CN117241329A

CN117241329A - Network configuration parameter adjustment method and device, network equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN117241329A
Application number: CN202311119085.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曹亘; 吕婷; 高谦; 李福昌
Original assignee: China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-08-31
Filing date: 2023-08-31
Publication date: 2023-12-15

Abstract

The application provides a network configuration parameter adjustment method, a device, network equipment and a storage medium, relates to the technical field of communication, and solves the technical problem that a terminal possibly does not exist in an SSB (single-pass band) beam coverage range, and at the moment, a base station transmits the SSB beam, so that the beam utilization rate is low and network resource waste is caused. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring network connection information of a target terminal, wherein the network connection information comprises signal intensity of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal intensity of M adjacent cells and position information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition, sending a network configuration parameter adjustment request to second network equipment, wherein the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network equipment to adjust the network configuration parameters of a target cell so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal.

Description

Network configuration parameter adjustment method and device, network equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for adjusting network configuration parameters, a network device, and a storage medium.

Background

Currently, a base station may provide network services for terminals within the beam coverage by transmitting a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel block (synchronization signal and PBCH block, SSB) beam.

However, in the above method, there may be no terminal in the coverage area of the SSB beam, and when the base station transmits the SSB beam, the beam utilization rate is low, which causes waste of network resources.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a network configuration parameter adjustment method, a device, network equipment and a storage medium, which solve the technical problem that a base station transmits an SSB wave beam to cause lower wave beam utilization rate and waste of network resources at the moment that no terminal possibly exists in the coverage area of the SSB wave beam.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a method for adjusting network configuration parameters, which is applied to a first network device, including: acquiring network connection information of a target terminal, wherein the network connection information comprises signal intensity of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal intensity of M adjacent cells and position information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition, sending a network configuration parameter adjustment request to second network equipment, wherein the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network equipment to adjust the network configuration parameters of a target cell so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal, and the second network equipment is the network equipment corresponding to the target cell, and the network configuration parameters comprise one or more of the number of beams, the angle of the beams, the width of the beams and the gain of the beams.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes: and determining that the network connection information meets the preset condition and determining the first adjacent cell as the target cell when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a first signal strength threshold and the signal strength of the first adjacent cell is larger than or equal to a second signal strength threshold, wherein the first signal strength threshold is smaller than the second signal strength threshold and the first adjacent cell is one of the M adjacent cells.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes: determining that the network connection information meets the preset condition under the condition that the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a first signal strength threshold value; determining a plurality of neighboring cells based on the location information of the target terminal and the geographic grid information; acquiring the load state of each adjacent cell in a plurality of adjacent cells and the network configuration parameters of each adjacent cell; the target cell is determined from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameters of each neighboring cell.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes: acquiring network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments; determining the coverage area of a cell corresponding to the first network equipment based on the network connection information of the terminals at the plurality of moments; acquiring coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network devices; and generating the geographic grid information based on the coverage area of the cell corresponding to the first network equipment and the coverage areas of the cells corresponding to the other network equipment.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes: the network configuration parameter adjustment request further includes a target network configuration mode, and the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameters of the target cell based on the target network configuration mode.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes: and under the condition that the service cell of the target terminal is switched to the target cell, adjusting the network configuration parameters of the service cell.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus, applied to a first network device, including: an acquisition module and a transmission module; the acquisition module is used for acquiring network connection information of a target terminal, wherein the network connection information comprises signal intensity of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal intensity of M adjacent cells and position information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0; the sending module is configured to send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to a second network device when the network connection information meets a preset condition, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the second network device to adjust a network configuration parameter of a target cell, so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal, and the second network device is a network device corresponding to the target cell, where the network configuration parameter includes one or more of a beam number, a beam angle, a beam width, and a beam gain.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjusting device further includes: a determining module; the determining module is configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition, and determine the first neighboring cell as the target cell, where the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to a first signal strength threshold, and the signal strength of the first neighboring cell is greater than or equal to a second signal strength threshold, and the first neighboring cell is one of the M neighboring cells.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjusting device further includes: a determining module; the determining module is configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to a first signal strength threshold; the determining module is further used for determining a plurality of adjacent cells based on the position information of the target terminal and the geographic grid information; the acquisition module is further used for acquiring the load state of each adjacent cell in the plurality of adjacent cells and the network configuration parameters of each adjacent cell; the determining module is further configured to determine the target cell from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjusting device further includes: a processing module; the acquisition module is also used for acquiring network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments; the determining module is further configured to determine coverage areas of cells corresponding to the first network device based on network connection information of the plurality of terminals at the plurality of moments; the acquisition module is also used for acquiring coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network devices; the processing module is configured to generate the geographic grid information based on a coverage area of a cell corresponding to the first network device and a coverage area of a cell corresponding to the other network device.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjustment request further includes a target network configuration mode, and the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell based on the target network configuration mode.

Optionally, the processing module is further configured to adjust a network configuration parameter of the serving cell of the target terminal when the serving cell is switched to the target cell.

In a third aspect, the present application provides a network device comprising: a processor and a memory configured to store processor-executable instructions; wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to implement any of the selectable network configuration parameter adjustment methods of the first aspect described above.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a network device, enable the network device to perform any one of the selectable network configuration parameter adjustment methods of the first aspect above.

According to the network configuration parameter adjustment method, the device, the network equipment and the storage medium, the first network equipment can acquire the network connection information of the target terminal, and under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition, the target terminal is about to leave the coverage area of the service cell and enter or about to enter the coverage area of the target cell, and the target terminal can possibly switch the service cell into the target cell. In the application, the first network device can send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network device under the condition that the target terminal can switch the service cell to the target cell, so that the second network device can adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell in advance, the target cell can provide network service for the target terminal, the use efficiency of network resources can be improved, and the second network device can improve the beam utilization rate because the network configuration parameter comprises one or more of the beam quantity, the beam angle, the beam width and the beam gain.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of a network configuration parameter adjustment system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic hardware diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of another method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of another method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a flowchart of another method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a flowchart of another method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a scenario of a network configuration parameter adjustment method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a network configuration parameter adjusting device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of another network configuration parameter adjusting device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The method, the device, the network equipment and the storage medium for adjusting the network configuration parameters provided by the embodiment of the application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terms "first" and "second" and the like in the description and the drawings of the present application are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular sequence of objects, e.g., a first network device and a second network device and the like are used for distinguishing between different network devices and not for describing a particular sequence of network devices.

Furthermore, references to the terms "comprising" and "having" and any variations thereof in the description of the present application are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those listed but may optionally include other steps or elements not listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present application, words such as "exemplary" or "such as" are used to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g." in an embodiment of the present application is not to be taken as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete fashion.

The term "and/or" as used herein includes the use of either or both of these methods.

In the description of the present application, unless otherwise indicated, the meaning of "a plurality" means two or more.

Based on the description in the background art, since in the related art, there may be no terminal in the coverage area of the SSB beam, when the base station sends the SSB beam, the beam utilization rate is low, and network resource waste is caused. Based on this, the embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus, a network device, and a storage medium for adjusting network configuration parameters, where the first network device may send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network device when the target terminal may switch a serving cell to a target cell, so that the second network device may adjust network configuration parameters of the target cell in advance, so that the target cell may provide network services for the target terminal, and may improve the use efficiency of network resources.

The method, the device, the network equipment and the storage medium for adjusting the network configuration parameters provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to a network configuration parameter adjusting system, as shown in fig. 1, wherein the network configuration parameter adjusting system comprises a terminal 101, a network equipment 102 and a network equipment 103. In general, in practical application, the connection between the above devices may be a wireless connection, and for convenience and intuitionistic representation of the connection relationship between the devices, a solid line is used in fig. 1 to illustrate.

The terminal 101 may send network connection information to the network device 102 and the network device 103, where the network device 102 may send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the network device 103 according to the network connection information sent by the terminal 101, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the network device 103 to adjust a network configuration parameter of a target cell, and the network device 103 may receive the network configuration parameter adjustment request sent by the network device 102 and then adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell.

By way of example, taking the network device 102 and the network device 103 in fig. 1 as commonly used base stations as an example, the hardware structure of the network device 102 provided in the embodiment of the present application will be described. As shown in fig. 2, a base station provided by an embodiment of the present application may include: 20 parts and 21 parts. The 20 part is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals and converting the radio frequency signals and baseband signals; the 21 part is mainly used for baseband processing, control of the base station and the like. The 20 part may be generally referred to as a transceiver unit, transceiver circuitry, or transceiver, etc. Portion 21 is typically the control center of the base station and may be generally referred to as a processing unit.

The transceiver unit of 20 part, which may also be referred to as a transceiver, or transceiver, etc., comprises an antenna and a radio frequency unit, or only a radio frequency unit or part thereof, wherein the radio frequency unit is mainly used for radio frequency processing. Alternatively, the device for implementing the receiving function in the 20 part may be regarded as a receiving unit, and the device for implementing the transmitting function may be regarded as a transmitting unit, i.e. the 20 part includes the receiving unit and the transmitting unit. The receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, or a receiving circuit, etc., and the transmitting unit may be referred to as a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.

The 21 part may include one or more boards or chips, each of which may include one or more processors and one or more memories, the processors being configured to read and execute programs in the memories to implement baseband processing functions and control of the base station. If there are multiple boards, the boards can be interconnected to increase processing power. As an alternative implementation, it may also be that multiple boards share one or more processors, or that multiple boards share one or more memories. The memory and the processor may be integrated or may be separately provided. In some embodiments, the 20 portion and the 21 portion may be integrated together or may be separately provided. In addition, all functions in the 21 portions may be integrated in one chip, or some functions may be integrated in one chip, and some functions may be integrated in one or more other chips, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present application.

The network configuration parameter adjustment method, the device, the network equipment and the storage medium provided by the embodiment of the application are applied to a scene of network configuration parameter adjustment, when the first network equipment acquires the network connection information of the target terminal, a network configuration parameter adjustment request can be sent to the second network equipment under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition, and the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network equipment to adjust the network configuration parameters of the target cell so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal.

As shown in fig. 3, the method for adjusting network configuration parameters according to the embodiment of the present application may include S101-S102.

S101, the first network equipment acquires network connection information of a target terminal.

The network connection information includes signal strength of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal strengths of M neighboring cells, and location information of the target terminal, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

It should be understood that the network connection information is network measurement information reported by the target terminal, and is used for characterizing the signal strength received by the current position of the target terminal at the current moment.

In the embodiment of the application, the signal strength of one cell is the reference signal received power (reference signal receiving power, RSRP) received by the target terminal.

Optionally, the network connection information may further include an identifier of the serving cell and an identifier of each of the M neighboring cells.

Illustratively, the network connection information may be: location 1, RSRP (base station 1, cell 1, ue 1), RSRP (base station 2, cell 2, ue 1), RSRP (base station 3, cell 3, ue 1).

S102, sending a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network equipment under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition.

The network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell, so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal, and the second network device is the network device corresponding to the target cell.

It may be understood that, when the network connection information satisfies the preset condition, it indicates that the target terminal is about to leave the coverage area of the serving cell, the serving cell cannot provide service for the target terminal, and enter or is about to enter the coverage area of the target cell, the target terminal may switch the serving cell to the target cell, and at this time, the first network device may send a request for adjusting the configuration parameter to the second network device, so that the target cell may provide service for the target terminal, and the target terminal may switch the serving cell to the target cell.

It should be appreciated that the network configuration parameter adjustment request is also used to inform the target terminal that it is about to enter the coverage of the target cell.

In the embodiment of the present application, the network configuration parameters may include beam configuration modes, beam numbers, beam angles and widths, beam gains, and the like.

It can be appreciated that after the second network device receives the network configuration parameter adjustment request, the beam configuration mode, the number of beams, the angle and width of the beams, the beam gain, and the like in the coverage area of the target cell can be adjusted, so that the target cell can provide services for the target terminal.

It should be understood that, before the second network device receives the network configuration parameter adjustment request, the serving cell of the target terminal is still the cell corresponding to the first network device, so that the second network device can adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell before the serving cell of the target terminal is switched, thereby improving the network service of the terminal and improving the user experience.

In an alternative implementation, the target cell may turn off SSB beam coverage in the case where no other terminal is present within the coverage of the target cell, and turn on SSB beam coverage when a network configuration parameter adjustment request is received.

In an optional implementation manner, the network connection information and the network configuration parameter adjustment request may further include an identifier of an SSB, where the first network device and the second network device may determine an area where the terminal is located through the identifier of the SSB beam, and at this time, the second network device may adjust an angle and a width of the beam and a beam gain, so as to provide network services for the area where the terminal is located.

In one implementation of the embodiment of the present application, the network configuration parameter adjustment request may further include a target network configuration parameter, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell based on the target network configuration parameter.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment at least has the following beneficial effects: as known from S101-S102, the first network device may acquire network connection information of the target terminal, and in case that the network connection information meets a preset condition, it is indicated that the target terminal is about to leave the coverage area of the serving cell and enter or about to enter the coverage area of the target cell, and the target terminal may switch the serving cell to the target cell, where the first network device may send a configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network device at the first time, and send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network device, so that the target cell provides network services for the target terminal. In the embodiment of the present application, the first network device may send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the second network device under the condition that the target terminal may switch the serving cell to the target cell, so that the second network device may adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell in advance, so that the target cell may provide network services for the target terminal, and the use efficiency of network resources may be improved.

In one implementation of the embodiment of the present application, the first network device (or the second network device) may pre-configure a plurality of network configurations according to a load status, where one network configuration corresponds to a plurality of network configuration parameters. The network configuration parameter adjustment request may further include a target network configuration, and the second network device may determine a network configuration parameter corresponding to the target network configuration based on the target network configuration, and then adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell to the network configuration parameter corresponding to the network configuration.

Alternatively, the load state may include a high load state, a medium load state, a low load state, an idle state, and the plurality of network configurations may include a high load configuration, a medium load configuration, a low load configuration, and an idle configuration.

In an implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, the first network device may further configure network configuration parameters together with other neighboring network devices, where the first network device may define a configuration mode in advance with the other neighboring network devices, where the configuration mode includes a network configuration of a cell corresponding to the first network device and a network configuration of a cell corresponding to the neighboring network device.

It may be appreciated that the network configuration parameter adjustment request further includes a target configuration mode, and the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameter of the target cell based on the target configuration mode. Specifically, the second network device determines the target network configuration of the serving cell of the target terminal and the target network configuration of the target cell according to the target configuration mode, then determines the network configuration parameter corresponding to the target network configuration of the target cell, and adjusts the network configuration parameter of the target cell to the network configuration parameter corresponding to the target network configuration of the target cell.

Table 1 below is an example of a configuration mode between cell 1 and cell 2.

TABLE 1

Network configuration mode	Cell 1 network configuration	Cell 2 network configuration
			Mode 1	High load configuration	High load configuration
Mode 2	High load configuration	Medium load configuration
			Mode 3	High load configuration	Low load configuration
Mode 4	High load configuration	Idle configuration
			Mode 5	Medium load configuration	High load configuration
Mode 6	Medium load configuration	Medium load configuration
			Mode 7	Medium load configuration	Low load configuration
Mode 8	Medium load configuration	Idle configuration
			Mode 9	Low load configuration	High load configuration
Mode 10	Low load configuration	Medium load configuration
			Mode 11	Low load configuration	Low load configuration
Mode 12	Low load configuration	Idle configuration
			Mode 13	Idle configuration	High load configuration
Mode 14	Idle configuration	Medium load configuration
			Mode 15	Idle configuration	Low load configuration
Mode 16	Idle configuration	Idle configuration

For example, as shown in table 1, the cell 1 is a cell corresponding to the first network device, the cell 2 is a cell corresponding to the second network device, and 16 network configuration modes exist between the cell 1 and the cell 2, where the network configuration of the cell 1 includes a high load configuration, a medium load configuration, a low load configuration, and an idle configuration, and the load state of the cell 2 includes a high load configuration, a medium load configuration, a low load configuration, and an idle configuration.

Assuming that the target configuration mode is mode 1, the second network device may determine that the target network configuration of the cell 2 is configured as a high load configuration, and the target network configuration of the cell 1 is configured as a high load configuration, and the second network device may adjust the network configuration parameter of the cell 2 to a network configuration parameter corresponding to the high load configuration, and the first network device may adjust the network configuration parameter of the cell 1 to a network configuration parameter corresponding to the high load configuration.

In an alternative implementation manner, the second network device may receive a plurality of network configuration parameter adjustment requests sent by a plurality of network devices, where the second network device may determine a plurality of target network configurations of the target cell, and where the second network device may adjust the network configuration parameters of the target cell according to the target network configuration with the highest priority.

Optionally, the priority of the network configuration is respectively high load configuration, medium load configuration, first load configuration and idle configuration from high to low.

Referring to fig. 3, as shown in fig. 4, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes S103.

S103, when the signal intensity of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a first signal intensity threshold value and the signal intensity of a first adjacent cell is larger than or equal to a second signal intensity threshold value, the first network equipment determines that the network connection information meets a preset condition and determines the first adjacent cell as the target cell.

Wherein the first signal strength threshold is less than a second signal strength threshold, and the first neighboring cell is one of the M neighboring cells.

It may be understood that, in a case where the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to the first signal strength threshold and the signal strength of the first neighboring cell is greater than or equal to the second signal strength threshold, it is indicated that the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller and the signal strength of the first neighboring cell is greater, and because the first signal strength threshold is less than the second signal strength threshold, the first network device may determine that the signal strength of the serving cell is less than the signal strength of the first neighboring cell, at this time, the terminal may switch the serving cell to the first neighboring cell, and therefore, the first network device may determine that the network connection information satisfies the preset condition and determine the first neighboring cell as the target cell.

In an optional implementation manner, the M neighboring cells further include a second neighboring cell, and at this time, the first network device may further send a network configuration request to a network device corresponding to the second neighboring cell, where the network configuration request is used to notify the second network device that no network service needs to be provided for the target terminal, and request the second network device to adjust a network configuration parameter of the second neighboring cell.

Referring to fig. 3, as shown in fig. 5, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes S104-S107.

And S104, under the condition that the signal intensity of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a third signal intensity threshold value, the first network equipment determines that the network connection information meets the preset condition.

It may be appreciated that, in a case where the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to the first signal strength threshold, it is indicated that the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is small, where the serving cell may not provide network service for the target terminal, and where the first network device may determine that the serving cell may be about to leave the coverage area of the serving cell, and the serving cell may not provide service for the target terminal. At this time, the first network device may determine that the network connection information satisfies a preset condition, and determine whether other cells can provide services for the target terminal.

It should be understood that, in the case where the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to the third signal strength threshold, there may be no signal strength of other neighboring cells in the network connection information, or the signal strength of the other neighboring cells may not provide network services for the target terminal, so the first network device may not determine the serving cell to which the terminal is to be handed over, and at this time, the first network device may determine, from the neighboring cells of the serving cell, that the target cell provides network services for the target terminal.

S105, the first network device determines a plurality of neighboring cells based on the location information of the target terminal and the geographical grid information.

In the embodiment of the present application, the geographic grid information includes a plurality of grids and a cell corresponding to each grid in the plurality of grids, where the cell corresponding to each grid is a cell that can be covered by a beam.

Specifically, the first network device determines, based on the location information of the target terminal, a grid to which the location information belongs, and then determines a cell corresponding to the grid.

It should be understood that the plurality of neighboring cells are cells except for the serving cell of the target terminal in the cells corresponding to the grid, where each of the plurality of neighboring cells has a capability of providing network services to the location information of the target terminal, and the first network device may determine the target cell from the plurality of neighboring cells.

S106, the first network equipment acquires the load state of each adjacent cell in the plurality of adjacent cells and the network configuration parameter of each adjacent cell.

Alternatively, the first network device may learn, through the Xn interface, the load status of the neighboring cells (including co-sited cells, non-co-sited cells) of the neighboring base station.

S107, the first network device determines a target cell from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell.

It may be appreciated that the first network device may calculate power consumption after each neighboring cell adjusts the network configuration parameter based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell, and then determine the neighboring cell with the lowest power consumption as the target cell.

In the embodiment of the application, the first network equipment determines the cell with the lowest power consumption from a plurality of cells which can provide service for the target terminal, and determines the cell as the target cell, so that the power consumption of the network equipment can be reduced, and the energy-saving effect is realized.

Referring to fig. 5, as shown in fig. 6, the network configuration parameter adjustment method further includes S108 to S111.

S108, the first network equipment acquires network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments.

It should be understood that the first network device may acquire network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments before acquiring network connection information of a target terminal.

S109, the first network equipment determines the coverage range of the cell corresponding to the first network equipment based on the network connection information of the terminals at a plurality of moments.

It should be understood that the network connection information includes identifiers of a plurality of cells and signal strength of each of the plurality of cells, and when the network connection information corresponding to the location information of the terminal at a certain moment includes the identifier of a certain cell and the signal strength of the certain cell, the location information of the terminal is indicated as coverage of the certain cell.

The first network device may determine a coverage area of a cell corresponding to the first network device from location information included in network connection information of the plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments.

In the embodiment of the present application, the number of cells corresponding to the first network device may be multiple, and the first network device may determine the coverage area of each cell based on the identifier of the cell.

Optionally, the first network device may further determine an SSB coverage area and an SSB adjustable area of each cell based on network connection information of the plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments.

It should be noted that, the SSB coverage area is an area covered by the beam of the cell under normal conditions, and the SSB adjustable area is an area that can be covered by the beam of the cell after adjusting the configuration parameters.

S110, the first network equipment acquires coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network equipment.

It should be understood that each network device may determine the coverage of a respective cell, and then each network device may obtain the coverage of the cells corresponding to the other network devices from each other.

And S111, the first network equipment generates geographic grid information based on the coverage area of the cell corresponding to the first network equipment and the coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network equipment.

Specifically, the first network device may divide a plurality of grids in one area and then determine that the coverage area falls into a cell of each grid.

In an alternative implementation manner, the first network device may further determine a cell in which the terminal performs handover at each grid and a change in signal strength received by the terminal based on a change in a serving cell included in network connection information of the terminal at a plurality of moments.

Optionally, the first network device may further acquire a plurality of network connection information of the target terminal in a continuous time, and then determine, based on the plurality of network connection information, a plurality of network connection information of the history terminal having a higher similarity with the plurality of network connection information of the target terminal, where the similarity between the plurality of network connection information of the target terminal and the plurality of network connection information of the history terminal is higher, which indicates that the position movement information of the target terminal is similar to the position movement information of the history terminal and the received cell signal strength is similar, and at this time, the first network device may determine, as the target cell, a serving cell switched by the history terminal.

Optionally, the geographical grid information may further include location information of a terminal corresponding to each grid, signal strengths of different cells, a received SSB identifier, and the like.

Referring to fig. 3, as shown in fig. 7, the network configuration parameter adjustment method may further include S112.

And S112, under the condition that the service cell of the target terminal is switched to the target cell, the first network equipment adjusts the network configuration parameters of the service cell.

It should be understood that the serving cell of the target terminal is the cell corresponding to the first network device.

It can be understood that, in the case that the serving cell of the target terminal is switched to the target cell, it is indicated that the first network device does not need to provide network services for the target terminal any more, and at this time, the first network device may adjust the network configuration parameters of the serving cell of the original target terminal.

In the embodiment of the application, the first network equipment adjusts the network configuration parameters under the condition that the network service is not required to be improved for the target terminal, so that the SSB beam power consumption can be reduced.

The following describes a network configuration parameter adjustment method provided by the embodiment of the present application.

As shown in fig. 8, an area 1 is a coverage area of a base station 302, an area 2 is a coverage area of a base station 203, an area 3 is a coverage area of a base station 304, a serving cell of a terminal is a cell corresponding to the base station 302, and the terminal 301 moves to the coverage area of the base station 304.

As further shown in fig. 8, at time 1, the terminal 301 is located in the area 1 and the area 2, and receives the beam 1 transmitted by the base station 302 and the beam 2 transmitted by the base station 303, and no terminal is located in the area 3, and at this time, the beam of the base station 304 is configured to be in the off state, and no beam is transmitted. The base station 302 determines that the terminal 301 moves to the area 3, at this time, a network configuration parameter adjustment request may be sent to the base station 304, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the base station 204 to adjust the network configuration parameter, and further provide network services to the terminal 301, and after receiving the network configuration request, the base station 304 may send the beam 3 to the area 3.

At time 2, the terminal 301 is located in region 3 and receives beam 3 transmitted by the base station 304. At this time, there is no terminal in the area 1 and the area 2, the base station 301 may turn off the beam configuration, and no beam is transmitted any more, and may send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to the base station 303, for requesting the base station 2 to turn off the beam configuration, and no beam is transmitted any more.

The embodiment of the application can divide the functional modules of the network equipment and the like according to the method example, for example, each functional module can be divided corresponding to each function, and two or more functions can be integrated in one processing module. The integrated modules may be implemented in hardware or in software functional modules. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the modules is schematic, which is merely a logic function division, and other division manners may be implemented in actual implementation.

In the case of dividing the respective functional modules by the respective functions, fig. 9 shows a possible structural schematic diagram of the apparatus involved in the above-described embodiment, and as shown in fig. 9, the network configuration parameter adjusting apparatus 40 may include: an acquisition module 401 and a transmission module 402.

The acquiring module 401 is configured to acquire network connection information of a target terminal, where the network connection information includes signal strengths of serving cells of the target terminal, signal strengths of M neighboring cells, and location information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

A sending module 402, configured to send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to a second network device when the network connection information meets a preset condition, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the second network device to adjust a network configuration parameter of a target cell, so that the target cell provides a network service for the target terminal, and the second network device is a network device corresponding to the target cell, where the network configuration parameter includes one or more of a beam number, a beam angle, a beam width, and a beam gain.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjusting apparatus 40 further includes: a determination module 403.

A determining module 403, configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition and determine the first neighboring cell as the target cell when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to a first signal strength threshold and the signal strength of the first neighboring cell is greater than or equal to a second signal strength threshold, where the first signal strength threshold is less than the second signal strength threshold and the first neighboring cell is one of the M neighboring cells.

Optionally, the determining module 403 is configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to the first signal strength threshold.

The determining module 403 is further configured to determine a plurality of neighboring cells based on the location information of the target terminal and the geographic grid information.

The obtaining module 401 is further configured to obtain a load status of each neighboring cell of the plurality of neighboring cells and a network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell.

The determining module 403 is further configured to determine the target cell from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell.

Optionally, the network configuration parameter adjusting apparatus 40 further includes: a processing module 404.

The acquiring module 401 is further configured to acquire network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments.

The determining module 403 is further configured to determine coverage of a cell corresponding to the first network device based on network connection information of the plurality of terminals at the plurality of moments.

The obtaining module 401 is further configured to obtain coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network devices.

And a processing module 404, configured to generate the geographic grid information based on the coverage area of the cell corresponding to the first network device and the coverage areas of the cells corresponding to the other network devices.

Optionally, the processing module 404 is further configured to adjust a network configuration parameter of the serving cell of the target terminal in case the serving cell is switched to the target cell.

In case of using an integrated unit, fig. 10 shows a schematic diagram of one possible configuration of the network configuration parameter adjusting apparatus involved in the above embodiment. As shown in fig. 10, the network configuration parameter adjusting apparatus 50 may include: a processing module 501 and a communication module 502. The processing module 501 may be configured to control and manage the operation of the network configuration parameter adjusting device 50. The communication module 502 may be used to support communication of the network configuration parameter adjustment device 50 with other entities. Optionally, as shown in fig. 10, the network configuration parameter adjusting device 50 may further include a storage module 503 for storing program codes and data of the network configuration parameter adjusting device 50.

Wherein the processing module 501 may be a processor or a controller. The communication module 502 may be a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, a communication interface, or the like. The storage module 503 may be a memory.

Where the processing module 501 is a processor, the communication module 502 is a transceiver, and the storage module 503 is a memory, the processor, the transceiver, and the memory may be connected by a bus. The bus may be a peripheral component interconnect standard (peripheral component interconnect, PCI) bus or an extended industry standard architecture (extended industry standard architecture, EISA) bus, or the like. The buses may be divided into address buses, data buses, control buses, etc.

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

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.

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 the above embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented using a software program, it may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, the processes or functions described in accordance with embodiments of the present application are produced in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber terminal line (Digital Subscriber Line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means. The computer readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device including one or more servers, data centers, etc. that can be integrated with the medium. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy Disk, a hard Disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), or the like.

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

1. A method for adjusting network configuration parameters, applied to a first network device, comprising:

acquiring network connection information of a target terminal, wherein the network connection information comprises signal intensity of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal intensity of M adjacent cells and position information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

and under the condition that the network connection information meets the preset condition, sending a network configuration parameter adjustment request to second network equipment, wherein the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network equipment to adjust the network configuration parameters of a target cell so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal, and the second network equipment is the network equipment corresponding to the target cell, and the network configuration parameters comprise one or more of the number of beams, the angle of the beams, the width of the beams and the gain of the beams.

2. The network configuration parameter adjustment method of claim 1, further comprising:

and determining that the network connection information meets the preset condition and determining the first adjacent cell as the target cell under the condition that the signal intensity of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a first signal intensity threshold and the signal intensity of the first adjacent cell is larger than or equal to a second signal intensity threshold, wherein the first signal intensity threshold is smaller than a second signal intensity threshold, and the first adjacent cell is one of the M adjacent cells.

3. The network configuration parameter adjustment method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the network connection information meets the preset condition under the condition that the signal intensity of the serving cell of the target terminal is smaller than or equal to a first signal intensity threshold value;

determining a plurality of neighboring cells based on the location information of the target terminal and the geographic grid information;

acquiring the load state of each adjacent cell in a plurality of adjacent cells and the network configuration parameters of each adjacent cell;

the target cell is determined from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameters of each neighboring cell.

4. A network configuration parameter adjustment method according to claim 3, characterized in that the method further comprises:

acquiring network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments;

determining the coverage area of a cell corresponding to the first network equipment based on the network connection information of the terminals at the moments;

acquiring coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network devices;

and generating the geographic grid information based on the coverage area of the cell corresponding to the first network equipment and the coverage areas of the cells corresponding to the other network equipment.

5. The network configuration parameter adjustment method of claim 1, further comprising:

the network configuration parameter adjustment request further comprises a target network configuration mode, and the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used for requesting the second network device to adjust the network configuration parameters of the target cell based on the target network configuration mode.

6. The network configuration parameter adjustment method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the method further comprises:

and under the condition that the service cell of the target terminal is switched to the target cell, adjusting the network configuration parameters of the service cell.

7. A network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus, applied to a first network device, comprising: an acquisition module and a transmission module;

the acquisition module is used for acquiring network connection information of a target terminal, wherein the network connection information comprises signal intensity of a serving cell of the target terminal, signal intensity of M adjacent cells and position information of the target terminal, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

the sending module is configured to send a network configuration parameter adjustment request to a second network device when the network connection information meets a preset condition, where the network configuration parameter adjustment request is used to request the second network device to adjust a network configuration parameter of a target cell, so that the target cell provides network service for the target terminal, and the second network device is a network device corresponding to the target cell, where the network configuration parameter includes one or more of a beam number, a beam angle, a beam width, and a beam gain.

8. The network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus according to claim 7, characterized in that the network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus further comprises: a determining module;

The determining module is configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition and determine the first neighboring cell as the target cell when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to a first signal strength threshold and the signal strength of the first neighboring cell is greater than or equal to a second signal strength threshold, where the first signal strength threshold is less than the second signal strength threshold and the first neighboring cell is one of the M neighboring cells.

9. The network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus according to claim 7, characterized in that the network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus further comprises: a determining module;

the determining module is configured to determine that the network connection information meets the preset condition when the signal strength of the serving cell of the target terminal is less than or equal to a first signal strength threshold;

the determining module is further used for determining a plurality of adjacent cells based on the position information of the target terminal and the geographic grid information;

the acquisition module is further used for acquiring the load state of each adjacent cell in the plurality of adjacent cells and the network configuration parameters of each adjacent cell;

The determining module is further configured to determine the target cell from the plurality of neighboring cells based on the load status of each neighboring cell and the network configuration parameter of each neighboring cell.

10. The network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus according to claim 9, characterized in that the network configuration parameter adjustment apparatus further comprises: a processing module;

the acquisition module is further used for acquiring network connection information of a plurality of terminals at a plurality of moments;

the determining module is further configured to determine coverage areas of cells corresponding to the first network device based on network connection information of the plurality of terminals at the plurality of moments;

the acquisition module is further used for acquiring coverage areas of cells corresponding to other network devices;

the processing module is configured to generate the geographic grid information based on a coverage area of a cell corresponding to the first network device and a coverage area of a cell corresponding to the other network device.

11. A network device, the network device comprising:

a processor;

a memory configured to store the processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to implement the network configuration parameter adjustment method of any one of claims 1-7.

12. A computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a network device, cause the network device to perform the network configuration parameter adjustment method of any of claims 1-7.