CN115884283A

CN115884283A - Measuring method and device, computer readable storage medium and terminal equipment

Info

Publication number: CN115884283A
Application number: CN202111144562.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓云
Original assignee: Spreadtrum Communications Shanghai Co Ltd
Current assignee: Spreadtrum Communications Shanghai Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-28
Filing date: 2021-09-28
Publication date: 2023-03-31

Abstract

A measuring method and device, a computer readable storage medium and a terminal device are provided, wherein the measuring method comprises the following steps: performing user experience measurements to obtain user experience measurements, the user experience measurements comprising one or more user experience indicators; and when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching. The technical scheme of the invention can improve the user experience.

Description

Measuring method and device, computer readable storage medium and terminal equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a communication processing method, and in particular, to a measurement method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a terminal device.

Background

A terminal device (UE) in a connected state may perform various services. After the service is established, the terminal device may perform service data transmission, including uplink data transmission and downlink data transmission. The services established by the terminal device all have Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, and when the network allows the terminal device to establish a Service, it needs to ensure that there are enough wireless resources for the transmission of uplink and downlink data of the Service, so as to satisfy the QoS of the Service. The QoS of a service can be generally characterized by the priority of the service, whether the service can be preempted, the maximum transmission rate, the guaranteed transmission rate, and other indicators. QoS parameters may be used to measure some characteristics of the traffic, but are not sufficient to express the full user Experience (Quality of Experience, qoE).

In order to obtain the user experience, the network may configure the terminal device to perform user experience measurement, and configure a Signaling Radio Bearer (srb 4) for transmitting a measurement result of the user experience. The base station does not analyze the actual user experience measurement result, and after receiving the user experience measurement result, the base station forwards the user experience measurement result to a user experience Server (Server). If the terminal device finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the requirement, the base station cannot know the information quickly, and the base station can obtain the information (newly added interface signaling) from the server after the QoE server obtains the measurement result.

However, when the terminal device finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the requirement, if the base station configures a measurement threshold S-Measure for the terminal device, the terminal device does not Measure the neighboring cell when the terminal device finds that the signal power of the main cell is higher than the S-Measure. This may cause that the terminal device cannot find a neighboring cell with better signal quality in time, and cannot switch to improve its service quality in the past, which is disadvantageous to user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem solved by the invention is how to improve the user experience.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement method, where the measurement method includes: performing user experience measurements to obtain user experience measurements, the user experience measurements comprising one or more user experience indicators; and when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching.

Optionally, the performing the first neighbor cell measurement operation includes: measuring each configured adjacent cell to obtain the signal quality of each configured adjacent cell; and/or sending a neighbor cell configuration request if no neighbor cell with better signal quality than that of the serving cell exists, wherein the neighbor cell configuration request is used for requesting to configure other neighbor cells with different frequencies from the configured neighbor cells.

Optionally, the measuring each configured neighboring cell includes: if the same-frequency measurement is configured, measuring an adjacent cell with the same frequency as the serving cell; and if co-frequency measurement and pilot frequency measurement are configured, measuring a neighboring cell with the same frequency as the serving cell frequency and measuring a neighboring cell of the frequency indicated by the pilot frequency measurement.

Optionally, the neighboring cell configuration request includes the user experience measurement result or a user experience measurement result, and the user experience measurement result is selected from the user experience measurement result that meets the preset requirement or the user experience measurement result that does not meet the preset requirement.

Optionally, when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement, the performing a first neighboring cell measurement operation includes: if one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation; or, if the ratio of the user experience index which does not meet the preset requirement in the user experience measurement result to all the user experience indexes reaches a preset threshold value, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation; or, if all the user experience indexes in the user experience measurement result do not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation.

Optionally, the measurement method further includes: and when the user experience measurement result meets the preset requirement and the signal quality of the serving cell reaches a neighbor cell measurement trigger condition, executing a second neighbor cell measurement operation.

Optionally, the measurement sampling interval used in the second neighbor measurement operation is greater than the measurement sampling interval used in the first neighbor measurement operation.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses a measurement apparatus, including: the experience degree measuring module is used for executing user experience degree measurement to obtain a user experience degree measuring result, and the user experience degree measuring result comprises one or more user experience degree indexes; and the neighbor cell measurement module is used for executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a computer readable storage medium, wherein a computer program is stored on the computer readable storage medium, and the computer program is executed by a processor to execute the steps of the measuring method.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses terminal equipment which comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is stored with a computer program capable of running on the processor, and the processor executes the steps of the measuring method when running the computer program.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

in the technical scheme of the invention, the terminal equipment can obtain the user experience measurement result after executing the user experience measurement; and when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation. That is to say, no matter how the signal quality of the serving cell is, as long as at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement results does not meet the preset requirement, the terminal device may execute the first neighbor cell measurement operation, so as to switch to a cell with a better signal in time, and provide a better communication experience.

Further, measuring each configured neighboring cell to obtain the signal quality of each configured neighboring cell; and if no adjacent cell with better signal quality than that of the serving cell exists, sending an adjacent cell configuration request, wherein the adjacent cell configuration request is used for requesting to configure other adjacent cells with different adjacent cell frequencies from the configured adjacent cells. According to the technical scheme, the number of network sides can timely know the scene of the terminal equipment by sending the neighbor cell configuration request, the measurement frequency point of the terminal equipment can be timely and effectively adjusted, and therefore the terminal equipment can be timely switched to a cell with better signals, and better communication experience is provided.

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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a measurement method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an interactive flow chart of a measurement method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The communication system applicable to the embodiment of the present application includes, but is not limited to, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, a 5th-generation (5G) system, an NR system, and a future evolution system or a multiple communication convergence system. The 5G system may be a non-standalone (NSA) 5G system or a Standalone (SA) 5G system. The technical solution of the present application is also applicable to different network architectures, including but not limited to a relay network architecture, a dual link architecture, a Vehicle-to-event architecture, and the like.

The present application relates generally to communication between a terminal device and a network device. Wherein:

the Network device in the embodiment of the present application may also be referred to as an Access Network device, and may be, for example, a Base Station (BS) (also may be referred to as a base station device), where the Network device is a device deployed in a Radio Access Network (RAN) to provide a wireless communication function. For example, a device providing a base station function in a second generation (2 nd-generation, 2G) network includes a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a device providing a base station function in a third generation (3 rd-generation, 3G) network includes a node B (NodeB), a device providing a base station function in a fourth generation (4 th-generation, 4G) network includes an Evolved node B (Evolved NodeB, eNB), and in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the device providing a base station function is an Access Point (AP), the device providing a base station function in the NR is a next generation base station (gNB), and the Evolved node B (eNB), wherein the Access Point (AP) and the terminal device communicate with each other by using NR technology, and the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (Evolved NodeB, radio B) and the Radio eNB may communicate with each other by using utr technology. The network device in the embodiment of the present application also includes a device that provides a base station function in a future new communication system, and the like.

A terminal equipment (terminal equipment) in the embodiments of the present application may refer to various forms of an access terminal, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile Station (MS), remote station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, or user device. The terminal device may also be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device with Wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a Wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a future 5G Network or a terminal device in a future evolved Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), and the like, which are not limited in this embodiment. A terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a terminal, and the like.

As described in the background art, when the terminal device finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the requirement, if the base station configures a measurement threshold S-Measure for the terminal device, the terminal device does not Measure the neighboring cell when the terminal device finds that the signal power of the main cell is higher than the S-Measure. This may cause that the terminal device cannot find the neighboring cell with better signal quality in time, and cannot switch to improve the service quality of itself in the past, which is unfavorable for the user experience.

The application provides a method, no matter how the signal quality of the serving cell is, as long as at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, the terminal device can execute the first neighbor cell measurement operation, so that the cell with better signal can be switched in time, and better communication experience is provided.

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Referring to fig. 1, the method provided by the present application includes:

step 101: performing a user experience measurement to obtain a user experience measurement result, the user experience measurement result comprising one or more user experience indicators;

step 102: and when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching.

It should be noted that the sequence numbers of the steps in this embodiment do not represent a limitation on the execution sequence of the steps.

It will be appreciated that in a specific implementation, the measurement method may be implemented in the form of a software program running on a processor integrated within a chip or chip module.

In this embodiment, the network device, for example, may be a user experience Server (QoE Server) that configures a terminal device to perform user experience measurement and configures a user experience index that needs to be measured. The number of user experience indicators that need to be measured may be one or more.

In this embodiment, in order to meet the mobility requirement of the terminal device, the network device may further configure Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement for the terminal device. When the terminal device finds that the signal power of a Primary Cell (PCell) is higher than or equal to a measurement threshold S-Measure, the terminal device may not Measure the neighboring Cell. The base station is not aware of whether the terminal device starts to perform measurement on the neighboring cell currently, because the base station does not report a measurement report, and the base station does not determine whether the Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP) of the primary cell PCell is met by the terminal device side or not is less than the measurement threshold S-measure.

In a specific implementation of step 101, the terminal device may perform user experience measurement and obtain a user experience measurement result. The user experience measure may be a process of obtaining various user experience indexes. The user experience index may be a partial index of the QoS parameter, such as a maximum transmission rate of a service, a guaranteed transmission rate, and the like; other metrics may be used, such as delay of data transmission, round-trip time (Round-trip time), average Throughput (Average Throughput), etc.

Specifically. The user experience measurement result may include measurement values obtained by measuring various user experience indexes, for example, a data transmission delay value, a loopback time value, an average throughput rate value, a time difference of arrival of a data packet associated with a bearer, and the like.

It should be noted that, as to the specific category of the user experience index, reference may be made to the definition in the communication standard protocol TR 38.890. Of course, a new index for measuring user experience introduced in the communication evolution process is not excluded, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the time difference of arrival of the data packets of the associated bearers may be newly introduced, where the terminal device measures the time difference of arrival of the data packets of two (or more) bearers at the terminal device side, the two bearers transmit the same or associated data packets, the network device needs to transmit the same or associated data packets to the terminal device side at the same time, and the terminal device needs to measure the time difference of arrival of the same or associated data packets at the terminal device side.

In the specific implementation of step 102, the terminal device may first determine whether at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result meets a preset requirement. And when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation. The preset requirement may include a judgment threshold corresponding to each user experience index. When determining whether at least one user experience index meets the preset requirement, each user experience index may be compared with a corresponding determination threshold.

In a specific application scenario, when at least one user experience index in a user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement, even if RSRP of a main cell is greater than or equal to a measurement threshold S-measure, a terminal device still needs to measure a neighboring cell, and the terminal device executes a first neighboring cell measurement operation.

The embodiment of the invention can adjust the RRM measurement mechanism according to the user experience measurement result, avoid the condition that the user experience measurement result of the terminal equipment is lower than the estimated value due to unreasonable RRM measurement configuration of the network equipment, and improve the user experience.

In a specific embodiment, when configuring the target device to perform the user experience measurement, the network device may configure the terminal device to measure whether a part or all of the user experience indicators to be measured satisfy a requirement (i.e., a preset requirement). The network device may set different thresholds for different user experience indicators, so that the terminal device measures whether the measured user experience indicator satisfies the requirement. For example, a threshold may be configured for the measured delay of data transmission by the terminal device, and the terminal device considers that the measured delay of data transmission is lower than the threshold as being satisfactory. When the terminal equipment finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the set requirement, namely, part or all of the user experience measurement indexes do not meet the requirement, the terminal equipment expects to measure the cell with better signal quality, and then reports the neighbor cell with better signal quality, so that the terminal equipment can be switched to the neighbor cell to carry out service to enable the user experience measurement result to meet the requirement. However, due to the limitation of the measurement threshold S-measure, the terminal device cannot measure the neighboring cell as soon as possible. In order to enable the terminal device to measure the neighboring cell as soon as possible, when the terminal device finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the set requirement, the terminal device immediately starts to measure the neighboring cell regardless of whether the RSRP of the main cell is lower than the measurement threshold S-measure or whether the RSRP of the main cell meets the measurement event A2.

In a non-limiting embodiment, to avoid jitter of the user experience indicator when the terminal device measures the user experience, the network device may configure the user experience indicator measured by the user device for a period of time, that is, the network device may set the evaluation duration.

In a specific embodiment, different thresholds are set for different user experience indexes, and a specific threshold may be preset through a protocol.

In one non-limiting embodiment, step 102 shown in FIG. 1 may include the following steps: measuring each configured neighboring cell to obtain the signal quality of each configured neighboring cell; and/or if no adjacent cell with better signal quality than that of the serving cell exists, sending an adjacent cell configuration request, wherein the adjacent cell configuration request is used for requesting to configure other adjacent cells with different adjacent cell frequencies.

In specific implementation, the network device may configure neighboring cell measurement of the same frequency and/or different frequencies for the terminal device. The terminal device performs cell measurement on the frequency points where the configured adjacent cells are located, generally, the terminal device needs configuration of a measurement GAP GAP for measurement of the different frequencies, and if the GAP configuration does not exist, the terminal device only measures the adjacent cells with the same frequency, and does not measure the adjacent cells with the different frequencies. The terminal device may not find any neighbor cell with better signal quality, and at this time, the terminal device may request the network device to configure other pilot frequencies, so as to find a potentially better neighbor cell.

Accordingly, the network device may receive the neighboring cell configuration request, and configure, in response to receiving the neighboring cell configuration request, other neighboring cells, that is, other inter-frequency neighboring cells, with frequencies different from those of the configured neighboring cells, for the terminal device.

Specifically, the terminal device starts to measure the same frequency and the different frequency, but does not start to report the measurement report, because the measurement reporting condition is not satisfied, the network device does not know whether the terminal device detects a neighboring cell with better signal quality, that is, whether there is a candidate cell.

It should be noted that the term pilot frequency in this application includes intra-system pilot frequencies and inter-system pilot frequencies.

In the embodiment of the invention, the neighbor cell configuration request is sent to the network equipment in time to request the configuration of other pilot frequency neighbor cells, so that the measurement task can be adjusted more flexibly, and a foundation is laid for improving the user experience.

In a specific application scenario, when a co-frequency neighboring cell can be measured but no inter-frequency measurement is configured, if the terminal device does not find a co-frequency neighboring cell with better signal quality, the terminal device may request the network device to configure the inter-frequency measurement.

In another specific application scenario, if the terminal device configures the same-frequency measurement and different-frequency measurement, but the terminal device does not find a neighboring cell with better signal quality, the terminal device may request the network to configure measurement of other frequency points different from the configured different-frequency measurement.

In a specific embodiment, if co-frequency measurement is configured, the terminal device measures an adjacent cell with the same frequency as the serving cell; and if the same-frequency measurement and the pilot frequency measurement are configured, the terminal equipment measures the adjacent cell with the frequency same as that of the service cell and measures the adjacent cell with the frequency indicated by the pilot frequency measurement.

Further, the neighboring cell configuration request includes the user experience measurement result or a user experience measurement result, and the user experience measurement result is selected from the user experience measurement result meeting the preset requirement or the user experience measurement result not meeting the preset requirement.

In a specific implementation, if the neighboring cell configuration request includes the user experience measurement result, a smaller number of bits may be occupied, for example, one bit may be occupied, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the user experience measurement result meets the preset requirement; a bit value of 1 indicates that the user experience measurement does not meet the preset requirement.

If the neighbor cell configuration request includes the user experience measurement result, the base station can be made to acquire each user experience index while requesting the base station to configure other neighbor cells. In a conventional user experience measurement process, the terminal device finds that a user experience measurement result does not meet a set requirement, the base station cannot know the information, and the base station can know the information from the server through a newly added interface signaling after the user experience server obtains the measurement result.

In one non-limiting embodiment, step 102 shown in FIG. 1 may include the following steps: if one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation; or if the ratio of the user experience indexes which do not meet the preset requirement in the user experience measurement result to all the user experience indexes reaches a preset threshold value, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation; or, if all the user experience indexes in the user experience measurement result do not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation.

In a specific implementation, the ratio of the user experience index that does not meet the preset requirement to all the user experience indexes is a ratio of a first number of the user experience indexes that meet the preset requirement to a second number of all the user experience indexes. For example, the preset threshold is 0.6; then, under the condition that the number of all the user experience indexes is 5 and the number of the user experience indexes which do not meet the preset requirement is 3, the first neighbor cell measurement operation may be performed.

In one non-limiting embodiment, the method shown in FIG. 1 may further include the steps of: and executing a second neighbor cell measurement operation when the user experience measurement result meets the preset requirement and the signal quality of the serving cell reaches a neighbor cell measurement trigger condition.

In specific implementation, when the signal quality of the serving cell reaches the neighbor measurement trigger condition, the RSRP of the serving cell may be smaller than the measurement threshold S-Measure, or the signal quality of the serving cell satisfies the measurement event A2, and the terminal device considers that the signal quality of the serving cell reaches the neighbor measurement trigger condition.

Further, a measurement sampling interval adopted by the second neighboring cell measurement operation is greater than a measurement sampling interval adopted by the first neighboring cell measurement operation, that is, a measurement requirement corresponding to the second neighboring cell measurement operation is lower than a measurement requirement of the first neighboring cell measurement operation.

In a specific embodiment, if the user experience measurement result satisfies the evaluation value, when the terminal device needs to Measure the neighboring cell, for example, RSRP < S-Measure of the primary cell Pcell, the terminal device may perform the second neighboring cell measurement, that is, a relaxation (Relax) mechanism is used for the measurement of the neighboring cell. At this time, the number of measurement sampling times for the adjacent cell can be reduced compared with the number of measurement sampling times under normal conditions, for example, the measurement requirement for the same-frequency adjacent cell under normal conditions is that measurement sampling is required within 200ms, measurement sampling can be performed within a longer time when measurement is relaxed, for example, measurement sampling can be performed for the same-frequency adjacent cell within 300ms, and thus, the power consumption of the terminal device can be reduced. If the terminal device finds that the user experience measurement result does not meet the evaluation value, the terminal device needs to recover the normal measurement requirement, namely, the first neighbor cell measurement is executed.

In a non-limiting embodiment, when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, the terminal device may also directly notify the network device to trigger the handover.

In specific implementation, the network device may configure the terminal to perform neighbor cell measurement, and perform handover after obtaining a cell measurement result. Or the network device directly switches the terminal device to the neighboring cell with the same coverage range or a larger coverage range based on the deployment of the network under the condition that the network device does not configure the neighboring cell measurement for the terminal device. In this case, the terminal device may send a notification message to a network device (e.g., a serving base station) when at least one user experience indicator in the user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement, and the network device receives the notification message and performs cell handover on the terminal device.

In a specific application scenario of the present invention, please refer to fig. 3, where fig. 3 shows an exemplary interaction flow between a network device and a terminal device.

Step 201, the network device sends configuration information to the terminal device. Through step 201, the network device may configure the user experience measurement and RRM measurement for the terminal device, configure a user experience index to be measured for the terminal device, and configure a measurement threshold S-measure or a measurement event A2 for the terminal device.

Step 202, the terminal device executes user experience measurement, and executes a first neighbor measurement operation when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement.

Optionally, the terminal device may perform step 203. In step 203, the terminal device sends a neighbor configuration request to the network device. The neighbor cell configuration request is sent when the terminal device measures that no neighbor cell with better signal quality than the serving cell exists. The signal quality of a cell may be measured in terms of the received power or received quality of a reference signal.

Step 204, the terminal device sends a measurement report to the network device. The neighbor cell having a better signal quality than the serving cell may be included in the measurement report.

In a preferred embodiment, the terminal device reports the neighboring cell with better signal quality than the serving cell in the measurement report preferentially.

Step 205, the network device sends a handover command to the terminal device. Specifically, the network device determines to switch the terminal device to a neighboring cell with better signal quality according to the measurement report. The terminal device may instruct the terminal device to perform handover through the handover command. The identity of the target cell may be included in the handover command.

In another non-limiting embodiment of the present invention, step 204 and step 205 may also be replaced by the following steps: the terminal equipment informs the network equipment of triggering switching; the network device performs cell switching for the terminal device. Specifically, the network device may switch the terminal device to a neighboring cell having the same coverage area or a larger coverage area based on the deployment of the network.

For more specific implementation of the embodiments of the present invention, reference may be made to the description related to the foregoing embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

Referring to fig. 3, the embodiment of the invention further discloses a measuring device 30. The measuring device 30 may include:

an experience measurement module 301, configured to perform user experience measurement to obtain a user experience measurement result, where the user experience measurement result includes one or more user experience indexes;

a neighboring cell measurement module 302, configured to execute a first neighboring cell measurement operation or notify a network device to trigger handover when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet a preset requirement.

In a specific implementation, the measuring device may correspond to a Chip having a measuring function in the terminal device, such as a System-On-a-Chip (SOC), a baseband Chip, and the like; or the terminal device comprises a chip module with a measuring function; or to a chip module having a chip with a data processing function, or to a terminal device.

For more details of the operation principle and the operation mode of the measuring device 30, reference may be made to the related descriptions in fig. 1 to 2, and details are not repeated here.

With regard to each module/unit included in each apparatus and product described in the above embodiments, it may be a software module/unit, or may also be a hardware module/unit, or may also be a part of a software module/unit and a part of a hardware module/unit. For example, for each apparatus and product applied to or integrated into a chip, each module/unit included in the apparatus and product may all be implemented by hardware such as a circuit, or at least a part of the modules/units may be implemented by a software program running on a processor integrated within the chip, and the remaining (if any) part of the modules/units may be implemented by hardware such as a circuit; for each device and product applied to or integrated with the chip module, each module/unit included in the device and product may be implemented by hardware such as a circuit, and different modules/units may be located in the same component (e.g., a chip, a circuit module, etc.) or different components of the chip module, or at least part of the modules/units may be implemented by a software program running on a processor integrated inside the chip module, and the rest (if any) part of the modules/units may be implemented by hardware such as a circuit; for each device and product applied to or integrated in the terminal, each module/unit included in the device and product may be implemented by using hardware such as a circuit, and different modules/units may be located in the same component (e.g., a chip, a circuit module, etc.) or different components in the terminal, or at least part of the modules/units may be implemented by using a software program running on a processor integrated in the terminal, and the rest (if any) part of the modules/units may be implemented by using hardware such as a circuit.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a storage medium, which is a computer-readable storage medium and stores a computer program thereon, and the computer program can execute the steps of the measurement method shown in fig. 1 or fig. 2 when running. The storage medium may include ROM, RAM, magnetic or optical disks, etc. The storage medium may further include a non-volatile memory (non-volatile) or a non-transitory memory (non-transient), and the like.

Referring to fig. 4, an embodiment of the present application further provides a hardware structure diagram of a measurement apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor 401, a memory 402, and a transceiver 403.

The processor 401 may be a general processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or one or more ics for controlling the execution of programs in accordance with the present disclosure. The processor 401 may also include a plurality of CPUs, and the processor 401 may be a single-core (single-CPU) processor or a multi-core (multi-CPU) processor. A processor herein may refer to one or more devices, circuits, or processing cores that process data (e.g., computer program instructions).

The memory 402 may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that can store static information and instructions, a RAM or other type of dynamic storage device that can store information and instructions, an EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory), a CD-ROM (compact disk read-only memory) or other optical disk storage, an optical disk storage (including a compact disk, a laser disk, an optical disk, a digital versatile disk, a blu-ray disk, etc.), a magnetic disk storage medium or other magnetic storage device, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer, and is not limited in any way by the embodiments of the present application. The memory 402 may be separate (in this case, the memory 402 may be located outside the apparatus or inside the apparatus), or may be integrated with the processor 401. The memory 402 may have computer program code embodied therein. The processor 401 is configured to execute the computer program code stored in the memory 402, thereby implementing the methods provided by the embodiments of the present application.

The processor 401, the memory 402 and the transceiver 403 are connected by a bus. The transceiver 403 is used to communicate with other devices or communication networks. Optionally, the transceiver 403 may include a transmitter and a receiver. The means in the transceiver 403 for implementing the receiving function can be regarded as a receiver, and the receiver is used for performing the receiving step in the embodiment of the present application. The means for implementing the transmitting function in the transceiver 403 may be regarded as a transmitter for performing the steps of transmitting in the embodiments of the present application.

When the schematic structure shown in fig. 4 is used to illustrate the structure of the terminal device in the above-described embodiment, the processor 401 is configured to control and manage the actions of the terminal device, for example, the processor 401 is configured to support the terminal device to perform the actions performed by the terminal device in step 101 and step 102 in fig. 1, or in step 202, step 203, and step 204 in fig. 2, and/or in other processes described in this embodiment. The processor 401 may communicate with other network entities, e.g., with the network devices described above, via the transceiver 403. The memory 402 is used for storing program codes and data of the terminal device. The processor, when running the computer program, may control the transceiver 403 to receive downlink signaling or downlink data.

When the schematic structure shown in fig. 4 is used to illustrate the structure of the network device in the above-described embodiment, the processor 401 is configured to control and manage the actions of the network device, for example, the processor 401 is configured to support the network device to perform the actions performed by the network device in step 201 and step 205 in fig. 2, and/or in other processes described in this embodiment. The processor 401 may communicate with other network entities, e.g. with the terminal devices mentioned above, via the transceiver 403. The memory 402 is used to store program codes and data for the network devices. The processor, when running the computer program, may control the transceiver 403 to transmit downlink data or downlink signaling.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a terminal device which can comprise a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is stored with a computer program which can run on the processor. The processor, when running the computer program, may perform the steps of the measurement method shown in fig. 1 or fig. 2. The user equipment includes but is not limited to a mobile phone, a computer, a tablet computer and other terminal equipment.

In the embodiment of the application, a unidirectional communication link from an access network to a terminal is defined as a downlink, data transmitted on the downlink is downlink data, and the transmission direction of the downlink data is called as a downlink direction; the unidirectional communication link from the terminal to the access network is an uplink, the data transmitted on the uplink is uplink data, and the transmission direction of the uplink data is referred to as an uplink direction.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" herein is merely one type of association relationship that describes an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" in this document indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The "plurality" appearing in the embodiments of the present application means two or more.

The descriptions of the first, second, etc. appearing in the embodiments of the present application are only for illustrating and differentiating the objects, and do not represent the order or the particular limitation of the number of the devices in the embodiments of the present application, and do not constitute any limitation to the embodiments of the present application.

The term "connect" in the embodiments of the present application refers to various connection manners, such as direct connection or indirect connection, to implement communication between devices, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

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

The above-described embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, the above-described embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer instructions or computer programs. The procedures or functions according to the embodiments of the present application are wholly or partially generated when the computer instructions or the computer program are loaded or executed on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire or wirelessly. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, data center, etc., that contains one or more collections of available media.

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

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed method, apparatus and system may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative; for example, the division of the unit is only a logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation; for example, various elements or components may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not implemented. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

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

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may be physically included alone, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The integrated unit may be implemented in the form of hardware, or in the form of hardware plus a software functional unit.

The integrated unit implemented in the form of a software functional unit may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The software functional unit is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute some steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present invention.

Although the present invention is disclosed above, the present invention is not limited thereto. Various changes and modifications may be effected therein by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method of measurement, comprising:

performing user experience measurements to obtain user experience measurements, the user experience measurements comprising one or more user experience indicators;

and when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching.

2. The measurement method according to claim 1, wherein the performing a first neighbor measurement operation comprises:

measuring each configured neighboring cell to obtain the signal quality of each configured neighboring cell; and/or

And if no adjacent cell with better signal quality than that of the serving cell exists, sending an adjacent cell configuration request, wherein the adjacent cell configuration request is used for requesting to configure other adjacent cells with different adjacent cell frequencies from the configured adjacent cells.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the measuring each configured neighbor cell comprises:

if the same-frequency measurement is configured, measuring an adjacent cell with the same frequency as the serving cell;

and if co-frequency measurement and pilot frequency measurement are configured, measuring a neighboring cell with the same frequency as the serving cell frequency and measuring a neighboring cell of the frequency indicated by the pilot frequency measurement.

4. The measurement method according to claim 2, wherein the neighboring cell configuration request includes the user experience measurement result or a user experience measurement result, and the user experience measurement result is selected from the group consisting of that the user experience measurement result satisfies the preset requirement or that the user experience measurement result does not satisfy the preset requirement.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein when at least one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not satisfy a preset requirement, performing a first neighbor cell measurement operation comprises:

if one user experience index in the user experience measurement result does not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation;

or, if the ratio of the user experience index which does not meet the preset requirement in the user experience measurement result to all the user experience indexes reaches a preset threshold value, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation;

or, if all the user experience indexes in the user experience measurement result do not meet the preset requirement, executing a first neighbor cell measurement operation.

6. The measurement method according to claim 1, further comprising:

and executing a second neighbor cell measurement operation when the user experience measurement result meets the preset requirement and the signal quality of the serving cell reaches a neighbor cell measurement trigger condition.

7. The measurement method according to claim 6, wherein the second neighbor measurement operation uses a measurement sampling interval that is greater than the measurement sampling interval used in the first neighbor measurement operation.

8. A measuring device, comprising:

the experience degree measuring module is used for executing user experience degree measurement to obtain a user experience degree measuring result, and the user experience degree measuring result comprises one or more user experience degree indexes;

and the neighbor cell measuring module is used for executing a first neighbor cell measuring operation or informing network equipment to trigger switching when at least one user experience index in the user experience measuring result does not meet a preset requirement.

9. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the measuring method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

10. A terminal device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory having stored thereon a computer program operable on the processor, wherein the processor, when executing the computer program, performs the steps of the measurement method according to any of claims 1 to 7.