CN114501625A

CN114501625A - Signal measurement method, device and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN114501625A
Application number: CN202011149150.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 傅婧; 梁靖
Original assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-10-23
Filing date: 2020-10-23
Publication date: 2022-05-13

Abstract

The application provides a signal measurement method, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment receives first information sent by network equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to configure measurement gaps, and the first information comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps; determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information; and respectively carrying out signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap. The configuration of a plurality of measuring gaps is realized, the flexibility of the configuration of the measuring gaps is improved, and the signal measuring effect is further improved.

Description

Signal measurement method, device and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a signal measurement method, apparatus, and storage medium.

Background

In a New Radio (NR) system, a mobile terminal may measure signals at different frequency points to obtain a communication signal with better quality. Since the communication between the mobile terminal and the serving cell and the measurement of the surrounding communication signals by the mobile terminal cannot be performed simultaneously, the communication service with the serving cell needs to be suspended in a configured measurement GAP (GAP) to perform signal measurement specifically.

In the related art, the configuration of the measurement gap between the network device and the mobile device is relatively single, and the configuration flexibility is not high, for example: the network device can only configure one per-UE measurement gap and cannot configure either per-FR1 measurement gap or per-FR2 measurement gap at the same time.

Therefore, the flexibility of the measurement gap configuration is still to be improved.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a signal measurement method, a signal measurement device and a storage medium, which are used for solving the problem of low flexibility of measurement gap configuration.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a signal measurement method applied to a terminal device, including:

receiving first information sent by network equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to configure the measurement gaps and comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information;

and respectively carrying out signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the plurality of measurement gaps includes at least two measurement gaps of the same type.

Optionally, the type of measurement gap includes one or more of: per-UE measurement gap, per-FR1 measurement gap, per-FR2 measurement gap.

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gaps includes duration, repetition period, and subframe offset of the measurement gaps, and according to the configuration information, determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap includes:

and determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the duration, the repetition period and the subframe offset of the plurality of measurement gaps, wherein the execution time periods comprise the starting time and the duration of the execution time periods.

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gap further includes a measurement gap advance.

Optionally, the repetition periods of the at least two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the durations of the at least two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the measurement gap advances of the at least two measurement gaps are the same.

Optionally, the first information further includes a sharing parameter, and the sharing parameter includes one or more of the following items: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset;

determining one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap according to the configuration information, including:

determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps;

the configuration information of the measurement gap includes parameters different from the shared parameters in the repetition period, the duration, the subframe offset and/or the measurement gap advance of the measurement gap.

Optionally, the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap respectively includes:

acquiring the application range of each measurement gap;

and respectively carrying out signal measurement according to the execution time period and the application range of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed according to the execution time period and the applicable range of each measurement gap, respectively, where the method includes:

for each measurement gap, signal measurement is performed on one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap during the execution time period of the measurement gap.

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed according to the execution time period and the applicable range of each measurement gap, respectively, where the method includes:

screening each measurement gap according to the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal equipment and one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to each measurement gap;

and performing signal measurement in the execution time period of each measurement gap after screening.

Optionally, the application range of the measurement gap further includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed in the execution time period of each measurement gap after the screening, including:

and performing signal measurement on one or more measurement objects in each screened measurement gap in the execution time period of each screened measurement gap.

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of the plurality of measurement gaps, and the obtaining of the application range of each measurement gap includes:

and acquiring the application range of each measurement gap from the first information.

Optionally, obtaining an application range of each measurement gap includes:

determining an application range corresponding to each measurement gap according to a preset application range, wherein the preset application range comprises one or more of the following ranges: the method comprises the steps of presetting an object to be measured, presetting subset bandwidth and current activated subset bandwidth of the terminal equipment.

Optionally, before performing signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, the method further includes:

determining whether the execution time periods of different measurement gaps are overlapped, and if so, acquiring a plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods;

and determining effective execution time periods in the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Optionally, determining an effective execution time period in the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, includes:

and among the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other, reserving the execution time period of the measurement gap with the highest priority in the measurement gaps which are respectively belonged to the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other as the effective execution time period.

determining a union of a plurality of execution time periods which coincide with each other as a valid execution time period;

and determining the measurement gaps to which the effective execution time periods belong according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Optionally, before determining an effective execution time period in the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, the method includes:

receiving second information sent by the network equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating the selected measurement gap when the execution time segments of different measurement gaps are overlapped;

determining an effective execution time period in the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively, the method comprises the following steps:

and determining the execution time segment belonging to the measurement gap indicated by the second information as a valid execution time segment in the plurality of overlapped execution time segments according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of overlapped execution time segments belong respectively.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a signal measurement method applied to a network device, the method including:

sending first information to the terminal equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to configure the measurement gaps and comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

determining one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap;

and stopping scheduling the terminal equipment in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the plurality of test gaps includes at least two test gaps of the same type.

Optionally, the type of test gap includes one or more of: per-UE test gap, per-FR1 test gap, per-FR2 test gap.

Optionally, determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap includes:

one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap are determined based on the configuration information.

Optionally, the configuration information of the multiple measurement gaps includes duration, repetition period, and subframe offset of the multiple measurement gaps, and determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information includes:

Optionally, the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps further includes a measurement gap advance.

determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps;

the configuration information of the multiple measurement gaps includes parameters different from the shared parameters in the repetition period, the duration, the subframe offset and/or the measurement gap advance of the multiple measurement gaps.

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of the plurality of measurement gaps, and the application range of the plurality of measurement gaps is used for the terminal device to perform signal measurement.

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more of the following: one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gaps and one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gaps.

Optionally, before stopping scheduling the terminal device in the execution time period of each measurement gap, the method further includes:

Optionally, the presetting of the measurement gaps selected when the execution time segments of the different measurement gaps overlap, and determining an effective execution time segment in the multiple overlapped execution time segments according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple overlapped execution time segments respectively belong, includes:

according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, determining the execution time period belonging to the preset measurement gap as an effective execution time period in the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods, wherein the preset measurement gap is a preset measurement gap selected when the execution time periods of different measurement gaps are overlapped.

Optionally, the method further includes:

and second information is sent to the terminal equipment, and the second information is used for indicating the selected measurement gap when the execution time segments of different measurement gaps coincide.

In a third aspect, the present application provides a signal measuring apparatus, applied to a terminal device, including a memory, a transceiver, and a processor:

a memory for storing a computer program;

a transceiver for transceiving data under the control of the processor;

a processor for reading the computer program in the memory and performing the following operations:

signal measurements are made according to one or more execution time periods of the measurement gaps, respectively.

Optionally, the type of the measurement gap includes one or more of the following: per-UE measurement gap, per-FR1 measurement gap, per-FR2 measurement gap.

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gaps includes duration, repetition period, and subframe offset of a plurality of measurement gaps, and determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information includes:

acquiring the application range of each measurement gap;

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, including:

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, respectively, where the method includes:

and performing signal measurement in the execution time period of the screened measurement gap.

Optionally, the application range of the measurement gap further includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed in the execution time period of the screened measurement gap, where the measurement object includes:

and performing signal measurement on one or more measurement objects of the screened measurement gaps in the execution time period of the screened measurement gaps.

Optionally, obtaining an application range of each measurement gap includes:

Optionally, before performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, the processor is further configured to perform the following operations:

Optionally, before determining a valid execution time period from the multiple mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong, the processor is further configured to:

determining an effective execution time period among a plurality of execution time periods that coincide with each other, based on measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods that coincide with each other respectively belong, including:

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a signal measurement apparatus, applied to a network device, including a memory, a transceiver, and a processor:

a memory for storing a computer program;

a transceiver for transceiving data under the control of the processor;

a processor for reading the computer program in the memory and performing the following:

determining one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap;

Optionally, determining an execution time period of each measurement gap includes:

and determining the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information.

Optionally, before the scheduling of the terminal device is stopped in the execution time period of each measurement gap, the processor is further configured to:

Optionally, the processor is further configured to perform the following operations:

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a signal measuring apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive first information sent by a network device, where the first information is used to instruct a terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

a determining unit, configured to determine one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information;

and the measuring unit is used for measuring signals according to the execution time periods of the measuring gaps.

Optionally, the measurement gaps include at least two measurement gaps of the same type.

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes a duration of the measurement gap, a repetition period, and a subframe offset, and the determining unit is specifically configured to:

a determination unit, specifically configured to:

Optionally, the measurement unit is specifically configured to: acquiring the application range of each measurement gap; and respectively carrying out signal measurement according to the execution time period and the application range of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap further includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit is specifically configured to:

and performing signal measurement on one or more measurement objects of each screened measurement gap in the execution time period of each screened measurement gap.

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of a plurality of measurement gaps, and the measurement unit is specifically configured to: and acquiring the application range of each measurement gap from the first information.

Optionally, the measurement unit is specifically configured to: determining an application range corresponding to each measurement gap according to a preset application range, wherein the preset application range comprises one or more of the following ranges: the method comprises the steps of presetting an object to be measured, presetting subset bandwidth and current activated subset bandwidth of the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the determining unit is further configured to: determining whether the execution time periods of different measurement gaps are overlapped, and if so, acquiring a plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods; and determining effective execution time periods in the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Optionally, the determining unit is specifically configured to: and among the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other, reserving the execution time period of the measurement gap with the highest priority in the measurement gaps which are respectively belonged to the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other as the effective execution time period.

Optionally, the determining unit is specifically configured to: determining a union of a plurality of execution time periods which coincide with each other as a valid execution time period; and determining the measurement gaps to which the effective execution time periods belong according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Optionally, the receiving unit is further configured to: receiving second information sent by the network equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating the selected measurement gap when the execution time segments of different measurement gaps are overlapped;

a determination unit, specifically configured to: and determining the execution time segment belonging to the measurement gap indicated by the second information as a valid execution time segment in the plurality of overlapped execution time segments according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of overlapped execution time segments belong respectively.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides a signal measuring apparatus comprising:

a sending unit, configured to send first information to a terminal device, where the first information is used to instruct the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

a determination unit for determining one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap;

and the scheduling unit is used for stopping scheduling the terminal equipment in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the determining unit is specifically configured to: and determining the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information.

a determination unit, specifically configured to: determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps;

Optionally, the signal measuring apparatus further comprises a determination unit. A determination unit configured to:

and determining an effective execution time period in the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Optionally, the determination unit is configured to, in advance, set the measurement gap selected when the execution time segments of the different measurement gaps coincide, specifically:

Optionally, the sending unit is further configured to: and second information is sent to the terminal equipment, and the second information is used for indicating the selected measurement gap when the execution time segments of different measurement gaps coincide.

In a seventh aspect, the present application provides a processor-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a processor to perform the method of the first or second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect as described above or the method of the second aspect as described above.

In a ninth aspect, the present application provides a communication system comprising a network device as described in any above and a terminal device as described in any above.

In a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for signal measurement, a terminal device receives first information sent by a network device, where the first information includes configuration information of a plurality of measurement gaps, and is used to instruct the terminal device to configure the measurement gaps. And the terminal equipment determines the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information, and performs signal measurement after the execution time period of each measurement gap is determined. Therefore, the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps is sent to the terminal equipment through the network equipment, the configuration of the plurality of measurement gaps can be realized at one time, the problems that the measurement gaps are single and the flexibility of the configuration of the measurement gaps is not enough in single configuration are solved, the timeliness of signal measurement is further improved, and the influence of the signal measurement on communication service between the network equipment and the terminal equipment is reduced.

It should be understood that what is described in the summary above is not intended to limit key or critical features of embodiments of the invention, nor is it intended to limit the scope of the invention. Other features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the present application or the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive labor.

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

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a signal measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary distribution of measurement gaps in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary distribution of measurement gaps in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a signal measurement method according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary distribution of measurement gaps in an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a signal measurement device according to another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a signal measurement device according to another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a signal measurement device according to another embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The term "and/or" in this application, describing the association relationship of the associated objects, means that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship.

In the embodiments of the present application, the term "plurality" means two or more, and other terms are similar thereto.

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

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be suitable for various systems, particularly 5G systems. For example, the applicable system may be a global system for mobile communication (GSM) system, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) system, a long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, an LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, an LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD) system, an LTE-a (long term evolution) system, a universal mobile system (universal mobile telecommunications system, UMTS), a Worldwide Interoperability for Mobile Access (WiMAX) system, a New Radio network (NR 5) system, etc. These various systems include terminal devices and network devices. The System may further include a core network portion, such as an Evolved Packet System (EPS), a 5G System (5GS), and the like.

The terminal device referred to in the embodiments of the present application may refer to a device providing voice and/or data connectivity to a user, a handheld device having a wireless connection function, or another processing device connected to a wireless modem. In different systems, the names of the terminal devices may be different, for example, in a 5G system, the terminal device may be called a User Equipment (UE). A wireless terminal device, which may be a mobile terminal device such as a mobile telephone (or "cellular" telephone) and a computer having a mobile terminal device, for example, a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted mobile device, may communicate with one or more Core Networks (CNs) via a Radio Access Network (RAN). Examples of such devices include Personal Communication Service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones, Wireless Local Loop (WLL) stations, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The wireless terminal device may also be referred to as a system, a subscriber unit (subscriber unit), a subscriber station (subscriber station), a mobile station (mobile), a remote station (remote station), an access point (access point), a remote terminal device (remote terminal), an access terminal device (access terminal), a user terminal device (user terminal), a user agent (user agent), and a user device (user device), which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The network device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a base station, and the base station may include a plurality of cells for providing services to a terminal. A base station may also be referred to as an access point, or a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminal devices, or by other names, depending on the particular application. The network device may be configured to exchange received air frames with Internet Protocol (IP) packets as a router between the wireless terminal device and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) communication network. The network device may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the network device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) or a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), may be a network device (NodeB) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), may be an evolved Node B (eNB or e-NodeB) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) System, may be a 5G Base Station (gbb) in a 5G network architecture (next evolution System), may be a Home evolved Node B (HeNB), a relay Node (relay Node), a Home Base Station (femto), a pico Base Station (pico Base Station), and the like, which are not limited in the embodiments of the present application. In some network configurations, a network device may include Centralized Unit (CU) nodes and Distributed Unit (DU) nodes, which may also be geographically separated.

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission may be performed between the network device and the terminal device by using one or more antennas, where the MIMO transmission may be Single User MIMO (SU-MIMO) or Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO). The MIMO transmission may be 2D-MIMO, 3D-MIMO, FD-MIMO, or massive-MIMO, or may be diversity transmission, precoding transmission, beamforming transmission, or the like, depending on the form and number of root antenna combinations.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario provided in an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a communication system 100, where the communication system 100 includes a network device 110 and a plurality of terminal devices 120, where the present embodiment takes 3 of the terminal devices 120 as an example. The position of the terminal device 120 may move from one cell to another cell along with the position change of the user, so the terminal device 120 needs to measure signals of different frequency points or different neighboring cells, so as to be able to switch to a frequency point (the frequency point is a number of a fixed frequency segment) or a cell with better signal quality.

Due to the limitation of the capability of a Radio Frequency (RF) module on the terminal device, the terminal device cannot simultaneously operate on multiple frequency points, and therefore, when performing signal measurement, configuration of a measurement GAP (GAP) is required. The measurement gap comprises one or more duration time periods, and on the one or more duration time periods of the measurement gap, the terminal device suspends communication with the network device of a serving cell (wherein the serving cell refers to a cell currently providing service for the terminal device), and measures communication signals of adjacent cells or communication signals of one or more frequency points.

The measurement gap in the NR system includes three types: per-UE measurement gap, per-FR1 measurement gap, per-FR2 measurement gap. The per-UE measurement gap may be applicable to all frequencies for which measurements can be made on communication signals. per-FR1 measurement gaps are suitable for measuring communication signals in Frequency Range 1(Frequency Range 1, FR1 for short), and per-FR2 measurement gaps are suitable for measuring communication signals in Frequency Range 2(Frequency Range 2, FR2 for short).

Wherein FR1 belongs to middle and low frequency, the specific range can be 450 MHz-6000 MHz, FR2 belongs to high frequency, the specific range can be 24250 MHz-52600 MHz.

In the related art, when a per-UE measurement gap is configured on the network device and the terminal device, the network device and the terminal device cannot configure a per-FR1 measurement gap and a per-FR2 measurement gap, or the network device and the terminal device can only configure one per-FR1 measurement gap and/or one per-FR2 measurement gap. If communication signals of different frequency points (or frequencies) need to be measured, the measurement gaps need to be reconfigured for many times, for example, by configuring FR1 measurement gaps for measurement of communication signals of which the frequencies satisfy FR1, if communication signals of FR2 of which the frequencies satisfy are to be measured, the network device and the terminal device need to reconfigure the measurement gaps of FR 2.

Therefore, in the configuration mode, the measurement gap configured each time is single, and the configuration of the test gap is not flexible enough, so that the workload of the network device and the interrupt device in the signal measurement process is increased, the measurement timeliness cannot be ensured, and the communication service between the network device and the terminal device is influenced.

In order to solve the above problem, embodiments of the present application provide a signal measurement method, apparatus, device, and medium. In the signal measurement method provided in the embodiment of the present application, a terminal device receives first information sent by a network device, where the first information includes configuration information of multiple measurement gaps, and is used to instruct the terminal device to configure the measurement gaps, and the terminal device determines an execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information of the multiple measurement gaps, and performs signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, by sending configuration information of a plurality of measurement gaps to the terminal device by the network device and determining the execution time period of the measurement gap according to the configuration information of the measurement gap, configuration of the plurality of measurement gaps can be implemented at one time, diversity of the configured measurement gaps is improved, flexibility of configuration of the measurement gaps is also improved, and further, timely measurement of signals is facilitated, and influence of signal measurement on communication service between the network device and the terminal device is reduced.

The method and the device provided by the embodiment of the application are based on the same application concept, and because the principles of solving the problems of the method and the device are similar, the implementation of the device and the method can be mutually referred, and repeated parts are not repeated.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a signal measurement method according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, the method of this embodiment may include:

s201, first information sent by a network device to a terminal device, where the first information is used to instruct the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps.

In this embodiment, before performing signal measurement, the network device may send first information to the terminal device, and instruct the terminal device to perform configuration of a plurality of measurement gaps, so that the terminal device performs signal measurement according to the configured plurality of measurement gaps. After receiving the first information sent by the network device, the terminal device may obtain configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps from the first information.

The configuration information of the measurement gap may include time information of the measurement gap, for example, a start time, an end time, and the like of the measurement gap.

Optionally, the plurality of measurement gaps comprises at least two measurement gaps of the same type. Therefore, the terminal equipment realizes the configuration of two or more measurement gaps of the same type, and the flexibility of the configuration of the measurement gaps is improved. For example, it is possible to measure different frequency points or different communication signals at different times, or measure communication signals of different frequency points or different cells for different measurement durations. Without requiring multiple configurations.

Further, the plurality of measurement gaps in the first information include at least two per-UE measurement gaps, at least two per-FR1 measurement gaps, or at least two per-FR2 measurement gaps, so that configuration of a plurality of measurement gaps of the same type is achieved, and measurement of communication signals of different frequency points or different cells can be achieved after one configuration.

S202, the terminal equipment determines one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information.

Wherein each measurement gap comprises one or more execution time periods.

In this embodiment, after obtaining the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps, the terminal device may determine the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the time information in the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps. For example, each execution period in the measurement gap may be determined according to a start time, an end time, the number of execution periods, and a duration of the duration period in the time information of the measurement gap.

S203, the network device determines one or more execution time periods of each test gap.

The network device may also determine the execution time period of each test gap according to the configuration information of the plurality of test gaps, and may specifically refer to the operation of the terminal device, which is not described again.

Optionally, after the terminal device determines the execution time period of each test gap, the determined execution time period of each test gap may be sent to the network device.

It should be noted that there is no restriction on the order of execution between S202 and S203.

And S204, the terminal equipment carries out signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap.

In this embodiment, after determining the execution time period of each measurement gap, the terminal device suspends communication with the network device in the execution time period of each measurement gap, and measures the surrounding communication signal. For example, the quality of the communication signal of a certain frequency point or a certain cell around the frequency point or the cell is obtained by measuring the communication signal of the certain cell around the frequency point or the cell.

And S205, the network equipment stops scheduling the terminal equipment in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

In this embodiment, after determining the execution time period of each test gap, the network device stops scheduling the terminal device, so as to avoid interrupting signal measurement of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device determines the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps indicated by the network device through the first information, performs signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, realizes flexible configuration of the plurality of measurement gaps, improves diversity and flexibility of measurement gap configuration, and further improves timeliness of signal measurement and reduces influence of the signal measurement on communication service between the terminal device and the network device.

In some embodiments, the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps in the first information comprises a duration, a repetition period, and a subframe offset of the plurality of measurement gaps. One possible implementation of S202 includes: and the terminal equipment determines one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the duration, the repetition period and the subframe offset of the plurality of measurement gaps, wherein the execution time periods comprise the starting time and the duration of the execution time periods.

The duration of the measurement gap is the duration of each execution time period in the measurement gap.

Wherein, the repetition period of the measurement gap refers to a time interval between adjacent execution time periods. The measurement gap occurs once per repetition cycle, in other words, the execution period of the measurement gap occurs once per one repetition cycle.

The subframe offset of the measurement gap is used to determine the start time of the measurement gap, that is, the start time of the first execution period of the measurement gap.

Specifically, when one or more execution time segments of each measurement gap are determined according to the duration, the repetition period, and the subframe offset of the plurality of measurement gaps, the duration of each execution time segment in the measurement gap may be determined according to the duration of the measurement gap, and the start time of the measurement gap, that is, the start time of the first execution time segment in the measurement gap, may be determined according to the subframe offset. The start times of the various execution periods in the test slot may be determined based on the start time and the repetition period of the first execution period in the test slot. And finally, the starting time and the duration of each execution time period in the test gap are obtained.

Optionally, the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps further includes a measurement gap advance. The measurement gap advance is used to indicate the advance of the subframe start position of the measurement gap, and the measurement unit is a time unit (e.g. millisecond, second).

Optionally, when the starting time of the test gap is determined, the starting frame number of the measurement gap and the starting subframe number in the starting frame number are determined according to the subframe offset, and then the starting subframe number in the starting frame number is moved forward by the subframe offset to obtain the moment where the starting subframe number is located, that is, the starting time of the test gap or the starting time of the first execution time period in the test gap.

For example, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes: a Measurement Gap Length (mgl) is equivalent to the duration of the Measurement Gap in the above description; a Measurement Gap Repetition Period (mgrp) corresponding to the Repetition Period of the Measurement Gap in the above description; a subframe offset, wherein the subframe offset may be represented as gapOffset; the gap advance is measured, where the measurement gap advance may be expressed as mgta. Therefore, the formula for determining the starting frame number of the measurement gap and the starting subframe number in the starting frame number according to the subframe offset can be exemplarily expressed as: wherein, the time of each frame is 10 seconds, each frame comprises 10 subframes, each subframe is 0.1 second, and the frame number of the frame is from 0 to 1024.

SFNmodT ═ Floor (gapOffeset/10), subframet ═ gapOffsetmod 10. Where SFN represents the start frame number, T mgrp/10, gapframe represents the subframe number, and Floor () represents the Floor function.

Optionally, the repetition periods of the at least two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the durations of the at least two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the measurement gap advances of the at least two measurement gaps are the same. Therefore, the network device can configure the measurement gap with at least two consistent repetition periods, consistent duration and/or consistent measurement gap advance through the first information, thereby improving the flexibility of measurement gap configuration.

As an example, the network device configures the terminal device with measurement gap 1 of per-UE, whose parameters are: the repetition period is 20ms, the subframe offset is 1ms, the duration is 1.5ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms; according to the calculation formula of the measurement gap, the SFN and the first subframe in which the measurement gap 1 periodically appears satisfy the following conditions: SFN mod2 ═ FLOOR (1/10), subframe ═ 1mod10 ═ 1, and the starting frame number and starting subframe number of test gap 1 are obtained.

Meanwhile, the network device configures a measurement gap 2 of per UE to the terminal device, and the parameters are as follows: the repetition period is 40ms, the subframe offset is 5ms, the duration is 3ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms; according to the calculation formula of the measurement gap, the SFN and the first subframe in which the measurement gap 2 periodically appears satisfy the following conditions: SFN mod 4 ═ FLOOR (5/10), subframe ═ 5mod10 ═ 5. The starting frame number and starting subframe number of the test gap 2 are obtained.

Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating a distribution of the measurement gaps 1 and 2. The solid line boxes in fig. 3 indicate the execution periods of the measurement gap 1, and the broken line boxes indicate the execution periods of the measurement gap 2. The first frame represents a first frame number and the second frame represents a second frame number, each frame comprising ten sub-frames.

In some embodiments, the first information comprises configuration information of a plurality of measurement gaps and a shared parameter, wherein the shared parameter comprises one or more of: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset. One possible implementation manner of S201 includes: the terminal equipment receives first information sent by the network equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to configure the measurement gaps, and the first information comprises shared parameters and configuration information of a plurality of measurement gaps. Accordingly, one possible implementation of S202 includes: and the terminal equipment determines one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps.

Specifically, if the sharing parameter is the sharing repetition period, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes the duration of the measurement gap and the subframe offset, and may further include a measurement gap advance of the measurement gap. When the execution time period of each measurement gap is determined according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps, the shared repetition period can be used as the repetition period of each measurement gap, so that the execution time periods of the measurement gaps are configured in the same shared repetition period, the network equipment is not required to configure the repetition period for each measurement gap independently, and the simplicity and the flexibility of measurement gap configuration are improved.

Specifically, if the sharing parameter is the sharing duration, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes the repetition period and the subframe offset of the measurement gap, and may further include a test gap advance of the measurement gap. When the execution time period of each measurement gap is determined according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps, the shared duration can be used as the duration of each measurement gap, so that the configuration of the measurement gaps with consistent durations is realized, the network equipment is not required to configure the duration for each measurement gap independently, and the simplicity and flexibility of the configuration of the measurement gaps are improved.

Specifically, if the shared parameter is the shared measurement gap advance, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes the duration, the repetition period, and the subframe offset of the measurement gap. When the execution time period of each measurement gap is determined according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps, the shared measurement gap lead can be used as the measurement gap lead of each measurement gap, so that the network equipment is not required to configure the duration for each measurement gap independently, and the simplicity and the flexibility of measurement gap configuration are improved.

Specifically, if the shared parameter is a shared measurement gap subframe offset, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes a duration and a repetition period of the measurement gap, and may further include a measurement gap advance of the measurement gap. When the execution time period of each measurement gap is determined according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps, the subframe offset of the shared measurement gap can be used as the subframe offset of each measurement gap, so that the network equipment is not required to independently configure the duration for each measurement gap, and the simplicity and the flexibility of measurement gap configuration are improved.

Specifically, the sharing parameter may also be any combination of a sharing repetition period, a sharing duration, a sharing measurement gap advance, and a sharing measurement gap subframe offset. If the sharing parameter includes a sharing repetition period, the configuration information of the measurement gap may not include the repetition period of the measurement gap; if the sharing parameter includes a sharing duration, the configuration information of the measurement gap may not include the duration of the measurement gap; if the shared parameter includes a shared measurement gap advance, the configuration information of the measurement gap may not include the measurement gap advance; the configuration information of the measurement gap may not include a subframe offset of the measurement gap if the shared parameter includes the shared measurement gap subframe offset.

In summary, the network device can configure the same parameter for different measurement gaps by indicating the shared parameter to the terminal device, thereby improving the simplicity and flexibility of measurement gap configuration.

As an example, taking the sharing parameter as the sharing repetition period as an example, the network device configures the sharing repetition period to be 40ms to the terminal device, and configures per-FR1 measurement gap3 and per-FR1 measurement gap 4 to the terminal device, where the configuration parameter of per-FR1 measurement gap3 is: the duration is 1.5ms, the subframe offset is 1ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms. The per-FR1 measurement gap 4 configuration parameters are: the duration is 3ms, the subframe offset is 5ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms. The measurement gap advance of the measurement gap3 is equal to that of the measurement gap 4, and the measurement gap advance can also be realized by configuring shared measurement gap advance without separate configuration.

Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating a distribution of the measurement gaps 3 and 4. The solid line boxes in fig. 4 represent the execution periods of the measurement gap3, and the broken line boxes represent the execution periods of the measurement gap 4. The first frame represents a first frame number and the second frame represents a second frame number, each frame comprising ten sub-frames.

Based on any of the above embodiments, fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart of a signal measurement method according to another embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the method of this embodiment may include:

s501, first information sent by a network device to a terminal device, where the first information is used to instruct the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps.

For specific implementation principles and processes of S501, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, which are not described again.

S502, the terminal equipment determines one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information.

For a specific implementation principle and process of S502, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, which are not described again.

S503, the network device determines one or more execution time periods of each test gap.

For specific implementation principles and processes of S503, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, which are not described again.

S504, the terminal equipment obtains the application range of each measurement gap.

Wherein, the applicable scope of the measurement gap includes one or more of the following items: one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and one or more subset Bandwidths (BWPs) corresponding to the measurement gap. The BWP is a subset bandwidth of the total bandwidth of the cell, and in the NR network, the receiving bandwidth and the sending bandwidth of the terminal equipment can be flexibly adjusted through bandwidth self-adaptation, so that the receiving bandwidth and the sending bandwidth of the terminal equipment do not need to be as large as the total bandwidth of the cell, and the power of the terminal equipment is saved.

One or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gaps may include one or more frequency points to be measured and/or cells to be measured, so as to measure signals of the frequency points and/or cells in the multiple measurement gaps.

Optionally, the first information includes application ranges of the plurality of measurement gaps, and the terminal device may obtain the application ranges of the plurality of measurement gaps from the first information. Alternatively, the network device may send the applicable ranges of the plurality of measurement gaps to the terminal device through another information.

Optionally, if the first information does not have an application range of the plurality of measurement gaps, and the network device does not send the application range of the plurality of measurement gaps to the terminal device through another information, the terminal device may determine the application range corresponding to the measurement gap according to a preset application range. Wherein, the preset application range comprises one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of presetting an object to be measured, presetting subset bandwidth and current activated subset bandwidth of the terminal equipment.

The preset object to be detected includes a preset frequency point to be detected and/or a preset cell to be detected, for example, the preset frequency point to be detected may be all frequency points, and the preset cell to be detected may be all cells in which the terminal device can detect the communication signal.

The preset subset bandwidth may be an initial subset bandwidth on the terminal device.

And S505, the terminal equipment performs signal measurement according to the execution time period and the application range of each measurement gap.

In this embodiment, the terminal device performs signal measurement on the communication signal that meets the application range of the terminal device in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, if the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, for each measurement gap, the signal measurement is performed on the one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap within the execution time period of the measurement gap. For example, the signal measurement is performed on the communication signals of one or more frequency points corresponding to the measurement gap, and/or the signal measurement is performed on the communication signals of one or more cells corresponding to the measurement gap.

As an example, the measurement object corresponding to the measurement gap 1 includes { measurement object 1, measurement object 2}, and the measurement object corresponding to the measurement gap 2 includes { measurement object 5, measurement object 7}, in which case, the terminal device performs measurement on the measurement object 1 and the measurement object 2 using the measurement gap 1, and performs measurement on the measurement object 5 and the measurement object 7 using the measurement gap 2.

Optionally, if the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, each measurement gap is screened according to the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal device and the one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to each measurement gap, and the signal measurement is performed in the execution time period of each measurement gap after screening. And screening each measurement gap according to the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal equipment and one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to each measurement gap, wherein screening the measurement gap corresponding to the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal equipment is referred to.

Illustratively, the subset bandwidth corresponding to measurement gap 1 includes { subset bandwidth 1, subset bandwidth 2, subset bandwidth 3}, and the subset bandwidth corresponding to measurement gap 2 includes { subset bandwidth 4, subset bandwidth 5 }. At this time, if the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal device is the subset bandwidth 5, the terminal device adopts the measurement gap 2, and if the subset bandwidth activated by the terminal device is the subset bandwidth 1 and the subset bandwidth 4, the terminal device can adopt the measurement gap 1 and the measurement gap 2.

S506, the network device stops scheduling the terminal device in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

For specific implementation principles and processes of S506, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, which are not described again.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device determines the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information of the measurement gaps, and performs signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap and the application range of each measurement gap, so as to realize flexible configuration of the measurement gaps, improve the diversity and flexibility of the configuration of the measurement gaps, further improve the timeliness of the signal measurement and reduce the influence of the signal measurement on the communication service between the terminal device and the network device.

Based on any of the above method embodiments, there may be a coincidence between the execution time periods of different measurement gaps, and therefore one possible way to handle the phenomenon that the execution time periods of different measurement gaps may coincide before performing signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap includes: the terminal equipment determines whether the execution time periods of different measurement gaps are overlapped, and if so, a plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods are obtained; and determining effective execution time periods in the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution time periods which are overlapped with each other belong respectively.

Specifically, after determining the execution time periods of the measurement gaps, the terminal device may compare the execution time periods of the measurement gaps to determine whether the execution time periods of the different measurement gaps overlap. For example, if one execution period of the test gap 1 is 0ms to 5ms and one execution period of the measurement gap 2 is 2ms to 10ms, the test gap 1 and the test gap 2 coincide with each other.

Specifically, if there is a phenomenon that the execution time periods of different measurement gaps overlap, it is necessary to determine an effective execution time period for two or more execution time periods that overlap with each other, so as to avoid that measurement operations in different measurement gaps collide with each other.

Optionally, when determining an effective execution time period among the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other according to the measurement slots to which the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other respectively belong, in the execution time periods that overlap with each other, the execution time period of the measurement slot with the higher priority among the measurement slots to which the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other belong may be reserved as the effective execution time period, and none of the other execution time periods that overlap with the effective execution time period is executed.

For example, the execution period t3 of the measurement gap 1 coincides with the execution period s3 of the measurement gap 2, and if the priority of the measurement gap 1 is higher than that of the measurement gap 2, the execution period t3 of the measurement gap 1 is included, and the execution period s3 of the measurement gap 2 is not executed, that is, the execution period s3 of the measurement gap 2 is determined to be an invalid execution period.

For example, the network device configures the terminal device with measurement gaps 5 and 6 for per-UE.

The configuration parameters of the measurement gap 5 are as follows: the repetition period is 20ms, the subframe offset is 1ms, the duration is 1.5ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms. According to the calculation formula of the measurement gap, the SFN and the first subframe in which the measurement gap 1 periodically appears satisfy the following conditions: SFN mod2 ═ FLOOR (1/10), subframe ═ 1mod10 ═ 1, and the starting frame number and starting subframe number of the test gap 5 are obtained.

The configuration parameters of the measurement gap 6 are as follows: the repetition period is 80ms, the subframe offset is 19ms, the duration is 3ms, and the measurement gap advance is 0 ms; according to the existing calculation formula of the measurement gap, the SFN and the first subframe of the measurement gap3 which periodically occur satisfy the following conditions: SFN mod 8 ═ FLOOR (19/10); subframe 19mod10 9, which yields the starting frame number and starting subframe number of the test gap 6

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the distribution of the measurement gaps 5 and 6. The solid line boxes in fig. 6 indicate the execution periods of the measurement gap 5, and the broken line boxes indicate the execution periods of the measurement gap 6. The first frame represents a first frame number and the second frame represents a second frame number, each frame comprising ten sub-frames. As can be seen from fig. 6, the execution period of the measurement gap 5 coincides with the execution period of the measurement gap 6.

Optionally, when determining an effective execution time period from the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other respectively belong, a union of the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other is determined as the effective execution time period, and the measurement gap to which the effective execution time period belongs is determined according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple execution time periods that overlap with each other respectively belong.

Specifically, after determining a union of multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods as an effective execution time period, according to the priority of the measurement gap, a measurement gap with the highest priority in the measurement gaps belonging to the mutually overlapped execution time periods may be determined as a measurement gap to which the effective execution time period belongs; or may receive configuration information of the network device, the configuration information being used to indicate a measurement gap selected from measurement gaps to which a plurality of execution time periods that coincide with each other belong, and determine the selected measurement gap as a measurement gap to which a valid execution time period belongs; alternatively, the terminal device may randomly select one measurement gap from measurement gaps to which a plurality of execution periods that overlap with each other belong, as a measurement gap to which an effective execution period belongs. And in the effective execution time period, performing signal measurement according to the application range of the measurement gap to which the effective execution time period belongs.

For example, the execution period t3 of the measurement gap 1 coincides with the execution period s3 of the measurement gap 2, the union of the execution period t3 and the execution period s3 may be determined as a valid execution period, and the measurement gap to which the valid execution period belongs may be determined between the test gap 1 and the test gap 2 in several ways as mentioned above.

Optionally, before determining an effective execution time period in the multiple overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, second information sent by the network device may be further received, where the second information is used to indicate a measurement gap selected when the execution time periods of different measurement gaps overlap. When the valid execution period is determined among the plurality of execution periods that overlap with each other, based on the measurement gaps to which the plurality of execution periods that overlap with each other belong, the execution period that belongs to the measurement gap indicated by the second information may be determined as the valid execution period among the plurality of execution periods that overlap with each other.

For example, the execution time period t3 of the measurement gap 1 coincides with the execution time period s3 of the measurement gap 2, and if the network device indicates, through the second information, that the measurement gap 2 is selected when the measurement gap 1 coincides with the execution time period of the measurement gap 2, the execution time period s3 of the measurement gap 2 is a valid execution time period.

In some embodiments, when the network device determines the execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information, the network device may refer to the terminal device in each embodiment to determine the implementation content of each test gap, which is not described herein again.

On the terminal side, the present application provides a signal measurement apparatus, as shown in fig. 7, the signal measurement apparatus of the present embodiment may be a terminal device, and the signal measurement apparatus may include a transceiver 701, a processor 702, and a memory 703.

A transceiver 701 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 702.

Where in fig. 7 the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, in particular one or more processors, represented by the processor 702, and various circuits of memory, represented by the memory 703, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 701 may be a plurality of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over transmission media including wireless channels, wired channels, fiber optic cables, and the like. Optionally, the signal measuring apparatus may further include a user interface 704, and for different user devices, the user interface 704 may also be an interface capable of externally connecting to a desired device, the connected device including but not limited to a keypad, a display, a speaker, a microphone, a joystick, etc.

The processor 702 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 703 may store data used by the processor 702 in performing operations.

Alternatively, the processor 702 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), and may also adopt a multi-core architecture.

The processor 702 is configured to invoke the computer program stored in the memory 703 to execute any of the methods provided by the embodiments of the present application with respect to the terminal device according to the obtained executable instructions. The processor and memory may also be physically separated.

Specifically, the processor 702, when executing the computer program stored in the memory 703, implements the following operations:

receiving first information sent by network equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to configure the measurement gaps and comprises configuration information of a plurality of measurement gaps;

and determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the sharing parameters and the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps. The configuration information of the measurement gap includes parameters different from the shared parameters in the repetition period, the duration, the subframe offset and/or the measurement gap advance of the measurement gap.

Optionally, the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap respectively includes: and obtaining the application range of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of the plurality of measurement gaps, and the obtaining of the application range of each measurement gap includes: and acquiring the application range of each measurement gap from the first information.

Optionally, obtaining an application range of each measurement gap includes:

Optionally, before performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap, the processor 702 is further configured to:

Optionally, before determining a valid execution time period from the multiple mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong, the processor 702 is further configured to:

It should be noted that, the apparatus provided in the present application can implement all the method steps implemented by the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and details of the same parts and beneficial effects as those in the method embodiment are not described herein again.

On the network side, an embodiment of the present application provides a signal measurement apparatus, as shown in fig. 8, the signal measurement apparatus of the present embodiment may be a network device, and the signal measurement apparatus includes: a transceiver 801, a processor 802, and a memory 803.

A transceiver 801 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of a processor 802.

Where in fig. 8 the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 802 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 803 being linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 801 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium including wireless channels, wired channels, fiber optic cables, and the like. The processor 802 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 803 may store data used by the processor 802 in performing operations.

The processor 802 may be a CPU, ASIC, FPGA, or CPLD, or the processor may employ a multi-core architecture.

The processor 802 may be configured to invoke a computer program stored in the memory 803 to perform any of the methods provided by the embodiments of the present application with respect to the network device according to the obtained executable instructions. The processor and memory may also be physically separated.

Specifically, the processor 802, when executing the computer program stored in the memory 803, implements the following operations:

determining one or more execution time periods for each measurement gap;

Optionally, the repetition periods of the two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the durations of the at least two measurement gaps are the same, and/or the measurement gap advances of the at least two measurement gaps are the same.

determining an execution time period of each measurement gap according to the configuration information, comprising:

determining an execution time period of each measurement gap according to the shared parameters and the configuration information of the plurality of measurement gaps;

Optionally, before the scheduling of the terminal device is stopped in the execution time period of each measurement gap, the processor 802 is further configured to:

Optionally, determining an effective execution time period in the multiple overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple overlapped execution time periods respectively belong includes:

Optionally, the processor 802 is further configured to perform the following operations:

It should be noted that, the apparatus provided in the present application can implement all the method steps implemented by the network device in the foregoing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and details of the same parts and beneficial effects as those in the method embodiment are not described herein again.

On the terminal side, an embodiment of the present application further provides a signal measurement apparatus, as shown in fig. 9, the signal measurement apparatus of the present embodiment may be a terminal device, and the signal measurement apparatus includes: a receiving unit 901, a determining unit 902 and a measuring unit 903.

A receiving unit 901, configured to receive first information sent by a network device, where the first information is used to instruct a terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

a determining unit 902, configured to determine one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information;

a measurement unit 903, configured to perform signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes a duration of the measurement gap, a repetition period, and a subframe offset, and the determining unit 902 is specifically configured to:

the determining unit 902 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

acquiring the application range of each measurement gap;

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the applicable range of the measurement gap further includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of a plurality of measurement gaps, and the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the measurement unit 903 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the determining unit 902 is further configured to:

Optionally, the determining unit 902 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the receiving unit 901 is further configured to:

the determining unit 902 is specifically configured to:

On the network side, an embodiment of the present application further provides a signal measurement apparatus, as shown in fig. 10, the signal measurement apparatus of the present embodiment may be a network device, and the signal measurement apparatus includes: transmission section 1001, determination section 1002, and scheduling section 1003.

A sending unit 1001, configured to send first information to a terminal device, where the first information is used to instruct the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information includes configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

a determining unit 1002 for determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap;

a scheduling unit 1003, configured to stop scheduling for the terminal device in the execution time period of each measurement gap.

Optionally, the determining unit 1002 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the configuration information of the measurement gap includes a duration of the measurement gap, a repetition period, and a subframe offset, and the determining unit 1002 is specifically configured to:

the determining unit 1002 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the first information further includes an application range of a plurality of measurement gaps, and the application range of the plurality of measurement gaps is used for the terminal device to perform signal measurement.

Optionally, the signal measurement device may further comprise a determination unit 1004. The determining unit 1004 is configured to:

Optionally, the determining unit 1004 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the determination unit 1004 is configured to, in advance, set the measurement gap selected when the execution time segments of different measurement gaps coincide, specifically:

Optionally, the sending unit 1001 is further configured to:

It should be noted that the division of the unit in the embodiment of the present application is schematic, and is only a logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation. 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 integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

The integrated unit, if implemented as a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a processor readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be substantially implemented or contributed by the prior art, or all or part of the technical solution may be embodied in a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

On the terminal side, an embodiment of the present application provides a processor-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and the computer program is configured to cause a processor to execute any one of the methods provided in the embodiment of the present application in relation to a terminal device. The processor is enabled to implement all the method steps implemented by the terminal device in the above method embodiment, and achieve the same technical effect, and detailed descriptions of the same parts and beneficial effects as those of the method embodiment in this embodiment are omitted here.

On the network side, an embodiment of the present application provides a processor-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored in the processor-readable storage medium, and the computer program is configured to enable a processor to execute any one of the methods provided in the embodiment of the present application with respect to a network device. The processor is enabled to implement all the method steps implemented by the network device in the foregoing method embodiment, and achieve the same technical effect, and detailed descriptions of the same parts and beneficial effects as those of the method embodiment in this embodiment are omitted here.

The processor-readable storage medium can be any available medium or data storage device that can be accessed by a processor, including, but not limited to, magnetic memory (e.g., floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tape, magneto-optical disks (MOs), etc.), optical memory (e.g., CDs, DVDs, BDs, HVDs, etc.), and semiconductor memory (e.g., ROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, non-volatile memory (NAND FLASH), Solid State Disks (SSDs)), etc.

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

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

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

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

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

Claims

1. A signal measurement method is applied to terminal equipment, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving first information sent by a network device, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

determining one or more execution time periods for each of the measurement gaps according to the configuration information;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of measurement gaps comprises at least two measurement gaps of the same type.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the type of measurement gap comprises one or more of: per-UE measurement gaps, per-FR1 measurement gaps, per-FR2 measurement gaps.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the configuration information of the measurement gaps includes duration, repetition period and subframe offset of the measurement gaps, and the determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information includes:

and determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the duration, the repetition period and the subframe offset of the measurement gaps, wherein the execution time periods comprise the starting time and the duration of the execution time period.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the configuration information of the measurement gap further comprises a measurement gap advance.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the repetition period of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same, and/or the duration of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same, and/or the measurement gap advance of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same.

7. The method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the first information further comprises sharing parameters, the sharing parameters comprising one or more of: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset;

the determining one or more execution time periods for each of the measurement gaps according to the configuration information includes:

determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the sharing parameters and the configuration information of the measurement gaps;

the configuration information of the measurement gap includes parameters different from the shared parameter in the repetition period, duration, subframe offset and/or measurement gap advance of the measurement gap.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said performing signal measurements according to the respective execution time periods of the measurement gaps comprises:

obtaining the application range of each measurement gap;

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period and the applicable range of each measurement gap comprises:

and for each measurement gap, performing signal measurement on one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap in the execution time period of the measurement gap.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the applicable range of the measurement gap comprises one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gap, and the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period and the applicable range of each measurement gap comprises:

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the applicable range of the measurement gaps further includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gaps, and the performing the signal measurement in the execution time period of each of the measurement gaps after the screening includes:

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first information further includes a coverage of the one or more measurement gaps, and wherein obtaining the coverage of each of the measurement gaps comprises:

13. The method of claim 8, wherein obtaining the applicable range for each of the measurement gaps comprises:

determining an application range corresponding to each measurement gap according to a preset application range, wherein the preset application range comprises one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of presetting an object to be measured, presetting subset bandwidth and current activated subset bandwidth of the terminal equipment.

14. The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein prior to performing signal measurements according to the time period of performance of each of the measurement gaps, further comprising:

and determining effective execution time periods in the plurality of overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of overlapped execution time periods respectively belong.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein determining a valid execution time period among the mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong comprises:

and in the plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods, reserving the execution time period of the measurement gap with the highest priority in the measurement gaps respectively belonging to the mutually overlapped execution time periods as the effective execution time period.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein determining a valid execution time period among the mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong comprises:

determining a union of the plurality of execution time periods that coincide with each other as the valid execution time period;

and determining the measurement gaps to which the effective execution time periods belong according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein before determining the valid execution time period among the plurality of mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong, the method comprises:

receiving second information sent by the network device, where the second information is used to indicate a measurement gap selected when execution time segments of different measurement gaps coincide;

the determining, according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually-overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, an effective execution time period in the multiple mutually-overlapped execution time periods includes:

and determining the execution time period belonging to the measurement gap indicated by the second information as the effective execution time period in the plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gap to which the plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong.

18. A signal measurement method applied to a network device is characterized by comprising the following steps:

sending first information to a terminal device, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal device to configure measurement gaps, and the first information comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

determining one or more execution time periods for each of the measurement gaps;

19. The method of claim 18, wherein at least two test gaps of the same type are included in the plurality of test gaps.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the type of test gap comprises one or more of: per-UE test gap, per-FR1 test gap, per-FR2 test gap.

21. The method of any of claims 18-20, wherein said determining one or more execution time periods for each of said measurement gaps comprises:

determining one or more execution time periods for each of the measurement gaps based on the configuration information.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein configuration information of the measurement gaps comprises duration, repetition period and subframe offset of the measurement gaps, and wherein determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information comprises:

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the configuration information of the measurement gap further comprises a measurement gap advance.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the repetition period of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same, and/or the duration of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same, and/or the measurement gap advance of at least two of the measurement gaps is the same.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the first information further comprises sharing parameters, and wherein the sharing parameters comprise one or more of the following: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset;

the configuration information of the measurement gaps includes parameters different from the shared parameter in the repetition period, the duration, the subframe offset and/or the measurement gap advance of the measurement gaps.

26. The method according to any of claims 18-20, wherein the first information further comprises an applicable range of the one or more measurement gaps, and wherein the applicable range of the one or more measurement gaps is used for signal measurement by the terminal device.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the applicability of the measurement gap comprises one or more of: one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gaps and one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gaps.

28. The method according to any of claims 18-20, wherein before stopping scheduling for the terminal device for each of the measurement gaps, further comprising:

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein determining a valid execution time period among the mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong comprises:

30. The method according to claim 28, wherein determining a valid execution time period among the mutually coincident execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually coincident execution time periods respectively belong comprises:

31. The method according to claim 28, wherein the presetting of the measurement gaps selected when the execution time segments of the different measurement gaps coincide with each other, and the determining of the valid execution time segment among the mutually coinciding execution time segments according to the measurement gaps to which the mutually coinciding execution time segments respectively belong, comprises:

according to the measurement gaps to which the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong, determining the execution time period belonging to a preset measurement gap as the effective execution time period in the multiple mutually overlapped execution time periods, wherein the preset measurement gap is a preset measurement gap selected when the execution time periods of different measurement gaps are overlapped.

32. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

and second information is sent to the terminal device, and the second information is used for indicating the selected measurement gap when the execution time segments of the different measurement gaps coincide.

33. A signal measurement device, applied to a terminal device, comprising a memory, a transceiver, and a processor:

the memory for storing a computer program;

the transceiver is used for transceiving data under the control of the processor;

the processor is used for reading the computer program in the memory and executing the following operations:

34. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein at least two measurement gaps of the same type are included in the plurality of measurement gaps.

35. The apparatus of claim 33 or 34, wherein the configuration information of the measurement gaps comprises duration, repetition period and subframe offset of the measurement gaps, and wherein the determining one or more execution time periods of each measurement gap according to the configuration information comprises:

36. The apparatus of claim 33 or 34, wherein the first information further comprises sharing parameters, and wherein the sharing parameters comprise one or more of: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset;

37. The apparatus of claim 33 or 34, wherein said performing signal measurements according to the respective performance periods of the measurement gaps comprises:

obtaining the application range of each measurement gap;

38. The apparatus according to claim 37, wherein the applicable range of the measurement gap includes one or more measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap, and the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap includes:

39. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the applicable range of the measurement gaps comprises one or more subset bandwidths corresponding to the measurement gaps, and the performing the signal measurement according to the execution time period of each measurement gap comprises:

40. The apparatus of claim 33 or 34, wherein the processor is further configured to, prior to performing the signal measurement according to the performance time period of each of the measurement gaps:

and determining effective execution time periods in the plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods according to the measurement gaps to which the plurality of mutually overlapped execution time periods respectively belong.

41. An information measuring device, applied to a network device, includes a memory, a transceiver, and a processor:

the memory for storing a computer program;

sending first information to a terminal device, wherein the first information is used for indicating the terminal device to configure a measurement gap, and the first information comprises configuration information of one or more measurement gaps;

determining one or an execution time period for each of the measurement gaps;

42. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein at least two test gaps of the same type are included in the plurality of test gaps.

43. The apparatus of claim 41 or 42, wherein said determining one or more execution time periods for each of said measurement gaps comprises:

44. The apparatus of claim 43, wherein configuration information of the measurement gaps comprises duration, repetition period and subframe offset of the measurement gaps, and wherein determining one or more execution time periods for each of the measurement gaps according to the configuration information comprises:

45. The apparatus of claim 43, wherein the first information further comprises sharing parameters, and wherein the sharing parameters comprise one or more of: sharing repetition period, sharing duration, sharing measurement gap lead, sharing measurement gap subframe offset;

46. The apparatus of claim 41 or 42, wherein before stopping scheduling for the terminal device for the execution time period of each measurement gap, the processor is further configured to:

47. A signal measurement device, the device comprising:

and the measuring unit is used for measuring signals according to the execution time period of each measuring gap.

48. A signal measurement device, the device comprising:

a determination unit configured to determine one or more execution periods for each of the measurement gaps;

49. A processor-readable storage medium, characterized in that the processor-readable storage medium stores a computer program for causing a processor to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 17 or the method of any of claims 18 to 32.