CN116941271A

CN116941271A - Measurement method, terminal equipment and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN116941271A
Application number: CN202180094813.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张晋瑜; 胡荣贻; 王淑坤
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-15
Filing date: 2021-06-15
Publication date: 2023-10-24
Also published as: WO2022261839A1

Abstract

A measuring method, a terminal device and a network device, the method comprises: under the condition that a plurality of measurement intervals (MG) conflict in the time domain, the terminal equipment determines the priority ordering of the plurality of MG according to the association information of each MG and/or the indication information of the network equipment; determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG; and measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain positions.

Description

Measurement method, terminal equipment and network equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the field of communication, in particular to a measurement method, terminal equipment and network equipment.

Background

In a New Radio (NR) system, in order to support SSB Measurement of a terminal device on multiple frequency points, or Measurement of multiple reference signals, the terminal device may perform Measurement based on multiple Measurement intervals (MG). However, if there is an overlap between the multiple MGs in the time domain, how the terminal device performs the measurement is a problem to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a measuring method, a terminal device and a network device, wherein under the condition that a plurality of MG conflict, the terminal device determines a target MG in the plurality of MG according to the associated information of the MG and/or the indication information of the network device, and further uses the target MG for measurement.

In a first aspect, a measurement method is provided, comprising: under the condition that a plurality of measurement intervals (MG) conflict in the time domain, the terminal equipment determines the priority ordering of the plurality of MG according to the association information of each MG and/or the indication information of the network equipment; determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG; and measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain positions.

In a second aspect, there is provided a measurement method comprising: the network device sends indication information to the terminal device, wherein the indication information is used for indicating a mode that the terminal device determines priorities of a plurality of measurement intervals (MG) when the MG conflicts in a time domain.

In a third aspect, a terminal device is provided for performing the method in the first aspect or each implementation manner thereof.

Specifically, the terminal device comprises functional modules for performing the method of the first aspect or its implementation manner.

In a fourth aspect, a network device is provided for performing the method of the second aspect or implementations thereof.

In particular, the network device comprises functional modules for performing the method of the second aspect or implementations thereof described above.

In a fifth aspect, a terminal device is provided comprising a processor and a memory. The memory is used for storing a computer program, and the processor is used for calling and running the computer program stored in the memory and executing the method in the first aspect or various implementation manners thereof.

In a sixth aspect, a network device is provided that includes a processor and a memory. The memory is for storing a computer program and the processor is for calling and running the computer program stored in the memory for performing the method of the second aspect or implementations thereof described above.

A seventh aspect provides a chip for implementing the method of any one of the first to second aspects or each implementation thereof.

Specifically, the chip includes: a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory, causing a device in which the apparatus is installed to perform the method as in any one of the first to second aspects or implementations thereof described above.

In an eighth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing a computer program that causes a computer to perform the method of any one of the above-described first to second aspects or implementations thereof.

A ninth aspect provides a computer program product comprising computer program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of the first to second aspects or implementations thereof.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of the first to second aspects or implementations thereof.

Through the technical scheme, under the condition that a plurality of MG conflict, the terminal equipment determines the priority order of the plurality of MG according to the associated information of the MG and/or the indication information of the network equipment, further determines the target MG according to the priority order of the plurality of MG, and measures the target MG by using the target MG, and correspondingly, the network equipment determines the target MG according to the associated information of the MG and/or the indication information, so that the understanding consistency of the network equipment and the terminal equipment on the time domain position of the MG adopted by downlink measurement can be ensured.

Drawings

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

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

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an MG according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 to 8 are schematic diagrams of two MGs colliding in the time domain according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of determining an activated MG based on the type of reference signal associated with the MG.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of determining an activated MG based on a measurement type associated with the MG.

Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of determining an activated MG from MG-associated cell information.

Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of determining an active MG based on the type of network with which the MG is associated.

Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram of determining an activated MG based on a measurement priority associated with the MG.

Fig. 14 is a schematic diagram of an MG that determines activation based on SMTC associated with the MG.

Fig. 15 is a schematic diagram of determining an activated MG according to the number of MOs associated with the MG.

Fig. 16 is a schematic diagram of a bit map indicated by a network device to determine the activation position of an MG.

Fig. 17 is a schematic diagram of determining an activation position of an MG from a bit map indicated by a network device.

Fig. 18 is a schematic diagram of an activation period and a time domain position of activation of an MG indicated by a network device to determine an activation position of the MG.

Fig. 19 is a schematic diagram of the activation proportion information indicated by the network device to determine the activation position of the MG.

Fig. 20 is a schematic diagram of determining an activation position of an MG by activation proportion information and activation number information indicated by a network device.

Fig. 21 is a schematic flow chart of another measurement method provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 22 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 23 is a schematic block diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 24 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 25 is a schematic block diagram of a chip provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 26 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present application will be given with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art to which the application pertains without inventive faculty, are intended to fall within the scope of the application.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, such as: 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, advanced long term evolution (Advanced long term evolution, LTE-a) system, new Radio (NR) system, evolved system of NR system, LTE-based access to unlicensed spectrum, LTE-U) system on unlicensed spectrum, NR (NR-based access to unlicensed spectrum, NR-U) system on 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), fifth Generation communication (5 th-Generation, 5G) system, or other communication system, etc.

Generally, the number of connections supported by the conventional communication system is limited and easy to implement, however, as the communication technology advances, 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., to which the embodiments of the present application can also be applied.

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, or a Stand Alone (SA) fabric scenario.

Optionally, the communication system in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to unlicensed spectrum, where unlicensed spectrum may also be considered as shared spectrum; alternatively, the communication system in the embodiment of the present application may also be applied to licensed spectrum, where licensed spectrum may also be considered as non-shared spectrum.

Embodiments of the present application are described in connection with a network device and a terminal device, where the terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a User terminal, a wireless communication device, a User agent, a 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 mounted 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 the embodiment of the application, the terminal equipment can be deployed on land, including indoor or outdoor, handheld, 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 the 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, a network device in future evolved PLMN network, or a network device in NTN network, 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 the embodiment of the present application, a network device may provide services 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 the 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.

An exemplary communication system 100 to which embodiments of the present application may be applied is shown in fig. 1. The communication system 100 may include a network device 110, and the network device 110 may be a device that communicates with a terminal device 120 (or referred to as a communication terminal, terminal). Network device 110 may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area and may communicate with terminal devices located within the coverage area.

Fig. 1 illustrates one network device and two terminal devices by way of example, and the communication system 100 may alternatively include multiple network devices and may include other numbers of terminal devices within the coverage area of each network device, as embodiments of the application are not limited in this regard.

Optionally, the communication system 100 may further include a network controller, a mobility management entity, and other network entities, which are not limited by the embodiment of the present application.

It should be understood that a device having a communication function in a network/system according to an embodiment of the present application may be referred to as a communication device. Taking the communication system 100 shown in fig. 1 as an example, the communication device may include a network device 110 and a terminal device 120 with communication functions, where the network device 110 and the terminal device 120 may be specific devices described above, and are not described herein again; the communication device may also include other devices in the communication system 100, 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 used interchangeably herein. The term "and/or" is herein merely an association relationship describing an associated object, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, may represent: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the front and rear associated objects are an "or" relationship.

It should be understood that the "indication" mentioned in the embodiments of the present application 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, etc.

In the embodiment of the present application, the "predefining" may be implemented by pre-storing corresponding codes, tables or other manners that may be used to indicate relevant information in devices (including, for example, terminal devices and network devices), and the present application is not limited to the specific implementation manner thereof. Such as predefined may refer to what is defined in the protocol.

In the embodiment of the present application, the "protocol" may refer to a standard protocol in the communication field, for example, may include an LTE protocol, an NR protocol, and related protocols applied in a future communication system, which is not limited in the present application.

In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solution of the present application is described in detail below through specific embodiments. The following related technologies may be optionally combined with the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, which all belong to the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application. Embodiments of the present application include at least some of the following.

In release 16 (Rel-16), when the terminal device performs radio resource management (Radio Resource Management, RRM) or positioning Measurement, the terminal device can only use one or two Measurement Gaps (MG), and in particular, several MG are determined by the capability of the terminal device, for example, if the terminal device supports MG per FR (per-FR Gap), one MG pattern (pattern) may be configured on FR1 and FR2, respectively, and if MG per UE (per-UE Gap) is supported, only one MG pattern may be configured.

It is to be understood that in the present application, the MG may be configured by measurement gap configuration (measGapConfig) or by MG pattern configuration, for example, the configuration information of the MG may include, for example, the length (MGL) of the MG, the period (i.e., MGRP) of the MG, the starting position offset (gapffset) of the MG, and the like.

When the terminal device is configured to perform synchronization signal block (Synchronization Signal Block, SSB) measurements on a plurality of frequency points, or when the terminal device is configured to perform measurements on a plurality of reference signals (e.g., SSB, channel state information reference signals (Channel State Information Reference Signal, CSI-RS), positioning reference signals (positioning reference signals, PRS)), the terminal device may not be able to include all reference signals in the MG using only one MG pattern configuration, resulting in an inability to accurately measure all reference signals, or may result in a waste of the MG if a longer MGL is used. To solve this problem, multiple simultaneous and independent MG pattern configurations are introduced to enable better measurement with different synchronization block measurement timing configurations (SS/PBCH block measurement timing configuration, SMTC), or different reference signals, or different radio accesses (Radio Access Type, RAT).

When a terminal device uses multiple MGs to perform measurement, if the multiple MGs collide in the time domain, how the terminal device performs measurement is a problem to be solved.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a measurement method 200 according to an embodiment of the application, which method 200 may be performed by a terminal device in the communication system shown in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 2, which method 200 comprises the following:

S210, in the case that a plurality of measurement intervals MG conflict in the time domain, the terminal equipment determines the priority ordering of the plurality of MG according to the associated information of each MG and/or the indication information of the network equipment;

s220, determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG;

and S230, measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain position.

In an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3, each MG may include a plurality of interval occasions (gap occlusions) periodically. The period of the gap occipital is the period of the MG, that is, the length of the gap occipital is the MGL, and the initial position offset of the gap occipital in each period is the gap offset.

In some embodiments, the periods of the multiple MGs may be the same or may be different.

In some embodiments, MGLs corresponding to the plurality of MGs may be the same or may be different.

In some embodiments, the gapoffset corresponding to the multiple MGs may be the same or may be different.

It should be understood that the number of the plurality of MGs is not limited, and may be, for example, 2 MGs or more, and hereinafter, two MGs are in conflict with each other in the time domain, or overlap in the time domain, for example, but the present application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments of the present application, the multiple MGs collide in the time domain, which may mean that the interval opportunities of the multiple MGs collide in the time domain, or overlap in the time domain.

In some embodiments, the overlapping of the interval opportunities of the plurality of MGs in the time domain may include at least one of:

the interval opportunities of the multiple MG are completely overlapped in the time domain;

the interval timings of the plurality of MGs partially overlap in the time domain.

Taking an example that the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, the interval timings of the plurality of MGs completely overlap in a time domain may include:

case 1: all the interval opportunities of the second MG are completely covered by all the interval opportunities of the first MG having the same period.

In this case 1, MGRP of the first MG and MGRP of the second MG are the same, MGL of the first MG is greater than or equal to MGL of the second MG, and gapffset of the first MG and gapffset of the second MG are the same or different.

Taking an example that the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, the interval opportunities of the plurality of MGs partially overlap in a time domain may include at least one of the following cases:

case 2: all the interval opportunities of the second MG are partially covered by all the interval opportunities of the first MG having the same period.

In this case 2, MGRP of the first MG and MGRP of the second MG are the same, MGL of the first MG and MGL of the second MG are the same or different, and gapffset of the first MG and gapffset of the second MG are the same or different.

Case 3: all the interval opportunities of the second MG are completely covered by the interval opportunities of the first MG having different periods.

In this case 3, MGRP of the first MG and MGRP of the second MG are different, for example, the period of the first MG is smaller than the period of the second MG, MGL of the first MG is greater than or equal to MGL of the second MG, and gapoffset of the first MG and gapoffset of the second MG are the same or different.

Case 4: all the interval opportunities of the second MG are partially covered by the interval opportunities of the first MG having different periods.

In this case 4, MGRP of the first MG and MGRP of the second MG are different, MGL of the first MG and MGL of the second MG are the same or different, and gapffset of the first MG and gapffset of the second MG are the same or different.

Referring to fig. 4 to 8, several cases in which the MG1 and MG2 overlap in the time domain will be described taking an example in which the plurality of MGs includes MG1 and MG 2.

Fig. 4 and 5 are examples of the foregoing case 1.

In the example of fig. 4, MGRP, MGL, and gapoffset of MG1 and MG2 are all the same, and overlapping MG1 and MG2 in the time domain may mean: each interval opportunity of MG2 is fully covered by each interval opportunity of MG 1.

In the example of fig. 5, the MGRP of MG1 and MG2 are the same, but the MGL of MG1 is greater than the MGL of MG2, and overlapping MG1 and MG2 in the time domain may mean: each interval opportunity of MG2 is fully covered by each interval opportunity of MG 1.

Fig. 6 is an example of the foregoing case 2.

In the example of fig. 6, the MGRP of MG1 and MG2 are the same, but the gapoffset and/or MGL of MG1 and MG2 are different, and overlapping MG1 and MG2 in the time domain may mean: each interval opportunity of MG2 is partially covered by each interval opportunity of MG 1.

Fig. 7 is an example of the foregoing case 3.

In the example of fig. 7, MGRP of MG1 and MG2 are different, and MGL of MG1 is greater than or equal to MGL of MG2, overlapping MG1 and MG2 in the time domain may mean: each interval timing of MG2 is completely covered by the interval timing of MG 1.

Fig. 8 is an example of the foregoing case 4.

In the example of fig. 8, MGRP of MG1 and MG2 are different, and gapoffset and/or MGL of MG1 and MG2 are different, overlapping MG1 and MG2 in the time domain may mean: each interval timing of MG2 is partially covered by an interval timing of MG 1.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the manner in which the terminal device determines the priorities of the multiple MGs may be predefined, or may also be indicated by a network device, which is not limited by the present application.

For example, the predefined terminal device determines the priority of the MG according to the association information of the MG, or the predefined terminal device determines the priority of the MG according to the indication of the network device, or the like.

For another example, the network device may instruct the terminal device to determine the priorities of the MGs according to the association information of the MGs, or may directly instruct the priorities of the MGs, which is not limited to this.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the priority of the MG may be replaced by the use priority of the MG, or the activation priority of the MG, and the priority of the MG may be used to determine the use order of the MG, or the activation order.

It should be noted that, the determining method of the priority of the MG according to the embodiment of the present application may be applied to selecting the target MG when a plurality of MGs collide, or may also be applied to other scenarios where a selection is required according to the priority of the MG, that is, the embodiment of the present application provides a determining method of the priority of the MG, which may be applied to MG selection when a plurality of MGs collide, or may also be applied to other scenarios, which is not limited in this aspect of the present application.

It should be further noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the network device and the terminal device may determine, in a consistent manner, a target MG activated in multiple MGs that collide (where other MGs may be considered to be deactivated), after determining the target MG, the network device may send a downlink reference signal according to the target MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device may perform measurement based on the target MG, so as to ensure that understanding of the terminal device and the network device about the time domain positions of the MGs that are measured in the downlink is consistent. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device may also perform data transceiving according to the activated MG. For example, the network device performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except for the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except for the activated MG. In some cases, if the interval opportunity of the deactivated MG is not completely covered by the interval opportunity of the activated MG, for example, fig. 6, in the conflicting time domain position, MG1 is the activated MG and MG2 is the deactivated MG, the network device may perform data scheduling on a part of the interval opportunities of MG2 that are not covered by the interval opportunity of MG1, and correspondingly, the terminal device may perform data transceiving on a part of the interval opportunities of MG2 that are not covered by the interval opportunity of MG 1.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the information related to the MG may refer to any information related to the MG, or information related to the MG newly added in standard evolution, which is not limited in the present application.

In some embodiments of the present application, the association information of the MG includes, but is not limited to, at least one of:

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement type associated with the MG;

cell information associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type associated with the MG;

the MG-associated measurement priority;

the measurement time configuration of the MG association;

-said MG-associated measurement object (Measurement Object, MO) information;

type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

and the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG.

Hereinafter, a specific implementation of the association information of the MG will be described in connection with specific embodiments.

Example 1: the related information of the MG comprises reference signal information related to the MG

In some embodiments of the present application, the reference signal associated with the MG may refer to a reference signal measured by a terminal device using the MG.

In some embodiments, the association between the MG and the reference signal may be configured by the network device or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the reference signal, so that the network equipment and the terminal equipment can ensure that the understanding of the association relation between the MG and the reference signal is consistent.

In some embodiments, the MG and the reference signal may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship between the MG and the reference signal through the first configuration information, where the association relationship between the MG and the reference signal may be represented by identification information (e.g., gap pattern ID) of an MG configuration corresponding to the MG and identification information of configuration information corresponding to the reference signal.

In some embodiments, the first configuration information may be configured independently, or the first configuration information may be carried in an MG configuration, or the first configuration information may be carried in configuration information of a reference signal. For example, when the network device issues configuration information of the reference signal, the network device configures the MG that is expected to be used for measuring the reference signal at the same time.

In other embodiments, the MG and the reference signal may be indirectly associated, for example, the MG and the MO to be measured may be associated, and the reference signal configuration corresponding to the MO associated with the MG may be considered to be associated with the MG.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the reference signal associated with the MG may be replaced by the reference signal associated with the MG configuration, or the reference signal configuration associated with the MG configuration, that is, the MG and the reference signal association may be regarded as the MG configuration and the reference signal configuration association.

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG-associated reference signal information includes, but is not limited to, at least one of:

the type (or usage type, use case) of the MG-associated reference signal;

a measurement type of the MG-associated reference signal;

cell information of the reference signal associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type to which the MG associated reference signal belongs;

measurement priority of the MG-associated reference signal.

In the following, a specific implementation manner of determining the priority of the MG according to the type of the reference signal associated with the MG is described by taking the determining of the priority of the MG according to the reference signal information associated with the MG as an example, and an implementation manner of determining the priority of the MG according to other information of the reference signal associated with the MG, for example, a measurement type associated with the reference signal, cell information, a radio access network type, or a measurement priority, etc. is similar, and is not repeated herein for brevity.

In some embodiments, the type of MG-associated reference signal includes, but is not limited to, at least one of:

the synchronization signal block SSB, the channel state information reference signal CSI-RS, the positioning reference signal PRS.

In the embodiment of the application, the MG is associated with the reference signal type, and the priority of the associated MG is further determined based on the priority of the reference signal type, so that the priority use of the MG of the specific reference signal type is guaranteed under the condition of MG collision.

In some embodiments of the present application, the S210 may include:

the terminal equipment determines the priority ranks of the multiple MG according to the type of the reference signal associated with each MG and the first reference signal priority ranks, wherein the first reference signal priority ranks are used for indicating the priority ranks of the multiple types of reference signals.

In some embodiments, the first reference signal prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

For example, the network device may simultaneously configure the first reference signal prioritization when configuring the terminal device to determine the priorities of the multiple MGs according to the types of reference signals associated with the MGs.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the first reference signal prioritization by higher layer signaling. The higher layer signaling may include, for example, radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) signaling. In other embodiments, the first reference signal prioritization may also be configured by system information, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the first reference signal prioritization may be used to indicate a prioritization of PRSs, CSI-RSs, and SSBs, e.g., PRSs having a higher priority than CSI-RSs and SSBs. In this way, when determining the priority of the MG according to the type of the reference signal associated with the MG, it may be determined that the MG associated with the PRS corresponds to a higher priority and the MG associated with the SSB and the CSI-RS corresponds to a lower priority.

As shown in fig. 9, when the MG1 is associated with SSB and the MG2 is associated with PRS, the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and then at the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device uses MG2 to perform measurement preferentially, that is, at the interval time when collision occurs, activates the interval time corresponding to MG2, and deactivates the interval time corresponding to MG 1. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device may also perform data transceiving according to the activated MG, for example, the network device performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 2: the related information of the MG comprises a measurement type related to the MG.

In some embodiments, the association of the MG and the measurement type may be configured by the network device or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the measurement type, so that the network equipment and the terminal equipment can ensure that the understanding of the association relation between the MG and the measurement type is consistent.

In some embodiments, the MG and the measurement type may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship between the MG and the measurement type through the second configuration information. Alternatively, the MG and the measurement type may be indirectly related, for example, the MG and the measurement object MO are related, and the measurement type corresponding to the MO to which the MG is related may be regarded as being related to the MG.

In some embodiments, the second configuration information may be carried in an MG configuration, or the second configuration information may be carried in an MO configuration, or the second configuration information may be configured independently, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the MG-associated measurement types include, but are not limited to, at least one of:

and the MG is associated with the same-frequency measurement and the MG is associated with different-frequency measurement.

In this embodiment 2, by associating the MG with the measurement type, the priority of the associated MG is determined further based on the priority of the measurement type, which is advantageous in ensuring the preferential use of the MG for a specific measurement type in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments of the present application, the S210 may include:

the terminal equipment determines the priority ranks of the multiple MG according to the measurement type associated with each MG and the first measurement type priority ranks, wherein the first measurement type priority ranks are used for indicating the priority ranks of multiple measurement types.

In some embodiments, the first measurement type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

For example, the network device may simultaneously configure the first measurement type prioritization when configuring the terminal device to determine the priorities of the plurality of MGs according to the measurement types associated with the MGs.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the first measurement type prioritization through higher layer signaling. The higher layer signaling may include, for example, RRC signaling. In other embodiments, the first measurement type prioritization may also be configured by system information, and the present application is not limited thereto.

As an example, the first measurement type prioritization is used to indicate that the priority of on-channel measurements is higher than the priority of off-channel measurements. In this way, when determining the priority of the MG according to the measurement type associated with the MG, the MG associated with the same-frequency measurement can be determined as a higher priority, and the MG associated with the different-frequency measurement can be determined as a lower priority.

As shown in fig. 10, when different frequency measurement is associated with MG1 and same frequency measurement is associated with MG2, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and if the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, at the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device uses MG2 to perform measurement preferentially, that is, at the interval time when collision occurs, activates the interval time corresponding to MG2, and deactivates the interval time corresponding to MG 1. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 3: the associated information of the MG comprises cell information associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the association between the MG and the cell may be configured by the network device, or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relationship between the MG and the cell, so that the understanding consistency of the network equipment and the terminal equipment on the association relationship between the MG and the cell can be ensured.

In some embodiments, the MG and the cell may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship between the MG and the cell through the third configuration information. Alternatively, the MG and the cell may be indirectly associated, for example, the MG and the MO to be measured may be associated, and the cell information corresponding to the MO associated with the MG may be considered to be associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the third configuration information may be carried in the MG configuration, or the third configuration information may be carried in the MO configuration, or the third configuration information may be configured independently, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment 3, by associating the MG with the cell information, and further determining the priority of the associated MG based on the priority of the cell, it is advantageous to ensure the preferential use of the MG for a specific cell in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG-associated cell information may include a cell priority list for indicating a priority order of a plurality of cells.

Alternatively, the cell priority list may be predefined or may be configured by the network device.

When determining the priority of the MG, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to the cell associated with the MG and the cell priority list. For example, if the reference signal associated with the first MG belongs to the first cell and the reference signal associated with the second MG belongs to the second cell, in the cell priority list, the priority of the first cell is higher than the priority of the second cell, it may be determined that the priority of the first MG is higher than the priority of the second MG. Further, in the case where there is a conflict between the first MG and the second MG, the measurement is performed using the first MG.

In other embodiments of the present application, the MG-associated cell information includes a first cell list, wherein cells in the first cell list have a higher priority than other cells outside the first cell list. I.e. the first cell list is a cell white list.

Alternatively, the first cell list may be predefined or may be configured by the network device.

For example, the network device may configure the first cell list at the same time when the configuration terminal device determines priorities of the plurality of MGs according to cell information associated with the MGs.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the first cell list through higher layer signaling. The higher layer signaling may include, for example, RRC signaling. In other embodiments, the first cell list may also be configured by system information, and the present application is not limited thereto.

When determining the priority of the MG, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to the cell associated with the MG in combination with the first cell list, for example, if the first MG is associated with the first cell, the second MG is associated with the second cell, if the first cell is in the first cell list, the second cell is not in the first cell list, and if the priority of the first cell is higher than the priority of the second cell, it may be determined that the priority of the first MG is higher than the priority of the second MG. Further, in the case where there is a conflict between the first MG and the second MG, the measurement is performed using the first MG.

In other embodiments of the present application, the MG-associated cell information includes a second cell list, and cells in the second cell list have a lower priority than other cells outside the second cell list. I.e. the second cell list is a cell blacklist.

When determining the priority of the MG, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to the cell associated with the MG and the second cell list, for example, if the first MG is associated with a first cell, the second MG is associated with a second cell, if the first cell is in the second cell list, the second cell is not in the second cell list, the priority of the first cell is lower than the priority of the second cell, and it may be determined that the priority of the first MG is lower than the priority of the second MG. Further, in the case where there is a conflict between the first MG and the second MG, measurement is performed using the second MG.

Alternatively, the second cell list may be predefined or may be configured by the network device.

For example, the network device may configure the second cell list at the same time when the configuration terminal device determines the priorities of the plurality of MGs according to the cell information associated with the MGs.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the second cell list through higher layer signaling. The higher layer signaling may include, for example, RRC signaling. In other embodiments, the second cell list may also be configured by system information, and the present application is not limited thereto.

For example, as shown in fig. 11, when the priority of MG is determined according to the cell white list, the cell associated with MG1 does not belong to the cell white list, and the cell associated with MG2 belongs to the cell white list, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and then, in the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device uses MG2 preferentially to perform measurement. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 4: the associated information of the MG comprises the wireless access network type associated by the terminal equipment according to the MG.

In some embodiments, the association of the MG and the radio access network type may be configured by a network device or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the wireless access network type, so that the network equipment and the terminal equipment can ensure that the understanding of the association relation between the MG and the wireless access network type is consistent.

In some embodiments, the MG and the radio access network type may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship between the MG and the radio access network type through the fourth configuration information. Alternatively, the MG and the radio access network type may be indirectly associated, for example, the MG and the MO to be measured may be associated, and the radio access network type corresponding to the MO associated with the MG may be considered to be associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the fourth configuration information may be carried in the MG configuration, or the fourth configuration information may be carried in the MO configuration, or the fourth configuration information may be configured independently, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment 4, by associating the MG with the radio access network type, the priority of the associated MG is determined further based on the priority of the radio access network type, which is advantageous in ensuring preferential use of the MG for a particular radio access network type in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments, the MG associated radio access network types include, but are not limited to, at least one of:

NR network type, E-UTRAN network type, GSM network type.

In some embodiments of the present application, the S210 may include:

and the terminal equipment determines the priority orders of the multiple MG according to the wireless access network type associated with each MG and the priority orders of the first wireless access network type, wherein the priority orders of the wireless access network types are used for indicating the priority orders of the multiple wireless access network types.

In some embodiments, the first radio access network type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

For example, the network device may simultaneously configure the first radio access network type prioritization when configuring the terminal device to determine the priorities of the multiple MGs according to the radio access network types associated with the MGs.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the first radio access network type prioritization by higher layer signaling. The higher layer signaling may include, for example, RRC signaling. In other embodiments, the first radio access network type prioritization may also be configured by system information, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the network type prioritization indicated by the first radio access network type is: NR > E-UTRAN > UTRAN > GSM. In this way, when determining the priority of the MG according to the radio access network type associated with the MG, the priority of the MG may be determined according to the radio access network type associated with the MG, for example, the MG associated with the NR is determined as the highest priority, the MG associated with the GSM is determined as the lowest priority, and so on.

As shown in fig. 12, if MG2 is associated with an NR network type and MG1 is associated with another network type other than NR, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than that of MG2, and then, at the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device preferentially uses MG2 to perform measurement. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 5: the MG related information includes a measurement priority associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the association of the MG and the measurement priority may be configured by the network device, or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the measurement priority, so that the network equipment and the terminal equipment can ensure that the understanding of the association relation between the MG and the measurement priority is consistent.

In some embodiments, the MG and the measurement priority may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship between the MG and the measurement priority through the fifth configuration information. Alternatively, the MG and the measurement priority may be indirectly related, for example, the MG and the measurement target MO are related, and the measurement priority of the MO to which the MG is related may be regarded as the measurement priority to which the MG is related.

In some embodiments, the fifth configuration information may be carried in the MG configuration, or the fifth configuration information may be carried in the MO configuration, or the fifth configuration information may be configured independently, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment 5, by associating the MG with the measurement priority, the priority of the associated MG is determined further based on the measurement priority, which is advantageous in ensuring the preferential use of the MG associated with a specific measurement priority in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments, the MG-associated measurement priority may include a measurement priority of MG-associated reference signals.

In some embodiments, the MG-associated measurement priority comprises: measurement priority determined from PRS period.

In some embodiments, the measurement priority determined from PRS periods may also be used to determine a time allocation or carrier level scaling factor (CSSF) in an MG sharing (sharing) mechanism.

For example, for long period E-UTRA RSTD measurements or long period NR PRS measurements, CSSF _{with_gap,i} =1. PRS measurements representing long periods do not need to share MG with other measurements, and measurement priority is higher.

For another example, for short-period PRS positioning measurements and other SSB/CSI-RS measurements, the MG needs to compete with each other. The CSSF can be determined according to the number of measurement objects in the MG (wherein the number of measurement objects of the same frequency is denoted as M _intra,i,j Number M of inter-frequency measurement objects _inter,i,j Number M of total measurement objects _tot,i,j ＝M _intra,i,j +M _inter,i,j ) And a sharing scheme parameter (measgapmeringscheme) of the higher-level configuration.

For example, when measGapSharingscheme indicates a equipartition scheme, CSSF _{within_gap,i} ＝max(ceil(R _i ×M _tot,i,j ) Where j=0 … (160/MGRP) -1.

When the measGapSharingschema indicates a non-equipartition scheme, determining K according to the indication _intra /K _inter Is a value of (a).

If the measurement object i is the same frequency measurement, the maximum value of the following two values is taken:

1、ceil(R _i ×K _intra ×M _intra,i,j ) in gaps where M _inter,i,j ≠0,where j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

2、ceil R _i ×M _intra,i,j ) in gaps where M _inter,i,j ＝0,where j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

If the measurement object i is an inter-frequency measurement, the maximum value of the following two values is taken:

1、ceil(R _i ×K _inter ×M _inter,i,j ) in gaps where M _intra,i,j ≠0,where j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

2、ceil(R _i ×M _inter,i,j ) in gaps where M _intra,i,j ＝0,where j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

Where Ri represents the maximum ratio of the number of gaps that the measurement object i can take as the object to be measured to the number of gaps that the measurement object i can take as the object to be measured and that the MG does not have for the long-period PRS measurement.

Wherein K is _intra And K _inter The value of (2) is determined by the parameter measGapSharingscheme.

In some embodiments, the terminal device may determine the prioritization of the plurality of MGs in combination with the measurement priority associated with each of the plurality of MGs according to the first measurement prioritization.

In some embodiments, the first measurement prioritization may be used to indicate that the measurement priority of the long period positioning frequency layer (positioning frequency layer, PFL) is higher than the measurement priority of the short period PFL and the measurement priority of the RRM measurement. In this way, when determining the priority of the MG from the measurement priority associated with the MG, the measurement priority associated with the MG may be determined as the priority of the MG, for example, the MG associated with the long period PFL may be determined as the high priority, the MG associated with the short period PFL and RRM measurement may be determined as the lower priority, or the like.

As shown in fig. 13, if the MG2 is associated with a long period PFL, that is, the measurement priority is higher, and if the MG1 is associated with a short period PFL, that is, the measurement priority is lower, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and then, at the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device preferentially uses MG2 to perform measurement. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 6: the related information of the MG comprises measurement time configuration related to the MG.

In some embodiments, the association between the MG and the measurement time profile may be network device-configured, or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the measurement time configuration, so that the network equipment and the terminal equipment can ensure that the understanding of the association relation between the MG and the measurement time configuration is consistent.

In some embodiments, the MG and the measurement time configuration may be directly associated, for example, the network device may configure an association relationship of the MG and the measurement time configuration through sixth configuration information. Alternatively, the MG and the measurement time configuration may be indirectly related, for example, the MG and the measurement object MO are related, and the measurement time configuration of the MO related to the MG may be regarded as the measurement time configuration related to the MG.

In some embodiments, the sixth configuration information may be carried in the MG configuration, or the sixth configuration information may be carried in the MO configuration, or the measurement time configuration, or the sixth configuration information may be configured independently, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment 6, by associating the MG with the measurement time configuration, and further determining the priority of the associated MG based on the measurement time configuration, it is advantageous to ensure the preferential use of the MG associated with the specific measurement time configuration in the event of an MG collision.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the measurement time configuration associated with the MG may be replaced by the measurement time configuration associated with the MG, that is, the MG and the measurement time configuration association may also be regarded as the MG configuration and the measurement time configuration association.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement time configuration comprises a measurement time configuration for at least one reference signal.

Optionally, the at least one reference signal may include at least one of SSB, CSI-RS and PRS, or may also include other reference signals introduced in standard evolution, which is not limited by the present application.

In some embodiments, the measurement time configuration of the at least one reference signal comprises at least one of:

SMTC, measurement time configuration for SSB;

the CMTC is used for measuring time configuration of the CSI-RS;

PMTC for measurement time configuration of PRS.

In some embodiments, the SMTC may comprise at least one of:

period information, length information and start position information for SSB measurements.

In some embodiments, the CMTC may include at least one of:

period information, length information and starting position information for CSI-RS measurements.

In some embodiments, the PMTC may include at least one of:

period information, length information and starting position information for PRS measurements.

In some embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to configuration information included in the measurement time configuration associated with the MG.

For example, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to at least one of period information, length information, and start position information included in the SMTC associated with the MG. As an example, the terminal device may determine that an MG associated with a smaller SMTC period corresponds to a higher priority and an MG associated with a larger SMTC period corresponds to a lower priority.

For another example, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to at least one of cycle information, length information, and start position information included in the CMTC associated with the MG. As an example, the terminal device may determine that the MG associated with the smaller CMTC period corresponds to a higher priority and that the MG associated with the larger CMTC period corresponds to a lower priority.

For another example, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to at least one of period information, length information, and start position information included in the PMTC associated with the MG. As an example, the terminal device may determine that the MG associated with the smaller PMTC period corresponds to a higher priority, and that the MG associated with the larger PMTC period corresponds to a lower priority.

For example, a terminal device is configured with SMTC1 and SMTC2, SMTC1 is used for measurement of all cells, SMTC2 is used for measurement of cells in a serving cell and a specific cell list, SMTC1 and SMTC2 include the same length information and start position information, a period of SMTC1 is greater than a period of SMTC2, for example, a predefined or network device configures a short SMTC period to correspond to a higher priority, and it may be determined that SMTC1 has a priority lower than SMTC 2.

As shown in fig. 14, if MG1 is associated with SMTC1 and MG2 is associated with SMTC2, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and then, at the time-domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device preferentially uses MG2 to perform measurement. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 7: the associated information of the MG comprises MO information or frequency point information associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the association between the MG and the MO or the frequency point may be configured by a network device, or predefined. Namely, the network equipment and the terminal equipment can acquire the association relation between the MG and the MO or the frequency point, so that the understanding consistency of the network equipment and the terminal equipment on the association relation between the MG and the MO or the frequency point can be ensured.

In some embodiments, the network device may configure the association relationship between the MG and the MO or the frequency point through the seventh configuration information. For example, the seventh configuration information may be carried in the MG configuration, or the seventh configuration information may be carried in the MO configuration or the frequency point configuration, or the seventh configuration information may be independently configured, to which the present application is not limited.

In this embodiment 7, by associating the MG with the MO or the frequency point, the priority of the associated MG is further determined based on the MO or the frequency point, which is advantageous in ensuring the preferential use of the MG associated with the MO or the frequency point of a specific condition in the case of occurrence of the MG collision.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the MO associated with the MG may be replaced by the MO associated with the MG configuration, that is, the MG and MO associated may be regarded as the MG configuration and the MO associated.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the frequency point associated with the MG may be replaced by the frequency point associated with the MG configuration, that is, the MG and the frequency point association may also be regarded as the MG configuration and the frequency point configuration association.

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG may associate multiple MOs or multiple frequency points, and therefore, as an implementation manner, the terminal device may determine the priority of the MG according to the number of MOs and/or the number of frequency points associated with the MG.

In some embodiments, the terminal device may determine that the MG with a larger number of associated MOs is higher in priority than the MG with a smaller number of associated MOs, to ensure that more MOs are measured. For example, if the number of MOs associated with the first MG is greater than the number of MOs associated with the second MG, the priority of the first MG is determined to be higher than the priority of the second MG.

In other embodiments, the terminal device determines that the MG with the greater number of associated frequency points has a higher priority than the MG with the fewer number of associated frequency points, so as to ensure that more frequency points are measured. For example, if the number of frequency points associated with a first MG is greater than the number of frequency points associated with a second MG, the priority of the first MG is determined to be higher than the priority of the second MG.

As shown in fig. 15, if MG1 is associated with 3 MOs and MG2 is associated with 5 MOs, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than the priority of MG2, and then, at the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device preferentially uses MG2 to perform measurement. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, the network device performs data scheduling only according to the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving only according to the activated MG, for example, performs data scheduling at other time domain positions except the activated MG, and correspondingly, the terminal device performs data transceiving at other time domain positions except the activated MG.

Example 8: the MG association information includes MG type information.

In this embodiment 8, by determining the priority of the MG based on the type of MG, it is advantageous to ensure the preferential use of the specific type of MG in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments of the present application, the type of the MG may be classified according to a configuration granularity of the MG, for example, the type information of the MG includes, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

the MG is configured per terminal equipment (per-UE);

the MG is configured per frequency band FR (per-FR).

In other embodiments of the present application, the type information of the MG includes at least one of the following types:

a first MG type, in which, in an interval opportunity of an MG of the first MG type, a terminal device cannot perform data transmission and reception;

and the second MG type, wherein the terminal equipment can transmit and receive data in a partial interval time of the MG of the second MG type.

In some embodiments, the second MG type comprises a network controlled small gap (Network Control Small Gap, NCSG) type.

In some embodiments, the priorities of different types of MGs may be predefined or configured by the network device, e.g. the MG of the per-UE has a higher priority than the MG of the per-FR, and in case of MG collision, the MG of the per-UE is preferentially used for measurements. For another example, if the first MG type has a higher priority than the second MG type, then in the event of a MG collision, the measurement is performed with the second MG type of MG preferentially.

As shown in fig. 15, when MG2 is configured by per-UE and MG1 is configured for FR1, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is lower than that of MG2, and then in the time domain position where MG1 and MG2 collide, the terminal device uses MG2 to perform measurement preferentially. That is, at the interval timing at which the collision occurs, the interval timing corresponding to MG2 is activated, and the interval timing corresponding to MG1 is deactivated. Further, at the deactivated interval, the network device may perform data scheduling, and correspondingly, the terminal device may perform data transceiving at the deactivated interval.

Example 9

In this embodiment 9, by determining the priority of the MG based on the MG configuration, it is advantageous to ensure the preferential use of a specific MG configuration in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments, the MG configuration corresponding to the MG includes at least one of:

the period of the gap (i.e., MGRP), the length of the gap (i.e., MGL) and the start position of the gap (gapoffset).

As an example, the terminal device may determine that an MG with a larger MGRP corresponds to a higher priority and an MG with a smaller MGRP corresponds to a lower priority. When a plurality of MG conflict, MG with larger MGRP is selected for measurement, which is beneficial to reducing data transmission interruption caused by measurement.

As an example, the terminal device may determine that an MG with a smaller MGL corresponds to a higher priority, and an MG with a larger MGL corresponds to a lower priority. When a plurality of MG conflict, MG with smaller MGL is selected for measurement, which is beneficial to reducing data transmission interruption caused by measurement.

As an example, the terminal device may determine that the MG preceding the gapffset corresponds to a higher priority, and the MG following the gapffset corresponds to a lower priority. When a collision occurs among a plurality of MG, the MG preceding the gapoffset is selected for measurement.

Example 10

In this embodiment 10, by determining the priority of the MG based on the MG configuration, it is advantageous to ensure the preferential use of a specific MG configuration in the event of an MG collision.

In some embodiments, the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG includes a gap pattern ID corresponding to the MG and/or an index or an identification used when the network device configures the MG configuration.

In some embodiments, the MG pattern ID may correspond to a set of MG configurations, such as MGRP and MGL.

In some embodiments, the index or identity used by the network device in configuring the MG configuration may correspond to a set of MG configurations, e.g., MGRP, MGL, gapoffset, etc.

In some embodiments, the MG configuration specifically identified may be predefined or configured by the network device to have a higher priority, e.g., a smaller MG pattern ID corresponds to a higher priority, or a smaller MG configuration index corresponds to a higher priority, etc.

As an example, if the plurality of MGs includes MG1 and MG2, the MG1 is configured by gap pattern id=10, and the MG2 is configured by gap pattern id=24, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is higher than the priority of MG 2.

As an example, if the plurality of MGs includes MG1 and MG2, the MG1 is configured by measGapConfig1, and the MG2 is configured by measGapConfig2, it may be determined that the priority of MG1 is higher than the priority of MG 2.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may first determine the priority of the MG according to the association information of the MG, and further determine the activated target MG in the multiple MGs according to the priority of the MG, or in other embodiments, the terminal device may also determine the activated target MG in the multiple MGs according to the association information of the MG, that is, may omit the step of determining the priority ranking of the MGs, and the specific steps of the measurement method 200 in the embodiment of the present application may be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation, which is not limited to this. For example, if the first MG associates SSB and the second MG associates PRS, then the activated target MG is determined to be the second MG, or if the first MG associates NR network type and the second MG associates other network devices, then the activated target MG is determined to be the second MG, etc.

In other situations, if the network device indicates the usage order of the multiple MGs, or the activation order, the terminal device may omit the step of determining the priority order of the multiple MGs, and may determine the target MG used at the conflicting time domain location based on the usage order indicated by the network device.

Hereinafter, a specific implementation of the indication information of the network device will be described in conjunction with embodiments 11 to 13.

Example 11

In some embodiments of the present application, the network device indicates, by means of a bitmap, a time domain location where the MG is activated among a plurality of time domain locations.

Alternatively, each time domain position may correspond to one interval occasion (gap occalation) of the MG.

In some embodiments, the indication information of the network device includes a first bitmap for indicating an MG activated at each of a plurality of time domain locations.

As an example, the first bit map includes a plurality of bit groups, each bit group corresponding to one time domain position, and a value of each bit group is used to indicate an MG activated at the corresponding time domain position.

Alternatively, the number of bits of the first bit map may be determined according to the number of gap occalations included in the activation periods of the plurality of MGs. For example, if the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, the first MG is activated twice every 4 gap occalations, and the second MG is activated twice every 4 gap occalations, that is, the activation period of the first MG and the second MG occupies the length of 4 gap occalations, that is, 4 MGRP, the first bit map may be 4 bits, each bit corresponds to one gap occalation, and each bit is used to indicate the MG activated on the corresponding gap occalations.

Optionally, the number of each bit group is determined according to the number of the collided MGs, for example, if two MGs collide, each bit group may be 1 bit to indicate an activated MG of the two MGs, or if three MGs collide, each bit group may be 2 bits to indicate an activated MG of the three MGs.

As an example, if the plurality of MGs includes MG1, MG2, a different value of 1 bit may indicate whether MG1 or MG2 is activated at the corresponding time domain position, for example, a value of 1 indicates that MG1 is activated and a value of 0 indicates that MG2 is activated.

As an example, if the plurality of MGs includes MG1, MG2 and MG3, it may be indicated by different values of two bits whether MG1, MG2 or MG3 are activated at corresponding time domain positions, for example, a value of 00 indicates that MG1 is activated, a value of 01 indicates that MG2 is activated, and a value of 10 indicates that MG3 is activated.

In some embodiments, in a case where the periods of the plurality of MGs are the same, for example, for the foregoing case 1 and case 2, the network device may indicate the activation order of the plurality of MGs through one bitmap.

For example, the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, the periods of the first MG and the second MG are the same, each interval occasion of the first MG and each interval occasion of the second MG have a conflict, and the one time domain position corresponds to the conflicting one interval occasion, in this case, each bit group includes one bit, and a value of the one bit is used to indicate an MG activated on the conflicting one interval occasion.

As shown in fig. 16, the first bit map 1001 indicates that MG1 is activated at a first interval, MG2 is activated at a second interval, MG2 is activated at a third interval, and MG1 is activated at a fourth interval.

In other embodiments, the indication information of the network device includes a plurality of bitmaps, each bitmap corresponding to one MG, each bitmap being configured to indicate an activated time domain location of the corresponding MG among a plurality of time domain locations. I.e. the network device indicates the time domain location of the activation of each MG, i.e. on which gap occalations the activation is performed and on which gap occalations the deactivation is performed, by means of the bit map corresponding to each MG.

As an example, each bit map includes a plurality of bits, each bit corresponds to one interval opportunity of the MG, and the value of each bit is used to indicate whether the MG is activated on the corresponding interval opportunity. For example, a bit value of 1 indicates that the MG is activated at the corresponding interval timing, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the MG is deactivated at the corresponding interval timing.

For example, for the various collision scenarios described above, the network device may indicate the time domain location of activation of each MG through a bitmap corresponding to each MG. Therefore, under the condition that a plurality of MG conflict, the terminal equipment can determine the time domain position of each MG activation according to the bit map corresponding to each MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the network device configures, through a bit map corresponding to each MG, a gap occalasion of activation of each MG, so that interval opportunities of activation of the multiple MGs do not collide in a time domain. In this way, the terminal device determines the activated time domain position of each MG according to the bitmap corresponding to each MG, and further does not collide when measuring at the activated time domain position of each MG.

As shown in fig. 17, the bit map corresponding to MG1 is 1000, which indicates that MG1 is activated at the first interval timing and activated at the second interval timing to the fourth interval timing in the activation period. The bit map corresponding to MG2 is 0110, which indicates that MG2 is deactivated at the first interval timing, the second interval timing, the third interval timing, and the fourth interval timing in the activation period. And if the bit map corresponding to the MG3 is 0001, the MG3 is deactivated from the first interval time to the third interval time in the activation period, and is activated at the fourth interval time.

Example 12

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information of the network device includes activation period information of at least one MG of the plurality of MGs and/or time domain location information of activation of the at least one MG in the activation period.

I.e. the network device may configure the MG to activate according to a certain activation period and/or to activate time domain positions within one activation period.

In some embodiments, in a case where the periods of the plurality of MGs are the same, for example, for the foregoing case 1 and case 2, the network device may instruct the activation manner of the MGs in the manner described in embodiment 12.

In some embodiments, the activation period of the MG may also be predefined.

Alternatively, the activation period of the MG may be expressed by absolute time, for example, 120ms,240ms, or may be expressed by the number of interval occasions, for example, 12 gap occasins or 24 gap occasins.

In some embodiments, time domain location information of activation of the MG within the activation period may also be predefined.

In some embodiments, the time domain location information of the activation of the MG in the activation period is indicated by an absolute time, for example, the first 80ms in the activation period, or the first 120ms, or by the number of interval opportunities of the MG, or the first 12 gap occalaons or 24 gap occalaons in the activation period.

In some embodiments, the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, the indication information may include an activation period and/or activated time domain position information of at least one MG of the first MG and the second MG, for example, the indication information includes an activation period and/or activated time domain position information of the first MG, in which case the terminal device may determine the activation period and the activated time domain position information of the second MG according to the activation period and/or the activated time domain position information of the first MG, for example, determine the activation period of the second MG as the activation period of the first MG, and the activated time domain position of the second MG is other time domain position than the activated time domain position of the first MG in the activation period.

As shown in fig. 18, the MGRP includes MG1 and MG2, where the MGRP is 20ms, and the indication information may indicate that the activation period of MG1 is 240ms, or the time domain positions of 12 MGRP and MG1 are the first 80ms in one activation period, or the first 4 gap errors, then the activation period of MG2 is also 240ms, or the time domain positions of 12 MGRP and MG2 are the last 160ms in one activation period, or the last 8 gap errors.

Example 13: the indication information of the network equipment comprises the activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MG and/or the activation quantity information corresponding to the multiple MG.

In some embodiments, the activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a proportion of the number of interval occasions that the multiple MGs activate on the same time domain resource.

In some embodiments, the activation number information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a number of interval occasions in which each of the multiple MGs is continuously activated on the same time domain resource. I.e., when one MG is activated, several interval opportunities of the MG are continuously activated.

In some embodiments, the number of activations corresponding to each of the plurality of MGs is the same.

In some embodiments, if the number of activation information corresponding to the MG is not configured, the number of interval occasions for continuous activation is 1 when the MG is activated by default.

In some embodiments, the same time domain resource may be a time domain resource within one activation period.

In some embodiments, in a case where the periods of the plurality of MGs are the same, for example, for the foregoing case 1 and case 2, the network device may instruct the activation manner of the MGs in the manner described in embodiment 9.

In some embodiments, the multiple MGs are sequentially activated in a first activation order on the same time domain resource.

In some embodiments, the first activation order is predefined or configured by the network device.

In some embodiments, the activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs may be represented by a proportion of an absolute time of activation of each MG of the multiple MGs on the same time domain resource, or may also be represented by a proportion of a number of interval occasions of activation of each MG of the multiple MGs on the same time domain resource.

For example, as shown in fig. 19, the plurality of MGs includes MG1 and MG2, and the activation ratio information of MG1 and MG2 is 1:2, and if the activation number information of MG1 and MG2 is not configured, it means that two interval timings of MG2 are activated after one interval timing of MG1 is activated.

For example, as shown in fig. 20, the plurality of MGs includes MG1 and MG2, the activation ratio information of MG1 and MG2 is 1:2, and the activation number information of MG1 and MG2 is 2, which indicates four interval timings of activating MG2 after two interval timings of activating MG 1.

In summary, in the case that a conflict occurs among a plurality of MGs, the terminal device determines an active MG at the conflicting time domain position according to the association information of the MGs or the indication information of the network device, and further performs measurement according to the active MG. Correspondingly, the network device can also determine the active MG at the conflicting time domain position according to the associated information or the indication information of the MG, and further send the downlink reference signal according to the active MG, so that the understanding consistency of the network device and the terminal device on the downlink measured time domain position can be ensured. Further, the network device can perform data scheduling on the deactivated MG, and the terminal device can also perform data transceiving on the deactivated MG, so that understanding consistency of the terminal device and the network device on the time domain position of the data scheduling can be ensured.

The measurement method according to the embodiment of the present application is described in detail from the point of view of the terminal device in conjunction with fig. 2 to 20 above, and the measurement method according to another embodiment of the present application is described in detail from the point of view of the network device in conjunction with fig. 21 below. It should be understood that the description on the network device side corresponds to the description on the terminal device side, and similar descriptions may be referred to above, and are not repeated here for avoiding repetition.

Fig. 21 is a schematic flow chart of a measurement method 300 according to another embodiment of the application, which method 300 may be performed by a network device in the communication system shown in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 21, which method 300 comprises the following:

s310, the network device sends indication information to the terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a manner in which the terminal device determines priorities of multiple MG in a case where multiple measurement intervals MG collide in the time domain.

It should be understood that, in the method 300, the network device may also determine the priority of the MG, and the manner in which the network device determines the priority of the MG refers to a specific implementation of determining the priority of the MG by the terminal device in the method 200, which is not described herein for brevity.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to determine priorities of the multiple MGs according to the association information of the multiple MGs.

In some embodiments of the present application, the association information of the MG includes at least one of:

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement time configuration of the MG association;

the MG related measurement object MO information;

type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG-associated reference signal information includes:

the type of reference signal associated with the MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the type of the MG-associated reference signal includes at least one of:

In some embodiments of the present application, the method 300 further comprises:

the network device configures a first reference signal prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the first reference signal prioritization is used for indicating the prioritization of multiple types of reference signals.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement type includes at least one of:

the network device configures a first measurement type prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the first measurement type prioritization is used for indicating prioritization of multiple measurement types.

In some embodiments of the present application, the cell information associated with the MG includes a first cell list and/or a second cell list, where a cell in the first cell list has a higher priority than other cells outside the first cell list, and a cell in the second cell list has a lower priority than other cells outside the second cell list.

the network device configures a first wireless access network type prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the wireless access network type prioritization is used for indicating the prioritization of multiple wireless access network types.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement priority comprises a measurement priority determined from a positioning reference signal PRS period of a reference signal.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement time configuration comprises a synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration SMTC.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement time configuration includes period information in SMTC.

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG-related measurement object MO information includes MO number information related to the MG and/or frequency point number information related to the MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the type information of the MG includes at least one of:

the MG is configured for each terminal device;

the MG is configured per frequency band FR.

In some embodiments of the present application, the MG configuration corresponding to the MG includes at least one of the following:

the period of the interval, the starting position of the interval, the length of the interval.

In some embodiments of the present application, the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG includes an interval pattern identification ID corresponding to the MG and/or an index used by the network device to configure the MG configuration.

In some embodiments of the present application, the network device indicates, through a bit map, a time domain location at which the MG is activated at a plurality of time domain locations.

In some embodiments of the application, the indication information includes a first bitmap for indicating an MG activated at each of a plurality of time domain locations.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first bit map includes a plurality of bit groups, each bit group corresponds to one time domain position, and the value of each bit group is used to indicate the MG activated at the corresponding time domain position.

In some embodiments of the present application, the plurality of MGs includes a first MG and a second MG, periods of the first MG and the second MG are the same, each interval occasion of the first MG and each interval occasion of the second MG have a conflict, the one time domain position corresponds to one conflicting interval occasion, and each bit group includes one bit, and a value of the one bit is used to indicate an MG activated on the conflicting interval occasion.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information of the network device includes a plurality of bitmaps, each bitmap corresponding to one MG, and each bitmap is configured to indicate an activated time domain location of the corresponding MG among a plurality of time domain locations.

In some embodiments of the present application, each bit map includes a plurality of bits, each bit corresponds to one interval opportunity of the MG, and the value of each bit is used to indicate whether the MG is activated at the corresponding interval opportunity.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information of the network device includes activation period information of at least one MG of the plurality of MGs and time domain location information of activation of the at least one MG within the activation period.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time domain position information of the activation of the MG in the activation period is indicated by an absolute time, or by the number of interval opportunities of the MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information of the network device includes activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs and/or activation number information corresponding to the multiple MGs, where the activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a proportion of a number of interval occasions in which the multiple MGs are activated on the same time domain resource, and the activation number information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a number of interval occasions in which each of the multiple MGs is continuously activated on the same time domain resource.

In some embodiments of the present application, the multiple MGs are sequentially activated on the same time domain resource in a first activation order, where the first activation order is predefined or configured by the network device.

The method embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 2 to 21, and the apparatus embodiment of the present application is described in detail below with reference to fig. 22 to 26, it being understood that the apparatus embodiment and the method embodiment correspond to each other, and similar descriptions can be made with reference to the method embodiment.

Fig. 22 shows a schematic block diagram of a terminal device 400 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 22, the terminal apparatus 400 includes:

a processing unit 410, configured to determine a priority ranking of the multiple MGs according to association information of each MG of the multiple MGs and/or indication information of the network device, in a case where the multiple measurement intervals MG collide in a time domain;

determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG;

and measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain positions.

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement type associated with the MG;

cell information associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type associated with the MG;

the MG-associated measurement priority;

measurement time configuration information associated with the MG;

the MG related measurement object MO information;

type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

the type of reference signal associated with the MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the processing unit 410 is further configured to:

and determining the priority orders of the multiple MG according to the type of the reference signals associated with each MG and a first reference signal priority order, wherein the first reference signal priority order is used for indicating the priority orders of the multiple types of reference signals.

In some embodiments of the application, the first reference signal prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

and determining the priority orders of the multiple MG according to the measurement type associated with each MG and a first measurement type priority order, wherein the first measurement type priority order is used for indicating the priority orders of multiple measurement types.

In some embodiments of the application, the first measurement type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

and determining the priority ranks of the multiple MG according to the wireless access network type associated with each MG and the priority ranks of the first wireless access network type, wherein the priority ranks of the wireless access network types are used for indicating the priority ranks of multiple wireless access network types.

In some embodiments of the application, the first radio access network type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.

In some embodiments of the application, the MG-associated measurement time configuration information includes a synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration SMTC.

if the number of MO (metal oxide) associated with the first MG is larger than that associated with the second MG, determining that the priority of the first MG is higher than that of the second MG; or alternatively

And if the number of the frequency points related to the first MG is larger than the number of the frequency points related to the second MG, determining that the priority of the first MG is higher than that of the second MG.

the MG is configured for each terminal device;

the MG is configured per frequency band FR.

the period of the interval, the length of the interval and the starting position of the interval.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information of the network device includes a first bitmap for indicating an MG activated at each of a plurality of time domain locations.

In some embodiments of the present application, the multiple MGs are sequentially activated on the same time domain resource in a first activation order, where the first activation order is predefined or configured by a network device.

Alternatively, in some embodiments, the communication unit may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip. The processing unit may be one or more processors.

It should be understood that the terminal device 400 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the terminal device in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and the above and other operations and/or functions of each unit in the terminal device 400 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flow of the terminal device in the method 200 shown in fig. 2 to 20, which are not repeated herein for brevity.

Fig. 23 is a schematic block diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. The network device 500 of fig. 23 includes:

a communication unit 510, configured to send indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a manner in which the terminal device determines priorities of a plurality of MG in a case where the plurality of measurement intervals MG collide in a time domain.

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement type associated with the MG;

cell information associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type associated with the MG;

the MG-associated measurement priority;

the measurement time configuration of the MG association;

the MG related measurement object MO information;

type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

the type of reference signal associated with the MG.

In some embodiments of the present application, the communication unit 510 is further configured to:

and sending a first reference signal priority order to the terminal equipment, wherein the first reference signal priority order is used for indicating the priority orders of the multiple types of reference signals.

and sending a first measurement type priority ranking to the terminal equipment, wherein the first measurement type priority ranking is used for indicating the priority ranks of a plurality of measurement types.

and sending a first wireless access network type priority ranking to the terminal equipment, wherein the wireless access network type priority ranking is used for indicating the priority ranking of a plurality of wireless access network types.

the MG is configured for each terminal device;

the MG is configured per frequency band FR.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information includes a plurality of bitmaps, each bitmap corresponding to one MG, each bitmap being used to indicate an activated time domain position of the corresponding MG among a plurality of time domain positions.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information includes activation period information of at least one MG of the plurality of MGs and time domain position information of activation of the at least one MG within the activation period.

In some embodiments of the present application, the indication information includes activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs and/or activation number information corresponding to the multiple MGs, where the activation proportion information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a proportion of a number of interval occasions in which the multiple MGs are activated on the same time domain resource, and the activation number information corresponding to the multiple MGs is used to indicate a number of interval occasions in which each of the multiple MGs is continuously activated on the same time domain resource.

It should be understood that the network device 500 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the network device in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and the foregoing and other operations and/or functions of each unit in the network device 500 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flow of the network device in the method 300 shown in fig. 21, and are not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 24 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 600 provided in an embodiment of the present application. The communication device 600 shown in fig. 24 comprises a processor 610, from which the processor 610 may call and run a computer program to implement the method in an embodiment of the application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 24, 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 method in an embodiment of the application.

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

Optionally, as shown in fig. 24, 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 specifically a network device according to the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 600 may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method according to the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Optionally, the communication device 600 may be specifically a mobile terminal/terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 600 may implement corresponding processes implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method according to the embodiment of the present application, which are not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 25 is a schematic structural view of a chip of an embodiment of the present application. The chip 700 shown in fig. 25 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, as shown in fig. 25, 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 method in an embodiment of the 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 the 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 mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the mobile terminal/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.

Fig. 26 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system 900 provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 26, the communication system 900 includes a terminal device 910 and a network device 920.

The terminal device 910 may be configured to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the terminal device in the above method, and the network device 920 may be configured to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the network device in the above method, which are not described herein for brevity.

It should be appreciated that the processor of an embodiment of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be implemented by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in software form. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components. The disclosed methods, steps, and logic blocks in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in the execution of a hardware decoding processor, or in the execution of a combination of hardware and software modules in a decoding processor. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method.

It will be appreciated that the memory in embodiments of the application 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) which acts as an external cache. By way of example, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (Double Data Rate SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

It should be understood that the above memory is illustrative but not restrictive, 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.

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

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

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program product comprising computer program instructions.

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

Optionally, the computer program product may be applied to a mobile terminal/terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program instructions cause a computer to execute a corresponding procedure implemented by the mobile terminal/terminal device in each method of the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program.

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

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

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

In the several embodiments provided by the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

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

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

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art or in a part of the technical solution, in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, comprising several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present application, and the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will readily recognize that variations or substitutions are within the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A method of measurement, comprising:

under the condition that a plurality of measurement intervals (MG) conflict in the time domain, the terminal equipment determines the priority ordering of the plurality of MG according to the association information of each MG and/or the indication information of the network equipment;

determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG;

and measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain positions.
The method of claim 1, wherein the MG association information comprises at least one of:

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement type associated with the MG;

cell information associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type associated with the MG;

the MG-associated measurement priority;

Measurement time configuration information associated with the MG;

the MG related measurement object MO information;

type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

and the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG.
The method of claim 2, wherein the MG-associated reference signal information comprises:

the type of reference signal associated with the MG.
The method of claim 3, wherein the type of MG-associated reference signal comprises at least one of:

the synchronization signal block SSB, the channel state information reference signal CSI-RS, the positioning reference signal PRS.
The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, the priority ranking of the plurality of MGs according to the association information of each MG of the plurality of MGs and/or the indication information of the network device, comprises:

the terminal equipment determines the priority ranks of the multiple MG according to the type of the reference signal associated with each MG and the first reference signal priority ranks, wherein the first reference signal priority ranks are used for indicating the priority ranks of the reference signals of multiple types.
The method of claim 5, wherein the first reference signal prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.
The method according to any one of claims 2-6, characterized in that the MG-associated measurement type comprises at least one of:

and the MG is associated with the same-frequency measurement and the MG is associated with different-frequency measurement.
The method according to claim 7, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, the priority ranking of the plurality of MGs according to the association information of each MG of the plurality of MGs and/or the indication information of the network device, includes:

and the terminal equipment determines the priority ranks of the multiple MG according to the measurement type associated with each MG and a first measurement type priority rank, wherein the first measurement type priority rank is used for indicating the priority ranks of multiple measurement types.
The method of claim 8, wherein the first measurement type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.
The method according to any of claims 2-9, wherein the MG-associated cell information comprises a first cell list and/or a second cell list, wherein cells in the first cell list have a higher priority than other cells than the first cell list, and wherein cells in the second cell list have a lower priority than other cells than the second cell list.
The method according to any one of claims 2-10, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, the prioritization of the plurality of MGs according to the association information of each MG of the plurality of MGs and/or the indication information of the network device, comprises:

and the terminal equipment determines the priority orders of the multiple MG according to the wireless access network type associated with each MG and the priority orders of the first wireless access network type, wherein the priority orders of the wireless access network types are used for indicating the priority orders of the multiple wireless access network types.
The method of claim 11, wherein the first radio access network type prioritization is predefined or configured by a network device.
The method of any of claims 2-12, wherein the MG-associated measurement priority comprises a measurement priority determined from a positioning reference signal PRS period of a reference signal.
The method of any of claims 2-13, wherein the MG-associated measurement time configuration information comprises a synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration SMTC.
The method of claim 14, wherein the MG-associated measurement time profile includes period information in SMTC.
The method according to any one of claims 2-14, characterized in that the MG-related measurement object MO information comprises the MG-related MO number information and/or the MG-related frequency bin number information.
The method according to claim 16, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, the prioritization of the plurality of MGs according to the association information of each MG of the plurality of MGs and/or the indication information of the network device, includes:

if the number of MO (metal oxide) associated with the first MG is larger than that associated with the second MG, determining that the priority of the first MG is higher than that of the second MG; or alternatively

And if the number of the frequency points related to the first MG is larger than the number of the frequency points related to the second MG, determining that the priority of the first MG is higher than that of the second MG.
The method according to any one of claims 2-17, characterized in that the type information of the MG includes at least one of:

the MG is configured for each terminal device;

the MG is configured per frequency band FR.
The method of any one of claims 2-18, wherein the MG configuration for the MG comprises at least one of:

the period of the interval, the length of the interval and the starting position of the interval.
The method according to any of claims 2-19, wherein the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG comprises an interval pattern identification ID corresponding to the MG and/or an index used by the network device to configure the MG configuration.
The method according to any of claims 1-20, wherein the network device indicates via a bitmap a time domain location at which MG is active at a plurality of time domain locations.
The method of claim 21, wherein the indication information for the network device comprises a first bitmap indicating an MG activated at each of a plurality of time domain locations.
The method of claim 22, wherein the first bitmap comprises a plurality of groups of bits, each group of bits corresponding to a time domain location, and wherein the value of each group of bits is used to indicate an MG that is active at the corresponding time domain location.
The method of claim 23, wherein the plurality of MGs comprises a first MG and a second MG, the first MG and the second MG have the same periodicity, each interval occasion of the first MG and each interval occasion of the second MG have a collision, the one time domain position corresponds to one interval occasion of the collision, and the each bit group comprises one bit, and a value of the one bit is used to indicate an MG activated on the one interval occasion of the collision.
The method of claim 21, wherein the indication information of the network device comprises a plurality of bitmaps, each bitmap corresponding to one MG, each bitmap being used to indicate an active one of the plurality of time domain locations for the corresponding MG.
The method of claim 25, wherein each bitmap comprises a plurality of bits, each bit corresponding to one interval occasion of an MG, wherein the value of each bit is used to indicate whether the MG is activated at the corresponding interval occasion.
The method according to any of claims 1-20, wherein the indication information of the network device comprises activation period information of at least one MG of the plurality of MG and/or time domain location information of activation of the at least one MG within the activation period.
The method of claim 27, wherein the time domain location information of activation of the MG within the activation period is indicated by an absolute time or by a number of interval occasions of the MG.
The method according to any one of claims 1-20, wherein the indication information of the network device includes activation proportion information corresponding to the plurality of MGs and/or activation number information corresponding to the plurality of MGs, the activation proportion information corresponding to the plurality of MGs being used to indicate a proportion of a number of interval occasions in which the plurality of MGs are activated on the same time domain resource, and the activation number information corresponding to the plurality of MGs being used to indicate a number of interval occasions in which each of the plurality of MGs is continuously activated on the same time domain resource.
The method of claim 29, wherein the plurality of MGs are sequentially activated on the same time domain resource in a first activation order, wherein the first activation order is predefined or configured by a network device.
A method of measurement, comprising:

the network device sends indication information to the terminal device, wherein the indication information is used for indicating a mode that the terminal device determines priorities of a plurality of measurement intervals (MG) when the MG conflicts in a time domain.
The method according to claim 31, wherein the indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to determine priorities of the plurality of MGs according to association information of the plurality of MGs.
The method of claim 32, wherein the MG association information comprises at least one of:

reference signal information associated with the MG;

the measurement type associated with the MG;

cell information associated with the MG;

the wireless access network type associated with the MG;

the MG-associated measurement priority;

the measurement time configuration of the MG association;

the MG related measurement object MO information;

Type information of the MG;

the MG configuration corresponding to the MG;

and the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG.
The method of claim 33, wherein the MG-associated reference signal information comprises:

the type of reference signal associated with the MG.
The method of claim 34, wherein the type of MG-associated reference signal comprises at least one of: the synchronization signal block SSB, the channel state information reference signal CSI-RS, the positioning reference signal PRS.
The method according to claim 34 or 35, characterized in that the method further comprises:

the network device configures a first reference signal prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the first reference signal prioritization is used for indicating the prioritization of multiple types of reference signals.
The method of any one of claims 34-36, wherein the MG-associated measurement type comprises at least one of:

and the MG is associated with the same-frequency measurement and the MG is associated with different-frequency measurement.
The method of claim 37, wherein the method further comprises:

the network device configures a first measurement type prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the first measurement type prioritization is used for indicating prioritization of multiple measurement types.
The method according to any of claims 34-38, wherein the MG-associated cell information comprises a first cell list and/or a second cell list, wherein cells in the first cell list have a higher priority than other cells than the first cell list, and wherein cells in the second cell list have a lower priority than other cells than the second cell list.
The method of any one of claims 34-39, further comprising:

the network device configures a first wireless access network type prioritization for the terminal device, wherein the wireless access network type prioritization is used for indicating the prioritization of multiple wireless access network types.
The method of any of claims 34-40, wherein the MG-associated measurement priority comprises a measurement priority determined from a positioning reference signal PRS period of a reference signal.
The method of any of claims 33-41, wherein the MG-associated measurement time configuration comprises a synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration SMTC.
The method of claim 42, wherein the MG-associated measurement time profile includes period information in SMTC.
The method according to any one of claims 33 to 43, wherein the MG-related measurement object MO information includes MO number information related to the MG and/or frequency point number information related to the MG.
The method of any one of claims 33-44, wherein the type information of the MG includes at least one of:

the MG is configured for each terminal device;

the MG is configured per frequency band FR.
The method of any one of claims 33-45, wherein the MG configuration for the MG comprises at least one of:

the period of the interval, the starting position of the interval, the length of the interval.
The method according to any of claims 33-46, wherein the identification information of the MG configuration corresponding to the MG comprises an interval pattern identification ID corresponding to the MG and/or an index used by the network device to configure the MG configuration.
The method of any of claims 31-47, wherein the network device indicates via a bitmap a time domain location at which MG is active at a plurality of time domain locations.
The method of claim 48, wherein the indication information comprises a first bitmap indicating an active MG at each of a plurality of time-domain locations.
The method of claim 49, wherein the first bitmap comprises a plurality of groups of bits, each group of bits corresponding to a time domain location, and wherein the value of each group of bits is used to indicate an active MG at the corresponding time domain location.
The method of claim 50, wherein the plurality of MGs comprises a first MG and a second MG, the first MG and the second MG are of the same periodicity, each interval occasion of the first MG and each interval occasion of the second MG have a collision, the one time domain position corresponds to one interval occasion of the collision, and the each bit group comprises one bit, and a value of the one bit is used to indicate an MG activated on the one interval occasion of the collision.
The method of claim 48, wherein the indication information comprises a plurality of bitmaps, each bitmap corresponding to one MG, each bitmap being used to indicate an active one of the corresponding MG's time domain locations.
The method of claim 52, wherein each bitmap comprises a plurality of bits, each bit corresponding to one interval occasion of an MG, wherein the value of each bit is used to indicate whether the MG is activated at the corresponding interval occasion.
The method of any one of claims 31-47, wherein the indication information includes activation period information of at least one MG of the plurality of MG and time domain location information of activation of the at least one MG within the activation period.
The method of claim 54, wherein time domain location information of activation of the MG within the activation period is indicated by an absolute time or by a number of interval occasions of the MG.
The method of any one of claims 31-47, wherein the indication information includes activation proportion information corresponding to the plurality of MGs and/or activation quantity information corresponding to the plurality of MGs, the activation proportion information corresponding to the plurality of MGs being used to indicate a proportion of a number of interval occasions in which the plurality of MGs are activated on a same time domain resource, and the activation quantity information corresponding to the plurality of MGs being used to indicate a number of interval occasions in which each of the plurality of MGs is continuously activated on a same time domain resource.
The method of claim 56, wherein the plurality of MGs are sequentially activated on the same time domain resource in a first activation order, wherein the first activation order is predefined or configured by the network device.
A terminal device, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to determine a priority ranking of the multiple MGs according to association information of each MG and/or indication information of the network device in the multiple MGs when the multiple measurement intervals MG collide in a time domain;

determining a target MG in the multiple MG according to the priority ordering of the multiple MG; and

and measuring according to the target MG at the conflicting time domain positions.
A network device, comprising:

a communication unit, configured to send indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a manner in which the terminal device determines priorities of multiple MG in a case where multiple measurement intervals MG collide in a time domain.
A terminal device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory, performing the method of any of claims 1 to 30.
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 method of any one of claims 1 to 30.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 30.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 30.
A computer program, characterized in that the computer program causes a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 30.
A network device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory, performing the method of any of claims 31 to 57.
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 method of any one of claims 31 to 57.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 31 to 57.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions which cause a computer to perform the method of any of claims 31 to 57.
A computer program, characterized in that the computer program causes a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 31 to 57.