CN113678495A

CN113678495A - Beam measurement reporting activation method and device

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Publication number: CN113678495A
Application number: CN202180002059.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗星熠
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-14
Filing date: 2021-07-14
Publication date: 2021-11-19
Also published as: WO2023283841A1

Abstract

The technical scheme of the application is that network equipment sends a control message to terminal equipment to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, wherein the control message is used for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal equipment and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell. The terminal equipment can determine which cells can be measured and reported by the reference signals based on the control message, so that the measurement reporting result of the expected cell can be obtained, and the great expense caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all the cells can be avoided.

Description

Beam measurement reporting activation method and device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for activating beam measurement reporting.

Background

In release 5G R17, an inter-cell mobility (L1/L2-centralized inter-cell mobility) and inter-cell multi-transmission and reception point (inter-cell multi-TRP) framework based on L1/L2 signaling is proposed. In L1/L2-centralized inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP, in order to provide a service to a terminal by using a beam of a neighboring cell adjacent to a serving cell of the terminal, it is desirable that the terminal can measure and report a reference signal of the neighboring cell. However, due to the limited capability of the terminal, it cannot support the measurement and reporting of the reference signals of all neighboring cells.

Disclosure of Invention

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for activating beam measurement reporting, so that a terminal device can determine which cells to measure and report reference signals, thereby obtaining a measurement reporting result of an expected cell and avoiding a huge overhead caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all cells.

An embodiment of a first aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for activating beam measurement reporting, where the method is applied to a network device, and includes: and sending a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, wherein the control message is used for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

Optionally, before sending a control message to the terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, the method further includes: and sending a configuration message to the terminal equipment to configure the beam measurement report, wherein the configuration message is used for configuring the beam measurement report of the serving cell and the beam measurement report of each non-serving cell.

Optionally, the control message includes first activation information and second activation information, where the first activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell, and the second activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell.

Optionally, the control message includes identification information and activation information, where the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, where the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with multiple CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple CSI reporting configurations.

Optionally, the control message is configured to indicate one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states to activate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be each associated with one of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell.

Optionally, the control message includes identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration, the specific CSI reporting configuration is associated with multiple measurement reference signal sets in the measurement reference signal set of the serving cell and the measurement reference signal set of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple measurement reference signal sets.

Optionally, the control message is at least one of a media access control MAC control element CE and downlink control information DCI.

An embodiment of a second aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for activating beam measurement reporting, where the method is applied to a terminal device, and includes: receiving a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, wherein the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

Optionally, before receiving a control message sent by the network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, the method further includes: receiving a configuration message sent by a network device to configure a beam measurement report, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement report of the serving cell and the beam measurement report of each non-serving cell.

A third aspect of the present disclosure provides an activation device for beam measurement reporting, which is applied to a network device, and includes: a communication module, configured to send a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell that provides service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

A fourth aspect of the present disclosure provides a beam measurement reporting activation apparatus, which is applied to a terminal device, and includes: a communication module, configured to receive a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell that provides service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

A fifth aspect of the present disclosure provides an electronic device, including: a memory; a processor, connected to the memory, configured to execute the computer-executable instructions on the memory to implement the beam measurement reporting activation method in the foregoing first aspect embodiment or second aspect embodiment.

A sixth aspect of the present disclosure provides a computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores computer-executable instructions; the computer-executable instruction is executed by a processor, and is capable of implementing the beam measurement reporting activation method in the first aspect embodiment or the second aspect embodiment.

The disclosed embodiment provides a beam measurement report activation method and device, wherein a network device can send a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement report, the control message is used for indicating activation/deactivation of beam measurement report of a serving cell and indicating activation/deactivation of beam measurement report of a non-serving cell, so that the terminal device can determine which cells can be subjected to reference signal measurement and report based on the control message, and therefore measurement report results of a desired cell can be obtained, and great expense caused by reporting of measurement report results of all cells can be avoided.

Additional aspects and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is an architecture diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of MAC CE signaling for beam measurement reporting activation in the related art;

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for activating beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a beam measurement reporting activation according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for activating beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for activating beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a method for activating beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam measurement reporting activation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam measurement reporting activation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a chip according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be illustrative of the present disclosure, and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

In order to better understand the method and the apparatus for measuring, reporting and activating Channel State Information (CSI) disclosed in the embodiments of the present application, a description is first given below of a communication system to which the embodiments of the present application are applicable.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication system may include, but is not limited to, one network device and one terminal device, the number and form of the devices shown in fig. 1 are only for example and do not constitute a limitation to the embodiments of the present application, and two or more network devices and two or more terminal devices may be included in practical applications. The communication system shown in fig. 1 includes a network device 101 and a terminal device 102 as an example.

It should be noted that the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application can be applied to various communication systems. For example: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, a 5th generation (5G) mobile communication system, a 5G New Radio (NR) system, or other future new mobile communication systems.

The network device 101 in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for transmitting or receiving signals on the network side. For example, the network device 101 may be an evolved NodeB (eNB), a transmission point (TRP), a next generation base station (gNB) in an NR system, a base station in other future mobile communication systems, or an access node in a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system. The embodiments of the present application do not limit the specific technologies and the specific device forms used by the network devices. The network device provided by the embodiment of the present application may be composed of a Central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU), where the CU may also be referred to as a control unit (control unit), and a protocol layer of a network device, such as a base station, may be split by using a structure of CU-DU, functions of a part of the protocol layer are placed in the CU for centralized control, and functions of the remaining part or all of the protocol layer are distributed in the DU, and the DU is centrally controlled by the CU.

The terminal device 102 in the embodiment of the present application is an entity, such as a mobile phone, on the user side for receiving or transmitting signals. A terminal equipment (terminal) may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a Mobile Station (MS), a Mobile Terminal (MT), etc. The terminal device may be a vehicle having a communication function, a smart vehicle, a mobile phone (mobile phone), a wearable device, a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an Augmented Reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in self-driving (self-driving), a wireless terminal device in remote surgery (remote medical supply), a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal device in smart home (smart home), and the like. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific technology and the specific device form adopted by the terminal device.

It is to be understood that the communication system described in the embodiment of the present application is for more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application, and does not constitute a limitation to the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, and as a person having ordinary skill in the art knows that along with the evolution of the system architecture and the appearance of a new service scenario, the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is also applicable to similar technical problems.

In release 5G R17, an inter-cell mobility (L1/L2-centralized inter-cell mobility) and inter-cell multi-transmission and reception point (inter-cell multi-TRP) framework based on L1/L2 signaling is proposed. In L1/L2-centralized inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP, in order to provide a service to a terminal by using a beam of a neighboring cell adjacent to a serving cell of the terminal, it is desirable that the terminal can measure and report a reference signal of the neighboring cell. However, due to the limited capability of the terminal, it cannot support the measurement and reporting of the reference signals of all neighboring cells. For this reason, it is desirable to provide a method that can design activation and deactivation mechanisms for measurement and reporting of individual cells.

In the 5G NR system, beam measurement reporting includes three types: periodic Reporting (Periodic Reporting), Semi-persistent Reporting (Semi-persistent Reporting), and Aperiodic Reporting (Aperiodic Reporting). In some related technologies, for periodic reporting, the periodic reporting takes effect after Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration, and the reporting time is defined by parameters; for semi-persistent reporting, after RRC configuration, reporting can be performed only by activating a Media Access Control Element (MAC CE) signaling or a DCI signaling, and a reporting time is defined by a parameter; for the aperiodic report, the report is triggered by Downlink Control Information (DCI).

That is, in current 5G NR systems, the activation/deactivation mechanism is designed only for semi-persistent reporting. In semi-persistent reporting, for semi-persistent reporting based on Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), after configuring resources for beam measurement reporting by RRC, beam measurement reporting needs to be activated by MAC CE signaling as shown in fig. 2, where R represents a reserved bit, Serving Cell ID represents an ID of a Serving Cell (i.e., a Cell currently Serving a terminal device) for which the measurement reporting is directed, BWP ID represents an ID of a fractional Bandwidth (BWP, Bandwidth Part), S, for which the measurement reporting is directed, and BWP ID represents a Bandwidth Part (BWP, Bandwidth Part), S_i(in fig. 2, i ═ 0, 1, 2, and 3) indicates an activation/deactivation status of the configured semi-persistent beam measurement report, and the field is set to "1" to indicate that the corresponding semi-persistent beam measurement report is activated, and "0" to indicate that the corresponding semi-persistent beam measurement report is deactivated. For Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) based Semi-persistent reporting, each Semi-persistent beam measurement report is associated with a corresponding trigger state (Semi-persistent)ten TriggerState), and activating/deactivating the Semi-persistent beam measurement report corresponding to the Semi-persistent TriggerState indicated by the DCI.

However, in the current 5G NR system, for periodic reporting and aperiodic reporting, an activation/deactivation mechanism is not designed, and the current activation/deactivation mechanism is only used for a serving cell serving a terminal device.

In order to facilitate the network device to activate/deactivate the measurement report of the terminal device for some cells according to the actual situation, the present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for activating the beam measurement report. According to the beam measurement report activation method and device disclosed by the invention, an activation/deactivation mechanism is designed for the terminal equipment aiming at the measurement report of the serving cell and the non-serving cell, so that the measurement report result of the expected cell can be obtained, and the great expense caused by reporting the measurement report results of all cells can be avoided.

The method and apparatus for activating beam measurement reporting provided by the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an activation method for beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 3, the method may be performed by a network device, and may include the following steps.

Step S301, sending a control message to the terminal equipment to activate/deactivate the beam measurement report. The control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell. The serving cell is a cell that provides a service for the terminal device. A non-serving cell refers to one or more cells adjacent to a serving cell.

In this embodiment, the network device may send a control message for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, where the control message indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell in addition to the activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell, that is, the terminal device may execute beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell that the network device designates to be activated based on the control message, and for beam measurement reporting of the serving cell/non-serving cell that the network device does not designate to be activated, the terminal device does not need to execute the control message, thereby avoiding a significant overhead caused by reporting of measurement reports of all cells.

In any embodiment of the present disclosure, the control message for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting means that the control message is used for activating and/or deactivating beam measurement reporting. That is, the message may respectively indicate the activated beam measurement reporting and the deactivated beam measurement reporting through an identifier or a specific data format/coding format; or default to activate the beam measurement report, and instruct to deactivate the beam measurement report through the message; and the beam measurement report can be defaulted to be deactivated, and the message indicates to activate the beam measurement report.

In some embodiments, the control message may be at least one of MAC CE signaling and downlink control information, DCI.

In some embodiments, the control message may include the first activation information and/or the second activation information. In a possible implementation manner, the control message includes only the first activation information, and the first activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell. In another possible implementation manner, the control message only includes the second activation information, and the second activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell. In yet another possible implementation manner, the control message includes first activation information and second activation information, where the first activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell, and the second activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling.

As described above, in some related art, for semi-persistent reporting based on a physical uplink control channel, beam measurement reporting is activated through, for example, MAC CE signaling as shown in fig. 2. In this embodiment, the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling. In order to activate the beam measurement report for the non-serving cell, a plurality of bits may be added on the basis of the MAC CE signaling structure shown in fig. 2 to indicate an activation state of the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell, where a bit value of 1 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is activated, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is deactivated. In this way, activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and beam measurement reporting for each non-serving cell can be achieved.

For example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and the several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 5, and for the semi-persistent reporting based on the physical uplink control channel, the control message may include several bits S_iIndicates the activation/deactivation state of the semi-continuous beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 1 of the Cell1, and adds a plurality of new bits S_1iIndicates the activation/deactivation state of the semi-persistent beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 2 of the non-serving Cell Cell 2, and adds a plurality of new bits S_2iIndicates the activation/deactivation state of the semi-continuous beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 3 of the non-serving Cell Cell 3, and adds a plurality of new bits S_3iIndicates the activation/deactivation state of the semi-persistent beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 4 of the non-serving Cell 4, and adds a plurality of new bits S_4iAnd an activation/deactivation state of the semi-persistent beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 5 of the non-serving Cell5 is represented, where a value range of i may be set according to the configurable number of semi-persistent reports based on the physical uplink control channel in each Cell, for example.

In some embodiments, the control message includes identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a plurality of CSI reporting configurations of a serving cell and a non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the plurality of CSI reporting configurations.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling.

In this embodiment, the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling, and at least one trigger state is associated with multiple CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell. The control message may include at least two parts, where a first part is used to indicate a trigger state associated with the multiple CSI reporting configurations, and a second part is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the trigger state.

For example, a current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and a plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-cells 10, and for aperiodic reporting, as shown in fig. 4, M aperiodic trigger states (aperiodic trigger states) T1-TM are configured, where one aperiodic trigger state T2 may be configured to be associated with CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving Cell1 and CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-cells 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on). In order to activate the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the non-serving cell, the control message may include identification information for indicating the aperiodic trigger state T2 and activation information S for activating/deactivating the beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 10₀-S₉E.g. S ₀1 denotes that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, and S is₁When the value is 0, it indicates that the beam measurement reporting deactivation … … S corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving Cell 2 is deactivated₉And 0 represents that the beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving Cell 10 is deactivated. The activated beam measurement reporting may be triggered via another message (e.g., DCI) to enable beam measurement reporting.

As another example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1,and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, for semi-persistent reporting based on physical uplink shared channel, configuring M semi-persistent trigger states (semi-persistent trigger states) T1-TM, wherein, a semi-persistent trigger state T2 can be configured to be associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving Cell1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 5 of the non-serving Cell 2-Cell 5 (wherein, the CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to the Cell 2, the CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to the Cell 3, and so on), and a semi-persistent trigger state T4 is associated with the CSI reporting configuration 6-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving Cell 6-Cell 10 (where the CSI reporting configuration 6 corresponds to the Cell 6, the CSI reporting configuration 7 corresponds to the Cell 7, and so on). In order to activate the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the non-serving cell, two control messages are used. The first control message may include identification information for indicating the semi-persistent trigger state T2 and activation information S for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 5₀-S₄E.g. S ₀1 denotes that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, and S is₁When the value is 0, it indicates that the beam measurement reporting deactivation … … S corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving Cell 2 is deactivated₄1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 5 of the non-serving Cell5 is activated. The second control message may include identification information for indicating the semi-persistent trigger state T4 and activation information S for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 6-CSI reporting configuration 10₀-S₄E.g. S₀That is, 1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI report configuration 6 of the non-serving Cell 6 is activated, and S is₁When the value is 0, it indicates that the beam measurement reporting deactivation … … S corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 7 of the non-serving Cell 7 is deactivated₄And 0 represents that the beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving Cell 10 is deactivated. In this example, beam measurement reporting "activated" by the MAC CE only means that it can be allowed to proceed, and if beam measurement reporting is to be achieved, further activation via another message (e.g., DCI) is requiredAnd (6) alive.

In some embodiments, the control message is to indicate one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states to activate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to each be associated with one of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling and/or DCI.

In this embodiment, the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling, and a plurality of trigger states are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, where each trigger state is associated with one CSI reporting configuration. The control message may activate beam measurement reporting for certain cells by indicating a trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration for these cells.

For example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and a plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, for aperiodic reporting, 10 aperiodic trigger states T1-T10 are configured to be respectively associated with CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving Cell1 and CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In order to activate the beam measurement reports of the serving Cell and the non-serving Cell, the control message (here, MAC CE signaling) may indicate an aperiodic trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired Cell to activate the beam measurement report of the desired Cell, for example, if the control message indicates aperiodic trigger states T1, T2, T4, and T6, it indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, and the beam measurement reports corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations 2, 4, and 6 of the non-serving cells Cell, and 6 are activated. The beam measurement reporting of the activated desired cell may be triggered via another message (e.g., DCI) to enable beam measurement reporting of the desired cell.

For another example, a current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and a plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, and for semi-persistent reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel, 10 semi-persistent trigger states T1-T10 are configured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving Cell1 and a CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where the CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to Cell 2, the CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1, and T2 is associated with the CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. For activating the beam measurement reports of the serving Cell and the non-serving Cell, the control message (DCI here) may indicate a semi-persistent trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired Cell to activate the beam measurement report of the desired Cell, for example, if the control message, for example, a plurality of DCIs indicate the semi-persistent trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6, it indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, and the beam measurement reports corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations 3, 5, and 6 of the non-serving cells Cell 3, Cell5, and Cell 6 are activated.

For another example, a current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and a plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, and for semi-persistent reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel, 10 semi-persistent trigger states T1-T10 are configured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving Cell1 and a CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where the CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to Cell 2, the CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1, and T2 is associated with the CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In this example, the activation of the beam measurement reports of the serving Cell and the non-serving Cell may be implemented by a first control message (here, MAC CE signaling) and a second control message (here, DCI), where the first control message MAC CE signaling may indicate a semi-persistent trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired Cell to select the beam measurement report of the desired Cell, for example, if the first control message indicates the semi-persistent trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6, it indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving Cell1 is selected, and the beam measurement reports corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations 3, 5, and 6 of the non-serving cells Cell 3, Cell5, and Cell 6 are selected; the second control message, for example, the multiple DCIs may be used to activate/deactivate the beam measurement report corresponding to the selected CSI reporting configuration 1, CSI reporting configuration 3, CSI reporting configuration 5, and CSI reporting configuration 6, for example, when the preset bit value is 1, it indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the corresponding cell is activated, and when the preset bit value is 0, it indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the corresponding cell is deactivated.

In some embodiments, the control message includes identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration associated with a plurality of measurement reference signal sets of a measurement reference signal set of a serving cell and a measurement reference signal set of a non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the plurality of measurement reference signal sets.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling.

In this embodiment, a specific CSI reporting configuration may be configured to be associated with a measurement reference signal set of a serving cell and a plurality of measurement reference signal sets in a measurement reference signal set of a non-serving cell in advance through RRC signaling, and at least one trigger state may be associated with the specific CSI reporting configuration. The control message may include two parts, wherein a first part is used to indicate a trigger state associated with the particular CSI reporting configuration, and a second part is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple measurement reference signal sets associated with the particular CSI reporting configuration.

For example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and a plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, for aperiodic reporting, a specific CSI reporting configuration is configured to be associated with a measurement reference signal set RS set1 of the serving Cell1 and a measurement reference signal set RS set 2-RS set 10 of the non-serving Cell 2-Cell 10 (where the measurement reference signal set RS set2 corresponds to Cell 2, the measurement reference signal set RS set 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on), and an aperiodic trigger state T2 may be configured to be associated with the specific CSI reporting configuration. In order to activate the beam measurement report of the serving Cell and the non-serving Cell, the control message may include identification information used to indicate the aperiodic trigger state T2 and activation information S0-S9 used to activate/deactivate the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set 1-measurement reference signal set RS set 10, for example, S0 ═ 1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, S1 ═ 0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set2 of the non-serving Cell deactivates … … S9 ═ 0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS 10 of the non-serving Cell 10 is deactivated.

For example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and the plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 10, for aperiodic report, the first specific CSI report configuration is associated with the measurement reference signal set RS set1 of the serving Cell1 and the measurement reference signal sets RS set 2-RS set 5 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 5 (wherein the measurement reference signal set RS set2 corresponds to Cell 2, the measurement reference signal set RS set 3 corresponds to Cell 3, and so on), the second specific CSI report configuration is associated with the measurement reference signal SSB 6-RS set 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 6-Cell 10 (wherein the measurement reference signal set RS set 6 corresponds to Cell 6, the measurement reference signal set RS 7 corresponds to Cell 7, and so on), in addition, an aperiodic triggering state T2 may be configured to be associated with the first specific CSI reporting configuration and an aperiodic triggering state T4 may be configured to be associated with the second specific CSI reporting configuration. In order to activate the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the non-serving cell, two control messages are used. The first control message may include identification information indicating the aperiodic trigger state T2 and activation information S0-S4 for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set 1-measurement reference signal set RS set 5, for example, S0 ═ 1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set1 of the serving Cell1 is activated, S1 ═ 0 indicates that the beam measurement reporting corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set2 of the non-serving Cell is deactivated … … S4 ═ 1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set 5 of the non-serving Cell5 is deactivated. The second control message may include identification information indicating the aperiodic trigger state T4 and activation information S0-S4 for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set 6-measurement reference signal set RS set 10, for example, S0 ═ 1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set 6 of the non-serving Cell 6 is activated, S1 ═ 0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS set7 of the non-serving Cell 7 is deactivated … … S4 ═ 0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the measurement reference signal set RS 10 of the non-serving Cell 10 is deactivated.

For example, a particular CSI reporting configuration may be configured to be associated with a measurement reference signal set of a serving cell and a plurality of measurement reference signal sets of a non-serving cell.

In one embodiment, a measurement reference signal set of each Cell is included in a CSI resource set (CSI-SSB-ResourceSet) in a CSI resource configuration (CSI-ResourceConfig) associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration, for example, the CSI resource set may include a plurality of CSI resource lists (CSI-SSB-resourceselists), each list corresponding to a reference signal set of a Cell, or reference signals of each Cell are uniformly numbered in the CSI resource set, for example, reference signal sets of serving cells Cell1 are numbered 0 to 63, reference signal sets of non-serving cells are numbered 64 to 127, and the like.

In another embodiment, a CSI resource configuration (CSI-ResourceConfig) associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration includes a plurality of CSI resource sets (CSI-SSB-resourcesets), where each CSI resource set corresponds to a measurement reference signal set of a cell.

According to the beam measurement reporting activation method of the embodiment of the invention, the network equipment can send the control message for activating/deactivating the beam measurement reporting to the terminal equipment, and the control message indicates the activation/deactivation of the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and indicates the activation/deactivation of the beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell, so that the terminal equipment can determine which cells can be subjected to the beam measurement reporting based on the control message, thereby not only obtaining the measurement reporting result of the desired cell, but also avoiding the great expense caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all the cells.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an activation method for beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 5, the method may be performed by a network device and may include, but is not limited to, the following steps:

step S501, sending a configuration message for configuring the beam measurement report to the terminal device. The configuration message is used to configure beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and to configure beam measurement reporting for each non-serving cell.

In this embodiment, a network device sends a configuration message for configuring beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, where in some embodiments, the configuration message is RRC signaling, and the configuration message is used for configuring beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and each non-serving cell. For example, the configuration message may include configuration information for beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

In some embodiments, the configuration information may include a CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, for example, the network device may notify a configuration information CSI reporting configuration (CSI-ReportConfig) for configuring beam measurement reporting of each cell (including the serving cell and the non-serving cell) to the terminal device through RRC signaling. Specifically, the network device includes, by RRC configuration, CSI reporting configuration of each cell in a CSI reporting configuration List (CSI-reportconfiglist), and sequentially allocates CSI reporting configuration IDs (CSI-reportconfigids) to CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration List. For example, the current serving Cell of the terminal device is Cell1, and the plurality of non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell 5, and the CSI reporting configuration for the configuration of the beam measurement reporting of the cells Cell 1-Cell 5 is included in a CSI reporting configuration list and assigned with corresponding IDs, for example, the CSI reporting configuration list includes CSI-ReportConfig 1 (configuration information reported by the beam measurement of the serving Cell1, whose CSI reporting configuration ID is 1), CSI-ReportConfig 2 (configuration information reported by the beam measurement of the non-serving Cell 2, whose CSI reporting configuration ID is 2) … … -ReportConfig 5 (configuration information reported by the beam measurement of the non-serving Cell5, whose CSI reporting configuration ID is 5).

In addition, a cell ID may be introduced into a CSI resource set (CSI-SSB-resource set) associated with CSI reporting configuration to distinguish which cell the measurement reference signal comes from.

In some embodiments, the configuration information may include specific CSI reporting configurations associated with measurement reference signal sets of the serving cell and measurement reference signal sets of the non-serving cells, e.g., the network device may inform the terminal device of the specific CSI reporting configurations associated with the measurement reference signal sets of each cell (including the serving cell and the non-serving cells) that are available for beam measurement reporting through RRC signaling. For example, the network device configures, through RRC signaling, a specific CSI reporting configuration to be associated with the measurement reference signal set of each cell.

For example, in an embodiment, a CSI resource set (CSI-SSB-resources set) associated with the CSI reporting configuration includes a measurement reference signal set of each Cell, for example, the CSI resource set may include a plurality of CSI resource lists (CSI-SSB-resources lists), each list corresponding to a reference signal set of one Cell, or, for example, reference signals of each Cell are numbered uniformly, for example, the reference signal set of the serving Cell1 is numbered 0 to 63, and the reference signal set of the non-serving Cell is numbered 64 to 127.

For another example, in another embodiment, a CSI resource configuration (CSI-ResourceConfig) associated with the CSI reporting configuration includes a plurality of CSI resource sets (CSI-SSB-resourcesets), where each CSI resource set corresponds to a measurement reference signal set of one cell.

Step S502, sending a control message to the terminal equipment to activate/deactivate the beam measurement report. The control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell. The serving cell is a cell that provides a service for the terminal device. A non-serving cell refers to one or more cells adjacent to a serving cell.

For the detailed description of step S502 above, reference may be made to the related description of step S301, and no further exclusions are made here.

In some embodiments, the control message includes first activation information and second activation information, where the first activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell, and the second activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the network equipment sends the configuration information of the beam measurement report of the configured service cell and the beam measurement report of each non-service cell to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment can know how to execute the configuration of the beam measurement report on the service cell and the non-service cell, so that the terminal equipment can execute the beam measurement report on the service cell and the non-service cell. The terminal equipment can determine which cells can be subjected to beam measurement reporting based on the control message sent by the network equipment and used for activating/deactivating the beam measurement reporting, so that the measurement reporting result of the expected cell can be obtained, and the great expense caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all the cells can be avoided.

Fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for activating beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 6, the method may be executed by a terminal device, and the method may include the following steps.

Step S601, receiving a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting. The control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell. The serving cell is a cell that provides a service for the terminal device. A non-serving cell refers to one or more cells adjacent to a serving cell.

In this embodiment, the terminal device may receive, from the network device, a control message for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting, where the control message indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell in addition to the activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell, and therefore, the terminal device may execute, based on the control message, beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell that the network device designates to be activated, and for beam measurement reporting of the serving cell/non-serving cell that the network device does not designate to be activated, the terminal device does not need to execute the above-mentioned operations, thereby avoiding a significant overhead caused by reporting of measurement reports of all cells.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling. The CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling. In order to activate the beam measurement report for the non-serving cell, a plurality of bits may be added on the basis of the MAC CE signaling structure shown in fig. 2 to indicate an activation state of the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell, where a bit value of 1 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is activated, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is deactivated. In this way, activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and beam measurement reporting for each non-serving cell can be achieved.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling. The CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling, and at least one trigger state may be associated with a plurality of CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell. The control message may include at least two parts, where a first part is used to indicate a trigger state associated with the multiple CSI reporting configurations, and a second part is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the trigger state.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling and/or DCI. The CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be configured in advance through RRC signaling, and a plurality of trigger states are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, where each trigger state is associated with one CSI reporting configuration. The control message may activate beam measurement reporting for certain cells by indicating a trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration for these cells.

In this embodiment, the control message is MAC CE signaling. A specific CSI reporting configuration may be configured to be associated with a measurement reference signal set of a serving cell and a plurality of measurement reference signal sets of a non-serving cell in advance through RRC signaling, and at least one trigger state may be associated with the specific CSI reporting configuration. The control message may include two parts, wherein a first part is used to indicate a trigger state associated with the particular CSI reporting configuration, and a second part is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple measurement reference signal sets associated with the particular CSI reporting configuration.

For the specific description of the control message in the above embodiment, reference may be made to the related description in the corresponding embodiment of the beam measurement reporting activation method performed on the network device side above, and it is not to be redundantly recited here.

According to the beam measurement reporting activation method of the embodiment of the invention, the terminal equipment can receive the control message for activating/deactivating the beam measurement reporting from the network equipment, and the control message indicates the activation/deactivation of the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and indicates the activation/deactivation of the beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell, so that the terminal equipment can determine which cells can be subjected to the beam measurement reporting based on the control message, thereby not only obtaining the measurement reporting result of the desired cell, but also avoiding the great expense caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all the cells.

Fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an activation method for beam measurement reporting according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 7, the method may be performed by a terminal device and may include, but is not limited to, the following steps:

step S701 is to receive a configuration message sent by a network device and used for configuring a beam measurement report. The configuration message is used to configure beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and to configure beam measurement reporting for each non-serving cell.

In this embodiment, the terminal device may receive, from the network device, a configuration message for configuring beam measurement reporting, where in some embodiments, the configuration message is RRC signaling, and the configuration message is used for configuring beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and each non-serving cell. For example, the configuration message may include configuration information for beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

Step S702, receiving a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting. The control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell. The serving cell is a cell that provides a service for the terminal device. A non-serving cell refers to one or more cells adjacent to a serving cell.

For the detailed description of step S702, reference may be made to the related description of step S601, and no further excrescence is made here.

According to the beam measurement reporting activation method of the embodiment of the invention, the network equipment sends the configuration information of the beam measurement reporting of the configured service cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-service cell to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment can know how to execute the configuration of the beam measurement reporting on the service cell and the non-service cell, so that the terminal equipment can execute the beam measurement reporting on the service cell and the non-service cell. The terminal equipment can determine which cells can be subjected to beam measurement reporting based on the control message sent by the network equipment and used for activating/deactivating the beam measurement reporting, so that the measurement reporting result of the expected cell can be obtained, and the great expense caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all the cells can be avoided.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, the method provided in the embodiments of the present application is introduced from the perspective of a network device and a user equipment, respectively. In order to implement the functions in the method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the network device and the user equipment may include a hardware structure and a software module, and the functions are implemented in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure and a software module. Some of the above functions may be implemented by a hardware configuration, a software module, or a combination of a hardware configuration and a software module

Corresponding to the beam measurement reporting activation methods provided in the foregoing embodiments, the present disclosure also provides a beam measurement reporting activation device, and since the beam measurement reporting activation device provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure corresponds to the beam measurement reporting activation methods provided in the foregoing embodiments, the implementation manner of the beam measurement reporting activation method is also applicable to the beam measurement reporting activation device provided in the embodiments, and is not described in detail in this embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam measurement reporting activation apparatus 800 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The beam measurement reporting activation apparatus 800 may be applied to a network device.

As shown in fig. 8, the beam measurement reporting activation apparatus 800 includes: a communication module 801, configured to send a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell that provides a service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

By implementing the beam measurement reporting activation device, the network device can send a control message for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, wherein the control message indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell, so that the terminal device can determine which cells can be subjected to beam measurement reporting based on the control message, thereby obtaining measurement reporting results of desired cells and avoiding great expenses caused by reporting the measurement reporting results of all cells.

In some embodiments, the communication module 801 is further configured to send a configuration message for configuring beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, where the configuration message is used to configure beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

In some embodiments, the control message is at least one of a medium access control MAC control element CE and downlink control information DCI.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another beam measurement reporting activation apparatus 900 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The beam measurement reporting activation apparatus 900 may be applied to a terminal device.

As shown in fig. 9, the apparatus 900 includes: a communication module 901, configured to receive a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, where the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

By implementing the beam measurement reporting activation apparatus of this embodiment, the terminal device may receive, from the network device, a control message for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting, where the control message indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and indicates activation/deactivation of beam measurement reporting of the non-serving cell, so that the terminal device can determine, based on the control message, which cells can be subjected to beam measurement reporting, thereby obtaining a measurement reporting result of a desired cell and avoiding a huge overhead caused by reporting measurement reporting results of all cells.

In some embodiments, the communication module 901 is further configured to: receiving a configuration message sent by a network device and used for configuring beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used for configuring the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and configuring the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

Referring to fig. 10, fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 1000 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication apparatus 1000 may be a network device, a user device, a chip, a system-on-chip, or a processor supporting the network device to implement the method, or a chip, a system-on-chip, or a processor supporting the terminal device to implement the method. The apparatus may be configured to implement the method described in the method embodiment, and refer to the description in the method embodiment.

The communications device 1000 may include one or more processors 1001. The processor 1001 may be a general-purpose processor or a special-purpose processor, etc. For example, a baseband processor or a central processor. The baseband processor may be configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be configured to control a communication device (e.g., a base station, a baseband chip, a terminal device chip, a DU or CU, etc.), execute a computer program, and process data of the computer program.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include one or more memories 1002, on which a computer program 1004 may be stored, and the processor 1001 executes the computer program 1004 to make the communication device 1000 execute the method described in the above method embodiments. Optionally, the memory 1002 may further store data. The communication device 1000 and the memory 1002 may be provided separately or may be integrated together.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include a transceiver 1005 and an antenna 1006. The transceiver 1005 may be referred to as a transceiving unit, a transceiver, or a transceiving circuit, etc., for implementing a transceiving function. The transceiver 1005 may include a receiver and a transmitter, and the receiver may be referred to as a receiver or a receiving circuit, etc. for implementing a receiving function; the transmitter may be referred to as a transmitter or a transmission circuit, etc. for implementing the transmission function.

Optionally, one or more interface circuits 1007 may also be included in the communication device 1000. The interface circuit 1007 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor 1001. The processor 1001 executes the code instructions to cause the communication device 1000 to perform the methods described in the above method embodiments.

In one implementation, a transceiver may be included in processor 1001 for performing receive and transmit functions. The transceiver may be, for example, a transceiver circuit, or an interface circuit. The transmit and receive circuitry, interfaces or interface circuitry used to implement the receive and transmit functions may be separate or integrated. The transceiver circuit, the interface circuit or the interface circuit may be used for reading and writing code/data, or the transceiver circuit, the interface circuit or the interface circuit may be used for transmitting or transferring signals.

In one implementation, the processor 1001 may store a computer program 1003, and the computer program 1003 runs on the processor 1001 and may cause the communication apparatus 1000 to execute the method described in the above method embodiment. The computer program 1003 may be solidified in the processor 1001, in which case the processor 1001 may be implemented by hardware.

In one implementation, the communication device 1000 may include circuitry that may implement the functionality of transmitting or receiving or communicating in the foregoing method embodiments. The processors and transceivers described herein may be implemented on Integrated Circuits (ICs), analog ICs, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs), mixed signal ICs, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), electronic devices, and the like. The processor and transceiver may also be fabricated using various IC process technologies, such as Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS), Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), bipolar CMOS (bicmos), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), and the like.

The communication apparatus in the above description of the embodiment may be a network device or a terminal device (such as the first terminal device in the foregoing embodiment of the method), but the scope of the communication apparatus described in the present application is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication apparatus may not be limited by fig. 10. The communication means may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication means may be:

(1) a stand-alone integrated circuit IC, or chip, or system-on-chip or subsystem;

(2) a set of one or more ICs, which optionally may also include storage means for storing data, computer programs;

(3) an ASIC, such as a Modem (Modem);

(4) a module that may be embedded within other devices;

(5) receivers, terminal devices, smart terminal devices, cellular phones, wireless devices, handsets, mobile units, in-vehicle devices, network devices, cloud devices, artificial intelligence devices, and the like;

(6) others, and so forth.

For the case that the communication device may be a chip or a system of chips, see the schematic structural diagram of the chip shown in fig. 11. The chip shown in fig. 11 includes a processor 1101 and an interface 1102. The number of the processors 1101 may be one or more, and the number of the interfaces 1102 may be more.

Optionally, the chip further comprises a memory 1103, the memory 1103 being arranged to store necessary computer programs and data.

Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks and steps (step) set forth in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented in electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design requirements of the overall system. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a system for implementing a beam measurement report activation method, where the system includes the communication device serving as the user equipment in the foregoing fig. 10 embodiment and the communication device serving as the network device in the foregoing fig. 11 embodiment, or the system includes the communication device serving as the user equipment and the communication device serving as the network device in the foregoing fig. 11 embodiment.

The present application also provides a readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, implement the functionality of any of the above-described method embodiments.

The present application also provides a computer program product which, when executed by a computer, implements the functionality of any of the above-described method embodiments.

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

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the various numbers of the first, second, etc. mentioned in this application are only used for the convenience of description and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of this application, but also to indicate the sequence.

At least one of the present applications may also be described as one or more, and a plurality may be two, three, four or more, and the present application is not limited thereto. In the embodiment of the present application, for a technical feature, the technical features in the technical feature are distinguished by "first", "second", "third", "a", "B", "C", and "D", and the like, and the technical features described in "first", "second", "third", "a", "B", "C", and "D" are not in a sequential order or a size order.

As used herein, the terms "machine-readable medium" and "computer-readable medium" refer to any computer program product, apparatus, and/or device (e.g., magnetic discs, optical disks, memory, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)) used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor, including a machine-readable medium that receives machine instructions as a machine-readable signal. The term "machine-readable signal" refers to any signal used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor.

The systems and techniques described here can be implemented in a computing system that includes a back-end component (e.g., as a data server), or that includes a middleware component (e.g., an application server), or that includes a front-end component (e.g., a user computer having a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with an implementation of the systems and techniques described here), or any combination of such back-end, middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and the Internet.

The computer system may include clients and servers. A client and server are generally remote from each other and typically interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server arises by virtue of computer programs running on the respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other.

It should be understood that various forms of the flows shown above may be used, with steps reordered, added, or deleted. For example, the steps described in the present disclosure may be executed in parallel or sequentially or in different orders, and are not limited herein as long as the desired results of the technical solutions disclosed in the present disclosure can be achieved.

In addition, it is to be understood that the various embodiments described herein may be implemented alone or in combination with other embodiments as the solution allows.

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

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

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

Claims

1. A beam measurement reporting activation method is applied to a network device, and the method comprises the following steps:

and sending a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, wherein the control message is used for activating/deactivating beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to sending a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, further comprising:

and sending a configuration message to the terminal equipment to configure the beam measurement report, wherein the configuration message is used for configuring the beam measurement report of the serving cell and the beam measurement report of each non-serving cell.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the control message comprises first activation information and second activation information, wherein the first activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell, and the second activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell.

4. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the control message comprises identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used for indicating a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a plurality of CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the plurality of CSI reporting configurations.

5. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the control message is to indicate one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states to activate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to each be associated with one of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell.

6. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the control message comprises identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration associated with multiple ones of the measurement reference signal set of the serving cell and the measurement reference signal set of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple measurement reference signal sets.

7. The method according to any of claims 1-6, wherein the control message is at least one of a media Access control, MAC, control element, CE, and downlink control information, DCI.

8. A method for activating beam measurement report is applied to a terminal device, and the method comprises the following steps:

receiving a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, wherein the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein before receiving a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, further comprising:

receiving a configuration message sent by a network device to configure a beam measurement report, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement report of the serving cell and the beam measurement report of each non-serving cell.

10. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the control message comprises first activation information and second activation information, wherein the first activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell, and the second activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell.

11. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the control message comprises identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used for indicating a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a plurality of CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used for indicating an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the plurality of CSI reporting configurations.

12. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the control message is to indicate one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states to activate beam measurement reporting corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to each be associated with one of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell.

13. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the control message comprises identification information and activation information, wherein the identification information is used to indicate a preconfigured trigger state, wherein the preconfigured trigger state is preconfigured to be associated with a specific CSI reporting configuration associated with multiple measurement reference signal sets of the measurement reference signal set of the serving cell and the measurement reference signal set of the non-serving cell, and the activation information is used to indicate an activation state of beam measurement reporting corresponding to the multiple measurement reference signal sets.

14. The method according to any of claims 8-13, wherein the control message is at least one of a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, and downlink control information, DCI.

15. A beam measurement reporting activation device is applied to a network device, and comprises:

a communication module, configured to send a control message to a terminal device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell that provides service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

16. A beam measurement reporting activation device is applied to a terminal device, and comprises:

a communication module, configured to receive a control message sent by a network device to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting, where the control message is used to activate/deactivate beam measurement reporting of a serving cell and beam measurement reporting of a non-serving cell, and the serving cell is a cell that provides service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell.

17. A communication device, comprising: a transceiver; a memory; a processor, coupled to the transceiver and the memory, respectively, configured to control the transceiver to transmit and receive wireless signals by executing computer-executable instructions on the memory, and to implement the method of any one of claims 1-7.

18. A communication device, comprising: a transceiver; a memory; a processor, coupled to the transceiver and the memory, respectively, configured to control the transceiver to transmit and receive wireless signals by executing computer-executable instructions on the memory, and to implement the method of any one of claims 8-14.

19. A computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores computer-executable instructions; the computer-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, are capable of performing the method of any one of claims 1-7.

20. A computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores computer-executable instructions; the computer-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, are capable of performing the method of any one of claims 8-14.