CN115315973A

CN115315973A - Method and device for reporting indication information, terminal equipment and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN115315973A
Application number: CN202080098942.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王淑坤
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-20
Filing date: 2020-04-20
Publication date: 2022-11-08
Also published as: WO2021212258A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for reporting indication information, a terminal device and a network device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment reports first information, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured on the master node MN side, a band list configured on the auxiliary node SN side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

Description

Method and device for reporting indication information, terminal equipment and network equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of mobile communication, in particular to a method and a device for reporting indication information, terminal equipment and network equipment.

Background

The purpose of the Measurement Gap (MG) is to create a small gap in which the terminal measures the target cell. There are two types of measurement intervals configured on the network side: one type is a measurement interval for a User Equipment (UE), referred to as per-UE gap, and the other type is a measurement interval for a Frequency Range (FR), referred to as per-FR gap, where the measurement interval for FR in turn includes a measurement interval for FR1 and a measurement interval for FR2.

In R16, a mechanism for reporting measurement interval requirement (i.e., needleforgap) indication information is introduced, specifically, a terminal device reports a band list (band) and indicates whether each band in the band list needs a measurement interval. However, R16 only designs a needleforgap indication information reporting mechanism for a New Radio (NR) independent networking (SA) scenario, and does not consider a Multi-RAT-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for reporting indication information, terminal equipment and network equipment.

The method for reporting the indication information provided by the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps:

the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment reports first information, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not;

wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at a Master Node (MN) side, a band list configured at a Secondary Node (SN) side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

a source node receives first information sent by a terminal device, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment;

and under the condition that the terminal equipment is switched from the source node to the target node, the source node sends the first information to the target node.

reporting the updated first information or reporting the updating information of the first information under the condition that the wireless resources of the terminal equipment are reconfigured; wherein,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at a service node side of the terminal device, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

The apparatus for reporting indication information provided by the embodiment of the application includes:

a reporting unit, configured to report first information, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval;

wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the MN side, a band list configured at the SN side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

a receiving unit, configured to receive first information sent by a terminal device, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment;

a sending unit, configured to send the first information to a target node when the terminal device is handed over from the source node to the target node.

a reporting unit, configured to report the updated first information or report update information of the first information when the reconfiguration occurs to the radio resource; wherein,

The terminal device provided by the embodiment of the application comprises a processor and a memory. The memory is used for storing computer programs, and the processor is used for calling and running the computer programs stored in the memory and executing the method for reporting the indication information.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the application comprises a processor and a memory. The memory is used for storing computer programs, and the processor is used for calling and running the computer programs stored in the memory and executing the method for reporting the indication information.

The chip provided by the embodiment of the application is used for realizing the method for reporting the indication information.

Specifically, the chip includes: and the processor is used for calling and running the computer program from the memory so that the equipment provided with the chip executes the method for reporting the indication information.

The computer-readable storage medium provided in the embodiments of the present application is used for storing a computer program, and the computer program enables a computer to execute the method for reporting indication information.

The computer program product provided in the embodiments of the present application includes computer program instructions, and the computer program instructions enable a computer to execute the method for reporting indication information.

When the computer program provided in the embodiment of the present application runs on a computer, the computer is enabled to execute the method for reporting the indication information.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application provides a reporting mode of the indication information of the measurement interval requirement (namely, needleForGap) in the MR-DC scene. In addition, a reporting and updating mode of the measurement interval requirement indication information is also provided.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and not to limit the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system architecture provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a dual connectivity architecture provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a first schematic structural component diagram of an apparatus for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a second apparatus for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a third schematic structural component diagram of an apparatus for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application;

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

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a chip of an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

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

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, an LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, an LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), a system, a 5G communication system, a future communication system, or the like.

Illustratively, a communication system 100 applied in the embodiment of the present application is shown in fig. 1. The communication system 100 may include a network device 110, and the network device 110 may be a device that communicates with a terminal 120 (or referred to as a communication terminal, a terminal). Network device 110 may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area and may communicate with terminals located within the coverage area. Alternatively, the Network device 110 may be an evolved Node B (eNB or eNodeB) in an LTE system, or a wireless controller in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN), or the Network device may be a mobile switching center, a relay station, an Access point, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, a hub, a switch, a bridge, a router, a Network-side device in a 5G Network, or a Network device in a future communication system, and the like.

The communication system 100 further comprises at least one terminal 120 located within the coverage area of the network device 110. As used herein, "terminal" includes, but is not limited to, a connection via a wireline, such as via a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), a Digital cable, a direct cable connection; and/or another data connection/network; and/or via a Wireless interface, e.g., for a cellular Network, a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), a digital television Network such as a DVB-H Network, a satellite Network, an AM-FM broadcast transmitter; and/or means of another terminal arranged to receive/transmit communication signals; and/or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A terminal that is arranged to communicate over a wireless interface may be referred to as a "wireless communication terminal", "wireless terminal", or "mobile terminal". Examples of mobile terminals include, but are not limited to, satellite or cellular telephones; personal Communications Systems (PCS) terminals that may combine cellular radiotelephones with data processing, facsimile, and data Communications capabilities; PDAs that may include radiotelephones, pagers, internet/intranet access, web browsers, notepads, calendars, and/or Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers; and conventional laptop and/or palmtop receivers or other electronic devices that include a radiotelephone transceiver. A terminal can refer to an access terminal, user Equipment (UE), a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, mobile, remote station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, or User Equipment. An access terminal may be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device having Wireless communication capabilities, a computing device or other processing device connected to a Wireless modem, a vehicle mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal in a 5G network, or a terminal in a future evolved PLMN, etc.

Optionally, the terminals 120 may perform direct-to-Device (D2D) communication therebetween.

Alternatively, the 5G communication system or the 5G network may also be referred to as a New Radio (NR) system or an NR network.

Fig. 1 exemplarily shows one network device and two terminals, and optionally, the communication system 100 may include a plurality of network devices and may include other numbers of terminals within the coverage of each network device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the communication system 100 may further include other network entities such as a network controller, a mobility management entity, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment.

It should be understood that a device having a communication function in a network/system in the embodiments of the present application may be referred to as a communication device. Taking the communication system 100 shown in fig. 1 as an example, the communication device may include a network device 110 and a terminal 120 having a communication function, and the network device 110 and the terminal 120 may be the specific devices described above and are not described again here; the communication device may also include other devices in the communication system 100, such as other network entities, for example, a network controller, a mobility management entity, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment.

It should be understood that the terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably herein. The term "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship.

In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solutions related to the embodiments of the present application are described below.

With the pursuit of speed, delay, high-speed mobility, energy efficiency and the diversity and complexity of the services in future life, the third generation partnership project (3) ^rd Generation Partnership Project,3 GPP) the international organization for standardization began developing 5G. The main application scenarios of 5G are: enhanced Mobile Ultra wide band (eMBB), low-Latency high-reliability communication (URLLC), and massive Machine-Type communication (mMTC).

On the one hand, the eMBB still targets users for multimedia content, services and data, and its demand is growing very rapidly. On the other hand, because the eMBB may be deployed in different scenarios, such as indoor, urban, rural, etc., and the difference between the capabilities and the requirements is relatively large, it cannot be said that it must be analyzed in detail in conjunction with a specific deployment scenario. Typical applications of URLLC include: industrial automation, electric power automation, remote medical operation (surgery), traffic safety, and the like. Typical characteristics of mtc include: high connection density, small data volume, insensitive time delay service, low cost and long service life of the module, etc.

In early NR deployment, complete NR coverage is difficult to obtain, so typical network coverage is wide-area LTE coverage and isolated island coverage pattern of NR. Moreover, a large amount of LTE is deployed below 6GHz, and the spectrum below 6GHz available for 5G is rare. NR must therefore be studied for spectrum applications above 6GHz, with limited high band coverage and fast signal fading. Meanwhile, in order to protect the early LTE investment of a mobile operator, a light interworking (TIGHT) working mode between LTE and NR is provided.

In order to enable 5G network deployment and commercial applications as soon as possible, 3GPP first completes the first 5G release, namely EN-DC (LTE-NR Dual Connectivity). In EN-DC, an LTE base station (eNB) as a Master Node (MN) and an NR base station (gNB or EN-gNB) as a Secondary Node (SN) are connected to an EPC core network. In the later stage of R15, other DC modes will be supported, namely NE-DC,5GC-EN-DC, NR DC. In NE-DC, NR base station as MN, eLTE base station as SN, connect 5GC core network. In 5GC-EN-DC, an eLTE base station is used as MN, an NR base station is used as SN, and a 5GC core network is connected. In NR DC, an NR base station serves as MN and an NR base station serves as SN, and is connected to a 5GC core network.

As shown in fig. 2, a diagram of a dual connection architecture is provided, where a terminal device may establish an air interface connection with an MN, so as to implement communication with the MN; the terminal device can also establish an air interface connection with the SN, thereby realizing the communication with the SN.

The technical solution of the embodiment of the present application may be applied not only to a dual connection architecture (such as an MR-DC architecture) but also to a Multiple Connection (MC) architecture, and typically, the MC architecture may be an MR-MC architecture.

RRC state

In order to reduce air interface signaling, quickly recover wireless connection, and quickly recover data service, 5G defines a new Radio Resource Control (RRC) state, that is, an RRC INACTIVE (RRC _ INACTIVE) state. This state is distinguished from the RRC IDLE (RRC IDLE) state and the RRC ACTIVE (RRC ACTIVE) state. Wherein,

1) RRC _ IDLE state (IDLE state for short): the mobility is cell selection and reselection based on terminal equipment, paging is initiated by a Core Network (CN), and a paging area is configured by the CN. The base station side has no terminal equipment context and has no RRC connection.

2) RRC _ CONNECTED state (CONNECTED state for short): the RRC connection exists, and the base station side and the terminal device side have a terminal device context. The network side knows that the location of the terminal device is at a particular cell level. Mobility is network side controlled mobility. Unicast data may be communicated between the terminal device and the base station.

3) RRC _ INACTIVE state (INACTIVE state for short): mobility is based on cell selection reselection of terminal equipment, connection between CN-NR exists, context of the terminal equipment exists on a certain base station, paging is triggered by RAN, a paging area based on the RAN is managed by the RAN, and the network side knows that the position of the terminal equipment is based on the paging area level of the RAN.

For the connected terminal device, if the inter-frequency or inter-system measurement is to be performed, a measurement interval needs to be configured on the network side, and the terminal device stops all services in a measurement interval period. In addition, co-frequency measurements may also require measurement intervals.

NR supports per UE configured measurement intervals (i.e., per-UE gap configuration) and per FR configured measurement intervals (i.e., per-FR gap configuration).

For per-UE gap configuration: MN determines gap pattern (gap pattern) and related gap sharing (gap sharing) configuration;

for per-FR gap configuration: for EN-DC, MN decides FR1 gap configuration and related gap sharing configuration; the SN determines the FR2 gap configuration and the associated gap sharing configuration.

The network side issues measurement interval configuration to the terminal equipment in the following way: the MN issues per UE gap configuration or FR1 gap configuration to the terminal device, and the MN further notifies the SN about per UE gap configuration or FR1 gap configuration and measurement interval purpose (gap purpose), where the gap purpose is, for example, per-UE configuration or per-FR configuration of the measurement interval.

For per-UE gap, the SN will inform the MN about the FR1 frequency list and FR2 frequency list that the SN is to configure; for per-FR gap, the MN informs the SN about the FR1 frequency list that the MN is to configure, and the SN informs the MN about the FR2 frequency list that the SN is to configure.

For NE-DC and NR-DC, the MN decides both FR1 gap configuration and related gap sharing configuration and FR2 gap configuration and related gap sharing configuration.

For NE-DC, the MN informs the SN about per-UE gap configuration or FR1 gap configuration, and the SN provides a measurement gap requirement request to the MN, but does not require any frequency list. For NR-DC, the MN informs the SN about per-UE gap configuration or FR1 gap configuration, FR2 gap configuration, and gap purpose, and the SN may indicate to the MN the FR1 frequency list and FR2 frequency list to be configured about the SN.

In R16, a mechanism for reporting measurement interval requirement (i.e., needleforgap) indication information is introduced, and the basic principle is as follows: the network side configures a band list of measurement interval requirement indication information that needs to be reported by the terminal device, and then the terminal device determines whether each band in the band list needs a measurement interval (that is, RRM measurement on the band, whether the terminal device needs measurement interval configuration or not) based on the existing radio resource configuration. R16 only designs a NeedForGap indication information reporting mechanism aiming at an NR SA scene, and does not consider an MR-DC scene. For example, the problems of the needleforgap configuration and the inter-network negotiation configuration in the MR-DC scenario are not considered, for example, the problem of reporting and updating the measurement interval requirement indication information is not considered. Therefore, the following technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are provided, and the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application provide a scheme how the terminal device reports the needleforgap indication information in an MR-DC scenario, a scheme how the MN and the SN coordinate configuration, and a scheme of needleforgap update in a mobility process of the terminal device.

It should be noted that FR1 and FR2 in the examples of the present application refer to NR FR1 and NR FR2. The frequency range NR FR1 generally refers to a 5G Sub-6GHz (below 6 GHz) band, and may be extended to Sub-7GHz (below 7 GHz) in the future, and the frequency range NR FR2 generally refers to a 5G millimeter wave band.

It should be noted that per-UE gap configuration in the embodiment of the present application is used to indicate measurement interval configuration for all frequencies (including FR1 and FR 2). The per-FR gap configuration in the embodiment of the present application supports 2 configurations, namely, an FR1 gap configuration and an FR2 gap configuration, respectively, where the FR1 gap configuration is used to indicate a measurement interval configuration for FR1, and the FR2 gap configuration is used to indicate a measurement interval configuration for FR2. In one example, the information of the measurement interval configuration is as shown in table 1 below:

TABLE 1

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application, where as shown in fig. 3, the method for reporting indication information includes the following steps:

step 301: the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment reports first information, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the MN side, a band list configured at the SN side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, the measurement interval requirement indication information may also be referred to as needleforgap indication information, where the measurement interval requirement indication information uses a band as a granularity, and is used to indicate whether a band needs a measurement interval or indicate whether a band needs measurement interval configuration.

In this embodiment of the present application, the first information reported by the terminal device includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the first band list. Here, the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the MN side, a band list configured at the SN side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

In one example, the first information includes indication information (Band indicator) of at least one Band and measurement interval requirement indication information (i.e., needleforgap indication information) associated with each of the at least one Band. Wherein at least one band constitutes the first band list.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the band list configured on the MN side may also be replaced with the band list supported on the MN side. The band list configured on the SN side in the embodiment of the present application may also be replaced with a band list supported on the SN side.

In an optional manner, the first band list includes a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side. In another optional manner, the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal device. In yet another optional manner, the first band list is a band list that falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for an SN and/or an MN. How the terminal device reports the measurement interval requirement indication information is described below with reference to different situations.

● And (3) reporting measurement interval requirement indication information in an MR-DC scene (aiming at the condition that no negotiation exists between MN and SN).

The first scheme comprises the following steps: when the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-UE gap configuration, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured by the MN side; or, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal device.

In an optional manner, after receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message or the RRC connection recovery message sent by the MN, the terminal device sends the first information to the MN.

For example: if the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-UE gap configuration, the terminal device sends first information to the MN after receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message or an RRC connection recovery message sent by the MN, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval. Here, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal device or to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side.

Scheme II: when the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the MN side and/or a band list configured on the SN side; or, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal device; or, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for an SN and/or an MN.

For example: if the measurement interval configuration at the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the terminal device sends first information to the MN after receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message or an RRC connection recovery message, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval. Here, in an alternative, the first band list includes a band list configured on an MN side and a band list configured on an SN side. In another optional manner, the first band list includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list, which falls within a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an MN configured measurement interval, in the band list supported by the terminal device, and measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list, which falls within a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN configured measurement interval, in the band list supported by the terminal device. That is, the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each of two band lists, one associated with the MN and the other associated with the SN.

In an optional manner, after the first information is received by the MN, all information in the first information or partial information of the first information is forwarded by the MN to an SN, where the partial information of the first information includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side; or, the partial information of the first information includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range is a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN configuration measurement gap.

The third scheme is as follows: the terminal equipment receives first configuration information and/or second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an MN side, and the second configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an SN side. And the terminal equipment reports the first information based on the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information.

I) In an optional manner, in a case that the measurement interval configuration at the MN side is per-UE gap configuration, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN.

II) in another optional manner, in a case that the measurement interval configuration on the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN, and the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the SN.

It should be noted that the band list configured on the MN side or the band list configured by the SN may also be referred to as a filtering band list, and is used to instruct the terminal device to report a band set of measurement interval requirement indication information of the per band.

For example: the method comprises the steps that the terminal equipment receives a band list configured by the MN, the band list is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report a band set of measurement interval requirement indication information of per bands, the terminal equipment sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the MN according to the band list configured by the MN side, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not. The method comprises the steps that the terminal equipment receives a band list configured by an SN, the band list is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report a band set of measurement interval requirement indication information of a per band, the terminal equipment sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the SN according to the band list configured by the SN side, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not. It should be noted that, if the configuration is per-UE gap, only the MN configures the band list to the terminal device, and if the configuration is per-FR gap, the MN and the SN configure the band list to the terminal device respectively.

● And (3) reporting measurement interval requirement indication information in an MR-DC scene (aiming at the situation that negotiation exists between MN and SN).

The terminal equipment receives first configuration information and/or second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an MN side, and the second configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an SN side. And the terminal equipment reports the first information based on the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information.

Scheme A: under the condition that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration and the MN judges that the terminal equipment only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN; and the terminal equipment sends measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side to the MN.

In an optional manner, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, third indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report only measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN; and/or the third indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN.

In an optional manner, after the first information is received by the MN, the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list configured by the SN side is forwarded to the SN by the MN.

Scheme B: when the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration and MN judges that terminal equipment respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN, or the first configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the SN; and the terminal equipment sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list configured on the MN side to the MN, and/or sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list configured on the SN side to the SN.

I) In an optional manner, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to configure the second configuration information to the terminal equipment;

correspondingly, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the SN.

II) in another optional mode, under the condition that the MN judges that the terminal equipment respectively reports the indication information of the measurement interval requirement to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal equipment and/or the SN by the MN; the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN;

correspondingly, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN.

The following description is made with reference to specific examples.

(1) And the MN judges whether the terminal equipment reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN or the MN and the SN.

(2) If the MN judges that the terminal equipment only reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, the MN sends an indication information to the terminal equipment for indicating that only the measurement interval requirement indication information is reported to the MN. In addition, the MN sends an indication message to the SN, which is used for indicating that only the measurement interval requirement indication message is reported to the MN and/or sending a band list configured at the SN side to the MN; and the SN sends the band list configured by the SN side to the MN, and the MN combines the band list configured by the MN side and the band list configured by the SN side together to form a new band list which is sent to the terminal equipment and used for indicating the terminal equipment to report a band set of the measurement interval requirement indication information. After receiving the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band set reported by the terminal device, the MN forwards all or part of the reported information to the SN, for example, the MN forwards the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side to the SN.

In an optional manner, a value of the indication information may be one of { MN, SN, both }, where the value of the indication information is that MN represents that only the measurement interval requirement indication information is reported to MN, the value of the indication information is that SN represents that only the measurement interval requirement indication information is reported to SN, and the value of the indication information is that both represents that the measurement interval requirement indication information is reported to MN and SN, respectively.

In another alternative, the indication information may be gap pass, where the representation indicating that the measurement interval is per-UE configuration only reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, and the representation indicating that the measurement interval is per-FR gap configuration reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and the SN, respectively.

(3) If the MN judges that the terminal equipment respectively reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and the SN, the MN sends an indication information to the terminal equipment for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and the SN.

In addition, the MN sends an indication message to the SN, which is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report the measurement interval requirement indication message to the MN and the SN.

Further, in an optional manner, the indication information is also used to instruct the SN to send a band list configured on the SN side to the terminal device. That is to say, the MN and the SN configure a band list to the terminal device, and the terminal device reports measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the MN based on the band list configured on the MN side; and the terminal equipment reports the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the SN based on the band list configured on the SN side.

Further, in an optional manner, the indication information is also used for instructing the SN to send a band list configured on the SN side to the MN. That is to say, the MN combines the band list configured on the MN side and the band list configured on the SN side together to form a new band list, which is sent to the terminal device, for instructing the terminal device to report the band set of the measurement interval requirement indication information. The terminal equipment reports the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the MN based on the band list configured by the MN side, and reports the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list to the SN based on the band list configured by the SN side.

● Influence of mobility on reporting of measurement interval requirement indication information

Scene one: MR-DC scenarios

The terminal device reports the updated first information or reports the update information of the first information under the triggering of at least one of the following events:

MN switching, SN changing, change of a service cell at an MN side, change of a service cell at an SN side, reconfiguration of a band list at the MN side by a network side and reconfiguration of a band list at the SN side by the network side.

Here, the serving cell change is, for example: addition and/or deletion of scells occurs.

In an optional manner, the network side is triggered to reconfigure the band list to the terminal device (for example, configure the band list on the MN side, reconfigure the band list on the SN side) under the trigger of at least one of the following events: MN handover, SN change, change of serving cell on MN side, and change of serving cell on SN side. And under the condition that the network side reconfigures the band list to the terminal equipment, triggering the terminal equipment to report the updated first information or report the updated information of the first information.

In the foregoing solution, optionally, the update information of the first information includes: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, where the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used to determine the updated first information; wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

the sixth indication information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the second band list.

In an example, the fifth indication information includes a first bit map, each bit in the first bit map has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to first information reported last by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.

In the above scheme, the bits in the first bitmap correspond to the bands in the third band column one by one in order from low to high, the value of each bit in the first bitmap is used to indicate whether the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid, and it should be noted that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time. For example: the value of the bit is 0, which is used for indicating that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is invalid and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band reported last time needs to be released; the value of the bit is 1, which is used to indicate that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid, and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band reported last time needs to be reserved. In addition, the terminal device reports the measurement interval requirement indication information of the bands in the new band list (i.e. the second band list). The network side combines the effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band indicated by the first bitmap and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the newly reported band together for storage.

It should be noted that, the manner in which the terminal device reports the updated first information or reports the updated information of the first information may refer to the description related to the reporting of the first information by the terminal device.

A special MR-DC scenario is given below, in a case that an SN side configures SRB3 (signaling exchanged between the SN and a terminal device), and the MN decides that the terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, if the SN updates serving cell configuration (e.g., scell addition, deletion, etc.) of the SN side through the SRB3, the SN notifies the MN that the serving cell configuration of the SN side is updated and/or an updated cell list occurs, and optionally, the SN also notifies the MN of the updated band list to trigger the MN to request the first information from the terminal device again.

Scene two: non-MR-DC scenarios

Scheme a): a source node receives first information sent by a terminal device, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment; and under the condition that the terminal equipment is switched from the source node to the target node, the source node sends the first information to the target node.

Here, the first information is used for the target node to determine whether to request the terminal device to report the updated first information.

In an optional manner, the first band list is a band list configured on the source node side. In another optional aspect, the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal device. In yet another optional manner, the first band list is a band list that falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for the source node.

In an optional manner, the source node sends first configuration information to the target node, where the first configuration information is used to determine a band list configured on the source node side.

For example: when the source gNB triggers handover, the source gNB forwards a band list configured on the source gNB side and measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list reported by the terminal device to the target gNB to be handed over as a part of the context of the terminal device, and the target gNB may determine whether to request the terminal device to report updated measurement interval requirement indication information based on the existing configuration information.

Scheme b): reporting the updated first information or reporting the updating information of the first information under the condition that the wireless resources of the terminal equipment are reconfigured; the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at a service node side of the terminal device, and a band list supported by the terminal device.

Here, the reconfiguration of the radio resource is, for example, that some scells are added or deleted by the serving node of the terminal device.

In an optional manner, the first band list is a band list configured on the serving node side. In another optional manner, the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal device. In yet another optional manner, the first band list is a band list that falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for the serving node.

In the above scheme, the bits in the first bitmap correspond to the bands in the third band column one by one in order from low to high, the value of each bit in the first bitmap is used to indicate whether the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid, and it should be noted that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time. For example: the value of the bit is 0, which is used to indicate that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is invalid, and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band reported last time needs to be released; the value of the bit is 1, which is used to indicate that the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid, and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band reported last time needs to be reserved. In addition, the terminal device also reports the measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the new band list (i.e. the second band list). The network side combines the effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band indicated by the first bitmap and the measurement interval requirement indication information of the newly reported band together for storage.

It should be noted that, the manner in which the terminal device reports the updated first information or reports the updated information of the first information may refer to the description related to the first information reported by the terminal device.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural configuration diagram of a device for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application, which is applied to a terminal device, and as shown in fig. 4, the device for reporting indication information includes:

a reporting unit 401, configured to report first information, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval;

In an optional manner, the first band list includes a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for SN and/or MN.

In an optional manner, the apparatus further comprises:

a receiving unit 402, configured to receive an RRC connection reconfiguration message or an RRC connection recovery message sent by the MN;

the reporting unit 401 is configured to send the first information to the MN.

In an alternative, in case that the measurement gap configuration of the MN side is per-UE gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured by an MN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment.

In an alternative, in case that the measurement gap configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for the SN and/or the MN.

In an optional manner, after the first information is received by the MN, all information in the first information or partial information of the first information is forwarded by the MN to an SN, where,

part of the information of the first information comprises measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side; or,

part of the information of the first information includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range is a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN configuration measurement gap.

In an optional manner, the apparatus further comprises:

a receiving unit 402, configured to receive first configuration information and/or second configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to determine a band list configured on an MN side, and the second configuration information is used to determine a band list configured on an SN side.

In an optional manner, in a case that measurement interval configuration of an MN side is per-UE gap configuration, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN.

In an optional manner, in a case that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN, and the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the SN.

In an optional manner, when measurement interval configuration of an MN side is per-FR gap configuration and an MN determines that a terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, the MN sends the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information to the terminal device;

the reporting unit 401 is configured to send, to the MN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the MN side and/or a band list configured on the SN side.

In an optional manner, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, third indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report only measurement interval requirement indication information to MN; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the third indication information is used to indicate the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN.

In an optional manner, when measurement interval configuration at an MN side is per-FR gap configuration, and MN determines that a terminal device reports measurement interval requirement indication information to an MN and/or an SN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN, or the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the SN;

the reporting unit 401 is configured to send, to the MN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the MN side, and/or send, to the SN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side.

In an optional manner, when the MN determines that the terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to configure the second configuration information to the terminal equipment;

In an optional manner, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN;

In an optional manner, the reporting unit 401 is further configured to report the updated first information or report the update information of the first information, triggered by at least one of the following events:

In an optional mode, under the condition that the SN side is configured with the SRB3 and the MN decides that the terminal device only reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN,

if the SN updates the service cell configuration of the SN side through the SRB3, the SN informs the MN that the service cell configuration of the SN side is updated and/or an updated cell list is generated so as to trigger the MN to request the first information from the terminal equipment again.

In an optional manner, the update information of the first information includes: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, where the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used to determine the updated first information; wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining the effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

In an optional manner, the fifth indication information includes a first bit map, each bit in the first bit map has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to first information reported last by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the related description of the apparatus for reporting indication information in the embodiment of the present application may be understood by referring to the related description of the method for reporting indication information in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural composition diagram of a device for reporting indication information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the device is applied to a network device, such as a source node, and as shown in fig. 5, the device for reporting indication information includes:

a receiving unit 501, configured to receive first information sent by a terminal device, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment;

a sending unit 502, configured to send the first information to a target node when the terminal device is handed over from the source node to the target node.

In an optional manner, the first band list is a band list configured on the source node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to the measurement interval for the source node.

In an optional manner, the sending unit 502 is further configured to send first configuration information to the target node, where the first configuration information is used to determine a band list configured on the source node side.

In an optional manner, the first information is used by the target node to determine whether to request the terminal device to report the updated first information.

Those skilled in the art should understand that the description of the apparatus for reporting indication information in the embodiments of the present application can be understood by referring to the description of the method for reporting indication information in the embodiments of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural composition diagram three of an apparatus for reporting indication information provided in the embodiment of the present application, and is applied to a terminal device, as shown in fig. 6, the apparatus for reporting indication information includes:

a reporting unit 601, configured to report the updated first information or report update information of the first information when the radio resource is reconfigured; wherein,

In an optional manner, the first band list is a band list configured on the serving node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to the measurement interval for the service node.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 700 according to an embodiment of the present application. The communication device may be a terminal device or a network device, and the communication device 700 shown in fig. 7 includes a processor 710, where the processor 710 may call and execute a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, the communication device 700 may further include a memory 720. From the memory 720, the processor 710 can call and run a computer program to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

The memory 720 may be a separate device from the processor 710 or may be integrated into the processor 710.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, the communication device 700 may further include a transceiver 730, and the processor 710 may control the transceiver 730 to communicate with other devices, and in particular, may transmit information or data to the other devices or receive information or data transmitted by the other devices.

The transceiver 730 may include a transmitter and a receiver, among others. The transceiver 730 may further include an antenna, and the number of antennas may be one or more.

Optionally, the communication device 700 may specifically be a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 700 may implement a corresponding process implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein again for brevity.

Optionally, the communication device 700 may specifically be a mobile terminal/terminal device according to this embodiment, and the communication device 700 may implement a corresponding process implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method according to this embodiment, which is not described herein again for brevity.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a chip of the embodiment of the present application. The chip 800 shown in fig. 8 includes a processor 810, and the processor 810 can call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 8, the chip 800 may further include a memory 820. From the memory 820, the processor 810 can call and run a computer program to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

The memory 820 may be a separate device from the processor 810, or may be integrated into the processor 810.

Optionally, the chip 800 may further include an input interface 830. The processor 810 can control the input interface 830 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, can obtain information or data transmitted by other devices or chips.

Optionally, the chip 800 may further include an output interface 840. The processor 810 can control the output interface 840 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, can output information or data to other devices or chips.

Optionally, the chip may be applied to the network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement the corresponding process implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, and for brevity, details are not described here again.

Optionally, the chip may be applied to the mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement the corresponding process implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, and for brevity, details are not described here again.

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

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system 900 provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 9, the communication system 900 includes a terminal device 910 and a network device 920.

The terminal device 910 may be configured to implement the corresponding function implemented by the terminal device in the foregoing method, and the network device 920 may be configured to implement the corresponding function implemented by the network device in the foregoing method, for brevity, which is not described herein again.

It should be understood that the processor of the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or by instructions in the form of software. The Processor may be a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off the shelf Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other Programmable logic device, discrete Gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and combines hardware thereof to complete the steps of the method.

It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Volatile Memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache Memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), synchronous Dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM), enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous link SDRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

It should be understood that the above memories are exemplary but not limiting illustrations, for example, the memories in the embodiments of the present application may also be Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (dynamic RAM, DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), direct Rambus RAM (DR RAM), and the like. That is, the memory in the embodiments of the present application is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer readable storage medium for storing the computer program.

Optionally, the computer-readable storage medium may be applied to the network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program enables the computer to execute the corresponding process implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein again for brevity.

Optionally, the computer-readable storage medium may be applied to the mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program enables the computer to execute the corresponding process implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein again for brevity.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product comprising computer program instructions.

Optionally, the computer program product may be applied to the network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program instructions enable the computer to execute corresponding processes implemented by the network device in the methods in the embodiment of the present application, which are not described herein again for brevity.

Optionally, the computer program product may be applied to the mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program instructions enable the computer to execute the corresponding processes implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in the methods in the embodiment of the present application, which are not described herein again for brevity.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program.

Optionally, the computer program may be applied to the network device in the embodiment of the present application, and when the computer program runs on a computer, the computer is enabled to execute the corresponding process implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, and for brevity, details are not described here again.

Optionally, the computer program may be applied to the mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and when the computer program runs on a computer, the computer is enabled to execute the corresponding process implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein again for brevity.

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

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

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

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

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

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

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

Claims

A method for reporting indication information, the method comprising:

the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment reports first information, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not;

wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the MN side of the master node, a band list configured at the SN side of the slave node, and a band list supported by the terminal device.
The method of claim 1, wherein,

the first band list comprises a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range is a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN and/or MN configuration measurement interval.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the reporting of the first information by the terminal device includes:

and after receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message or an RRC connection recovery message sent by the MN, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the MN.
The method of claim 3, wherein in case that the measurement gap configuration of the MN side is a per-UE gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured at an MN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment.
The method according to claim 3, wherein in the case where the measurement gap configuration of the MN side is a per-FR gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for SN and/or MN.
The method of claim 5, wherein all or a portion of the first information is forwarded by the MN to an SN after the first information is received by the MN, wherein,

part of the information of the first information comprises measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side; or,

part of the information of the first information includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range is a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN configuration measurement gap.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein before the terminal device reports the first information, the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment receives first configuration information and/or second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an MN side, and the second configuration information is used for determining a band list configured by an SN side.
The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first configuration information is transmitted to the terminal device by the MN in case that a measurement gap configuration of an MN side is per-UE gap configuration.
The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein in case that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the first configuration information is transmitted to the terminal device by the MN, and the second configuration information is transmitted to the terminal device by the SN.
The method of claim 7, wherein,

under the condition that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration and the MN judges that the terminal equipment only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN;

the reporting of the first information by the terminal equipment comprises: and the terminal equipment sends measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side to the MN.
The method according to claim 10, wherein, in case that the MN decides that the terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, third indication information is sent by the MN to the terminal device and/or the SN; wherein,

the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report only measurement interval requirement indication information to MN; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the third indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN.
The method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein after the first information is received by the MN, the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the SN-side configured band list is forwarded by the MN to the SN.
The method of claim 7, wherein,

when the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration and MN judges that terminal equipment respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN, or the first configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the SN;

the reporting of the first information by the terminal equipment comprises: and the terminal equipment sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list configured on the MN side to the MN and/or sends the measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in the band list configured on the SN side to the SN.
The method of claim 13, wherein, when the MN determines that the terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to configure the second configuration information to the terminal equipment;

correspondingly, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the SN.
The method of claim 13, wherein when the MN determines that the terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN;

correspondingly, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN.
The method of any of claims 1 to 15, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal device reports the updated first information or reports the update information of the first information under the triggering of at least one of the following events:

MN switching, SN changing, change of a service cell at an MN side, change of a service cell at an SN side, reconfiguration of a band list at the MN side by a network side and reconfiguration of a band list at the SN side by the network side.
The method of claim 16, wherein in case that SRB3 is configured at the SN side and the MN decides that the terminal device only reports the indication information of the measurement interval requirement to the MN,

if the SN updates the service cell configuration of the SN side through the SRB3, the SN informs the MN that the service cell configuration of the SN side is updated and/or an updated cell list is generated so as to trigger the MN to request the first information from the terminal equipment again.
The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein the update information of the first information comprises: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, where the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used to determine the updated first information; wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

the sixth indication information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the second band list.
The method according to claim 18, wherein the fifth indication information includes a first bitmap, each bit in the first bitmap has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to the first information reported last by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.
A method for reporting indication information, the method comprising:

a source node receives first information sent by terminal equipment, wherein the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment;

and under the condition that the terminal equipment is switched from the source node to the target node, the source node sends the first information to the target node.
The method of claim 20, wherein,

the first band list is a band list configured at the source node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for the source node.
The method of claim 20 or 21, wherein the method further comprises:

the source node sends first configuration information to the target node, wherein the first configuration information is used for determining a band list configured on the source node side.
The method according to any of claims 20 to 22, wherein the first information is used for the target node to determine whether to request the terminal device to report the updated first information.
A method for reporting indication information, the method comprising:

reporting the updated first information or reporting the updating information of the first information under the condition that the wireless resources of the terminal equipment are reconfigured; wherein,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at a service node side of the terminal device, and a band list supported by the terminal device.
The method of claim 24, wherein,

the first band list is a band list configured at the service node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to the measurement interval for the service node.
The method of claim 24 or 25, wherein the update information of the first information comprises: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, where the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used to determine the updated first information; wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

the sixth indication information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the second band list.
The method of claim 26, wherein the fifth indication information includes a first bitmap, each bit in the first bitmap has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to the first information last reported by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.
An apparatus for reporting indication information, the apparatus comprising:

a reporting unit, configured to report first information, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval;

wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the MN side, a band list configured at the SN side, and a band list supported by the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 28, wherein,

the first band list comprises a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for SN and/or MN.
The apparatus of claim 28 or 29, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive an RRC connection reconfiguration message or an RRC connection recovery message sent by the MN;

the reporting unit is configured to send the first information to the MN.
The apparatus of claim 30, wherein in case that the MN-side measurement gap configuration is a per-UE gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured at an MN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 30, wherein in case that the measurement gap configuration of the MN side is a per-FR gap configuration,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on an MN side and/or a band list configured on an SN side; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to a measurement interval for SN and/or MN.
The apparatus of claim 32, wherein all or a portion of the first information is forwarded by the MN to a SN upon receipt of the first information by the MN, wherein,

part of the information of the first information comprises measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side; or,

part of the information of the first information includes measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list falling within a specific frequency spectrum range in a band list supported by the terminal device, where the specific frequency spectrum range is a frequency spectrum range corresponding to an SN configuration measurement gap.
The apparatus of claim 28 or 29, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive first configuration information and/or second configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to determine a band list configured by an MN side, and the second configuration information is used to determine a band list configured by an SN side.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 34, wherein the first configuration information is sent by the MN to the terminal device in case that the MN-side measurement gap configuration is per-UE gap configuration.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 34, wherein in case that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration, the first configuration information is transmitted to the terminal device by the MN, and the second configuration information is transmitted to the terminal device by the SN.
The apparatus of claim 34, wherein,

under the condition that the measurement interval configuration of the MN side is per-FR gap configuration and the MN judges that the terminal equipment only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN;

the reporting unit is configured to send, to the MN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the MN side and/or a band list configured on the SN side.
The apparatus of claim 37, wherein in a case where the MN decides that the terminal device only reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN, third indication information is sent by the MN to the terminal device and/or the SN; wherein,

the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report only measurement interval requirement indication information to MN; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the third indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN.
The apparatus of claim 37 or 38, wherein the measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the SN-side configured band list is forwarded by the MN to the SN after the first information is received by the MN.
The apparatus of claim 34, wherein when the measurement interval configuration on the MN side is a per-FR gap configuration, and when an MN determines that a terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to an MN and/or an SN, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are sent to the terminal device by the MN, or the first configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal device by the SN;

the reporting unit is configured to send, to the MN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the MN side, and/or send, to the SN, measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a band list configured on the SN side.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 40, wherein, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN; wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to configure the second configuration information to the terminal equipment;

correspondingly, the first configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN and/or the second configuration information is sent to the terminal equipment by the SN.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 40, wherein, in a case that the MN determines that the terminal device respectively reports measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN and/or the SN, fourth indication information is sent to the terminal device and/or the SN by the MN;

wherein,

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively report measurement interval requirement indication information to MN and/or SN;

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

the fourth indication information is used for indicating the SN to forward the second configuration information to the MN;

correspondingly, the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information are/is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN.
The apparatus of any one of claims 28 to 42, wherein the reporting unit is further configured to report the updated first information or report update information of the first information, triggered by at least one of the following events:

MN switching, SN changing, change of a service cell at an MN side, change of a service cell at an SN side, reconfiguration of a band list at the MN side by a network side and reconfiguration of a band list at the SN side by the network side.
The apparatus of claim 43, wherein in case that SRB3 is configured at the SN side and the MN decides that the terminal device only reports the measurement interval requirement indication information to the MN,

if the SN updates the service cell configuration of the SN side through the SRB3, the SN informs the MN that the service cell configuration of the SN side is updated and/or an updated cell list is generated so as to trigger the MN to request the first information from the terminal equipment again.
The apparatus of claim 43 or 44, wherein the update information of the first information comprises: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, where the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used to determine the updated first information;

wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining the effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

the sixth indication information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the second band list.
The apparatus of claim 45, wherein the fifth indication information includes a first bitmap, each bit in the first bitmap has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to the first information last reported by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.
An apparatus for reporting indication information, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive first information sent by a terminal device, where the first information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used to indicate whether the band needs a measurement interval; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at the source node side and a band list supported by the terminal equipment;

a sending unit, configured to send the first information to a target node when the terminal device is handed over from the source node to the target node.
The apparatus of claim 47, wherein,

the first band list is a band list configured at the source node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to the measurement interval for the source node.
The apparatus of claim 47 or 48, wherein the sending unit is further configured to send first configuration information to the target node, where the first configuration information is used to determine a band list configured on the source node side.
The apparatus of any one of claims 47 to 49, wherein the first information is used for the target node to determine whether to request the terminal device to report the updated first information.
An apparatus for reporting indication information, the apparatus comprising:

a reporting unit, configured to report the updated first information or report update information of the first information when the reconfiguration occurs to the radio resource; wherein,

the first information is used for determining measurement interval requirement indication information of each band in a first band list, and the measurement interval requirement indication information is used for indicating whether the band needs a measurement interval or not; wherein the first band list is determined based on at least one of: a band list configured at a service node side of the terminal device, and a band list supported by the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 51, wherein,

the first band list is a band list configured at the service node side; or,

the first band list is a band list supported by the terminal equipment; or,

the first band list is a band list which falls within a specific frequency spectrum range in the band list supported by the terminal equipment, and the specific frequency spectrum range configures a frequency spectrum range corresponding to the measurement interval for the service node.
The apparatus of claim 51 or 52, wherein the update information of the first information comprises: fifth indication information and sixth indication information, wherein the fifth indication information and the sixth indication information are used for determining the updated first information; wherein,

the fifth indication information is used for determining effective measurement interval requirement indication information of the band in the first information reported last time;

the sixth indication information is used to determine measurement interval requirement indication information for each band in the second band list.
The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the fifth indication information includes a first bitmap, each bit in the first bitmap has a corresponding relationship with each band in a third band list, the third band list is a band list corresponding to the first information last reported by the terminal device, and a value of the bit is used to indicate whether measurement interval requirement indication information of the band corresponding to the bit is valid.
A terminal device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory, to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 19, or the method of any of claims 24 to 27.
A network device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method of any of claims 20 to 23.
A chip, comprising: a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory so that a device on which the chip is installed performs the method of any of claims 1 to 19, or the method of any of claims 24 to 27.
A chip, comprising: a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory so that a device on which the chip is installed performs the method of any one of claims 20 to 23.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 19 or the method of any of claims 24 to 27.
A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 20 to 23.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions to cause a computer to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 19 or the method of any of claims 24 to 27.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions to cause a computer to perform the method of any of claims 20 to 23.
A computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 19 or the method of any one of claims 24 to 27.
A computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 20 to 23.