CN111770511A - A measurement method, terminal equipment, network equipment and computer storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a measuring method, a terminal device, a network device and a computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration and starting a timer; the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is specific to a current area of the terminal equipment, and an applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal equipment comprises at least one cell; and the terminal equipment executes area updating, and when the terminal equipment leaves the connected state, the terminal equipment is controlled to avoid reentering the connected state to obtain the measurement configuration in the idle state or the inactive state.

Description

A measurement method, terminal equipment, network equipment and computer storage medium

This application is a Chinese patent application No. 201880003074.7 of the PCT international patent application PCT/CN2018/080743 with an application date of March 27, 2018, which has entered the Chinese national phase, and the name of the invention is "a measurement method, terminal equipment, network equipment and computer storage. medium" divisional application.

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of information processing, and in particular, to a measurement method, a terminal device, a network device and a computer storage medium.

Background technique

Carrier aggregation technology is an important technical feature introduced by LTE and will also be supported in 5G NR. An important technical content of carrier aggregation is how to speed up the configuration of the secondary cell for the terminal by the network, so as to avoid the situation that the configuration of the cell is slow and more data needs to be transmitted through the primary cell. This is important for both licensed and unlicensed secondary cells. The purpose of this enhancement is to improve the utilization rate of the secondary cell, which involves idle state terminals and connected state terminals. In the LTE system, a dedicated frequency priority can be configured when the RRC connection is released, which can be implemented according to the RFSP (RAT and Frequency Selection Policy) configured by the network. In order to support this enhancement, 3GPP introduced a dedicated signaling configuration for idle state measurement, and set a timer at the same time. At the same time, only relying on the timer is not enough, because when RRC configures idle state measurement, it is related to the frequency of surrounding cells. At the same time, the number of potential secondary cells corresponding to different terminals is not necessarily uniform. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce area concept.

The problem with the prior art is that the introduced area concept cannot be larger than TA, but can only be smaller than TA, otherwise it will not be beneficial to idle state measurement. Then, if another area is introduced, when the terminal performs TAU, it needs to discuss whether it needs to re-acquire the idle state measurement configuration. One reason is that if the terminal does not leave the configured area and the timer does not overflow, the terminal does not need to re-acquire the idle state measurement configuration, and the TAU should not be an exception. Another reason is that if TAU occurs, the terminal is no longer idle and therefore needs to be released. However, this means that the terminal needs to obtain the measurement configuration when entering IDLE again after completing the TAU. The prior art brings about the above-mentioned contradictions, which need to be resolved.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

To solve the above technical problems, embodiments of the present invention provide a measurement method, a terminal device, a network device, and a computer storage medium.

A measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention is applied to terminal equipment in an idle state or an inactive state, and the method includes:

Obtain an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration and start a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell ;

The terminal device performs an area update, and when the terminal device leaves the connected state, the terminal device is controlled to avoid re-entering the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

A measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

Configure an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal equipment;

Wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell.

A measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a terminal device in an idle state or an inactive state, and the method includes:

When the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the current idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is released, or a connection request is initiated to enter the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration from the network side;

If an area update occurs, at the same time as the area update is performed, it indicates to the network side that a measurement configuration in an idle state or an inactive state is required.

A measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

When the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the terminal device sends an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device when the terminal device initiates a connection request to enter the connected state;

If an area update occurs to the terminal device, it is determined whether a measurement configuration in an idle state or an inactive state needs to be sent to the terminal device.

A terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes:

The first communication unit acquires an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration and starts a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the application of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device the area contains at least one cell;

The first processing unit performs area update, and when leaving the connected state, controls to avoid re-entering the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

A network device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes:

a second communication unit, configuring an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration for the terminal device;

Wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell.

A terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes:

The third processing unit, when leaving the current cell, if no area update occurs, releases the current idle state or inactive state measurement configuration, or initiates a connection request to enter the connected state through the third communication unit to obtain the idle state or inactive state from the network side state measurement configuration; if an area update occurs, when the area update is performed, the third communication unit indicates to the network side that the measurement configuration in the idle state or the inactive state is required;

The third communication unit acquires the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration from the network side, or indicates to the network side that the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is required.

A network device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes:

The fourth processing unit, when the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the terminal device initiates a connection request to enter the connected state, and sends the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device; if the terminal device When an area update occurs in the device, it is determined whether it is necessary to send the measurement configuration of the idle state or the inactive state to the terminal device;

A fourth communication unit, sending the updated idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device.

A terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program that can be run on the processor,

Wherein, when the processor is configured to execute the computer program, the steps of the foregoing method are executed.

A network device provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program that can run on the processor,

Wherein, when the processor is configured to execute the computer program, the steps of the foregoing method are executed.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores computer-executable instructions, which implement the foregoing method steps when the computer-executable instructions are executed.

In the technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention, after the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is configured, the terminal can reasonably process the idle state or inactive state measurement mechanism configured by the network in the area update, so as to determine whether the terminal device re-acquires The idle or inactive measurement configuration is clearly defined, thereby avoiding unnecessary re-acquisition of measurement configuration.

Description of drawings

1 is a schematic flowchart of a measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram 1 of the composition structure of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram 2 of a composition structure of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of a composition structure of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to understand the features and technical contents of the embodiments of the present invention in more detail, the implementation of the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement method, which is applied to a terminal device in an idle state or an inactive state. As shown in FIG. 1 , the method includes:

Step 101: Acquire an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration and start a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes: at least one cell;

Step 102: The terminal device performs an area update, and when the terminal device leaves the connected state, controls the terminal device to avoid re-entering the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

In this embodiment, the area where the terminal device is currently located includes at least one cell including the cell where the terminal device is currently located.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) Wait, not exhaustive here.

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

Specifically, the solutions provided by this embodiment are described below based on several scenarios:

scene 1,

The terminal device performs an area update, such as a tracking area update TAU process, and when the terminal device is in a connected state and the customizer keeps timing, it does not re-acquire the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

That is to say, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration acquired by the terminal is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), and when a TAU occurs, even if the terminal enters the connected state, the timer is still in progress.

When the area update is completed and the timer has not expired, if the terminal device has not entered the idle state or the inactive state, when the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration needs to be re-acquired, it directly requests the measurement configuration in the connected state ; When it is not necessary to re-acquire the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration, keep the original measurement configuration used for idle state measurement and enter the idle state for measurement.

That is, after the UE finishes executing TAU, if it has not entered the idle state or inactive state before the timer expires, if it needs to re-acquire the idle state measurement configuration, it will directly request the measurement configuration in the connected state; if not, keep the original state. The configuration enters the idle state or the inactive state to continue the measurement.

What needs to be avoided here is that the terminal enters the idle state or the inactive state after the TAU ends, but enters the connected state because it needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, because this will lead to frequent signaling.

After the timer expires, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is retained, and the idle state measurement configuration is continued to be used after the terminal device enters the idle state. Here, in order to avoid unnecessary re-acquiring configuration overhead, in this scenario, the configuration terminal can also retain the measurement configuration after the timer expires, and continue to use it after entering the idle state.

When the terminal device enters the connected state and the timer does not expire, the terminal device does not perform idle state measurement. That is, if the UE is in the connected state, but the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration timer has not expired, the UE may not perform the idle state or inactive state measurement because the UE is in the connected state at this time. This scheme can coordinate the conflict between the timer scheme and the regional scheme, so that even when the terminal is in the connected state, it still maintains the configured valid timer for idle state or inactive state measurement, but does not perform idle state or inactive state measurement, that is, does not require The behavior of a connected state terminal to perform idle state or inactive state measurements.

scene 2,

When the terminal device enters the connected state, the timer is terminated.

And, when the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state or the inactive state again, the terminal device re-acquires the idle state or the inactive state measurement configuration, and reconfigures the timer.

That is to say, if the UE acquires a measurement configuration that is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), when a TAU occurs, the terminal enters the connected state and terminates the timer.

After the terminal completes the TAU, it must obtain the idle state or inactive state configuration and reconfigure a timer when it enters the idle state again. This solution does not require the terminal to keep the timer when state transition occurs, but may bring unnecessary overhead for acquiring the measurement configuration.

It should also be pointed out that this embodiment can provide a process for the aforementioned scenarios: when the terminal device is updating the area, the terminal can indicate whether the network needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, or the network side can re-acquire the measurement configuration after performing the area update. When the terminal is sent back to the idle state or the inactive state, it decides whether it needs to reconfigure the measurement configuration of the idle state and the inactive state.

This embodiment is directed to the processing on the terminal device side, and the method may include: when performing an area update, the terminal device sends indication information to the network side; wherein the indication information is used to indicate whether the network side needs to re-direct the The terminal equipment sends idle or inactive measurement configuration.

Finally, it should be noted that, the foregoing manner of sending the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration may be through RRC dedicated signaling.

It can be seen that by adopting the above solution, after the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration can be configured, the terminal can reasonably handle the idle state or inactive state measurement mechanism configured by the network in the area update, so as to determine whether the terminal device is re-configured. The acquisition of the measurement configuration in the idle state or inactive state is clearly defined, so that unnecessary processing of acquiring the measurement configuration again can be avoided.

Embodiment two,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement method, which is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

Configure an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal equipment;

Wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

Specifically, the solutions provided by this embodiment are described below based on several scenarios:

scene 1,

When the terminal device completes the area update and the timer does not expire, if the terminal device does not enter the idle state, when the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration needs to be re-acquired, the The connected state sends the measurement configuration.

That is to say, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration acquired by the terminal is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), and when a TAU occurs, even if the terminal enters the connected state, the timer is still in progress.

What needs to be avoided here is that the terminal enters the idle state or the inactive state after the TAU ends, but enters the connected state because it needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, because this will lead to frequent signaling.

In order to avoid unnecessary re-acquiring configuration overhead, in this scenario, the configuration terminal can also retain the measurement configuration after the timer expires, and continue to use it after entering the idle state.

If the UE is in the connected state, but the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration timer has not ended, the UE may not perform the idle state or inactive state measurement because the UE is in the connected state at this time. This scheme can coordinate the conflict between the timer scheme and the area update scheme, so that even when the terminal is in the connected state, it still maintains the configured valid timer for idle state or inactive state measurement, but does not perform idle state or inactive state measurement, that is, does not perform idle state or inactive state measurement. Actions that require a connected terminal to perform idle or inactive measurements.

scene 2,

After the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state again, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is re-sent to the terminal device, and the timer is reconfigured.

That is to say, if the UE acquires a measurement configuration that is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), when a TAU occurs, the terminal enters the connected state and terminates the timer.

After the terminal completes the TAU, it must obtain the idle state or inactive state configuration and reconfigure a timer when it enters the idle state again. This solution does not require the terminal to keep the timer when state transition occurs, but may bring unnecessary overhead for acquiring the measurement configuration.

It should also be pointed out that a process that this embodiment can provide for the aforementioned scenarios is: when the terminal device updates the area, the terminal can indicate whether the network needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, or the network side performs the area update (for example, after the area update is completed). When the terminal is sent back to the idle state or the inactive state after TAU, RNAU, etc.), it is decided whether to reconfigure the idle state inactive state measurement configuration.

This embodiment is directed to the processing on the network side, and the method may include: when the terminal device is returned to the idle state or the inactive state after performing the RNAU, determining whether it is necessary to reconfigure the idle state or the terminal device to the idle state or the inactive state. Inactive measurement configuration.

Finally, it should be noted that, the foregoing manner of sending the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration may be through RRC dedicated signaling.

It can be seen that by adopting the above solution, after the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration can be configured, the terminal can reasonably handle the idle state or inactive state measurement mechanism configured by the network in the area update, so as to determine whether the terminal device is re-configured. The acquisition of the measurement configuration in the idle state or inactive state is clearly defined, so that unnecessary processing of acquiring the measurement configuration again can be avoided.

Embodiment three,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement method, which is applied to a terminal device in an idle state or an inactive state, and the method includes:

When the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the current idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is released, or a connection request is initiated to enter the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration from the network side;

If an area update occurs, at the same time as the area update is performed, it indicates to the network side that a measurement configuration in an idle state or an inactive state is required.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

That is to say, when TAU or RNAU occurs, an instruction can be given to the network side to obtain the corresponding updated idle state or inactive state measurement configuration in the new area.

The acquiring the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration from the network side includes:

Acquire RRC signaling from the network side, and acquire idle state or inactive state measurement configuration based on the RRC signaling.

Embodiment four,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement method, which is applied to a network device, and the method includes:

When the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the terminal device sends an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device when the terminal device initiates a connection request to enter the connected state;

If an area update occurs to the terminal device, it is determined whether a measurement configuration in an idle state or an inactive state needs to be sent to the terminal device.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device of the embodiment of the invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

The sending the measurement configuration of the idle state or the inactive state to the terminal device includes:

The measurement configuration of the idle state or the inactive state is sent to the terminal equipment through RRC signaling.

Embodiment five,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device in an idle state or an inactive state, as shown in FIG. 2 , including:

The first communication unit 21 obtains an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration and starts a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device is The applicable area includes at least one cell;

The first processing unit 22 performs area update, and when leaving the connected state, controls to avoid re-entering the connected state to obtain the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

Specifically, the solutions provided by this embodiment are described below based on several scenarios:

scene 1,

The first processing unit 22 performs area update processing, and does not re-acquire the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration when it is in the connected state and the customizer keeps timing.

That is to say, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration acquired by the terminal is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), and when a TAU occurs, even if the terminal enters the connected state, the timer is still in progress.

The first processing unit 22, when the area update is completed and the timer has not expired, if the terminal device has not entered the idle state or the inactive state, when the idle state or the inactive state measurement configuration needs to be re-acquired, directly The measurement configuration is requested in the connected state; when it is not necessary to re-acquire the measurement configuration in the idle state or the inactive state, the original measurement configuration used for the measurement in the idle state is maintained and the measurement is performed in the idle state.

The first processing unit 22, after performing the area update, if it has not entered the idle state or the inactive state before the timer timer expires, if it is necessary to re-acquire the idle state measurement configuration, it will directly request the measurement configuration in the connected state; , then keep the original configuration and enter the idle state or inactive state to continue the measurement.

What needs to be avoided here is that the terminal enters the idle state or the inactive state after the TAU ends, but enters the connected state because it needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, because this will lead to frequent signaling.

After the timer expires, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is retained, and the idle state measurement configuration is continued to be used after the terminal device enters the idle state. Here, in order to avoid unnecessary re-acquiring configuration overhead, in this scenario, the configuration terminal can also retain the measurement configuration after the timer expires, and continue to use it after entering the idle state.

The first processing unit 22, when entering the connected state and the timer has not expired, the terminal device does not perform idle state measurement. That is to say, if the UE is in the connected state, but the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration timer has not expired, the UE may not perform the idle state or inactive state measurement because the UE is in the connected state at this time. This scheme can coordinate the conflict between the timer scheme and the regional scheme, so that even when the terminal is in the connected state, it still maintains the configured valid timer for idle state or inactive state measurement, but does not perform idle state or inactive state measurement, that is, does not require The behavior of a connected state terminal to perform idle state or inactive state measurements.

scene 2,

The first processing unit 22, when entering the connection state, terminates the timer.

In addition, the first processing unit 22, after completing the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state or the inactive state again, re-acquires the idle state or the inactive state measurement configuration, and reconfigures the timer.

That is to say, if the UE acquires a measurement configuration that is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), when a TAU occurs, the terminal enters the connected state and terminates the timer.

After the terminal completes the TAU, it must obtain the idle state or inactive state configuration and reconfigure a timer when it enters the idle state again. This solution does not require the terminal to keep the timer when state transition occurs, but may bring unnecessary overhead for acquiring the measurement configuration.

It should also be pointed out that this embodiment can provide a process for the aforementioned scenarios: when the terminal device is updating the area, the terminal can indicate whether the network needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, or the network side can re-acquire the measurement configuration after performing the area update. When the terminal is sent back to the idle state or the inactive state, it decides whether it needs to reconfigure the measurement configuration of the idle state and the inactive state.

This embodiment is directed to the processing on the terminal device side. When the first communication unit performs an area update, the terminal device sends indication information to the network side; wherein the indication information is used to indicate whether the network side needs to re-report to the network side. The terminal equipment sends idle state or inactive state measurement configuration.

Finally, it should be noted that, the foregoing manner of sending the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration may be through RRC dedicated signaling.

It can be seen that by adopting the above solution, after the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration can be configured, the terminal can reasonably handle the idle state or inactive state measurement mechanism configured by the network in the area update, so as to determine whether the terminal device is re-configured. The acquisition of the measurement configuration in the idle state or inactive state is clearly defined, so that unnecessary processing of acquiring the measurement configuration again can be avoided.

Embodiment six,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, including:

a second communication unit, configuring an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration for the terminal device;

Wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

Specifically, the solutions provided by this embodiment are described below based on several scenarios:

scene 1,

The second communication unit, when the terminal device completes the area update and the timer has not expired, if the terminal device has not entered the idle state, when the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration needs to be re-acquired, directly in the The connected state of the terminal device sends the measurement configuration.

That is to say, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration acquired by the terminal is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), and when a TAU occurs, even if the terminal enters the connected state, the timer is still in progress.

What needs to be avoided here is that the terminal enters the idle state or the inactive state after the TAU ends, but enters the connected state because it needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, because this will lead to frequent signaling.

In order to avoid unnecessary re-acquiring configuration overhead, in this scenario, the configuration terminal can also retain the measurement configuration after the timer expires, and continue to use it after entering the idle state.

If the UE is in the connected state, but the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration timer has not ended, the UE may not perform the idle state or inactive state measurement because the UE is in the connected state at this time. This scheme can coordinate the conflict between the timer scheme and the regional scheme, so that even when the terminal is in the connected state, it still maintains the configured valid timer for idle state or inactive state measurement, but does not perform idle state or inactive state measurement, that is, does not require The behavior of a connected state terminal to perform idle state or inactive state measurements.

scene 2,

The second communication unit, when the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state again, re-sends the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device, and reconfigures the timer.

That is to say, if the UE acquires a measurement configuration that is valid in an area (but the area is not defined by TA), when a TAU occurs, the terminal enters the connected state and terminates the timer.

After the terminal completes the TAU, it must obtain the idle state or inactive state configuration and reconfigure a timer when it enters the idle state again. This solution does not require the terminal to keep the timer when state transition occurs, but may bring unnecessary overhead for acquiring the measurement configuration.

It should also be pointed out that a process that this embodiment can provide for the aforementioned scenarios is: when the terminal device updates the area, the terminal can instruct the network whether it needs to re-acquire the measurement configuration, or the network side can re-acquire the measurement configuration after the RNAU is executed. When it is sent back to the idle state or the inactive state, it is decided whether to reconfigure the measurement configuration of the idle state and the inactive state.

This embodiment is directed to the processing on the network side, and the second communication unit determines whether the terminal device needs to be reconfigured in the idle state when the terminal device is returned to the idle state or the inactive state after executing the RNAU. or inactive measurement configuration.

Finally, it should be noted that, the foregoing manner of sending the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration may be through RRC dedicated signaling.

It can be seen that by adopting the above solution, after the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration can be configured, the terminal can reasonably handle the idle state or inactive state measurement mechanism configured by the network in the area update, so as to determine whether the terminal device is re-configured. The acquisition of the measurement configuration in the idle state or inactive state is clearly defined, so that unnecessary processing of acquiring the measurement configuration again can be avoided.

Embodiment 7.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device in an idle state or an inactive state, as shown in FIG. 3 , including:

The third processing unit 31, when leaving the current cell, if no area update occurs, releases the current idle state or inactive state measurement configuration, or initiates a connection request to enter the connected state through the third communication unit to obtain the idle state or inactive state from the network side Active state measurement configuration; if an area update occurs, at the same time as the area update is performed, the third communication unit indicates to the network side that the measurement configuration in the idle state or the inactive state is required;

The third communication unit 32 obtains the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration from the network side, or indicates to the network side that the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is required.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device of the embodiment of the invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

Further, the third communication unit acquires RRC signaling from the network side, and acquires an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration based on the RRC signaling.

Embodiment eight,

An embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, as shown in FIG. 4 , including:

The fourth processing unit 41, when the terminal device leaves the current cell, if no area update occurs, the terminal device initiates a connection request to enter the connected state, and sends the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device; if the When an area update occurs in the terminal device, it is determined whether the measurement configuration in the idle state or the inactive state needs to be sent to the terminal device;

The fourth communication unit 42 sends the updated idle state or inactive state measurement configuration to the terminal device.

The area update described in this embodiment may be a TAU (Tracking Area Update) tracking area update, or may be a registration area update RAU (Registration Area Update), or may be an inactive RNAU (RAN-based Notification Area Update) .

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention can effectively utilize the idle state measurement mechanism of the network configuration by reasonably processing the TAU. The present invention is not only suitable for LTE system, but also suitable for NR system, suitable for RRC idle state and RRC inactive state.

The fourth communication unit 42 sends the measurement configuration of the idle state or the inactive state to the terminal device through RRC signaling.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a hardware composition architecture of user equipment or network equipment, as shown in FIG. 5 , including: at least one processor 51 , memory 52 , and at least one network interface 53 . The various components are coupled together by a bus system 54 . It will be appreciated that the bus system 54 is used to implement the connection communication between these components. In addition to the data bus, the bus system 54 also includes a power bus, a control bus and a status signal bus. However, for the sake of clarity, the various buses are designated as bus system 54 in FIG. 5 .

It can be understood that the memory 52 in the embodiment of the present invention may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory.

In some embodiments, memory 52 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or subsets thereof, or extensions thereof:

Operating system 521 and application programs 522 .

Wherein, the processor 51 is configured to be able to process the method steps of any one of the foregoing embodiments 1 to 4, which will not be repeated here.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores computer-executable instructions, and when the computer-executable instructions are executed, implements the method steps of any one of the foregoing first to fourth embodiments.

If the foregoing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention is implemented in the form of a software function module and sold or used as an independent product, it may also be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of software products in essence or the parts that make contributions to the prior art. The computer software products are stored in a storage medium and include several instructions for A computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) is caused to execute all or part of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present invention. The aforementioned storage medium includes: a U disk, a removable hard disk, a read only memory (ROM, Read Only Memory), a magnetic disk or an optical disk and other mediums that can store program codes. As such, embodiments of the present invention are not limited to any particular combination of hardware and software.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, and therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiments.

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1. A measurement method, applied to terminal equipment in an idle state or an inactive state, the method comprising: Obtain an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration and start a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell . 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the terminal device performs an area update, the method further comprises: When the terminal device enters the connected state, the timer is terminated. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises: When the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state or the inactive state again, the terminal device re-acquires the idle state or the inactive state measurement configuration, and reconfigures the timer. 4. A measurement method, applied to a network device, the method comprising: Configure an idle state or inactive state measurement configuration for the terminal device; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device includes at least one cell. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method further comprises: After the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters the idle state or the inactive state again, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is re-sent to the terminal device, and the timer is reconfigured. 6. A terminal device, comprising: The first communication unit acquires an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration and starts a timer; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the application of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device The area contains at least one cell. 7. The terminal device according to claim 6, wherein the first processing unit, when entering the connection state, terminates the timer. 8. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the first processing unit, after completing the area update and entering the idle state or the inactive state again, re-acquires the idle state or the inactive state measurement configuration, and Reconfigure the timer. 9. A network device, comprising: The second communication unit configures an idle state or an inactive state measurement configuration for the terminal device; wherein, the idle state or inactive state measurement configuration is for the area where the terminal device is currently located, and the applicable area of the measurement configuration currently configured by the terminal device contains at least one cell. 10 . The network device according to claim 9 , wherein the second communication unit, after the terminal device completes the area update and the terminal device enters an idle state or an inactive state again, returns to the network device. 10 . The terminal device sends idle or inactive measurement configuration and reconfigures the timer. 11. A terminal device comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program that can run on the processor, Wherein, the processor is configured to execute the steps of the method of any one of claims 1-3 when running the computer program. 12. A network device comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program executable on the processor, Wherein, the processor is configured to execute the steps of the method of any one of claims 4-5 when running the computer program. 13. A computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, implement the method steps of any one of claims 1-5.

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