CN113301589A

CN113301589A - Service KPI acquisition method and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113301589A
Application number: CN202110414705.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 易耀华; 李延; 王君; 胡星星
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2016-12-22
Filing date: 2016-12-22
Publication date: 2021-08-24
Anticipated expiration: 2036-12-22
Also published as: CN108235343B; WO2018113466A1; CN113301589B; CN108235343A

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a method for acquiring a service KPI and network equipment. The method comprises the following steps: the network equipment acquires a service identification ID of the user equipment; wherein the service ID is used for indicating the type of the application service of the user equipment; the network equipment determines the key performance indicator KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID; and the network equipment acquires the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID. According to the embodiment of the application, the network equipment can use the application services as the statistical granularity to obtain the KPI corresponding to each application service, the KPI can reflect the network performance requirements required by the application services, and then the network equipment can optimize the wireless network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network can meet the requirements of different application services.

Description

Service KPI acquisition method and network equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to a communication technology, and in particular relates to a method for acquiring a service performance indicator (KPI) and a network device.

Background

With the development of communication technology, more and more services need to be accessed to a wireless network, and in order to ensure smooth operation of different services, an operator needs to optimize the wireless network in real time or periodically.

Because an operator generally needs to refer to a Key Performance Index (KPI) of a cell when optimizing a wireless network, the KPI may include transmission delay, call drop rate, and the like of a data packet, a network side needs to count KPIs of the cell in real time or periodically. In the prior art, when a network side performs KPI statistics, a cell is taken as a statistical granularity of KPI, so as to obtain KPI of each cell accessing a wireless network. And the operator optimizes the wireless network according to the acquired KPI of each cell.

However, the network optimization operation performed by the operator according to the KPI counted in the prior art is not accurate, and it often happens that the optimized wireless network still cannot ensure smooth operation of part of services.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method for acquiring a service KPI and network equipment, so as to solve the technical problem that network optimization operation performed by the KPI counted in the prior art is not accurate, and an optimized wireless network still cannot ensure smooth operation of part of services.

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

the network equipment acquires a service identification ID of the user equipment; wherein the service ID is used for indicating the type of the application service of the user equipment; the application service comprises any service under the mMTC service of mass Internet of things communication, or any service under the URLLC service of ultrahigh reliability and ultralow time delay communication;

the network equipment determines the key performance indicator KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID;

and the network equipment acquires the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID.

In the method for acquiring the service KPI, the network device acquires the application service type of the UE by acquiring the service identifier ID of the UE, and determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, so as to acquire the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, the network device may obtain, by using the application services as the statistical granularity, the KPI corresponding to each application service, where the KPI may reflect a network performance requirement required by the application service, and then the network device may optimize the wireless network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network may meet requirements of different application services.

In a possible design, the acquiring, by the network device, the service ID of the user equipment specifically includes:

the network equipment acquires a user equipment Group identification (UE Group ID) of the user equipment; the UE Group ID is used for indicating a user equipment Group to which the user equipment belongs, the UE Group ID comprises the service ID, and the service IDs of the user equipments with the same UE Group ID are the same.

In the method for acquiring the service KPI provided by each possible design, the network device may acquire the UE Group ID of the UE by acquiring the UE Group ID of the UE, and may also know which user equipment Group the UE belongs to, so that the network device may acquire more contents through one air interface communication, thereby saving air interface overhead of the communication system in fig. 1; in addition, because the UEs with the same application service belong to the same user equipment group, the network device can count the KPIs of the application service corresponding to the user equipment group according to the user equipment group, thereby improving the efficiency of counting the KPIs of the application service.

In one possible design, the UE Group ID further includes a tenant ID indicating a tenant to which the user equipment belongs.

In one possible design, the UE Group ID further includes a public land mobile network PLMN ID, the PLMN ID indicating an operator network to which the user equipment belongs.

According to the service KPI acquisition method provided by each possible design, when the UE Group ID includes the tenant ID of the UE, the network equipment can know which UEs are included in one tenant, and then the network equipment can count KPIs belonging to different tenants according to the tenants, so that the network equipment can optimize a wireless network by combining the KPIs of the application services and the KPIs of different tenants, and the accuracy and the effectiveness of network optimization are further improved; in addition, when the UE Group ID further includes the PLMN ID of the UE, the network device may acquire which operator network each UE of the current UE Group belongs to, and further may optimize the operator network with respect to the PLMN ID, and the PLMN ID in the UE Group ID makes the network device have more pertinence when performing wireless network optimization, thereby further improving the effectiveness of network optimization.

In a possible design, the network device is a base station, and the network device obtains a UE Group ID of the UE, which specifically includes:

and the base station receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment from the user equipment.

and the base station receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment from a Mobile Management Entity (MME).

In one possible design, the receiving, by the base station, a UE Group ID of the UE from the UE specifically includes:

the base station receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) air interface message sent by the user equipment, wherein the RRC air interface message carries a UE Group ID of the user equipment;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and the base station receives a Media Access Control (MAC) message sent by the user equipment, wherein the MAC message carries the UE Group ID of the user equipment.

In one possible design, the RRC air interface message includes: any one of an RRC connection request message, an RRC connection setup complete message, an RRC connection reconfiguration complete message, an RRC connection reestablishment request message, and an RRC connection reestablishment complete message.

In a possible design, the receiving, by the base station, a UE Group ID of the UE from a mobility management entity MME specifically includes:

and the network equipment receives a first message sent by the MME, wherein the first message carries the UE Group ID of the terminal equipment.

In one possible design, the first message includes: any one of an initial context setup request message, a UE context modification request message, an evolved radio access bearer E-RAB setup request message, and an E-RAB modification request message.

the base station receives a user equipment identity (UE ID) from the user equipment; the UE ID comprises a core network temporary mobile subscriber identity (S-TMSI) or an MME temporary mobile subscriber identity (M-TMSI);

the base station determines the UE Group ID of the user equipment according to the UE ID and a preset first mapping relation; wherein the first mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE IDs and UE Group IDs.

In a possible design, the network device is a network element management unit, and the acquiring, by the network device, the UE Group ID of the UE specifically includes:

and the network element management unit receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment, which is sent by the user equipment through a base station.

and the network element management unit receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment from a Mobile Management Entity (MME).

In a possible design, the determining, by the network device, the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID specifically includes:

the network equipment determines a KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset second mapping relation; and the second mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE Group IDs and KPI types.

In a possible design, the network device is a base station, and before determining, according to the service ID, a KPI type corresponding to the application service, the method further includes:

and the base station receives the second mapping relation sent by the network management unit through the network element management unit.

In one possible design, the network device is a base station, and the method further includes:

the base station establishes a corresponding relation between the KPI of the application service and the UE Group ID of the user equipment;

and the base station sends the corresponding relation to a network element management unit.

In a possible design, the network device is a network element management unit, and the network device obtains the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID, specifically including:

the network element management unit sends the type of the communication information to be reported to the base station according to the KPI type; the communication information is parameter information used for indicating the current communication state of the user equipment;

the network element management unit receives communication information reported by a base station according to the type of the communication information;

and the network element management unit acquires the KPI of the application service according to the communication information and the UE Group ID.

According to the service KPI acquisition method provided by each possible design, the network equipment acquires the UE Group ID of the UE to further know which user equipment Group the UE belongs to, and the UE with the same application service belongs to the same user equipment Group, so that the network equipment can count the KPI of the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group according to the user equipment Group, and the counting efficiency of the KPI of the application service is improved.

In one possible design, the method further includes:

the network equipment adjusts wireless parameters corresponding to the user equipment group according to the KPI of the application service to obtain updated wireless parameters, wherein the wireless parameters comprise at least one of the scheduling priority of the user equipment group, the maximum number of wireless resources which can be used by the user equipment group and the measurement period of the user equipment group;

and the network equipment schedules the user equipment in the user equipment group according to the updated wireless parameters.

According to the service KPI acquisition method provided by the possible design, the network equipment can adjust the wireless parameters corresponding to the user equipment group to which the application service belongs through the acquired KPI of the application service, and then reschedule the user equipment of the user equipment group according to the updated wireless parameters, so that the scheduling accuracy is improved.

In a second aspect, to implement the method for acquiring a service KPI in the first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a network device, where the network device has a function of implementing the method for acquiring a service KPI. The functions can be realized by hardware, and the functions can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the above-described functions.

In a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the network device includes a plurality of functional modules or units, and is configured to implement any one of the service KPIs obtaining methods in the first aspect.

In another possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the network device may include a processor and a transceiver in its structure. The processor is configured to support the apparatus to perform corresponding functions in any one of the above-mentioned methods for acquiring a service KPI in the first aspect. The transceiver is used to support communication between the apparatus and other network devices, and may be a corresponding radio frequency module or a baseband module, for example. The apparatus may also include a memory, coupled to the processor, that stores program instructions and data necessary for the network device to perform the method for acquiring the service KPIs.

Optionally, the network device may be a base station, and may also be a network element management unit.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer storage medium for storing computer software instructions for the network device, which includes a program designed to execute the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product, which contains instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the functions performed by the network device in the above method.

Compared with the prior art, according to the method and the network device provided by the embodiment of the application, the network device obtains the application service type of the UE by obtaining the service identifier ID of the UE, and determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, so as to obtain the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, the network device may obtain, by using the application services as the statistical granularity, the KPI corresponding to each application service, where the KPI may reflect a network performance requirement required by the application service, and then the network device may optimize the wireless network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network may meet requirements of different application services.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a communication architecture scenario provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The method for acquiring the service KPI provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to the communication system shown in fig. 1. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system may include a Core Network device on a Core Network (CN), a base station on a Radio Access Network (RAN), and a User Equipment (UE). The core network device may be, for example, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in a Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) system, or may be a communication system using a new radio access technology (new RAT, NR), for example, a core network device in a 5G system, which is not limited in this embodiment. Optionally, the communication system may further include a network element management unit and a network management unit, where the network element management unit may be a management device independent of the core network side and the access network side, or may also be another management device on the access network side or the core network side, and the network element management unit is a network element that manages a certain vendor (where the network element refers to a device on the RAN side or a device on the CN side), may manage multiple network elements, or may only manage a certain network element. Alternatively, the network management unit may be a network management system of an operator, which may manage a plurality of network element management units, such as network element management units of different vendors. The access network can communicate with the network element management unit through a southbound interface, the network element management unit can communicate with the network element management unit through a northbound interface, and the core network can also directly communicate with the network element management unit through other interfaces. It should be noted that, the base station and the network element management unit may be referred to as a network device in the embodiments of the present application. Optionally, the technical solution provided by the present application may be extended to other Networks, for example, in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the base station may be replaced by an ac (access control) in the WLAN.

Alternatively, a base station as referred to herein may refer to a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminals. The base station may be configured to interconvert received air frames and IP packets as a router between the wireless terminal and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The base station may also coordinate management of attributes for the air interface. For example, the base station may be an evolved Node B (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB) in LTE.

The user equipment referred to in the present application may be a wireless terminal device or a wired terminal device. The wireless terminal may be a handheld device having wireless connection capabilities, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a mobile terminal communicating with one or more core networks via a radio access network. For example, wireless terminals may be mobile telephones (or "cellular" telephones) and computers with mobile terminals. As another example, a wireless terminal may be a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted mobile device. The user equipment can be an intelligent super meter device, an intelligent parking management device and the like which are communicated with an access network side and a core network side.

With the development of Communication technology, more and more services need to be accessed to a wireless network, and besides a traditional Mobile Broadband (MBB) service, the services also include many vertical industry services, such as Massive internet of things Communication (mtc) services for water and electricity and coal meter reading, intelligent parking, intelligent lamp post, and the like. Because a wireless network is configured by an operator, the operator usually needs to use a Key Performance Index (KPI) of a cell as a reference when optimizing the wireless network, where the KPI may include transmission delay, call drop rate, and the like of a data packet, and therefore, a network side needs to count KPIs of the cell in real time or periodically. In the prior art, when a network side performs KPI statistics, a cell is taken as a statistical granularity of KPI, so as to obtain KPI of each cell accessing a wireless network. And the operator optimizes the wireless network according to the acquired KPI of each cell.

However, the KPIs counted in the prior art cannot reflect the requirements of different services on the network performance, for example, assuming that 2 UEs are included in one cell, the transmission delay required by the service on the UE1 is 10s, and the transmission delay required by the service on the UE2 is 100s, that is, the service on the UE1 requires to transmit a data packet to the core network within 10s, and the service on the UE2 requires to transmit a data packet to the core network within 100 s. However, when the radio access network is counting the transmission delay of the cell, it generally takes the average value of the delays as the transmission delay of the whole cell, that is, the transmission delay of the cell counted by the radio access network is 55 s. Therefore, the access network cannot accurately know whether the service on the UE1 is successfully transmitted within the required delay, and the average delay value cannot reflect the actual performance requirement of the service on the UE1 on the wireless network.

Therefore, the method for acquiring the service KPI provided in the embodiment of the present application aims to solve the above technical problems in the prior art.

The technical solution of the present application will be described in detail below with specific examples. The following several specific embodiments may be combined with each other, and details of the same or similar concepts or processes may not be repeated in some embodiments.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment relates to a specific process of counting KPIs of application services of UE (user equipment) by network equipment according to service identifiers of the UE, wherein the service identifiers represent types of the application services of the UE. As shown in fig. 2, the method may include the steps of:

s101: the network equipment acquires a service ID of the user equipment; wherein the service ID is used for indicating the type of the application service of the user equipment.

The application service comprises any service under the mass Internet of things communication mMTC service, or any service under the ultra-high reliability and ultra-low time delay communication URLLC service.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the service ID of the UE may be configured to the UE by an operator, and when the network device needs to perform wireless network optimization, the network device may obtain the service ID of the UE, where the service ID may represent a type of an application service of the UE. Optionally, one UE may have one service ID and may also have multiple service IDs, that is, one UE may have one application service and may also have multiple application services, which is not limited in this embodiment. Optionally, the network device related to the embodiment of the present application may be a base station in a 4G communication system or a 5G communication system, may also be an AC in a WLAN system, and may also be a network element management unit in the 4G communication system or the 5G communication system.

Optionally, the application service represented by the service ID may be any service under a Massive internet of things Communication (mtc, for short) service, and may also be any service under an Ultra Reliable and Ultra Low Latency Communication (URLLC) service. That is, the service ID may represent which specific service of the mtc service the application service of the UE is, and the specific service of the mtc service may include: the intelligent water meter reading service, the intelligent electricity meter reading service, the intelligent gas meter reading service, the intelligent parking service, the intelligent lamp pole service and the like, wherein the number of data packets sent by each UE is small, the requirement on time delay is not high, and the requirements on power consumption of some services are high. The service ID may also characterize which service the application service of the UE is under URLLC service, and the specific service under URLLC service may include: industrial automation services, unmanned services, etc., which have high requirements for delay and reliability.

After the network device obtains the service ID of the UE, it can know which specific service the application service of the UE is under the mtc service or the URLLC service. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the network device may obtain a service ID of each UE accessing the access network, and may also obtain service IDs of some UEs.

S102: and the network equipment determines the key performance indicator KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID.

Specifically, the network management unit of the operator sends the correspondence between different service IDs and different KPI types to the network device in advance, so that after the network device acquires the service ID of the UE, the network device can determine the KPI type corresponding to the current UE according to the correspondence, and thus the network device can know which KPIs of the UE should be known for the current UE, for example, the call drop rate of the UE, the time delay of the UE, and the like. Optionally, the network management unit may send the correspondence to the network element management unit, and then the network element management unit sends the correspondence to the network device.

S103: and the network equipment acquires the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID.

Specifically, after the network device determines the KPI type corresponding to each UE, the network device may divide the UEs according to the service IDs, that is, the network device may know which UE has the same service ID, and then the network device may obtain, according to the KPI type corresponding to the part of UEs, the first KPI of the application service on all or part of the UEs in the part of UEs, and then obtain, according to the obtained first KPIs, the KPI of the application service corresponding to the service ID, and then the network device may optimize the network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network can meet the requirements of different application services.

For example, it is assumed that service IDs of 6 UEs currently acquired by the network device are respectively a service ID1 corresponding to UE1, a service ID1 corresponding to UE2, a service ID2 corresponding to UE3, a service ID1 corresponding to UE4 (an application service represented by the service ID1 is assumed to be parking service), a service ID2 corresponding to UE5 (an application service represented by the service ID2 is assumed to be electricity meter reading service), and a service ID1 corresponding to UE6, the network device determines, according to a correspondence between the service IDs and the KPI types, that the KPI type corresponding to the service ID1 is a call drop rate, and that the KPI type corresponding to the service ID2 is a packet transmission delay, based on which, the network device may respectively acquire first KPIs of parking services on UE1, UE2, UE4, and UE6, and then the network device may obtain the KPI of the parking service in the current wireless network according to the first KPIs. The operations performed by the network device are similar for the service ID2 described above and will not be described in detail here.

Optionally, when the service ID of a certain UE obtained by the network device is different from other service IDs obtained by the network device, that is, the operator separately configures a certain application service to one of the UEs, therefore, the network device only needs to obtain the first KPI of the application service corresponding to the service ID according to the KPI type corresponding to the service ID, and thus the first KPI is used as the KPI of the application service.

Based on this, the network device can obtain KPIs of different application services, that is, in the embodiment of the present application, the network device can obtain a KPI corresponding to each application service by using the application service as a statistical granularity, and the KPI can reflect a network performance requirement required by the application service, and then the network device can optimize the wireless network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network can meet requirements of different application services.

In the method for acquiring a service KPI provided in the embodiment of the present application, a network device acquires an application service type of a UE by acquiring a service identifier ID of the UE, and determines a KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, so as to acquire a KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, the network device may obtain, by using the application services as the statistical granularity, the KPI corresponding to each application service, where the KPI may reflect a network performance requirement required by the application service, and then the network device may optimize the wireless network according to the KPIs of different application services, so that the optimized wireless network may meet requirements of different application services.

Optionally, as an embodiment of the present application, the acquiring, by the network device in S101, the service ID of the user equipment may include: and the network equipment acquires the UE Group ID of the UE. The UE Group ID is used for indicating a user equipment Group to which the user equipment belongs, the UE Group ID comprises the service ID, and the service IDs of the user equipments with the same UE Group ID are the same.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the service ID of the UE may be carried in a UE Group ID and sent to the network device, where the UE Group ID may indicate to which user equipment Group the UE belongs, and the service IDs of the UEs with the same UE Group ID are the same. After the network device obtains the UE Group ID of the UE, it can not only obtain the user equipment Group to which the UE belongs through the UE Group ID, but also obtain which service the application service of the UE is under the mtc service or which service the application service of the UE is under the URLLC service through the service ID in the UE Group ID. Optionally, when the application services of any two UEs are the same (i.e. the service IDs are the same), the UE Group IDs of the two UEs may be the same, and the two UEs belong to the same user equipment Group; when the application services of any two UEs are different, the UE Group IDs of the two UEs are also different, and the two UEs belong to different user equipment groups. Alternatively, when there are two different application services on one UE, the UE may have two different UE Group IDs.

Therefore, the network device may count the KPIs according to the application services, and may actually count the first KPI of the application service of each UE according to the UE Group ID of the UE, that is, may obtain the first KPIs of the application services of all UEs belonging to the same user equipment Group (the application services of the UEs in the same user equipment Group are the same, and one user equipment Group corresponds to one application service), and obtain the KPI of the application service.

In the method for acquiring a service KPI provided in this embodiment, the network device may acquire the UE Group ID of the UE by acquiring the UE Group ID of the UE, and may also know which user equipment Group the UE belongs to, so that the network device may acquire more contents through one air interface communication, thereby saving air interface overhead of the communication system in fig. 1; in addition, because the UEs with the same application service belong to the same user equipment group, the network device can count the KPIs of the application service corresponding to the user equipment group according to the user equipment group, thereby improving the efficiency of counting the KPIs of the application service.

Optionally, the UE Group ID may further include a tenant ID, where the tenant ID is used to indicate a tenant to which the UE belongs, where the tenant may be a manufacturer or a purchasing manufacturer to which the UE belongs, and the tenant IDs of the two UEs are different, which indicates that the tenants to which the two UEs belong are different. For example, assuming that the tenant ID of UE1 is ID1 and the tenant ID of UE2 is ID2, UE1 and UE2 belong to two different tenants. Therefore, after the network device acquires the UE Group ID of the UE, it can know which tenant the current UE belongs to through the tenant ID in the UE Group ID, that is, the network device can know which UEs are included in one tenant, and further the network device can count KPIs belonging to different tenants according to the tenants. Therefore, the network equipment can optimize the wireless network by combining the KPI of the application service and the KPIs of different tenants, and the accuracy and the effectiveness of network optimization are further improved.

Optionally, the UE Group ID may further include a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) ID, where the PLMN ID is used to indicate an operator Network to which the UE belongs. That is to say, after acquiring the UE Group ID, the network device may also know, according to the PLMN ID in the UE Group ID, which operator network each UE of the current user equipment Group belongs to, and further may optimize the operator network for the PLMN ID. That is to say, the PLMN ID in the UE Group ID makes the network device have more pertinence when performing the wireless network optimization, and further improves the effectiveness of the network optimization.

According to the method for acquiring the service KPI, when the Group ID of the UE comprises the tenant ID of the UE, the network equipment can know which UEs are included in one tenant, and further the network equipment can count the KPIs belonging to different tenants according to the tenants, so that the network equipment can optimize a wireless network by combining the KPI of the application service and the KPIs of different tenants, and the accuracy and the effectiveness of network optimization are further improved; in addition, when the UE Group ID further includes the PLMN ID of the UE, the network device may acquire which operator network each UE of the current UE Group belongs to, and further may optimize the operator network with respect to the PLMN ID, and the PLMN ID in the UE Group ID makes the network device have more pertinence when performing wireless network optimization, thereby further improving the effectiveness of network optimization.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment relates to a specific process of counting KPIs of application services by network equipment when the network equipment is a base station. On the basis of the above embodiment, the method comprises the following steps:

s301: and the base station receives a first mapping relation sent by the network management unit through the network element management unit, wherein the first mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE Group IDs and KPI types.

Specifically, the network management unit of the operator sends the correspondence (referred to as a first mapping relationship in this embodiment) between the Group IDs of the different UEs and the KPI types to the network element management unit, and the network element management unit notifies the base station of the correspondence.

S302: the base station acquires the UE Group ID of the user equipment.

Here, the specific way for the base station to obtain the UE Group ID of the UE may be described in the following embodiments.

S303: and the base station determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and the first mapping relation.

Specifically, after the base station acquires the UE Group ID of the UE, the base station may obtain, according to the UE Group ID, the type of the application service corresponding to the UE Group ID, that is, obtain the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group to which the UE belongs, therefore, the base station may determine, by combining with the first mapping relationship, the KPI type corresponding to the UE Group ID, so as to obtain what KPI should be counted by the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group to which the UE belongs, and optionally, one UE Group ID may correspond to one KPI type, and may also correspond to multiple KPI types.

S304: and the base station acquires the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the UE Group ID.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the network device may count the KPIs according to the application services, and may actually count the first KPI of the application service of each UE according to the UE Group ID of the UE and the determined KPI type, that is, may obtain the first KPI of the application service of each UE belonging to the same user equipment Group (the application services of the UEs in the same user equipment Group are the same, and one user equipment Group corresponds to one application service), so as to obtain the KPI of the application service.

Optionally, after obtaining KPIs of different application services, the base station may further establish a corresponding relationship between KPIs of different application services and a UE Group ID, that is, after the base station combines a UE Group ID and a KPI type corresponding to the UE Group ID to count the KPIs of the application service corresponding to the UE Group ID, the base station may establish a corresponding relationship between the UE Group ID and the KPI, so as to send the corresponding relationship to the network element management unit, so that the network element management unit may obtain the KPIs corresponding to different application services.

Optionally, for the above S302, the base station may obtain the UE Group ID of the UE through the following three implementation manners, specifically:

the first implementation mode comprises the following steps: and the base station acquires the UE Group ID of the user equipment from the user equipment.

In this implementation, the UE may notify the base station through an RRC air interface message, where the RRC air interface message may include: an RRC Connection Request message (RRC Connection Request), an RRC Connection setup Complete message (RRC Connection setup Complete), an RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete message (RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete), an RRC Connection Reestablishment Request message (RRC Connection Reestablishment Request), and an RRC Connection Reestablishment Complete message (RRC Connection Reestablishment Complete).

Optionally, the base station may further receive a Medium Access Control (MAC) message sent by the UE, where the MAC message carries the UE Group ID of the UE. For example, a MAC Control Element (MAC Control Element) may be newly defined to notify the RAN side of the corresponding UE Group ID, and the MAC Control Element may include a header identifier + UE Group ID.

The second implementation mode comprises the following steps: the base station may obtain the UE Group ID of the UE from the MME.

In this implementation manner, the MME may notify the base station of the UE Group ID by sending a first message to the base station, and carrying the UE Group ID in the first message. The first message may include: any one of an initial Context Setup Request message (Iitial Context Setup Request), a UE Context modification Request message (UE Context modification Request), an evolved radio access bearer E-RAB Setup Request message (E-RAB Setup Request), and an E-RAB modification Request message (E-RAB modification Request).

Optionally, a UE Group ID may also be extended in some existing ID fields, for example, an initial context establishment request SPID is extended, or an ARP field of an evolved radio access bearer establishment request is extended, or a QCI field of an evolved radio access bearer establishment request is extended, taking the initial context establishment request as an example, a value of the SPID is [0,255], a core network side may preset a relationship between different values of the SPID and the UE Group ID (that is, one value corresponds to one UE Group ID), and send the corresponding relationship to a base station or the base station also preset a relationship between different values of the SPID and the UE Group ID, the MME sends the initial context establishment request to the base station, and the base station may obtain the UE Group ID of the current UE according to the value of the SPID in the request. The range of the SPID is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention, for example, the value of the SPID may also be [256,512 ]. It can be understood that different SPID values correspond to different UE Group IDs.

Optionally, when one UE has multiple UE Group IDs, the core network side may notify the access network side of a relationship between different E-RABs (E-UTRAN Radio access controllers) and the UE Group IDs in advance (that is, one E-RAB corresponds to one UE Group ID), and then the MME may carry the different E-RABs in the E-RAB setup request message, and the base station may determine the different UE Group IDs according to the different E-RABs.

Optionally, the base station may send a request message to request the MME to notify the UE Group ID of the corresponding UE, and the MME notifies the UE Group ID of the corresponding UE.

The third implementation mode comprises the following steps: and the base station receives the UE ID sent by the user equipment, and then determines the UE Group ID of the user equipment according to the UE ID and a preset second mapping relation. Wherein, the UE ID comprises a core network Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (SAE-temporal Mobile Subscriber Identity, S-TMSI for short) or an MME Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (MME-temporal Mobile Subscriber Identity, M-TMSI for short); the second mapping relationship includes a correspondence relationship between different UE IDs and UE Group IDs.

Specifically, in this implementation, the network element management unit may configure the second mapping relationship in advance for the base station, that is, configure a corresponding relationship between different UE IDs and UE Group IDs (one UE ID corresponds to one UE Group ID), where the UE ID includes S-TMSI or M-TMSI. Thus, after the network device obtains the UE ID of the UE, the network device may determine the UE Group ID of the UE according to the UE ID and the second mapping relationship.

According to the method for acquiring the service KPI, the network equipment acquires the UE Group ID of the UE to further know which user equipment Group the UE belongs to, and the UE with the same application service belongs to the same user equipment Group, so that the network equipment can count the KPI of the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group according to the user equipment Group, and the counting efficiency of the KPI of the application service is improved.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment relates to a specific process of counting KPIs of an application service by a network device when the network device is a network element management unit. On the basis of the above-mentioned fig. 2 and possible embodiments of the present application, the method may include the following steps:

s401: and the network element management unit acquires the UE Group ID of the user equipment.

Specifically, the network element management unit may obtain the UE Group ID of the UE through the following two implementation manners, specifically:

the first implementation mode comprises the following steps: and the network element management unit receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment, which is sent by the user equipment through the base station.

In this implementation manner, when the network element management unit needs to count KPIs of an application service, the UE may send the UE Group ID to the base station through an RRC message, and the base station may obtain the UE Group ID of the UE after analyzing the RRC message, and then the base station may send the UE Group ID to the network element management unit through a southbound interface.

The second implementation mode comprises the following steps: and the network element management unit receives the UE Group ID of the user equipment sent by the MME.

In this implementation manner, the network element management unit may receive the UE Group ID of the UE directly sent by the MME, or the MME may send the UE Group ID of the UE to the base station, and the base station sends the UE Group ID to the network element management unit.

S402: and the network element management unit determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset first mapping relation, wherein the first mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE Group IDs and KPI types.

Specifically, after the network element management unit obtains the UE Group ID of the UE, the network element management unit may obtain, according to the UE Group ID, the type of the application service corresponding to the UE Group ID, that is, obtain the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group to which the UE belongs, so that the network element management unit may determine, by combining with a preset first mapping relationship (the first mapping relationship may be notified to the network element management unit in advance by the network management unit of the operator), the KPI type corresponding to the UE Group ID, so as to obtain what KPI the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group to which the UE belongs should be counted.

S403: the network element management unit sends the type of the communication information to be reported to a base station according to the type of the KPI; the communication information is parameter information for indicating the current communication state of the user equipment.

Specifically, after the element management unit obtains, according to the UE Group ID of the UE, the KPI type that should be counted by the application service corresponding to the UE Group ID, the element management unit may send the type of the communication information to be reported to the base station in combination with the KPI type, that is, the element management unit notifies the base station which communication information should be currently reported to the element management unit. Therefore, after receiving the type of the communication information, the base station reports the corresponding communication information to the network element management unit according to the type of the communication information. Optionally, the communication information may be information about which UEs have dropped calls, a delay of a certain UE, and the like.

S404: and the network element management unit reports the communication information according to the type of the communication information through the base station.

S405: and the network element management unit acquires the KPI of the application service according to the communication information and the UE Group ID.

Specifically, after receiving the communication information reported by the base station, the network element management unit may obtain a first KPI of the application service of each UE in the UE Group corresponding to the UE Group ID, and further obtain a KPI of the application service.

According to the method for acquiring the service KPI, the network element management unit acquires the UE Group ID of the UE to further know which user equipment Group the UE belongs to, and the UE with the same application service belongs to the same user equipment Group, so that the network element management unit can count the KPI of the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group according to the user equipment Group, and the counting efficiency of the KPI for counting the application service is improved.

Optionally, in another embodiment of the present application, the RAN side may configure different radio parameters for different UE Group IDs in advance, that is, the base station may establish a corresponding relationship between the different UE Group IDs and the radio parameters (the corresponding relationship may be referred to as a third mapping relationship). For example, the wireless parameters include: scheduling priority of a user equipment group and at least one of a maximum number of radio resources that can be used by the user equipment group, and a measurement period of a UE in the user equipment group. For example, in the third mapping relationship established by the base station, when the number of radio Resource Blocks (RBs) available to all UEs having a UE Group ID of ID _1 is 10% at most, and the number of RBs available to all UEs having an ID _2 is 20% at most, and the like, in a certain scheduling Time Interval (TTI), when the number of RBs used by the UE corresponding to the UE Group ID reaches the maximum available RB, the user number in the UE Group ID is not scheduled any more or a new user in the UE Group ID is not admitted any more. For another example, assuming that the base station configures different scheduling priorities for different UE Group IDs, when a certain TTI needs to schedule users of different UE Group IDs, the base station may schedule the UEs in the UE Group IDs with high priorities according to the third mapping relationship. For another example, because the service characteristics corresponding to different tenants are different, the service characteristics may include any one or more of the mobility characteristics, the power consumption characteristics, and the message sending frequency of the user equipment, for example, the terminal mobility of some tenants is relatively high, and the terminal positions of some tenants are relatively fixed, the base station may configure different mobility measurement periods for the UEs according to the UE Group ID and the service characteristics, and the like. Thus, after the base station obtains the UE Group ID of a certain UE, the base station may determine the radio parameter corresponding to the UE Group ID according to the third mapping relationship, so as to schedule the UE in the UE Group according to the radio parameter corresponding to the UE Group.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for acquiring a service KPI according to an embodiment of the present application. The present embodiment relates to a specific process in which a network device adjusts a radio parameter corresponding to a user equipment group to which an application service belongs according to an obtained KPI of the application service, and then reschedules user equipment in the user equipment group according to the adjusted radio parameter. On the basis of the above embodiment, further, the method may include:

s501: and the network equipment adjusts the wireless parameters corresponding to the user equipment group according to the KPI of the application service to obtain updated wireless parameters.

It should be noted that the KPI of the application service related in this embodiment may be obtained by using the KPI obtaining method in the foregoing embodiment or the foregoing possible implementation, and therefore, the process of obtaining the KPI of the application service is not described in detail here.

Specifically, because the network device may not accurately configure the radio parameters for different UE Group IDs according to the historical data in advance, in this embodiment, after obtaining KPIs of different application services, the network device may adjust the radio parameters corresponding to the user equipment Group to which the application service belongs according to the KPIs of the application service, for example, it is assumed that the maximum RB usage number that the network device configures for the user equipment Group with the UE Group ID of ID1 in advance is 20%, but after obtaining the KPI of the application service corresponding to the user equipment Group, the network device knows that the KPI of the application service does not reach an ideal target, and therefore, the network device may increase the maximum RB usage number of the user equipment Group with the UE Group ID of ID 1.

S502: and the network equipment schedules the user equipment in the user equipment group according to the updated wireless parameters.

According to the service KPI acquisition method provided by the embodiment of the application, the network equipment can adjust the wireless parameters corresponding to the user equipment group to which the application service belongs through the acquired KPI of the application service, and then reschedule the user equipment of the user equipment group according to the updated wireless parameters, so that the scheduling accuracy is improved.

Optionally, because the service requirements corresponding to different application services are different, for example, the delay requirements corresponding to the meter reading service and the call service are different, the guarantee granularity corresponding to the service requirements of different application services is different, for example, the application service corresponding to some UE Group IDs needs each UE to satisfy its corresponding service requirement, and some application services (i.e., some UE Group IDs) only need the service average value of the corresponding service area to satisfy their corresponding service requirements. Thus, the network element management unit or the RAN side can adjust the radio parameters according to the guaranteed granularity, and for example, the real-time requirements of KPI statistics of different application services are different, for example, the application service needs to count KPIs once every 1ms, and some application services need to count KPIs once in 15 min. Therefore, when the network element management unit counts the KPIs of the application service, the network management unit may notify the network element management unit of service guarantee strength corresponding to different UE Group IDs and KPI real-time requirements corresponding to different UE Group IDs in advance, so that the network element management unit may adjust the wireless parameters according to the guarantee granularity when counting the KPIs of the application service; optionally, when the base station counts KPIs of the application service, the network element management unit may further notify, to the base station, service guarantee levels corresponding to different UE Group IDs and KPIs real-time requirements corresponding to different UE Group IDs, so that the base station may adjust the wireless parameters according to the guarantee granularities when counting KPIs of the application service.

Optionally, the network device may further send, to the user equipment, a system message corresponding to the UE Group ID of the user equipment according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment. For example, the UE may send an acquisition request to the base station to request to acquire System information (System information), and then the base station sends the System information corresponding to the UE Group ID to the UE according to the UE Group ID of the UE, where it is to be noted that the System information received by all UEs in one UE Group ID is the same, and the System information corresponding to different UE Group IDs is different, for example, UEs with different UE Group IDs have different tac (tracking area code) parameters for indicating different paging areas. Certainly, the base station may directly issue parameters corresponding to different UE Group IDs in the broadcast message, such as Tracking Area Code (TAC) parameters.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 6, the network device may be implemented by software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware. The network device may include: a first obtaining module 11, a determining module 12 and a second obtaining module 13.

Specifically, the first obtaining module 11 is configured to obtain a service identifier ID of the user equipment; wherein the service ID is used for indicating the type of the application service of the user equipment; the application service comprises any service under the mMTC service of mass Internet of things communication, or any service under the URLLC service of ultrahigh reliability and ultralow time delay communication;

a determining module 12, configured to determine, according to the service ID, a key performance indicator KPI type corresponding to the application service;

and a second obtaining module 13, configured to obtain the KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present application may execute the method embodiment, and the implementation principle and the technical effect are similar, which are not described herein again.

Further, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to obtain a user equipment Group identifier UE Group ID of the user equipment; the UE Group ID is used for indicating a user equipment Group to which the user equipment belongs, the UE Group ID comprises the service ID, and the service IDs of the user equipments with the same UE Group ID are the same.

Optionally, the UE Group ID further includes a tenant ID, and the tenant ID is used to indicate a tenant to which the UE belongs.

Optionally, the UE Group ID further includes a public land mobile network PLMN ID, where the PLMN ID is used to indicate an operator network to which the user equipment belongs.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. The present embodiment relates to a specific structure when the network device is a base station.

In this embodiment, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to receive a UE Group ID of the user equipment from the user equipment; or, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to receive a UE Group ID of the user equipment from an MME; or, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to receive a user equipment identifier UE ID sent by the user equipment, and determine a UE Group ID of the user equipment according to the UE ID and a preset first mapping relationship; the UE ID comprises a core network temporary mobile subscriber identity (S-TMSI) or an MME temporary mobile subscriber identity (M-TMSI), and the first mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE IDs and UE Group IDs.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the first obtaining module 11 is further configured to receive the second mapping relationship sent by the network management unit through the network element management unit before the determining module 12 determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, where the second mapping relationship includes a correspondence relationship between different UE Group IDs and KPI types. Further, the determining module 12 is specifically configured to determine, according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset second mapping relationship, a KPI type corresponding to the application service.

On the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 6, as shown in fig. 7, the network device may further include: a building block 14 and a sending block 15.

The establishing module 14 is configured to establish a correspondence between the KPI of the application service and the UE Group ID of the user equipment;

the sending module 15 is configured to send the correspondence to a network element management unit.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment relates to a specific structure when the network device is a network element management unit.

In this embodiment, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to receive a UE Group ID of the user equipment, where the UE Group ID is sent by the user equipment through a base station; or, the first obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to receive the UE Group ID of the user equipment from a mobility management entity MME.

The determining module 12 is specifically configured to determine, according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset second mapping relationship, a KPI type corresponding to the application service.

On the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, as shown in fig. 8, the second obtaining module 13 may specifically include a receiving unit 131 and an obtaining unit 132.

The sending module 15 is further configured to send the type of the communication information to be reported to the base station according to the KPI type; the communication information is parameter information used for indicating the current communication state of the user equipment;

a receiving unit 131, configured to receive communication information reported by a base station according to the type of the communication information;

an obtaining unit 132, configured to obtain a KPI of the application service according to the communication information and the UE Group ID.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. The network device in this embodiment may be a base station, and may also be a network element management unit. On the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 8, further, the network device further includes: an adjustment module 16 and a scheduling module 17;

the adjusting module 16 is configured to adjust a radio parameter corresponding to the ue group according to the KPI of the application service, so as to obtain an updated radio parameter, where the radio parameter includes at least one of a scheduling priority of the ue group, a maximum number of radio resources that can be used by the ue group, and a measurement period of the ue group;

and a scheduling module 17, configured to schedule the ue in the ue group according to the updated radio parameter.

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 9, the network device may include a transceiver 41, a processor 42, a memory 43, and at least one communication bus 44. The communication bus 44 is used to enable communication connections between the elements. The memory 43 may comprise a high speed RAM memory, and may also include a non-volatile storage NVM, such as at least one disk memory, in which various programs may be stored in the memory 43 for performing various processing functions and implementing the method steps of the present embodiment. Optionally, the transceiver 41 in this embodiment may be a radio frequency module or a baseband module on the network device.

In this embodiment, the transceiver 41 is configured to obtain a service identifier ID of a user equipment; wherein the service ID is used for indicating the type of the application service of the user equipment; the application service comprises any service under the mMTC service of mass Internet of things communication, or any service under the URLLC service of ultrahigh reliability and ultralow time delay communication;

and the processor 42 is configured to determine a key performance indicator KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, and obtain a KPI of the application service according to the KPI type and the service ID.

Further, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to acquire a user equipment Group identifier UE Group ID of the user equipment; the UE Group ID is used for indicating a user equipment Group to which the user equipment belongs, the UE Group ID comprises the service ID, and the service IDs of the user equipments with the same UE Group ID are the same.

Optionally, as a possible implementation manner of this embodiment, in this implementation manner, the network device may be a base station.

In this embodiment, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to receive, from the UE, a UE Group ID of the UE; or, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to receive a UE Group ID of the UE from a mobility management entity MME; or, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to receive a UE ID sent by the UE, and determine a UE Group ID of the UE according to the UE ID and a preset first mapping relationship; the UE ID comprises a core network temporary mobile subscriber identity (S-TMSI) or an MME temporary mobile subscriber identity (M-TMSI), and the first mapping relation comprises the corresponding relation between different UE IDs and UE Group IDs.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the transceiver 41 may be further configured to receive, before the processor 42 determines the KPI type corresponding to the application service according to the service ID, the second mapping relationship sent by a network element management unit through a network element management unit, where the second mapping relationship includes a correspondence relationship between different UE Group IDs and KPI types; the processor 42 is specifically configured to determine, according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset second mapping relationship, a KPI type corresponding to the application service.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the processor 42 may be further configured to establish a correspondence between KPIs of the application service and a UE Group ID of the UE; the transceiver 41 is further configured to send the correspondence to a network element management unit.

Optionally, as another possible implementation manner of this embodiment, in this implementation manner, the network device may be a network element management unit.

In this embodiment, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to receive a UE Group ID of the user equipment, which is sent by the user equipment through a base station; or, the transceiver 41 is specifically configured to receive the UE Group ID of the user equipment from a mobility management entity MME. The processor 42 is specifically configured to determine, according to the UE Group ID of the user equipment and a preset second mapping relationship, a KPI type corresponding to the application service.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the transceiver 41 is further configured to send the type of the communication information to be reported to the base station according to the KPI type, and receive the communication information reported by the base station according to the type of the communication information; the communication information is parameter information used for indicating the current communication state of the user equipment; the processor 42 is specifically configured to obtain a KPI of the application service according to the communication information and the UE Group ID.

Optionally, as another possible implementation manner of this embodiment, in this implementation manner, the network device may be a base station, and may also be a network element management unit. In this embodiment, the processor 42 is further configured to adjust a radio parameter corresponding to the user equipment group according to the KPI of the application service, obtain an updated radio parameter, and schedule the user equipment in the user equipment group according to the updated radio parameter; wherein the radio parameter includes at least one of a scheduling priority of the user equipment group, a maximum number of radio resources that can be used by the user equipment group, and a measurement period of the user equipment group.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the disclosure herein may be embodied in hardware, in software instructions executed by a processor, or in a computer program product. The software instructions may consist of corresponding software modules that may be stored in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Of course, the storage medium may also be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC. Additionally, the ASIC may reside in user equipment. Of course, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in user equipment.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that in one or more of the examples described above, the functions described herein may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus, and method may be implemented in other ways without departing from the scope of the application. For example, the above-described embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the modules or units is only one logical functional 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. 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 modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the present embodiment. One of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement it without inventive effort.

Additionally, the systems, devices, and methods described, as well as the illustrations of various embodiments, may be combined or integrated with other systems, modules, techniques, or methods without departing from the scope of the present application. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units through some interfaces, and may be in an electronic, mechanical or other form.

It is to be understood that the appearances of "a plurality" in the embodiments of the present application mean two or more. The descriptions of "first" and "second" appearing in the embodiments of the present invention are only for illustrating and distinguishing the description objects, and do not show the order, nor represent any particular limitation to the number of devices in the embodiments of the present invention, and do not constitute any limitation to the embodiments of the present invention.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring a service KPI is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the method comprises the steps that network equipment acquires an identifier of a user equipment group, wherein the identifier of the user equipment group corresponds to a first application service, one or more user equipments use the first application service, and the type of the first application service comprises a massive Internet of things communication mMTC service or an ultra-high reliability and ultra-low delay communication URLLC service;

and the network equipment determines Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) corresponding to the identifiers of the user equipment groups.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the network device determining the KPI corresponding to the identifier of the ue group comprises:

the network equipment acquires KPIs of the one or more user equipment;

and the network equipment acquires the KPI corresponding to the identifier of the user equipment group according to the KPI of the one or more user equipments.

3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the identity of the group of user equipments comprises a service ID and the service IDs of user equipments using the identity of the same group of user equipments are the same.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the identity of the group of user devices further comprises a tenant ID, and wherein the tenant ID is used to indicate a tenant to which the user device belongs.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the identity of the group of user equipment further comprises a public land mobile network (PLMN ID), and wherein the PLMN ID is used to indicate an operator network to which the user equipment belongs.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the network device is a base station, and the network device obtains the identifier of the user equipment group, specifically including:

the base station receives an identification of the group of user equipment from the user equipment.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the network device is a base station, and the network device obtains the identifier of the user equipment group, specifically including:

the base station determines the identification of the user equipment group according to the UE ID and a preset first mapping relation; wherein the first mapping relationship comprises a correspondence relationship between different UE IDs and identities of a user equipment group.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the acquiring, by the network device, the identifier of the user equipment group specifically includes:

the network device receives an identification of the group of user devices from a core network.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the network device is a network element management unit, and the network device obtains the identifier of the user equipment group, specifically including:

the network element management unit receives the identification of the user equipment group from the base station.

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

the network equipment determines a KPI type corresponding to the identifier of the user equipment group according to the identifier of the user equipment group and a preset mapping relation; wherein the mapping relationship comprises a corresponding relationship between the identities of different user equipment groups and the KPI types.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the network device is a base station, the method further comprising:

and the base station receives the mapping relation sent by the network management unit.

12. The method according to any one of claims 1-11, further comprising:

the network device adjusts a wireless parameter corresponding to the user equipment group according to a KPI corresponding to the identifier of the user equipment group to obtain an updated wireless parameter, wherein the wireless parameter comprises at least one of a scheduling priority of the user equipment group, a maximum number of wireless resources which can be used by the user equipment group, and a measurement period of the user equipment group;

13. A network device comprising means for performing the method of any of claims 1-12.

14. A computer storage medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1-12.

15. A computer program product comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1-12.

16. A network device comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions and the processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the network device to perform the method of any one of claims 1-12.