CN114095978B

CN114095978B - Method and device for configuring terminal device

Info

Publication number: CN114095978B
Application number: CN202010740597.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邝奕如; 袁锴; 何彦召; 徐海博
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-22
Filing date: 2020-07-28
Publication date: 2023-03-28
Anticipated expiration: 2040-07-28
Also published as: CN114095978A

Abstract

The application relates to a method and equipment for configuring terminal equipment. Before cell switching, the terminal device determines first configuration information of a first network device, and the first network device is a source network device for cell switching of the terminal device. And in the cell switching process, the terminal equipment receives second configuration information from second network equipment, and the second network equipment is target network equipment for cell switching of the terminal equipment. The terminal equipment determines that the first configuration information comprises a first field and the second configuration information does not comprise the first field, and the first field is a field needing to be inherited. And the terminal equipment releases the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information. In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field, so that the fields applied by the terminal device and the second network device are consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

Description

Method and equipment for configuring terminal equipment

The present application claims priority of chinese patent application entitled "a method for assisting overheating information configuration, UE, and network device" filed by the chinese intellectual property office of china at 22/6/2020 and having application number 202010570970.0, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and a device for configuring a terminal device.

Background

A handover from a base station to a base station is a change of the communication connection of the terminal device from the coverage area of one base station (source base station) to the coverage area of another base station (target base station) to another communication connection, so that the terminal device continues to maintain the communication connection with the base station. Before the terminal device performs cell handover, the source base station may issue configuration information to the terminal device, for example, the configuration information 1 is called, where the configuration information 1 may include one or more Information Elements (IEs), and the configuration information 1 is used for the terminal device to communicate under the source base station. During the cell switching process, the source base station will send configuration information 1 to the target base station. In the cell handover process, the target base station may also issue configuration information (forwarded by the source base station) to the terminal device (for example, referred to as configuration information 2), where the configuration information 2 may include one or more IEs, the configuration information 2 is used for the terminal device to communicate under the target base station, and the configuration information 2 may be determined according to the configuration information 1. The configuration information 2 may be applied after the terminal device is handed over to the target base station.

The communication versions supported by the various base stations may differ, and thus the communication versions of the source base station and the target base station may differ. For example, the communication version of the source base station may be higher than the communication version of the target base station. Since the high-version base station supports more functions than the low-version base station, the high-version base station can configure more IEs, but the low-version base station does not have new functions, and therefore cannot identify IEs corresponding to the new functions. The target base station cannot identify these IEs, and therefore these IEs are not sent to the terminal device. However, some IEs have the characteristic that, if the terminal device receives the IE last time, but does not receive the IE this time, it indicates that the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the IE received last time. Thus, for such an IE, if the terminal device determines that the IE was sent by the source base station to the terminal device, but the IE was not sent by the target base station to the terminal device, the terminal device will continue to use the configuration corresponding to the IE from the source base station. However, the target base station cannot identify the IE, and naturally cannot support the configuration corresponding to the IE, which may cause that the terminal device cannot normally communicate under the target base station.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and equipment for configuring terminal equipment, which are used for enabling IE (Internet Explorer) applied by the terminal equipment to be consistent with IE (Internet Explorer) applied by network equipment and ensuring normal communication of the terminal equipment under the network equipment.

In a first aspect, a first method for configuring a terminal device is provided, where the method includes: before cell switching, determining first configuration information of first network equipment, wherein the first network equipment is source network equipment for performing the cell switching on terminal equipment; receiving second configuration information from a second network device in the cell switching process, wherein the second network device is a target network device for the terminal device to perform the cell switching; determining that the first configuration information includes a first field and the second configuration information does not include the first field, wherein the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the second configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field; and releasing the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information.

The method may be performed by a first communication device, which may be a communication apparatus or a communication device, such as a chip, capable of supporting the communication apparatus to implement the functions required by the method. Illustratively, the first communication device is a terminal device, or a chip provided in the terminal device for implementing a function of the terminal device, or another component for implementing a function of the terminal device. In the following description, the first communication device is taken as an example of a terminal device.

For example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, that is, if the terminal device has received the first field last time but has not received the first field this time, the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field received last time. Then, in this embodiment, if the terminal device determines that the first configuration information from the first network device includes the first field and the first configuration information from the target network device does not include the first field, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information, that is, the terminal device no longer applies the configuration corresponding to the first field received before. The second network device does not send the first field to the terminal device, possibly because the second network device cannot identify the first field, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field, so that the fields applied by the terminal device and the second network device can be kept consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the first aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

The overheating configuration information may configure the terminal device to send overheating related information to the network device, or configure the terminal device not to send overheating related information to the network device.

With reference to the first optional implementation manner of the first aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the first aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network equipment or not; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

disabling a timed duration of a timer, wherein the terminal device is unable to send the overheating-related assistance information to the network device during the disabled timer's run time.

For example, if the overheating configuration information includes first indication information indicating that the overheating-related assistance information cannot be transmitted to the network device, the terminal device does not transmit the overheating-related assistance information to the network device. For another example, if the overheating configuration information includes the first indication information and the timing duration of the prohibition timer, and the first indication information indicates that the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network device, the terminal device may send the overheating-related auxiliary information to the network device, and the terminal device may start the prohibition timer when sending the overheating-related auxiliary information or after sending the overheating-related auxiliary information, and similarly, the network device may also start the prohibition timer when receiving the overheating-related auxiliary information or after receiving the overheating-related auxiliary information. During the running time of the prohibit timer, the terminal device cannot send the auxiliary information related to overheating to the network device, and the terminal device can only send the auxiliary information related to overheating to the network device when or after the prohibit timer is overtime. For another example, if the overheating configuration information includes the first indication information, and the first indication information indicates that the overheating related auxiliary information can be transmitted to the network device, and the overheating configuration information does not include the timing duration of the prohibit timer, the terminal device may transmit the overheating related auxiliary information to the network device when there is a need.

With reference to the second optional implementation manner of the first aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the first aspect, the auxiliary information related to overheating includes one or more of the following items:

the maximum uplink auxiliary carrier number or the maximum uplink auxiliary cell number supported by the terminal equipment;

the maximum downlink carrier number or the maximum downlink secondary cell number supported by the terminal equipment;

the terminal equipment can support the uplink maximum aggregation bandwidth in each supported frequency band;

the terminal equipment can support the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth in each supported frequency band;

the terminal equipment can support the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers in each frequency band supported by the terminal equipment;

the terminal equipment can support the maximum number of downlink MIMO layers in each supported frequency band; or,

the type information of the terminal equipment.

For example, the overheating-related assistance information may include the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers supported by the terminal device; or, the overheating-related auxiliary information may include the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device; or, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band; or, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum uplink MIMO layer number that can be supported by each serving cell on each supported frequency band, and the type information of the terminal device; alternatively, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers or the maximum number of uplink secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the maximum number of downlink secondary carriers or the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and the maximum downlink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and so on. The configuration indicated by the overheating-related auxiliary information (which may be understood as a value of a parameter included in the overheating-related auxiliary information) is a configuration desired by the terminal device and not actually supportable by the capability of the terminal device, for example, the configuration indicated by the overheating-related auxiliary information may be lower than or equal to the configuration actually supportable by the capability of the terminal device. It is understood that the overheating situation of the terminal device can be improved if the terminal device applies the configuration indicated by the overheating-related auxiliary information.

With reference to the first aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first aspect to the third optional implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fourth optional implementation manner of the first aspect, before releasing the first field included in the first configuration information, the method further includes:

determining that the second configuration information does not include a field corresponding to a first version and does not include a field corresponding to any version higher than the first version, where the first version is a communication version corresponding to the first field.

For each field of the one or more fields that are included in the first configuration information and not included in the second configuration information, the terminal device may determine a requirement code corresponding to the field, and if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, and for example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M, for such a field, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field that is included in the first configuration information, that is, the terminal device may not continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the field that is included in the first configuration information. In this way, the terminal device does not need to determine the communication version corresponding to the field, and as long as one field is included in the first configuration information and is not included in the second configuration information, and the field is a field that needs to be inherited, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information, so that the terminal device does not apply the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information any longer.

Or, in this embodiment, the terminal device may also determine a communication version corresponding to the field, and then perform corresponding processing. For example, for each of one or more fields included in the first configuration information but not included in the second configuration information, the terminal device may determine a requirement code corresponding to the field, and if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M, and the communication version corresponding to the first field is the first version, for the first field, the terminal device may further determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version, or determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, and determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version. If the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version, or includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, or includes other fields corresponding to the first version and other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, the terminal device may determine that the second network device can support the first version corresponding to the first field, and therefore the second configuration information does not include the first field, which may be that the second network device considers that the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information. Therefore, in this case, the terminal device may continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information without releasing the content of the first field included in the first configuration information. By determining the version, the terminal device may not release the content included in the field that can be supported by the second network device as much as possible, so that the configuration of the terminal device is consistent with that of the second network device, and it is ensured that the terminal device can perform normal data communication under the second network device.

With reference to the first aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner of the first aspect to the fourth optional implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the first aspect, the method further includes:

adjusting the capability of the terminal device from a first capability to a second capability, wherein the first capability is lower than the second capability, and the first capability is configured by the first network device for adapting the content of the first field.

For example, if the first network device receives the auxiliary information related to overheating from the terminal device, the first network device may decide whether to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, so as to alleviate the overheating problem of the terminal device. If the first network device determines to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, the first network device may determine air interface configuration information according to the received auxiliary information related to overheating, and include the air interface configuration information in an RRC reconfiguration message, and send the RRC reconfiguration message to the terminal device. After receiving the air interface configuration information, the terminal device may apply the air interface configuration information to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device. For example, before reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the second capability, and after reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the first capability, and the first capability is lower than the second capability. When the terminal device needs to be switched to the second network device, the second network device may not support the communication version corresponding to the first field, that is, the target network device cannot recognize the first field, and then the second network device cannot naturally know that the terminal device has adjusted the capability according to the first field. Therefore, the terminal device can readjust the capability of the terminal device to the second capability, so that the second network device can schedule the terminal device according to the second capability, and the probability of scheduling error caused by inconsistency between the capability of the terminal device understood by the second network device and the capability actually applied by the terminal device is reduced.

In a second aspect, a second method for configuring a terminal device is provided, the method including: determining that a second version is lower than a first version, wherein the first version is a communication version of first network equipment, the second version is a communication version corresponding to second network equipment, the first network equipment is source network equipment for performing cell switching on terminal equipment, and the second network equipment is target network equipment for performing the cell switching on the terminal equipment; sending first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to a first field, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field; and sending a switching command to the terminal equipment, wherein the switching command is used for indicating switching from the first network equipment to the second network equipment.

The method may be performed by a second communication device, which may be a communication apparatus or a communication device, e.g. a chip, capable of supporting the communication apparatus to perform the functions required by the method. Illustratively, the second communication device is a network device, or a chip provided in the network device for implementing the functions of the network device, or other components for implementing the functions of the network device. In the following description, the second communication device is a network device, for example, a first network device. Illustratively, the first network device is an access network device.

In this embodiment, if the first network device determines that the communication version of the second network device is lower than the communication version of the first network device, the first network device may instruct the terminal device to release all or part of the configurations corresponding to the fields that need to be inherited, so that the terminal device does not apply the configurations corresponding to the fields received before. Therefore, the fields applied by the terminal equipment and the target network equipment are kept consistent, and the terminal equipment can normally communicate under the target network equipment.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the first field corresponds to the first version, or corresponds to another version between the first version and the second version.

Because the communication version of the second network device is the second version, whether the fields corresponding to the second version or the fields corresponding to the other versions lower than the second version are supported by the second network device, if the fields are included in the configuration information and sent to the second network device by the first network device, the second network device can identify and can perform further configuration according to the fields. In this way, therefore, the first network device needs to determine the specific version of the second network device and also needs to determine the version corresponding to the field, and the first network device simply instructs the terminal device to release the field corresponding to the first version and the fields corresponding to the other versions between the first version and the second version, but does not need to release the field corresponding to the second version and release the fields corresponding to the other versions lower than the second version. Therefore, the understanding of the second network device and the terminal device to the configuration information can be kept consistent, and the fields needing to be released by the terminal device are fewer, so that the workload of the terminal device can be reduced. And for the unreleased fields which can be identified by the second network device, the second network device can also perform further configuration, which helps to reduce the workload of the second network device.

With reference to the second aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to the first field, and the method includes:

the first information comprises the first field, and the content of the first field is used for indicating that the configuration corresponding to the first field is released; or,

the first information is first indication information, the first indication information is used for indicating to release configuration corresponding to one or more fields, the one or more fields include the first field, and each field of the one or more fields is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep content of the field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the field.

For example, the first information may be configuration information. The first content may indicate that the corresponding field is released. For example, the configuration information previously configured by the first network device to the terminal device includes a first field, and then the first information also includes the first field, and the content of the first field is first content, where the first content is used to indicate to release the configuration corresponding to the first field, or to indicate to release the content of the first field. Then, after the terminal device receives the first information, according to the first content included in the first field, the content of the first field included in the configuration information from the first network device before stored at the terminal device side is released, so that the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the configuration information is not applied any more. In this embodiment, it is equivalent to that the first network device resends the new configuration information to the terminal device to indicate that all or part of the fields included in the original configuration information need to be inherited to be released. The indication mode is more specific for the terminal device, and the terminal device can determine which fields need to be released according to the fields included in the first information.

Alternatively, the first information may be indication information, for example, referred to as first indication information, and the first indication information may occupy one or more bits. The first indication information may indicate that a configuration corresponding to one or more fields, for example, one of the one or more fields, is released. The one or more fields are all fields that need to be inherited, and the one or more fields are all or part of fields that need to be inherited, included in the configuration information that is configured by the first network device to the terminal device before, that is, the first indication information is used for indicating to release all or part of fields that need to be inherited, included in the configuration information. After the terminal device receives the first indication information, the terminal device may release all or part of the contents of the fields that need to be inherited, which are included in the configuration information from the first network device and stored at the terminal device side, so that the configuration corresponding to the fields included in the configuration information is not continuously applied. For example, the field released by the terminal device includes a first field. In this embodiment, the first network device does not need to retransmit new configuration information to the terminal device, but only needs to transmit the first indication information to the terminal device to indicate that the corresponding field is released. Compared with the configuration information, the information amount of the first indication information is small, and transmission overhead is saved.

With reference to the second aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the second aspect or the second optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the method further includes:

and sending first configuration information to the second network equipment, wherein the first configuration information comprises a field configured for the terminal equipment by the first network equipment, and the first configuration information does not comprise the first field.

For example, the first network device may obtain the first configuration information according to configuration information that is previously configured to the terminal device by the first network device. For example, the first network device deletes all or part of fields that need to be inherited from the configuration information configured to the terminal device, and the configuration information obtained by the deletion may be the first configuration information. These fields which the first network device deletes from the configuration information previously configured to the terminal device, i.e. the fields which the first network device indicates to the terminal device that release is required. After the second network device obtains the first configuration information, the terminal device may be configured according to the first configuration information. Since the first configuration information does not include the fields which cannot be identified by the second network device and need to be inherited, the second network device can normally configure the terminal device.

With reference to the second aspect or the first alternative embodiment of the second aspect or the second alternative embodiment of the second aspect, in a third alternative embodiment of the second aspect,

with reference to the second aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner of the second aspect to the third optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in a fourth optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

With reference to the fourth optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

second indication information for indicating whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be transmitted to the network device; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

With reference to the fifth alternative implementation manner of the second aspect, in a sixth alternative implementation manner of the second aspect, the overheating-related auxiliary information includes one or more of the following:

the maximum number of downlink secondary carriers or the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device;

the terminal equipment can support the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth in each supported frequency band;

the type information of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the second aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner to the sixth optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in a seventh optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the method further comprises:

receiving version indication information from the second network device, where the version indication information is used to indicate that the communication version of the second network device is the second version.

The second network device may send the version indication information to the first network device, so that the first network device can clarify the communication version of the second network device for subsequent related operations.

With reference to the second aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner of the second aspect to the seventh optional implementation manner of the second aspect, in an eighth optional implementation manner of the second aspect, the method further comprises:

receiving configuration indication information from the second network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device does not use a full configuration mode to configure the terminal device, and the full configuration mode is a mode in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

In this embodiment of the present application, the configuration mode applied by the second network device is a relay-accepted configuration mode, or an iterative configuration mode, that is, it is necessary to perform the subsequent configuration based on the previous configuration, for example, the second configuration information is determined based on the first configuration information of the first network device, that is, the second configuration information is not configured in a full-configuration mode. In practical application, the second network device may also adopt a full configuration mode, where the full configuration mode is a mode in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are all reconfigured. With regard to the manner of full configuration, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the configuration mode adopted by the second network device, but if the second network device adopts a full configuration mode, it is not necessary for the first network device to instruct the terminal device to release the field that needs to be inherited. Therefore, as an optional implementation, the second network device may send the configuration indication information to the first network device, and the first network device may receive the configuration indication information from the second network device. The configuration indication information may indicate that the second network device does not use the full configuration mode to configure the terminal device, so that the first network device can perform subsequent related operations.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by some embodiments of the second aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the respective embodiments of the first aspect.

In a third aspect, a third method for configuring a terminal device is provided, where the method includes: sending version indication information to first network equipment, wherein the version indication information is used for indicating a second version, and the second version is a communication version of second network equipment; receiving first configuration information from the first network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured for a terminal device by the first network device, and the first configuration information does not include a first field, the first network device is a source network device for performing cell handover for the terminal device, and the second network device is a target network device for performing the cell handover for the terminal device, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field.

The method may be performed by a third communication apparatus, which may be a communication device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting a communication device to implement the functions required by the method, such as a chip. Illustratively, the third communication device is a network device, or a chip provided in the network device for implementing the function of the network device, or other components for implementing the function of the network device. In the following description, the third communication device is a network device, such as the second network device. Illustratively, the second network device is an access network device.

With reference to the third aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the first field corresponds to a first version, or corresponds to another version between the first version and the second version, where the first version is a communication version of the first network device, and the second version is lower than the first version.

With reference to the third aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the third aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

With reference to the second optional implementation manner of the third aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

a timing duration of a prohibit timer, wherein the terminal device is unable to send the overheating related auxiliary information to the network device during the operation duration of the prohibit timer.

With reference to the third optional implementation manner of the third aspect, in a fourth optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the auxiliary information related to overheating includes one or more of the following:

the number of uplink maximum MIMO layers which can be supported by the terminal equipment in each supported frequency band;

and the type information of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the third aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner to the fourth optional implementation manner of the third aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the method further includes:

and sending configuration indication information to the first network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device does not use a full configuration mode to configure the terminal device, and the full configuration mode is a mode in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

With reference to the third aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner to the fifth optional implementation manner of the third aspect, in a sixth optional implementation manner of the third aspect, the method further includes:

and sending second configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the second configuration information comprises a field configured for the terminal equipment by the second network equipment, and the second configuration information is obtained according to the first configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by the third aspect or the various alternative embodiments of the third aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the respective embodiments of the second aspect or the second aspect.

In a fourth aspect, a communication device is provided, for example, the communication device is the first communication device as described above. The first communication device is configured to perform the method of the first aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first aspect. Specifically, the first communication device may include a module for performing the method in the first aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first aspect, for example, a processing module, and optionally, may further include a transceiver module. For example, the transceiver module may include a transmitting module and a receiving module, and the transmitting module and the receiving module may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but can implement different functions. Illustratively, the first communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component disposed in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a terminal device. In the following, the first communication apparatus is exemplified as a terminal device. For example, the transceiver module may also be implemented by a transceiver, and the processing module may also be implemented by a processor (or a processing circuit). Alternatively, the sending module may be implemented by a sender, the receiving module may be implemented by a receiver, and the sender and the receiver may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but may implement different functions. If the first communication means is a communication device, the transceiver is implemented, for example, by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, etc. in the communication device. Alternatively, if the first communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the transceiver (or the transmitter and the receiver) is, for example, a communication interface in the chip, and the communication interface is connected to a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to realize transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component. In the introduction process of the fourth aspect, the first communication apparatus is a terminal device, and the processing module, the sending module, and the receiving module are taken as examples for introduction. Wherein,

the processing module is configured to determine first configuration information of a first network device before cell handover, where the first network device is a source network device for the terminal device to perform the cell handover;

the receiving module is configured to receive second configuration information from a second network device in the cell handover process, where the second network device is a target network device for the terminal device to perform the cell handover;

the processing module is further configured to determine that the first configuration information includes a first field and the second configuration information does not include the first field, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the second configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field;

the processing module is further configured to release the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

With reference to the first optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether auxiliary information related to overheating can be sent to the network equipment or not; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

With reference to the second optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the overheating-related auxiliary information includes one or more of the following:

the terminal equipment can support the downlink maximum aggregation bandwidth in each supported frequency band;

the type information of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the fourth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect to the third optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, in a fourth optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the processing module is further configured to determine that the second configuration information does not include a field corresponding to a first version and does not include a field corresponding to an arbitrary version higher than the first version before releasing the first field included in the first configuration information, where the first version is a communication version corresponding to the first field.

With reference to the fourth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect to the fourth optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the processing module is further configured to adjust a capability of the terminal device from a first capability to a second capability, where the first capability is lower than the second capability, and the first capability is configured by the first network device to adapt to a content of the first field.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by the fourth aspect or various alternative embodiments of the fourth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the respective embodiments of the first aspect or the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided, for example, the communication device is the second communication device as described above. The second communication device is configured to perform the method of the second aspect or any optional implementation manner of the second aspect. In particular, the second communication device may include means for performing the method in the second aspect or any optional implementation manner of the second aspect, for example, a processing means, and optionally, a transceiver means. For example, the transceiver module may include a sending module and a receiving module, and the sending module and the receiving module may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but may implement different functions. Illustratively, the second communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component provided in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a network device, such as a first network device. Illustratively, the first network device is an access network device, such as a base station. In the following, the second communication device is taken as an example of the first network device. For example, the transceiver module may also be implemented by a transceiver, and the processing module may also be implemented by a processor (or a processing circuit). Alternatively, the sending module may be implemented by a sender, the receiving module may be implemented by a receiver, and the sender and the receiver may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but may implement different functions. If the second communication means is a communication device, the transceiver is implemented, for example, by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, etc. in the communication device. Alternatively, if the second communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the transceiver (or the transmitter and the receiver) is, for example, a communication interface in the chip, and the communication interface is connected to a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to realize transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component. In the introduction process of the fifth aspect, the description is continued by taking the second communication apparatus as a first network device, and taking the processing module, the sending module, and the receiving module as an example. Wherein,

the processing module is configured to determine that a second version is lower than a first version, where the first version is a communication version of a first network device, the second version is a communication version corresponding to a second network device, the first network device is a source network device for performing cell switching on a terminal device, and the second network device is a target network device for performing the cell switching on the terminal device;

the sending module is configured to send first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to a first field, where the first field is a field in which, when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field, the terminal device needs to keep content of the first field received last time;

the sending module is further configured to send a handover command to the terminal device, where the handover command is used to instruct to handover from the first network device to the second network device.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the first field corresponds to the first version, or corresponds to another version between the first version and the second version.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to the first field, and includes:

With reference to the fifth aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect or the second optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the sending module is further configured to send first configuration information to the second network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured by the first network device for the terminal device, and the first configuration information does not include the first field.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect to the third optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a fourth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any one of the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect to the fourth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

second indication information for indicating whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network device; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

With reference to the fifth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a sixth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the auxiliary information related to overheating includes one or more of the following:

the type information of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect to the sixth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a seventh optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the receiving module is configured to receive version indication information from the second network device, where the version indication information is used to indicate that the communication version of the second network device is the second version.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect to the seventh optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in an eighth optional implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the receiving module is configured to receive configuration indication information from the second network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in a full configuration manner, and the full configuration manner is a manner in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by the fifth aspect or various alternative embodiments of the fifth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the respective embodiments of the second aspect or the second aspect.

A sixth aspect provides a communication device, for example, the communication device is the third communication device as described above. The third communication device is configured to perform the method in the third aspect or any optional implementation manner of the third aspect. In particular, the third communication device may include a module for performing the method in any optional implementation manner of the third aspect or the third aspect, for example, a processing module, and optionally, a transceiver module. For example, the transceiver module may include a transmitting module and a receiving module, and the transmitting module and the receiving module may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but can implement different functions. Illustratively, the third communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component provided in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a network device, such as a second network device. Illustratively, the second network device is an access network device, such as a base station. In the following, the third communication device is taken as an example of the second network device. For example, the transceiver module may also be implemented by a transceiver, and the processing module may also be implemented by a processor (or a processing circuit). Alternatively, the sending module may be implemented by a sender, the receiving module may be implemented by a receiver, and the sender and the receiver may be different functional modules, or may also be the same functional module, but may implement different functions. If the third communication means is a communication device, the transceiver is implemented, for example, by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, etc. in the communication device. Alternatively, if the third communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the transceiver (or the transmitter and the receiver) is, for example, a communication interface in the chip, and the communication interface is connected with a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to realize transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component. In the introduction process of the sixth aspect, the third communication apparatus is a second network device, and the processing module, the sending module, and the receiving module are taken as examples for introduction. Wherein,

the sending module is configured to send version indication information to a first network device, where the version indication information is used to indicate a second version, and the second version is a communication version of a second network device;

the receiving module is configured to receive first configuration information from the first network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured for a terminal device by the first network device, and the first configuration information does not include a first field, the first network device is a source network device for performing cell handover for the terminal device, and the second network device is a target network device for performing the cell handover for the terminal device, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep content of the first field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in a first optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the first field corresponds to a first version, or corresponds to another version between the first version and the second version, where the first version is a communication version of the first network device, and the second version is lower than the first version.

With reference to the sixth aspect or the first optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a second optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

With reference to the second optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a third optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the overheating configuration information includes:

second indication information for indicating whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be transmitted to the network device; and/or

With reference to the third alternative implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a fourth alternative implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the superheat-related auxiliary information includes one or more of the following:

the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers or the maximum number of uplink secondary cells supported by the terminal equipment;

the terminal equipment can support the maximum number of downlink MIMO layers in each supported frequency band; or the like, or a combination thereof,

the type information of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the sixth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect to the fourth optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a fifth optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the sending module is further configured to send configuration indication information to the first network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device does not configure the terminal device using a full configuration manner, and the full configuration manner is a manner in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

With reference to the sixth aspect or any optional implementation manner of the first optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect to the fifth optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a sixth optional implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the sending module is further configured to send second configuration information to the terminal device, where the second configuration information includes a field configured by the second network device for the terminal device, and the second configuration information is obtained according to the first configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by the sixth aspect or the various alternative embodiments of the sixth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the respective embodiments of the third aspect or the third aspect.

In a seventh aspect, a communication device is provided, for example, the first communication device as described above. The communication device includes a processor (or processing circuitry) and a communication interface (or interface circuitry) that may be used to communicate with other devices or apparatuses. Optionally, a memory may also be included for storing computer instructions. The processor and the memory are coupled to each other for implementing the method as described in the first aspect or in the various possible embodiments of the first aspect. Alternatively, the first communication device may not include the memory, and the memory may be located outside the first communication device. The processor, the memory and the communication interface are coupled to each other for implementing the methods described above for the first aspect or for the various possible embodiments of the first aspect. The processor, for example, when executing the computer instructions stored by the memory, causes the first communication device to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect. Illustratively, the first communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component disposed in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a terminal device.

Wherein, if the first communication means is a communication device, the communication interface is implemented, for example, by a transceiver (or a transmitter and a receiver) in the communication device, for example, the transceiver is implemented by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, and the like in the communication device. Or, if the first communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the communication interface is, for example, an input/output interface, such as an input/output pin, of the chip, and the communication interface is connected to a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to implement transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component.

In an eighth aspect, a communication device is provided, for example, the second communication device as described above. The communication device includes a processor (or processing circuitry) and a communication interface (or interface circuitry) that may be used to communicate with other devices or apparatuses. Optionally, a memory may also be included for storing computer instructions. The processor and the memory are coupled to each other for implementing the method as described in the second aspect or in the various possible embodiments of the second aspect. Alternatively, the second communication device may not include the memory, and the memory may be located outside the second communication device. The processor, the memory and the communication interface are coupled to each other for implementing the method as described in the second aspect or in the various possible embodiments of the second aspect. The processor, for example, when executing the computer instructions stored by the memory, causes the second communication device to perform the method of the second aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the second aspect. Illustratively, the second communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component provided in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a network device, such as a first network device. Illustratively, the first network device is an access network device, such as a base station.

Wherein, if the second communication means is a communication device, the communication interface is implemented, for example, by a transceiver (or a transmitter and a receiver) in the communication device, for example, by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, etc. in the communication device. Or, if the second communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the communication interface is, for example, an input/output interface, such as an input/output pin, of the chip, and the communication interface is connected to a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to implement transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component.

A ninth aspect provides a communication device, for example a third communication device as described above. The communication device includes a processor (or processing circuitry) and a communication interface (or interface circuitry) that may be used to communicate with other devices or apparatuses. Optionally, a memory may also be included for storing the computer instructions. The processor and the memory are coupled to each other for implementing the method as described in the third aspect or in the various possible embodiments of the third aspect. Alternatively, the third communication device may not include a memory, and the memory may be located outside the third communication device. The processor, the memory and the communication interface are coupled to each other for implementing the methods described in the third aspect or the various possible embodiments of the third aspect. The processor, for example, when executing the computer instructions stored by the memory, causes the third communication device to perform the method of the third aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the third aspect. Illustratively, the third communication device is a communication device, or a chip or other component provided in the communication device. Illustratively, the communication device is a network device, such as a second network device. Illustratively, the second network device is an access network device, such as a base station.

Wherein, if the third communication device is a communication device, the communication interface is implemented by, for example, a transceiver (or a transmitter and a receiver) in the communication device, for example, the transceiver is implemented by an antenna, a feeder, a codec, and the like in the communication device. Or, if the third communication device is a chip disposed in the communication apparatus, the communication interface is, for example, an input/output interface, such as an input/output pin, of the chip, and the communication interface is connected to a radio frequency transceiving component in the communication apparatus to implement transceiving of information through the radio frequency transceiving component.

A tenth aspect provides a first communication system comprising the communication apparatus of the fourth aspect or the communication apparatus of the seventh aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a second communication system comprising the communication apparatus of the fifth aspect or the communication apparatus of the eighth aspect and comprising the communication apparatus of the sixth aspect or the communication apparatus of the ninth aspect.

In a twelfth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which is used to store a computer program, which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the first aspect.

In a thirteenth aspect, there is provided a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the second aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the second aspect.

In a fourteenth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which is used for storing a computer program, which when run on a computer causes the computer to perform the method of the third aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the third aspect.

A fifteenth aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions for storing a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the first aspect.

In a sixteenth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising instructions for storing a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the second aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the second aspect.

A seventeenth aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions for storing a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the third aspect or any one of the alternative embodiments of the third aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field, so that the fields applied by the terminal device and the second network device are consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a network device configuring a terminal device;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a terminal device sending UE assistance information to a network device;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device performing cell handover;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a cell handover process;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a first method for configuring a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a flowchart of a second method for configuring a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a second network device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 11 is another schematic block diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a further schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a further schematic block diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the embodiments of the present application will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, some terms in the embodiments of the present application are explained so as to be easily understood by those skilled in the art.

1) Terminal equipment, including equipment providing voice and/or data connectivity to a user, in particular, including equipment providing voice to a user, or including equipment providing data connectivity to a user, or including equipment providing voice and data connectivity to a user. For example, may include a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or a processing device connected to a wireless modem. The terminal device may communicate with a core network via a Radio Access Network (RAN), exchange voice or data with the RAN, or interact with the RAN. The terminal device may include a User Equipment (UE), a wireless terminal device, a mobile terminal device, a device-to-device communication (D2D) terminal device, a vehicle-to-all (V2X) terminal device, a machine-to-machine/machine-type communication (M2M/MTC) terminal device, an internet of things (IoT) terminal device, a subscription unit (subscription unit), a subscription station (subscription station), a mobile station (mobile station), a remote station (remote station), an access point (access point, AP), a remote terminal (remote), an access terminal (access terminal), a user terminal (user terminal), a user agent (user agent), or a user equipment (user), etc. For example, mobile telephones (otherwise known as "cellular" telephones), computers with mobile terminal equipment, portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included mobile devices, and the like may be included. Such as Personal Communication Service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones, wireless Local Loop (WLL) stations, personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and the like. Also included are constrained devices, such as devices that consume less power, or devices that have limited storage capabilities, or devices that have limited computing capabilities, etc. Examples of information sensing devices include bar codes, radio Frequency Identification (RFID), sensors, global Positioning Systems (GPS), laser scanners, and so forth.

By way of example and not limitation, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. Wearable equipment can also be called wearable intelligent equipment or intelligent wearable equipment and the like, and is a general term for applying wearable technology to carry out intelligent design and develop wearable equipment for daily wearing, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothes, shoes and the like. A wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also realizes powerful functions through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable smart device includes full functionality, large size, and can implement full or partial functionality without relying on a smart phone, such as: smart watches or smart glasses and the like, and only focus on a certain type of application function, and need to be matched with other equipment such as a smart phone for use, such as various smart bracelets, smart helmets, smart jewelry and the like for physical sign monitoring.

While the various terminal devices described above, if located on (e.g. placed in or installed in) a vehicle, may be considered to be vehicle-mounted terminal devices, also referred to as on-board units (OBUs), for example.

In this embodiment, the terminal device may further include a relay (relay). Or it is to be understood that all that can communicate data with the base station can be considered terminal equipment.

In this embodiment of the present application, the apparatus for implementing the function of the terminal device may be the terminal device, or may be an apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the function, for example, a chip system, and the apparatus may be installed in the terminal device. In the embodiment of the present application, the chip system may be composed of a chip, and may also include a chip and other discrete devices. In the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, a device for implementing a function of a terminal is taken as an example to be a terminal device, and the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

2) A network device, for example, including AN Access Network (AN) device, such as a base station (e.g., AN access point), may refer to a device in the access network that communicates with a wireless terminal device through one or more cells over AN air interface, or a network device in vehicle-to-all (V2X) technology, for example, a Road Side Unit (RSU). The base station may be configured to interconvert received air frames and IP packets as a router between the terminal device and the rest of the access network, which may include an IP network. The RSU may be a fixed infrastructure entity supporting V2X applications and may exchange messages with other entities supporting V2X applications. The network device may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the network device may include an evolved Node B (NodeB) in an LTE system or an advanced long term evolution-advanced (LTE-a) system, or may also include a next generation Node B (gNB) in a New Radio (NR) system (also referred to as an NR system for short) of the fifth generation mobile communication technology (the 5th generation, 5g) system, or may also include a Central Unit (CU) and a distributed unit (distributed unit, DU) in a Cloud radio access network (Cloud RAN) system, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

The network device may further include a core network device, for example, including an access and mobility management function (AMF), a Session Management Function (SMF), a User Plane Function (UPF), or the like in a 5G system, or including a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in a 4G system, or the like.

In this embodiment, the apparatus for implementing the function of the network device may be a network device, or may be an apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the function, for example, a system on chip, and the apparatus may be installed in the network device. In the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, a device for implementing a function of a network device is taken as an example, and the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

Since the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application mainly relates to access network equipment, unless otherwise specified, the network equipment described below refers to access network equipment.

3) The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application may be used interchangeably. "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone, wherein A and B can be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. For example, A/B, represents: a or B. "at least one of the following" or similar expressions refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of the singular or plural items. For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c, may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or multiple.

And, unless stated to the contrary, the embodiments of the present application refer to the ordinal numbers "first", "second", etc., for distinguishing a plurality of objects, and do not limit the size, content, sequence, timing, priority, or importance of the plurality of objects. For example, the first configuration information and the second configuration information may be the same configuration information or different configuration information, and such names do not indicate the difference in the information amount, content, priority, importance, or the like between the two pieces of configuration information.

The foregoing has described some of the noun concepts to which embodiments of the present application relate, and the following has described some features of the embodiments of the present application.

After the terminal device is accessed to the network device, the network device needs to issue the wireless access configuration to the terminal device, and the terminal device applies the configuration issued by the network device, so that the terminal device can normally perform data communication under the network device. Referring to fig. 1, a flowchart of configuring a terminal device for a network device is shown.

S11, the network equipment sends configuration information to the terminal equipment, and correspondingly, the terminal equipment receives the configuration information from the network equipment.

Illustratively, the configuration message may be a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration (RRC reconfiguration) message, or an RRC setup (RRC setup) message, or an RRC reestablishment (RRC reestablishment) message, or an RRC recovery (RRC resume) message, etc. The configuration message may include parameters configured by the network device for the terminal device, and for example, the configured parameters may include: one or more of a configuration parameter of a radio bearer, a physical layer (PHY) parameter, a Medium Access Control (MAC) parameter, a Radio Link Control (RLC) parameter, or a security parameter.

The network device may send the configuration message to the terminal device multiple times, and therefore, the configuration message sent at a certain time may be further configured based on the previous configuration message, that is, the network device adopts a relative configuration (delta configuration) mode. Specifically, the configuration message may include one or more IEs, each IE being a field or a field, an IE may be understood as a parameter, or an IE may be understood as including a parameter. In the configuration message, each IE may correspond to a corresponding requirement code (need codes), and the requirement codes corresponding to different IEs may be the same or different. With respect to the demand code, reference is made to the description of table 1.

TABLE 1

Table 1 lists 4 demand codes. For example, if the requirement code corresponding to a field is requirement code R (i.e., need R), the field is a field that needs to be inherited, and the parameters configured by the field can be regarded as non-disposable parameters. That is, if the terminal device has received the field before, but does not receive the field this time, the terminal device needs to release the configuration corresponding to the field received before, that is, the terminal device does not continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the field received before. If the terminal device has received the field before, and this time also receives the field, the terminal device needs to apply the configuration corresponding to the field received this time.

For another example, if the demand code corresponding to a field is the demand code M (i.e., need M), the field is a field that needs to be inherited, and the parameter configured by the field can be regarded as a non-disposable parameter. That is, if the terminal device has received the field before, but does not receive the field this time, the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the field received before, that is, to continue to apply the parameters included in the field received before. If the terminal device has received the field before and this time, the terminal device needs to apply the configuration corresponding to the field received this time.

For example, the network device first sends a configuration message 1 to the terminal device, where the configuration message 1 includes IE1, IE2, and IE3, where the requirement code corresponding to IE1 is need M, and the requirement codes corresponding to IE2 and IE3 are both need R, and then the terminal device applies the configuration corresponding to IE1, the configuration corresponding to IE2, and the configuration corresponding to IE 3. The network device then sends a configuration message 2 to the terminal device, the configuration message 2 being further configured according to the configuration message 1. For example, the configuration message 2 includes IE2 and IE4, and the requirement code corresponding to IE4 is requirement code N. Because the IE2 is newly issued by the configuration message 2, the terminal device applies the configuration corresponding to the IE2 included in the configuration message 2, and if the IE4 is newly issued by the configuration message 2, the terminal device applies the configuration corresponding to the IE4 included in the configuration message 2. In addition, the configuration message 2 does not include IE1, but the configuration message 1 includes IE1, and the requirement code corresponding to IE1 is need M, so the terminal device continues to apply the configuration corresponding to IE1 included in the configuration message 1. The configuration message 2 does not include the IE3, and the requirement code corresponding to the IE3 is the need R, so the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the IE3 included in the configuration message 1, that is, the terminal device does not apply the configuration corresponding to the IE3 included in the configuration message 1.

S12, the terminal equipment applies the configuration included in the configuration message. According to this configuration, the terminal device can normally perform data communication under the current network device.

In addition, the terminal equipment may be overheated during use. Then, when the terminal device has an internal overheating problem, the terminal device can be cooled by reducing the capacity or configuration of the terminal device, so as to solve the overheating problem. In order to reduce the capability or configuration of the terminal device, the terminal device may send UE assistance information (UE assistance information) to the network device, where the UE assistance information is overheating assistance information, so as to notify the network device of the capability or configuration that the terminal device desires to reduce, for reference by the network device, so as to perform reconfiguration. The terminal device needs to send the UE assistance information to the network device, and the network device needs to send the over-temperature configuration information to the terminal device first, so that the terminal device can send the UE assistance information to the network device. The overheating configuration information sent by the network device to the terminal device may be included in a configuration message sent by the network device to the terminal device, for example, the configuration message shown in S11 in the flow shown in fig. 1. Referring to fig. 2, a procedure of sending UE assistance information from a terminal device to a network device will be described.

S21, the network equipment sends RRC reconfiguration information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the RRC reconfiguration information from the network equipment.

The RRC reconfiguration message may be understood as a configuration message, which may include over-temperature configuration information. The overheating configuration information includes, for example, information indicating whether the terminal device is capable of sending the overheating assistance information to the network device, and a value of an overheating-related prohibition timer. The prohibition timer is used for controlling the frequency of reporting the overheating auxiliary information by the terminal equipment, when the terminal equipment reports the overheating auxiliary information for one time, the terminal equipment and the network equipment need to synchronously start the prohibition timer, and in the running process of the prohibition timer, the terminal equipment cannot report the overheating auxiliary information again, and can only report the overheating auxiliary information again when the prohibition timer is overtime or after the overtime. The value of the prohibit timer specified in the existing protocol may be selected from a range of { s0, s0dot5, s1, s2, s5, s10, s20, s30, s60, s90, s120, s300, s600, spark 3, spark 2, spark 1}, where s is in seconds, e.g., s0 represents 0 seconds and s1 represents 1 second. s0dot5 represents 0.5 seconds, free (spare) represents a reserved bit, e.g. spare3, spare2 and spare represent three reserved bits.

The overheating configuration information sent by the network device to the terminal device may be included in one or more IEs, and the requirement code corresponding to the one or more IEs may be a need M.

S22, the terminal equipment sends overheating auxiliary information to the network equipment, and the network equipment receives the overheating auxiliary information from the terminal equipment.

If the overheating configuration information sent by the network device is used for configuring that the terminal device can send auxiliary information related to overheating, when the terminal device has an overheating problem, the terminal device may send the overheating auxiliary information to the network device. Or, if the overheating configuration information sent by the network device is used to configure that the terminal device is capable of sending auxiliary information related to overheating, when the terminal device has an overheating problem and the prohibit timer is not in an operating state, the terminal device may send the overheating auxiliary information to the network device. For example, the terminal device may send the overheating assistance information to the network device in a UE assistance information message.

In the scenarios such as NR independent networking, NR-DC, or NE-DC, the overheating auxiliary information that can be reported by the terminal device may include one or more of the following: the number of uplink maximum secondary (CC) carriers or the number of uplink maximum secondary cells (scells) supported by the terminal device, the number of downlink maximum secondary carriers or the number of downlink maximum secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the number of uplink maximum MIMO layers (layer) that can be supported by each serving cell of the terminal device in each supported frequency band, or the maximum downlink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell of the terminal device in each supported frequency band. In (NG) EN-DC scenarios, the auxiliary overheating information that can be reported by the terminal device includes: the type of terminal device (UE category), and/or the number of MIMO layers supported by the terminal device.

S23, the network equipment sends RRC reconfiguration information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the RRC reconfiguration information from the network equipment.

If the network device receives the overheating auxiliary information from the terminal device, the network device may decide whether to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, thereby alleviating the overheating problem of the terminal device. How to decide depends on the internal implementation of the network device. If the network device determines to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, the network device may determine configuration information according to the received overheating assistance information, and send the configuration information to the terminal device by including the configuration information in the RRC reconfiguration message, and the terminal device may reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device by applying the configuration information. After the terminal device communicates using the reduced air interface configuration, the power consumption is reduced, and the temperature of the terminal device is also reduced, thereby solving the overheating problem.

Since some terminal devices are in a mobile state, such as a mobile phone, the terminal device may be involved in performing a cell switch. A cell handover may include an intra-base station cell handover and a cross-base station cell handover, where a cross-base station cell handover refers to a handover to another communication connection when a terminal device moves from a coverage area of one base station (a source base station) to a coverage area of another base station (a target base station) so that the terminal device continues to maintain a communication connection with the base station. The embodiments of the present application mainly consider cell handover across base stations, and the "cell handover" described below may be understood as "cell handover across base stations". For example, referring to fig. 3, a schematic diagram of cell handover for a terminal device is shown. As can be seen from fig. 3, the terminal device needs to be handed over from the source base station to the target base station. In addition, please refer to fig. 4 again, which is a flowchart of a cell handover process, and the operation of the core network side is not shown in fig. 4.

S41, the source base station sends a handover preparation information message to the target base station, and the target base station receives the handover preparation information message from the source base station. The handover preparation information message is used to instruct handover of the terminal device from the source base station to the target base station.

Before the terminal device performs cell handover, that is, before performing S41, the source base station may issue configuration information to the terminal device, for example, the configuration information is referred to as configuration information 1, where the configuration information 1 may include one or more IEs, and the configuration information 1 is used for the terminal device to communicate under the source base station.

In the cell switching process, the source base station sends configuration information 1 to the target base station. For example, the source base station may transmit configuration information 1 to the target base station included in the handover preparation information message.

And S42, the target base station performs admission control. That is, the target base station determines whether to allow the terminal device to handover to the target base station.

S43, if the target base station allows the terminal device to be switched to the target base station, the target base station sends a handover command message to the source base station, and the source base station receives the handover command message from the target base station.

The handover control message may indicate to the target base station that the terminal device is allowed to be handed over to the target base station.

S44, the source base station sends an RRC reconfiguration (RRC reconfiguration) message to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the RRC reconfiguration message from the source base station.

The RRC reconfiguration message may also be referred to as a handover command, which may instruct the terminal device to handover from the source base station to the target base station.

In the cell handover process, the target base station may also issue configuration information to the terminal device, for example, the configuration information 2 is called configuration information 2, the configuration information 2 may include one or more IEs, the configuration information 2 is used for the terminal device to communicate under the target base station, and the configuration information 2 may be determined according to the configuration information 1. For example, the target base station may include configuration information 2 in the handover control message of S43 and send the handover control message to the source base station, and the source base station further includes configuration information 2 in the RRC reconfiguration message of S44 and sends the handover control message to the terminal device.

And S45, the terminal equipment performs switching operation to switch from the source base station to the target base station, or to switch from the current serving cell to the new cell.

S46, the terminal device sends an RRC reconfiguration complete (RRC reconfiguration complete) message to the target base station, and the target base station receives the RRC reconfiguration complete message from the terminal device.

The RRC reconfiguration complete may indicate that the terminal device has completed handover.

Through the flow shown in fig. 4, the terminal device completes the cell handover process. The configuration information 2 may be applied after the terminal device is handed over to the target base station.

The communication versions supported by the various base stations may differ, and thus the communication versions of the source base station and the target base station may differ. For example, the communication version of the source base station may be higher than the communication version of the target base station. Since the high-version base station supports more functions than the low-version base station, the high-version base station can configure more IEs, but the low-version base station does not have new functions, and therefore cannot identify IEs corresponding to the new functions. The target base station cannot identify these IEs, and therefore these IEs are not sent to the terminal device. However, if some IEs have a required code of need M, for example, an IE including over-temperature configuration information, then if the terminal device has received the IE last time but has not received the IE this time, it indicates that the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the IE received last time. For such an IE, if the terminal device determines that the IE is sent by the source base station to the terminal device and the IE is not sent by the target base station to the terminal device, the terminal device will continue to use the configuration corresponding to the IE from the source base station. However, the target base station cannot identify the IE, and naturally cannot support the configuration corresponding to the IE, which may cause that the terminal device cannot normally communicate under the target base station.

In view of this, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are provided. For example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, that is, if the terminal device has received the first field last time but has not received the first field this time, the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field received last time, or the requirement code corresponding to the first field is the need M. Then, in this embodiment, if the terminal device determines that the first configuration information from the first network device includes the first field and the first configuration information from the second network device does not include the first field, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information, that is, the terminal device no longer applies the configuration corresponding to the first field received before. The second network device does not send the first field to the terminal device, possibly because the second network device cannot identify the first field, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field, so that the fields applied by the terminal device and the second network device can be kept consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

For example, when a user performs a call service while walking around a smartphone, the smartphone may perform a cell handover due to the movement of the user. Due to the above problems, the smart phone may not be able to communicate normally when being switched to the target base station, that is, the smart phone may have situations such as poor call signal, call interruption, or call drop, which affect the user experience. By adopting the scheme provided by the embodiment of the application, the problems can be solved. For example, after the solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is adopted, for example, a user holds a smartphone while walking to perform a call service, the smartphone may perform cell switching due to movement of the user, but in the embodiment of the present application, even if the smartphone is switched to a target base station, since an actual configuration of the smartphone and a configuration of the smartphone known by the target base station can be kept as consistent as possible, the smartphone can normally communicate in the target base station. That is to say, by adopting the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application, the probability of situations such as poor call signal, call interruption or call drop after the cell switching of the smart phone can be reduced, the communication quality is improved, and the user experience is also improved.

The technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to the fourth generation mobile communication technology (the 4G) system, for example, an LTE system, or may be applied to a 5G system, for example, an NR system, or may also be applied to a next generation mobile communication system or other similar communication systems, which is not limited specifically. In addition, the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to device-to-device (D2D) scenes, such as NR-D2D scenes, or can be applied to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenes, such as NR-V2X scenes, for example, can be applied to the internet of vehicles, such as V2X, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), or can be applied to the fields of intelligent driving, auxiliary driving, or intelligent internet vehicles.

An application scenario of an embodiment of the present application may continue with reference to fig. 3. The base station in fig. 3 may be an access network device. The access network device corresponds to different devices in different systems, for example, in a 4G system, the access network device may correspond to an eNB, and in a 5G system, the access network device corresponds to an access network device in 5G, for example, a gNB. Of course, the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application may also be applied to a future mobile communication system, and therefore the access network device may also correspond to a network device in the future mobile communication system. Fig. 3 illustrates that the access network device is a base station, and actually, referring to the foregoing description, the access network device may also be an RSU or the like.

The method provided by the embodiment of the application is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present application, all information interaction related to between the terminal device and the core network device may be forwarded from the access network device, but since the solution of the embodiments of the present application does not relate to the core network device, it is not mentioned below. In addition, the configuration information, for example, the first configuration information, the second configuration information, the third configuration information, or the fourth configuration information, described in the embodiments of the present application, may include parameters configured by the network device for the terminal device, so that the terminal device can operate under the network device. For example, the parameters configured by the network device for the terminal device may include one or more of configuration parameters of a radio bearer, physical layer parameters, MAC parameters, RLC parameters, or security parameters, or may further include other parameters.

The embodiment of the present application provides a first method for configuring a terminal device, please refer to fig. 5, which is a flowchart of the method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 3 as an example.

For ease of introduction, in the following, the method is performed by a network device and a terminal device as an example. The first network device described below is a source network device of the terminal device, that is, a network device accessed by the terminal device before cell handover is performed, and the second network device described below is a target network device of the terminal device, that is, a network device accessed by the terminal device after cell handover is performed. The terminal device described below may be a terminal device in the network architecture shown in fig. 3, the first network device described below may be a source base station in the network architecture shown in fig. 3, and the second network device described below may be a target base station in the network architecture shown in fig. 3.

S51, the first network device sends the third configuration information to the terminal device, and accordingly, the terminal device receives the third configuration information from the first network device.

For example, the first network device as the source network device may send the third configuration information to the terminal device before cell handover. For example, the first network device may send the third configuration information to the terminal device when the terminal device is just accessing the network (e.g., when a random access is completed with the first network device), and after that, when the terminal device operates under the first network device, the first network device does not send any other configuration information to the terminal device; or, the first network device may send the configuration information to the terminal device when the terminal device has just accessed to the network (for example, when the terminal device completes random access with the first network device), and after that, when the terminal device operates under the first network device, the first network device may also send new configuration information to the terminal device, so that for the first network device and the terminal device, the currently applied configuration information may be obtained according to the new configuration information and the previous configuration information, in this case, for example, the third configuration information is the configuration information that the first network device has sent to the terminal device last time. Or, the first network device may also send the third configuration information to the terminal device in the cell handover process. For example, as known from the cell handover procedure described above, in the cell handover procedure, the source network device may send a handover command (the handover command is, for example, an RRC reconfiguration message in S44 in the flow shown in fig. 4) to the terminal device to instruct the terminal device to perform handover, and then the first network device may include the third configuration information in the handover command and send the third configuration information to the terminal device.

As described above, the current configuration process is iterative configuration, or legacy configuration, that is, the next configuration is performed based on the previous configuration. Then, for example, the third configuration information is the configuration information that was last sent to the terminal device by the first network device, or, in other words, the first network device has sent other configuration information, for example, the fourth configuration information, to the terminal device before sending the third configuration information to the terminal device, then the third configuration information is further configured based on the fourth configuration information, and therefore, the terminal device may determine the configuration information applied by the terminal device according to the third configuration information and the fourth configuration information, and refer to the configuration information as the first configuration information. The terminal device may perform configuration by using the first configuration information, so that the terminal device may perform data communication normally under the first network device.

The first configuration information may comprise one or more fields, e.g. an IE, or a field, or may be other concepts, it being understood that a field comprises one or more bits (bits). Each field of the fields included in the third configuration information may correspond to a requirement code, and the requirement codes corresponding to different fields may be the same or different. In addition, each field may include a parameter. For example, the first configuration information may include a first field, which includes, for example, a parameter or, in other words, corresponding information. For the terminal device, if the first field is not received, the content of the first field received last time needs to be inherited (or applied), or the configuration corresponding to the content of the first field received last time needs to be continuously applied, or the first parameter needs to be continuously applied. For example, if the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M, the first field is the field that needs to be inherited. For example, the first field may include over-temperature configuration information, or the first field may include other information as well.

The overheating configuration information includes, for example, the first indication information, or includes a timing length of the prohibit timer, or includes both the first indication information and the timing length of the prohibit timer. Wherein the first indication information is usable to indicate whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network device. The prohibit timer is an overheating-related prohibit timer that may be used to control the frequency with which the terminal device sends overheating-related auxiliary information to the network device. For example, if the overheating configuration information includes the first indication information and the timing duration of the prohibition timer, and the first indication information indicates that the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network device, the terminal device may send the overheating-related auxiliary information to the network device, and the terminal device starts the prohibition timer when sending the overheating-related auxiliary information or after sending the overheating-related auxiliary information, and similarly, the network device also starts the prohibition timer when receiving the overheating-related auxiliary information or after receiving the overheating-related auxiliary information. During the running time of the prohibit timer, the terminal device cannot send the auxiliary information related to overheating to the network device, and the terminal device can only send the auxiliary information related to overheating to the network device when or after the prohibit timer expires. For example, the timing duration of the prohibit timer may take a range of { s0, s0dot5, s1, s2, s5, s10, s20, s30, s60, s90, s120, s300, s600, spark 3, spark 2, spark 1}, and reference is made to the foregoing for related description of the range.

And S52, the terminal device sends the auxiliary information related to overheating to the first network device, and the first network device receives the auxiliary information related to overheating from the terminal device.

If the overheating configuration information includes first indication information indicating that the overheating-related auxiliary information can be transmitted to the network device, the terminal device may transmit the overheating-related auxiliary information to the first network device if an overheating problem occurs in the terminal device. Alternatively, if the overheating configuration information includes the first indication information and the timing duration of the prohibit timer, the terminal device may send the overheating-related auxiliary information to the first network device if the terminal device has an overheating problem and the prohibit timer is not in a running state. For example, the terminal device may send the overheating-related assistance information to the first network device in a UE assistance information message.

In an embodiment of the application, the overheating-related auxiliary information may include one or more of the following: the number of uplink maximum secondary carriers or the number of uplink maximum secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the number of downlink maximum secondary carriers or the number of downlink maximum secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the uplink maximum aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the downlink maximum aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the number of uplink maximum MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each supported frequency band by the terminal device, the number of downlink maximum MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each supported frequency band by the terminal device, or the type information of the terminal device. For example, the overheating-related assistance information may include the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers supported by the terminal device; or, the overheating-related auxiliary information may include the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device; or, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band; or, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum uplink MIMO layer number that can be supported by each serving cell on each supported frequency band, and the type information of the terminal device; alternatively, the auxiliary information related to overheating may include the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers or the maximum number of uplink secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the maximum number of downlink secondary carriers or the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device, the maximum uplink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and the maximum downlink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell by the terminal device in each supported frequency band, and so on.

It is noted that the configuration indicated by the overheating-related auxiliary information (which may be understood as the value of the parameter included in the overheating-related auxiliary information) is the configuration desired by the terminal device, and not the configuration actually supported by the capability of the terminal device. It is understood that the overheating situation of the terminal device can be improved if the terminal device applies the configuration indicated by the overheating-related auxiliary information. For example, the auxiliary information related to overheating includes the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell of the terminal device on each supported frequency band, where the number of MIMO layers is, for example, 2, which indicates that the terminal device expects the first network device to configure the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell of the terminal device on each supported frequency band as 2, but the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can actually be supported by the terminal device on each supported frequency band may be 4, that is, the terminal device expects to reduce the number of MIMO layers to improve the overheating condition of the terminal device.

As described herein, each frequency band supported by the terminal device includes, for example, two frequency bands of a high frequency (FR 2) and a low frequency (FR 1), or more frequency bands may be divided according to a finer granularity.

S53, the first network device sends an RRC reconfiguration message to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the RRC reconfiguration message from the first network device. The RRC reconfiguration message includes air interface configuration information. Since the cell handover procedure is not yet involved at this time, the RRC reconfiguration message is not the RRC reconfiguration message in S44 in the flow shown in fig. 4.

If the first network device receives the auxiliary information related to overheating from the terminal device, the first network device may decide whether to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, so as to alleviate the overheating problem of the terminal device. How to decide depends on the internal implementation of the first network device. If the first network device determines to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, the first network device may determine air interface configuration information according to the received auxiliary information related to overheating, and include the air interface configuration information in an RRC reconfiguration message, and send the RRC reconfiguration message to the terminal device. After receiving the air interface configuration information, the terminal device may apply the air interface configuration information to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device. For example, before reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the second capability, and after reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the first capability, and the first capability is lower than the second capability. The second capability may be, for example, the maximum capability actually supported by the terminal device, or may be lower than the maximum capability actually supported by the terminal device. After the terminal equipment uses the reduced air interface configuration for communication, the power consumption is reduced, and the temperature of the terminal equipment is also reduced, so that the overheating problem is solved. Or, if the first network device determines not to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device, the first network device may not need to send the air interface configuration information to the terminal device, for example, S53 may not need to be executed.

The parameters included in the air interface configuration information configured by the first network device and the parameters included in the auxiliary information related to overheating may be the same. For example, the auxiliary information related to overheating includes the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device, and the air interface configuration information also includes the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device. In this case, the values of the parameters included in the air interface configuration information and the values of the parameters included in the auxiliary information related to overheating may be the same or different. For example, the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell of the terminal device on each supported frequency band included in the auxiliary information related to overheating is 2, and the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be actually supported by each serving cell of the terminal device on each supported frequency band is 4. Then, the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device included in the air interface configuration information may be 2 or may also be 3. That is, the first network device may determine the air interface configuration information completely according to the auxiliary information related to overheating, or the first network device may also consider other factors when determining the air interface configuration information, so that the determined air interface configuration information is not completely identical to the suggestion of the auxiliary information related to overheating.

Alternatively, the parameters included in the air interface configuration information configured by the first network device and the parameters included in the auxiliary information related to overheating may also be different. For example, the overheating-related auxiliary information includes the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device per serving cell on each supported frequency band, and the air interface configuration information may not include the parameter but include the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers supported by the terminal device. As can be seen, the first network device has certain flexibility in determining the air interface configuration information.

Wherein, S52 and S53 are only optional steps, not necessarily executed, and are indicated by dashed lines in fig. 5.

And S54, in the cell switching process, the first network equipment sends the third configuration information to the second network equipment, and the second network equipment receives the third configuration information from the first network equipment. For example, the first network device may include the third configuration information in the handover preparation information message as described in S41 of the flow shown in fig. 4 and send the handover preparation information message to the second network device, or may also include the third configuration information in another message and send the handover preparation information message to the second network device.

After receiving the third configuration information, the second network device may determine second configuration information according to the third configuration information, where the second configuration information may be used for communication of the terminal device in the second network device. For example, for some fields included in the third configuration information, the second network device may reconfigure the contents of the fields (for example, reconfigure values of parameters included in the fields), or may not reconfigure the fields and continue to use the contents of the fields included in the third configuration information. For example, for a field whose corresponding requirement code is need M, if the second network device needs to reconfigure the content of the field, the second network device may include the field in the second configuration information, so that after receiving the second configuration information, the terminal device may apply the configuration corresponding to the field included in the second configuration information; if the second network device determines that the content of the field does not need to be configured, the second network device does not need to include the field in the second configuration information, and after receiving the second configuration information, the terminal device finds that the second configuration information does not include the field, and if the first configuration information includes the field, the terminal device continues to apply the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information. For the fields corresponding to other requirement codes, the second network device may be configured according to the characteristics of the corresponding requirement codes, and similarly, for the fields, the second network device may select reconfiguration, or may continue to use the configuration corresponding to the field included in the third configuration information.

For example, the communication version of the first network device is version 1, the communication version of the second network device is version 2, for example, version 1 is v1540, version 2 is v1520, and the like. If version 1 is higher than version 2, then for one or more fields included in the third configuration information, if some of the fields correspond to version 1, or to other versions between version 1 and version 2, and do not correspond to version 2, nor to any other versions lower than version 2, then the second network device cannot recognize these fields, or cannot interpret these fields. That is, a network device cannot identify fields corresponding to communication versions that are higher than those supported by the network device. For fields that are not recognizable by the second network device, the second network device will not include such fields in the second configuration information.

And S55, the second network equipment sends the second configuration information to the terminal equipment, and correspondingly, the terminal equipment receives the second configuration information from the second network equipment.

For example, the second network device may first send the second configuration information to the first network device, and then the first network device sends the second configuration information to the terminal device. For example, the second network device may include the second configuration information in the handover control message described as S43 in the flow shown in fig. 4, and send the second configuration information to the first network device, and the first network device may include the second configuration information in the RRC reconfiguration message described as S44 in the flow shown in fig. 4, and send the second configuration information to the terminal device. It is introduced in S51 that the first network device may send the third configuration information to the terminal device before performing cell handover, or send the third configuration information to the terminal device through an RRC reconfiguration message during cell handover. Then, if the first network device transmits the third configuration information to the terminal device through the RRC reconfiguration message and transmits the second configuration information to the terminal device through the RRC reconfiguration message, the third configuration information and the second configuration information are transmitted through one message.

S56, the terminal device determines that the first configuration information comprises the first field and the second configuration information does not comprise the first field. Alternatively, for some fields, if the content included in the field is empty, the effect is the same as that if the field is not included, that is, if the field is included in the configuration information but the content of the field is empty, the configuration information may be regarded as not including the field. For such fields, S56 may be that the terminal device determines that the first configuration information includes the first field, and the second configuration information also includes the first field, but the content of the first field included in the second configuration information is null. The embodiment of the application mainly takes the example that the terminal device determines that the first configuration information includes the first field and the second configuration information does not include the first field.

The first field is a field that needs to be inherited, and for this reason, when the terminal device does not receive the first field, the terminal device needs to inherit the content of the first field that was received last time, or in other words, the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field that was received last time. Or that the first field is a field that the terminal device needs to keep the content of the last received first field when the configuration information (e.g., the second configuration information) newly received by the terminal device does not include the first field. For example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M.

Since the second configuration information is a further configuration based on the first configuration information, the terminal device may compare the second configuration information with the first configuration information after receiving the second configuration information to determine the configuration information that should actually be applied. For example, if the second network device cannot identify a portion of the fields included in the first network device, the second configuration information may not include the portion of the fields. And there may be fields (for example, the first field) that need to be inherited, and since the second configuration information does not include such fields, the terminal device may continue to apply the configuration corresponding to such fields included in the first configuration information. However, the configuration corresponding to such a field is not supported by the second network device, and if the terminal device continues to apply the configuration corresponding to such a field included in the first configuration information, a problem may occur in communication of the terminal device under the second network device, for example, the terminal device may not perform normal data communication with the second network device. Thus, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may determine a field that the first configuration information includes but the second configuration information does not include, for example, the terminal device may determine one or more fields that may include the first field. If the same field has the same identifier, the terminal device can determine whether the configuration information includes the corresponding field according to the identifier of the field.

S57, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information, or releases the content of the first field included in the first configuration information.

For each field of the one or more fields that are included in the first configuration information and not included in the second configuration information, the terminal device may determine a requirement code corresponding to the field, and if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that does not need to be inherited, for example, the requirement code of the field is need N, the terminal device may not take a corresponding action; or, if the requirement code of the field is need R, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field. Or, if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M, for such a field, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information, that is, the terminal device does not continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information. In this way, the terminal device does not need to determine the communication version corresponding to the field, and as long as one field is included in the first configuration information and is not included in the second configuration information, and the field is a field that needs to be inherited, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information, so that the terminal device does not apply the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information any more, and may understand that the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the field.

For example, the first field includes the over-temperature configuration information, and the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M. The first field is included in the first configuration information but not in the second configuration information. The terminal device may release the contents of the first field included in the first configuration information so that the terminal device does not apply the overheating configuration information included in the first field included in the first configuration information.

The field not included in the second configuration information is likely to be a field unrecognizable by the second network device. If the terminal device inherits the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information, it is likely that the terminal device cannot normally communicate with the second network device. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device does not inherit the configuration corresponding to the field included in the first configuration information, so that the actual configuration of the terminal device is correspondingly consistent with the configuration of the terminal device understood by the second network device, and it is ensured that the terminal device can normally perform data communication under the second network device.

Or, in this embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may also determine the communication version corresponding to the field (for example, the field may include a version number, so that the terminal device may determine the communication version corresponding to one field), and then perform corresponding processing. For example, for each field of the one or more fields that are included in the first configuration information and not included in the second configuration information, the terminal device may determine a requirement code corresponding to the field, and if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that does not need to be inherited, for example, the requirement code of the field is needn, the terminal device may not take a corresponding action; or, if the requirement code of the field is need R, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the field. Or, if the requirement code corresponding to the field indicates that the field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the first field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is need M, and the communication version corresponding to the first field is the first version, for the first field, the terminal device may further determine whether the second network device can support the first version. For example, the manner in which the terminal device determines whether the second network device can support the first version may include: the method may further include determining whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version (e.g., the terminal device may determine communication versions corresponding to one or more other fields included in the second information except the first field to determine whether there is a field corresponding to the first version in the fields, if so, determine that the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version, and if not, determine that the second configuration information does not include other fields corresponding to the first version), or determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version (the determination is similar to the determination of whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version), or determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version and determine whether the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version.

If the second configuration information includes other fields corresponding to the first version, or includes other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, or includes other fields corresponding to the first version and other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, the terminal device may determine that the second network device can support the first version corresponding to the first field, and therefore the second configuration information does not include the first field, which may be that the second network device considers that the terminal device needs to continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information. Therefore, in this case, the terminal device may continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information without releasing the content of the first field included in the first configuration information. By determining the version, the terminal device may not release the content included in the field that can be supported by the second network device as much as possible, so that the configuration of the terminal device and the configuration of the second network device are kept consistent, and the terminal device is ensured to be capable of performing normal data communication under the second network device.

Or, if the second configuration information does not include other fields corresponding to the first version nor other fields corresponding to any version higher than the first version, the terminal device may not determine whether the second network device supports the first version corresponding to the first field, but if the second network device does not actually support the first version, if the terminal device continues to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information, a problem may occur in communication of the terminal device under the second network device, for example, the terminal device may not perform normal data communication with the second network device. Therefore, in this case, the terminal device may release the content of the first field included in the first field first configuration information, and no longer continue to apply the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information. By the method, the configuration of the terminal equipment is consistent with that of the second network equipment, and the terminal equipment can carry out normal data communication under the second network equipment.

For example, if the first configuration information of the terminal device in the first network device includes the overheating configuration information (e.g. other configuration (OtherConfig) -v1540 or overheating assisted configuration (overheating assistance config)), for example, the overheating configuration information is included in the first field, which is, for example, an IE. If the second configuration information received by the terminal device does not contain the first field, the terminal device may determine whether the second configuration information includes a field corresponding to the v1540 version or any other version higher than the v1540 version. If the second configuration information includes a field corresponding to the v1540 version, or includes a field corresponding to any other version higher than the v1540 version, it indicates that the second network device can support the v1540 version, or can support other versions higher than the v1540 version, the second network device can also support the first field, and at this time, the terminal device may continue to apply the overheating configuration information included in the first configuration information without releasing the content of the first field included in the first configuration information, that is, without releasing the overheating configuration information. Alternatively, if the second configuration information includes neither a field corresponding to the v1540 version nor any other version higher than the v1540 version, the terminal apparatus cannot determine the communication version of the second network apparatus nor whether the second network apparatus can support the communication version corresponding to the first field. In this case, for the sake of insurance, the terminal device may release the overheating configuration information included in the first configuration information and no longer apply the overheating configuration information.

And S58, the terminal equipment adjusts the capacity of the terminal equipment from the first capacity to the second capacity. Wherein the first capacity is lower than the second capacity.

S58 may be performed if S53 is performed and the terminal device adjusts the capability of the terminal device, or S58 need not be performed if the terminal device does not adjust the capability of the terminal device. S58 is therefore an optional step, indicated by the dashed line in fig. 5. In S53, after receiving the air interface configuration information, the terminal device may apply the air interface configuration information to reduce the air interface configuration of the terminal device. For example, before reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the second capability, and after reducing the air interface configuration, the capability of the terminal device is the first capability, and the first capability is lower than the second capability. For example, the air interface configuration information includes the number of antennas of the terminal device, before reducing the air interface configuration, if the number of antennas of the terminal device is 4, the second capability is 4 antenna capability, and after reducing the air interface configuration, if the number of antennas of the terminal device is 2, the first capability is 2 antenna capability, and thus the first capability is lower than the second capability. The first capability may be considered to be configured by the first network device to adapt to the content of the first field, or to adapt to the received over-temperature related side information of the first field. The second capability may be the maximum capability supported by the terminal device, for example, the maximum capability reported to the network by the terminal device through the UE capability information message when accessing the network, or the second capability may be any capability lower than the maximum capability supported by the terminal device and higher than the first capability. After the terminal equipment uses the reduced air interface configuration for communication, the power consumption is reduced, and the temperature of the terminal equipment is also reduced, so that the overheating problem is solved.

When the terminal device needs to be switched to the second network device, the second network device may not support the communication version corresponding to the first field, that is, the target network device cannot recognize the first field, and then the second network device cannot naturally know that the terminal device has adjusted the capability according to the first field. Therefore, the terminal device can readjust the capability of the terminal device to the second capability, so that the second network device can schedule the terminal device according to the second capability, and the probability of scheduling error caused by inconsistency between the capability of the terminal device understood by the second network device and the capability actually applied by the terminal device is reduced. For example, if the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device corresponding to the first capability is 2, and the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device corresponding to the second capability is 4, the terminal device may adjust the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that can be supported by each serving cell on each frequency band supported by the terminal device from 2 to 4.

In addition, in this embodiment of the application, the configuration mode applied by the second network device is a relay-oriented configuration mode, or an iterative configuration mode, that is, a subsequent configuration needs to be performed based on a previous configuration, for example, the second configuration information is determined based on the third configuration information of the first network device, that is, the second configuration information is not configured in a full-configuration mode. In practical application, the second network device may also adopt a full configuration (full configuration) mode, where the full configuration mode is a mode in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured. For example, if the second network device adopts a full configuration mode, after receiving the third configuration information from the third network device, if it is determined that the third configuration information includes a field that the second network device cannot recognize, the second network device may clean (e.g., discard) all the parameters (or all the fields) configured for the terminal device by the first network device, and may need to reconfigure all the fields configured for the terminal device. The method can also ensure that the terminal equipment and the second network equipment have consistent understanding on the configuration information, so that the terminal equipment can normally communicate under the second network equipment. However, in this way, since the second configuration information needs to be completely reconfigured, the amount of information included in the second configuration information may be large, and thus the transmission overhead may be large. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the configuration mode adopted by the second network device, but if the second network device adopts a full configuration mode, it is not necessary for the terminal device to execute a behavior of releasing the field that needs to be inherited.

Therefore, as an optional implementation, the second network device may send the configuration indication information to the first network device, and the first network device may receive the configuration indication information from the second network device. The configuration indication information may indicate that the second network device configures the terminal device in a full configuration mode, or indicate that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in a full configuration mode. For example, the configuration indication information may be sent to the first network device before cell handover, for example, the second network device may send the configuration indication information to the first network device before the first network device sends a handover preparation information message to the network device (as shown in S41 of the flow illustrated in fig. 4), or the second network device may send the configuration indication information to the first network device before sending the second configuration information to the terminal device, or the second network device may also send the configuration indication information together with the second configuration information. After receiving the configuration indication information, the first network device may send the configuration indication information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device can receive the configuration indication information. For example, the first network device may include the configuration indication information in an RRC reconfiguration message (S44 in the flow shown in fig. 4) to send to the terminal device. If the configuration indication information indicates that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in the full configuration mode, the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be continuously executed; and if the configuration indication information indicates that the second network device configures the terminal device in a full configuration mode, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application may not be necessarily executed. For example, if the configuration indication information indicates that the second network device configures the terminal device in a full configuration manner, after receiving the second configuration information, the terminal device may apply all or part of the configurations included in the second configuration information, and for the configuration information (e.g., the first configuration information) obtained previously from the first network device, the terminal device may discard the configuration information.

In addition, the embodiment of the present application may further continue to perform the cell handover procedure, for example, if the first network device sends the second configuration information to the terminal device through the handover command, the terminal device may continue to perform steps such as S45 in the flow shown in fig. 4.

In this embodiment, if the terminal device determines that the first configuration information from the first network device includes the first field and the first configuration information from the target network device does not include the first field, the terminal device may release the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information, that is, the terminal device does not apply the configuration corresponding to the first field received before. The second network device does not send the first field to the terminal device, possibly because the second network device cannot recognize the first field, the terminal device releases the configuration corresponding to the first field, so that the fields applied by the terminal device and the second network device are kept consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

In order to solve the same technical problem, a second method for configuring a terminal device is provided in the embodiments of the present application, please refer to fig. 6, which is a flowchart of the method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 3 as an example.

S61, the second network equipment sends the version indication information to the first network equipment, and the first network equipment receives the version indication information from the second network equipment. The version indication information may indicate a communication version of the second network device, e.g., the communication version of the second network device is the second version.

For example, S61 may be performed before cell handover is performed. For example, before the first network device sends the handover preparation information message to the second network device (S41 in the flow shown in fig. 4), the second network device may send the version indication information to the first network device.

And S62, the first network equipment determines that the second version is lower than the first version. The first version is a communication version of the first network device. For example, the first version is v1540 and the second version is v1520, or the first version is v1540, the second version is v1530, and so on.

S63, the first network equipment sends first information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the first information from the first network equipment. The first information may be used to indicate that the configuration corresponding to the first field is released. The first field is a field that needs to be inherited, for example, the first field is a field that the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the configuration information newly received by the terminal device does not include the first field, for example, the requirement code corresponding to the first field is a need M. For more explanation of the first field, reference may be made to the description relating to the embodiment shown in fig. 5.

S63 may also occur before cell handover, for example, before the first network device sends the handover preparation information message to the second network device (S41 in the flow shown in fig. 4), the first network device sends the first information to the terminal device.

A network device cannot identify fields corresponding to other communication versions that are higher than the communication version of the network device. Before cell switching, the terminal device operates under the first network device, and the first network device may send corresponding configuration information to the terminal device, for example, the first network device sends configuration information 1 to the terminal device, and the terminal device may obtain configuration information 2 according to the configuration information 1 and perform configuration according to the configuration information 2, so that normal communication with the first network device may be performed. As for the process in which the terminal device obtains the configuration information 2 from the configuration information 1, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5 (in which the name of "first configuration information" in the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5 may be replaced with "configuration information 2" here, and the name of "third configuration information" in the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5 may be replaced with "configuration information 1" here).

In the cell handover process, the first network device may also send configuration information 1 to the second network device, and the second network device may determine, according to the configuration information 1, the configuration of the second network device to the terminal device, which is referred to as configuration information 3, for example. However, the communication version of the first network device is higher than that of the second network device, and therefore, the second network device cannot recognize the field corresponding to the first version and the fields corresponding to the other versions between the first version and the second version included in the configuration information 1. For unrecognized fields, the configuration information 3 determined by the second network device does not include these fields. And there may be fields (e.g. the first field) that need to be inherited from these fields, and since the configuration information 3 from the second network device does not include such fields, the terminal device will continue to apply the configuration corresponding to such fields included in the configuration information (e.g. the configuration information 2) from the first network device. However, the configuration corresponding to such field is not supported by the second network device, and if the terminal device continues to configure the configuration corresponding to such field included in the configuration information 2, a problem may occur in communication of the terminal device under the second network device, for example, the terminal device may not perform normal data communication with the second network device.

For this reason, in this embodiment of the application, if the first network device determines that the second version is lower than the first version, the first network device may instruct, by sending the first information to the terminal device, the terminal device to release all or part of the configuration corresponding to the field that needs to be inherited (or release all or part of the content included in the field that needs to be inherited). All or part of the fields to be inherited may be fields included in the configuration information 2, that is, the first network device may instruct the terminal device to release the configuration corresponding to all or part of the fields to be inherited included in the configuration information 2. For example, the first field is one of the fields that need to be inherited in whole or in part, for example, the first field includes over-temperature configuration information, and the over-temperature configuration information may include the second indication information, or include the timing length of the prohibit timer, or include the second indication information and the timing length of the prohibit timer. Wherein the second indication information is used to indicate whether the auxiliary information related to overheating can be sent to the network device, and the terminal device cannot send the auxiliary information related to overheating to the network device during the running time of the prohibition timer. For the introduction of the overheating configuration information and the auxiliary information related to overheating, reference is made to the embodiment shown in fig. 5. The "first instruction information" in the embodiment shown in fig. 5 corresponds to the "second instruction information" herein.

As an optional implementation manner, all or part of the fields that need to be inherited may include a field corresponding to the first version, a field corresponding to another version between the first version and the second version, a field corresponding to the second version, and a field corresponding to another version lower than the second version. For example, if the second version is v1520 and the first version is v1540, the first indication information may instruct the terminal device to release the field requiring inheritance corresponding to v1540, the field requiring inheritance corresponding to v1530, the field requiring inheritance corresponding to v1520, and the field requiring inheritance corresponding to v 1510. That is, in this manner, the first network device does not determine the version corresponding to the field, and does not need to determine the specific version of the second network device, as long as the second version is lower than the first version, as long as the field that needs to be inherited and is included in the configuration information 2 is included, the first network device may also instruct the terminal device to release the field regardless of whether the second network device supports the field. In this way, the terminal device does not inherit the fields, so that the understanding of the fields by the terminal device and the second network device is consistent, and the terminal device can normally communicate under the second network device.

As another alternative, all or part of the fields that need to be inherited may include a field corresponding to the first version, a field corresponding to another version between the first version and the second version, but no field corresponding to the second version, and no field corresponding to another version lower than the second version. Because the communication version of the second network device is the second version, whether the field corresponding to the second version or the field corresponding to the other version lower than the second version is supported by the second network device, if the field is included in the configuration information and sent to the second network device by the first network device, the second network device can identify and can perform further configuration according to the field. Therefore, in this manner, the first network device needs to determine a specific version of the second network device and also needs to determine a version corresponding to the field, and the first network device only instructs the terminal device to release the field corresponding to the first version and release the fields corresponding to the other versions between the first version and the second version, or the first network device instructs the terminal device to release the fields higher than the second version but does not need to release the field corresponding to the second version and release the fields corresponding to the other versions lower than the second version. Therefore, the understanding of the second network device and the terminal device to the configuration information can be kept consistent, and the fields needing to be released by the terminal device are fewer, so that the workload of the terminal device can be reduced. And the second network device can also carry out further configuration on the unreleased fields which can be identified by the second network device, thereby being beneficial to reducing the workload of the second network device.

Wherein, the first information can have different implementation manners.

As a first optional implementation manner of the first information, the first information may be configuration information, for example, the first information may be obtained according to the configuration information 2, and the content of each field in all or part of the fields that need to be inherited in the configuration information 2 is set as the first content, so that the obtained configuration information may be the first information. The first content may indicate that the corresponding field is released. For example, if the configuration information 2 includes a first field, the first information also includes the first field, and the content of the first field is first content, where the first content is used to indicate to release the configuration corresponding to the first field, or is used to indicate to release the content of the first field, it can also be understood that the content of the first field is "release" (that is, the content of the first field is set to "release"). Then, after the terminal device receives the first information, according to the first content included in the first field, the content of the first field included in the configuration information 2 stored at the terminal device side is released, so that the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the configuration information 2 is not continuously applied.

In this embodiment, it is equivalent to that the first network device retransmits the configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate that all or part of the fields included in the release configuration information 2 need to be inherited. The indication mode is more specific for the terminal device, and the terminal device can determine which fields need to be released according to the fields included in the first information.

As a second optional implementation manner of the first information, the first information may be indication information, for example, referred to as first indication information, and the first indication information may occupy one or more bits. The first indication information may indicate that a configuration corresponding to one or more fields, for example, one of the one or more fields, is released. For example, the first indication information occupies one bit, and if the value of the one bit is "0", it indicates that the configuration corresponding to the one or more fields is released, and if the value of the one field is "1", it indicates that the configuration corresponding to the one or more fields is not released. Or, the first indication information may occupy one or more bits, and if the first network device sends the first indication information to the terminal device, it indicates to release the configuration corresponding to the one or more fields, and if the first network device does not send the first indication information to the terminal device, it indicates not to release the configuration corresponding to the one or more fields. The one or more fields are all fields that need to be inherited, and the one or more fields are all or part of fields that need to be inherited and included in the configuration information 2, that is, the first indication information is used to indicate that all or part of fields that need to be inherited and included in the configuration information 2 are released. After the terminal device receives the first indication information, the content of all or part of the fields that need to be inherited included in the configuration information 2 stored at the terminal device side can be released, so that the configuration corresponding to the fields included in the configuration information 2 is not continuously applied. For example, the field released by the terminal device includes a first field.

In this embodiment, the first network device does not need to retransmit the configuration information to the terminal device, but only needs to transmit the first indication information to the terminal device, so as to be able to indicate to release the corresponding field. Compared with the configuration information, the information amount of the first indication information is smaller, which is beneficial to saving transmission overhead.

S64, the first network equipment sends the first configuration information to the second network equipment, and correspondingly, the second network equipment receives the first configuration information from the first network equipment. For example, the first network device may send the first configuration information to the second network device included in a handover preparation information message (e.g., S41 in the flow shown in fig. 4).

For example, the first network device may obtain the first configuration information according to configuration information 2. For example, the first network device deletes all or part of the fields that need to be inherited from the configuration information 2, and the configuration information obtained thereby may be the first configuration information. These fields that the first network device deletes from the configuration information 2, that is, the fields that the first network device indicates to the terminal device that release is required. As described in S63, the field deleted by the first network device may include fields corresponding to all versions, where all versions include the first version, the second version, other versions between the first version and the second version, and other versions lower than the second version. For example, if the first network device deletes the first field from the configuration information 2, the first configuration information does not include the first field, and in this case, the first field may correspond to any one of all versions. Alternatively, the field deleted by the first network device includes only the field corresponding to the first version and the fields corresponding to the other versions between the first version and the second version, but does not include the field corresponding to the second version and does not include the fields corresponding to the other versions lower than the first version. For example, if the first network device deletes the first field from the configuration information 2, the first configuration information does not include the first field, and in this case, the first field may correspond to the second version or another version between the second version and the first version.

After the second network device obtains the first configuration information, the terminal device may be configured according to the first configuration information. Since the first configuration information does not include the fields which cannot be identified by the second network device and need to be inherited, the second network device can normally configure the terminal device. For example, the second network device may obtain the second configuration information, which may be obtained from the first configuration information, for example. For a field that needs to be inherited and can be supported by the second network device, if the second network device needs to be configured, the field may be included in the second configuration information.

S65, the second network device sends the second configuration information to the terminal device, and correspondingly, the terminal device receives the second configuration information from the second network device.

After the second network device obtains the second configuration information, the second configuration information may be sent to the terminal device, so that the terminal device may perform configuration according to the second configuration information, so that normal communication may be performed in the second network device after switching to the second network device. For example, the second network device may first send the second configuration information to the first network device, and then the first network device sends the second configuration information to the terminal device. For example, the second network device may include the second configuration information in the handover control message described as S43 in the flowchart shown in fig. 4, and send the second configuration information to the first network device, and the first network device may include the second configuration information in the RRC reconfiguration message described as S44 in the flowchart shown in fig. 4, and send the second configuration information to the terminal device.

S66, the first network equipment sends a switching command to the terminal equipment, and correspondingly, the terminal equipment receives the switching command from the first network equipment. The handover command is, for example, the RRC reconfiguration message described in S44 in the flow shown in fig. 4, and may be used to instruct the terminal device to handover to the second network device. After performing S66, steps S45 and the like in the flow shown in fig. 4 may be continuously performed, i.e., the cell handover procedure may be continuously performed.

Wherein, if the first network device can transmit the second configuration information to the terminal device in the RRC reconfiguration message as described in S44 of the flow shown in fig. 4, S66 may actually be considered to be included in S65.

In addition, in this embodiment of the present application, the configuration mode applied by the second network device is a relay-accepted configuration mode, or an iterative configuration mode, that is, the subsequent configuration needs to be performed based on the previous configuration, for example, the second configuration information is determined based on the first configuration information of the first network device, that is, the second configuration information is not configured in a full-configuration mode. In practical application, the second network device may also adopt a full configuration mode, where the full configuration mode is a mode in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are all reconfigured. With regard to the manner of full configuration, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the configuration mode adopted by the second network device, but if the second network device adopts a full configuration mode, it is not necessary for the first network device to instruct the terminal device to release the field that needs to be inherited.

Therefore, as an optional implementation, the second network device may send the configuration indication information to the first network device, and the first network device may receive the configuration indication information from the second network device. The configuration indication information may indicate that the second network device configures the terminal device in a full configuration mode, or indicate that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in a full configuration mode. As to the transmission manner of the configuration indication information, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5. After the first network device receives the configuration indication information, if the configuration indication information indicates that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in the full configuration mode, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application may be continuously executed, for example, the first network device may send the first information to the terminal device; however, if the configuration indication information indicates that the second network device configures the terminal device in the full configuration mode, it may not be necessary to execute the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, for example, the first network device does not need to send the first information to the terminal device.

The following describes an apparatus for implementing the above method in the embodiment of the present application with reference to the drawings. Therefore, the above contents can be used in the subsequent embodiments, and the repeated contents are not repeated.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 700 provided in an embodiment of the present application. Exemplarily, the communication apparatus 700 is, for example, a terminal device 700. Illustratively, the terminal device 700 is, for example, the terminal device described in the embodiment shown in fig. 5.

The terminal device 700 comprises a processing module 710 and a receiving module 730. Optionally, the terminal device 700 may further include a sending module 720. Illustratively, the terminal device 700 may be a terminal device, and may also be a chip applied in the terminal device or other combined devices, components, and the like having the functions of the terminal device. When the terminal device 700 is a terminal device, the transmitting module 720 may be a transmitter, the transmitter may include an antenna, a radio frequency circuit, and the like, the receiving module 730 may be a receiver, the receiver may include an antenna, a radio frequency circuit, and the like, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which may be called a transceiver, and the processing module 710 may be a processor (or processing circuit), such as a baseband processor, which may include one or more Central Processing Units (CPUs). When the terminal device 700 is a component having the above terminal device functions, the transmitting module 720 may be a radio frequency unit, and the receiving module may also be a radio frequency unit, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which may be a radio frequency unit, and the processing module 710 may be a processor (or a processing circuit), such as a baseband processor. When the terminal device 700 is a chip system, the transmitting module 720 may be an output interface of a chip (e.g., a baseband chip), the receiving module 730 may be an input interface of the chip (or, if the input interface and the output interface may be the same interface, the transmitting module 720 and the receiving module 730 are considered to be the same functional module, i.e., an input-output interface of the chip), and the processing module 710 may be a processor (or, a processing circuit) of the chip system, and the processor may include one or more central processing units. It is to be understood that the processing module 710 in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by a processor or a processor-related circuit component (or, a processing circuit), the receiving module 730 may be implemented by a transceiver or a transceiver-related circuit component, and the sending module 720 may be implemented by a transmitter or a transmitter-related circuit component.

For example, processing module 710 may be used to perform all operations performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, except for transceiving operations, e.g., S56-S58, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transmitting module 720 may be used to perform all of the transmitting operations performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, e.g., S52, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The receiving module 730 may be used to perform all receiving operations performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, such as S51, S53, and S55, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

In addition, the transmitting module 720 and the receiving module 730 can be a single functional module, which can perform both the transmitting operation and the receiving operation, and can be called as a transceiver module, for example, the transceiver module can be used to perform all the transmitting operation and the receiving operation performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, for example, when the transmitting operation is performed, the transceiver module can be considered as the transmitting module, and when the receiving operation is performed, the transceiver module can be considered as the receiving module; alternatively, the sending module 720 and the receiving module 730 may also be two functional modules, and the transceiver module may also be regarded as a general term for the two functional modules, where the sending module 720 is configured to complete the sending operation, for example, the sending module 720 may be configured to perform all sending operations performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, and the receiving module 730 is configured to complete the receiving operation, for example, the receiving module 730 may be configured to perform all receiving operations performed by the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5.

The processing module 710 is configured to determine first configuration information of a first network device before cell handover, where the first network device is a source network device for performing the cell handover by the terminal device 700;

a receiving module 730, configured to receive second configuration information from a second network device in the cell handover process, where the second network device is a target network device for the terminal device 700 to perform the cell handover;

a processing module 710, further configured to determine that the first configuration information includes a first field and the second configuration information does not include the first field, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device 700 needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the second configuration information received by the terminal device 700 does not include the first field;

the processing module 710 is further configured to release the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information.

As an alternative embodiment, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

As an optional implementation, the overheating configuration information includes:

the timer duration of the prohibit timer, during which the terminal device 700 is unable to send the overheating-related assistance information to the network device.

As an optional implementation, the overheating-related auxiliary information includes one or more of the following:

the maximum number of uplink secondary carriers or the maximum number of uplink secondary cells supported by the terminal device 700;

the maximum number of downlink secondary carriers or the maximum number of downlink secondary cells supported by the terminal device 700;

the maximum aggregation bandwidth of the uplink that can be supported by the terminal device 700 in each supported frequency band;

the maximum downlink aggregation bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device 700 in each supported frequency band;

the maximum number of uplink MIMO layers that the terminal device 700 can support in each supported frequency band;

the maximum number of downlink MIMO layers that the terminal device 700 can support in each supported frequency band; or,

type information of the terminal device 700.

As an optional implementation manner, the processing module 710 is further configured to determine, before releasing the first field included in the first configuration information, that a field corresponding to a first version and a field corresponding to an arbitrary version higher than the first version are not included in the second configuration information, where the first version is a communication version corresponding to the first field.

As an optional implementation manner, the processing module 710 is further configured to adjust the capability of the terminal device 700 from a first capability to a second capability, where the first capability is lower than the second capability, and the first capability is configured by the first network device for adapting the content of the first field.

For other functions that can be implemented by the terminal device 700, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 5, and details are not repeated.

Fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 800 according to an embodiment of the present application. Exemplarily, the communication apparatus 800 is, for example, a first network device 800. Illustratively, the first network device 800 is, for example, the network device described in the embodiment shown in fig. 6.

The first network device 800 includes a processing module 810 and a transmitting module 820. Optionally, the first network device 800 further includes a receiving module 830. Illustratively, the first network device 800 may be a network device (e.g., an access network device), a chip applied in the network device, or other combined devices, components, etc. having the functions of the first network device. When the first network device 800 is a network device, the transmitting module 820 may be a transmitter, the transmitter may include an antenna and radio frequency circuits, etc., the receiving module 830 may be a receiver, the receiver may include an antenna and radio frequency circuits, etc., wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which is called a transceiver, and the processing module 810 may be a processor (or processing circuits), such as a baseband processor, which may include one or more CPUs. When the first network device 800 is a component having the above-mentioned first network device function, the sending module 820 may be a radio frequency unit, and the receiving module may also be a radio frequency unit, where the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which may be a radio frequency unit, and the processing module 810 may be a processor (or a processing circuit), such as a baseband processor. When the first network device 800 is a chip system, the transmitting module 820 may be an output interface of a chip (e.g., a baseband chip), the receiving module 830 may be an input interface of the chip (or, if the input interface and the output interface may be the same interface, the transmitting module 820 and the receiving module 830 are considered to be the same functional module, i.e., an input-output interface of the chip), the processing module 810 may be a processor (or, a processing circuit) of the chip system, and the processor may include one or more central processing units. It is to be understood that the processing module 810 in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by a processor or a processor-related circuit component (or, a processing circuit), the receiving module 830 may be implemented by a transceiver or a transceiver-related circuit component, and the transmitting module 820 may be implemented by a transmitter or a transmitter-related circuit component.

For example, processing module 810 may be used to perform all operations performed by the first network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, except transceiving operations, e.g., S62, and/or other processes to support the techniques described herein. The transmitting module 820 may be used to perform all of the transmitting operations performed by the first network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, e.g., S63, S64, and S66, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The receiving module 830 may be used to perform all receiving operations performed by the first network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, e.g., S61, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

In addition, regarding the implementation of the transmitting module 820 and the receiving module 830, reference may be made to the introduction of the implementation of the transmitting module 720 and the receiving module 730.

The processing module 810 is configured to determine that a second version is lower than a first version, where the first version is a communication version of the first network device 800, the second version is a communication version corresponding to the second network device, the first network device 800 is a source network device for performing cell switching on a terminal device, and the second network device is a target network device for performing the cell switching on the terminal device;

a sending module 820, configured to send first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to a first field, where the first field is a field in which, when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field, the terminal device needs to keep content of the first field received last time;

the sending module 820 is further configured to send a handover command to the terminal device, where the handover command is used to instruct handover from the first network device 800 to the second network device.

As an optional implementation, the first field corresponds to the first version, or to other versions between the first version and the second version.

As an optional implementation manner, the first information is used to indicate to release the configuration corresponding to the first field, and includes:

As an optional implementation manner, the sending module 820 is further configured to send first configuration information to the second network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured by the first network device 800 for the terminal device, and the first configuration information does not include the first field.

As an optional embodiment, the first field includes overheating configuration information.

second indication information for indicating whether the overheating-related auxiliary information can be sent to the network device; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the type information of the terminal equipment.

As an optional implementation manner, the receiving module 830 is configured to receive version indication information from the second network device, where the version indication information is used to indicate that the communication version of the second network device is the second version.

As an optional implementation manner, the receiving module 830 is configured to receive configuration indication information from the second network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device does not configure the terminal device in a full configuration manner, and the full configuration manner is a manner in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

For other functions that can be implemented by the first network device 800, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 6, and details are not repeated.

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 900 according to an embodiment of the present application. Exemplarily, the communication apparatus 900 is, for example, the second network device 900. Illustratively, the second network device 900 is, for example, the network device described in the embodiment shown in fig. 6.

The second network device 900 includes a transmitting module 920 and a receiving module 930. Optionally, the second network device 900 further includes a processing module 910. Illustratively, the second network device 900 may be a network device (e.g., an access network device), a chip applied in the network device, or other combined devices, components, etc. having the functions of the second network device. When the second network device 900 is a network device, the transmitting module 920 may be a transmitter, the transmitter may include an antenna, a radio frequency circuit, and the like, the receiving module 930 may be a receiver, the receiver may include an antenna, a radio frequency circuit, and the like, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules, respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which may be called a transceiver, and the processing module 910 may be a processor (or processing circuit), such as a baseband processor, which may include one or more CPUs. When the second network device 900 is a component having the above-mentioned function of the second network device, the sending module 920 may be a radio frequency unit, and the receiving module may also be a radio frequency unit, where the transmitter and the receiver may be different modules respectively, or the transmitter and the receiver may be disposed in the same functional module, which may be a radio frequency unit, and the processing module 910 may be a processor (or a processing circuit), such as a baseband processor. When the second network device 900 is a chip system, the transmitting module 920 may be an output interface of a chip (e.g., a baseband chip), the receiving module 930 may be an input interface of the chip (or, if the input interface and the output interface may be the same interface, the transmitting module 920 and the receiving module 930 are considered to be the same functional module, i.e., an input-output interface of the chip), the processing module 910 may be a processor (or, a processing circuit) of the chip system, and the processor may include one or more central processing units. It should be understood that the processing module 910 in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by a processor or a processor-related circuit component (or, a processing circuit), the receiving module 930 may be implemented by a transceiver or a transceiver-related circuit component, and the sending module 920 may be implemented by a transmitter or a transmitter-related circuit component.

For example, processing module 910 may be used to perform all operations performed by the second network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, except transceiving operations, such as operations to determine second configuration information, and/or other processes to support the techniques described herein. The transmitting module 920 may be used to perform all of the transmitting operations performed by the second network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, e.g., S61 and S65, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The receiving module 930 may be configured to perform all receiving operations performed by the second network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6, e.g., S64, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

In addition, regarding the implementation manners of the transmitting module 920 and the receiving module 930, reference may be made to the introduction of the implementation manners of the transmitting module 720 and the receiving module 730.

The sending module 920 is configured to send version indication information to a first network device, where the version indication information is used to indicate a second version, and the second version is a communication version of a second network device 900;

a receiving module 930, configured to receive first configuration information from the first network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured for a terminal device by the first network device, and the first configuration information does not include a first field, the first network device is a source network device for performing cell handover for the terminal device, and the second network device 900 is a target network device for performing the cell handover for the terminal device, where the first field is a field in which, when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field, the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time.

As an optional implementation manner, the first field corresponds to a first version, or corresponds to another version between the first version and the second version, the first version is a communication version of the first network device, and the second version is lower than the first version.

second indication information for indicating whether it is possible to send overheating-related auxiliary information to the network device; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

As an optional embodiment, the overheating-related auxiliary information includes one or more of the following:

the type information of the terminal equipment.

As an optional implementation manner, the sending module 920 is further configured to send configuration indication information to the first network device, where the configuration indication information is used to indicate that the second network device 900 does not use a full configuration manner to configure the terminal device, and the full configuration manner is a manner in which all fields to be configured to the terminal device are reconfigured.

As an optional implementation manner, the sending module 920 is further configured to send second configuration information to the terminal device, where the second configuration information includes a field configured by the second network device 900 for the terminal device, and the second configuration information is obtained according to the first configuration information.

For other functions that can be implemented by the second network device 900, reference may be made to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 6, and details are not repeated.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication device, and the communication device can be terminal equipment or a circuit. The communication device may be configured to perform the actions performed by the terminal device in the above-described method embodiments.

When the communication apparatus is a terminal device, fig. 10 shows a simplified structural diagram of the terminal device. For ease of understanding and illustration, in fig. 10, the terminal device is exemplified by a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 10, the terminal device includes a processor, a memory, a radio frequency circuit, an antenna, and an input-output device. The processor is mainly used for processing communication protocols and communication data, controlling the terminal equipment, executing software programs, processing data of the software programs and the like. The memory is used primarily for storing software programs and data. The radio frequency circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing the radio frequency signals. The antenna is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, keyboards, etc., are used primarily for receiving data input by a user and for outputting data to the user. It should be noted that some kinds of terminal devices may not have input/output means.

When data needs to be sent, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent and outputs baseband signals to the radio frequency circuit, and the radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signals and sends the radio frequency signals to the outside in the form of electromagnetic waves through the antenna. When data is sent to the terminal equipment, the radio frequency circuit receives radio frequency signals through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signals into baseband signals and outputs the baseband signals to the processor, and the processor converts the baseband signals into the data and processes the data. For ease of illustration, only one memory and processor are shown in FIG. 10. In an actual end device product, there may be one or more processors and one or more memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, etc. The memory may be provided independently of the processor, or may be integrated with the processor, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In the embodiment of the present application, an antenna and a radio frequency circuit having a transceiving function may be regarded as a transceiving unit of a terminal device (the transceiving unit may be a functional unit, and the functional unit is capable of implementing a sending function and a receiving function, or the transceiving unit may also include two functional units, that is, a receiving unit capable of implementing a receiving function and a sending unit capable of implementing a sending function, respectively), and a processor having a processing function may be regarded as a processing unit of the terminal device. As shown in fig. 10, the terminal device includes a transceiving unit 1010 and a processing unit 1020. A transceiver unit may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiving device, etc. A processing unit may also be referred to as a processor, a processing board, a processing module, a processing device, or the like. Optionally, a device for implementing the receiving function in the transceiving unit 1010 may be regarded as a receiving unit, and a device for implementing the transmitting function in the transceiving unit 1010 may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiving unit 1010 includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. A transceiver unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transceiver, transceiver circuit, or the like. A receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, or receiving circuit, etc. A transmitting unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.

It should be understood that the transceiving unit 1010 may be configured to perform the transmitting operation and the receiving operation on the terminal device side in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, and the processing unit 1020 is configured to perform other operations besides the transceiving operation on the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5.

When the communication device is a chip-like device or circuit, the device may include a transceiving unit and a processing unit. The transceiving unit can be an input-output circuit and/or a communication interface; the processing unit is an integrated processor or microprocessor or integrated circuit.

When the communication device in this embodiment is a terminal device, reference may be made to the device shown in fig. 11. As an example, the device may perform functions similar to terminal device 700 in fig. 7. For example, the processing module 710 in the above embodiment may be the processor 1110 in fig. 11, and performs the corresponding functions; the sending module 720 in the above embodiment may be the sending data processor 1120 in fig. 11, and performs the corresponding functions; the receiving module 730 in the above embodiments may be the received data processor 1130 in fig. 11, and performs the corresponding functions. Although fig. 11 shows a channel encoder and a channel decoder, it is understood that these blocks are not limitative and only illustrative to the present embodiment.

Fig. 12 shows another form of the present embodiment. The processing device 1200 includes modules such as a modulation subsystem, a central processing subsystem, and peripheral subsystems. The communication device in this embodiment may serve as a modulation subsystem therein. In particular, the modulation subsystem may include a processor 1203, an interface 1204. The processor 1203 completes the functions of the processing module 710, and the interface 1204 completes the functions of the sending module 720 and the receiving module 730. As another variation, the modulation subsystem includes a memory 1206, a processor 1203, and a program stored in the memory 1206 and executable on the processor, and the processor 1203 executes the program to implement the method on the terminal device side in the above method embodiments. It should be noted that the memory 1206 may be non-volatile or volatile, and may be located inside the modulation subsystem or in the processing device 1200, as long as the memory 1206 can be connected to the processor 1203.

When the apparatus in the embodiment of the present application is a network device, the apparatus may be as shown in fig. 13. The apparatus 1300 includes one or more radio frequency units, such as a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) 1310 and one or more baseband units (BBUs) (which may also be referred to as digital units, DUs) 1320. The RRU 1310 may be referred to as a transceiver module, which may include a transmitting module and a receiving module, or may be a module capable of performing transmitting and receiving functions. The transceiving module may correspond to the transmitting module 820 and the receiving module 830 in fig. 8. Alternatively, the transceiving module may correspond to the transmitting module 920 and the receiving module 930 in fig. 9. Alternatively, the transceiver module may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, or a transceiver, etc., which may include at least one antenna 1311 and a radio frequency unit 1312. The RRU 1310 is mainly used for transceiving radio frequency signals and converting radio frequency signals into baseband signals, for example, for sending indication information to a terminal device. The BBU 1320 is mainly used for performing baseband processing, controlling a base station, and the like. The RRU 1310 and the BBU 1320 may be physically located together or physically located separately, i.e. distributed base stations.

The BBU 1320 is a control center of a base station, and may also be referred to as a processing module, and may correspond to the processing module 810 in fig. 8, or may correspond to the processing module 910 in fig. 9, and is mainly used for performing baseband processing functions, such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulating, spreading, and the like. For example, the BBU (processing module) may be configured to control the base station to perform an operation procedure related to the network device in the foregoing method embodiment, for example, to generate the foregoing indication information.

In an example, the BBU 1320 may be formed by one or more boards, and the multiple boards may collectively support a radio access network of a single access system (e.g., an LTE network), or may respectively support radio access networks of different access systems (e.g., an LTE network, a 5G network, or other networks). The BBU 1320 also includes a memory 1321 and a processor 1322. The memory 1321 is used to store the necessary instructions and data. The processor 1322 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform the operation procedure related to the network device in the above-described method embodiment. The memory 1321 and processor 1322 may serve one or more boards. That is, the memory and processor may be provided separately on each board. Multiple boards may share the same memory and processor. In addition, each single board can be provided with necessary circuits.

The embodiment of the application provides a first communication system. The first communication system may include the terminal device according to the embodiment shown in fig. 5 described above. The terminal device is, for example, terminal device 700 in fig. 7.

The embodiment of the application provides a second communication system. The second communication system may include the first network device according to the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and the second network device according to the embodiment shown in fig. 6. The first network device is, for example, the first network device 800 in fig. 8. The second network device is, for example, second network device 900 in fig. 9.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the process related to the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the flow related to the first network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the process related to the second network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product, where the computer program is used to store a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the process related to the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 5 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product, where the computer program is used to store a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the flow related to the first network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product, where the computer program is used to store a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a computer, the computer may implement the flow related to the second network device in the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and provided by the foregoing method embodiment.

It should be understood that the processor mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be a CPU, and may also be other general purpose processors, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an FPGA (field programmable gate array) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, and the like. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

It will also be appreciated that the memory referred to in the embodiments herein may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct rambus RAM (DR RAM).

It should be noted that when the processor is a general-purpose processor, a DSP, an ASIC, an FPGA or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic device, or a discrete hardware component, the memory (memory module) is integrated in the processor.

It should be noted that the memory described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not imply any order of execution, and the order of execution of the processes should be determined by their functions and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

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

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

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

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

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

The functions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium if they are implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as separate products. Based on such understanding, some of the latter of the technical solutions of the present application may be fully embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. The computer readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer. Taking this as an example but not limiting: a computer-readable medium may include a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), a universal serial bus flash disk (universal serial bus flash disk), a removable hard disk, or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer.

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

Claims

1. A method for configuring a terminal device, comprising:

before cell switching, determining first configuration information of first network equipment, wherein the first network equipment is source network equipment for performing the cell switching on terminal equipment;

receiving second configuration information from a second network device in the cell switching process, wherein the second network device is a target network device for the terminal device to perform the cell switching;

determining that the first configuration information includes a first field and the second configuration information does not include the first field, wherein the first field is a field which needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the second configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field;

and releasing the configuration corresponding to the first field included in the first configuration information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first field comprises over-temperature configuration information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the overheating configuration information comprises:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the superheat-related auxiliary information includes one or more of:

the type information of the terminal equipment.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising, before releasing the first field included in the first configuration information:

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

7. A method for configuring a terminal device, comprising:

determining that a second version is lower than a first version, wherein the first version is a communication version of first network equipment, the second version is a communication version corresponding to second network equipment, the first network equipment is source network equipment for performing cell switching on terminal equipment, and the second network equipment is target network equipment for performing the cell switching on the terminal equipment;

sending first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate to release a configuration corresponding to a first field, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep content of the first field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field;

and sending a switching command to the terminal equipment, wherein the switching command is used for indicating switching from the first network equipment to the second network equipment.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first field corresponds to the first version or to other versions between the first version and the second version.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the first information is used to indicate that the configuration corresponding to the first field is released, and includes:

10. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 9, further comprising:

11. The method of any of claims 7-10, wherein the first field comprises over-temperature configuration information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the overheating configuration information comprises:

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the superheat-related auxiliary information includes one or more of:

and the type information of the terminal equipment.

14. The method of any one of claims 7 to 13, further comprising:

15. The method of any one of claims 7 to 14, further comprising:

16. A method for configuring a terminal device, comprising:

sending version indication information to first network equipment, wherein the version indication information is used for indicating a second version, and the second version is a communication version of second network equipment;

receiving first configuration information from the first network device, where the first configuration information includes a field configured for a terminal device by the first network device, and the first configuration information does not include a first field, the first network device is a source network device for performing cell handover for the terminal device, and the first network device is a target network device for performing the cell handover for the terminal device, where the first field is a field in which the terminal device needs to keep the content of the first field received last time when the configuration information received by the terminal device does not include the first field.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first field corresponds to a first version, or other version between the first version and a second version, the first version being a communication version of the first network device, wherein the second version is lower than the first version.

18. The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein the first field comprises over-temperature configuration information.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the overheating configuration information comprises:

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the superheat-related auxiliary information includes one or more of:

the type information of the terminal equipment.

21. The method of any one of claims 16 to 20, further comprising:

22. The method of any one of claims 16 to 21, further comprising:

23. A terminal device, comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories;

and one or more computer programs, wherein the one or more computer programs are stored in the one or more memories, the one or more computer programs comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of the terminal device, cause the terminal device to perform the method of any of claims 1-6.

24. A network device, comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories;

and one or more computer programs, wherein the one or more computer programs are stored in the one or more memories, the one or more computer programs comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of the network device, cause the network device to perform the method of any of claims 7-15, or cause the network device to perform the method of any of claims 16-22.

25. A computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 6, or causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 7 to 15, or causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 16 to 22.

26. A chip comprising one or more processors and a communication interface, the one or more processors configured to read instructions to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 6, or to perform the method of any one of claims 7 to 15, or to perform the method of any one of claims 16 to 22.