CN115413416A

CN115413416A - Measurement relaxation configuration processing method and device, communication equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN115413416A
Application number: CN202180000949.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李艳华
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-03-29
Filing date: 2021-03-29
Publication date: 2022-11-29
Also published as: WO2022204903A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method, communication equipment and a storage medium. The measurement relaxation configuration processing method executed by the base station in the embodiment of the present disclosure may include: configuring a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.

Description

Measurement relaxation configuration processing method and device, communication equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, but not limited to the field of wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a measurement relaxation configuration processing method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium.

Background

For wireless communication systems, measurements through various reference signals are required to maintain high quality communication between a terminal and a base station. Exemplarily, a cell issues a reference signal, a terminal measures the reference signal, and the terminal reports a measurement result for a base station to perform Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement or perform mobility Management on the terminal.

With the development of terminal technology, a plurality of types of terminals (i.e., user Equipment (UE)) are presented, and if the same measurement configuration is adopted, the terminal may not be suitable for a certain type of UE.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method and device, communication equipment and a storage medium.

A first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method, where the method is performed by a base station, and the method includes:

configuring a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus method, where the method is performed by a user equipment UE, and the method includes: a measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE is obtained.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, where the apparatus is applied in a base station, and the apparatus includes:

a configuration module configured to configure a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.

A fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, where the apparatus is applied in a user equipment UE, and the apparatus includes:

an acquisition module configured to acquire a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of UE.

A fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a communication device, including a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored on the memory and capable of being executed by the processor, wherein the processor executes the executable program to perform the measurement relaxation configuration processing method as provided in the first aspect or the second aspect.

A sixth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer storage medium having an executable program stored thereon; the executable program, when executed by the processor, is capable of implementing the measurement relaxation configuration processing method provided by the first aspect or the second aspect.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can specifically determine the relaxation measurement configuration for the specific type of UE, and the measurement relaxation configuration determined by the method is matched with the characteristics of the specific type of UE, so that the measurement mode configuration of the specific type of UE can be balanced with the measurement requirements and energy-saving requirements of the specific type of UE, and the power consumption generated by the specific type of UE in measurement can be saved as much as possible while the measurement requirements are met.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of embodiments of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the embodiments.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of measuring relaxation configuration processing in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating cell division in accordance with an example embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a measurement relaxation configuration processing method according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a measurement relaxation configuration processing method according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a UE structure according to an exemplary embodiment;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a structure of a communication device according to an example embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations consistent with embodiments of the invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of embodiments of the invention, as detailed in the following claims.

The terminology used in the embodiments of the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the embodiments of the present disclosure. As used in the disclosed embodiments and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "an", and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It is to be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various information in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such information should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of embodiments of the present disclosure. The word "if," as used herein, may be interpreted as "at … …" or "at … …" or "in response to a determination," depending on the context.

Referring to fig. 1, a schematic structural diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. As shown in fig. 1, the wireless communication system is a communication system based on a cellular mobile communication technology, and may include: several UEs 11 and several access devices 12.

Among other things, the UE11 may refer to a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user. The UE11 may communicate with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN), and the UE11 may be an internet of things UE, such as a sensor device, a mobile phone (or called "cellular" phone), and a computer having the internet of things UE, and may be a fixed, portable, pocket, handheld, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted device, for example. For example, a Station (STA), a subscriber unit (subscriber unit), a subscriber Station (subscriber Station), a mobile Station (mobile), a remote Station (remote Station), an access point (ap), a remote UE (remote), an access UE (access terminal), a user equipment (user terminal), a user agent (user agent), a user equipment (user device), or a user UE (user equipment, UE). Alternatively, the UE11 may be a device of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Alternatively, the UE11 may also be a vehicle-mounted device, for example, a vehicle computer with a wireless communication function, or a wireless communication device externally connected to the vehicle computer. Alternatively, the UE11 may be a roadside device, for example, a street lamp, a signal lamp or other roadside device with a wireless communication function.

Access device 12 may be a network-side device in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system may be the fourth generation mobile communication (4 g) system, which is also called Long Term Evolution (LTE) system; alternatively, the wireless communication system may also be a 5G system, which is also called a New Radio (NR) system or a 5G NR system. Alternatively, the wireless communication system may be a next-generation system of a 5G system. Among them, the Access Network in the 5G system may be referred to as NG-RAN (New Generation-Radio Access Network). Alternatively, an MTC system.

The access device 12 may be an evolved access device (eNB) used in a 4G system. Alternatively, the access device 12 may also be an access device (gNB) adopting a centralized distributed architecture in the 5G system. When the access device 12 employs a centralized distributed architecture, it typically includes a Central Unit (CU) and at least two Distributed Units (DUs). A Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, a Radio Link layer Control Protocol (RLC) layer, and a Media Access Control (MAC) layer are provided in the central unit; a Physical (PHY) layer protocol stack is disposed in the distribution unit, and the specific implementation manner of the access device 12 is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure.

A radio connection may be established between access device 12 and UE11 over a radio air interface. In various embodiments, the wireless air interface is based on a fourth generation mobile communication network technology (4G) standard; or the wireless air interface is a wireless air interface based on a fifth generation mobile communication network technology (5G) standard, for example, the wireless air interface is a new air interface; alternatively, the wireless air interface may be a wireless air interface based on a 5G next generation mobile communication network technology standard.

In some embodiments, an E2E (End to End) connection may also be established between UEs 11. Such as a vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, a vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication, and a vehicle to peer (V2P) communication in a vehicle to internet communication (V2X).

In some embodiments, the wireless communication system may further include a network management device 13.

Several access devices 12 are connected to a network management device 13, respectively. The network Management device 13 may be a Core network device in a wireless communication system, for example, the network Management device 13 may be a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in an Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Alternatively, the Network management device may also be other core Network devices, such as a Serving GateWay (SGW), a Public Data Network GateWay (PGW), a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), or the like. The implementation form of the network management device 13 is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method, where the measurement relaxation configuration processing method is performed by a base station, and includes:

s110: configuring a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.

The measurement relaxation configuration processing method can reduce the measurement of various signals sent by the UE, for example, prolong the measurement period, reduce the number of sampling points in each measurement process or do not measure part of the reference signals.

In summary, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the measurement frequency is reduced or the number of measurement points for the reference signal in a single measurement process is reduced corresponding to measurement relaxation, and the power consumption required by measurement is reduced when the effect is achieved.

The measurements involved in embodiments of the present disclosure include at least: radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement and mobility Management measurement of the UE. At least a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) and/or a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) is involved in the measurement.

RRM measurements and/or mobility measurements may be used for the base station to make cell quality determinations, beam quality determinations, cell selection further for U and/or cell reselection.

Measuring the relaxation configuration in embodiments of the present disclosure is at least for: measurement of neighbor cells by a specific type of UE.

In other embodiments, the measurement mode configuration may also be for measurement of a serving cell for a particular type of UE.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, a measurement relaxation configuration may be configured for a specific type of UE, and for the specific type of UE, measurement on various reference signals sent by a cell may be reduced according to the measurement relaxation configuration, so as to save power consumption. Various reference signals transmitted by the cell herein include, but are not limited to: cell-level reference signals, UE group reference signals, and reference signals for a single UE.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the UE of the specific type may at least include: capability reduced RedCap UE. Herein, redcap UE may be weaker in signal transceiving and/or signal processing than UE supporting enhanced Mobile bandwidth (eMBB). For example, the maximum bandwidth supported by a Redcap UE is less than the maximum bandwidth supported by an eMBB UE. Classified according to the mobility of the UE, the UE of the specific type may be a UE with a relatively low mobility, and a typical UE with a relatively low mobility may include: various industrial sensors, monitoring equipment with two fixed sides of a road, and intelligent household equipment which is not moved frequently or is limited to a home in a moving range.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, some UEs may be classified as the UE of the specific type according to mobility statistics of the UE or according to functional classification performed by the UE.

Because the probability of accessing to the inter-frequency cell or the inter-system is greatly reduced by the UE with weak UE capability or the UE with low mobility, if the specific type of UE continues to measure the reference signal of the inter-frequency cell or the inter-system or the inter-frequency cell or the inter-system cell, the power consumption of the specific type of UE may be large, resulting in a long standby time of the specific type. In summary, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, for a specific type of UE, according to the characteristics of the specific type of UE, a relaxed measurement configuration suitable for the specific type of UE is configured, so as to reduce power consumption of the UE due to measurement.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation style configuration.

A measure relaxation mode configuration, a mode of the indicated relaxation measure; it is worth noting that: stopping the measurement completely is also a way to relax the measurement.

A relaxation condition configuration is measured, indicating a condition for relaxation measurement. In some cases, the measurement may be relaxed in any case for a specific type of UE, and in some cases, the condition for relaxing the measurement is defined in consideration of that the specific type of UE still has a partial mobility requirement or that the current cell uncertainty problem still has access to other cells or other systems. Other configurations, such as the measurement relaxation mode in the measurement relaxation configuration, are only in effect after the condition for relaxing the measurement is satisfied.

Different configurations of the measured relaxation modes indicate different relaxation effects or degrees of relaxation, corresponding to different effective conditions (i.e. different measured relaxation conditions).

In this embodiment of the present disclosure, a correspondence between the relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation mode configuration may be established in a protocol pre-agreed manner, and this correspondence may be indicated by the pairing configuration. Thus, after receiving the pairing configuration, the UE performs measurement relaxation by using a measurement relaxation method that satisfies the measurement relaxation condition when the pairing configuration satisfies the corresponding measurement relaxation condition.

The pairing configuration is a configuration indicating a correspondence relationship between a measurement relaxation condition and a measurement relaxation manner. For example, a corresponding relationship is established between a measurement relaxation condition a and a measurement relaxation mode 1, and a corresponding relationship is established between a measurement relaxation condition B and a measurement relaxation mode 2, such a pairing configuration indicates the corresponding relationship, so that after receiving the pairing configuration, a specific type of UE performs measurement relaxation of a co-frequency cell and/or an inter-frequency cell by using the measurement relaxation mode 1 when the measurement relaxation condition a is satisfied; and when the measurement relaxation condition B is met, performing measurement relaxation on the co-frequency cell and/or the inter-frequency cell by adopting a measurement relaxation mode 2.

In this embodiment of the present disclosure, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on a frequency point priority.

The configuration for relaxation of measurement based on frequency point priority is not adopted, and comprises at least one of the following:

when the signal quality of the service cell does not reach the quality threshold, reducing the measurement period of the pilot frequency cell;

when the quality of the service cell reaches the quality threshold, the pilot frequency cell is not measured, even if the priority of the target measurement frequency point is higher than that of the service cell.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation configuration of the specific type of UE to the inter-frequency cell and/or the inter-system may be reused. The measurement relaxation configuration of the co-frequency cell is determined according to the co-frequency cell.

Illustratively, the measurement relaxation manner configuration of a specific type of UE may be configured with a decision threshold-based measurement relaxation.

For example, when a reference signal value of a measurement of a specific type of UE on a current serving cell and/or an inter-frequency neighbor cell reaches a decision threshold, it is determined to perform a relaxation measurement, and a specific relaxation manner may be determined according to a corresponding measurement relaxation manner configuration.

As for the measurement of the pilot frequency cell by the specific type of UE, the measurement relaxation configuration based on the frequency point priority is not adopted, and may be determined based on the negotiation between the base station and the UE, or may be predefined by the communication protocol; or may be determined by the network side device alone. The network side here includes but is not limited to: core network devices and/or access network devices. A typical access network device includes at least: and a base station.

Therefore, in some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.

If the measurement of the special frequency cell by the special type UE does not adopt measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority and is determined based on a protocol, the base station does not need to specially inform the special type UE, if the measurement is informed by the network side, the network side needs to explicitly or implicitly inform the UE by a communication signaling, and at least explicitly or implicitly informs the special type UE.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration for the inter-frequency cell does not adopt the measurement relaxation mode configuration based on the priority of the frequency point, and may be in the whole process of the inter-frequency cell and/or the inter-system by the specific type of UE.

In other embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied to a cell selection or a cell reselection measurement process. The following is an example of cell reselection.

If the relaxation measurement configuration of the pilot frequency cell is carried out based on the frequency point priority, when the cell is reselected, if the cell is reselected according to the frequency point priority, the frequency point needs to be selected according to the priority, then the signal measurement values of the detected cell are sequenced on the frequency point, and the best cell is selected to be reselected and resided.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, if the relaxed measurement configuration of the specific type of UE is limited not to adopt the measurement relaxed configuration based on the frequency point priority, then the frequency point priority is not adopted to perform frequency point selection first in the cell reselection process. And if the cell reselection is not performed based on the frequency point priority level, only the detected cell is selected to perform reselection residing according to the signal quality sequencing without performing the cell reselection according to the frequency point priority level.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied in a measurement process of cell reselection and adopts a measurement configuration based on a ranking rule of signal measurement values.

In one embodiment: the precondition that the measurement relaxation configuration of a specific type of UE can not use the measurement relaxation configuration of the frequency point priority level for the pilot frequency is: the measurement of the specific type of UE during cell selection and/or cell reselection is to select the UE residing cell by sorting the pilot frequency without using the priority level of the frequency point, that is, preferentially selecting the UE residing cell by sorting according to the signal measurement value.

The ranking rule of the signal measurement values herein may be to compare the signal quality of the reference signal of the serving cell and/or the inter-frequency cell currently measured with a quality threshold, and then determine whether to relax the measurement on the inter-frequency cell according to the comparison result.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the signal measurement may be: reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) and/or Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ). In still other embodiments, the signal measurements may further include: signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), etc., are not limited to the above RSPR and/or RSPQ.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the relaxation measurement configuration for the specific type of UE may be divided into: a relaxed measurement configuration for intra-frequency cells and/or a relaxed measurement configuration for inter-frequency cells.

In some embodiments, the decision threshold used for the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE comprises at least one of:

a first power threshold, snonIntraSearchP, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a first quality threshold SnonIntraSearchQ, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a second power threshold, SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement of co-frequency cells;

and a second quality threshold SIntraSearchQ included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release the measurement of the co-frequency cells.

In this embodiment of the disclosure, the first power threshold, the first quality threshold, the second power threshold, and the second quality threshold may be all configured as components of the foregoing relaxed measurement condition.

Exemplarily, taking the first power threshold as an example, if the measured reference signal received power of the serving cell reaches the first power threshold, the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type is relaxed, that is, other relaxation configurations than the relaxation condition configuration for the UE of the specific type are effective. The measurement relaxation configuration other than the measurement relaxation condition configuration herein may include at least: a relaxed mode configuration is measured. Illustratively, when the reference signal received power obtained after the reference signal measurement of the UE of the specific type on the serving cell reaches the first power threshold, the measurement relaxation mode configuration of at least the UE of the specific type on the inter-frequency cell becomes effective.

Exemplarily, taking a first quality threshold as an example, if the measured reference signal received quality of the serving cell reaches the first quality threshold, the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type is relaxed, that is, other relaxation configurations than the relaxation condition for the UE of the specific type are effective. Exemplarily, if the received quality of the reference signal obtained after the reference signal measurement of the UE of the specific type on the serving cell reaches the first quality threshold, the measurement relaxation mode configuration of at least the UE of the specific type on the inter-frequency cell is effective.

Exemplarily, taking a second power threshold as an example, if the measured reference signal received power of the serving cell reaches the second power threshold, the measurement of the intra-frequency cell by the specific type of UE is relaxed, that is, other relaxation configurations than the relaxation condition for the specific type of UE are effective. Exemplarily, if the received power of the reference signal obtained after the specific type of UE measures the reference signal of the serving cell reaches the second power threshold, the measurement relaxation mode configuration of at least the specific type of UE on the co-frequency cell takes effect.

Exemplarily, taking a second quality threshold as an example, if the measured reference signal received quality of the serving cell reaches the second quality threshold, the measurement of the intra-frequency cell by the specific type of UE is relaxed, that is, other relaxation configurations than the relaxation condition for the specific type of UE are effective. Exemplarily, if the received quality of the reference signal obtained after the reference signal measurement of the UE of the specific type on the serving cell reaches the second quality threshold, the measurement relaxation mode configuration of at least the UE of the specific type on the inter-frequency cell is effective.

Here, "achieving" includes: equal to or higher (i.e., greater than).

Here, the first power threshold, the first quality threshold, the second power threshold and/or the second quality threshold may be included in the measurement relaxation mode configuration based on the sorting rule of the signal measurement values for defining the measurement relaxation condition.

In some embodiments, the measuring a relaxation style configuration comprises:

the measurement of the special type UE on the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell is configured by adopting the same alternative measurement relaxation mode;

or,

and the specific type of UE adopts different alternative measurement relaxation modes for configuration on the measurement of the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell.

In some cases, the same alternative measurement relaxation mode may be adopted for relaxation measurement of the intra-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE, that is, the same alternative measurement relaxation mode configuration is defined in the measurement relaxation configuration of the intra-frequency cell and/or the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE.

And configuring alternative measurement relaxation modes, wherein the indicated measurement relaxation modes are used for alternative measurement relaxation modes at the moment.

In other embodiments, the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE are configured in different alternative measurement relaxation manners, that is, the alternative measurement relaxation manners used for the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE are different. And if the alternative measurement relaxation modes are different, the corresponding alternative measurement relaxation mode configurations are different. Different alternative measurement relaxation style configurations herein may include: some alternative measurement relaxation modes are different and/or all alternative measurement relaxation modes are different.

If the measurement of the specific type UE on the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell is configured by adopting the same alternative measurement relaxation mode, the signaling consumed by the measurement relaxation configuration is saved.

As for the measurement of the specific type of UE on the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell, whether the same alternative measurement relaxation mode configuration is adopted can be selected according to the current requirement of the network and the specific communication characteristics of the specific type of UE.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: the target relaxation mode configurations selected by the specific type UE from the same alternative measurement relaxation configurations corresponding to the same frequency cell and the different frequency cell are the same;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the target relaxing mode configurations selected by the specific type of UE from the same alternative measurement relaxing configurations corresponding to the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell are different.

If the specific type of UE adopts the same alternative relaxation mode configuration for the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell, the specific type of UE may receive a set of alternative relaxation mode configuration for the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell at the same time. When the specific UE performs the relaxation measurement, the same or different target relaxation modes may be selected for the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell according to the current need. The target relaxation mode configurations selected are different, and the relaxation modes adopted in the specific relaxation measurement are different.

Several alternative relaxation options are provided below:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is greater than a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.

In some embodiments, the measurement interval may be increased by scaling up the scaling factor that determines the measurement interval, which corresponds to a decrease in measurement frequency, which is a measurement relaxation.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the measurement intervals may include two types, where the first type of measurement interval corresponds to a first type of scaling factor, and the second type of measurement interval corresponds to a second type of scaling factor, where the zoom-in scaling factor defined in the measurement zoom-out configuration, and the specific zoom-in scaling factor, may be used for the sampling interval of the measurement. The first type of measurement interval and the second type of measurement interval differ in that both measure the degree of relaxation, a larger measurement interval meaning a more relaxed measurement.

In summary, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the measurement relaxation manner configuration indicates that the measurement manner is implemented by increasing the measurement interval by increasing the scaling factor, which is the scaling factor of the measurement interval currently configured for the specific type of UE.

Stopping measurement for 1 hour may be directly stopping measurement of the intra-frequency cell and/or the inter-frequency cell for 1 hour, and in this 1 hour, since there is no measurement for the intra-frequency cell and/or the inter-frequency cell, the specific type of UE may reduce power consumption due to stopping measurement.

In some embodiments, the measurement may be stopped for more than 1 hour, and generally X is a positive integer greater than 1, for example, X may be 24 hours, 12 hours, or 48 hours. Stopping the measurement within X hours obviously saves the power consumption of the UE due to stopping the measurement within X hours.

In some embodiments, measuring the relaxation style configuration may further include: the measurement is stopped directly, and thus, the specific type of UE will directly stop the measurement, thereby reducing power consumption saved by the UE directly stopping the measurement.

If the scaling factor for enlarging the measurement interval is set as a first mode, and the measurement stopping time is set as a second mode for 1 hour; the stop measurement X hours is set to the third mode, and the stop measurement is set to the fourth mode.

The degree of relaxation increases in order from at least mode two to mode four.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configurations of the mode one to the mode four are included in the alternative measurement configurations in the UE of the specific type, and then the measurement relaxation mode may be selected according to the following candidate relaxation sequence:

the first mode can be relaxed to the second mode, and the second mode can be relaxed to the third mode;

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

the first mode may relax to the second mode, and the second mode may relax to the fourth mode.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, during the process of measuring relaxation, the measurement relaxation mode is also switched. For example, when a certain measurement relaxation mode is selected for measurement relaxation, if it is determined that there is a need for further relaxation measurement or there is a possibility of further relaxation measurement, switching of measurement relaxation may be performed from a measurement mode with a lower degree of relaxation to a measurement relaxation mode with a higher degree of relaxation. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the measurement of the switching of the relaxation mode may be performed by using the candidate relaxation sequence.

In some embodiments, the measurement of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type is configured by using the same measurement relaxation condition;

or,

and the specific type of UE measures the different frequency cells and the same frequency cells and adopts different measurement relaxation condition configurations.

If the measurement relaxation condition configurations of the specific type of UE are the same, only one set of measurement relaxation condition configurations that are simultaneously effective for the co-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell need to be carried in the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE, which can simplify the configuration and reduce the signaling overhead.

In some specific cases, the measurement mode condition configurations for the intra-frequency cell and the inter-frequency cell may be different.

Illustratively, the measurement relaxation condition configuration includes at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

The mobility satisfying the mobility condition may include at least one of:

determining the moving distance of the specific type of UE within a preset time length, and if the moving distance is smaller than the preset distance, determining that a mobility condition is met;

determining the average moving rate of the specific type of UE within a preset time length, and if the average moving rate is less than the preset rate, determining that a mobility condition is met;

and determining whether the specific type of UE moves out of a preset range within a preset time length, and if not, determining that the mobility condition is met.

In some embodiments, since the power of the reference signal transmitted by the base station usually has a small variation, the UE of a specific type may determine the power according to the measured value of the reference signal when determining whether the UE itself satisfies the mobility condition.

Illustratively, over a certain time (T) _SearchDeltaP ) If the difference between the reference signal received power and the current measured RSRP of the UE is smaller than a preset threshold (S) _SearchDeltaP ) That is, the representative signal has a small variation amplitude, the UE may be considered to be in a stationary state or a low mobility state, that is, the UE is considered to satisfy the mobility condition (or referred to as a low mobility condition). It is noted that the decision needs to be considered only when the signal is falling, and the specific decision conditions are as follows:

(SrxlevRef–Srxlev)<SSearchDeltaP

wherein:

srxlev = Srxlev of the current serving cell, in dB;

SrxlevRef = Srxlev reference value of the current serving cell, in dB. The setting is performed according to the following manner:

the UE selects or reselects a new cell;

(Srxlev-SrxlevRef>0)；

no decision condition is met within TSearchDeltaP;

when any of the above conditions is satisfied, the UE sets SrxlevRef to Srxlev of the current serving cell.

In some embodiments, the certain time period may be the aforementioned set time period, and the value may be 5 minutes or 10 minutes or any other time period.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the mobility condition may be an indication: mobility conditions where the mobility of a particular type of UE is low. Of course, the above is merely an example of the mobility condition (or becoming a low mobility condition), and the specific implementation is not limited to these examples.

One cell may be divided into a center area and an edge area, and a distance between the center area and the base station is smaller than a distance between the edge area and the base station. Typically the central region is located inboard of the edge region; and the edge region is located outside the central region.

The determination of whether the UE is in the center area or the edge area of the serving cell may also be based on measurements of the received signals of signals transmitted by the cell by the UE. If the current Srxlev of the UE is greater than the threshold SsearchThresholdP and Squal is greater than the threshold SsearchThresholdQ (if configured), it is determined that the UE is not located at the cell edge (i.e., the UE is located in the central area of the serving cell), and the specific determination conditions are as follows:

srxlev > Ssearch hThresholdP and Squal > Ssearch hThresholdQ; wherein:

srxlev = Srxlev of the current serving cell, in dB;

squal = Squal of the current serving cell, in dB.

If the UE is located in the central area of the serving cell, the signal transmission path between the UE and the base station is close, and the signal quality or the received power of the general serving cell is higher, so the probability of switching the UE into other cells is low, and therefore, the probability of switching the UE into the neighboring cell is lower regardless of the neighboring cells with the same frequency or different frequencies.

As shown in fig. 2, the area of the serving cell may be divided into a center area, a middle area and an edge area of the serving cell according to a distance from the base station; the distance between the central area and the base station is shorter than the distance between the middle area and the base station; the distance between the middle area and the base station is shorter than the distance between the middle area and the base station.

If the UE satisfies the low mobility restricted by the mobility condition and/or is not located in the edge area of the serving cell, the probability that the UE switches into the same-frequency neighboring cell or the different-frequency neighboring cell is relatively low, and therefore it can be considered that the measurement relaxation condition is satisfied at this time, the measurement can be relaxed according to other configurations other than the measurement mode condition configuration in the measurement relaxation configuration, and exemplarily, the measurement configuration of the common-frequency cell and/or the different-frequency cell is relaxed according to the measurement relaxation mode configuration.

In some embodiments, the pairing configuration includes at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying both the mobility condition and the location condition, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defined stop measurements are in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the measurement relaxed manner configuring a defined magnification determining a relaxed manner of a scaling factor of a measurement interval is in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxed manner configuring a defined magnification determining a relaxed manner of a scaling factor of a measurement interval is in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition, a relaxation pattern of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is validated by the measurement relaxation pattern configuration-defined amplification;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is effected by a magnification determination defined by the measurement relaxation configuration;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the UE of the specific type is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

The mobility threshold herein may include: a speed threshold and/or a distance threshold, etc.

The location condition may be considered not to be satisfied if the specific type of UE is located in an edge area of the serving cell.

There may be one or more of the relaxation conditions defined in the measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE, and the measurement relaxation configuration in the pairing configuration is effective, which may need to be determined according to which and/or the number of currently satisfied relaxation conditions are.

According to the pairing configuration, the specific type of UE can select a corresponding measurement relaxation mode to measure the co-frequency cell and/or the inter-frequency cell according to the current measurement relaxation condition.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may further include: and issuing measurement relaxation configuration of the specific type of UE. After the base station completes the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE, the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE is sent to the UE through downlink signaling, for example, sent to the UE through physical layer signaling and/or high layer signaling. Higher layer signaling herein includes, but is not limited to: MAC CE and/or RRC signaling.

As shown in fig. 5, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method, where the method is performed by a user equipment UE, and the method includes:

s210: a measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE is obtained.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the measurement mode configuration of the specific type of UE may be issued by the base station, or written into the total grey girl of the communication protocol in advance, so that there are various acquisition modes of the measurement mode configuration of the specific type of UE, and the acquisition mode is not limited to any one of the above.

In some embodiments, the specific type of UE includes at least: reduced capability RedCap UE.

Specific types of UEs herein include, but are not limited to, redcapUE.

In some embodiments, the specific types of UEs include, but are not limited to: industrial sensors, smart homes and/or smart office equipment with low mobility, and the like.

Illustratively, the specific type of UE may be: industrial sensors in a reccap UE, smart homes and/or smart office equipment with little mobility, but not all reccap UEs.

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

The measurement relaxation mode configuration, the measurement relaxation condition configuration, and the pairing configuration are not illustrated here, but may be referred to in the embodiments.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.

The method comprises the steps that before a receiving end receives measurement relaxation configuration or does not receive the measurement relaxation configuration, the UE of a specific type can determine that the measurement of the current UE of the specific type on the pilot frequency cell does not adopt the measurement relaxation configuration based on the frequency point priority according to a protocol.

In some embodiments, the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on the priority of the frequency point, and is determined according to a notification issued by the network side. The notification may be issued by a base station of the access network, or may be determined by core network equipment of the core network.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a measurement configuration based on a ranking rule of signal measurement values.

In some embodiments, the decision threshold used for the measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

a second power threshold SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement on co-frequency cells;

a second quality threshold, SIntraSearchQ, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on co-frequency cells.

In some embodiments, the measuring a relaxation style configuration comprises:

the measurement of the specific type UE on the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell is configured by adopting the same alternative measurement relaxation mode;

or,

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: the measurement of the UE of the specific type on the same-frequency cell and the different-frequency cell is configured in the same target relaxation mode selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the specific type UE measures the same frequency cell and different frequency cell, and target relaxation mode configurations selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration are different.

In some embodiments, the relaxation style defined by the measured relaxation style configuration includes at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

the measurement was stopped for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.

or,

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation condition configuration comprises at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

In some embodiments, the pairing configuration includes at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the relaxation mode defined by the measurement relaxation mode configuration is effective to enlarge a scaling factor determining a measurement interval;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defining a magnification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of a magnification-determining measurement interval defined by the measurement relaxation configuration takes effect;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the embodiment of the disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing method taking Redcap UE as a specific type of UE as an example. Reduced capability UE or simply NR-lite or Redcap terminal. Similar to the internet of things equipment in LTE, the equipment based on the general requirement in 5G NR-lite meets the following requirements: low cost, low complexity, a certain degree of coverage enhancement, and power savings.

After the introduction of the Redcap UE, unlike the general eMBB UE, the Redcap UE requires a small amount of data in a partial scene, such as an industrial sensor scene, and at this time, the load balancing at the high frequency point level does not work much. Moreover, according to the original neighbor cell measurement scheme for differentiating the high frequency point priority level, the mode always needs to measure the high frequency point priority level for at least 60s, even if the terminal is in the center of the cell. In this case, additional power consumption is caused.

In fact, however, it is entirely possible not to perform periodic 60s measurements for high frequency bin priority levels for terminals that do not require as much data as is required by the class. Based on this idea, the existing measurement relaxation rules can be optimized to some extent. In view of this, a specific measurement relaxation method is introduced for a specific type of UE.

The specific type of UE is a Redcap terminal;

the specific type of UE is a certain type of terminal in a Redcap terminal, such as an industrial sensor;

the UE of a specific type is a terminal of a certain type, such as a stationary terminal, in a Redcap terminal.

In one embodiment, the measurement relaxation method for the specific type of UE can adopt a measurement relaxation mode which does not use the frequency point priority level for the pilot frequency

In one embodiment, the measurement relaxation method for a specific type of UE may reuse measurement relaxation methods of the same frequency for measurement relaxation methods that do not use a frequency point priority level for different frequencies:

as an example:

the same measurement relaxation sequence set can be used for different frequencies/same frequencies, but the different frequencies/same frequencies of the measurement relaxation methods can be the same or different, such as selecting the mode A and the mode B respectively or selecting the mode A;

mode 1: increasing the measurement interval, i.e. relaxing the measurement period to a wider measurement interval; for example, the quantum interval is set to the ms level. In the case of a larger measurement interval, when the number of measurements within one measurement interval is constant, it is equivalent to relaxing the measurement. Here, increasing the measurement interval may be determined by increasing a scaling factor of the measurement interval. The measurement interval may be that defined by standard TS 38.133;

mode 2: increasing the measurement interval by adjusting the scaling factor; the measurement interval may be the measurement interval defined in the standard (R16). Mode 3: stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

mode 4: stopping measuring for x hours; one specific example of (X > = 1) X is 24 hours

Mode 5: the measurement is stopped.

When selecting a specific measurement relaxation mode, the selection can be performed based on the following candidate relaxation sequences, and can also be random selection; or determining the currently used measurement relaxation mode according to the corresponding relation of the currently satisfied measurement mode conditions.

Illustratively, mode 1 may relax to mode 2; mode 2 may relax to mode 4.

Or,

mode 1 may relax to mode 2; and mode 2 may relax to mode 5.

The same measurement relaxation trigger condition that can be used for inter/co frequencies:

the following is an example of selecting the same measurement relaxation triggering condition and relaxation method for simplicity:

case 1 when the network is configured with low mobility and not at the cell edge and two conditions of the terminal are satisfied simultaneously: the same measurement relaxation method can be used for inter/intra frequencies, such as choosing to stop the measurement from the measurement relaxation sequence set:

case 2: low mobility is configured in the network and not at the cell edge and the terminal only meets one condition): the same measurement relaxation method that can be used for inter/intra frequencies, such as selecting scaling factors from the measurement relaxation sequence set that increase the measurement interval;

case 3: a condition of low mobility or no cell edge is configured in the network, and the terminal satisfies the condition: the same measurement relaxation method can be used for inter/intra frequencies, such as selecting a scaling factor from the set of measurement relaxation sequences that increases the measurement interval.

In some embodiments, measuring the relaxation method availability may be based on protocol agreement or network notification for pilot not using frequency point priority levels or pilot using frequency point priority levels;

in some embodiments, measurements of a particular type of UE at cell selection or cell reselection will not use frequency point priority levels for the pilot frequencies, i.e., only sort according to signal quality

In some embodiments, the precondition of the measurement relaxation method for a specific type of UE that does not use the frequency point priority level for the pilot frequency is that the specific type of UE performs measurement during selection or cell reselection, and the frequency point priority level will not be used for the pilot frequency, that is, only the UE is ranked according to the signal measurement values.

In some embodiments, different decision thresholds may be used for certain types of UEs:

snonlatrasearchp or snonlarasearchq,

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

SintraSearchP or SintraSearchQ, and the like.

As an embodiment, different decision thresholds may be configured for a specific type of UE, for example, a RedcapUE for 1 receive antenna (RX) configures a decision threshold different from a 2RX RedcapUE;

as an embodiment, different decision thresholds may be configured for a specific type of UE, for example, a different decision threshold may be configured for 1RX RedcapUE than for an Embb UE.

As shown in fig. 6, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, where the apparatus is applied in a base station, and the apparatus includes:

a configuration module 610 configured to configure a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.

In some embodiments, the configuration module 610 may be a program module; the program module, when executed by the processor, enables determination of a measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE.

In other embodiments, the configuration module 610 may be a combination of hardware and software modules; the soft and hard combining module includes but is not limited to: various programmable arrays; the programmable array includes, but is not limited to: a field programmable array or a complex programmable array.

In still other embodiments, the configuration module 610 may include: a pure hardware module; the pure hardware modules include, but are not limited to: an application specific integrated circuit.

In some embodiments, the specific type of UE includes at least: capability reduced RedCap UE.

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority for the inter-cell, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.

In some embodiments, the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a measurement relaxation measurement configuration based on a ranking rule of signal measurement values.

In some embodiments, the measurement of the specific type of UE on the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell is configured in the same alternative measurement relaxation manner;

or,

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

the measurement is stopped.

or,

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

In some embodiments, the pairing configuration includes at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuring a defined amplification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

As shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, where the apparatus is applied in a user equipment UE, and the apparatus includes:

an obtaining module 710 configured to obtain a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of UE.

In some embodiments, the acquisition module 710 may be a program module; the program modules, when executed by the processor, enable acquisition of a measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE.

In other embodiments, the obtaining module 710 may be a soft-hard combination module; the soft and hard combining module includes but is not limited to: various programmable arrays; the programmable array includes, but is not limited to: a field programmable array or a complex programmable array.

In still other embodiments, the obtaining module 710 may include: a pure hardware module; the pure hardware modules include, but are not limited to: an application specific integrated circuit.

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxed condition configuration and the measurement relaxed mode configuration.

a first power threshold SnonIntaSearchP included in a inter-frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on inter-frequency cells;

In some embodiments, the measuring a relaxation style configuration comprises:

or,

In some embodiments, the relaxation style defined by the measurement relaxation style configuration includes at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

the measurement was stopped for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.

or,

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

In some embodiments, the pairing configuration includes at least one of:

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, including:

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

the processors are respectively connected with the memories;

wherein the processor is configured to execute the measurement relaxation configuration processing method provided by any of the preceding claims.

The processor may include various types of storage media, non-transitory computer storage media capable of continuing to remember to store the information thereon after a power loss to the communication device.

Here, the communication apparatus includes: a base station and/or a particular type of UE.

The processor may be connected to the memory via a bus or the like for reading an executable program stored on the memory, e.g. at least one of the methods as shown in fig. 2, 4 to 5.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a UE800 in accordance with an exemplary embodiment. For example, the UE800 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast user equipment, a messaging device, a gaming console, a tablet device, a medical device, a fitness device, a personal digital assistant, and so forth.

Referring to fig. 7, ue800 may include one or more of the following components: processing component 802, memory 804, power component 806, multimedia component 808, audio component 810, input/output (I/O) interface 812, sensor component 814, and communication component 816.

The processing component 802 generally controls overall operation of the UE800, such as operations associated with display, telephone calls, data communications, camera operations, and recording operations. The processing components 802 may include one or more processors 820 to execute instructions to perform all or a portion of the steps of the methods described above. Further, the processing component 802 can include one or more modules that facilitate interaction between the processing component 802 and other components. For example, the processing component 802 can include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component 808 and the processing component 802.

The memory 804 is configured to store various types of data to support operations at the UE 800. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on the UE800, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, and so forth. The memory 804 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks.

Power components 806 provide power to the various components of UE 800. The power components 806 may include a power management system, one or more power supplies, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for the UE 800.

The multimedia component 808 includes a screen that provides an output interface between the UE800 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 808 includes a front facing camera and/or a rear facing camera. The front camera and/or the rear camera may receive external multimedia data when the UE800 is in an operation mode, such as a photographing mode or a video mode. Each front camera and rear camera may be a fixed optical lens system or have a focal length and optical zoom capability.

The audio component 810 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 810 includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive external audio signals when the UE800 is in an operating mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may further be stored in the memory 804 or transmitted via the communication component 816. In some embodiments, audio component 810 also includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The I/O interface 812 provides an interface between the processing component 802 and peripheral interface modules, which may be keyboards, click wheels, buttons, etc. These buttons may include, but are not limited to: a home button, a volume button, a start button, and a lock button.

The sensor component 814 includes one or more sensors for providing various aspects of state assessment for the UE 800. For example, the sensor assembly 814 may detect an open/closed state of the device 800, the relative positioning of components, such as a display and keypad of the UE800, the sensor assembly 814 may also detect a change in the position of the UE800 or a component of the UE800, the presence or absence of user contact with the UE800, the orientation or acceleration/deceleration of the UE800, and a change in the temperature of the UE 800. Sensor assembly 814 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of a nearby object in the absence of any physical contact. The sensor assembly 814 may also include a light sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor assembly 814 may also include an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.

The communication component 816 is configured to facilitate communications between the UE800 and other devices in a wired or wireless manner. The UE800 may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi,2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 further includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communications. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

In an exemplary embodiment, the UE800 may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), digital Signal Processors (DSPs), digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors or other electronic components for performing the above-described methods.

In an exemplary embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, such as the memory 804 comprising instructions, executable by the processor 820 of the UE800 to perform the above-described method is also provided. For example, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be a ROM, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like.

As shown in fig. 13, an embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a structure of an access device. For example, the base station 900 may be provided as a network side device. The communication device may be the aforementioned access device and/or core network device.

Referring to fig. 13, base station 900 includes a processing component 922, which further includes one or more processors and memory resources, represented by memory 932, for storing instructions, such as applications, that may be executed by processing component 922. The applications stored in memory 932 may include one or more modules that each correspond to a set of instructions. Furthermore, the processing component 922 is configured to execute instructions to perform any of the methods described above as applied to the access device, for example, the measurement relaxation configuration processing method shown in fig. 2, 3 to 5.

The base station 900 may also include a power supply component 926 configured to perform power management of the base station 900, a wired or wireless network interface 950 configured to connect the base station 900 to a network, and an input/output (I/O) interface 958. The base station 900 may operate based on an operating system stored in memory 932, such as Windows Server (TM), mac OS XTM, unixTM, linuxTM, freeBSDTM, or the like.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the invention is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

A measurement relaxation configuration processing method, wherein the method is performed by a base station, the method comprising:

configuring a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.
The method of claim 1, wherein the particular type of UE comprises at least: capability reduced RedCap UE.
The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation style configuration.
The method of claim 3, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority.
The method of claim 4, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.
The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority for the inter-frequency cell, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.
The method according to claim 6, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and a measurement configuration which is applied in a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a ranking rule based on signal measurement values.
The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the decision threshold used for measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE comprises at least one of:

a first power threshold, snonIntraSearchP, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a first quality threshold SnonIntraSearchQ, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a second power threshold, SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement of co-frequency cells;

and a second quality threshold SIntraSearchQ included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release the measurement of the co-frequency cells.
The method according to any one of claims 3 to 8, wherein the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the specific type UE are configured in the same alternative measurement relaxation mode;

or,

and the specific type of UE adopts different alternative measurement relaxation modes for configuration on the measurement of the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell.
The method of claim 9, wherein the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: the measurement of the UE of the specific type on the same-frequency cell and the different-frequency cell is configured in the same target relaxation mode selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the specific type UE measures the same frequency cell and different frequency cell, and target relaxation mode configurations selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration are different.
A method according to any of claims 3 to 10, wherein said measuring a relaxation regime defined by a relaxation regime configuration comprises at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is greater than a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.
The method of any one of claims 3 to 11,

the specific type UE measures the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell and adopts the same measurement relaxation condition configuration;

or,

and the specific type of UE measures the different frequency cells and the same frequency cells and adopts different measurement relaxation condition configurations.
The method of any of claims 1 to 12, wherein the measuring a relaxation condition configuration comprises at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the UE of the specific type is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
The method of any of claims 1 to 13, wherein the pairing configuration comprises at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying both the mobility condition and the location condition, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defined stop measurements are in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the relaxation mode defined by the measurement relaxation mode configuration is effective to enlarge a scaling factor determining a measurement interval;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuring a defined amplification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition, a relaxation pattern of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is validated by the measurement relaxation pattern configuration-defined amplification;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is effected by a magnification determination defined by the measurement relaxation configuration;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
A measurement relaxation configuration handling apparatus method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

a measurement relaxation configuration for a particular type of UE is obtained.
The method of claim 15, wherein the particular type of UE comprises at least: capability reduced RedCap UE.
The method of claim 15 or 16, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation style configuration.
The method of claim 15, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority.
The method of claim 18, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.
The method according to claim 18 or 19, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priorities, and is applied in a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.
The method according to claim 20, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a measurement configuration based on a ranking rule of signal measurement values.
The method of claim 15 or 16,

the decision threshold used for the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE comprises at least one of:

a first power threshold, snonIntraSearchP, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a first quality threshold SnonIntraSearchQ, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a second power threshold SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement on co-frequency cells;

a second quality threshold, SIntraSearchQ, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on co-frequency cells.
The method of any of claims 18 to 22, wherein the measuring a relaxed mode configuration comprises:

the measurement of the special type UE on the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell is configured by adopting the same alternative measurement relaxation mode;

or,

and the specific type of UE adopts different alternative measurement relaxation modes for configuration on the measurement of the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell.
The method of claim 23, wherein,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: the measurement of the specific type UE on the same-frequency cell and the different-frequency cell is configured in the same target relaxation mode selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the specific type UE measures the same-frequency cells and different-frequency cells, and target relaxation mode configurations selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configurations are different.
A method according to any of claims 17 to 24, wherein said measuring a relaxation regime defined by a relaxation regime configuration comprises at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.
The method according to any one of claims 17 to 25, wherein the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the specific type UE are configured with the same measurement relaxation condition;

or,

and the specific type of UE measures the different frequency cells and the same frequency cells and adopts different measurement relaxation condition configurations.
The method of any of claims 17 to 26, wherein the measuring a relaxation condition configuration comprises at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
The method of any of claims 17 to 27, wherein the pairing configuration comprises at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying both the mobility condition and the location condition, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defined stop measurements are in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the relaxation mode defined by the measurement relaxation mode configuration is effective to enlarge a scaling factor determining a measurement interval;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuring a defined amplification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition, a relaxation pattern of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is validated by the measurement relaxation pattern configuration-defined amplification;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of a magnification-determining measurement interval defined by the measurement relaxation configuration takes effect;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
A measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, wherein the apparatus is applied in a base station, the apparatus comprising:

a configuration module configured to configure a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of user equipment, UE.
The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the particular type of UE comprises at least: capability reduced RedCap UE.
The apparatus of claim 29 or 30, wherein a measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation style configuration.
The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority.
The apparatus of claim 32, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.
The apparatus according to claim 31 or 32, wherein the measurement relaxation mode configuration defines that the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority for the inter-cell, and is applied to a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.
The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and a measurement configuration that is applied in a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a ranking rule based on signal measurement values.
The apparatus of claim 29 or 30, wherein the decision threshold used for measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

a first power threshold, snonIntraSearchP, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a first quality threshold SnonIntraSearchQ, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a second power threshold, SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement of co-frequency cells;

a second quality threshold, SIntraSearchQ, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on co-frequency cells.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 31 to 36, wherein the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the UE of the specific type are configured in the same alternative measurement relaxation manner;

or,

and the specific type of UE adopts different alternative measurement relaxation modes for configuration on the measurement of the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell.
The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the measurement relaxed mode configuration defines: the measurement of the UE of the specific type on the same-frequency cell and the different-frequency cell is configured in the same target relaxation mode selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the specific type UE measures the same frequency cell and different frequency cell, and target relaxation mode configurations selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration are different.
The apparatus of any of claims 31 to 38, wherein the relaxation regime defined by the measured relaxation regime configuration comprises at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is more than a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 31 to 39, wherein the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the specific type of UE are configured with the same measurement relaxation condition;

or,

and the specific type UE measures the different-frequency cells and the same-frequency cells and adopts different measurement relaxation condition configurations.
The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 40, wherein the measure relaxation condition configuration comprises at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
The apparatus of any of claims 15 to 41, wherein the pairing configuration comprises at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying both the mobility condition and the location condition, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defined stop measurements are in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the relaxation mode defined by the measurement relaxation mode configuration is effective to enlarge a scaling factor determining a measurement interval;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuring a defined amplification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition, a relaxation of the scaling factor of the amplification-determining measurement interval defined by the measurement relaxation configuration takes effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is effected by a magnification determination defined by the measurement relaxation configuration;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
A measurement relaxation configuration processing apparatus, wherein the apparatus is applied in a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprises:

an acquisition module configured to acquire a measurement relaxation configuration for a specific type of UE.
The apparatus of claim 43, wherein the particular type of UE comprises at least: capability reduced RedCap UE.
The apparatus of claim 43 or 44, wherein a measurement relaxation configuration for the particular type of UE comprises at least one of:

measuring a relaxation mode configuration;

measuring a relaxation condition configuration;

a pairing configuration between the measurement relaxation condition configuration and the measurement relaxation style configuration.
The apparatus of claim 43, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that measurements of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE do not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority.
The apparatus of claim 46, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that measurements on inter-frequency cells by the UE of the specific type do not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and is determined according to a protocol or network notification.
The apparatus according to claim 46 or 47, wherein the measurement relaxation manner configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency bin priority, and is applied in a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection.
The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the measurement relaxation configuration defines that the measurement of the inter-frequency cell by the specific type of UE does not adopt a measurement relaxation configuration based on frequency point priority, and a measurement configuration which is applied in a measurement process of cell selection and/or cell reselection and adopts a ranking rule based on signal measurement values.
The apparatus of claim 43 or 44,

the decision threshold used for the measurement relaxation configuration for the specific type of UE comprises at least one of:

a first power threshold SnonIntaSearchP included in a inter-frequency measurement release configuration for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on inter-frequency cells;

a first quality threshold SnonIntraSearchQ, included in a pilot frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on pilot frequency cells;

a second power threshold SIntraSearchP, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the specific type of UE, for the specific type of UE to determine whether to release measurement on co-frequency cells;

a second quality threshold, SIntraSearchQ, included in the inter-frequency measurement release configuration of the particular type of UE, for the particular type of UE to determine whether to release measurements on co-frequency cells.
The apparatus of any of claims 45 to 50, wherein the measurement relaxation style configuration comprises:

the measurement of the special type UE on the different frequency cell and the same frequency cell is configured by adopting the same alternative measurement relaxation mode;

or,

and the specific type UE adopts different alternative measurement relaxation modes for configuration on the measurement of the different-frequency cell and the same-frequency cell.
The apparatus of claim 51, wherein,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: the measurement of the UE of the specific type on the same-frequency cell and the different-frequency cell is configured in the same target relaxation mode selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration;

or,

the measurement relaxation style configuration defines: and the specific type UE measures the same frequency cell and different frequency cell, and target relaxation mode configurations selected from the same alternative measurement relaxation configuration are different.
Apparatus according to any one of claims 45 to 52, wherein the relaxation regime defined by the measured relaxation regime configuration comprises at least one of:

zooming in a scaling factor that determines a measurement interval;

stopping the measurement for 1 hour;

stopping measuring for X hours, wherein X is a positive integer of 1;

the measurement is stopped.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 45 to 53, wherein the measurements of the inter-frequency cell and the intra-frequency cell by the specific type of UE are configured with the same measurement relaxation condition;

or,

and the specific type UE measures the different-frequency cells and the same-frequency cells and adopts different measurement relaxation condition configurations.
The apparatus of any of claims 45 to 53, wherein the measure relaxation condition configuration comprises at least one of:

the mobility of the specific type of UE meets a mobility condition;

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

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
The apparatus of any of claims 45 to 55, wherein the pairing configuration comprises at least one of:

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying both the mobility condition and the location condition, the measurement relaxation manner configuration defined stop measurements are in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition not satisfying the location condition, the relaxation mode defined by the measurement relaxation mode configuration is effective to enlarge a scaling factor determining a measurement interval;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and a location condition, and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition not satisfying the mobility condition, the measurement relaxation mode configuring a defined amplification determining a relaxation mode of a scaling factor of a measurement interval in effect;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a mobility condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the mobility condition, a relaxation pattern of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is validated by the measurement relaxation pattern configuration-defined amplification;

the measurement relaxation condition configuration defines a measurement relaxation condition comprising: a location condition and in response to the particular type of UE satisfying the location condition, a relaxation of a scaling factor of the measurement interval is effected by a magnification determination defined by the measurement relaxation configuration;

wherein the mobility condition includes:

mobility of the particular type of UE is below a mobility threshold;

the position condition includes:

the specific type of UE is not in an edge area of the serving cell.
A communication device comprising a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored on the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the processor, when executing the executable program, performs a method as provided in any of claims 1 to 14 or 15 to 28.
A computer storage medium storing an executable program; the executable program, when executed by a processor, is capable of implementing the method provided in any one of claims 1 to 14 or 15 to 28.