CN113630784A

CN113630784A - Service area indicating method, service area selecting method and equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113630784A
Application number: CN202010382101.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 牛春雷; 索士强
Original assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-08
Filing date: 2020-05-08
Publication date: 2021-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 2040-05-08
Also published as: CN113630784B

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a service area indicating method, a service area selecting method and equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: sending first information to one or more target terminals, wherein the first information indicates relevant information of one or more alternative service areas of the target terminals; the first information is used for the target terminal to obtain second information, and the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal. In the embodiment of the invention, the network equipment can identify the user with poor service experience according to the communication conditions of the user, such as signal quality, data transmission rate, transmission delay and the like, and appoint a communication service area capable of providing better service experience for the user, so as to guide the user to communicate in a proper area, thereby greatly reducing the blindness of selecting the proper area by the user, and effectively improving the service experience of the user on the premise of not increasing network software and hardware resources.

Description

Service area indicating method, service area selecting method and equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a service area indicating method, a service area selecting method and equipment.

Background

In the current wireless network system, a user can obtain the signal quality of the current position through the measurement information of the terminal, and accordingly, the quality of the current communication service is judged. However, when the signal quality is not good, or the signal quality is good but the communication service quality is not good, the area information capable of providing good communication service cannot be obtained, and thus a better service experience cannot be obtained through a purposeful mobile location.

Mobile communication is developing towards a high frequency band, while a higher frequency band brings rich spectrum resources, the coverage area of a network becomes smaller, the phenomenon of uneven network resource distribution becomes more prominent, and different areas can provide different communication qualities for users, thereby influencing the service experience of the users in different areas.

Therefore, how to guide the user to purposefully move the location to obtain better communication services (data transmission rate, saving transmission energy, etc.), and further improve the service experience becomes a problem to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a service area indicating method, a service area selecting method, and a device, which solve the problem of how to guide a user to purposefully move a location to obtain a better communication service.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a service area indication method, applied to a network device, including:

sending first information to one or more target terminals, wherein the first information indicates relevant information of one or more alternative service areas of the target terminals;

the first information is used for the target terminal to obtain second information, and the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and receiving third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

Optionally, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information of the one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of the one or more alternative service areas;

information of communication quality of the one or more alternative service areas.

Optionally, the second information includes: one or more alternative service areas are associated with the target terminal.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

acquiring a target terminal set, wherein the target terminal set comprises: the one or more target terminals, the target terminal quality of service experience being below a first threshold.

Optionally, the acquiring the target terminal set includes:

acquiring information of all terminals registering services of network service quality NSQS type;

acquiring the service experience quality of each terminal registering the NSQS type service;

and obtaining the target terminal set according to the service experience quality and the first threshold value.

Optionally, before the sending the first information to the one or more target terminals, the method further includes:

acquiring load information of each service area;

obtaining the load grade of each service area according to the load information;

obtaining a candidate service area set of the one or more target terminals according to the load level, wherein the candidate service area set comprises: one or more alternative service areas.

Optionally, the load level of the alternative service area is lower than the load level of the current service area of the target terminal;

and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the load level of the alternative service area is above a second threshold.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving third information indicating a target service area selected by the user.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

storing the third information as reference information for determining the alternative service area;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

according to the third information, resources are configured for the target terminal;

optionally, sending the first information to one or more target terminals, including:

and sending the first information to one or more target terminals through a resource block of a specified service or through a signaling radio bearer.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a service area selection method, applied to a terminal, including:

receiving first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas;

and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

Optionally, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information for one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas;

information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and sending third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

a network quality of service type service is registered with the network.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, including:

a sending module, configured to send first information to one or more target terminals, where the first information indicates related information of one or more candidate service areas of the target terminals;

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, including: a first transceiver and a first processor;

the first transceiver transmits and receives data under control of the first processor;

the first processor reads a program in a memory to perform the following operations: sending first information to one or more target terminals, wherein the first information indicates relevant information of one or more alternative service areas of the target terminals;

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:

a receiving module configured to receive first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas;

and the processing module is used for obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including: a second transceiver and a second processor;

the second transceiver transmits and receives data under the control of the second processor;

the second processor reads a program in the memory to perform the following operations: receiving first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas; and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communication device, including: a processor, a memory and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program, when executed by the processor, performs steps comprising a method according to the first or second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method according to the first or second aspect.

In the embodiment of the invention, the network equipment can identify the user with poor service experience according to the communication conditions of the user, such as signal quality, data transmission rate, transmission delay and the like, and appoint a communication service area capable of providing better service experience for the user, so as to guide the user to communicate in a proper area, thereby greatly reducing the blindness of selecting the proper area by the user, and effectively improving the service experience of the user on the premise of not increasing network software and hardware resources.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of cellular communications;

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

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a service area selection method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for improving user service experience according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a diagram of one embodiment of a network device;

FIG. 6 is a second schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a second schematic diagram of a terminal according to the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The existing mobile communication system generally adopts a cellular networking mode, one wireless transceiver is responsible for a cellular communication service, and for better frequency reuse, coverage in one cell is usually completed by adopting a cell or sector mode. A schematic diagram of a cellular network consisting of three cells, each of which is further divided into three cells is shown in fig. 1, and each parallelogram area marked with numbers in the diagram can be regarded as the coverage area of one cell. A terminal resides in a cell and is served by one or more cells.

In the networking mode of fig. 1, terminals in different areas may obtain different communication service qualities due to signal quality, network load of the area where the terminals are located, and the like, and in addition, different service types have different requirements for communication services, and service experiences of users in different areas are different. In order to improve service experience, a user can improve communication service quality by moving a location, but a network cannot provide a selectable service area for the user, so that the user is helped to improve the communication quality, and the service experience of the user is further improved.

On the other hand, although the network can sense the service experience of the user through the throughput rate and the like, the network is limited by the communication environment of the terminal and the current network configuration, and meanwhile, in consideration of the requirements of other users in the network, the measures that the network can take are limited to: 1) improving the transmission power of the terminal; 2) the priority of the user is improved to a certain extent; 3) a more reasonable modulation coding mode is adopted; 4) load balancing; 5) increasing wireless resources, such as bandwidth and time slot, cannot provide more information to the user to improve the service experience

In the existing wireless mobile communication network, when the user service experience is poor (such as video blockage, unsmooth call, slow file transmission speed and long waiting time) caused by poor communication quality, such as low transmission rate and large transmission delay.

1) The terminal user can adopt a mobile position mode to improve the communication service quality, but the mobile position always moves blindly without a target, so that the improvement effect on the service is greatly uncertain;

2) although the network can improve the service experience of the user to a certain extent by adopting measures such as increasing the sending power of the terminal and selecting a more reasonable modulation and coding mode when perceiving that the service experience of the user is reduced, the network cannot provide more information for the user and is intended to improve the service experience.

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

The terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, in the description and claims of this application, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Furthermore, the use of "and/or" in the specification and claims means that at least one of the connected objects, such as a and/or B, means that three cases, a alone, B alone, and both a and B, exist.

In the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to mean serving as examples, illustrations or descriptions. Any embodiment or design described as "exemplary" or "e.g.," an embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

A user as described herein refers to a service object of a communication system (including a network and a terminal).

The terminal described herein refers to a device capable of communicating with a network, such as a mobile phone, a wearable device with communication function, and the like.

The communication service areas described herein include different areas within the same cell in cellular communication, different cells of the same base station, service areas of different base stations, and service areas of different core networks, and also include service areas divided in non-cellular communication.

The base station described herein comprises: a base station (NodeB, NB) of a third generation mobile communication technology (3rd-generation, 3G), an Evolved Node B (eNB) of a fourth generation mobile communication technology (4th-generation, 4G), a Next generation base station (NodeB, gNB) of a fifth generation mobile communication technology (5th-generation, 5G), and other forms of wireless access devices.

The techniques described herein are not limited to Long Time Evolution (LTE)/LTE Evolution (LTE-Advanced) systems, and may also be used for various wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems.

The terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably. CDMA systems may implement Radio technologies such as CDMA2000, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), and so on. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) and other CDMA variants. TDMA systems may implement radio technologies such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM). The OFDMA system may implement radio technologies such as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), evolved-UTRA (E-UTRA), IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, etc. UTRA and E-UTRA are parts of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). LTE and higher LTE (e.g., LTE-A) are new UMTS releases that use E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE-A, and GSM are described in documents from an organization named "third Generation Partnership Project" (3 GPP). CDMA2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named "third generation partnership project 2" (3GPP 2). The techniques described herein may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as for other systems and radio technologies.

Referring to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a service area indication method, where an execution subject of the method may be a network device, and the method includes: step 201.

Step 201: sending first information to one or more target terminals, wherein the first information indicates relevant information of one or more alternative service areas of the target terminals;

the first information is used for the target terminal to obtain second information, and the second information is used for assisting the user in selecting at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

The target terminal refers to a terminal that needs to indicate a mobile location of a user to obtain a better communication service (data transmission rate, saving transmission energy, and the like), for example, the target terminal refers to a terminal whose service experience quality is lower than a first threshold, and it should be noted that the first threshold is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

The target service area refers to a service area that can provide the communication service quality of the target terminal, that is, the communication service quality obtained when the target terminal moves to the target service area is better than the communication service quality obtained when the target terminal is currently in the service area.

For example, the load level of the target service area cannot exceed the load level of the current service area, or the load level of the target service area is higher than a preset load level threshold.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and receiving third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, the network device may determine a target terminal set including one or more target terminals, for example, the method may further include: acquiring a target terminal set, wherein the target terminal set comprises: one or more target terminals.

For example, the network device may obtain the target terminal set by the following methods:

first, information of terminals registering a network quality of service (NSQS) type service is acquired; then, obtaining the service experience quality of each terminal registering the NSQS type service; and then, obtaining the target terminal set according to the service experience quality and the first threshold, that is, if the service experience quality of the terminal is lower than the first threshold, the terminal can be determined as the target terminal.

The Quality of service Experience may also be referred to as Quality of Experience (QoE) of the user.

In some embodiments, in step 201, the network device sends the first information to one or more target terminals through resource blocks of a specified service, or through a signaling radio bearer.

For example, the network device sends the first information to one target terminal at a time, or the network device sends the first information to a plurality of target terminals at a time.

It is to be understood that the first information may indicate location information, such as latitude and longitude information, of one or more candidate service areas of the target terminal, and the target terminal may generate a relative location relationship between the one or more candidate service areas and the target terminal according to the location information of the one or more candidate service areas, such as displaying the relative location relationship on a map, which may assist a user in selecting a suitable service area from the one or more candidate service areas, thereby improving communication service quality.

In some implementations, the first information can include one or more of: (1) location information for one or more alternative service areas; (2) load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas, such as: the grade of the heaviest load is 1, the grade of the second heaviest load is 2, and so on; (3) information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the second information may include: one or more alternative service areas versus target terminal location information.

In some embodiments, before the sending the first information to the one or more target terminals, the method further comprises: acquiring load information of each service area; obtaining the load grade of each service area according to the load information; obtaining a candidate service area set of the one or more target terminals according to the load level, wherein the candidate service area set comprises: one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the load level of the alternative service area is lower than the load level of the current service area of the target terminal; and/or the load level of the alternative service area is higher than a second threshold.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: receiving third information indicating a target service area selected by the user.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: storing the third information as reference information for determining the alternative service area; or configuring resources for the target terminal according to the third information.

Referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a service area selection method, where an execution subject of the method may be a terminal, and the method includes: step 301 and step 302.

Step 301: receiving first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas;

step 302: and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

In some implementations, the first information can include one or more of: (1) location information for one or more alternative service areas; (2) load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas; (3) information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and sending third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: a network quality of service type service is registered with the network.

In the embodiment of the invention, the network identifies the user with poor service experience according to the communication conditions of the user, such as signal quality, data transmission rate, transmission delay and the like, and assigns a communication service area capable of providing better service experience for the user to guide the user to communicate in a proper area, thereby greatly reducing the blindness of selecting the proper area by the user, and effectively improving the service experience of the user on the premise of not increasing the network software and hardware resources.

Referring to fig. 4, the method for improving user service experience according to the embodiment of the present invention includes the following specific steps:

step 1: a user registers a NSQS (network quality of service) type service with a network through a terminal;

step 2: the network monitors the load information of each service area;

optionally, the monitoring content includes, but is not limited to, a resource occupation ratio, a system throughput rate, a number of users, and the like, and the service area is divided into different load levels, such as: the grade of the heaviest load is 1, the grade of the second heaviest load is 2, and so on;

and step 3: the network monitors activated user information registered with NSQS, and identifies a user set Ub with poor service experience;

optionally, the parameters of the network to determine the service experience may be: signal quality reported by the terminal, transmission state of data (such as request rate, actual rate, error rate, etc.), etc.;

and 4, step 4: the network sorts the users in the user set Ub, and selects an alternative service area set Cb for the users in the user set Ub in turn according to the sorting result, that is, each user has its own service area set Cb.

Optionally, the service area set Cb may include one or more areas;

it can be understood that if a suitable service area cannot be matched for a certain user in the user set Ub, the service area set Cb corresponding to the user may also be empty. The selection criteria for the alternative service area set Cb may be, but is not limited to, the criteria described below:

a) after a user in the user set Ub moves to a certain region Ctarget in the service region set Cb, the load level of the region is not lower than the load level of the region Cservice originally serving the user in the user set Ub, that is, the load of the target service region after moving cannot exceed the load of the current service region;

b) after a user in the user set Ub moves to a certain region Ctarget in the service region set Cb, the load level of the region is higher than a preset load level threshold THtl.

And 5: the network sequentially issues messages containing the information of the service area set Cb for the users whose service area set Cb is not empty according to the sequence of the user set Ub in the step 3, and the command carries information on whether the position of the service area set Cb, the load level of Cb, the number of users and the like can reflect the communication quality, wherein the rule can be one of the following rules or a combination of the following rules:

a) each time one user is selected to issue an instruction, and after the user reaches a Ctarget area, the user issues an instruction for the next user;

b) and issuing instructions for a plurality of users each time.

Optionally, the manner of issuing the instruction may be:

a) carrying data by using a designated service RB;

b) the information content is part of the signaling message using the SRB bearer information.

Step 6: the terminal receives the position and the information of the service area set Cb sent by the network, and presents the position and the information to the user (for example, the information of the service area set Cb is presented to the user through map software installed on the terminal), so that the user is assisted in selecting a proper service area to improve the communication quality, and the service experience is further improved;

and 7: further, the terminal may also send the selection result to the network. After receiving the feedback information, the network may: a) as a reference for screening Ub in the next step and matching service area set Cb for the users in Ub; b) when handover is involved, resources may be configured in advance according to the feedback and mobility information of the terminal.

Embodiments of the present invention are described below by way of example 1, example 2 and example 3.

Example 1: cell interior and terminal cooperation for improving business experience

The method for improving the user service experience in the cell can adopt a method of indicating a user to a region with better cell signals, and the method specifically comprises the following steps:

step 1: a user registers a NSQS type service with a network;

step 2: the service cell of the user selects the user with poor signal coverage and poor service experience, and the evaluation criterion may be one or more of the following: (1) a cell signal measurement value of a user terminal in a period of time, (2) Bit Error probability (BER) information of network statistics, (3) a difference between Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) of network statistics and an actual service Rate, and the like;

and step 3: and the cell sends signal coverage information of a plurality of cells capable of representing the cell coverage condition to the users screened in the step 2 in a unicast or multicast mode.

Optionally, the content of the signal overlay information may include: the information shown in table 1;

table 1: signal coverage information for a cell

Optionally, the manner of issuing the signal coverage information may be:

(1) carrying data by using a designated service Resource Block (RB);

(2) information is carried using Signaling Radio Bearers (SRBs), the information content being part of a Signaling message.

And 4, step 4: the terminal receives the signal coverage information and acquires the signal coverage condition of the current cell through the signal coverage information;

and 5: the terminal presents the cell coverage information to the user (for example, the cell coverage information is presented to the user through map software installed on the terminal), assists the user in selecting a proper service area, improves communication quality, and further improves service experience; further, the terminal may also feed back the selection result to the network.

Example 2: cell and terminal cooperation of same base station improves business experience

In addition to using reference to fig. 2 to improve terminal service experience in the same base station, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for indicating a service area, where an execution subject of the method may be a network device, and the method includes: step 201.

step 2: the network monitors the load information of each service area;

Optionally, the service area set Cb may include one or more areas;

b) and issuing instructions for a plurality of users each time.

Optionally, the manner of issuing the instruction may be:

a) carrying data by using a designated service RB;

In addition to the method shown in embodiment 1, a method of indicating a user to another cell with a light load may also be adopted, and the specific method is as follows:

step 1: a user registers a NSQS type service with a network;

step 2: the subscriber serving base station monitors the load conditions of all cells under it.

Optionally, the monitoring content includes, but is not limited to: one or more of the resource occupation ratio, the system throughput rate, the number of users, etc., and divide the service area into different load classes, such as: the grade of the heaviest load is 1, the grade of the second heaviest load is 2, and so on;

and step 3: each cell monitors activated user information registered with NSQS, identifies a user set Ub with poor service experience according to one or more of signal quality in user measurement report and counted data transmission state (request rate, actual rate, error rate and the like), and determines the priority of the user according to user configuration and service state in the user set Ub;

and 4, step 4: the base station collects all cell load information and user service information, and selects an alternative service area set Cb for the users in the user set Ub in sequence, wherein the matching criterion can be the following criteria and the combination thereof:

(1) after a user in the user set Ub moves to a certain cell Ctarget in the alternative service area set Cb, the load level of the cell is not lower than the load level of the user service cell Cservice in the user set Ub, that is, the load of the target cell cannot exceed the load of the current service cell;

(2) after a user in the user set Ub moves to a certain cell Ctarget in the alternative service area set Cb, the load level of the cell is higher than the preset load level threshold THtl.

And 5: according to the sequence of the user sets Ub in step 4, each service cell sequentially issues messages containing the information of the alternative service area sets Cb for the users whose alternative service area sets Cb are not empty according to a set rule, and the information of each alternative service area set Cb carried in the command is shown in table 2:

table 2: information of alternative service area set Cb

Optionally, the rules may include any of:

(1) issuing the information of the alternative service area set Cb for only one user each time, and issuing an instruction for the next user after the user reaches a Ctarget area;

(2) and issuing the information of the respective alternative service area set Cb for a plurality of users at a time.

Optionally, the manner of issuing the information of the candidate service area set Cb may be:

(1) carrying data by using a designated service RB;

(2) the information content is part of the signaling message using the SRB bearer information.

The terminal presents information of the set of alternative service areas Cb to the user, (e.g., by means of mapping software installed on the terminal), and the user selects whether to move, and the target area of the movement. Further, the user can also select whether to feed back the selection result to the network, and for the user who selects the feedback, the terminal sends the selection result to the network.

Example 3: service experience is promoted by cooperation of multiple base stations and cooperation of terminals

In addition to using reference to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for indicating a service area, where an execution subject of the method may be a network device, and the method includes: step 201.

step 2: the network monitors the load information of each service area;

Optionally, the service area set Cb may include one or more areas;

b) and issuing instructions for a plurality of users each time.

Optionally, the manner of issuing the instruction may be:

a) carrying data by using a designated service RB;

In addition to the methods shown in embodiment 1 and embodiment 2, load information interaction between multiple base stations is also required, and the multiple base stations cooperate together to determine information of the alternative service area set Cb, which includes the following specific steps:

step 1: a user registers a NSQS type service with a network;

step 2: a plurality of base stations monitor the load conditions of all cells under the base stations respectively;

optionally, the monitoring content includes, but is not limited to, one or more of resource occupancy, system throughput, number of users, etc., and the service area is divided into different load levels, such as: the grade of the heaviest load is 1, the grade of the second heaviest load is 2, and so on;

and 4, step 4: each base station obtains the load information of other base station cells through interfaces (X2 of LTE, Xn of 5G and the like, if the situation of crossing a core network is involved, S1 and Ng interfaces connected with the core network) connected with other base stations;

optionally, the obtaining manner may be one or any combination of the following manners:

(1) each base station periodically or when triggered by an event, sends self load information to adjacent base stations;

(2) each base station actively acquires the load information of the adjacent base stations.

And 5: each base station collects the cell load information of the base station and the adjacent base stations and the user service information of the cell of the base station, and selects an alternative service area set Cb for the users in the user set Ub in sequence.

Optionally, the criteria for matching may include, but is not limited to, one or more of:

Step 6: according to the sequence of the user sets Ub in step 4, each service cell sequentially issues messages containing the information of the alternative service area sets Cb for the users whose alternative service area sets Cb are not empty according to a set rule, and the information of each alternative service area set Cb carried in the command is shown in table 2:

optionally, the rules may include any of:

(2) and issuing respective candidate service area set Cb information for a plurality of users each time.

(1) carrying data by using a designated service RB;

And 7: the terminal presents the information of the alternative service area set Cb to the user (for example, the information is presented to the user through map software installed on the terminal), so that the user is assisted in selecting a proper service area to improve the communication quality and further improve the service experience; further, the terminal may also feed back the selection result to the network.

Referring to fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, where the network device 500 includes:

a sending module 501, configured to send first information to one or more target terminals, where the first information indicates related information of one or more candidate service areas of the target terminals;

In some embodiments, the network device 500 further comprises: the receiving module is used for: and receiving third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information of the one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of the one or more alternative service areas;

In some embodiments, the second information comprises: one or more alternative service areas are associated with the target terminal.

In some embodiments, the network device 500 further comprises:

a first obtaining module, configured to obtain a target terminal set, where the target terminal set includes: the one or more target terminals, the target terminal quality of service experience being below a first threshold.

In some embodiments, the first obtaining module is further configured to: acquiring information of all terminals registering services of network service quality NSQS type; acquiring the service experience quality of each terminal registering the NSQS type service; and obtaining the target terminal set according to the service experience quality and the first threshold value.

In some embodiments, the network device 500 further comprises: the second acquisition module is used for acquiring the load information of each service area; obtaining the load grade of each service area according to the load information; obtaining a candidate service area set of the one or more target terminals according to the load level, wherein the candidate service area set comprises: one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the network device 500 further comprises: a receiving module, configured to receive third information, where the third information indicates a target service area selected by the user.

In some embodiments, the network device 500 further comprises:

a storage module, configured to store the third information, where the third information is used as reference information for determining the candidate service area;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

a configuration module, configured to configure resources for the target terminal according to the third information;

in some embodiments, the sending module 501 is further configured to send the first information to one or more target terminals through resource blocks of a specified service or through a signaling radio bearer.

Referring to fig. 6, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network device, where the network device 600 includes: a first transceiver 601 and a first processor 602;

the first transceiver 601 transmits and receives data under the control of the first processor 602;

the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to perform the following operations: sending first information to one or more target terminals, wherein the first information indicates relevant information of one or more alternative service areas of the target terminals;

In some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: and receiving third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information of the one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of the one or more alternative service areas;

In some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: acquiring a target terminal set, wherein the target terminal set comprises: the one or more target terminals, the target terminal quality of service experience being below a first threshold.

In some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: acquiring load information of each service area; obtaining the load grade of each service area according to the load information; obtaining a candidate service area set of the one or more target terminals according to the load level, wherein the candidate service area set comprises: one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: receiving third information indicating a target service area selected by the user.

In some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: storing the third information as reference information for determining the alternative service area; or, according to the third information, configuring resources for the target terminal;

in some embodiments, the first processor 602 reads the program in the memory to further perform the following operations: and sending the first information to one or more target terminals through a resource block of a specified service or through a signaling radio bearer.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, where the terminal 700 includes:

a receiving module 701, configured to receive first information, where the first information indicates network service quality of one or more service areas;

a processing module 702, configured to obtain second information according to the first information, where the second information is used to assist a user in selecting at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

In some embodiments, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information for one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas;

information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, terminal 700 further comprises: and the sending module is used for sending third information, and the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, terminal 700 further comprises: and the registration module is used for registering the service of the network service quality type with the network.

The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal 800, where the terminal includes: a second transceiver 801 and a second processor 802;

the second transceiver 801 transmits and receives data under the control of the second processor 802;

the second processor 802 reads a program in the memory to perform the following operations: receiving first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas; and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of the target terminal.

In some embodiments, the first information comprises one or more of:

location information for one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas;

information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

In some embodiments, the second processor 802 reads the program in the memory and performs the following operations: and sending third information, wherein the third information indicates the target service area selected by the user according to the second information.

In some embodiments, the second processor 802 reads the program in the memory and performs the following operations: a network quality of service type service is registered with the network.

Referring to fig. 9, fig. 9 is a structural diagram of a communication device applied in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 9, the communication device 900 includes: a processor 901, a transceiver 902, a memory 903, and a bus interface, wherein:

in one embodiment of the present invention, the communication device 900 further comprises: a program stored on the memory 903 and executable on the processor 901, which when executed by the processor 901 performs the steps in the embodiments shown in fig. 2-3.

In fig. 9, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 901 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 903 being linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 902 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium, it being understood that the transceiver 902 is an optional component.

The processor 901 is responsible for managing a bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 903 may store data used by the processor 901 in performing operations.

The communication device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 3, which have similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the disclosure herein may be embodied in hardware or in software instructions executed by a processor. The software instructions may consist of corresponding software modules that may be stored in RAM, flash memory, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, registers, hard disk, a removable hard disk, a compact disk, 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 a core network interface device. Of course, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a core network interface device.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that, in one or more of the examples described above, the functions described in this invention 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.

The above-mentioned embodiments, objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention are further described in detail, it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like made on the basis of the technical solutions of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the embodiments of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the embodiments of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to encompass such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A service area indication method is applied to network equipment and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises one or more of:

location information of the one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of the one or more alternative service areas;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second information comprises: one or more alternative service areas are associated with the target terminal.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the obtaining the set of target terminals comprises:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to said sending the first information to the one or more target terminals, the method further comprises:

acquiring load information of each service area;

8. The method of claim 5,

the load level of the alternative service area is lower than that of the current service area of the target terminal;

and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the load level of the alternative service area is above a second threshold.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and configuring resources for the target terminal according to the third information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the first information to one or more target terminals comprises:

12. A service area selection method is applied to a terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of a target terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first information comprises one or more of:

location information for one or more alternative service areas;

load information or load level of one or more alternative service areas;

information of communication quality of one or more alternative service areas.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the second information comprises: one or more alternative service areas are associated with the target terminal.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

a network quality of service type service is registered with the network.

17. A network device, comprising:

18. A network device, comprising: a first transceiver and a first processor;

19. A terminal, comprising:

and the processing module is used for obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of a target terminal.

20. A terminal, comprising: a second transceiver and a second processor;

the second processor reads a program in the memory to perform the following operations: receiving first information indicating network quality of service for one or more service areas; and obtaining second information according to the first information, wherein the second information is used for assisting a user to select at least one alternative service area as a target service area of a target terminal.

21. A communication device, comprising: processor, memory and program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor implements steps comprising a method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 16.

22. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored thereon, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out steps comprising the method of any one of claims 1 to 16.