CN116438828A

CN116438828A - Measurement configuration method, terminal device, network device, chip and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN116438828A
Application number: CN202180074794.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李海涛; 胡奕
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2021-03-25
Filing date: 2021-03-25
Publication date: 2023-07-14
Also published as: WO2022198569A1

Abstract

The present application relates to a measurement configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method comprises the following steps: the terminal equipment receives first indication information from the network equipment; the first indication information is used for activating N pieces of measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M pieces of measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1. The embodiment of the application can dynamically control the measurement of the terminal equipment by using lower signaling overhead.

Description

Measurement configuration method, terminal device, network device, chip and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and more particularly, to a measurement configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program.

Background

Fifth Generation communication (5 th-Generation, 5G) has been widely used due to the pursuit of speed, delay, high speed mobility, energy efficiency, and diversity and complexity of future life services. The main application scenarios of 5G include enhanced mobile Ultra-wideband (Enhance Mobile Broadband, emmbb), low latency high reliability communications (Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications, URLLC), large scale machine type communications (Massive Machine Type Communication, mctc), and the like. In some application scenarios, dynamic control of measurement of the terminal device is required to meet the energy-saving requirement of the terminal device. However, there is currently no efficient solution for dynamic control of measurements for connected terminal devices.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the embodiments of the present application provide a measurement configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program, which can be used to dynamically control measurement of the terminal device.

The embodiment of the application provides a measurement configuration method, which comprises the following steps:

the terminal equipment receives first indication information from the network equipment;

the first indication information is used for activating N pieces of measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M pieces of measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.

the network equipment sends first indication information to the terminal equipment;

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal device, which comprises:

the first communication module is used for receiving first indication information from the network equipment;

The embodiment of the application also provides a network device, which comprises:

the second communication module is used for sending the first indication information to the terminal equipment;

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal device, which comprises: the processor and the memory are used for storing the computer program, and the processor calls and runs the computer program stored in the memory to execute the measurement configuration method.

The embodiment of the application also provides a network device, which comprises: the processor and the memory are used for storing the computer program, and the processor calls and runs the computer program stored in the memory to execute the measurement configuration method.

The embodiment of the application also provides a chip, which comprises: and a processor for calling and running the computer program from the memory, so that the device on which the chip is mounted performs the measurement configuration method as above.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the measurement configuration method as above.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product comprising computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions cause a computer to perform the measurement configuration method as above.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program, which enables the computer to execute the measurement configuration method.

According to the method and the device for measuring the configuration information, the network equipment sends the first indication information for activating and/or deactivating the measurement configuration information to the terminal equipment, so that the measurement of the terminal equipment is dynamically controlled, only lower signaling overhead is needed, and the system efficiency is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system architecture according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a network device of one embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a network device according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device of an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a chip of an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system of an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application.

The technical solution of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: global system for mobile communications (Global System of Mobile communication, GSM), code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA) system, wideband code division multiple access (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) system, general packet Radio service (General Packet Radio Service, GPRS), long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) system, long term evolution advanced (Advanced long term evolution, LTE-a) system, new Radio (NR) system, evolution system of NR system, LTE-based access to unlicensed spectrum, LTE-U) system over unlicensed spectrum, NR (NR-based access to unlicensed spectrum, NR-U) system over unlicensed spectrum, non-terrestrial communication network (Non-Terrestrial Networks, NTN) system, universal mobile communication system (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System, UMTS), wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN), wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, wiFi), 5G system or other communication system, and so forth.

Generally, the number of connections supported by the conventional communication system is limited and easy to implement, however, with the development of communication technology, the mobile communication system will support not only conventional communication but also, for example, device-to-Device (D2D) communication, machine-to-machine (Machine to Machine, M2M) communication, machine type communication (Machine Type Communication, MTC), inter-vehicle (Vehicle to Vehicle, V2V) communication, or internet of vehicles (Vehicle to everything, V2X) communication, etc., and the embodiments of the present application may also be applied to these communication systems.

Optionally, the communication system in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a carrier aggregation (Carrier Aggregation, CA) scenario, a dual connectivity (Dual Connectivity, DC) scenario, and a Stand Alone (SA) fabric scenario.

Embodiments of the present application describe various embodiments in connection with network devices and terminal devices, where a terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), access terminal, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, user Equipment, or the like.

The terminal device may be a Station (ST) in a WLAN, may be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a session initiation protocol (Session Initiation Protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (Wireless Local Loop, WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA) device, a handheld device with wireless communication capabilities, a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a vehicle device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a next generation communication system such as an NR network, or a terminal device in a future evolved public land mobile network (Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN) network, etc.

In embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may be deployed on land, including indoor or outdoor, hand-held, wearable or vehicle-mounted; can also be deployed on the water surface (such as ships, etc.); but may also be deployed in the air (e.g., on aircraft, balloon, satellite, etc.).

In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may be a Mobile Phone (Mobile Phone), a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in unmanned driving (self driving), a wireless terminal device in remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in transportation security (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in smart city (smart city), or a wireless terminal device in smart home (smart home), and the like.

By way of example, and not limitation, in embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. The wearable device can also be called as a wearable intelligent device, and is a generic name for intelligently designing daily wear by applying wearable technology and developing wearable devices, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothes, shoes and the like. The wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also can realize a powerful function through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable intelligent device includes full functionality, large size, and may not rely on the smart phone to implement complete or partial functionality, such as: smart watches or smart glasses, etc., and focus on only certain types of application functions, and need to be used in combination with other devices, such as smart phones, for example, various smart bracelets, smart jewelry, etc. for physical sign monitoring.

In this embodiment of the present application, the network device may be a device for communicating with a mobile device, where the network device may be an Access Point (AP) in WLAN, a base station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS) in GSM or CDMA, a base station (NodeB, NB) in WCDMA, an evolved base station (Evolutional Node B, eNB or eNodeB) in LTE, a relay station or an Access Point, a vehicle device, a wearable device, a network device (gNB) in NR network, or a network device in a PLMN network of future evolution, etc.

By way of example and not limitation, in embodiments of the present application, a network device may have a mobile nature, e.g., the network device may be a mobile device. Alternatively, the network device may be a satellite, a balloon station. For example, the satellite may be a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, a medium earth orbit (medium earth orbit, MEO) satellite, a geosynchronous orbit (geostationary earth orbit, GEO) satellite, a high elliptical orbit (High Elliptical Orbit, HEO) satellite, or the like. Alternatively, the network device may be a base station disposed on land, in a water area, or the like.

In this embodiment of the present application, a network device may provide a service for a cell, where a terminal device communicates with the network device through a transmission resource (e.g., a frequency domain resource, or a spectrum resource) used by the cell, where the cell may be a cell corresponding to a network device (e.g., a base station), and the cell may belong to a macro base station, or may belong to a base station corresponding to a Small cell (Small cell), where the Small cell may include: urban cells (Metro cells), micro cells (Micro cells), pico cells (Pico cells), femto cells (Femto cells) and the like, and the small cells have the characteristics of small coverage area and low transmitting power and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission services.

Fig. 1 schematically illustrates one network device 1100 and two terminal devices 1200, alternatively, the wireless communication system 1000 may include a plurality of network devices 1100, and the coverage area of each network device 1100 may include other numbers of terminal devices, which are not limited by the embodiments of the present application. Optionally, the wireless communication system 1000 shown in fig. 1 may further include other network entities such as a mobility management entity (Mobility Management Entity, MME), an access and mobility management function (Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF), and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

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

It should be understood that the terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably herein. The term "and/or" is used herein to describe association of associated objects, for example, to indicate that there may be three relationships between the associated objects, for example, a and/or B, may indicate: three cases of A alone, A and B together, and B alone exist. The character "/" herein generally indicates that the context associated object is an "or" relationship.

It should be understood that, in the embodiments of the present application, the "indication" may be a direct indication, an indirect indication, or an indication having an association relationship. For example, a indicates B, which may mean that a indicates B directly, e.g., B may be obtained by a; it may also indicate that a indicates B indirectly, e.g. a indicates C, B may be obtained by C; it may also be indicated that there is an association between a and B.

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, the term "corresponding" may indicate that there is a direct correspondence or an indirect correspondence between the two, or may indicate that there is an association between the two, or may indicate a relationship between the two and the indicated, configured, or the like.

In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the following description is given of related technologies of the embodiments of the present application, and the following related technologies may be optionally combined with the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application as an alternative, which all belong to the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application.

NR can be deployed independently. In a 5G network environment, a new radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) state, namely an INACTIVE state (rrc_inactive), is defined for reducing air interface signaling, fast recovery of radio connections, and fast recovery of data traffic. Rrc_inactive is different from an IDLE state (rrc_idle) and a CONNECTED state (rrc_connected). The characteristics of these states are as follows:

Rrc_idle: mobility is UE-based cell selection reselection, paging is initiated by a Core Network (CN), and paging areas are configured by the CN. The base station side does not have a UE Access Stratum (AS) context. There is no RRC connection.

Rrc_connected: there is an RRC connection and the base station and UE have a UE AS context. The network device knows that the location of the UE is cell specific. Mobility is mobility controlled by the network device. Unicast data may be transmitted between the UE and the base station.

Rrc_inactive: mobility is a UE-based cell selection reselection, there is a connection between CN-NRs, the UE AS context is present on a certain base station, paging is triggered by the radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), and the RAN-based paging area is managed by the RAN. The network device knows that the location of the UE is based on the paging area level of the RAN.

A lightweight version of NR (NR-light) equipment is also introduced in NR. The current NR-light device mainly comprises:

industrial wireless sensor (Industrial Wireless Sensors): industrial wireless sensors have relatively low required latency and reliability compared to URLLC. While the cost and power consumption of the device are also lower than those of URLLC and eMBB.

Video monitoring (Video surveillance) device: the method is mainly used for video monitoring of scenes such as smart cities and industrial factories. For example, for data collection and processing in smart cities to facilitate more efficient monitoring and control of urban resources and to provide more efficient services to urban residents.

Wearable devices (Wearables): including smart watches, rings, electronic health devices, some medical monitoring devices, etc. The commonality of these devices is their small size.

The NR-light device has high energy saving requirement on the device. To meet the power saving requirements of the terminal device, the UE may perform measurement relaxation based on measurement relaxation criteria for non-connected radio resource management (Radio Resource Management, RRM) measurements. Measurement relaxation criteria include a "UE not located at cell edge" (not-cell-edge) criterion and a "low-mobility" criterion. Whether the measurement relaxation criterion is met is measured based on the "cell level" measurement result of the UE on the serving cell. The following description is directed to these two criteria, respectively:

the "UE is not located at cell edge" criterion: for this criterion, the network device configures a reference signal received power (Reference Signal Received Power, RSRP) threshold. In addition, a reference signal received quality (Reference Signal Received Quality, RSRQ) threshold may also be configured. When the RSRP of the UE on the serving cell is greater than the RSRP threshold, and the RSRQ of the UE on the serving cell is greater than the RSRQ threshold if the network device configures the RSRQ threshold, then the UE is considered to satisfy the "UE is not located at the cell edge" criterion. The RSRP threshold configured by the network device for the "UE not located at the cell edge" criterion needs to be smaller than the two higher-layer configuration threshold parameters sintrasetchp and snondinsetchp. If the network device configures the RSRQ threshold for the "UE not located at cell edge" criterion at the same time, the RSRQ threshold for the "UE not located at cell edge" criterion needs to be smaller than the sintrasetchq and snonintrasetchq.

"low mobility" criteria: for this criterion, the network device will configure an evaluation duration TSearchDeltaP of RSRP change and an RSRP change value threshold SsearchDeltaP. When the RSRP variation of the UE on the serving cell in the TSearchDeltaP is smaller than the SSearchDeltaP, the UE is considered to meet the low mobility criterion. After completing cell selection/reselection, the UE needs to perform normal RRM measurements for at least a period of time TSearchDeltaP.

RRM measurement mainly refers to mobility measurement in connected state. After the network equipment issues measurement configuration indication information for the UE, the UE detects the signal quality state of the neighbor cell according to the indicated measurement configuration information such as measurement objects, reporting configuration and the like, and feeds back measurement reporting information to the network for switching or completing neighbor cell relation lists.

In the LTE system, the network equipment sends measurement configuration indication information to the connected UE through RRC signaling, the UE performs same-frequency measurement, different-frequency measurement or different-technology measurement according to the measurement configuration information indicated by the measurement configuration indication information, and then reports the measurement result to the network.

The network device uses RRC connection reconfiguration for measurement configuration, the indicated measurement configuration information comprising:

1) Measuring object (Measurement Object)

With the frequency point as a basic unit, each configured measurement object is a single frequency point and has a single measurement object Identifier (ID), and for the common-frequency and different-frequency measurement of the evolved universal radio access network (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access, E-UTRA), the measurement object is a single E-UTRA carrier frequency. The cell associated with the carrier frequency, E-UTRA may configure a cell Offset (Offset) list and a blacklisted cell list. No operations are performed on the blacklisted cells in the measurement evaluation and measurement report.

2) Reporting configuration (measurement report config)

The report configuration type comprises configuration information of event trigger report and configuration information of period trigger report. Each reporting configuration has a separate Identification (ID), and the configuration information of the event-triggered reporting includes an event type and a threshold value, and a duration (Time to Trigger) that satisfies a Trigger condition. The reporting configuration of the periodic trigger type comprises a reporting period and a periodic trigger purpose.

The co-frequency/inter-frequency measurement events within the LTE system include the following:

event A1: the channel quality of the serving cell is greater than a threshold (Event A1: serving becomes better than absolute threshold);

Event A2: the channel quality of the serving cell is less than a threshold (Event A2: serving becomes worse than absolute threshold);

event A3: the channel quality of the adjacent cell is superior to that of the primary cell/primary and secondary cell (Event A3: neighbour becomes amount of offset better than PCell/PScell);

event A4: neighbor cell channel quality is greater than a threshold (Event A4: neighbour becomes better than absolute threshold);

event A5: the channel quality of the primary cell/the primary AND the secondary cells is smaller than a threshold1, AND the channel quality of the adjacent cells/the secondary cells is larger than a threshold2 (Event A5: PCell/PSCell becomes worse than absolute threshold1AND neighbor/SCell becomes better than another absolute threshold);

event A6: the channel quality of the adjacent cell is better than that of the secondary cell (Event A6: neighbour becomes amount of offset better than Scell);

event B1: the channel quality of the adjacent cell of the different system is larger than a threshold (Event B1: neighbour becomes better than absolute threshold);

event B2: the channel quality of the main cell is smaller than the threshold1, and the channel quality of the neighbor cells of the different systems is larger than the threshold2 (Event B2: PCell becomes worse than absolute threshold1AND Neighbour becomes better than another absolute threshold).

3) Measurement identification (Measurement ID):

the measurement identity is a separate ID, associating the measurement object with a specific reporting configuration. If the UE reaches the measurement start threshold, the UE judges whether to perform corresponding measurement according to the existence of the measurement identifier.

4) Other parameters

Other parameters include measurement gap, measurement on threshold, and speed state parameters, among others.

In the non-connected state, the terminal device can perform measurement relaxation based on the measurement relaxation criterion to dynamically control measurement, so as to achieve the purpose of energy saving. The inventor has found through intensive research that the terminal device can also perform RRM measurement of the connection state under the control of the network device. For example, when the network device receives the terminal assistance information, the network device may adjust measurement configuration information of the terminal device, such as increasing the measurement configuration information or decreasing the measurement configuration information. However, frequent increases and decreases of measurement configuration information generate high signaling overhead, resulting in reduced system efficiency.

The solution provided by the embodiments of the present application is mainly used for solving at least one of the above problems.

For a more complete understanding of the nature and the technical content of the embodiments of the present invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description of embodiments of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which are meant to be illustrative only and not limiting of the embodiments of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application. The method may alternatively be applied to a terminal device in the system shown in fig. 1, but is not limited thereto. The method comprises the following steps:

step S210, the terminal equipment receives first indication information from the network equipment;

The measurement configuration information set may include X measurement configuration information determined by the terminal device based on measurement configuration indication information issued by the network device, where X is an integer greater than or equal to N and greater than or equal to M.

The terminal device may determine, according to the received first indication information, a state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set, for example, determine the states of the N measurement configuration information as an active state, and determine the states of the M measurement configuration information as a deactivated state. The active state may represent a state in which measurement configuration information such as a measurement object, a reporting configuration, a measurement ID, etc. is in normal measurement. The deactivated state may represent a state in which the measurement configuration information is stopped from measuring or the measurement is relaxed.

In some application scenarios, the first indication information may be denoted as RRM measurement instruction.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the application also provides a measurement configuration method. The method may alternatively be applied to a network device in the system shown in fig. 1, but is not limited thereto. Referring to fig. 3, the method includes:

step S310, the network equipment sends first indication information to the terminal equipment;

As an example, the first indication information may include a first bit stream, each bit in the first bit stream corresponding to each measurement configuration information in the set of measurement configuration information. In the case where the i-th bit takes a first preset value (e.g., 1), the i-th bit is used to activate its corresponding measurement configuration information. In the case where the i-th bit takes a second preset value (e.g., 0), the i-th bit is used to deactivate its corresponding measurement configuration information. For example, the first bit stream is 0000110 for activating the 5 th and 6 th measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set and deactivating the 1 st to 4 th and 7 th measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.

As another example, the first indication information may include a first sequence and/or a second sequence. The first sequence includes an identification of the activated N measurement configuration information and the second sequence includes an identification of the deactivated M measurement configuration information.

The method sends the first indication information for activating and/or deactivating the measurement configuration information to the terminal equipment through the network equipment, so as to realize the measurement of the dynamic control terminal equipment. In addition, as the measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set does not need to be modified, added or reduced, only lower signaling overhead is needed, and the system efficiency is improved.

Alternatively, the above method may be applied to a system in a connected state.

Specifically, in step S210, the terminal device receives the first indication information from the network device, which may include: in case that the RRC state between the terminal device and the network device is a connected state, the terminal device receives first indication information from the network device.

Correspondingly, in step S310, the network device sends first indication information to the terminal device, including: and the network equipment sends the first indication information to the terminal equipment under the condition that the RRC state between the terminal equipment and the network equipment is a connection state.

Optionally, the measurement configuration method may further include a step of the terminal device performing measurement, measurement relaxation, or stopping measurement with respect to a state of the measurement configuration information. Specifically, the terminal device performs measurement based on at least one activated measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set, and/or the terminal device performs measurement relaxation based on at least one deactivated measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set or stops performing measurement based on at least one deactivated measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.

That is, the measurement configuration method may further include:

the terminal equipment performs measurement based on at least one of the N measurement configuration information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

the terminal device performs measurement relaxation based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information or stops performing measurement based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information.

For example, in the case that the measurement configuration information set already contains X pieces of activated measurement configuration information, the terminal device receives first indication information, where the first indication information is used to activate N pieces of measurement configuration information in the set, except for the X pieces of measurement configuration information, and the measurement configuration information set contains (x+n) pieces of activated measurement configuration information. The terminal device may make measurements based on at least one of the (x+n) activated measurement configuration information.

For another example, in the case that the measurement configuration information set already includes Y activated measurement configuration information, the terminal device receives first indication information, where the first indication information is used to deactivate M measurement configuration information in the Y activated measurement configuration information, and the measurement configuration information set includes (Y-M) activated measurement configuration information. The terminal device may perform measurements based on at least one of the (Y-M) activated measurement configuration information and perform a relaxed measurement based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information and the remaining inactive or deactivated measurement configuration information in the set, or stop performing measurements based on the M measurement configuration information.

For another example, in the case that the measurement configuration information set already includes Z activated measurement configuration information, the terminal device receives first indication information, where the first indication information is used to activate N measurement configuration information in the set except for the Z measurement configuration information, and deactivate M measurement configuration information in the Z activated measurement configuration information, and the measurement configuration information set includes (Z-m+n) measurement configuration information. The terminal device may perform measurement based on at least one of the (Z-m+n) measurement configuration information, and perform relaxation measurement based on at least one of the above-mentioned M measurement configuration information and the rest of the inactive or inactive measurement configuration information in the set, or stop performing measurement based on the M measurement configuration information.

Optionally, the first indication information is further used to indicate a period during which the measurement is relaxed.

In an exemplary case, the first indication information indicates that the M measurement configuration information is deactivated, the first indication information further indicates a period in which measurement relaxation is performed based on the M measurement configuration information.

For example, when the first indication information is used to deactivate the measurement object MO1, the first indication information also indicates a measurement interval or period on MO1, which is longer than the measurement interval or period of the normal measurement, according to which the terminal device performs a measurement relaxation on MO 1.

Alternatively, the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the set of measurement configuration information may be determined based on the second indication information sent by the network device or may be preconfigured.

In an exemplary embodiment, the measurement configuration method may further include:

the terminal equipment receives second indication information from the network equipment;

the second indication information is used for indicating the measurement configuration information set and the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.

Correspondingly, the measurement configuration method may further include:

the network equipment sends second indication information to the terminal equipment;

The second indication information may be, for example, higher layer signaling such as an RRC message.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic flowchart of an application example of the measurement configuration method according to the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, the network device first sends second indication information to the terminal device, where the second indication information may include the foregoing measurement configuration indication information, and is used to indicate a measurement configuration information set. And the second indication information also comprises an activation/deactivation indication for indicating that the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set is activated or deactivated. The terminal device performs measurements for the activated measurement configuration information. Thereafter, the network device may also send first indication information to the terminal device to activate and/or deactivate certain measurement configuration indication information in the set. And updating the state of the measurement configuration information in the set once every time the terminal equipment receives the first indication information, and executing measurement for the activated measurement configuration information.

In another exemplary embodiment, the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the set of measurement configuration information is preconfigured, e.g., defaults to an active state or a deactivated state.

Optionally, the set of measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following measurement configuration information:

a measurement object;

reporting configuration;

measurement Identification (ID).

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

a medium access control unit (MAC Control Element, MAC CE);

physical downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH).

Optionally, the network device sends the first indication information may be based on terminal assistance information. Specifically, the measurement configuration method may further include:

the network equipment receives terminal auxiliary information from the terminal equipment;

and the network equipment determines to activate N pieces of measurement configuration information and/or deactivate M pieces of measurement configuration information according to the terminal auxiliary information.

That is, the network device obtains the first indication information according to the terminal auxiliary information reported by the terminal device, and issues the first indication information to the terminal device. And the measurement configuration information is activated/deactivated according to the terminal auxiliary information, so that the measurement of the terminal equipment is reasonably and dynamically controlled, and the energy-saving effect and the system efficiency are improved.

Optionally, the terminal assistance information includes at least one of the following information:

Reporting information of the moving speed;

reporting information in a moving state;

and RRM measures reporting information.

The specific arrangements and implementations of the embodiments of the present application have been described above from a variety of angles by way of various embodiments. By using at least one embodiment of the foregoing, the network device sends the first indication information for activating and/or deactivating the measurement configuration information to the terminal device, so as to realize dynamic control of measurement of the terminal device, and only lower signaling overhead is needed, thereby improving system efficiency.

Corresponding to the processing method of at least one embodiment described above, the embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal device 100, referring to fig. 5, which includes:

a first communication module 110, configured to receive first indication information from a network device;

Optionally, the first communication module 110 is configured to:

in case that the radio resource control RRC state between the terminal device 100 and the network device is a connected state, the first indication information from the network device is received.

Optionally, referring to fig. 6, the terminal device 100 further includes a first processing module 120 for:

measuring based on at least one of the N measurement configuration information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

measurement relaxation is performed based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information or measurement is stopped based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information.

Optionally, the first communication module 110 is further configured to:

receiving second indication information from the network device;

Optionally, the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set is preconfigured.

a measurement object;

reporting configuration;

and (5) measuring the identification.

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

physical downlink control channel PDCCH.

The terminal device 100 in this embodiment of the present application may implement the corresponding functions of the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiment, and the flow, the functions, the implementation manner and the beneficial effects corresponding to each module (sub-module, unit or component, etc.) in the terminal device 100 may refer to the corresponding descriptions in the foregoing method embodiment, which are not repeated herein. It should be noted that, regarding the functions described in each module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.) in the terminal device 100 of the embodiment of the present application, the functions may be implemented by different modules (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), or may be implemented by the same module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), for example, the first sending module and the second sending module may be different modules, or may be the same module, and all the functions of the terminal device of the embodiment of the present application may be implemented.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a network device 200 according to an embodiment of the present application. The network device 200 may include:

a second communication module 210, configured to send first indication information to a terminal device;

Optionally, the second communication module 210 is configured to:

in case that the RRC state between the terminal device and the network device 200 is a connected state, the first indication information is transmitted to the terminal device.

Optionally, the second communication module 210 is further configured to:

sending second indication information to the terminal equipment;

Optionally, the second communication module is further configured to receive terminal auxiliary information from the terminal device; referring to fig. 8, the network device further includes:

the second processing module 220 is configured to determine to activate N measurement configuration information and/or deactivate M measurement configuration information according to the terminal auxiliary information.

reporting information of the moving speed;

reporting information in a moving state;

the radio resource management RRM measures the reporting information.

The network device 200 of the embodiment of the present application can implement the corresponding functions of the network device in the foregoing method embodiment. The flow, function, implementation and beneficial effects corresponding to each module (sub-module, unit or assembly, etc.) in the network device 200 can be referred to the corresponding description in the above method embodiments, which are not repeated here. It should be noted that, regarding the functions described in each module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.) in the network device 200 of the application embodiment, the functions may be implemented by different modules (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), or may be implemented by the same module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), for example, the first sending module and the second sending module may be different modules, or may be the same module, and all the functions of the terminal device of the application embodiment may be implemented.

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 600 according to an embodiment of the present application, wherein the communication device 600 includes a processor 610, and the processor 610 may call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the communication device 600 may further comprise a memory 620. Wherein the processor 610 may call and run a computer program from the memory 620 to implement the methods in embodiments of the present application.

The memory 620 may be a separate device from the processor 610 or may be integrated into the processor 610.

Optionally, the communication device 600 may further include a transceiver 630, and the processor 610 may control the transceiver 630 to communicate with other devices, and in particular, may send information or data to other devices, or receive information or data sent by other devices.

The transceiver 630 may include a transmitter and a receiver, among others. Transceiver 630 may further include antennas, the number of which may be one or more.

Optionally, the communication device 600 may be a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 600 may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Optionally, the communication device 600 may be a terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 600 may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a chip 700 according to an embodiment of the present application, wherein the chip 700 includes a processor 710, and the processor 710 may call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, chip 700 may also include memory 720. Wherein the processor 710 may call and run a computer program from the memory 720 to implement the methods in embodiments of the present application.

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

Optionally, the chip 700 may also include an input interface 730. The processor 710 may control the input interface 730 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, may obtain information or data sent by other devices or chips.

Optionally, the chip 700 may further include an output interface 740. The processor 710 may control the output interface 740 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, may output information or data to other devices or chips.

Optionally, the chip may be applied to a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Optionally, the chip may be applied to a terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

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

The processors mentioned above may be general purpose processors, digital signal processors (digital signal processor, DSP), off-the-shelf programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA), application specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC) or other programmable logic devices, transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc. The general-purpose processor mentioned above may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor.

The memory mentioned above may be volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may 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 EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (random access memory, RAM).

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

Fig. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system 800 according to an embodiment of the present application, the communication system 800 comprising a terminal device 810 and a network device 820.

Wherein the network device 820 sends the first indication information to the terminal device 810; the terminal device 810 receives first indication information from the network device 820. The first indication information is used for activating N pieces of measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M pieces of measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.

Wherein the terminal device 810 may be used to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the terminal device in the methods of the various embodiments of the present application, and the network device 820 may be used to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the network device in the methods of the various embodiments of the present application. For brevity, the description is omitted here.

In the above embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, produces a flow or function in accordance with embodiments of the present application, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. 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 a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line (Digital Subscriber Line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium may 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 an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy Disk, hard Disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., solid State Disk (SSD)), etc.

It should be understood that, in various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the foregoing processes do not mean the order of execution, and the order of execution of the processes should be determined by the functions and internal logic thereof, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

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

The foregoing is merely a specific embodiment of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and the changes or substitutions are covered in the protection scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A measurement configuration method, comprising:

the terminal equipment receives first indication information from the network equipment;

the first indication information is used for activating N measurement configuration information in a measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.
The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal device receives the first indication information from a network device, comprising:

and receiving first indication information from the network equipment by the terminal equipment under the condition that the Radio Resource Control (RRC) state between the terminal equipment and the network equipment is a connection state.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment performs measurement based on at least one of the N measurement configuration information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

the terminal device performs measurement relaxation based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information or stops performing measurement based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information.
A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the first indication information is further used to indicate a period during which a measurement is relaxed.
The method of any of claims 1-4, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment receives second indication information from the network equipment;

the second indication information is used for indicating the measurement configuration information set and the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.
The method of any of claims 1-4, wherein an initial state of each measurement configuration information in the set of measurement configuration information is pre-configured.
The method of any of claims 1-6, wherein the set of measurement configuration information comprises at least one of:

a measurement object;

reporting configuration;

and (5) measuring the identification.
The method of any of claims 1-7, wherein the first indication information comprises at least one of the following signaling:

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

physical downlink control channel PDCCH.
A measurement configuration method, comprising:

the network equipment sends first indication information to the terminal equipment;

the first indication information is used for activating N measurement configuration information in a measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.
The method of claim 9, wherein the network device sending the first indication information to the terminal device comprises:

and under the condition that the RRC state between the terminal equipment and the network equipment is a connection state, the network equipment sends first indication information to the terminal equipment.
The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the method further comprises:

the network equipment sends second indication information to the terminal equipment;

the second indication information is used for indicating the measurement configuration information set and the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.
The method of any of claims 9-11, wherein the method further comprises:

the network equipment receives terminal auxiliary information from the terminal equipment;

and the network equipment determines to activate the N measurement configuration information and/or deactivate the M measurement configuration information according to the terminal auxiliary information.
The method of claim 12, wherein the terminal assistance information comprises at least one of:

reporting information of the moving speed;

reporting information in a moving state;

the radio resource management RRM measures the reporting information.
A terminal device, comprising:

the first communication module is used for receiving first indication information from the network equipment;

the first indication information is used for activating N measurement configuration information in a measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.
The terminal device of claim 14, wherein the first communication module is configured to:

and receiving first indication information from the network equipment under the condition that the Radio Resource Control (RRC) state between the terminal equipment and the network equipment is a connection state.
The terminal device according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the terminal device further comprises a first processing module for:

performing measurement based on at least one of the N measurement configuration information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

measurement relaxation is performed based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information or measurement is stopped based on at least one of the M measurement configuration information.
The terminal device according to any of claims 14-16, wherein the first indication information is further used to indicate a period during which measurement is relaxed.
The terminal device of any of claims 14-17, wherein the first communication module is further configured to:

receiving second indication information from the network device;

the second indication information is used for indicating the measurement configuration information set and the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.
The terminal device according to any of claims 14-17, wherein an initial state of each measurement configuration information in the set of measurement configuration information is pre-configured.
The terminal device of any of claims 14-19, wherein the set of measurement configuration information comprises at least one of the following measurement configuration information:

a measurement object;

reporting configuration;

and (5) measuring the identification.
The terminal device according to any of claims 14-20, wherein the first indication information comprises at least one of the following signaling:

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

physical downlink control channel PDCCH.
A network device, comprising:

the second communication module is used for sending the first indication information to the terminal equipment;

the first indication information is used for activating N measurement configuration information in a measurement configuration information set and/or deactivating M measurement configuration information in the configuration information set, wherein N and M are integers greater than or equal to 1.
The network device of claim 22, wherein the second communication module is configured to:

and sending first indication information to the terminal equipment under the condition that the RRC state between the terminal equipment and the network equipment is a connection state.
The network device of claim 22 or 23, wherein the second communication module is further configured to:

sending second indication information to the terminal equipment;

the second indication information is used for indicating the measurement configuration information set and the initial state of each measurement configuration information in the measurement configuration information set.
The network device of any of claims 22-24, wherein the second communication module is further configured to receive terminal assistance information from the terminal device;

the network device further includes:

and the second processing module is used for determining to activate the N measurement configuration information and/or deactivate the M measurement configuration information according to the terminal auxiliary information.
The network device of claim 25, wherein the terminal assistance information comprises at least one of:

reporting information of the moving speed;

reporting information in a moving state;

the radio resource management RRM measures the reporting information.
A terminal device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory, performing the steps of the method according to any of claims 1 to 8.
A network device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory to perform the steps of the method according to any of claims 9 to 13.
A chip, comprising:

a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory, causing a device on which the chip is mounted to perform the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein,

the computer program causes a computer to perform the steps of the measurement configuration method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions, wherein,

the computer program instructions cause a computer to perform the steps of the measurement configuration method according to any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer program which causes a computer to perform the steps of the measurement configuration method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 13.