CN112399494A

CN112399494A - Wireless communication method and communication device

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Publication number: CN112399494A
Application number: CN201910755312.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 石小丽; 亨里克·奥鲁佛松; 张宏卓
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-15
Filing date: 2019-08-15
Publication date: 2021-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 2039-08-15
Also published as: CN112399494B; WO2021027660A1

Abstract

The application provides a wireless communication method and a communication device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a terminal device sends first indication information used for indicating whether a first report is available or not to a target network device, wherein the first report is a report recorded by the terminal device under a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), and the target network device is a network device adopting a second RAT. Thus, the first report can be prevented from being lost due to the failure of the target network device to process the first report.

Description

Wireless communication method and communication device

Technical Field

The present embodiments relate to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and a communication apparatus for wireless communication.

Background

With the development of communication technology, an evolved node base (eNB) of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system may be evolved into a Next Generation LTE base station (Next Generation eNB). The ng-eNB may be connected to a fifth generation core network (5 GC), so that a User Equipment (UE) is accessed to the 5GC through the ng-eNB, and the ng-eNB provides a radio transmission resource for the UE through a 4G air interface access technology E-UTRA and provides a service of the 5GC for the UE. Meanwhile, The ng-eNB may also be connected to The Evolved Packet Core (EPC) of The 4generation mobile communication technology (4G), so that The UE accesses The EPC through The ng-eNB to provide The UE with a service of The EPC. In an actual deployment, the ng-eNB may be connected only with the 5GC or EPC, or the ng-eNB may be connected with both the 5GC and EPC.

A new air interface access technology (new radio, NR) is defined in the 5th generation mobile communication technology, 5 GS. The terminal device can access 5GC through the NR base station gNB. An access network (RAN) of the 5G system may be referred to as a next generation RAN (NG-RAN). The nodes of the NG-RAN include the NG-eNB and the gNB. Since NG-RAN includes multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs), for example, E-UTRA and NR connected to 5GC, when a UE moves between cells of the multiple RATs, there are some base stations in the current network that do not support reading reports generated under other RATs, for example, Radio Link Failure (RLF) reports, that is, some base stations cannot recognize reports generated under RATs different from the RAT of the serving base station reported by the UE, so that the base station discards the reports because the reports cannot be read, and the UE discards the reports after sending the reports, thereby resulting in report loss. Eventually reducing the performance of self-organization networks (SON) and Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT).

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a wireless communication method and a communication device, which can avoid report loss.

In a first aspect, a wireless communication method is provided, which may be executed by a terminal device or a module (e.g., a chip) configured in the terminal device, and the method is described as an example executed by the terminal device.

The method comprises the following steps: generating first indication information by a terminal device, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether a first report is available, and the first report is a report recorded by the terminal device under a first Radio Access Technology (RAT); and the terminal equipment sends first indication information to the target network equipment, wherein the target network equipment adopts a second RAT.

Here, "a report recorded under the first radio access technology RAT" may also be understood as a report corresponding to the first RAT, or a report of the first RAT.

Herein, a "report recorded under a first radio access technology, RAT", may be understood as a report recorded (or, stated otherwise, generated or obtained) by a terminal device under the service of a source network device using the first RAT.

Alternatively, "a report recorded under a first radio access technology, RAT," may be understood as the first report being a report recorded or generated by a terminal device when communicating using the first RAT.

Alternatively, "a report recorded under the first radio access technology RAT" may be understood as that the first report is a report recorded by the terminal device when an abnormality or a failure (e.g., a radio link failure) occurs in a link (or connection) between the terminal device and the source network device based on the first RAT.

In the present application, "whether or not the first report is available" may be understood as whether or not the first report is recorded (or stored) in the terminal device.

The present application may be applied to a scenario in which a terminal device moves or switches from a cell of one RAT to a cell of another RAT, and the target network device may be a network device providing a target cell to which movement or switching is required.

Optionally, the first RAT may comprise a RAT used by the NG-eNB and the second RAT may comprise a RAT used by the eNB. Alternatively, the second RAT may comprise a RAT used by the NG-eNB and the first RAT may comprise a RAT used by the eNB.

Alternatively, the first RAT may comprise a RAT used by the NG-eNB and the second RAT may comprise a RAT used by the gNB. Alternatively, the second RAT may comprise a RAT used by the NG-eNB and the first RAT may comprise a RAT used by the gNB.

Still alternatively, the first RAT may include a RAT used by the eNB, and the second RAT may include a RAT used by the gNB. Alternatively, the second RAT may include a RAT used by the eNB, and the first RAT may include a RAT used by the gNB.

According to the scheme of the application, the terminal device sends the first indication information to the network device, and the first indication information comprises information about whether the first report is available or not, so that the network device determines whether the first report is supported or not according to the first indication information, the situation that the first report is lost due to the fact that the network device requests the first report and cannot interpret the first report when the RAT corresponding to the first report is unknown is avoided, and finally the performance of the SON and the MDT is not affected due to the fact that the report recorded by the terminal device is lost.

By way of example and not limitation, the first indication information in this application may include one information element, and the one information element indicates whether a report of the first RAT is available, for example, if the first RAT is NR and the report is RLF report, when the report is available, the first indication information may be RLF report available of NR (NRrlf-InfoAvailable).

For another example, in the present application, the first indication information may include at least two information elements, and the one information element indicates an identifier of the first RAT, and the other information element indicates whether a report is available, for example, if the first RAT is NR and the report is an RLF report, when the report is available, the one information element in the first indication information may be an identifier of NR and the other information element may be an RLF report available (RLF-InfoAvailable). That is, in this case, the first indication information may include an identification (or identification information) of the first RAT.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first RAT and the second RAT may be a combination of any two of the following RATs: NR for 5G systems, E-UTRA for LTE systems, UTRA for 3G systems, or WLAN.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first RAT may be any one of: 5G, NR, LTE, E-UTRA, 3G, UTRA, or WLAN.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, UE movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first indication information includes at least one of the following indications: an RLF report available indication (e.g., RLF-info available), a connection setup failure report available indication (e.g., connEstFailInfoAvailable), an RACH report available indication (e.g., RACH-info available), a log measurement report available indication (e.g., logMeasAvailable), a secondary base station connection failure report available indication (e.g., scgfailurenfailable), an idle mode measurement report available indication (e.g., idlemeaseavailable), a flightway report available indication (e.g., flightPathInfoAvailable), and a mobility history information available indication (e.g., mobilityHistoryAvail).

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the first indication information is carried in a newly defined air interface message, or the first indication information is carried in an air interface message in the prior art, and sent to the target network device, for example, the first indication information is carried in any one of the following air interface messages: RRC reestablishment complete message (rrcreestablistercomplete), RRC recovery complete message (RRCResumeComplete), RRC setup complete message (RRCSetupComplete), or RRC reconfiguration complete message (rrcreeconfigurationcomplete).

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first report includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the first indication information indicates whether the first report is available in a "true" and/or "false" manner. For example, when the value carried in the first indication information is true, the first indication information indicates that the first report is available; when the value carried in the first indication information is false, the first indication information indicates that the first report is unavailable.

For example, the first RAT is NR and the second RAT is LTE. The terminal device sends an RLF report to a target network device adopting a second RAT, the first indication information may be represented as NRrlf-InfoAvailable, where "NR" represents that the report is a report of an NR technology, and "RLF" represents that the available information indicates that the available information is an available information indication of an RLF report, and the target network device determines whether the RLF report of the NR technology is indicated by the target network device after receiving the first indication information (i.e., NRrlf-InfoAvailable). When the NRrlf-InfoAvailable is carried in the RRC connection reconfiguration complete message rrcconnectionreconfiguration complete, it can be expressed as:

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

rrcconnectionreconfiguration complete, it can be expressed as:

RRCConnectionReconfigurationComplete::＝SEQUENCE{

NRrlf-InfoAvailable ENUMERATED{true，false}

}

the first indication information indicates whether the first report is available through an enumeration function "ENUMERATED" enumerate "true" and/or "false", and the first indication information may also indicate whether the first report is available through a selection function "CHOICE" or a BOOLEAN value "bold", but the present application is not limited thereto.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the terminal device receives second indication information sent by the target network device, where the second indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device requests to send the first report:

the terminal equipment sends the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the second indication information is yes;

and the terminal equipment does not send the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the second indication information is negative.

Based on the scheme, the target network device determines whether the terminal device can provide the report of the first RAT according to the received first indication information, and sends the request information according to the processing capability and the requirement of the network device for the first RAT, and the terminal device sends or does not send the first report in response to the request of the network device, so that the first report can be effectively prevented from being lost.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the second indication information includes identification information of the first RAT.

For example, when the second indication information indicates both the request of the RLF report of LTE and the request of the RLF report of NR, the terminal device determines whether the network device requests the terminal device to transmit the first report through the identification information (i.e., NR) of the first RAT in the second indication information.

For example, the second indication information sent by the target network device includes request information for RACH report and request information for RLF report, and when the first RAT is 5G, the second indication information may be represented as:

for another example, the second indication information sent by the target network device includes request information of an RLF report of LTE and request information of an RLF report of NR, and the second indication information may be represented as:

the second indication information may indicate whether the network device requests a report through a BOOLEAN value "BOOLEAN", and the second indication information may also indicate whether the network device requests a report through an enumeration function or a selection function, but the application is not limited thereto.

Based on the scheme, when the second indication information includes a request indication of a report of the same type of a plurality of different RATs, the terminal device can determine the RAT corresponding to the report requested by the network device by indicating the identification information of the RAT, so that the terminal device and the RAT corresponding to the requested report are in consensus, and the report loss caused by the missending of the terminal device is avoided.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the terminal device receives third indication information sent by the target network device, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

Wherein "whether the target network device supports reporting of a RAT other than the second RAT" may be understood as: whether the target network device is capable of handling reports of RATs other than the second RAT.

Wherein "whether the target network device is capable of handling reporting of RATs other than the second RAT" may be understood as: whether the target network device is capable of receiving or forwarding reports of RATs other than the second RAT.

Wherein "whether the target network device is capable of handling reporting of RATs other than the second RAT" may be understood as: whether the target network device is capable of resolving reports of RATs other than the second RAT.

Wherein the report of the RAT other than the second RAT may be a first report.

With reference to the first aspect, in some embodiments of the first aspect, the terminal device sends the first report if a result indicated by the third indication information is yes; and the terminal equipment does not send the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the third indication information is negative.

Based on the scheme, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability information sent by the target network device, sends the first report under the condition that the report of the first RAT can be received, and does not send the first report under the condition that the report of the first RAT cannot be received, so that the situation that the first report is lost after the terminal device sends the first report which cannot be interpreted by the network device to the network device is avoided.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the terminal device receives the third indication information before sending the first indication information, and the terminal device sends the first indication information if a result of the third information indication is yes; and the terminal equipment does not send the first indication information or sends the first indication information under the condition that the result indicated by the third information is negative, wherein the first indication information indicates that a first report is unavailable.

Based on the scheme, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability information sent by the target network device, and determines whether the first indication information that the first report is available is sent to the network device, so that the situation that the first report is lost due to the fact that the network device cannot interpret after the network device requests to send the report when the first report is available is avoided.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the third indication information is included in the target network device capability information sent by the target network device to the terminal device.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the terminal device does not send the first report when the terminal device does not receive third indication information sent by the target network device within a preset time period, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

By way of example and not limitation, the preset time period may be in the following two forms.

Form 1: the preset time period is a period of time before the terminal device receives the first message.

The first message may be a message preset by a system or specified by a protocol for prohibiting the terminal device from sending the first report to the target network device. The first message may be an RRC connection reconfiguration complete message, an RRC reestablishment complete message, or a physical layer downlink control message.

The first message may also be a message for carrying third indication information, and when it is determined that the third indication information is not included in the first message after the terminal device receives the first message, the terminal device does not send the first report to the target network device. In another word, when the terminal device determines that the third indication information is not included in the first message after receiving the first message, the terminal device considers that the target network device does not support the first report, and the terminal device does not send the first report. The starting point of the preset time period may be a time point when the terminal device searches for the target network device (for example, an initial access signal of the target network device is searched for), or the starting point of the preset time period may be a time point when the terminal device establishes an RRC connection with the target network device (for example, an RRC establishment complete message is received), which is not limited in this scheme.

For example, the first message may be an RRC Reconfiguration Complete message (RRC Reconfiguration Complete), and after the terminal device receives the RRC Reconfiguration Complete message, it is determined that the RRC Reconfiguration Complete message does not include the third indication information, and then the terminal device considers that the network device does not have the capability of receiving the first report, and therefore, the first report is not sent to the network device.

Form 2: the preset time period can be indicated by a timer or a counter, and the preset time period is a time interval from the start of the timer to the expiration of the timer or before the expiration of the timer, or the preset time period is a time interval from the start of the counter to the zero resetting of the counter or the reaching of the maximum value.

Based on the scheme, when the terminal device does not receive the capability information sent by the network device within the preset time period, the default network device cannot receive the first report and does not send the first report to the network device, so that the situation that the first report is lost when the network device cannot receive the first report is avoided.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the third indication information includes identification information of a RAT corresponding to the report supported by the target network device.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the third indication information includes version information of the target network device. And the terminal equipment determines whether the target network equipment supports the first report according to the capability of the network equipment corresponding to the pre-stored version information.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the third indication information includes type information of reports supported by the target network device.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the third indication information includes identification information of the target network device.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain embodiments of the first aspect, the method further comprises: and the terminal equipment sends fourth indication information to the target network equipment, wherein the fourth indication information is used for indicating whether a second report is available, and the second report is a report recorded by the terminal equipment under a second RAT.

The "report recorded under the second RAT" may also be understood as a report corresponding to the second RAT, or a report of the second RAT.

Herein, the "report recorded under the second RAT" may be understood as a report recorded by the terminal device under the service of the target network device using the second RAT.

Alternatively, "a report recorded under a second RAT" may be understood as the second report being a report recorded or generated by the terminal device when communicating using the second RAT.

Alternatively, "a report recorded under the second RAT" may be understood as the second report recorded by the terminal device when an abnormality or a failure (e.g., a radio link failure) occurs in a link (or connection) between the terminal device and the target network device based on the second RAT.

In the present application, "whether or not the second report is available" may be understood as whether or not the second report is recorded (or stored) in the terminal device.

Optionally, the first indication information and the fourth indication information may be carried in the same message or packet. That is, the first indication information and the fourth indication information may be transmitted synchronously.

Or, the first indication information and the fourth indication information may be carried in different messages or messages. That is, the first indication information and the fourth indication information may be transmitted asynchronously.

In a second aspect, a method is provided, which may be executed by a network device or a module (e.g., a chip) configured in the network device, and is described as an example of the method executed by the network device.

The method comprises the following steps: receiving, by a target network device, first indication information sent by a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a first report is available, where the first report is a report of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) recorded by the terminal device, and the target network device is a network device using a second RAT; the target network device determines whether the first report is supported according to the identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain embodiments of the second aspect, the first RAT and the second RAT may be a combination of any two of the following: NR for 5G systems, E-UTRA for LTE systems, UTRA for 3G systems, or WLAN.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the first RAT may be any one of: 5G, NR, LTE, E-UTRA, 3G, UTRA, or WLAN.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain embodiments of the second aspect, the first report comprises at least one of the following reports: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, UE movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain embodiments of the second aspect, the first indication information includes at least one of the following indications: an RLF report available indication (e.g., RLF-info available), a connection setup failure report available indication (e.g., connEstFailInfoAvailable), an RACH report available indication (e.g., RACH-info available), a log measurement report available indication (e.g., logMeasAvailable), a secondary base station connection failure report available indication (e.g., scgfailurenfailable), an idle mode measurement report available indication (e.g., idlemeaseavailable), a flightway report available indication (e.g., flightPathInfoAvailable), and a mobility history information available indication (e.g., mobilityHistoryAvail).

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the first indication information is carried in a newly defined air interface message, or the first indication information is carried in an air interface message in the prior art, and sent to the target network device, for example, the first indication information is carried in any one of the following air interface messages: RRC reestablishment complete message (rrcreestablistercomplete), RRC recovery complete message (RRCResumeComplete), RRC setup complete message (RRCSetupComplete), or RRC reconfiguration complete message (rrcreeconfigurationcomplete).

With reference to the second aspect, in certain embodiments of the second aspect, the first report includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the first indication information indicates whether the first report is available in a "true" and/or "false" manner.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the target network device sends second indication information to the terminal device, where the second indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device requests the terminal device to send the first report.

In this case, the target network device receives the first report sent by the terminal device when the result indicated by the second indication information is yes;

and the target network equipment does not receive the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the second indication information is negative.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain embodiments of the second aspect, the second indication information includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the target network device sends third indication information to the terminal device, where the third indication information indicates whether the target network device supports reporting of a RAT other than the second RAT.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the target network device sends the first report if the result indicated by the third indication information is yes; and the terminal equipment does not send the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the third indication information is negative.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the target network device sends the third indication information before receiving the first indication information, and the target network device receives the first indication information sent by the terminal device if a result of the third information indication is yes; and the target network equipment does not receive the first indication information under the condition that the result indicated by the third information is negative.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the third indication information is included in the target network device capability information sent by the target network device to the terminal device.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, in a case that the target network device does not send third indication information within a preset time period, the target network device does not receive the first report, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

It should be noted that the preset time limit may include, but is not limited to, the form 1 and the form 2 mentioned in the first aspect.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the third indication information includes identification information of a RAT corresponding to the report supported by the target network device.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the third indication information includes version information of the target network device. And the terminal equipment determines whether the target network equipment supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability of the network equipment corresponding to the pre-stored version information.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the third indication information includes type information of reports supported by the target network device.

With reference to the second aspect, in some embodiments of the second aspect, the third indication information includes identification information of the target network device.

In a third aspect, a method is provided, which may be executed by a terminal device or a module (e.g. a chip) configured in the terminal device, and is described below as an example of the method executed by the terminal device.

The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment generates a first report, wherein the first report is a report of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) recorded by the terminal equipment; the method comprises the steps that a terminal device receives capability indication information sent by a target network device, wherein the target network device is a network device adopting a second RAT, and the capability indication information is used for indicating whether the target network device supports a report of an RAT other than the second RAT; the terminal device determines whether to send the first report according to the result indicated by the capability indication information.

Based on the scheme, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability information sent by the target network device, so that the terminal device and the network device can achieve consensus on the capability of receiving the report of the network device, and the situation that the first report is lost because the terminal device sends the first report to the network device under the condition that the network device cannot interpret the first report is avoided.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the method further comprises: the terminal equipment sends available report indication information under the condition that the result indicated by the capability indication information is yes; the terminal device does not send the report availability indication information or sends the report availability indication information under the condition that the result indicated by the capability indication information is negative, wherein the report availability indication information indicates that the first report is unavailable; the report available indication information is used for indicating whether the first report is available.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the reporting availability indication information includes identification information of the first RAT;

based on the scheme, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability information sent by the target network device, informs the network device whether the first report recorded by the terminal device is available when the network device supports the first report, and does not send the available indication of the first report to the network device when the network device does not support the first report, or informs the network device that the first report is unavailable, thereby avoiding the situation that the first report is lost due to the fact that the network device cannot interpret after the network device requests to send the report.

With reference to the third aspect, in some embodiments of the third aspect, in a case that the terminal device does not receive capability indication information sent by the target network device before a preset time limit, the terminal device does not send the first report, where the capability indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

It should be noted that the preset time limit may include, but is not limited to, the form 1 and the form 2 mentioned in the above first aspect, wherein the third indication message mentioned in the form 1 and the form 2 may be replaced by the capability indication information in the present solution.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the capability indication information includes identification information of a RAT to which the report corresponds, the RAT being supported by the target network device.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the capability indication information includes version information of the target network device. And the terminal equipment determines whether the target network equipment supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability of the network equipment corresponding to the pre-stored version information.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the capability indication information includes type information of reports supported by the target network device.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the capability indication information includes identification information of the target network device.

With reference to the third aspect, in some embodiments of the third aspect, the terminal device receives request information sent by the target network device, where the request information is used to indicate whether the target network device requests to send the first report; the terminal equipment sends the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the request indication information is yes; and the terminal equipment does not send the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the request indication information is negative.

Based on the scheme, the target network equipment determines whether the report corresponding to the receiving capability of the target network equipment is available according to the received report available indication information, and sends the request information according to the requirement, and the terminal equipment responds to the request of the network equipment and sends or does not send the first report, so that the first report can be effectively prevented from being lost.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the request indication information includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the first report includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain embodiments of the third aspect, the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, UE movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

In the fourth aspect, the method may be executed by a network device or a module (e.g., a chip) configured in the network device, and the method is described as being executed by the network device.

The method comprises the following steps: and the capability indication information is sent to the terminal equipment by the target network equipment, the target network equipment is the network equipment adopting the second RAT, and the capability indication information is used for indicating whether the target network equipment supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the target network device receives report availability indication information sent by a terminal device, where the report availability indication information is used to indicate whether the first report is available; in a case where a result of the capability indication information indication is no, the report available indication information indicates that the first report is not available.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in certain embodiments of the fourth aspect, the reporting availability indication information comprises identification information of the first RAT;

with reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in a case that the network device does not send capability indication information before a preset time limit, the network device does not receive the first report, where the capability indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the capability indication information includes identification information of a RAT to which the report supported by the target network device corresponds.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the capability indication information includes version information of the target network device. And the terminal equipment determines whether the target network equipment supports the report of the first RAT according to the capability of the network equipment corresponding to the pre-stored version information.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the capability indication information includes type information of reports supported by the target network device.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the capability indication information includes identification information of the target network device.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the target network device sends request information to the terminal device, where the request information is used to indicate whether the target network device requests the terminal device to send the first report; the network equipment receives the first report sent by the terminal equipment under the condition that the result indicated by the request information is yes; and the network equipment does not receive the first report under the condition that the result indicated by the request information is negative.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the request information includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in certain embodiments of the fourth aspect, the first report includes identification information of the first RAT.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in certain embodiments of the fourth aspect, the first report comprises at least one of the following reports: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, UE movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

In a fifth aspect, a method for wireless communication is provided, where the method is performed by a terminal device or a module (e.g., a chip) configured in the terminal device, and the method is performed by the terminal device as an example.

The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment generates a first report, wherein the first report is a report of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) recorded by the terminal equipment; and under the condition that the terminal equipment does not receive capability indication information sent by the target network equipment within a preset time period, the terminal equipment does not send the first report, wherein the capability indication information is used for indicating whether the target network equipment supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT, and the target network equipment adopts the second RAT.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in a case that the terminal device receives the capability information sent by the target network device within a preset time limit, the terminal device adopts the same execution manner as in the first aspect or the third aspect, which is not described herein again.

In a sixth aspect, a method for wireless communication is provided, where the method is performed by a network device or a module (e.g., a chip) configured in the network device, and the method is performed by the network device as an example.

The method comprises the following steps: and the target network equipment transmits capability indication information to the terminal equipment within a preset time period under the condition that the target network equipment supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT, wherein the capability indication information is used for indicating whether the target network equipment supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT, and the target network equipment is the network equipment adopting the second RAT.

Or, the target network device does not send capability indication information to the terminal device within a preset time period when the target network device cannot process the report of the RAT other than the second RAT, where the capability indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT, and the target network device is a network device using the second RAT.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some embodiments of the sixth aspect, in a case that the target network device sends the capability information within a preset time limit, the target network device adopts the same execution manner as in the second aspect or the third aspect, which is not described herein again.

In a seventh aspect, a communication device is provided that includes various means or units for performing the method of the first, third, or fifth aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the first, third, or fifth aspect.

In an eighth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided that includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and is operable to perform the method of the first, third or fifth aspect and any possible implementation of the first, third or fifth aspect. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a memory. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a communication interface, the processor being coupled to the communication interface.

In one implementation, the communication device is a terminal device. When the communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver, or an input/output interface.

In another implementation, the communication device is a chip configured in the terminal equipment. When the communication device is a chip configured in a terminal device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface.

Alternatively, the transceiver may be a transmit-receive circuit. Alternatively, the input/output interface may be an input/output circuit.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a communications apparatus comprising means for performing the method of the second, fourth or sixth aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the second or fourth aspect.

In a tenth aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and is operable to execute the instructions in the memory to implement the method of the second or fourth aspect described above and any possible implementation of the second or fourth aspect. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a memory. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a communication interface, the processor being coupled to the communication interface.

In one implementation, the communication device is a network device. When the communication device is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver, or an input/output interface.

In another implementation, the communication device is a chip configured in the network device. When the communication device is a chip configured in a network device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface.

In an eleventh aspect, a processor is provided, including: input circuit, output circuit and processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a signal through the input circuit and transmit a signal through the output circuit, such that the processor is the method in any possible implementation manner of the first, third, or fifth aspect and any one of the first, third, or fifth aspect.

In a specific implementation process, the processor may be a chip, the input circuit may be an input pin, the output circuit may be an output pin, and the processing circuit may be a transistor, a gate circuit, a flip-flop, various logic circuits, and the like. The input signal received by the input circuit may be received and input by, for example and without limitation, a receiver, the signal output by the output circuit may be output to and transmitted by a transmitter, for example and without limitation, and the input circuit and the output circuit may be the same circuit that functions as the input circuit and the output circuit, respectively, at different times. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific implementation manner of the processor and various circuits.

In a twelfth aspect, a processing apparatus is provided that includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to read instructions stored in the memory, and may receive a signal via the receiver and transmit a signal via the transmitter to perform the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to fourth aspects and the first to fourth aspects.

Optionally, the number of the processors is one or more, and the number of the memories is one or more.

Alternatively, the memory may be integral to the processor or provided separately from the processor.

In a specific implementation process, the memory may be a non-transient memory, such as a Read Only Memory (ROM), which may be integrated on the same chip as the processor, or may be separately disposed on different chips.

It will be appreciated that the associated data interaction process, for example, sending the indication information, may be a process of outputting the indication information from the processor, and receiving the capability information may be a process of receiving the input capability information from the processor. In particular, the data output by the processor may be output to a transmitter and the input data received by the processor may be from a receiver. The transmitter and receiver may be collectively referred to as a transceiver, among others.

The processor in the above twelfth aspect may be a chip, and may be implemented by hardware or software, and when implemented by hardware, the processor may be a logic circuit, an integrated circuit, or the like; when implemented in software, the processor may be a general-purpose processor implemented by reading software code stored in a memory, which may be integrated with the processor, located external to the processor, or stand-alone.

In a thirteenth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising: a computer program (which may also be referred to as code, or instructions), which when executed, causes a computer to perform the method of any of the possible implementations of the first to fourth aspects and of the first to fourth aspects described above.

In a fourteenth aspect, a computer-readable medium is provided, which stores a computer program (which may also be referred to as code or instructions) that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to fourth aspects and the first to fourth aspects.

In a fifteenth aspect, a communication system is provided, which includes the aforementioned network device and terminal device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a wireless communication method of the present application.

Fig. 3 is another schematic flow chart of a method of wireless communication of the present application.

Fig. 4 is another schematic flow chart of a method of wireless communication of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of an example of the wireless communication apparatus according to the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of an example of a terminal device according to the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of an example of a network device according to the present application.

Fig. 8 is another schematic architecture diagram of the communication system of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: global system for mobile communications (GSM) systems, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) systems, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) systems, LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD) systems, LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (universal mobile telecommunications system, UMTS), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication systems, future fifth generation (5G) or new radio Vehicle (3556), wherein a radio Vehicle (V-r) N, a Vehicle for transmitting radio signals (NR 2V-r) may be used, V2V), Vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), Vehicle to pedestrian (V2P), etc., Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution-Vehicle) for Vehicle to Vehicle communication, Internet of Vehicle (Vehicle to Machine communication, MTC), Internet of Things (Internet of Things, IoT), Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution-Machine) for Machine to Machine (Machine to Machine, M2M), etc.

Fig. 1 is a diagram of a wireless communication system 100 suitable for use in embodiments of the present application.

As shown in fig. 1, the wireless communication system 100 may include at least one network device, such as the network device 110 shown in fig. 1, and the wireless communication system 100 may also include at least one terminal device, such as the terminal device 120 shown in fig. 1. The network equipment and the terminal equipment can be both provided with a plurality of antennas, and the network equipment and the terminal equipment can communicate by using a multi-antenna technology.

Fig. 8 is a schematic system architecture diagram of the communication system of the present application. The eNB of The LTE system may be connected to The Evolved Packet Core (EPC) of 4G through S1-MME and S1-U interfaces, provide a radio transmission resource for The UE through a 4G air interface access technology E-UTRAN, and provide a service of The EPC for The UE. Wherein, the S1-MME interface is a control plane interface between a Mobility Management Entity (MME) and the E-UTRAN. The S1-U interface is the user plane interface between the serving gateway (S-GW) and the E-UTRAN.

The gNB in the NR system may be connected to the 5th generation core network (5 GC) through an NG-C, NG-U interface, and provide a radio transmission resource for a User Equipment (UE) through a 5G air interface access technology NR, without providing a 5GC service to the UE. An access network (RAN) of the 5G system may be referred to as a next generation RAN (NG-RAN). Wherein NG-C is a control plane interface between NG-RAN and 5 GC. NG-U is the user plane interface between NG-RAN and 5 GC.

The eNB for LTE may evolve to a next generation LTE base station ng-eNB. The NG-eNB can be connected with the 4G EPC through S1-MME and S1-U interfaces, so that the UE can access the EPC through the NG-eNB, and can also be connected with the 5GC through an NG-C, NG-U interface, so that the UE can access the 5GC through the NG-eNB, and the NG-eNB provides wireless transmission resources for the UE through a 4G air interface access technology E-UTRA and provides services of the 5GC for the UE. In an actual deployment, the ng-eNB may be connected only with the 5GC or EPC, or the ng-eNB may be connected with both the 5GC and EPC. The NG-RAN node includes a NG-eNB and a gNB.

The terminal device in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment. The terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may be a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet (pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an Augmented Reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in self driving (self driving), a wireless terminal in remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in transportation security (transportation security), a wireless terminal in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a session initiation protocol (session initiation protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local area, PDA) station, a personal digital assistant (wldigital assistant), a handheld wireless communication device with a wireless transceiving function, and a handheld personal communication device with a wireless communication function, A computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a 5G network or a terminal device in a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for future evolution, etc.

Wherein, wearable equipment also can be called as wearing formula smart machine, is the general term of using wearing formula technique to carry out intelligent design, developing the equipment that can dress to daily wearing, like glasses, gloves, wrist-watch, dress and shoes etc.. A wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also realizes powerful functions through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable smart device includes full functionality, large size, and can implement full or partial functionality without relying on a smart phone, such as: smart watches or smart glasses and the like, and only focus on a certain type of application functions, and need to be used in cooperation with other devices such as smart phones, such as various smart bracelets for physical sign monitoring, smart jewelry and the like.

In addition, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an internet of things (IoT) system. The IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and is mainly technically characterized in that articles are connected with a network through a communication technology, so that an intelligent network with man-machine interconnection and object interconnection is realized.

It should be understood that the present application is not limited to the particular form of the terminal device.

The network device in the embodiment of the present application may be any device having a wireless transceiving function. Such devices include, but are not limited to: evolved Node B (eNB), Radio Network Controller (RNC), Node B (Node B, NB), Base Station Controller (BSC), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Home Base Station (e.g., Home evolved NodeB, or Home Node B, HNB), BaseBand Unit (Base band Unit, BBU), Access Point (AP) in Wireless Fidelity (WIFI) system, Wireless relay Node, Wireless backhaul Node, Transmission Point (TP) or transmission and reception Point (TRP, or TP) in 5G (e.g., NR) system, or one or a set of antennas (including multiple antennas, NB, or a transmission panel) of a Base Station in 5G system, such as a baseband unit (BBU), or a Distributed Unit (DU), etc.

In some deployments, the gNB may include a Centralized Unit (CU) and a DU. The gNB may further include an Active Antenna Unit (AAU). The CU implements part of the function of the gNB, and the DU implements part of the function of the gNB, for example, the CU is responsible for processing non-real-time protocols and services, and implementing functions of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer and a packet data convergence layer (PDCP) layer. The DU is responsible for processing a physical layer protocol and a real-time service, and implements functions of a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, and a Physical (PHY) layer. The AAU implements part of the physical layer processing functions, radio frequency processing and active antenna related functions. Since the information of the RRC layer eventually becomes or is converted from the information of the PHY layer, the higher layer signaling, such as the RRC layer signaling, may also be considered to be transmitted by the DU or by the DU + AAU under this architecture. It is to be understood that the network device may be a device comprising one or more of a CU node, a DU node, an AAU node. In addition, the CU may be divided into network devices in an access network (RAN), or may be divided into network devices in a Core Network (CN), which is not limited in this application.

The network device provides a service for a cell, and a terminal device communicates with the cell through a transmission resource (e.g., a frequency domain resource, or a spectrum resource) allocated by the network device, where the cell may belong to a macro base station (e.g., a macro eNB or a macro gNB), or may belong to a base station corresponding to a small cell (small cell), where the small cell may include: urban cell (metro cell), micro cell (microcell), pico cell (pico cell), femto cell (femto cell), etc., and these small cells have the characteristics of small coverage and low transmission power, and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission service.

Fig. 2 illustrates an exemplary flowchart of a method for wireless communication provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Prior to S210, the serving network device of the terminal device is changed from network device #1 to network device #2 (i.e., an example of the target network device), where network device #1 is a network device employing RAT #1 (i.e., an example of the first RAT) and network device #2 is a network device employing RAT #2 (i.e., an example of the second RAT).

For example, the method may be applied to a case where the terminal device fails in the NR and then switches to the LTE, or the method may also be applied to a case where the terminal device fails in the LTE and then switches to the NR.

As shown in fig. 2, in S210, the terminal apparatus transmits instruction information #1 (i.e., an example of first instruction information) to the network apparatus #2, the instruction information #1 indicating whether the report #1 is available. Report #1 is a report of RAT #1 recorded by the terminal device.

Wherein, RAT #1 and RAT #2 are different radio access technologies.

By way of example and not limitation, RAT #1 and RAT #2 may be a combination of any two of the following RATs: NR for 5G systems, E-UTRA for eLTE or LTE systems, UTRA for 3G systems, or WLAN.

Note that the indication information #1 is used to indicate whether the report #1 is available, where "available" indicates whether the terminal device stores or records the report indicated by the indication information, so that the network device can determine whether the report indicated by the indication information is needed according to the indication information. It can also be said that "available" indicates whether the terminal device has stored or recorded the indicated report for use by the network device for recall.

The indication information #1 may be carried in an air interface message and sent to the network device #2, where the air interface message may be an air interface message in the prior art, or may be a newly defined air interface message, and the application is not limited herein.

It should be noted that the air interface message may be a message specified by the RAT used by the network device #2 and used for communication between the terminal device and the network device.

For example, when the network device #2 is an NR network device, the air interface message carrying the indication information #1 may be any one of the following messages: RRC reestablishment completion message (RRC reestablishment completion), RRC recovery completion message (RRC resume completion), RRC setup completion message (RRC setup completion), and RRC reconfiguration completion message (RRC reconfiguration completion).

For another example, when the network device #2 is a network device of LTE, the air interface message carrying the indication information #1 may be any one of the following messages: RRC connection reestablishment completion message (RRC connection reestablishment Complete), RRC connection restoration completion message (RRC connection resume Complete), RRC connection setup completion message (RRC connection setup Complete), and RRC connection reconfiguration completion message (RRC connection reconfiguration Complete).

By way of example and not limitation, report #1 may be any one type of report from the following reports:

RLF report (RLF-report), which is a report recorded when the UE has a radio link failure, and the content of the report may refer to the report content of the report recorded when the terminal device has a radio link failure, which is specified in the radio communication protocols such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331. Accordingly, the indication information #1 is an RLF report available indication, e.g., RLF-informational

A connection establishment failure report (connestfaillnfo), which is a report recorded when a terminal device has failed in establishing a connection, may refer to the report content of the report recorded when a terminal device fails in establishing a connection, which is specified in the wireless communication protocols such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331. Accordingly, the indication information #1 is an indication that a connection setup failure report is available, for example, connEstFailInfoAvailable.

RACH report (RACH-report), which is a report of random access failure or success recording, the content of the report may refer to the prior art (e.g., the report content of the report recorded by the terminal device when the random access failure or success occurs, as specified in the wireless communication protocols such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, the indication information #1 is an indication that RACH report is available, e.g., RACH-infoavailable.

Log measurement report (logmeas), which is a measurement report logged in idle state of UE, i.e. MDT measurement log report, and the content of the report may refer to the prior art (for example, the content of the report of the measurement report generated by the terminal device performing measurement specified in the wireless communication protocol, such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, the indication information #1 is a log measurement report available indication, for example, logMeasAvailable.

The content of the report may refer to the prior art (for example, the report content of the report recorded by the terminal device when the connection failure of the secondary base station occurs, which is specified in the wireless communication protocol, such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, the indication information #1 is an indication that the secondary base station connection failure report is available, such as scgfailurenfoavailable.

Idle mode measurement report (flightPathInfo), which is used to indicate the report of idle mode measurement by the terminal device, and the content of the report may refer to the prior art (for example, the report content of the measurement report recorded when the terminal device performs idle mode measurement, which is specified in the wireless communication protocols such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, the indication information #1 is an idle mode measurement report available indication, e.g., idleMeasAvailable.

The content of the report may refer to the prior art (for example, the report content of the flight line report recorded when the terminal device performs air flight, which is specified in the wireless communication protocols such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, indication information #1 is an available indication of flight route reporting, e.g., flightPathInfoAvailable.

The mobility history information (flightPathInfo) includes mobility history information of the terminal device, including information of a cell in which the terminal device is camped, and the like. The content of the report may refer to the prior art (for example, information content of the movement history information recorded when the terminal device moves as specified in the wireless communication protocol such as 3GPP TS 38.331 and TS 36.331). Accordingly, the indication information #1 is a mobile history information available indication, for example, mobilityHistoryAvail.

For example, if RAT #1 is the RAT used by NR and the report is RLF report, i.e. indication information #1 indicates that RLF report recorded under NR RAT is available, indication information #1 may be denoted as NRrlf-InfoAvailable.

For another example, the indication information #1 may indicate whether the report #1 is available in the form of true and/or false.

For example, RAT #1 is NR technology, network device #1 is a network device of NR technology, RAT #2 is LTE technology, and network device #2 is a network device of LTE technology. That is, the terminal apparatus moves from the network apparatus #1 employing the NR technique to the network apparatus #2 employing the LTE technique, and establishes an RRC connection with the network apparatus # 2. Taking the example that the terminal device sends the RLF report available indication to the network device, the indication information #1 is NRrlf-InfoAvailable, where "NR" indicates that the RLF report is a report of an NR technology, and then the network device may determine whether the RLF report indicated by the network device is available for the NR technology after receiving the indication information #1 (i.e., NRrlf-InfoAvailable). When the NRrlf-InfoAvailable is carried in the RRC connection reconfiguration complete message rrcconnectionreconfiguration complete, it can be expressed as:

as above, when the enumeration function estimated indicates "true", RLF report indicating the NR technique recorded by the terminal device is available, and since the NRrlf-InfoAvailable is "option", the configuration parameter is selectable. When the "NRrlf-InfoAvailable" indication is not configured in the RRCConnectionReconfigurationComplete message, the RLF report indicating the NR technique is not available. Conversely, the enumeration function estimated may indicate that the report is not available when the enumeration function estimated indicates "false", and indicate that the report is not available when the rrcconnectionreconfiguration complete message does not include the NRrlf-InfoAvailable indication.

Alternatively, it can be expressed as:

when the enumeration function estimated indicates "true", RLF reports indicating NR techniques recorded by the terminal device are available, and when the enumeration function estimated indicates "false", RLF reports indicating NR techniques recorded by the terminal device are not available. In addition, when the indication information #1 indicates that the RLF report of the NR technique is not available (or, when the indication information #1 is not present), the information element of ended may not be included.

Alternatively, the indication information #1 may also be expressed as a selection function choicee, or a boolean worth form indicating that a report is available or unavailable.

By way of example and not limitation, the message carrying the indication information #1 further includes reporting availability indication information for not having RAT identification, for indicating whether reporting of RAT adopted by the network device to which the terminal device is currently connected is available. For example, if the RAT used by the network device to which the UE is currently connected is LTE, indication information #1 carried in an RRC message of LTE to indicate that an RLF report of LTE is available may be denoted as "RLF-InfoAvailable".

Also, if the terminal device obtains (or records or generates) the report in RAT #2, the terminal device may also report indication information #4 (i.e., an example of the fourth indication information), and the indication information #4 may be used to indicate that the report of RAT #2 is available. For example, in the above example of reporting the RRC connection reconfiguration complete message by the RLF, the message further includes RLF-InfoAvailable, where RLF-InfoAvailable is used to indicate whether the RLF report of the network device currently connected to the terminal device, that is, the RAT adopted by the network device #2, that is, RAT #2, is available, and may be represented as follows:

by way of example and not limitation, each report available indication information carried in the message carrying indication information #1 includes identification information of the RAT to which the indicated report corresponds.

For example, in the above example where the RLF reports the RRC connection reconfiguration complete message, the message may also be represented as follows:

it should be understood that the specific form of the first indication information listed above is only an exemplary illustration, and the application is not limited thereto, and the content and form of the first indication information may be changed according to the actual communication situation of the terminal device (for example, the RAT where the report is obtained and the network device to which the report is handed over).

For example, when the terminal device records the RLF report under LTE and switches to the network device of NR, the first indication information may be represented as: LTERrlf-InfoAvailable

And, an air interface message carrying the first indication information, for example, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, may be represented as:

and, if the terminal device records the RLF report in the NR, the terminal device may also report the indication information of whether the RLF report of the NR is available.

s220, the network device #2 receives the indication information # 1.

Alternatively, the network device #2 may transmit indication information #2 (i.e., an example of second indication information), the indication information #2 indicating whether the network device #2 requests transmission of the report # 1.

S230, the terminal device receives the instruction information #2 transmitted by the network device # 2.

S240, the terminal device may determine whether to request transmission of the report #1 according to the indication information # 2.

In S250, when the network device #2 requests transmission of the report #1, the terminal device transmits the report # 1.

Upon receiving the indication information #1, the network device #2 determines whether the report #1 of RAT #1 indicated by the indication information #1 is available. And, when the report #1 of RAT #1 is available and the network device #2 supports or requires the report of RAT #1, the indication information #2 may be transmitted; when the network device #2 does not support the report of RAT #1, or the report #1 is not required, the network device may not transmit the indication information # 2.

When the network device #2 receives the report #1, the report #1 is sent to the network device #1, which can be used for the SON and/or the MDT of the network device #1 to ensure the performance of the SON and/or the MDT.

In this application, the indication information #2 may be carried in an air interface message sent by the network device to the terminal device, where the air interface message carrying the indication information #2 may be an air interface message in the prior art, or may be a newly defined air interface message, and this application is not limited to this. For example, the indication information #2 is carried in a UE information request message UEInformationRequest sent by the network device to the terminal device, and indicates that the network device needs a certain type of UE report in a certain RAT.

Example 1

The UEInformationRequest carries indication information #2, the report #1 is a random access report, and the indication information #2 is a random access report request rach-ReportReq, the message may be represented as follows:

example two, as an example and not limitation, the indication information #2 includes identification information of RAT # 1.

For example, if report #1 is a random access report in an NR network and indication information #2 is a random access report request message NRrach-ReportReq, the UEInformationRequest message may be represented as follows:

example three, the message carrying the indication information #2 includes only the identification information of the RAT other than RAT # 2. That is, the message carrying the indication information #2 only includes identification information of RATs other than the RAT adopted by the network device #2, and when a request indication does not include RAT identification, the request message indicates a report of the RAT adopted by the network device.

Example four, the indication information #1 may be used only to indicate whether RLF reporting for LTE is available and whether RLF reporting for NR is available.

Also, the indication information #2 may be used only to indicate whether the network device needs RLF reporting for LTE to be available and whether the network device needs RLF reporting for NR.

Also, the indication information #3 may be used only to indicate whether the network device supports RLF reporting for LTE and whether the network device supports RLF reporting for NR.

For example, RLF-ReportReq included in the UEInformationRequest message in the above example is used to indicate RLF reporting of RAT # 2.

By way of example and not limitation, the request indication information in the message carrying the indication information #2 each includes identification information of the RAT corresponding to the report indicated by each request indication.

For example, the UEInformationRequest message may be of the form:

the indication information #2 may indicate whether the network device requests a report through a BOOLEAN value BOOLEAN, and the indication information #2 may also indicate whether the network device requests a report through an enumeration function or a selection function, but the application is not limited thereto.

The terminal device may multiplex the air interface message of the prior art to send the report to the network device, or may send the report in a newly defined air interface message. For example, the terminal device sends the report in a UE information response message. May be any of the following:

the first method is as follows:

the second method comprises the following steps:

the third method comprises the following steps:

the format (for example, the above-described manner one to manner three) adopted by the air interface message carrying the report may be used in combination with the format (for example, the above-described example one to example four) of the air interface message carrying the indication information # 2. For example, in actual implementation, the format of the first mode used for carrying the air interface message of the report and the format of the air interface message carrying the indication information #2 are the format of example one, but the present application is not limited thereto.

Fig. 3 illustrates another exemplary flowchart of a method of wireless communication provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Prior to S310, the serving network device of the terminal device is changed from network device #1 to network device #2 (i.e., an example of the target network device), where network device #1 is a network device employing RAT #1 (i.e., an example of the first RAT) and network device #2 is a network device employing RAT #2 (i.e., an example of the second RAT).

S310, the network device #2 sends indication information #3 to the terminal device, where the indication information #3 indicates whether the network device supports the report of the RAT other than the second RAT.

By way of example and not limitation, in the present application, the indication information #3 may include at least one of the following forms.

Form 1

The indication information #3 includes information indicating whether the network device #2 has the capability to support (or otherwise handle) reporting of networks other than the RAT #2 network.

The indication information #3 may be represented by 0 or 1, for example, the information in the indication information #2 indicates 0, indicating that the network device #2 supports the report of other networks; indication 1 indicates that network device #2 does not support the reporting of other network devices, but the application is not limited thereto.

Form 2

The indication information #3 includes information indicating versions of the network device #2, and the protocol specifies or the system presets the capability of each version of the network device to receive reports of the respective RATs. Thus, the network device indirectly indicates the capability of the network device to receive reports of the respective RATs by indicating the version of the network device by the indication information # 3. After receiving the indication information #3, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports the report of each RAT according to the information of the network device version in the indication information #3, and further determines whether the network device #3 is capable of receiving the report of RAT # 1.

For example, the information indicating the version of the network device in the information #3 indicates that the network device #2 is a network device of version 15(release 15). If the network device of release 15 does not support the report of the received NR according to the protocol specification or system preset, the terminal device may determine that the network device #2 does not support the report of the received NR network after receiving the indication information # 3.

As another example, the information indicating the version of the information #3 network device indicates that the network device #2 is a version 16(release 16) network device. If the network device of the protocol specification or the system preset release 16 supports receiving the report of the LTE network, the terminal device may receive the indication information #3 and then determine that the network device #2 supports receiving the report of the LTE network.

Form 3

The indication information #3 includes information indicating a type of one or more reports, indicating that the network device #2 may or may not support the indicated type of report of other RATs than RAT # 2.

By way of example and not limitation, the type of the one or more reports indicated by the indication information #3 may be at least one of the following types: radio link failure report (RLF-report), connection establishment failure report (connEstFailInfo), random access report (RACH-report), log measurement report (logmeas), secondary base station failure report (SCGfailureinfo), UE movement history information (flightPathInfo), idle measurement report (MeasIdleReport), flight route report (flightPathInfo).

For example, if the indication information #3 transmitted by the network device #2 indicates an RLF report, it indicates that the network device #2 supports RLF reports of RAT networks other than RAT # 2. The terminal device determines, after receiving the indication information #3, that the network device only supports RLF reports of other RATs, and does not support other types of reports of other RATs except RLF reports.

Form 4

The indication information #3 indicates the supported RATs of the network device #2, or the indication information #3 indicates the report-corresponding RAT supported by the network device # 2.

For example, the network device #2 is a network device adopting the NR technology, which supports LTE reporting, that is, RAT #1 is LTE, then the indication information #3 sent by the network device to the terminal device includes an identifier of LTE, and the terminal device determines that the network device can receive the LTE report after receiving the indication information # 3.

S320, the terminal device determines whether the network device supports RAT #1 reporting.

Steps as described in fig. 4 may also be included between S320 and S330.

S321, when the terminal device determination indication information #3 indicates that the report of RAT #1 is supported, the terminal device transmits the report available indication information, and when the terminal device determination indication information #3 indicates that the report of RAT #1 is not supported, the terminal device does not transmit the report available indication information or transmits the report available indication information, and the report available indication information indicates that the report #1 is not available.

The report available information is the same as the indication information #1 in fig. 2, and is not described in detail herein.

S322, the network device #3 requests the terminal device for information according to the requirement, wherein the request information is used for indicating whether the network device #3 requests to send the report # 1; the terminal device transmits the report #1 when the result indicated by the request indication information is yes, and does not transmit the report #1 when the result indicated by the request indication information is no.

The report available information is the same as the indication information #2 in fig. 2, and is not described again.

As described above, the terminal device determines whether to transmit the available indication information according to the received indication information #3, and in another embodiment, the terminal device may transmit the available indication information and receive the indication information #3 before, during, or after receiving the request indication information, and after receiving the indication information #3 transmitted by the network device #2, determine whether to transmit the report #1 to the network device #2 according to whether the network device #2 instructs to receive the report of RAT # 1.

In the present application, the terminal device does not transmit the report #1 when the terminal device does not receive the instruction information #3 transmitted by the network device #3 before the preset time limit.

Form 1: the predetermined period is a period of time before the terminal device receives the message a.

The message a may be a message preset by the system or specified by the protocol for prohibiting the terminal device from transmitting the report #1 to the network device # 2. The message a may be an RRC connection reconfiguration complete message, an RRC reestablishment complete message, or a physical layer downlink control message.

The message a may also be a message carrying the indication information #3, and when the terminal device determines that the indication information #3 is not included in the message a after receiving the message a, the terminal device does not send the report #1 to the network device # 2. It can also be said that, when the terminal device determines that the indication information #3 is not included in the first message after receiving the message a, the terminal device considers that the network device #2 does not support the report #1, and the terminal device does not transmit the report # 1. The starting point of the preset time period may be a time point when the terminal device searches for the network device #2 (for example, searches for an initial access signal of the target network device) or the starting point of the preset time period may be a time point when the terminal device establishes an RRC connection with the network device #2 (for example, receives an RRC establishment complete message), and the present scheme is not limited thereto.

For example, the message a may be an RRC reconfiguration complete message (rrcreconfigurable complete), and when the terminal device receives the RRC reconfiguration complete message and determines that the RRC reconfiguration complete message does not include the indication information #3, the terminal device considers that the network device #2 does not have the capability of receiving the report #1, and therefore does not send the report #1 to the network device # 2.

Form 2: the preset time period may be indicated by a timer or a counter, and the preset time period is a time interval from the start of the timer to the expiration of the timer or before the expiration of the timer, or the preset time period is a time interval from the start of the counter to the zero resetting or the reaching of the maximum value of the counter.

It should be understood that, in the foregoing embodiments, the sequence numbers of the processes do not imply an execution sequence, and the execution sequence of the processes should be determined by functions and internal logic of the processes, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

The method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 2 to 4. Hereinafter, the apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail with reference to fig. 5 to 7.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the communication device 1500 may include a processing unit 1510 and a transceiving unit 1520.

In one possible design, the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the terminal device in the above method embodiment, and may be the terminal device or a chip configured in the terminal device, for example.

It should be understood that the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the terminal device in the

methods

200, 300, 400 according to the embodiments of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1500 may include means for performing the methods performed by the terminal device in the methods 200 in fig. 2, 300 in fig. 3, and 400 in fig. 4. Also, the units in the communication apparatus 1500 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows of the method 200 in fig. 2, the method 300 in fig. 3, and the method 400 in fig. 4.

When the communication apparatus 1500 is configured to perform the method 200 in fig. 2, the processing unit 1510 may be configured to perform S240 in the method 200, and the transceiving unit 1520 may be configured to perform S210 and S250 in the method 200. When the communication device 1500 is configured to perform the method 300 of fig. 3, the processing unit 1510 may be configured to perform S320 of the method 300, and the transceiving unit 1520 may be configured to perform S330 of the method 300. When the communication apparatus 1500 is used to perform the method 400 in fig. 4, the transceiving unit 1520 can be used to perform S321 in the method 400. It should be understood that the specific processes of the units for executing the corresponding steps are already described in detail in the above method embodiments, and therefore, for brevity, detailed descriptions thereof are omitted.

It should also be understood that when the communication apparatus 1500 is a terminal device, the transceiver 1520 in the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the transceiver 2200 in the terminal device 2000 shown in fig. 6, and the processing unit 1110 in the communication apparatus 1100 may correspond to the processor 2010 in the terminal device 2000 shown in fig. 6.

It is to be further appreciated that when the communications apparatus 1500 is a terminal device, the transceiving unit 1520 in the communications apparatus 1500 can be implemented by a communication interface (e.g., a transceiver or an input/output interface), for example, corresponding to the transceiver 2020 in the terminal device 2000 illustrated in fig. 6, and the processing unit 1510 in the communications apparatus 1500 can be implemented by at least one processor, for example, corresponding to the processor 2010 in the terminal device 2000 illustrated in fig. 6.

Optionally, the communication device 1500 may further include a storage unit, which may be used to store instructions or data, and the processing unit may call the instructions or data stored in the storage unit to implement the corresponding operations.

It should be understood that the specific processes of the units for executing the corresponding steps are already described in detail in the above method embodiments, and therefore, for brevity, detailed descriptions thereof are omitted.

In another possible design, the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the network device in the above method embodiment, and may be, for example, a network device or a chip configured in a network device.

It should be understood that the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the network device in the

methods

200, 300, 400 according to the embodiments of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1500 may include means for performing the methods 200 in fig. 2, 300 in fig. 3, and 400 in fig. 4. Also, the units in the communication apparatus 1500 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows of the method 200 in fig. 2, the method 300 in fig. 3, and the method 400 in fig. 4.

When the communication device 1500 is configured to perform the method 200 in fig. 2, the processing unit 1510 may be configured to perform S230 in the method 200, and the transceiving unit 1520 may be configured to perform S220 in the method 200. When the communication device 1500 is used to perform the method 300 in fig. 3, the transceiving unit 1520 can be used to perform S310 in the method 300. When the communication apparatus 1500 is used to perform the method 400 in fig. 4, the transceiving unit 1520 can be used to perform S322 in the method 400. It should be understood that the specific processes of the units for executing the corresponding steps are already described in detail in the above method embodiments, and therefore, for brevity, detailed descriptions thereof are omitted.

It should also be understood that when the communication apparatus 1500 is a network device, the transceiver unit in the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the transceiver 3010 in the network device 3000 shown in fig. 7, and the processing unit 1510 in the communication apparatus 1500 may correspond to the processor 1300 in the network device 1300 shown in fig. 7.

It should also be understood that when the communication apparatus 1500 is a network device, the transceiving unit 1520 in the communication apparatus 1500 may be implemented by a communication interface (such as a transceiver or an input/output interface), for example, may correspond to the transceiver 3010 in the network device 3000 shown in fig. 7, and the processing unit 1510 in the communication apparatus 1500 may be implemented by at least one processor, for example, may correspond to the processor 3020 in the network device 3000 shown in fig. 7.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device 2000 according to an embodiment of the present application. The terminal device 2000 can be applied to the system shown in fig. 1, and performs the functions of the terminal device in the above method embodiment. As shown, the terminal device 2000 includes a processor 2010 and a transceiver 2020. Optionally, the terminal device 2000 further comprises a memory 2030. The processor 2010, the transceiver 2020, and the memory 2030 may be in communication with each other via the interconnection path to transfer control and/or data signals, the memory 2030 may be used for storing a computer program, and the processor 2010 is used for retrieving and executing the computer program from the memory 2030 to control the transceiver 1220 to transmit and receive signals. Optionally, the terminal device 2000 may further include an antenna 2040, configured to transmit uplink data or uplink control signaling output by the transceiver 2020 by using a wireless signal.

The processor 2010 and the memory 2030 may be combined into a processing device, and the processor 2010 is configured to execute the program codes stored in the memory 2030 to achieve the above functions. In particular, the memory 2030 may be integrated with the processor 2010 or may be separate from the processor 2010. The processor 2010 may correspond to the processing unit in fig. 5.

The transceiver 2020 may correspond to the transceiver unit in fig. 5. The transceiver 2020 may include a receiver (or receiver, receiving circuit) and a transmitter (or transmitter, transmitting circuit). Wherein the receiver is used for receiving signals, and the transmitter is used for transmitting signals.

It should be understood that the terminal device 2000 shown in fig. 5 can implement various processes involving the terminal device in the method embodiments shown in fig. 2, 3 and 4. The operations and/or functions of the modules in the terminal device 2000 are respectively to implement the corresponding flows in the above-described method embodiments. Reference may be made specifically to the description of the above method embodiments, and a detailed description is appropriately omitted herein to avoid redundancy.

The processor 2010 may be configured to perform the actions described in the preceding method embodiments that are implemented within the terminal device, and the transceiver 2020 may be configured to perform the actions described in the preceding method embodiments that the terminal device transmits to or receives from the network device. Please refer to the description of the previous embodiment of the method, which is not repeated herein.

Optionally, the terminal device 2000 may further include a power supply 2050 for supplying power to various devices or circuits in the terminal device.

In addition, in order to further improve the functions of the terminal device, the terminal device 2000 may further include one or more of an input unit 2060, a display unit 2070, an audio circuit 2080, a camera 2090, a sensor 2100, and the like, and the audio circuit may further include a speaker 2082, a microphone 2084, and the like.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device provided in the embodiment of the present application, which may be a schematic structural diagram of a base station, for example. The base station 3000 can be applied to the system shown in fig. 1, and performs the functions of the network device in the above method embodiment. As shown, the base station 3000 may include one or more radio frequency units, such as a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) 3010 and one or more baseband units (BBUs) (which may also be referred to as Distributed Units (DUs)) 3020. The RRU 3010 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, and corresponds to the transceiver unit 1510 in fig. 5. Alternatively, the transceiver unit 3010 may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiving circuit, a transceiver, or the like, which may include at least one antenna 3011 and a radio frequency unit 3012. Alternatively, the transceiver unit 3010 may include a receiving unit and a sending unit, where the receiving unit may correspond to a receiver (or receiver or receiving circuit), and the sending unit may correspond to a transmitter (or transmitter or transmitting circuit). The RRU 3010 is mainly used for transceiving radio frequency signals and converting the radio frequency signals and baseband signals, for example, for sending indication information to a terminal device. The BBU3020 is mainly used for performing baseband processing, controlling a base station, and the like. The RRU 3010 and the BBU3020 may be physically disposed together, or may be physically disposed separately, that is, a distributed base station.

The BBU3020 is a control center of the base station, and may also be referred to as a processing unit, and may correspond to the processing unit 1510 in fig. 5, and is mainly used for performing baseband processing functions, such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulation, and spreading. For example, the BBU (processing unit) may be configured to control the base station to perform the operation procedure related to the network device in the above method embodiment, for example, to generate the indication information #1, the indication information #2, and the like.

In an example, the BBU3020 may be formed by one or more single boards, where a plurality of single boards may support a radio access network of a single access system (e.g., an LTE network) together, or may support radio access networks of different access systems (e.g., an LTE network, a 5G network, or other networks) respectively. BBU3020 also includes a memory 3021 and a processor 3022. The memory 3021 is used to store necessary instructions and data. The processor 3022 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform the operation flow related to the network device in the above method embodiment. The memory 3021 and the processor 3022 may serve one or more boards. That is, the memory and processor may be provided separately on each board. Multiple boards may share the same memory and processor. In addition, each single board can be provided with necessary circuits.

It should be understood that the base station 3000 shown in fig. 7 can implement various processes involving network devices in the method embodiments shown in fig. 2, 3, and 4. The operations and/or functions of the respective modules in the base station 3000 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows in the above-described method embodiments. Reference may be made specifically to the description of the above method embodiments, and a detailed description is appropriately omitted herein to avoid redundancy.

BBU3020 described above may be used to perform actions described in the foregoing method embodiments that are implemented within a network device, while RRU 3010 may be used to perform actions described in the foregoing method embodiments that the network device sends to or receives from a terminal device. Please refer to the description of the previous embodiment of the method, which is not repeated herein.

It should be understood that the base station 3000 shown in fig. 7 is only one possible architecture of a network device, and should not constitute any limitation to the present application. The method provided by the application can be applied to network equipment with other architectures. E.g. network devices containing CUs, DUs and AAUs etc. The present application is not limited to the specific architecture of the network device.

The embodiment of the application also provides a processing device, which comprises a processor and an interface; the processor is configured to perform the method of any of the above method embodiments.

It is to be understood that the processing means described above may be one or more chips. For example, the processing device may be a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), a digital signal processing circuit (DSP), a Microcontroller (MCU), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), or other integrated chips.

In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware processor, or may be implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in a processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor. To avoid repetition, it is not described in detail here.

It should be noted that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capability. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The processor described above may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.

It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct rambus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a computer program product, which includes: computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, 3, 4.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application also provides a computer readable medium, which stores program codes, and when the program codes are executed on a computer, the computer is caused to execute the method in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, fig. 3 and fig. 4.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a system, which includes the foregoing one or more terminal devices and one or more network devices.

The network device in the foregoing device embodiments completely corresponds to the terminal device and the network device or the terminal device in the method embodiments, and the corresponding module or unit executes the corresponding steps, for example, the communication unit (transceiver) executes the steps of receiving or transmitting in the method embodiments, and other steps besides transmitting and receiving may be executed by the processing unit (processor). The functions of the specific elements may be referred to in the respective method embodiments. The number of the processors may be one or more.

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

As used in this specification, the terms "component," "module," "system," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between 2 or more computers. In addition, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from two components interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the internet with other systems by way of the signal).

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

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

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

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

generating first indication information by a terminal device, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether a first report is available, and the first report is a report recorded by the terminal device under a first Radio Access Technology (RAT);

and the terminal equipment sends first indication information to the target network equipment, wherein the target network equipment adopts a second RAT.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

and the terminal equipment receives second indication information sent by the target network equipment, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating whether the target network equipment requests to send the first report.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises:

the terminal device receives third indication information sent by the target network device, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the third indication information comprises at least one of the following information:

identification information of a RAT corresponding to the report supported by the target network device, version information of the target network device, type information of the report supported by the target network device, and identification information of the target network device.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

and the terminal equipment sends fourth indication information to the target network equipment, wherein the fourth indication information is used for indicating whether a second report is available, and the second report is a report recorded by the terminal equipment under the second RAT.

6. The method of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

7. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

the method includes that target network equipment receives first indication information sent by terminal equipment, the first indication information is used for indicating whether a first report is available or not, the first report is a report recorded by the terminal equipment under a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), and the target network equipment is network equipment adopting a second RAT.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

and second indication information sent by the target network device to the terminal device, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating whether the target network device requests the terminal device to send the first report.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the method further comprises:

and third indication information sent by the target network device to the terminal device, where the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the third indication information comprises at least one of the following information:

11. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 10, further comprising:

the network device receives fourth indication information sent by the terminal device, where the fourth indication information is used to indicate whether a second report is available, and the second report is a report recorded by the terminal device under the second RAT.

12. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 11, wherein the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

13. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to generate first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a first report is available, and the first report is a report recorded by the processing unit under a first radio access technology, RAT;

a transceiving unit, configured to send first indication information to a target network device, where the target network device is a network device using a second RAT.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive second indication information sent by the target network device, and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device requests to send the first report.

15. The communications apparatus according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive third indication information sent by the target network device, and the third indication information is used to indicate whether the target network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

16. The communications apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein the third indication information comprises at least one of the following information:

17. The communication device according to any one of claims 13 to 16,

the transceiver unit is further configured to send fourth indication information to the target network device, where the fourth indication information is used to indicate whether a second report is available, and the second report is a report recorded by the terminal device in the second RAT.

18. The communications device of any of claims 13-17, wherein the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

19. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a transceiver unit, configured to receive first indication information sent by a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a first report is available, and the first report is a report recorded by the terminal device under a first radio access technology, RAT, and the transceiver unit is configured in a network device, and the network device is a network device using a second RAT.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send second indication information to the terminal device, and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the network device requests the terminal device to send the first report.

21. The communications apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send third indication information to the terminal device, and the third indication information is used to indicate whether the network device supports a report of a RAT other than the second RAT.

22. The communications apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the third indication information comprises at least one of the following information:

identification information of a RAT corresponding to the report supported by the network device, version information of the network device, type information of the report supported by the network device, and identification information of the network device.

23. The communications apparatus according to any one of claims 19 to 22, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive fourth indication information sent by the terminal device, where the fourth indication information is used to indicate whether a second report is available, where the second report is a report recorded by the terminal device in the second RAT.

24. The communications apparatus according to any of claims 19 to 23, wherein the first report comprises at least one of: a radio link failure report, a connection establishment failure report, a random access report, a log measurement report, a secondary base station failure report, movement history information, an idle measurement report, or a flight route report.

25. A communications apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to perform the method of any of claims 1-12.

26. A computer-readable medium, comprising a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 12.