

Under the scene that a non-public network is deployed in a non-independent deployment mode, a specific terminal can only obtain services through a specific cell, such as: the terminal of the non-public network service can only obtain the service through the access group cell of the terminal under the non-public network. In order to perform connected mobility management, the network side needs to perform measurement configuration on the type of specific cell to facilitate subsequent mobility management (e.g., handover).

However, in the prior art, in a scenario where a non-public network is deployed in a non-independent deployment manner, how a network side obtains information of the specific cell (e.g., information of an access group cell to which the UE belongs) does not have a relevant solution.

Disclosure of Invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a reporting method, a configuration method, a terminal, and a network side device, so as to implement acquisition of information of a specific cell by the network side device in a non-independent deployment manner in a non-public network scenario, and solve a problem that effective cell measurement configuration cannot be performed due to failure of the network side device to acquire information of the specific cell.

In order to solve the problems, the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a reporting method, applied to a terminal, where the method includes:

receiving reported configuration information sent by network side equipment;

reporting first information of a first cell to the network side equipment according to the reporting configuration information;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

the first information includes at least one of: frequency point information; cell identification information; information about the reference signal.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a configuration method, which is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

sending reporting configuration information to a terminal;

receiving first information of a first cell reported by the terminal;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes:

the first receiving module is used for receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network side equipment;

a reporting module, configured to report first information of a first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

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

the first sending module is used for sending the reporting configuration information to the terminal;

a third receiving module, configured to receive first information of the first cell reported by the terminal;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, and when the computer program is executed by the processor, the steps of the reporting method described above are implemented.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network-side device, where the network-side device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, and when the computer program is executed by the processor, the steps of the configuration report method described above are implemented.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the report method described above are implemented, or the steps of the report method described above are implemented.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network side device, the terminal may report the first information of the first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information; the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal; the first information includes at least one of: frequency point information; cell identification information; information about the reference signal. Therefore, the network side equipment can acquire the first information of the first cell, and further can perform effective cell measurement configuration according to the first information of the first cell, so that the reliability of mobility management is improved.

Drawings

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

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a network system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applicable;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a configuration method provided by an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 4 is an interaction diagram of a terminal and a network-side device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is one of the structural diagrams of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is one of the structural diagrams of the network side device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a second structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a second structural diagram of a network-side device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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

The terms "first," "second," and the like in this application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Further, as used herein, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, e.g., a and/or B and/or C, means 7 cases including a alone, B alone, C alone, and both a and B present, B and C present, both a and C present, and A, B and C present.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a structural diagram of a network system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applicable, and as shown in fig. 1, the network system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12, where the terminal 11 and the network-side device 12 can communicate with each other.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal 11 may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE). In practical applications, the terminal 11 may be a mobile phone, a Tablet Personal Computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop Computer (laptop Computer), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a Wearable Device (Wearable Device), or a vehicle-mounted Device. The Network side device 12 may be a base station, a core Network, a Radio Access Network (RAN) relay or an Access point, and the like. Embodiments of the present invention may be, but are not limited to, suitable for use in the fifth generation (5)^thGeneration, 5G) and future mobile communication systems.

For convenience of understanding, some contents related to the embodiments of the present invention are explained below:

a Non-Public Network (NPN).

The non-public network can be deployed in two modes of independent deployment and non-independent deployment when being deployed. The independent deployment does not depend on a public network, under the deployment mode, the public network and a non-public network adopt different network identification information, the identification information is broadcasted in a system message, and the UE can judge whether a cell broadcasting the identification information belongs to the public network or the non-public network based on the identification information. For the non-independent deployment, it needs to rely on public network, and in the deployment, a Closed Access Group (CAG) concept is used to facilitate the UE to Access a specific cell. For example, when the UE subscribes to the NPN service, the core network may indicate the CAG to which the UE belongs, and subsequently, the UE may determine whether the cell providing the identification information can be accessed through a CAG identifier (provided by a broadcast message) provided by the network side.

Second, mobility in connected state.

In order to perform mobility management in a connected state, the network side may provide measurement configuration (such as frequency points that need to be measured) for the UE to perform relevant measurement.

The reporting method of the embodiment of the invention is explained below.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart of a reporting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The reporting method shown in fig. 2 is applied to a terminal. As shown in fig. 2, the reporting method may include the following steps:

step 201, receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network side device.

In an embodiment of the present invention, in an implementation manner, the reporting configuration information may be expressed as indication information, and is specifically used to indicate whether the terminal reports the information of the non-public network cell to the network side device. In another implementation, the reporting configuration information may be expressed as configuration information, and is specifically used for reporting the configuration terminal.

In specific implementation, optionally, the reporting configuration information includes at least one of the following:

third indication information, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal is allowed to report cell information of a non-public network;

frequency point information capable of reporting cell information of a non-public network;

cell information which can be used for reporting the cell information of the non-public network;

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

The third indication information may be one-bit indication information, and if the bit value is "1", the indication allows the terminal to report the information of the non-public network cell, that is, the indication instructs the terminal to start the information reporting function of the non-public network cell; the bit value of "0" indicates that the terminal is not allowed to report the information of the non-public network cell, that is, the terminal is instructed to disable the information reporting function of the non-public network cell.

Further, the third indication information may specifically indicate whether the terminal is allowed to report the information of the access group member cell to which the terminal belongs, and/or whether the terminal is allowed to report the information of other access group member cells except for the access group to which the terminal belongs. The access group member cell to which the terminal belongs is as follows: cells belonging to the same access group as the terminal, such as: the terminal belongs to the access group CAG1, and a cell also belongs to the access group CAG1, then the cell is the access group member cell of the UE.

The frequency point information is specifically used for instructing the terminal to report information of a non-public network cell corresponding to a specific frequency point, and the frequency point information may include a frequency point identifier. Such as: the frequency point information includes the identifier of the frequency point 1, and the terminal can report the information of the non-public network cell corresponding to the frequency point 1, or report the member cell information of the access group to which the terminal belongs, corresponding to the frequency point 1.

The cell information is specifically used to instruct the terminal to report information of a specific cell, and the cell information may include at least one of the following: physical Cell Identity (PCI); cell identification (Cell ID); cell Global Identity (CGI). Such as: the cell information includes the identifier of the cell 1, and the UE may report the information of the cell 1, or the information of the member cells of the access group to which the cell 1 belongs.

The triggering condition is used for indicating the terminal to report the information of the non-public network cell under the condition that the triggering condition is met.

Step 202, reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information.

As can be seen from the foregoing, the reporting configuration information has multiple expressions, and in step 202, the terminal reports the first information of the first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information. Therefore, it can be understood that the specific implementation manner of step 202 may be different for reporting configuration information in different representations, which is specifically described as follows.

In a scenario where the reported configuration information includes the third indication information, step 202 may specifically be as follows: and under the condition that the third indication information indicates that the terminal allows reporting of the cell information of the non-public network, reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side equipment.

In a scenario where the reporting configuration information includes frequency point information that can be used for cell information reporting of the non-public network, step 202 may specifically be represented as: and reporting the first information of the first cell corresponding to the frequency point indicated by the frequency point information to the network side equipment.

In a scenario where the reporting configuration information includes cell information that can be used for cell information reporting of the non-public network, step 202 may specifically be represented as: and reporting the first information of the cell indicated by the cell information in the first cell to the network side equipment.

In a scenario where the reporting configuration information includes a trigger condition for reporting cell information of the non-public network, step 202 may specifically be represented as: and reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side equipment under the condition that the triggering condition is met.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal. Specifically, the cell of the non-public network detected by the terminal may include a member cell of an access group to which the terminal belongs, or may also include a member cell of another access group, which may be determined specifically according to actual requirements, and this is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention. Further, the first cell may be a cell in a non-public network that is not separately deployed and detected by the terminal.

The first information of the first cell reported by the network side device may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: frequency point information of a first cell; cell identification information of the first cell; information about a reference signal of the first cell.

It should be understood that the first cell may include one or more cells. For each of the first cells, the first information for that cell may include at least one of: frequency point information of the cell; information about the reference signal of the cell. In addition, for different cells in the first cell, the content included in the first information of the cell reported by the terminal may be different, for example: the terminal detects a cell 1 and a cell 2 under a non-public network, first information of the cell 1 reported by the terminal comprises frequency point information of the cell 1, and first information of the cell 2 reported by the terminal comprises related information of a reference signal of the cell 2. Of course, the content included in the first information of the cell reported by the terminal may also be the same for different cells in the first cell.

For convenience of understanding, the following description will refer to the first cell as one cell. It should be understood that the first cell may include a plurality of cells, and in this scenario, the first information of each cell in the first cell may refer to a description of the first information of the first cell in a cell scenario with reference to the first cell.

For the frequency point information of the first cell, it may include the frequency point identifier of the first cell, such as: if the first cell is cell 1, the terminal may report the frequency point identifier corresponding to cell 1.

For cell identification information of the first cell, it may comprise at least one of: a PCI of the first cell; cell ID of the first Cell; the CGI of the first cell.

For the information related to the reference signal of the first cell, the following expressions may be specifically included:

expression form one

The information related to the reference signal includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain location information of the reference signal.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the frequency domain position information of the reference signal may include a frequency point corresponding to the reference signal. The time domain location information of the reference signal may include at least one of: a period in which the reference signal appears in the time domain; an offset of a reference signal; the length of time the reference signal occupies in each period.

In this scenario, the terminal may detect the relevant information of the reference signal of the first cell, and report the detected relevant information of the reference signal of the first cell to the network side device.

Expression form two

The related information of the reference signal comprises first indication information of the reference signal, the first indication information is used for indicating whether the terminal acquires first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first feature information comprises at least one of the following items: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information.

In this scenario, after detecting the first cell, the terminal may autonomously select whether to acquire the first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell. In this way, when the terminal selects not to detect the first characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell, the power consumption of the terminal can be reduced compared to the scenario corresponding to the expression one.

In addition, in this scenario, the terminal indicates, through first indication information of the reference signal, whether the terminal acquires first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell. Thus, compared with directly reporting the first characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell, the signaling overhead can be reduced.

Expression form three

Under the condition that the terminal acquires second characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell by agreement, the related information of the reference signal comprises third characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell acquired by the terminal;

wherein the second characteristic information comprises at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information; the third feature information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information; the second feature information and the third feature information do not include the same information. For example, if the protocol stipulates that the terminal acquires the time domain position information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the terminal acquires the time domain position information and the subcarrier interval information of the reference signal of the first cell, the terminal may report the subcarrier interval information of the reference signal of the first cell, and does not report the time domain position information of the reference signal of the first cell, thereby reducing signaling overhead.

In this scenario, the terminal may only report third characteristic information that is not agreed by a protocol in the characteristic information of the reference signal acquired by the terminal, so that signaling overhead may be reduced.

In the embodiment of the present invention, it is considered that the purpose of the terminal reporting the first information of the first cell is: and the network side equipment performs mobility management (such as switching) according to the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal. Therefore, optionally, the first information may further include second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate a moving state of the terminal with respect to the first cell.

Specifically, the moving state may include a close state or a leave state, where the close state represents that the terminal moves to the first cell and approaches the first cell; the away state indicates that the terminal moves away from the first cell.

In this way, the network side device may determine whether to perform measurement configuration of the first cell to the terminal based on the second indication information. Specifically, if the moving state indicated by the first indication information is the proximity state, it indicates that the terminal may be switched to the first cell, and therefore the network side device may perform measurement configuration of the first cell on the terminal; on the contrary, if the moving state indicated by the first indication information is the away state, it indicates that the terminal is most likely not to switch to the first cell, and therefore the network side device may not perform measurement configuration of the first cell on the terminal. Therefore, the network side equipment can carry out effective cell measurement configuration, and the reliability of mobility management can be improved.

In addition, in this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side device includes:

and reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side equipment under the condition that the triggering condition for reporting the cell information of the non-public network is met.

In the specific implementation, the triggering condition for reporting the cell information of the non-public network may be determined by network side device configuration, protocol agreement, or terminal self, and may specifically be determined according to actual needs, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the trigger condition is satisfied and includes at least one of:

the periodic arrival of cell information reporting of the non-public network is carried out;

the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network.

In a specific implementation, in a scenario where the trigger condition is satisfied and includes that the cycle of reporting the cell information of the non-public network arrives, the terminal may be provided with a periodic timer for reporting the cell information of the non-public network, and when the timer is overtime, the terminal may be considered to arrive at the cycle of reporting the cell information of the non-public network, and report the first information of the first cell to the network side device.

In a scenario where the trigger condition is satisfied and includes that the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network, further, the detecting, by the terminal, a cell of a non-public network may specifically include:

the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network, and the moving state of the terminal relative to the cell reaches a preset state. The preset state can be an approaching state or a leaving state.

In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, after reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side device, the method further includes:

receiving measurement configuration information sent by network side equipment;

if the terminal does not acquire the second information of the measurement cell configured by the measurement configuration information before receiving the measurement configuration information, storing the second information in the measurement configuration information, otherwise, ignoring the second information in the measurement configuration information;

wherein the second information of the measurement cell comprises at least one of: measuring frequency point information of a cell; measuring cell identification information of a cell; measuring subcarrier interval information of a reference signal of a cell; measuring frequency domain position information of a reference signal of a cell; time domain location information of a reference signal of a cell is measured.

In a specific implementation, ignoring (Ignore) the second information in the measurement configuration information may be understood as: and not reading the second information in the measurement configuration information, or not storing the second information in the measurement configuration information.

In practical application, before receiving the measurement configuration information, if at least one of the following conditions is satisfied, it may be determined that the terminal acquires the second information of the measurement cell configured with the measurement configuration information:

the terminal reports second information of the measured cell;

the terminal resides in a measurement cell;

and the protocol agreement terminal acquires second information of the measured cell.

For example, a network side configures a UE to measure a cell 1, where the cell 1 is a cell reported by the UE, and the UE knows resource location information of a reference signal of the cell 1, and ignores the resource location information of the reference signal of the cell 1 configured by the network side. The resource location information specifically includes frequency domain location information and/or time domain location information.

The protocol agrees that the UE knows the subcarrier spacing information of the reference signal of the cell 1, and if the configuration information issued by the network side equipment includes the subcarrier spacing information of the reference signal of the cell 1 and the resource location information of the reference signal of the cell 1, the UE ignores the subcarrier spacing information of the reference signal of the cell 1 and stores the resource location information of the reference signal of the cell 1.

Therefore, the terminal can measure the measuring cell based on the stored second information of the measuring cell, thereby realizing the switching of the cell and improving the reliability of the mobility management.

In the reporting method of this embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network side device, the terminal may report the first information of the first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information; the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal; the first information includes at least one of: frequency point information; information about the reference signal. Therefore, the network side equipment can acquire the first information of the first cell, and further can perform effective cell measurement configuration according to the first information of the first cell, so that the reliability of mobility management is improved.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart of a configuration method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The configuration method shown in fig. 3 is applied to a network side device. As shown in fig. 3, the configuration method may include the steps of:

step 301, sending the reporting configuration information to the terminal.

Step 302, receiving first information of a first cell reported by the terminal.

The first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

Optionally, the related information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain resource location information of the reference signal.

The related information includes first indication information of a reference signal, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal acquires first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first feature information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain resource location information.

Under the condition that the terminal acquires second characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell by agreement, the related information comprises third characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell acquired by the terminal;

wherein the second characteristic information comprises at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information; the third feature information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information; the second feature information and the third feature information do not include the same information.

Optionally, the first information further includes second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate a moving state of the terminal with respect to the first cell.

Optionally, after receiving the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal, the method further includes:

and sending measurement configuration information to a terminal side according to the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal.

Optionally, when sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal side includes sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal, the measurement configuration information sent to the terminal does not include the first information of the first cell.

In this way, signaling overhead may be reduced.

Of course, in other embodiments, in this case, the measurement configuration information sent by the network side device to the terminal may include the first information of the first cell. In this embodiment, the terminal may ignore the first information of the first cell included in the measurement configuration information.

Optionally, the reporting configuration information includes at least one of the following:

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

It should be noted that, the present embodiment is taken as an embodiment of a network side device corresponding to the foregoing method embodiment, and therefore, reference may be made to relevant descriptions in the foregoing method embodiment, and the same beneficial effects may be achieved. To avoid repetition of the description, the description is omitted.

In the configuration method of this embodiment, a network side device triggers a terminal to report first information of a first cell by sending reporting configuration information to the terminal; the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal; the first information includes at least one of: frequency point information; information about the reference signal. Therefore, the network side equipment can acquire the first information of the first cell, and further can perform effective cell measurement configuration according to the first information of the first cell, so that the reliability of mobility management is improved.

It should be noted that, various optional implementations described in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in combination with each other or implemented separately, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.

For ease of understanding, examples are described below.

Referring to fig. 4, as shown in fig. 4, the interaction between the terminal and the network-side device according to the embodiment of the present invention may include the following steps:

step 401, the network side device sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal.

Step 402, the terminal sends first information of the first cell to the network side device.

Step 403, the network side device measures configuration information to the terminal.

Step 404, if the terminal does not acquire the second information of the measurement cell configured by the measurement configuration information before receiving the measurement configuration information, the terminal stores the second information in the measurement configuration information, otherwise, the terminal ignores the second information in the measurement configuration information.

The following illustrates first information of a first cell in different manifestations.

In the first embodiment, the UE reports the information related to the reference signal of the cell.

Step one, a network side issues configuration information reported by cell information to a UE, wherein the configuration information reported by the cell information can comprise any combination of one or more of the following:

indicating whether the UE reports the information of the specific cell, if the network side indicates that the UE reports the information of the access group member cell to which the UE belongs (if the UE belongs to the access group CAG1 and a cell also belongs to the access group CAG1, the cell is the access group member cell of the UE); the indication information may be one-bit indication information, for example, if the value is "1" to indicate that the UE is configured to start the cell information reporting function, and the value is "0" to indicate that the UE is configured to disable the cell information reporting function;

frequency points capable of reporting cell information, such as reporting non-public network cell information corresponding to the frequency point 1 by the UE, or reporting cell information of access group members corresponding to the frequency point 1 by the UE;

a Cell (e.g., one or more cells identified by a Physical Cell Identity (PCI) or a Cell identity (Cell ID)) capable of reporting Cell information, for example, a Cell information corresponding to Cell 1 reported by a UE, or a Cell information of an access group member reported by the UE;

and reporting the triggering condition of the cell information by the UE, such as periodic reporting.

And step two, the UE receives the configuration information reported by the cell information issued by the network side and reports the cell information to the network side.

The UE reports cell information to a network side, and the triggering condition for reporting the cell information is any one of the following conditions:

when a triggering event for reporting cell information configured by a network is met, for example, a periodic timer for reporting cell information is overtime, a UE reports a specific cell detected by the UE (for example, the UE detects that the UE is approaching and/or leaving a cell of a certain access group member);

the UE autonomously triggers cell information reporting, e.g., the UE detects a specific cell (e.g., the UE detects approaching and/or leaving a cell of some access group member).

The UE reports cell information to a network side, wherein the reported information of a certain cell comprises any combination of one or more of the following contents:

frequency point information corresponding to the cell, such as reporting a frequency point identifier corresponding to the cell 1;

identification information of the cell, such as a CGI of the reporting cell 1;

subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal of a cell;

resource location information of a reference signal of a cell;

the resource location information of the cell reference signal includes frequency domain location information of the reference signal (e.g., a frequency point where the reference signal is located) and/or time domain location information of the reference signal (e.g., a period and/or an offset of the reference signal occurring in a time domain and a time length occupied in each period).

And step three, the network side carries out cell measurement configuration based on the cell information reported by the UE.

Step four, the UE receives the measurement configuration information issued by the network side, and the processing action of the measurement configuration information is as follows:

if the UE knows (e.g., has been reported by the UE or has resided by the UE) the frequency point corresponding to the configured measurement cell and/or the subcarrier spacing of the reference signal of the configured measurement cell and/or the resource location of the reference signal of the configured measurement cell, and receives the relevant configuration information provided by the network side, the UE ignores the corresponding configuration information (e.g., the network side configures the UE to measure the cell 1, which is a cell reported by the UE, and knows the resource location of the reference signal of the cell, the UE ignores the resource location configuration information of the reference signal of the cell configured by the network side);

if the UE does not know the corresponding frequency point of the configured measuring cell and/or the subcarrier interval of the reference signal of the configured measuring cell and/or the resource position of the reference signal of the configured measuring cell, the UE stores the corresponding configuration information;

in the second embodiment, the UE indicates whether the network knows the reference signal information of the cell.

Step one, the same as step one of the first embodiment.

Step two, the same as step two of the first embodiment.

The method comprises the following steps that UE reports cell information to a network side, wherein the cell reporting information comprises any combination of one or more of the following contents:

identification information of the cell, such as a CGI of the reporting cell 1;

reference signal indication information of a cell, for example, the reference signal indication information of the cell is used to inform whether it knows subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal of the cell and/or resource location information of the reference signal;

the resource location information of the cell reference signal includes frequency domain location information of the reference signal (e.g., a frequency point where the reference signal is located) and/or time domain location information of the reference signal (e.g., a period where the reference signal appears in a time domain and a time length occupied in each period).

Step three, the same as step three of the first embodiment.

if the UE knows (e.g., the UE resides in) the frequency point corresponding to the configured measurement cell and/or the subcarrier spacing of the reference signal of the configured measurement cell and/or the resource location of the reference signal of the configured measurement cell, and receives the relevant configuration information provided by the network side, the UE ignores the corresponding configuration information (e.g., the network side configures the UE to measure the cell 1, which is the cell where the UE resides, and knows the resource location of the reference signal of the cell, the UE ignores the resource location configuration information of the reference signal of the cell configured by the network side);

and if the UE does not know the frequency point corresponding to the configured measuring cell and/or the subcarrier interval of the reference signal of the configured measuring cell and/or the resource position of the reference signal of the configured measuring cell, the UE stores the corresponding configuration information.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment, only the portions different from the first embodiment are described, and for the description of the same portions, reference is made to the description of the first embodiment, which is not repeated herein.

The third embodiment of the invention: the protocol provides that the UE knows the reference signal information of the cell.

Step one, the same as step one of the first embodiment.

Step two, the same as step two of the first embodiment.

The UE reports cell information to a network side, wherein for a cell for which the protocol promises that the UE knows the relevant information of the corresponding reference signal, the reported information of the UE to the cell comprises any combination of one or more of the following contents:

identification information of the cell, such as a CGI of the reporting cell 1;

the protocol does not agree with the reference signal information known by the UE, if the protocol agrees that the UE knows the subcarrier interval of the reference signal of the cell 1, the UE can indicate the resource position information of the reference signal of the cell in the report information;

step three, the same as step three of the first embodiment.

for the cell reference signal related information known by the UE agreed by the protocol, if the network side provides the related configuration information, the UE ignores the corresponding configuration information (for example, the UE agreed by the protocol knows the subcarrier spacing information of the reference signal of the cell 1, if the network side provides the subcarrier spacing information of the reference signal, the UE ignores the configuration information);

for the cell reference signal related information known by the UE whose agreement is not agreed, if the network side provides the related configuration information, the UE saves the corresponding configuration information (if the UE whose agreement is not agreed knows the resource location information of the reference signal of the cell 1, the UE saves the configuration information of the resource location of the reference signal of the cell 1 provided by the network side);

The embodiment of the invention at least has the following improvement points:

the method comprises the following steps: UE reports the relevant information of the reference signal of the cell, and when the measurement configuration information of the network side for the reported cell is received, the reported relevant configuration information of the reference signal is ignored;

the second method comprises the following steps: UE indicates whether the network side knows the reference signal information of the reported cell or not; when receiving the measurement configuration information of the network side to the reported cell, if the UE knows, the UE ignores the known reference signal related configuration information;

the third method comprises the following steps: the protocol appoints that the UE knows the reference signal information of a certain cell, and ignores the relevant reference signal configuration information when receiving the reference signal configuration information of the cell from the network side;

according to the embodiment of the invention, through the information (such as the access group cell information of the UE) about the specific cell reported by the UE, the network can acquire the reference signal information of the reported cell or acquire whether the UE knows the reference signal information of the reported cell, so that the cell measurement configuration can be effectively carried out, and the subsequent mobility management (such as switching) is facilitated.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, the terminal 500 includes:

a first receiving module 501, configured to receive reporting configuration information sent by a network side device;

a reporting module 502, configured to report first information of a first cell to the network side device according to the reporting configuration information;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

Optionally, the related information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain location information of the reference signal.

Optionally, the related information includes first indication information of a reference signal, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal acquires first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first feature information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information.

Optionally, in a case that the terminal is agreed by a protocol to acquire second characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell, the related information includes third characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell acquired by the terminal;

Optionally, the terminal 500 further includes:

the second receiving module is used for receiving the measurement configuration information sent by the network side equipment;

a storage module, configured to store second information in the measurement configuration information if the terminal does not obtain the second information of the measurement cell configured by the measurement configuration information before receiving the measurement configuration information, and otherwise, ignore the second information in the measurement configuration information;

wherein the second information comprises at least one of: frequency point information; cell identification information; subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain location information of the reference signal.

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

Optionally, the reporting module 502 is specifically configured to:

and under the condition that the triggering condition for reporting the cell information of the non-public network is met, reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side equipment according to the reporting configuration information.

Optionally, the trigger condition is satisfied and includes at least one of:

the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network.

The terminal 500 can implement each process that can be implemented by the terminal in the embodiment of the method of the present invention, and achieve the same beneficial effects, and for avoiding repetition, the details are not described here.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating one of the structures of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 6, the network-side device 600 includes:

a first sending module 601, configured to send reporting configuration information to a terminal;

a third receiving module 602, configured to receive the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

Optionally, the related information includes first indication information of a reference signal, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal acquires first feature information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first feature information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain resource location information.

Optionally, the network-side device 600 further includes:

and the second sending module is used for sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal side according to the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal.

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

The network side device 600 can implement each process that the network side device can implement in the method embodiment of the present invention, and achieve the same beneficial effects, and for avoiding repetition, the details are not described here.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a second structural diagram of a terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention, where the terminal may be a hardware structural diagram of a terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention. As shown in fig. 7, terminal 700 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 701, a network module 702, an audio output unit 703, an input unit 704, a sensor 705, a display unit 706, a user input unit 707, an interface unit 708, a memory 709, a processor 710, a power supply 711, and the like. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 7 is not intended to be limiting, and that the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The radio frequency unit 701 is configured to:

receiving reported configuration information sent by network side equipment;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 701 is further configured to: receiving measurement configuration information sent by network side equipment;

a memory 709 for: if the terminal does not acquire the second information of the measurement cell configured by the measurement configuration information before receiving the measurement configuration information, storing the second information in the measurement configuration information, otherwise, ignoring the second information in the measurement configuration information;

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 701 is further configured to:

Optionally, the trigger condition is satisfied and includes at least one of:

the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the terminal 700 may implement each process that can be implemented by the terminal in the method embodiment of the present invention, and achieve the same beneficial effect, and for avoiding repetition, details are not described here again.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 701 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message transmission and reception process or a call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 710; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 701 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 701 may also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides wireless broadband internet access to the user via the network module 702, such as assisting the user in sending and receiving e-mails, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 703 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 701 or the network module 702 or stored in the memory 709 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 703 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 700 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 703 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 704 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input Unit 704 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 7041 and a microphone 7042, and the Graphics processor 7041 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 706. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 7041 may be stored in the memory 709 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio unit 701 or the network module 702. The microphone 7042 may receive sounds and may be capable of processing such sounds into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 701 in case of a phone call mode.

The terminal 700 also includes at least one sensor 705, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 7061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 7061 and/or a backlight when the terminal 700 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 705 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 706 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 706 may include a Display panel 7061, and the Display panel 7061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 707 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 707 includes a touch panel 7071 and other input devices 7072. The touch panel 7071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 7071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 7071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 7071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 710, receives a command from the processor 710, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 7071 can be implemented by various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 707 may include other input devices 7072 in addition to the touch panel 7071. In particular, the other input devices 7072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.

Further, the touch panel 7071 may be overlaid on the display panel 7061, and when the touch panel 7071 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 7071, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 710 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 710 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 7061 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 7071 and the display panel 7061 are shown in fig. 7 as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 7071 and the display panel 7061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 708 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 700. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 708 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 700 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 700 and the external device.

The memory 709 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 709 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 709 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 710 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 709 and calling data stored in the memory 709, thereby integrally monitoring the terminal. Processor 710 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 710 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 710.

The terminal 700 may also include a power supply 711 (e.g., a battery) for providing power to the various components, and preferably, the power supply 711 may be logically coupled to the processor 710 via a power management system, such that functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption are performed via the power management system.

In addition, the terminal 700 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

Preferably, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including a processor 710, a memory 709, and a computer program stored in the memory 709 and capable of running on the processor 710, where the computer program, when executed by the processor 710, implements each process of the foregoing reporting method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

Referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a second structural diagram of a network-side device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 8, the network-side device 800 includes: a processor 801, a memory 802, a user interface 803, a transceiver 804 and a bus interface. In this embodiment of the present invention, the network side device 800 further includes: a computer program stored on the memory 802 and executable on the processor 801.

Wherein the transceiver 804 is configured to:

sending reporting configuration information to a terminal;

receiving first information of a first cell reported by the terminal;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

Optionally, the transceiver 804 is further configured to:

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

In FIG. 8, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 801 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 802 being linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 804 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For different user devices, the user interface 803 may also be an interface capable of interfacing externally to a desired device, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 801 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 802 may store data used by the processor 2601 in performing operations.

The network side device 800 can implement each process implemented by the network side device in the above method embodiments, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

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

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

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

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

Claims

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

receiving reported configuration information sent by network side equipment;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the related information comprises at least one of: subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain location information of the reference signal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the related information includes first indication information of a reference signal, and the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal acquires first characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first characteristic information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain location information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a case that the terminal is agreed to obtain the second characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell by a protocol, the related information includes third characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell obtained by the terminal;

5. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first information further comprises second indication information indicating a moving state of the terminal with respect to the first cell.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein after the reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side device, the method further comprises:

receiving measurement configuration information sent by network side equipment;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein reporting the configuration information comprises at least one of:

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the reporting the first information of the first cell to the network side device includes:

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the trigger condition being satisfied comprises at least one of:

the terminal detects a cell of a non-public network.

10. A configuration method is applied to a network side device, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

sending reporting configuration information to a terminal;

receiving first information of a first cell reported by the terminal;

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the related information comprises at least one of: subcarrier spacing information of a reference signal; frequency domain location information of the reference signal; time domain resource location information of the reference signal.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the related information includes first indication information of a reference signal, and the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal acquires first characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell, and the first characteristic information includes at least one of: subcarrier spacing information; frequency domain location information; time domain resource location information.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein in a case that the terminal is agreed to obtain the second characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell by a protocol, the related information includes third characteristic information of the reference signal of the first cell obtained by the terminal;

14. The method according to any of claims 10 to 13, wherein the first information further comprises second indication information indicating a mobility state of the terminal with respect to the first cell.

15. The method according to any of claims 10 to 13, wherein after receiving the first information of the first cell reported by the terminal, the method further comprises:

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein in a case where sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal side includes sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal, the first information of the first cell is not included in the measurement configuration information sent to the terminal.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein reporting the configuration information comprises at least one of:

and reporting the cell information of the non-public network.

18. A terminal, characterized in that the terminal comprises:

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

19. A network side device, wherein the network side device comprises:

the first cell is a cell of a non-public network detected by the terminal;

20. A terminal, characterized in that it comprises a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the reporting method according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

21. A network-side device comprising a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the configuration method according to any one of claims 10 to 17.

22. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the reporting method according to any one of claims 1 to 9 or the steps of the configuration method according to any one of claims 10 to 17.