CN113923768A

CN113923768A - Cell registration method, device and terminal

Info

Publication number: CN113923768A
Application number: CN202111235215.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡先专; 姜印清; 李哲; 郭浩平; 石帅
Original assignee: Honor Device Co Ltd
Current assignee: Honor Device Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-03
Filing date: 2019-07-03
Publication date: 2022-01-11
Anticipated expiration: 2039-07-03
Also published as: CN113923768B; CN110381550B; CN110381550A

Abstract

The application provides a cell registration method, a cell registration device and a cell registration terminal, which are applied to a terminal supporting double connection capability. The method comprises the following steps: determining whether at least one cell includes a first cell which can be registered by the terminal based on characteristic information of the at least one cell in a non-connected state; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal; registering the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell which can be registered by the terminal.

Description

Cell registration method, device and terminal

The present application is a divisional application of a chinese patent application filed in 2019, 7, 3, and having an application number of 201910601403.4 and an application name of "a method, an apparatus, and a terminal for cell registration", which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, and in particular, to a cell registration method, apparatus, and terminal.

Background

The third generation partnership project (3 GPP) version (release, R)15 defines a Dual Connectivity (DC) framework of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) including an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) -NR dual connectivity (EN-DC) architecture.

The EN-DC framework does not need to be newly added with a fifth generation ((5th generation, 5G) core network, only needs to be newly added with a 5G base station, cooperates with the existing fourth generation ((4th generation, 4G) base station, and provides 5G +4G combined access for the terminal.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, which can enable a terminal to preferentially register a cell capable of adding an auxiliary cell for the terminal, and enable a user to enjoy communication service of the auxiliary cell.

According to a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a cell registration method, which is applied to a terminal supporting dual connectivity; the method comprises the following steps: determining whether at least one cell includes a first cell which can be registered by the terminal based on characteristic information of the at least one cell in a non-connected state; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal; registering the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell which can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the non-connected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells; determining whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

In the implementation mode, historical frequency points corresponding to cells which can add the auxiliary cells to the terminal in history are scanned to obtain the current registrable cells, and then cell identifiers which can add the auxiliary cells to the terminal in history are combined, so that whether the cells which can add the auxiliary cells to the terminal in history are the current registrable cells or not can be judged.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the method further includes: registering a cell in the first set when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

In the implementation mode, when the cell in which the secondary cell is added to the terminal historically cannot be registered, the cell is registered on the frequency point in which the cell in which the secondary cell is added to the terminal, so that the cell in which the secondary cell is added to the terminal is registered at the high probability.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the method further includes: when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set includes at least two cells, registering one of the at least two cells according to signal quality.

In the implementation mode, when the terminal registers the cell, the cell with higher signal quality is registered, and the communication experience of the user is improved.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, where the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band; the method further comprises the following steps: when the at least one cell does not comprise a first cell which can be registered by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell, scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells; registering a cell in the second set when the second set is not empty.

In the implementation mode, when the cell on the frequency point where the cell of the secondary cell added to the terminal is located is not registerable historically, the cell is registered to the cell on the frequency band where the cell of the secondary cell added to the terminal is located, so that the cell of the secondary cell added to the terminal is registered with the terminal with a high probability.

With reference to the first aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the unconnected state is an unperturbed cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a third set of registrable cells; determining whether the first cell is a cell in the third set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

In the implementation mode, the history frequency band corresponding to the cell which can historically add the auxiliary cell to the terminal is scanned to obtain the current registrable cell, and then the cell identifier which can historically add the auxiliary cell to the terminal is combined, so that whether the cell which can historically add the auxiliary cell to the terminal is the current registrable cell can be judged.

With reference to the first aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the non-connected state is an idle state where the terminal resides in a cell, and the cell where the terminal currently resides cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell; before the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell, the method further includes: scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, wherein the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the current resident cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: determining whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

In the implementation mode, the current registrable cell is obtained by scanning frequency points in the neighbor cell information; and combining the cell identification of the auxiliary cell which can be added to the terminal historically, thereby judging whether the cell which can be added to the auxiliary cell to the terminal historically is the current registrable cell.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell further includes: when the at least one cell is not the cell in the fourth set, scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells; and determining whether the first cell is the cell in the fifth set or not based on the cell mark so as to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal or not.

With reference to the first aspect, in an eighth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the characteristic message of the at least one cell includes a bandwidth of the at least one cell; the registering the first cell when the first cell is registerable by the terminal comprises: and when the first cell is at least two cells, registering one cell of the at least two cells according to the bandwidth of the cell.

In the implementation mode, the terminal can be registered or switched to the cell with larger bandwidth, and the communication experience of the user is improved.

With reference to the first aspect, in a ninth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the auxiliary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In the implementation manner, the terminal preferentially registers or switches to the 4G cell which can add the 5G cell to the terminal, so that the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a cell registration method, which is applied to a terminal supporting dual connectivity; the method comprises the following steps: receiving a neighbor cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a current resident cell in a connection state of the resident cell; when a first cell in at least one cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request, measuring a first signal quality of the first cell in response to the measurement request, wherein the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal in history and can add a secondary cell to the terminal; when the first signal quality meets a reporting threshold, reporting the first signal quality to the base station; when receiving a cell switching instruction from the base station, switching from the current resident cell to the first cell according to the cell switching instruction; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the second aspect, before, when a first cell in at least one cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request, and in response to the measurement request, measuring a first signal quality of the first cell, the method further includes: determining whether the first cell belongs to the cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request based on the characteristic information of the first cell; wherein the characteristic information is any one of the following:

the cell identification of the first cell, the historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell and the historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell.

With reference to the second aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, where the terminal supports dual connectivity; the terminal comprises a processor, a memory and a transceiver; the processor is configured to determine, in a non-connected state, whether at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal; the processor is further configured to register the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell that can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the third aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the non-connected state is an unperturbed cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells; the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the third aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the processor is further configured to register cells in the first set when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the third aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the processor is further configured to register one of the at least two cells according to the signal quality when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set includes the at least two cells.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the third aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, where the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band; the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells when the at least one cell does not include a first cell registrable by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell; the processor is further configured to register a cell in the second set when the second set is not empty.

With reference to the third aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the non-connected state is an unperturbed cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell;

the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency bands to obtain a third set of registrable cells;

the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the third set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

With reference to the third aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the non-connected state is an idle state where the terminal resides in a cell, and the cell where the terminal currently resides cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell; the processor is further configured to scan frequency points in neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, where the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the currently camped cell; the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells when the at least one cell is not a cell in the fourth set; the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the fifth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the third aspect, in an eighth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the characteristic message of the at least one cell includes a bandwidth of the at least one cell; the processor is further configured to register one cell of the at least two cells according to a bandwidth of the cell when the first cell is the at least two cells.

With reference to the third aspect, in a ninth possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, where the terminal supports a terminal with dual connection capabilities; the terminal comprises a processor, a memory and a transceiver; the transceiver is used for receiving a neighbor cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a current resident cell in a connection state of residing in the cell; the processor is configured to measure a first signal quality of a first cell in at least one cell in response to a measurement request when the first cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request, where the at least one cell is a cell that is historically registered by the terminal and to which a secondary cell can be added for the terminal; the transceiver is further configured to report the first signal quality to the base station when the first signal quality satisfies a reporting threshold; the processor is further configured to switch from the current camped cell to the first cell according to the cell switching indication when the cell switching indication is received from the base station; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the processor is further configured to determine, based on the feature information of the first cell, whether the first cell belongs to the cell requested to be measured by the neighboring cell information measurement request; wherein,

the characteristic information is any one of the following:

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the auxiliary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a cell registration apparatus, where the apparatus is disposed in a terminal, and the terminal supports a terminal with dual connectivity; the device comprises:

a determining unit, configured to determine, in a non-connected state, whether at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal, based on characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal;

a registering unit configured to register the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell that can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the unconnected state is an unperturbed cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining unit is used for scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells; and determining whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the registering unit is further configured to register cells in the first set when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the registering unit is further configured to register one of the at least two cells according to the signal quality when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal, and the first set includes at least two cells.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, where the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band; the determining unit is further configured to scan the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell; the registering unit is further configured to register the cells in the second set when the second set is not empty.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the unconnected state is an unperturbed cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell; the determining unit is further configured to scan the historical frequency band to obtain a third set of registrable cells; and determining whether the first cell is a cell in the third set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the non-connected state is an idle state where the terminal resides in a cell, and the cell where the terminal currently resides cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell; the device further comprises: a scanning unit; the scanning unit is used for scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, wherein the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the current resident cell; the determining unit is configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identifier to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining unit is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells when the at least one cell is not a cell in the fourth set; and determining whether the first cell is the cell in the fifth set based on the cell indication to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in an eighth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the characteristic message of the at least one cell includes a bandwidth of the at least one cell; the registering unit is further configured to register one cell of the at least two cells according to a bandwidth of the cell when the first cell is the at least two cells.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a ninth possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a cell registration apparatus, where the apparatus is disposed in a terminal, and the terminal supports a terminal with dual connectivity; the device comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a neighboring cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a currently camped cell in a connected state of the camped cell;

a measuring unit, configured to measure, in response to a measurement request, a first signal quality of a first cell when the first cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighboring cell information measurement request, where the at least one cell is a cell that is historically registered by the terminal and to which a secondary cell can be added to the terminal;

a reporting unit, configured to report the first signal quality to the base station when the first signal quality meets a reporting threshold;

a switching unit, configured to switch from the current camped cell to the first cell according to the cell switching instruction when the cell switching instruction is received from the base station; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the apparatus further includes a determining unit, configured to determine, based on the feature information of the first cell, whether the first cell belongs to the cell for which the neighbor cell information measurement request requests measurement; wherein the characteristic information is any one of the following:

With reference to the sixth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the dual connectivity capability is an evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the auxiliary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip system, including: a processor configured to execute instructions to cause a terminal on which the system-on-chip is installed to perform the method of the first aspect or the method of the second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an integrated circuit, including:

a memory to store instructions;

and a processor coupled to the memory for executing the instructions to implement the method of the first aspect or the method of the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer storage medium, which includes computer instructions that, when executed on a terminal, cause the terminal to perform the method of the first aspect or the method of the second aspect.

In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product, where the computer program product includes program code, which, when executed by a processor in a terminal, implements the method of the first aspect or the method of the second aspect.

According to the scheme of the embodiment of the application, the terminal can be preferentially registered to the main cell which can add the auxiliary cell to the terminal; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a user plane data flow and a control plane data flow;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of the wireless protocol architecture of EN-DC;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of adding a secondary cell;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of registering a cell;

fig. 6 is a flowchart of a method for registering a cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a flowchart of a method for registering a cell according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a flowchart of a method for registering a cell according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a flowchart of a method for registering a cell according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a flowchart of a method for registering a cell according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention.

Fig. 1 illustrates a wireless communication system 100. The wireless communication system 100 may include: a master network node (MN) 101, a secondary network node (SN) 103, one or more terminals 107, and a core network (core network) 105. The Dual Connectivity (DC) capability supported by the terminal 107 matches the dual connectivity capability supported by the main network node. The terminal 107 may establish a connection with the primary network node 101 and the secondary network node 103, respectively.

The primary network node 101 and the secondary network node 103 are network devices. Specifically, the main network node 101 (or the secondary network node 103) may be a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in a time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) system, or may be an evolved node B (eNB) in an LTE system, or a gb (next generation node B) in a 5G system or a new air interface (NR) system. In addition, the primary network node 101 (or secondary network node 103) may also be an Access Point (AP), a transmitting node (trans TRP), a Central Unit (CU) or other network entity, and may include some or all of the functionality of the above network entities.

Terminals 107 may be distributed throughout the wireless communication system 100 and may be stationary or mobile. In some embodiments of the present application, the terminal 107 may be a mobile device, mobile station (mobile station), mobile unit (mobile unit), M2M terminal, wireless unit, remote unit, user agent, mobile client, or the like. The terminal 107 may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, etc.

The primary network node 101 may transmit control plane data or user plane data to the core network 105 and the secondary network node 103 may transmit user plane data to the core network 105.

A group of serving/communication cells, which is associated with the master network node 101 and/or provided or served by the master network node 101, may be referred to as a Master Cell Group (MCG), which comprises at least one cell. The group of serving/communication cells associated with the secondary network node 103 and/or provided or served by the primary network node 101 may be referred to as a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), which comprises at least one cell. In the embodiment of the present application, a cell in the MCG may be referred to as a primary cell, and a cell in the SCG may be referred to as a secondary cell.

Bearer (bearer) refers to a logical path between the core network 105 and the terminal equipment 107. The data flow or data transmission path between the core network 105 and the terminal device 107 is based on the logical concept of bearer (bearer). In the dual connectivity scenario, the bearer (bearer) has 3 different types: a master cell group bearer (MCG bearer), a secondary cell group bearer (SCG bearer), and a split bearer (split bearer).

For a terminal, not any cell may add a secondary cell to it. Even in the wireless communication system 100, the terminal must first register with the primary cell, and then the primary network node 101 determines whether there is a cooperative secondary cell in the cell where the terminal currently resides. When a cooperative secondary cell exists in the cell where the terminal currently resides, the primary network node 101 queries the dual connectivity capability supported by the terminal. When the dual connectivity supported by the terminal matches the dual connectivity supported by the master network node 101, the master network node 101 requests the terminal to measure the cell in which the terminal currently resides in cooperation with the secondary cell. The terminal reports the measurement result to the master network node 101 so that the master network node 101 makes a judgment to add the secondary cell to the terminal.

Next, the radio communication system 100 will be specifically described by taking EN-DC as an example.

In an EN-DC scenario, the primary network node 101 may be an eNB in a 4G communication system, the secondary network node 103 may be a gNB in a 5G or NR communication system, and the core network 105 may be an Evolved Packet Core (EPC). The eNB as the primary network node may be referred to as menb (master eNB), and the gNB as the secondary network node may be referred to as sgnb (secondary gNB). The EPC includes network elements such as a Mobility Management Entity (MME), a serving gateway (S-GW). Referring to fig. 2, control plane data may be transmitted between the eNB and the EPC, the gNB, and the terminal, user plane data may be transmitted between the eNB and the gNB, and the terminal, and user plane data may be transmitted between gNR and the terminal and the EPC.

The 5G/4G network protocol stack includes a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, and a physical layer (PHY) layer. In the EN-DC scenario, referring to fig. 3, for the MCG bearer, the data processed by the 4G (E-UTRA) PDCP module and the 5G (nr) PDCP module of the terminal are transferred to the 4G RLC module, the 4G MAC module and the terminal for processing, in other words, in the EN-DC scenario, the MCG bearer is based on the 4G module. For the SCG bearer, the data of the SCG bearer is processed by the 5G module from the 5G PDCP module, the 5G RLC module, and the 5G MAC module, that is, the SCG bearer is based on the 5G module. And splitting the bearer, wherein data of the split bearer is processed by a 5G PDCP module of the terminal and then transferred to a 4G RLC module, a 5G RLC module, a 4G MAC module and a 5G MAC module for processing respectively.

In an EN-DC scenario, a terminal needs to register to a cell corresponding to an MeNB, i.e., a primary cell (which may also be referred to as a 4G cell), and then the MeNB determines whether a cell in which the terminal currently resides has a cooperative secondary cell. The secondary cell, i.e. the cell corresponding to the SgNB, may also be referred to as a 5G cell. And when the cell where the terminal currently resides has the cooperative auxiliary cell, the MeNB inquires the dual connectivity supported by the terminal. And when the dual connection capability supported by the terminal is matched with the dual connection capability supported by the MeNB, the MeNB requests the terminal to measure the cell where the terminal currently resides in cooperation with the auxiliary cell. And the terminal reports the measurement result to the MeNB so that the MeNB can judge to realize the addition of the auxiliary cell for the terminal.

The procedure of adding the secondary cell to the terminal by the MeNB is shown in fig. 4 and includes the following steps.

401. The MeNB sends an addition request (addition request) from the SgNB to the SgNB;

402. the SgNB adds a request acknowledgement message (addition request acknowledgement) to the MeNB;

403. the MeNB transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration request to the terminal;

404. the terminal sends an RRC reconfiguration complete (connection reconfiguration complete) message to the MeNB;

405. the MeNB sends a SgNB reconfiguration complete (reconfiguration complete) message to the SgNB;

406. a random access procedure (random access procedure) is carried out between the terminal and the SgNB;

407. the MeNB sends SgNB state transition (status transfer) to the SgNB;

408. the MeNB sends a data forwarding to the SgNB;

performing a path update procedure (path update procedure) between the MeNB and the MME;

409. the MeNB sends an evolved radio access bearer (E-RAB) modification indication (modification indication) to the MME;

410. MME sends a bearer modification (bearer modification) request to S-GW;

411. the MeNB sends an end marker packet (end marker packet) to the SgNB;

412. the MME sends an E-RAB modification confirm (modification confirm) message to the MeNB.

Wherein, for the terminal, it learns that its current camping cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal through step 406.

When the terminal is in a network environment of multiple primary cells, in one scheme, the terminal determines to register the primary cell according to the signal quality of the primary cell, and then determines whether a secondary cell can be added. Referring to fig. 5, after the terminal successfully registers the primary cell, it determines whether the secondary cell can be added. And adding the auxiliary cell to the terminal by the main cell. And if the auxiliary cell can not be added, not adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal. And when the signal intensity of other main cells meets the cell switching threshold, carrying out cell switching, and then judging whether the switched cell can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal. It can be seen that, in this scheme, the terminal cannot be preferentially registered with the primary cell to which the secondary cell can be added for the terminal, and particularly, in an EN-DC scenario, the terminal cannot be preferentially registered with the 4G cell to which the 5G cell can be added for the terminal. When the terminal is registered in the 4G cell which can not add the 5G cell for the terminal and the signal intensity of other cells does not meet the cell switching threshold, the terminal has no chance to switch to the 4G cell which can add the 5G cell for the terminal, and the terminal can not enjoy the high-rate service.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, and an execution main body of the cell registration method is a terminal supporting double connection capacity. The terminal can preferentially register or switch to the cell which can add the auxiliary cell for the terminal according to the information of the history registration cell. Next, in different embodiments, a cell registration method provided in the embodiments of the present application is described in conjunction with different application scenarios.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, and an execution main body of the cell registration method is a terminal supporting double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 6, when the terminal does not yet camp on a cell and is about to perform cell registration, the terminal may perform step 600.

Step 600, scanning historical frequency points corresponding to the historical registered cells.

In this embodiment, if not specifically stated, the history registration cell of the terminal is a primary cell that is used for history registration of the terminal and to which a secondary cell can be added for the terminal.

In some embodiments, the terminal has an EN-DC capability, the primary cell is specifically a 4G cell in an EN-DC scenario, and the secondary cell is specifically a 5G cell in an EN-DC scenario.

The terminal may record a cell identity (cell identity) and a corresponding historical frequency point of a cell (i.e., a history registered cell) to which a secondary cell may be added in the history registered cells, and store the cell identity and the corresponding historical frequency point as feature information of the cell locally. The characteristic information of one or more cells recorded by the terminal may be referred to as the terminal history.

The terminal may retrieve its locally stored history before performing step 600.

In some embodiments, the history record records a cell identifier of at least one history registered cell and a corresponding history frequency point.

In some embodiments, a history frequency band (band) corresponding to the history registered cell is also recorded in the history record.

In some embodiments, the history also records the bandwidth of the history registered cell.

In some embodiments, the format of the history record may be as shown in Table 1.

TABLE 1

History registration cell 1	Cell identity 1	Historical frequency point 1	Historical frequency band 1	Bandwidth 1
					History registration cell 2	Cell identity 2	Historical frequency point 2	Historical frequency band 2	Bandwidth 2
History registration cell 3	Cell identity 3	Historical frequency point 3	Historical frequency band 3	Bandwidth 3

By scanning the history frequency points corresponding to the history registration cells, if the registrable cells are obtained, whether the history registration cells are cells in the registrable cells can be judged according to the cell identifiers of the history registration cells.

In some embodiments, when there are two or more history registration cells, the terminal may scan history frequency points corresponding to all history registration cells first, and obtain a registrable cell obtained by scanning all history frequency points. The registrable cell may refer to one cell, or may refer to two or more cells. The number of cells in the registrable cell is determined according to the scanning results of all the historical frequency points. Whether each of the history registered cells is included in the registerable cell can be judged according to the cell identification of each of the history registered cells.

In other embodiments, when there are two or more history registration cells, the terminal may scan sequentially for each history frequency point therein. When a registrable cell (the registrable cell may refer to one cell or two or more cells) is scanned, whether the cell corresponding to the cell identifier is the cell in the registrable cell can be determined according to the cell identifier corresponding to the currently scanned historical frequency point. If so, the terminal registers the cell corresponding to the cell identifier; if not, the terminal continues to scan the next historical frequency point until the cell corresponding to the cell identifier corresponding to the currently scanned historical frequency point is the cell in the registrable cell obtained by scanning the historical frequency point, or all the historical frequency points are scanned.

Step 602 may be performed when the registrable cell comprises at least one cell of the history registration cells.

Step 602, registering one cell of the at least one cell according to the bandwidth of the cell.

When the registrable cell includes one of the history registration cells, the cell is registered.

When the registrable cell includes two or more cells among the history registration cells, a cell with the largest bandwidth can be registered. Specifically, the priority ranking may be performed on the cells according to the order of bandwidths of the two or more cells from large to small. Then, the cell with the highest priority is registered.

It is easy to understand that a cell in a frequency point corresponding to a primary cell of a secondary cell may be added to a terminal, or a secondary cell may be added to a terminal at a high probability. When the registrable cell obtained through the frequency points corresponding to the history registration cell does not include any cell in the history registration cells, step 604 may be executed, so that the terminal may register a cell in which a secondary cell may be added to the terminal at a high probability.

Step 604 registers one of the registrable cells based on the signal quality of the cell.

When there is only one cell among the registerable cells, the cell is registered.

When there are two or more cells in a registrable cell, the cells may be prioritized according to the signal quality of the registrable cell from high to low. Then, the cell with the highest priority is registered.

In some embodiments, signal quality specifically refers to signal strength. In one example, the signal strength may be characterized by a Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP).

In some embodiments, the signal quality may specifically be a Reference Signal Receiving Quality (RSRQ).

It is easy to understand that a cell in a frequency band corresponding to a primary cell of a secondary cell may be added to a terminal, or a secondary cell may be added to a terminal in a large probability. When no registrable cell is found by scanning the history frequency points corresponding to the history registration cells, step 606 is executed, so that the terminal can approximately register the cell which can add the secondary cell for the terminal.

Step 606, scanning a historical frequency band corresponding to the historical registered cell.

In some embodiments, when there are two or more history registration cells, the terminal may scan history frequency bands corresponding to all history registration cells first to obtain a registrable cell obtained by scanning all history frequency bands, where the registrable cell may refer to one cell or two or more cells. The number of cells in the registrable cell is determined specifically according to the scanning results of all historical frequency bands.

In other embodiments, when there are two or more history registration cells, the terminal may scan for each history frequency band in turn. When a registrable cell (the registrable cell may refer to one cell or two or more cells) is found by scanning one historical frequency band, the number of cells in the registrable cell is determined according to the scanning result of the currently scanned historical frequency band, and other unscanned historical frequency bands are not scanned any more.

By scanning the historical frequency band corresponding to the historical registered cell, if a registrable cell is obtained, step 608 is executed.

Step 608 registers one of the registrable cells according to the signal quality of the cell.

When no registrable cell is found by scanning the historical frequency band corresponding to the historical registration cell, steps 610 and 612 are performed.

And step 610, searching the network.

Step 612, registering the cell.

The specific implementation process of step 610 and step 612 may refer to the description of the prior art, and will not be described herein.

After the cells are successfully registered, i.e. camped on, through

steps

602, 604, 608, and 612, it is determined whether the currently camped cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal. Specifically, the terminal may know whether a random access procedure (see fig. 4) is completed between secondary network nodes corresponding to the camped cell of the terminal, and if so, the terminal may consider that the current camped cell may add a secondary cell to the terminal.

When the current resident cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal, the terminal can execute step 614, and can record the cell identifier, the frequency point, the frequency band and the bandwidth of the current resident cell to update the history.

The cell registration method provided by the embodiment of the application can enable the terminal to judge whether a main cell capable of adding an auxiliary cell for the terminal can be registered or not when the terminal is attached to the cell, and register the main cell if the main cell can be registered, thereby realizing the preferential registration of the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, and an execution main body of the cell registration method is a terminal supporting double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 7, after the terminal has camped on a cell, that is, after the terminal performs step 700 and registers a cell, the terminal may know whether the currently camped cell may add a secondary cell to the cell. In some embodiments, the dual connectivity capability supported by the terminal is an EN-DC capability, the cell currently camped on may be a 4G cell, and the secondary cell is a 5G cell.

If the current camped cell cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal, the terminal may perform step 702.

Step 702, in an idle state, scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information.

And the neighbor cell information is configured by the base station corresponding to the current resident cell and is sent to the terminal. The neighbor cell information includes the frequency point configured by the base station.

The terminal may obtain a history record locally stored therein, where the history record includes characteristic information of a history registration cell, and the characteristic information may include a cell identifier, a history frequency point, and a history frequency band. For the history, the history of registered cells, and the feature information, reference may be made to the above description of the embodiment shown in fig. 6, and details are not described here again.

When the registrable cell is found by scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information, whether the history registration cell is a cell in the registrable cell can be judged according to the cell identification of the history registration cell.

In some embodiments, when the number of frequency points in the neighbor information is two or more, the terminal may scan all frequency points in the neighbor information first to obtain a registrable cell. The registrable cell may refer to one cell, or may refer to two or more cells. The number of cells in the registrable cell is determined according to the scanning results of all frequency points in the neighbor information. Whether each history registration cell is included in the registerable cell can be judged according to the cell identification of each history registration cell.

In other embodiments, when the frequency points in the neighbor information are two or more, the terminal may scan sequentially for each of the frequency points. When a registrable cell (the registrable cell may refer to one cell or two or more cells, where the number of cells in the registrable cell is determined according to the scanning result of the currently scanned frequency point) is scanned, whether each cell is a cell in the registrable cell can be determined according to the cell identifier of the history registrable cell. If so, the terminal registers the cell corresponding to the cell identifier; if not, the terminal continues to scan the next frequency point in the neighbor information until the registrable cell obtained from the currently scanned frequency point comprises at least one cell in the history registration cells, or all frequency points in the neighbor information are scanned.

Step 704 may be performed when the registrable cell comprises at least one cell of the history registration cells.

Step 704, registering one cell of the at least one cell according to the bandwidth of the cell to switch the cell.

When the registrable cell does not include any cell in the history registration cells, or no registrable cell is found by scanning frequency points in the neighboring cell information, step 706 may be executed.

Step 706, scanning the historical frequency points corresponding to the historical registered cells.

Step 706 may refer to the above description of step 600 in fig. 6, and will not be described herein again.

Step 708 may be performed when the registered cells obtained through step 706 include at least one of the historically registered cells.

Step 708, registering one cell of the at least one cell according to the bandwidth of the cell to switch the cell.

Step 708 may refer to the description of step 602 in fig. 6, and will not be described herein.

Step 710 may be performed when the registrable cell obtained in step 706 does not include a history registration cell and the registrable cell includes two or more cells.

Step 710, registering one of the registerable cells according to the signal quality of the cell to switch the cell.

Step 710 can refer to the above description of step 604 in fig. 6, and will not be described herein again.

Step 712 may be performed when there are no phenomena registrable cells via step 706.

And 712, scanning the historical frequency band corresponding to the historical registered cell.

Step 712 can refer to the above description of step 606 and will not be described herein.

When a registrable cell is obtained via step 712, step 714 may be performed.

Step 714 registers one of the registerable cells according to the signal quality of the cell to switch the cell.

Step 714 may be referred to above as step 608, and will not be described herein.

In some embodiments, when no registrable cell is found in step 712 and a registrable cell is obtained in step 702 that does not include any of the historically registered cells, one of the registrable cells obtained in step 702 may be registered for handover of a cell.

In some embodiments, when no registrable cell is found through step 712, a network search, a cell handover may be performed.

After the cells are switched through the steps, whether the switched cells can add the auxiliary cells to the terminal or not can be judged. When the cell to which the terminal is handed over can add a secondary cell to the terminal, the terminal may perform step 716, and record the cell identifier, frequency point, frequency band, and bandwidth to which the terminal is handed over, so as to update the history.

In some embodiments, when no registrable cell is found through step 712, the terminal may continue to camp on the current cell without performing cell handover.

The method for registering the cell provided by the embodiment of the application can be used for judging whether the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal can be registered or not when the terminal performs cell switching, and switching to the main cell if the main cell can be registered, so that the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal is preferentially registered; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, which can be applied to a terminal supporting double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 8, the method includes the following.

In a connected state where the terminal resides in a cell corresponding to the base station, the base station may send a measurement request to the terminal. The measurement request includes characteristic information of the measurement cell. The cell in which the terminal currently resides may be a cell in which an auxiliary cell can be added to the terminal, or a cell in which an auxiliary cell cannot be added to the terminal.

In some embodiments, the dual connection capability supported by the terminal may specifically be an EN-DC capability. The base station may be an eNB, and more particularly, the base station may be an MeNB.

After receiving the measurement request, the terminal may determine whether the history registered cell belongs to the measurement cell according to the characteristic information of the history registered cell.

For the history registration cell, reference may be made to the above description of the embodiment shown in fig. 6, and details are not described here.

The measurement cell may be at least one cell, and the history registration cell may also be at least one cell. The terminal can judge whether each cell belongs to the measurement cell according to the characteristic information of the history registration cell. The measurement cell may include a cell corresponding to the base station, and may also include cells corresponding to base stations around the base station.

In some embodiments, the measured cell and the history registration cell characteristic information may include a cell identification. The terminal judges whether the cell identification of the first cell in the history registration cell is consistent with the cell identification of the cell in the measurement cell, and if so, whether the first cell belongs to the measurement cell.

In some embodiments, the measured cell and the history registered cell feature information may include a frequency point (a frequency point corresponding to the history registered cell, which may be referred to as a history frequency point). The terminal judges whether the frequency point corresponding to the first cell in the history registration cell is consistent with the frequency point corresponding to the cell in the measurement cell, and if so, whether the first cell belongs to the measurement cell.

In some embodiments, the measured cell and the history cell characteristic information may include a frequency band (a frequency band corresponding to the history cell may be referred to as a history frequency band). The terminal judges whether the frequency band corresponding to the first cell in the history registration cell is consistent with the frequency band corresponding to the cell in the measurement cell, and if so, whether the first cell belongs to the measurement cell.

When the first cell belongs to the measurement cell, the terminal measures a first signal quality of the first cell. It should be noted that, the terminal does not perform measurement on cells that do not belong to the history registration cell among the measurement cells.

In some embodiments, signal quality specifically refers to signal strength. In one example, signal strength may be characterized by RSRP.

In some embodiments, the signal quality may specifically be RSRQ.

And when the first signal quality meets the reporting threshold, the terminal sends the first signal quality to the base station. The reporting threshold is a threshold configured for the terminal by the base station.

And after receiving the first signal quality, the base station judges whether the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold. The cell switching threshold is a threshold configured for the terminal by the base station.

And when the first signal quality meets the cell switching threshold, the base station sends a cell switching instruction to the terminal.

And the terminal is switched to the first cell according to the cell switching indication.

It is to be readily understood that the first cell may be two or more cells, and the terminal may measure respective first signal qualities of the two or more cells. When the first signal quality of any one of the two or more cells meets the reporting threshold, reporting the first signal quality of the cell to a base station, when the first signal quality of the cell meets the switching threshold, the base station sends a cell switching instruction to a terminal, and the terminal is switched to the cell according to the cell switching instruction.

In the cell registration method provided by the embodiment of the application, after receiving the measurement request, the terminal only measures and reports the signal quality of the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell to the terminal, so that all cell switching instructions received from the base station are used for switching to the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell to the terminal; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, which is applied to a terminal supporting double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 9, the method includes: step 900, in a non-connected state, determining whether at least one cell includes a first cell which can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal; step 902, registering the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell registerable by the terminal.

Next, the method shown in fig. 9 will be specifically described.

In some embodiments, the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells; determining whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

In a first example of these embodiments, the method further comprises: registering a cell in the first set when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

In one example of the first example, the method further comprises: when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set includes at least two cells, registering one of the at least two cells according to signal quality.

In a second example of these embodiments, the feature information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, where the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band; the method further comprises the following steps: when the at least one cell does not comprise a first cell which can be registered by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell, scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells; registering a cell in the second set when the second set is not empty.

These embodiments may refer to the implementation of the method embodiment shown in fig. 6, and are not described herein again.

In some embodiments, the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a third set of registrable cells; determining whether the first cell is a cell in the third set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

When the feature information of the first cell includes the cell identifier and the corresponding historical frequency band, the historical frequency band may be scanned to obtain a registrable cell set. And judging whether the first cell is a cell in the registrable cell set by using the cell identifier, so that whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal can be known.

In some embodiments, the non-connected state is an idle state where the terminal resides in a cell, and the cell where the terminal currently resides cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell; before the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell, the method further includes: scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, wherein the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the current resident cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes: determining whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

In an example of these embodiments, the characteristic information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell further includes: when the at least one cell is not the cell in the fourth set, scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells; and determining whether the first cell is the cell in the fifth set or not based on the cell mark so as to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal or not.

These embodiments may refer to the implementation of the method embodiment shown in fig. 7, and are not described herein again.

In some embodiments, the characteristic message for the at least one cell comprises a bandwidth of the at least one cell; the registering the first cell when the first cell is registerable by the terminal comprises: and when the first cell is at least two cells, registering one cell of the at least two cells according to the bandwidth of the cell.

These embodiments can be implemented with reference to step 602 in fig. 6, and are not described herein again.

In some embodiments, the dual connectivity capability is an EN-DC capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

The cell registration method provided by the embodiment of the application can enable the terminal to judge whether a main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal can be registered or not when the terminal is subjected to cell attachment or cell switching, and if the main cell can be registered, the main cell is registered or switched to the main cell, so that the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal is preferentially registered; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a cell registration method, which is applied to a terminal supporting double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 10, the method includes: step 1000, receiving a neighbor cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a current resident cell in a connection state of the resident cell; step 1002, when a first cell in at least one cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighboring cell information measurement request, measuring a first signal quality of the first cell in response to the measurement request, where the at least one cell is a cell which is historically registered by the terminal and can add a secondary cell to the terminal; step 1004, reporting the first signal quality to the base station when the first signal quality meets a reporting threshold; step 1006, when receiving a cell switching instruction from the base station, switching from the current resident cell to the first cell according to the cell switching instruction; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

In some embodiments, before measuring a first signal quality of a first cell in response to the measurement request when the first cell belongs to a cell for which the neighbor cell information measurement request requests measurement, the method further comprises: determining whether the first cell belongs to the cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request based on the characteristic information of the first cell; wherein the characteristic information is any one of the following:

The method shown in fig. 10 can be implemented with reference to the method embodiment shown in fig. 8, and is not described herein again.

The embodiment of the application provides a device 1100, wherein the device 1100 is arranged on a terminal, and the terminal supports a terminal with double connection capabilities. Referring to fig. 11, the apparatus 1100 includes:

a determining unit 1110, configured to determine, in a non-connected state, whether at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal, based on characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal;

a registering unit 1120 configured to register the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell which can be registered by the terminal.

The functions of the functional units of the apparatus 1100 can be implemented with reference to the method embodiment shown in fig. 9, and are not described again here.

The device provided by the embodiment of the application can enable the terminal to judge whether the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal can be registered or not when the terminal is attached to or switched to the cell, and if the main cell can be registered, the main cell is registered or switched to the main cell, so that the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell for the terminal is preferentially registered; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a device 1200, wherein the device 1200 is arranged on a terminal, and the terminal supports a terminal with double connection capabilities. Referring to fig. 12, the apparatus 1200 includes:

a receiving unit 1210, configured to receive, in a connected state of a camped cell, a neighboring cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a currently camped cell;

a measuring unit 1220, configured to measure a first signal quality of a first cell in response to the measurement request when the first cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighboring cell information measurement request, where the at least one cell is a cell that is historically registered by the terminal and to which a secondary cell may be added to the terminal;

a reporting unit 1230, configured to report the first signal quality to the base station when the first signal quality meets a reporting threshold;

a handover unit 1240, configured to, when receiving a cell handover instruction from the base station, handover from the current camped cell to the first cell according to the cell handover instruction; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

In some embodiments, the apparatus 1200 further includes a determining unit 1250 configured to determine whether the first cell belongs to the cell for which the measurement request is requested based on the feature information of the first cell; wherein the characteristic information is any one of the following:

According to the device provided by the embodiment of the application, after the measurement request is received, the terminal only measures and reports the signal quality of the main cell which can add the auxiliary cell for the terminal, so that all cell switching instructions received from the base station are used for switching to the main cell which can add the auxiliary cell for the terminal; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application has been described above mainly from the perspective of method flow. It is to be understood that each electronic device, in order to implement the above-described functions, includes corresponding hardware structures and/or software modules for performing the respective functions. Those of skill in the art would readily appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as hardware or combinations of hardware and computer software. Whether a function is performed as hardware or computer software drives hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. 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.

In the embodiment of the present application, functional modules of an electronic device and the like may be divided according to the method embodiments shown in fig. 9 or the method embodiments shown in fig. 10, for example, the functional modules may be divided according to the functions, or two or more functions may be integrated into one processing module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the module is schematic, and is only one logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation.

The embodiment of the application provides a terminal which supports double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 13, the terminal includes a processor 1310, a memory 1320, and a transceiver 1330. Wherein the memory is used for storing computer execution instructions; when the terminal is operating, the processor 1310 executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory 1320 to cause the terminal to perform the method illustrated in FIG. 9. Wherein the processor 1310 is configured to determine whether at least one cell includes a first cell which can be registered by the terminal, based on characteristic information of the at least one cell in a non-connected state; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal history and can add an auxiliary cell for the terminal; the processor 1310 is further configured to register the first cell when the at least one cell includes the first cell that can be registered by the terminal.

In some embodiments, the terminal further comprises a communication bus 1340, wherein the processor 1310 can be coupled to the memory 1320 and the transceiver 1330 via the communication bus 1340, such that control of the transceiver 1330 in accordance with computer-executable instructions stored in the memory 1320 can be implemented.

Specific implementation of each component/device of the terminal in the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by referring to each method embodiment shown in fig. 9, which is not described herein again.

Therefore, when the terminal is attached to or switched to the cell, whether the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell to the terminal can be registered or not can be judged firstly, if the main cell can be registered, the main cell is registered or switched to the main cell, and therefore the main cell capable of adding the auxiliary cell to the terminal can be preferentially registered; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

The embodiment of the application provides a terminal which supports double connection capacity. Referring to fig. 14, the terminal includes a processor 1410, a memory 1420, and a transceiver 1430. Wherein the memory is used for storing computer execution instructions; when the terminal is operating, the processor 1410 executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory 1420 to cause the terminal to perform the method shown in fig. 10. The transceiver 1430 is configured to receive a neighboring cell information measurement request from a base station corresponding to a currently camped cell in a connected state of the camped cell; the processor 1410 is configured to, when a first cell in at least one cell belongs to a cell requested to be measured by the neighbor cell information measurement request, measure a first signal quality of the first cell in response to the measurement request, where the at least one cell is a cell that is historically registered by the terminal and to which a secondary cell can be added for the terminal; the transceiver 1430 is further configured to report the first signal quality to the base station when the first signal quality satisfies a reporting threshold; the processor 1430 is further configured to, upon receiving a cell switching indication from the base station, switch from the current camped cell to the first cell according to the cell switching indication; the cell switching indication is information sent by the base station when the first signal quality meets a cell switching threshold.

In some embodiments, the terminal further comprises a communication bus 1440, wherein the processor 1410 may be coupled to the memory 1420, the transceiver 1430 via the communication bus 1440, thereby enabling a corresponding control of the transceiver 1430 in accordance with computer-executable instructions stored in the memory 1320.

Specific implementation of each component/device of the terminal in the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by referring to each method embodiment shown in fig. 10, and details are not described here.

Therefore, after receiving the measurement request, the terminal only measures and reports the signal quality of the main cell which can add the auxiliary cell for the terminal, so that all the cell switching instructions received from the base station are used for switching to the main cell which can add the auxiliary cell for the terminal; especially, when the main cell is a 4G cell and the auxiliary cell is a 5G cell, the uplink and downlink throughput rate can be improved, and the experience of high rate is brought to the user.

It is understood that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), other general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a transistor logic device, a hardware component, or any combination thereof. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but may be any conventional processor.

The method steps in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by software instructions executed by a processor. The software instructions may consist of corresponding software modules that may be stored in Random Access Memory (RAM), flash memory, read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM), registers, a hard disk, a removable hard disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Of course, the storage medium may also be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.

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

It is to be understood that the various numerical references referred to in the embodiments of the present application are merely for descriptive convenience and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for registering a cell is characterized in that the method is applied to a terminal supporting double connection capability; the method comprises the following steps:

determining whether at least one cell includes a first cell which can be registered by the terminal based on characteristic information of the at least one cell in a non-connected state; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal in history and can add an auxiliary cell to the terminal, and the characteristic information of the at least one cell comprises one or more of a cell identifier of the at least one cell, a history frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell, a history frequency band corresponding to the at least one cell and a bandwidth of the at least one cell;

registering the first cell according to a bandwidth of a cell when the at least one cell includes a plurality of first cells that can be registered by the terminal;

when the at least one cell includes a plurality of cells and does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal, registering a cell of the at least one cell according to a signal quality of the cell.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the characteristic information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes:

scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells;

determining whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty, registering cells in the first set according to signal qualities of the cells.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising: when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set includes at least two cells, registering one of the at least two cells according to signal quality.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the characteristic information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, wherein the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band; the method further comprises the following steps:

when the at least one cell does not comprise a first cell which can be registered by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell, scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells;

registering a cell in the second set when the second set is not empty.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the characteristic information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes:

scanning the historical frequency band to obtain a third set of registrable cells;

determining whether the first cell is a cell in the third set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-connected state is an idle state of camping on a cell, and the cell where the terminal currently camps on cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell; before the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell, the method further includes:

scanning the frequency points in the neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, wherein the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the current resident cell;

the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell includes:

determining whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the characteristic information of the first cell further includes historical frequency points corresponding to the first cell; the determining whether the at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on the characteristic information of the at least one cell further includes:

when the at least one cell is not the cell in the fourth set, scanning the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells;

and determining whether the first cell is the cell in the fifth set or not based on the cell mark so as to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal or not.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the characteristic message of the at least one cell comprises a bandwidth of the at least one cell;

the registering the first cell when the first cell is registerable by the terminal comprises:

and when the first cell is at least two cells, registering one cell of the at least two cells according to the bandwidth of the cell.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording a cell identifier, a frequency point, a frequency band, and a bandwidth of the current camped cell when the current camped cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal, so as to update a history of cells to which the secondary cell can be added to the terminal.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the dual connectivity capability is evolved unified terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity (EN-DC) capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

12. A terminal, characterized in that the terminal supports dual connectivity capability; the terminal comprises a processor, a memory and a transceiver;

the processor is configured to determine, in a non-connected state, whether at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal based on characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal in history and can add an auxiliary cell to the terminal, and the characteristic information of the at least one cell comprises one or more of a cell identifier of the at least one cell, a history frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell, a history frequency band corresponding to the at least one cell and a bandwidth of the at least one cell;

the processor is further configured to register a first cell according to a bandwidth of a cell when the at least one cell includes a plurality of first cells that can be registered by the terminal;

the processor is further configured to register a cell among the at least one cell according to a signal quality of the cell when the at least one cell includes a plurality of cells and does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal.

13. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell;

the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells;

the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to register the cells in the first set according to the signal qualities of the cells when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to register one of the at least two cells according to signal quality when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set includes at least two cells.

16. The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the characteristic information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell, and wherein the historical frequency point is a frequency point in the historical frequency band;

the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency band to obtain a second set of registrable cells when the at least one cell does not include a first cell registrable by the terminal and the historical frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell has no registrable cell;

the processor is further configured to register a cell in the second set when the second set is not empty.

17. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the characteristic information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency band corresponding to the first cell;

18. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the unconnected state is an idle state camped on a cell, and wherein the cell on which the terminal currently camped cannot add a secondary cell to the terminal; the characteristic information of the first cell comprises a cell identification of the first cell;

the processor is further configured to scan frequency points in neighbor cell information to obtain a fourth set of registrable cells, where the neighbor cell information is information received from a base station corresponding to the currently camped cell;

the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the fourth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell is registerable by the terminal.

19. The terminal according to claim 18, wherein the characteristic information of the first cell further includes a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell;

the processor is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a fifth set of registrable cells when the at least one cell is not a cell in the fourth set;

the processor is further configured to determine whether the first cell is a cell in the fifth set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

20. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the characteristic message of the at least one cell comprises a bandwidth of the at least one cell;

the processor is further configured to register one cell of the at least two cells according to a bandwidth of the cell when the first cell is the at least two cells.

21. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to record a cell identifier, a frequency point, a frequency band, and a bandwidth of a current cell to be camped when the current cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal, so as to update a history of cells to which the secondary cell can be added to the terminal.

22. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the dual connectivity capability is an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network-new air interface dual connectivity (EN-DC) capability, the at least one cell is a fourth generation communication system cell, and the secondary cell is a fifth generation communication system or a new air interface system cell.

23. A device for registering a cell is characterized in that the device is arranged at a terminal, and the terminal supports a terminal with double connection capability; the device comprises:

a determining unit, configured to determine, in a non-connected state, whether at least one cell includes a first cell that can be registered by the terminal, based on characteristic information of the at least one cell; the at least one cell is a cell which is registered by the terminal in history and can add an auxiliary cell to the terminal, and the characteristic information of the at least one cell comprises one or more of a cell identifier of the at least one cell, a history frequency point corresponding to the at least one cell, a history frequency band corresponding to the at least one cell and a bandwidth of the at least one cell;

a registering unit configured to register the first cell according to a bandwidth of the cell when the at least one cell includes a plurality of first cells registerable by the terminal, and register a cell of the at least one cell according to a signal quality of the cell when the at least one cell includes a plurality of cells and does not include the first cell registerable by the terminal.

24. The device of claim 23, wherein the unconnected state is an unpopulated cell state, and the feature information of the first cell includes a cell identifier of the first cell and a historical frequency point corresponding to the first cell;

the determining unit is further configured to scan the historical frequency points to obtain a first set of registrable cells; determining whether the first cell is a cell in the first set based on the cell identity to determine whether the first cell can be registered by the terminal.

25. The apparatus for registering cells according to claim 24, wherein the registering unit is further configured to register the cells in the first set according to the signal quality of the cells when the at least one cell does not include a first cell that can be registered by the terminal and the first set is not empty.

26. The cell registration apparatus of claim 23, further comprising a recording unit, wherein when the currently camped cell can add a secondary cell to the terminal, the cell identifier, the frequency point, the frequency band, and the bandwidth of the currently camped cell are recorded to update the history of the cell to which the secondary cell can be added to the terminal.

27. A chip system, comprising:

a processor for executing instructions to cause a terminal in which the system-on-chip is installed to perform the method of any one of claims 1-11.

28. A computer storage medium, characterized in that it comprises computer instructions which, when run on a terminal, cause the terminal to perform the method of any one of claims 1-11.