CN114521012A

CN114521012A - Positioning method, positioning device, terminal equipment, base station and position management server

Info

Publication number: CN114521012A
Application number: CN202011296397.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 庄子荀; 王园园; 司晔; 邬华明
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-18
Filing date: 2020-11-18
Publication date: 2022-05-20
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-18
Also published as: CN114521012B; WO2022105756A1

Abstract

The application discloses a positioning method, a positioning device, terminal equipment, a base station and a position management server, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The positioning method executed by the terminal equipment comprises the following steps: sending first information to a network side device, wherein the first information comprises at least two items of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; and/or receiving second information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information; wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information. According to the LOS/NLOS positioning method and device, the terminal equipment and/or the base station are used for reporting the relevant information identified by the LOS/NLOS, the LOS/NLOS is distinguished through the characteristics of the LOS and the NLOS in a simultaneous mode, the accuracy can be higher, and the positioning accuracy is higher.

Description

Positioning method, positioning device, terminal equipment, base station and position management server

Technical Field

The present application belongs to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a positioning method, apparatus, terminal, base station, and location management server.

Background

In a wireless communication network, efficient positioning is generally achieved based on a Transmission-Reception Point (TRP) of a base station. However, in the process of implementing the present application, the inventor finds that when there are many NLOS links in the network, the performance of positioning is affected more seriously, and the positioning accuracy is lower.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a positioning method, a positioning device, terminal equipment, a base station and a position management server, and can solve the problem of low positioning accuracy in the prior art.

In a first aspect, a positioning method is provided, which is executed by a terminal device, and includes:

sending first information to a network side device, wherein the first information comprises at least two items of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

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

receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information;

wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information.

In a second aspect, there is provided a positioning device comprising:

a first sending module, configured to send first information to a network side device, where the first information includes at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

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

a first receiving module, configured to receive second information sent by the network side device, where the second information includes first threshold information;

In a third aspect, a positioning method performed by a base station is provided, and the method includes:

transmitting eighth information to a location management server LMF, the eighth information including at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information;

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

receiving ninth information, wherein the ninth information comprises third threshold information;

wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a positioning device comprising:

a third sending module, configured to send eighth information to the location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information, and the following information includes: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information;

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

a third receiving module, configured to receive ninth information, where the ninth information includes third threshold information;

wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to determine position information.

In a fifth aspect, a positioning method is provided, performed by a location management server LMF, the method comprising at least one of the following steps, the steps comprising:

receiving first information reported by a terminal device, wherein the first information comprises at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

issuing second information to the terminal equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold value information;

receiving eighth information reported by a base station, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information;

issuing ninth information to the base station, wherein the ninth information comprises third threshold information;

wherein the first information, the second information, the eighth information, and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

In a sixth aspect, a positioning device is provided, which includes at least one of the following modules:

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive first information reported by a terminal device, where the first information is determined by the terminal device, and the first information includes at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

a fifth sending module, configured to issue second information to the terminal device, where the second information includes first threshold information;

a sixth receiving module, configured to receive eighth information reported by a base station, where the eighth information is determined by the base station, and the eighth information includes at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information;

a sixth sending module, configured to issue ninth information to the base station, where the ninth information includes third threshold information;

In a seventh aspect, a terminal device is provided, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory and executable on the processor, and when the program or the instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the positioning method according to the first aspect are implemented.

In an eighth aspect, there is provided a base station comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the positioning method according to the third aspect.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a location management server LMF comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the positioning method according to the fifth aspect.

A tenth aspect provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method for transmitting user information according to the first aspect, the third aspect or the fifth aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, a chip is provided, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or instructions of a terminal to implement the steps of the method for sending user information according to the first aspect, the third aspect, or the fifth aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal equipment and/or the base station report the relevant information of LOS/NLOS identification, and LOS/NLOS is distinguished by simultaneously establishing various characteristics of LOS and NLOS, so that higher accuracy can be achieved, and the positioning precision is higher.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable;

fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a second schematic flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a third schematic flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application

Fig. 5 is a fourth schematic flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a fifth flowchart illustrating a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a sixth schematic flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic physical structure diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal device for implementing an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a network-side device for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

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 some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. 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 terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application can be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and the terms "first" and "second" used herein generally do not denote any order, nor do they denote any order, for example, the first object may be one or more. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and the claims means at least one of connected objects, and a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

It is noted that the technology described in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to the Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE Evolution (LTE-a) system or the New Radio (NR) system, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described techniques can be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as for other systems and radio technologies. However, the following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for purposes of example, and the NR terminology is used in much of the description below, and the techniques may also be applied to applications other than NR system applications, such as 6th Generation (6G) communication systems.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal apparatus 101 and a network-side apparatus 102. Wherein, the terminal Device 101 may also be called a terminal, a receiving end or a User Equipment (UE), the terminal Device 101 may be a Mobile phone, a Tablet Personal Computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop Computer (Laptop Computer) or a notebook Computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a palmtop Computer, a netbook, an ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC), a Mobile Internet Device (MID) or a vehicle-mounted Device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), and other terminal side devices, and the wearable Device includes: bracelets, earphones, glasses and the like. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal device 101 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network-side device 102 may be a Base Station 1021 or a location management server LMF1022, where the Base Station 1021 may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B, an access Point, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a radio Base Station, a radio Transceiver, a Basic Service Set (BSS), an Extended Service Set (ESS), a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a WLAN access Point, a WiFi node, a Transmission Receiving Point (TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the field, and the Base Station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary as long as the same technical effect is achieved. The Location Management server LMF1022 may also be referred to as a Location Management Function (LMF), and is a network side device in the network for positioning, an LPP protocol is used between the LMF and the UE, and an NRPPa protocol is used between the LMF and the base station. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

The following describes in detail a method, an apparatus, and a terminal for sending user information according to embodiments of the present application through specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The application provides a positioning method, which can be applied to terminal equipment and comprises the following steps:

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

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, when the terminal device is used for positioning, the positioning may be implemented by executing at least one of the two steps, and specifically, any one of the following processing manners may be executed:

first, as shown in fig. 2, which is one of the flow diagrams of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may send first information to the network side device, so that the network side device may perform positioning calculation according to the first information to determine the location information.

Secondly, as shown in fig. 3, for the second flow diagram of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may receive the second information from the network side device, so that the terminal device may identify LOS/NLOS state information and the like according to the second information by combining with its own measurement information, and further perform position calculation by the terminal or the network side device according to the LOS/NLOS state information to determine the position information.

Third, as shown in fig. 4, for the third flow diagram of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may receive second information from the network-side device, and identify LOS/NLOS state information according to the second information by combining with its own measurement information, and at the same time, the terminal device sends first information to the network-side device, so that the network-side device may identify LOS/NLOS state information according to the first information, and then the network-side device performs position resolution by combining with the LOS/NLOS state information identified by the terminal device and the LOS/NLOS state information identified by the network-side device, and determines the position information.

Optionally, before sending the first information and/or receiving the second information, the terminal device of the embodiment of the present application may further perform capability communication with the network-side device, where the capability includes whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

The network side device may be a base station or a location management server LMF. When the terminal device reports the first information to the LMF, the LMF may directly perform identification operation according to the first information. When the terminal device reports the first information to the base station, the base station may perform identification operation according to the first information, or may forward the first information to the LMF, and the LMF performs identification operation.

The first information is measurement information determined by the terminal device, and the first information needs to include any combination of at least two items of first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information determined by the terminal device. That is, the first frequency domain measurement information and the first time domain measurement information, or the first frequency domain measurement information and the first spatial domain measurement information, or the first spatial domain measurement information and the first time domain measurement information, or the first frequency domain measurement information, the first time domain measurement information, and the first spatial domain measurement information are required to be included. It should be understood that the "first" is only used for distinguishing the measurement information of the terminal device, and has no substantial limiting effect.

The second information is information determined by the network-side device, and the information includes threshold information for LOS/NLOS state identification, which may be referred to as first threshold information. When receiving the second information, the terminal equipment can analyze the data and output first threshold information, and then determines LOS/NLOS state information by comparing the relation between the self-measurement information and the first threshold information.

It should be understood that, the first information and the second information are key information for performing location determination, and LOS/NLOS state information identification can be achieved by reporting the first information to the network side device by the terminal device or receiving the second information issued by the network side device by the terminal device, and location information determination is further achieved.

According to the method and the device, the terminal equipment and/or the base station are used for reporting the relevant information identified by the LOS/NLOS, the LOS/NLOS is distinguished through the characteristics of the LOS and the NLOS, the accuracy can be higher, and the positioning precision is higher.

Optionally, the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information:

frequency domain channel energy or power values;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

the difference between the maximum and minimum values of the frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Specifically, the first frequency domain measurement information of the first information sent by the terminal device to the network side device may include one or any combination of any more of all the frequency domain information listed above, which is information determined by the terminal device through measurement. It is to be understood that the above frequency domain information may also be referred to as first frequency domain information for the sake of distinction. For example, the frequency domain channel energy value or power value may be referred to as a first energy value or a first power value of the frequency domain channel. In addition, the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power represents the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the maximum value of the frequency domain channel power, the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power represents the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the minimum value of the frequency domain channel power, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. Also for example, the energy or power value of the frequency domain channel may be represented as an energy or power value of all subcarriers of the frequency domain channel, or a subcarrier-power/energy spectrum of the frequency domain channel, wherein the subcarrier-power/energy spectrum includes but is not limited to a picture, a function or a quantized form.

Optionally, the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

the ratio of the power value of the first path or the reference path to the power value of the median path, or the ratio of the energy value of the first path or the reference path to the energy value of the median path;

the difference value of the power value of the middle diameter and the power value of the first diameter or the reference diameter, or the difference value of the energy value of the middle diameter and the energy value of the first diameter or the reference diameter;

the ratio of the power value of the first path or the reference path to the power value of the additional path, or the ratio of the energy value of the first path or the reference path to the energy value of the additional path;

the difference value of the power value of the additional path and the power value of the first path or the reference path, or the difference value of the energy value of the additional path and the energy value of the first path or the reference path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

Specifically, the first time domain measurement information of the first information sent by the terminal device to the network side device may include one or any combination of any more of all the above listed time domain information, which is information determined by the terminal device through measurement. It is to be understood that the time domain information may also be referred to as first time domain information for the sake of distinction. For example, the indication information of the median path may be referred to as first indication information of the median path, where the indication information may be time domain information indicating whether other first time domain information is the median path, or may be a relative value (such as a difference or a ratio) of other first time domain information indicating the median path and the reference path. In addition, the reference path is a path reported as a reference, and may be a first path or other paths. In addition, the power value or energy value of the median path represents the first power value of the median path or the first energy value of the median path, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. In addition, the additional path is an additional path other than the reference path or the leading path.

Optionally, the first spatial domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first spatial domain measurement information includes at least one of the following spatial domain information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

power or energy information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

maximum value of power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

the minimum value of the power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

reference value of power or energy of first path or reference path on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

the first path power or reference path rate or reference range value of energy on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

the maximum value of the phase of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the minimum value of the phases of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

reference values of the phases of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the phases of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

reference range values of first path or reference path phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of additional paths on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

maximum value of power or energy of additional path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

minimum value of power or energy of additional path on the antenna element in the same polarization direction;

reference value of power or energy of additional path on the antenna element with same polarization direction;

the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power or energy of the additional path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

the reference range value of the power or energy of the additional path on the antenna element in the same polarization direction;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

adding phase information of the paths on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

maximum values of additional radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

adding minimum values of radial phases to the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

adding reference values of radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the additional radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

adding reference range values of radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the first characteristic of the power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

the second characteristic of the phase of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

a first characteristic of power or energy of each additional path on antenna elements of the same polarization direction;

and a second characteristic of each additional radial phase on the antenna elements with different polarization directions.

Specifically, the first spatial domain measurement information of the first information sent by the terminal device to the network side device may include one or any combination of any more of all the spatial domain information listed above, where the spatial domain information is information determined by measurement of the terminal device. It is to be understood that the spatial information may be referred to as first spatial information for the sake of distinction. For example, the polarization information of the antenna element may be referred to as first polarization information of the antenna element.

In addition, the power or energy information of the first path on the antenna element represents the first power information of the first path on the antenna element or the first energy information of the first path on the antenna element; the maximum value of the first path power or energy on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction represents a first maximum value of the first path power on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction or a second maximum value of the first path energy on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and the other listed frequency domain information is similar.

In addition, the reference path is a path reported as a reference, and may be a first path or other paths. The additional path is an additional path other than the reference path or the leading path.

Optionally, the first information is sent in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

location information.

Specifically, when the terminal device transmits the first information to the network side, the first information is included in the measurement information field or the location information field of the terminal device, and may be transmitted by being included in both the measurement information field and the location information field. It should be understood that in the downlink positioning process, when the UE performs the location measurement, the UE reports the positioning information, which includes two fields, namely, measurement information (SignalMeasurementInformation) and location information (LocationInformation).

Optionally, the first information is further associated with at least one of the following information:

sending TRP information of a receiving point by a reference signal corresponding to the first information;

reference signal terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the first information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the first information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

receive-transmit time difference information Rx-Tx timing difference corresponding to the first information.

Specifically, the first information of the embodiment of the present application may be further associated with other related measurement information, where the related measurement information includes Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) information, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information, Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information, beam information, and receive-transmit Time Difference (Rx-Tx timing Difference) information. It should be understood that when the first information is associated with such relevant measurement information, it may be associated with any one or any plurality thereof.

The association may be a corresponding relationship between the first information and the corresponding measurement information, for example, one RSTD and the corresponding first information are a group of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain, or indicated by the indication information.

Wherein, the correspondence refers to corresponding to the same measurement object, for example, RSTD and first information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, the RSRP and the first information measured by the same downlink positioning reference signal resource set.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further includes: sending second threshold information to the network side device, where the second threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

relative power reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or the reference path, or relative energy reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or the reference path;

relative power range threshold information of the median path and the first path or the reference path, or relative energy range threshold information of the median path and the first path or the reference path;

relative power reference threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path, or relative energy reference threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path;

relative power range threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path, or relative energy range threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power reference threshold information or energy reference threshold information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, on the basis of reporting the first information to the network side device, the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may further send threshold information for information identification operation, which may be referred to as second threshold information, to the network side device, so that the network side device may perform operation in combination with the second threshold information when performing information identification according to the first information. That is, the identification operation is performed in the network side device by combining the first information and the second threshold information to obtain the LOS/NLOS state information, and further position calculation can be performed according to the LOS/NLOS state information to determine the position information.

The second threshold information may include one or any combination of any more of all the threshold information listed above, and these threshold information are information determined by the terminal device configuration. It is to be understood that the above threshold information may also be referred to as second threshold information for the sake of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy second reference threshold information, which represents the frequency domain power second reference threshold information or the frequency domain energy second reference threshold information; the relative power reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or the relative energy reference threshold information of the median path and the first path may be referred to as second relative power reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or second relative energy reference threshold information of the median path and the first path, and the other threshold information listed above is similar. Wherein, the reference threshold information refers to the maximum threshold information, or the minimum threshold information, or the reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative range information in the embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, before sending the first information to the network side device, the positioning method according to the embodiment of the present application further includes: and receiving first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information.

Specifically, before the terminal device sends the first information to the network-side device for positioning, the network-side device may configure information that the terminal device needs to report to the network-side device by issuing request information to the terminal device, where the request may be referred to as first request information, and the information that needs to be reported corresponds to the first information. Wherein the first information includes at least two of first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information, and first spatial domain measurement information. The first frequency domain measurement information, the first time domain measurement information, and the first spatial domain measurement information are all information determined by the terminal device.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further includes:

receiving third information issued by a location management server LMF, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information comprises at least one of the following information:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

receiving fourth information issued by a base station, wherein the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information includes at least one of the following:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, on the basis of the above embodiments, the embodiment of the present application may further receive a LOS/NLOS state identification result issued by the network side, that is, the base station and the LMF may perform LOS/NLOS state identification operation, respectively, to obtain a LOS/NLOS state identification result. The LOS/NLOS state information indicates whether the TRP or the measurement information corresponds to LOS or NLOS, and the LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability indicates the accuracy or correct rate of the LOS/NLOS state information. The network side device includes a base station and/or an LMF, that is, the identification information received by the terminal device may be issued by the LMF, may also be issued by the base station, and may also include that the base station and the LMF are issued respectively at the same time.

For the sake of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as third information, and the identification information from the base station is referred to as fourth information. Wherein the identification information contained in the third information and the fourth information each include at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. It should be understood, however, that the identification information from the LMF and the identification information from the base station are determined by the LMF and the base station, respectively, and thus may be the same or different, and for ease of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as first LOS/NLOS status information and first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information from the base station is referred to as second LOS/NLOS status information and second LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

It can be understood that the third information sent by the management server LMF is determined by the management server LMF, and may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the second threshold information, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station and the fourth threshold information, or may be determined based on the fifth information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the fourth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the eighth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the fourth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the second threshold information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal in combination with fifth information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal in combination with fourth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station in combination with fifth information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station in combination with fourth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station and the fourth threshold information in combination with eighth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station and the fourth threshold information in combination with fifth information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the fifth information reported by the terminal in combination with fourth information reported by the base station, the first information reported by the terminal may be determined by combining the eighth information reported by the base station with the fifth information reported by the terminal, the first information reported by the terminal may be determined by combining the eighth information reported by the base station with the fourth information reported by the base station, the first information reported by the terminal may be determined by combining the eighth information reported by the base station with the fifth information reported by the terminal with the fourth information reported by the base station, and this is not particularly limited in this application.

It can be understood that the fourth information sent by the base station is determined by the base station, and may be determined based on the combination of the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information, or based on the combination of the self-measurement information and the third threshold information, or based on the combination of the self-energy information and the tenth information sent by the LMF, or based on the third information sent by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the third information sent by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information and the third threshold information and/or the third information sent by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the combination of the self-measurement information and the tenth information sent by the LMF and the third information sent by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, the determination may also be based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, and tenth information delivered by the LMF, or based on the self-measurement information in combination with the third threshold information and tenth information delivered by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, and the third threshold information, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the third threshold information, and the tenth information delivered by the LMF, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the third information delivered by the LMF, and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the tenth information delivered by the LMF, the third information delivered by the LMF, and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information, the third threshold information, the tenth information delivered by the LMF, and the third information delivered by the LMF The information and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device are determined, which is not specifically limited in this application.

Optionally, the third information or the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information.

Specifically, similarly to the case of the first information in the above-described embodiment, the third information or the fourth information may also be associated with the above-listed information. It should be understood that the third information or the fourth information should have a corresponding relationship with the above listed information.

The association may be a corresponding relationship between the third information or the fourth information and the corresponding measurement information, for example, one RSTD and the corresponding third information or fourth information form a group of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain, or indicated by the indication information.

Wherein, the correspondence refers to corresponding to the same object, for example, RSTD and third information or fourth information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, the third information or the fourth information of the same transmission reception point TRP.

Optionally, the first threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, the terminal device according to the embodiment of the present application may receive threshold information for information identification operation from the network-side device, that is, the first threshold information, so that the terminal device may perform identification operation by combining the first threshold information and its own measurement information to obtain LOS/NLOS state information.

The first threshold information may include one or any combination of any more of all the threshold information listed above, where the threshold information is determined by the configuration of the network side device, and the network side device may be an LMF or a base station. It is to be understood that the above threshold information may also be referred to as first threshold information for the sake of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy first reference threshold information, which represents the frequency domain power first reference threshold information or the frequency domain energy first reference threshold information. Other threshold information listed above is similar. Wherein, the reference threshold information refers to the maximum threshold information, or the minimum threshold information, or the reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative range information in the embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by a location management server LMF or a base station.

It can be understood that the first threshold information is issued by the network-side device to the terminal device so that the terminal device can perform the identification operation according to the first threshold information, and thus the first threshold information can be obtained by configuring or reconfiguring the network-side device. The network side device may be an LMF or a base station, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by at least one of the following configuration manners, where the following configuration manners include:

unicast is carried out through an LPP protocol;

broadcast via posSIBs carried in RRC system information messages.

Specifically, when the network side configures or reconfigures the first threshold information, the configuration may be performed in any one of the above configuration manners, or the configuration result may be optimized by combining the two configuration manners, so as to obtain the final first threshold information, and then the final first threshold information is sent to the terminal device.

Optionally, the terminal device of the embodiment of the present application may further send second request information to a network side device, where the second request information is used to request the network side device for the first threshold information. That is, when the terminal device needs to perform the identification operation, the terminal device may perform the identification operation by itself according to the self-measurement information, or may request the network-side device for threshold information used for the identification operation, that is, first threshold information, and then perform the identification operation according to the first threshold information in combination with the self-measurement information.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further includes: receiving sixth information issued by the network side device, where the sixth information includes at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the network side device may be further configured to send, to the terminal device, operation model information for determining the operation of the location information, where the operation model information is included in the delivered information, and the delivered information is referred to as sixth information. These pieces of operation model information include at least one of the pieces of model information listed above, that is, one of them, or any combination of any plurality of them.

Wherein, the error model information includes but is not limited to: at least one of position error compensation information, measurement error compensation information, device error compensation information, and parameter adjustment information. Therefore, error compensation can be performed on the first information, the positioning result, the measurement result and the error or parameter error caused by the equipment based on the error model information, so that the reported first information or LOS/NLOS identification information is more accurate.

Wherein, the preprocessing model information includes but is not limited to at least one of the following: filter parameters or models; convolutional layer parameters or models; pooling layer parameters or models; discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Transform parameters or models; wavelet transform parameters or models; parameters or models of impulse channel processing methods; parameters or models of waveform processing methods; parameters or models of signal correlation sequence processing methods. The model can refer to a function model, a network model, a down-sampling model, an imaging model and the like; the parameters may refer to weight, step size, mean, variance, etc. Therefore, the first information, the positioning result or the measurement result can be processed based on the preprocessing model information, so that the occupied reporting resource is less.

Wherein, the machine learning model information includes but is not limited to: parameters of machine learning or neural networks or deep neural network models and machine learning or neural networks or deep neural network models are commonly used. Wherein, the common machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model includes but is not limited to: convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), such as google net, AlexNet, etc.; recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long-Short Term Memory networks (LSTM); a recursive tensor neural network RNTN; generating a countermeasure network (GAN); deep Belief Networks (DBN); restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and the like. The parameters of the machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model include, but are not limited to, weight, step size, mean, variance, and the like. As such, at least one of the following information may be determined based on the machine learning model information: LOS/NLOS identification information, first information, location information, measurement information, processed first information, and processed measurement information.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further includes: sending fifth information to the network side device, where the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information includes at least one of the following:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may report the identification result to the network side device based on the operations in the foregoing embodiments, and may encapsulate the information to be reported when reporting is performed, where the encapsulated result may be referred to as fifth information. The fifth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information is determined by the operation of the terminal equipment. For the sake of distinction, this identification information is referred to as third LOS/NLOS status information and third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. The fifth information may be reported through at least one of the location information or the measurement information.

It can be understood that, when the terminal device determines the fifth information, the fifth information may be determined based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information, or based on the self-measurement information and the sixth information issued by the network side, or based on the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information and the first threshold information and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the sixth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the first threshold value information and the sixth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold value information and the first threshold value information, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold value information, the first threshold value information and the sixth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold value information, the first threshold value information, the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold value information, the sixth information issued by the network side, the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the first threshold value information, the sixth information issued by the network side, the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, this is not a particular limitation of the present application.

Optionally, the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the fifth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the fifth information.

Specifically, similarly to the case of the first information in the above-described embodiment, the fifth information may also be associated with the above-listed information. It should be understood that the fifth information should have a corresponding relationship with the information listed above.

Further, the positioning method in the embodiment of the present application further includes: receiving seventh information issued by the network side device, where the seventh information includes at least one of the following:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

Specifically, on the basis of the foregoing embodiments, the present application may further receive positioning assistance data sent by the network side, where the positioning assistance data may be encapsulated into information, which may be referred to as seventh information. The seventh information includes one or any combination of any more of the above listed information, and the present application is not particularly limited. Wherein the TRP set and resource set are sets related to LOS/NLOS identification, and the TRP priority and resource set priority are priorities related to LOS/NLOS identification.

The seventh information may be determined by the network-side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the first information, may be determined after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the eighth information, may be determined after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the first information and the eighth information, may be determined based on the fifth information and/or the fourth information, may be determined based on the first information and the fifth information, may be determined based on the first information and the fourth information, may be determined based on the eighth information and the fifth information, may be determined based on the eighth information and the fourth information, may be determined based on the first information, the eighth information, the fifth information, the first information, the eighth information, the fourth information, or may be determined based on the first information, the eighth information, the fifth information, and the fourth information, this is not a particular limitation of the present application.

In the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be a positioning device, or a control module in the positioning device for executing the positioning method. In the embodiment of the present application, a positioning device executing a positioning method is taken as an example to describe the positioning device provided in the embodiment of the present application.

The positioning apparatus of the embodiment of the present application may be configured to implement the positioning process in each of the above positioning method embodiments, and the apparatus includes: the device comprises a first sending module and/or a first receiving module.

The first sending module is configured to send first information to a network side device, where the first information includes at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; the first receiving module is used for receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold value information; wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information.

frequency domain channel energy or power values;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

the difference value of the power value of the additional path and the power value of the first or reference path, or the difference value of the energy value of the additional path and the energy value of the first or reference path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

polarization information of the antenna element;

minimum value of power or energy of first path or reference path on antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

the reference range value of the power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

reference range values of the phases of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

the maximum value of the additional radial phase on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

adding reference values of radial phases to the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

a first characteristic of first path power or energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

a second characteristic of the first-path phase on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

measuring information;

location information.

reference sending receiving point TRP information corresponding to the first information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the first information.

Optionally, the first sending module is further configured to: sending second threshold information to the network side device, where the second threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Further, the positioner of this application embodiment still includes:

a second receiving module, configured to receive first request information, where the first request information is used to request the terminal device to report the first information.

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

receiving fourth information issued by a base station, wherein the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information includes at least one of the following information:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

unicast is carried out through an LPP protocol;

broadcast via posSIBs carried in RRC system information messages.

Optionally, the first sending module is further configured to:

sending fifth information to the network side device, where the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information includes at least one of the following:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information:

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the fifth information.

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to:

receiving sixth information issued by the network side device, where the sixth information includes at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Further, the positioner of this application embodiment still includes:

a second sending module, configured to send second request information, where the second request information is used to request the network side device for the first threshold information.

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to: receiving seventh information issued by the network side device, where the seventh information includes at least one of the following:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

Further, the positioner of this application embodiment still includes:

the first communication module is used for communicating with the network side equipment in a capacity, wherein the capacity comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a terminal device. The device may be a mobile device or a non-mobile device. For example, the removable device may include, but is not limited to, the type of the terminal device 101 listed above, and the non-removable device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a television (television), a teller machine (TV), or a self-service machine (kiosk), and the embodiments of the present application are not limited in particular.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an IOS operating system, or other possible operating systems, which is not specifically limited in the embodiments of the present application.

The positioning device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented in fig. 2 to fig. 4 and each positioning method embodiment described above, and achieve the same technical effect, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a positioning method, which is executed by a base station, and the method includes:

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

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, when the base station is used for positioning, the positioning may be implemented by executing at least one of the two steps, and specifically, any one of the following processing methods may be executed:

first, as shown in fig. 5, for a fourth process schematic diagram of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the base station may send eighth information to the location management server LMF, so that the location management server LMF may perform positioning calculation according to the eighth information to determine the location information.

Secondly, as shown in fig. 6, for the fifth process schematic diagram of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the base station may receive ninth information from the location management server LMF, so that the base station may identify LOS/NLOS state information and the like according to the ninth information in combination with its own measurement information, and further perform location resolution by the location management server LMF or the base station according to the LOS/NLOS state information to determine location information.

Thirdly, as shown in fig. 7, for the sixth schematic flow chart of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the base station receives the ninth information from the network-side device, and identifies LOS/NLOS state information according to the ninth information in combination with its own measurement information, and at the same time, the base station sends the eighth information to the location management server LMF, so that the location management server LMF can identify LOS/NLOS state information according to the eighth information, and at the same time, the location management server LMF performs location resolution and determines location information in combination with the LOS/NLOS state information identified by the base station and the LOS/NLOS state information identified by the location management server LMF.

The eighth information is measurement information determined by the base station, and the eighth information needs to include any combination of at least two of second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information determined by the base station. That is, the second frequency domain measurement information and the second time domain measurement information, or the second frequency domain measurement information and the second spatial domain measurement information, or the second spatial domain measurement information and the second time domain measurement information, or the second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information, and the second spatial domain measurement information are required to be included. It should be understood that the "second" is only used to distinguish the measurement information of the base station, and has no substantial limiting effect.

The ninth information is information determined by the location management server LMF, and includes threshold information for LOS/NLOS state identification, which may be referred to as third threshold information. When receiving the ninth information, the base station may perform data analysis to output third threshold information, and then determine LOS/NLOS status information by comparing the relationship between the self-measurement information and the third threshold information.

Optionally, before the receiving the ninth information, the method of the embodiment of the present application further includes: and sending fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server LMF.

It should be understood that the eighth information and the ninth information are key information for determining the location, and the LOS/NLOS state information identification can be achieved by the base station reporting the eighth information to the location management server LMF or receiving the ninth information issued by the location management server LMF, and further the location information determination is achieved.

Optionally, the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Specifically, the second frequency domain measurement information of the eighth information transmitted by the base station to the location management server LMF may include any combination of one or any plurality of all the above listed frequency domain information, which is information determined by the base station measurement. It is to be understood that the above frequency domain information may also be referred to as second frequency domain information for the sake of distinction. For example, the energy value or power value of the frequency domain channel may be referred to as a second energy value or a second power value of the frequency domain channel. In addition, the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power, represents the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the maximum value of the frequency domain channel power, the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power, represents the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the minimum value of the frequency domain channel power, and for another example, the energy value or the power value of the frequency domain channel may be represented as the energy value and the power value of all subcarriers of the frequency domain channel, or may be a frequency domain channel subcarrier-power/energy spectrum, wherein the subcarrier-power/energy spectrum includes but is not limited to a form of picture, function or quantization. The other frequency domain information listed above is similar.

Optionally, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information, and the following time domain information includes:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

the difference value of the power value of the middle path and the power value of the first path or the reference path, or the difference value of the energy value of the middle path and the energy value of the first path or the reference path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

Specifically, the second time domain measurement information of the eighth information sent by the base station to the location management server LMF may include any combination of one or any more of all the time domain information listed above, which is information determined by the measurement of the base station. It is to be understood that the time domain information may also be referred to as second time domain information for the sake of distinction. For example, the indication information of the median path may be referred to as second indication information of the median path. The indication information may be time domain information indicating whether the other first time domain information is the median path, or may be a relative value (e.g., a difference or a ratio) indicating the median path and the other first time domain information of the reference path. In addition, the reference path is a path reported as a reference, and may be a first path or other paths. In addition, the power value or energy value of the median path represents a second power value of the median path or a second energy value of the median path, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. In addition, the additional path is an additional path other than the reference path or the leading path.

Optionally, the second spatial domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second spatial domain measurement information includes at least one of the following spatial domain information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of the first path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

maximum value of power or energy of additional path on the antenna element in the same polarization direction;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

Specifically, the second spatial domain measurement information of the eighth information transmitted from the base station to the location management server LMF may include any combination of one or any plurality of the above listed spatial domain information, which is information determined by the base station measurement. It is to be understood that the spatial information may be referred to as second spatial information for the sake of distinction. For example, the polarization information of the antenna element may be referred to as second polarization information of the antenna element.

In addition, the power or energy information of the first path on the antenna element represents second power information of the first path on the antenna element or second energy information of the first path on the antenna element; the maximum value of the first path power or energy on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction represents a second maximum value of the first path power on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction or a second maximum value of the first path energy on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and the other listed frequency domain information is similar.

Optionally, the eighth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

transmitting TRP information of a receiving point by using a reference signal corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

receive-transmit time difference (Rx-Tx timing difference) information corresponding to the eighth information.

Specifically, the eighth information of the embodiment of the present application may be further associated with other related measurement information, where the related measurement information includes Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) information, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information, Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information, beam information, and reception-transmission Time Difference (Rx-Tx timing Difference) information. It should be understood that when the eighth information is associated with such related measurement information, it may be associated with any one or any plurality thereof.

Wherein, the corresponding refers to corresponding to the same measurement object, for example, RSTD and eighth information obtained by measuring the same uplink positioning reference signal; for another example, the RSRP and the eighth information measured by the same uplink positioning reference signal resource set.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further includes: sending fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, where the fourth threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, the base station in the embodiment of the present application may further send threshold information used for information identification operation, which may be referred to as fourth threshold information, to the location management server LMF on the basis of reporting the eighth information to the network side device, so that the location management server LMF may perform operation in combination with the fourth threshold information when performing information identification according to the eighth information. That is, the location management server LMF performs identification operation by combining the eighth information and the fourth threshold information to obtain LOS/NLOS state information, and may perform further location calculation according to the LOS/NLOS state information to determine location information.

The fourth threshold information may include one or any combination of any more of all the threshold information listed above, and these threshold information are determined by the base station configuration. It is to be understood that the above threshold information may also be referred to as fourth threshold information for the sake of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy fourth reference threshold information, which represents the frequency domain power fourth reference threshold information or frequency domain energy fourth reference threshold information; the relative power reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or the relative energy reference threshold information of the median path and the first path may be referred to as fourth relative power reference threshold information of the median path and the first path or fourth relative energy reference threshold information of the median path and the first path, and other threshold information listed above is similar. The reference threshold information refers to maximum threshold information, or minimum threshold information, or reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative range information in the embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, before sending the eighth information to the LMF, the positioning method according to the embodiment of the present application further includes: and receiving third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information. Specifically, before the base station sends the eighth information to the location management server LMF for positioning, the location management server LMF may configure, by issuing a request message to the base station, information that the base station needs to report to the location management server LMF, where the request may be referred to as a third request message, and the information that needs to be reported corresponds to the eighth information.

Wherein the eighth information includes at least two of the second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information, and the second spatial domain measurement information. The second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information, and the second spatial domain measurement information are all information determined by the base station.

receiving third information issued by the location management server LMF, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information comprises at least one of the following information:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

receiving fifth information reported by a terminal device, where the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information includes at least one of the following:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, on the basis of the foregoing embodiments, the embodiment of the present invention may further receive an LOS/NLOS state identification result issued by the location management server LMF or an LOS/NLOS state identification result reported by the terminal device, that is, the terminal device and the LMF may perform LOS/NLOS state identification operation respectively to obtain an LOS/NLOS state identification result.

For the sake of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as third information, and the identification information from the terminal device is referred to as fifth information. Wherein the identification information contained in the third information and the fifth information each include at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. However, it should be understood that the identification information from the LMF and the identification information from the terminal device are determined by the LMF and the terminal device, respectively, and thus may be the same or different, and for the sake of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as the first LOS/NLOS status information and the first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information from the terminal device is referred to as the third LOS/NLOS status information and the third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

Optionally, the third information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information.

Specifically, similarly to the case of the eighth information in the above-described embodiment, the third information or the fifth information may also be associated with the above-listed information. It should be understood that the third information or the fifth information should have a corresponding relationship with the above listed information.

The association may be a corresponding relationship between the third information or the fifth information and the corresponding measurement information, for example, one RSTD and the corresponding third information or fifth information are a group of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain, or indicated by the indication information.

Wherein, the correspondence refers to corresponding to the same object, for example, RSTD and third information or fifth information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, the third information or the fifth information of the same transmission reception point TRP.

Optionally, the third threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information includes:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, the base station according to the embodiment of the present application may receive threshold information for information identification operation from the LMF, that is, the third threshold information, so that the base station may perform identification operation by combining the third threshold information and its own measurement information to obtain LOS/NLOS state information.

Wherein the third threshold information may comprise any combination of one or any plurality of all of the threshold information listed above, which is information determined by the LMF configuration. It is to be understood that the above threshold information may also be referred to as third threshold information for the sake of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy third reference threshold information, which represents the frequency domain power third reference threshold information or the frequency domain energy third reference threshold information. Other threshold information listed above is similar. Wherein, the reference threshold information refers to the maximum threshold information, or the minimum threshold information, or the reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative range information in the embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, the third threshold information is configured by the location management server LMF through NRPPa protocol.

Optionally, the positioning method in the embodiment of the present application further includes: sending fourth information to the location management server LMF or the terminal equipment, wherein the fourth information comprises at least one of the following information:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the base station may report the identification result to the LMF on the basis of the operation in the foregoing embodiments, and may perform encapsulation processing on information to be reported when reporting the identification result, where an obtained encapsulated result may be referred to as fourth information. The fourth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information is determined by the base station operation. For the sake of distinction, this identification information is referred to as second LOS/NLOS status information and second LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

It can be understood that, when the base station determines the fourth information, the fourth information may be determined based on combination of self-measurement information and preconfigured threshold information, or based on combination of self-measurement information and tenth information issued by the LMF, or based on third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on self-measurement information and preconfigured threshold information, and third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on self-measurement information and third threshold information, and third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on combination of self-measurement information and tenth information issued by the LMF and third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, the determination may also be based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, and tenth information delivered by the LMF, or based on the self-measurement information in combination with the third threshold information and tenth information delivered by the network side, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, and the third threshold information, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the third threshold information, and the tenth information delivered by the LMF, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the third information delivered by the LMF, and/or fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information, the preconfigured threshold information, the tenth information delivered by the LMF, the third information delivered by the LMF, and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or based on the self-measurement information, the third threshold information, the tenth information delivered by the LMF, and the third information delivered by the LMF The information and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device are determined, which is not specifically limited in this application.

Optionally, the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the fourth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the fourth information.

Specifically, similarly to the case of the eighth information in the above-described embodiment, the fourth information may also be associated with the above-listed information. It should be understood that the fourth information should have a corresponding relationship with the information listed above.

Optionally, the positioning method in the embodiment of the present application further includes: receiving tenth information issued by the location management server LMF, where the tenth information includes at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the LMF may be further configured to send operation model information for determining the operation of the location information to the base station, where the operation model information is included in the delivered information, and the delivered information is referred to as tenth information. These pieces of operation model information include at least one of the pieces of model information listed above, that is, one of them, or any combination of any plurality of them.

Wherein, the error model information includes but is not limited to: at least one of position error compensation information, measurement error compensation information, device error compensation information, and parameter adjustment information. Therefore, error compensation can be performed on the eighth information, the positioning result, the measurement result, and the error or parameter error caused by the equipment based on the error model information, so that the reported eighth information or LOS/NLOS identification information is more accurate.

Wherein, the preprocessing model information includes but is not limited to at least one of the following: filter parameters or models; convolutional layer parameters or models; pooling layer parameters or models; discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Transform parameters or models; wavelet transform parameters or models; parameters or models of impulse channel processing methods; parameters or models of waveform processing methods; parameters or models of signal correlation sequence processing methods. The model can refer to a function model, a network model, a down-sampling model, an imaging model and the like; the parameters may refer to weight, step size, mean, variance, etc. Therefore, the eighth information, the positioning result or the measurement result can be processed based on the preprocessing model information, so that the occupied reporting resource is less.

Wherein, the machine learning model information includes but is not limited to: parameters of machine learning or neural networks or deep neural network models and machine learning or neural networks or deep neural network models are commonly used. Wherein, the common machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model includes but is not limited to: convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), such as google lenet, AlexNet, etc.; recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long-Short Term Memory networks (LSTM); a recursive tensor neural network RNTN; generating a countermeasure network (GAN); deep Belief Networks (DBN); restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and the like. The parameters of the machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model include, but are not limited to, weight, step size, mean, variance, and the like. As such, based on the machine learning model information, at least one of the following information may be determined: LOS/NLOS identification information, eighth information, location information, measurement information, processed eighth information, and processed measurement information.

It is to be understood that the model information in the tenth information may be the same as or different from the model information in the sixth information in the above embodiments, and the present application does not specifically limit this.

The positioning apparatus of the embodiment of the present application may be configured to implement the positioning process in each of the above positioning method embodiments, and the apparatus includes: and the third sending module and/or the third receiving module.

The third sending module is configured to send eighth information to the location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information; the third receiving module is used for receiving ninth information, and the ninth information comprises third threshold information; wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Optionally, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a K-factor.

polarization information of the antenna element;

power or energy information of a first path on an antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

minimum values of additional radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the first characteristic of the power or energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

reference sending receiving point TRP information corresponding to the eighth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the eighth information.

Optionally, the third sending module is further configured to: sending fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, where the fourth threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning apparatus in the embodiment of the present application further includes:

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive third request information, where the third request information is used to request the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, the third receiving module is further configured to: receiving third information issued by the location management server LMF, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information comprises at least one of the following information:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

sending receiving point TRP information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the third sending module is further configured to:

sending fourth information to the location management server LMF or the terminal device, where the fourth information includes at least one of the following:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

Optionally, the third receiving module is further configured to:

receiving tenth information issued by the location management server LMF, where the tenth information includes at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

a fourth sending module, configured to send fourth request information, where the fourth request information is used to request the location management server LMF for the third threshold information.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a location method, which is performed by a location management server LMF, where the method includes at least one of the following steps:

Optionally, the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first frequency domain measurement information and/or the second frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information, where the following frequency domain information includes:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Optionally, the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first time domain measurement information and/or the second time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information, where the following time domain information includes:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

Optionally, the first spatial domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second spatial domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first spatial domain measurement information and/or the second spatial domain measurement information includes at least one of the following spatial domain information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

reference values of first path or reference path phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power or energy of the additional paths on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

location information.

Optionally, the first information is associated with at least one of the following information:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the first information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the first information;

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

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the eighth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

the eighth information is associated with at least one of the following information, including:

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

Optionally, the positioning method further includes: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

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

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

the second threshold information and/or the fourth threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning method further includes:

receiving fifth information reported by the terminal device, where the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information includes at least one of the following:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

receiving fourth information reported by the base station, where the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information includes at least one of the following information:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the fourth information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

sending receiving point TRP information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information.

Optionally, the positioning method further includes: sending third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information includes at least one of the following:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the third information is further associated with at least one of the following information:

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the third information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information;

reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information corresponding to the third information;

reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

receiving-transmitting time difference information corresponding to the third information.

Optionally, the positioning method further includes:

sending seventh information to the terminal device, wherein the seventh information comprises at least one of the following:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

Optionally, the first threshold information and/or the third threshold information include at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information includes:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning method further includes:

sending sixth information to the terminal device;

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

transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Optionally, before receiving the first information reported by the terminal device, the positioning method further includes:

sending first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information;

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

before the receiving the eighth information reported by the base station, the method further includes:

and sending third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, before issuing the second information to the terminal device, the positioning method further includes:

receiving second request information, wherein the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold value information from the location management server LMF;

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

before the issuing of the ninth information to the base station, the method further includes:

receiving fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server LMF.

Optionally, the positioning method further includes:

and carrying out capability communication with the terminal equipment, wherein the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

It should be noted that, when executed by the location management server LMF, the positioning method at the location management server LMF side provided in the embodiment of the present application is the same as the data, the related definition, and the processing method interacted between the terminal device side and the base station side, which can be referred to in the foregoing embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is not repeated here.

The positioning device of the embodiment of the application comprises at least one of the following modules:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

measuring information;

location information.

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

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

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

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

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the fifth receiving module is further configured to:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

receiving fourth information reported by the base station, where the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information includes at least one of the following:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

sending and receiving point TRP information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to: sending third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information includes at least one of the following:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to:

sending sixth information to the terminal device;

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

the sixth sending module is further configured to: transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Optionally, the positioning device further comprises:

a seventh sending module, configured to send first request information, where the first request information is used to request the terminal device to report the first information;

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

and is configured to send third request information, where the third request information is used to request the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, the positioning device further includes:

a seventh receiving module, configured to receive second request information, where the second request information is used to request the location management server LMF for the first threshold information;

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

for receiving fourth request information, where the fourth request information is used to request the third threshold information from the location management server LMF.

Optionally, the positioning device further comprises:

and the second communication module is used for communicating the capability with the terminal equipment, wherein the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in the LMF. The device may be a device for positioning, and the like, and the embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

The positioning device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by each positioning method embodiment on the LMF side in fig. 5 to 7, and achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.

For example, the following downlink positioning procedure may be performed:

the UE reports first information, for example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power of a median path and a first path; for another example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and spatial domain measurement information, specifically, a reference value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a reference range value of first path power/energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and a reference range value of first path phase on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

optionally, the UE reports the second threshold information to the LMF.

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to the first information (and the second threshold information) reported by the UE, or judges whether the TRP can be used for positioning, and then performs position calculation.

Optionally, the LMF issues a seventh message to the UE, where the seventh message is a TRP set and/or resource set, or a TRP priority and/or resource set priority that is determined according to the LOS/NLOS identification information and can be used for positioning.

For another example, the following downlink positioning procedure may be performed:

and the UE receives second information, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information, and the first threshold information comprises frequency domain power/energy threshold information, frequency domain power/energy range threshold information, power/energy range threshold information and phase range threshold information.

And the UE judges the LOS/NLOS state of each TRP according to the first threshold information, if the frequency domain channel power/energy minimum value of the TRP is larger than the frequency domain power/energy threshold information, the difference value between the frequency domain channel power/energy maximum value and the frequency domain channel power/energy minimum value is smaller than the frequency domain power/energy range threshold information, the power/energy difference value of the TRP first path on the antennas in the same polarization direction is smaller than the power/energy range threshold information, and the phase of the TRP first path on the antennas in different polarization directions is smaller than the phase range threshold information, the TRP is judged to be LOS, otherwise, the TRP is NLOS.

And the UE reports fifth information to the network side according to the identification condition, wherein the fifth information comprises LOS/NLOS state information and at least one of LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the LMF selects the corresponding TRP to carry out position resolving according to the fifth information reported by the UE.

and the UE receives third information sent by the LMF.

And the UE performs LOS/NLOS identification according to the third information and the measurement information of the UE.

And the UE reports fifth information to the LMF according to the identification condition, wherein the fifth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

and the UE receives the third information and the second information sent by the LMF.

And the UE performs LOS/NLOS identification according to the third information by combining the measurement information and the second information.

For another example, the following positioning procedure may be performed in uplink positioning:

the base station reports eighth information, for example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power of a median path and a first path; for another example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and spatial domain measurement information, specifically, a reference value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a reference range value of first path power/energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and a reference range value of first path phase on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

and the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to the eighth information reported by the base station, or judges whether the TRP can be used for positioning or not, and then performs position calculation.

For another example, the following positioning procedures may be performed in uplink positioning:

the base station receives the ninth information, and the base station performs LOS/NLOS identification according to the ninth information and the measurement information of the base station;

and the base station reports fourth information to the network side according to the identification condition, wherein the fourth information comprises LOS/NLOS state information and at least one of LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the LMF selects the corresponding TRP to carry out position resolving according to the fourth information reported by the base station.

For example, the following positioning procedure may be performed in Multi-RTT positioning:

the base station reports the eighth information, for example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power between the median path and the first path.

The UE reports the first information, for example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power between a median path and a first path.

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP by combining the first information reported by the UE and the eighth information reported by the base station, and then performs position calculation.

and the base station reports fourth information to the LMF, wherein the fourth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the base station issues the fourth information and/or the LMF issues the third information to the UE.

And the UE performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to the fourth information and/or the third information and by combining the measurement information of the UE.

And the UE reports the fifth information to the LMF.

And the LMF identifies LOS/NLOS according to the fourth information reported by the base station and the fifth information reported by the UE, and then performs position calculation.

For another example, the following positioning procedure may be performed: :

and the base station issues the fourth information and/or the LMF issues the third information, wherein the third information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability to the UE.

And the UE reports the first information and the fifth information to the LMF.

And the LMF identifies LOS/NLOS according to the first information and the fifth information reported by the UE and then carries out position calculation.

Optionally, the LMF issues a seventh message to the UE, where the seventh message is a TRP set and/or resource set, or a TRP priority and/or resource set priority that is determined according to the LOS/NLOS identification information and can be used for positioning. As shown in fig. 8, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 800, which includes a processor 801, a memory 802, and a program or instructions stored on the memory 802 and executable on the processor 801. The communication device may be a terminal device or a network side device, wherein the network side device further may be a base station or a location service manager LMF. For example, when the communication device 800 is a terminal device, the program or the instructions are executed by the processor 801 to implement the processes of any one of the embodiments of the positioning method on the terminal device side; when the communication device 800 is a base station, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 801 to implement each process of the positioning method embodiment of any base station side, and when the communication device 800 is a location service manager LMF, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 801 to implement each process of the positioning method embodiment of any location service manager LMF side, and all the processes can achieve the same technical effect, and are not described herein again to avoid repetition.

Specifically, fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal device for implementing the embodiment of the present application. The terminal 900 includes but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 901, a network module 902, an audio output unit 903, an input unit 904, a sensor 905, a display unit 906, a user input unit 907, an interface unit 908, a memory 909, and a processor 910.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal 900 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 910 through a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions through the power management system. The structure of the terminal device shown in fig. 9 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal device of the present application, and the terminal device of the present application may include more or less components than those shown in the drawings, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description thereof is omitted.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 904 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 9041 and a microphone 9042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 9041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 906 may include a display panel 9061, and the display panel 9061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 907 includes a touch panel 9071 and other input devices 9072. A touch panel 9071, also called a touch screen. The touch panel 9071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 9072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

The radio frequency unit 901 is configured to send first information to a network side device and/or receive second information sent by the network side device.

In this embodiment, the radio frequency unit 901 sends uplink data to a network side device, and can receive data sent by the network side device in a downlink direction. Generally, the radio frequency unit 901 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

Memory 909 can be used to store software programs or instructions as well as various data. The memory 909 may mainly include a storage program or instruction area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program or instruction area may store an operating system, an application program or instruction (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. In addition, the Memory 909 may include a high-speed random access Memory, and may also include a nonvolatile Memory, wherein the nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable Programmable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid state storage device.

Processor 910 may include one or more processing units. Alternatively, the processor 910 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, and applications or instructions, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications, such as a baseband processor. It is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 910.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send second threshold information to the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive the first request information.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive third information sent by the location management server LMF and/or receive fourth information sent by the base station.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send fifth information to the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive sixth information sent by the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send the second request information.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive seventh information sent by the network side device.

Specifically, fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a network-side device for implementing the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 10, the network side device 1000 may be a base station or may also be a location management server LMF, and the network side device 1000 includes but is not limited to: antenna 1001, rf device 1002, and baseband device 1003. The antenna 1001 is connected to the radio frequency device 1002.

In the uplink direction, rf device 1002 receives information via antenna 1001 and transmits the received information to baseband device 1003 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 1003 processes information to be transmitted and transmits the information to the rf device 1002, and the rf device 1002 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 1001.

Those skilled in the art will understand that the structure of the network-side device shown in fig. 10 does not constitute a limitation of the network-side device of the present application, and the network-side device of the present application may include more or less components than those shown in the drawings, or may combine some components, or may arrange different components, and will not be described herein again.

The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment may be implemented in the baseband apparatus 1003, where the baseband apparatus 1003 includes a processor 1004 and a memory 1005.

The baseband device 1003 may include, for example, at least one baseband board, on which a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 10, where one chip, for example, a processor 1004, is connected to a memory 1005 and calls a program in the memory 1005 to perform the network device operations shown in the above method embodiments.

The baseband device 1003 may further include a network interface 1006, for exchanging information with the radio frequency device 1002, and the interface is, for example, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

Specifically, the network side device of the embodiment of the present invention further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 1005 and executable on the processor 1004, where the processor 1004 executes the positioning method executed by the network side device side in each of the above embodiments when calling the instructions or programs in the memory 1005, and achieve the same technical effects, and are not described herein in detail to avoid repetition.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the process of any one of the foregoing embodiments of the positioning method is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

Wherein, the processor is the processor in the terminal device, the base station or the LMF described in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and so on.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction of a terminal, so as to implement each process of any one of the foregoing positioning method embodiments, and achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the details are not repeated here.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A positioning method performed by a terminal device, the method comprising:

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

2. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first frequency domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following frequency domain information:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

3. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

4. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first spatial domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and wherein the first spatial domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following spatial domain information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

and the antenna elements with different polarization directions have second characteristics of each additional radial phase.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

location information.

6. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

7. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising: sending second threshold information to the network side device, where the second threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

8. The positioning method according to claim 1, further comprising, before the sending the first information to the network-side device:

and receiving first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information.

9. The positioning method according to claim 1, further comprising:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

a first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

10. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1-6, 8, and 9, further comprising:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

11. The positioning method according to claim 9, wherein the third information or the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

12. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

13. The positioning method according to claim 12, wherein said first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by a location management server LMF or a base station.

14. The positioning method according to claim 12, wherein the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by at least one of the following configurations, including:

unicast is carried out through an LPP protocol;

broadcast via posSIBs carried in RRC system information messages.

15. The positioning method according to claim 10, wherein the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

16. The positioning method according to claim 1, further comprising:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

17. The positioning method according to claim 1, further comprising: and sending second request information, wherein the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold value information from the network side equipment.

18. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, 8, 9, and 11 to 17, further comprising: receiving seventh information issued by the network side device, where the seventh information includes at least one of the following:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending the first information and/or receiving the second information, further comprising:

and communicating the capability with the network side equipment, wherein the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

20. A positioning device, comprising:

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

21. A positioning method performed by a base station, the method comprising:

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

22. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and wherein the second frequency domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following frequency domain information:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

23. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and wherein the second time domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following time domain information:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the second spatial domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and wherein the second spatial domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following spatial domain information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

25. The positioning method according to claim 21, wherein the eighth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

26. The positioning method according to any one of claims 21-25, further comprising: sending fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, where the fourth threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

27. The location method according to claim 21, further comprising, before said sending the eighth information to the location management server LMF:

and receiving third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

28. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

29. The positioning method according to claim 28, wherein the third information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

30. The positioning method according to claim 21, wherein the third threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

31. The location method according to claim 30, wherein said third threshold information is configured by said location management server LMF via NRPPa protocol.

32. The positioning method according to any one of claims 21-25, 27-31, further comprising:

sending fourth information to the location management server LMF or the terminal equipment, wherein the fourth information comprises at least one of the following information:

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

33. The positioning method of claim 32, wherein the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

34. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

35. The method according to claim 21, wherein before said receiving the ninth information, further comprising:

and sending fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server LMF.

36. A positioning device, comprising:

a third sending module, configured to send eighth information to a location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information and second spatial domain measurement information;

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

37. A positioning method performed by a location management server, LMF, characterized in that it comprises at least one of the following steps:

38. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, wherein the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and wherein the first frequency domain measurement information and/or the second frequency domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following frequency domain information, the following frequency domain information comprising:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channel;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

39. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first time domain measurement information and/or the second time domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following time domain information, and the following time domain information comprises:

indication information of the median path;

the power value or energy value of the median path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

a quantized time delay power spectrum;

a channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse responses;

a factor K-.

40. The method according to claim 37, wherein the first spatial domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second spatial domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first spatial domain measurement information and/or the second spatial domain measurement information comprises at least one of the following spatial domain information, and the following spatial domain information comprises:

polarization information of the antenna element;

reference value of first path or reference path power or energy on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

power or energy information of the additional path on the antenna element;

reference range values of power or energy of additional paths on the antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

adding phase information of the path to the antenna element;

41. The method according to claim 37, wherein the first information is received in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

location information.

42. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first information is associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

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

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

43. The positioning method according to any one of claims 37-42, further comprising: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

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

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

44. The method of claim 37, further comprising:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability;

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

second LOS/NLOS state information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

45. The positioning method according to claim 44, wherein the fourth information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

46. The positioning method according to any one of claims 37-42, 44, 45, further comprising: sending third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server LMF, and the third information includes at least one of the following:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

47. The positioning method according to claim 46, wherein the third information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

48. The positioning method according to any one of claims 37-42, 44, 45, 47, further comprising:

a set of Transmission and Reception Points (TRP) for positioning;

sending a priority of a TRP (reception Point);

resource set;

resource set priority.

49. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first threshold information and/or the third threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information comprises:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

50. The method of claim 37, further comprising:

sending sixth information to the terminal device;

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

transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

51. The method according to claim 37, wherein before receiving the first information reported by the terminal device, the method further comprises:

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

52. The method of claim 37, further comprising, before said sending the second information to the terminal device:

receiving second request information, wherein the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold information from the location management server LMF;

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

53. The method of claim 37, further comprising:

54. A positioning device, comprising at least one of the following modules:

55. A terminal device comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the positioning method according to any one of claims 1-19.

56. A base station comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the positioning method according to any one of claims 21-35.

57. A location management server LMF comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on said memory and executable on said processor, said program or instructions when executed by said processor performing the steps of the positioning method according to any of claims 37-53.

58. A readable storage medium, storing thereon a program or instructions which, when executed by a processor, carry out the steps of the positioning method according to any one of claims 1-19, 21-35, 37-53.