CN117280737A - Measurement period determining method, terminal equipment and network equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application relates to a method of determining a measurement period, a terminal device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method comprises the following steps: under the condition of supporting a plurality of MGPs, the terminal equipment respectively determines corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs in the plurality of MGPs; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP; and the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time. By using the embodiment of the application, the measurement accuracy can be improved.

Description

Measurement period determining method, terminal equipment and network equipment Technical Field

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

Background

For a wireless mobile communication system, accurate measurement of cell quality and beam quality is the basis for effectively performing radio resource management and mobility management. Currently, when performing RRM Measurement or positioning Measurement, the terminal device can only use one or two Measurement Gap (MG) configurations, i.e. a Measurement Gap Pattern (MGP). Depending on the capabilities of the terminal device, if a per-FR gap (per-FR gap) per Frequency band (FR) is supported, one MGP may be configured on each of the Frequency bands FR1 and FR 2; if a per-UE gap per terminal (UserEquipment, UE) is supported, only one MGP can be configured.

When the UE is configured to perform synchronization signal block (Synchronization Signal and PBCH Block, SSB) measurements of multiple frequency points or multiple different reference signal measurements, using only one MGP may not include all signals in the MG, resulting in some signals not being accurately measured.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the present embodiments provide a measurement period determining method, a terminal device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, a computer program, and a communication system, which can be used to determine a measurement period of a measurement object (Measurement Object, MO) in a case where a plurality of MGPs are supported by the terminal device.

The embodiment of the application provides a method for determining a measurement period, which comprises the following steps:

under the condition of supporting a plurality of MGPs, the terminal equipment respectively determines corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs in the plurality of MGPs; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP;

and the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.

The embodiment of the application also provides a method for determining the measurement period, which comprises the following steps:

the network equipment sends indication information to the terminal equipment;

The indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.

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

a measurement time determining module, configured to, in a case where a plurality of measurement interval patterns MGPs are supported, determine corresponding first measurement times for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, respectively; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP;

and the measurement period determining module is used for determining the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.

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

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

the indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal device, which comprises: the system comprises a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is used for storing a computer program, and the processor calls and runs the computer program stored in the memory to execute the method for determining the measurement period provided by any embodiment of the application.

The embodiment of the application also provides a network device, which comprises: the system comprises a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is used for storing a computer program, and the processor calls and runs the computer program stored in the memory to execute the method for determining the measurement period provided by any embodiment of the application.

The embodiment of the application also provides a chip, which comprises: and a processor for calling and running the computer program from the memory, so that the device on which the chip is mounted executes the method for determining the measurement period provided in any embodiment of the present application.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the method for determining the measurement period provided by any embodiment of the application.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product comprising computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions cause a computer to perform the method for determining a measurement period provided by any of the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program, and the computer program enables the computer to execute the method for determining the measurement period provided by any embodiment of the application.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication system which comprises a terminal device and a network device for executing the method provided by any embodiment of the application.

According to the embodiment of the application, under the condition of supporting a plurality of MGPs, the terminal equipment firstly determines the measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on one or a plurality of MGPs, and then determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the determined measurement time corresponding to the MGP, so that the measurement period of the first MO is accurately determined under the scene of supporting the plurality of MGPs, a foundation is laid for measuring by adopting the plurality of MGPs, and the measurement accuracy is improved.

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

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the overlapping situation between MGPs in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a method for determining a measurement period according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of determining the number of sampling points of an MGP in one embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of determining the number of active MGP locations in one embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a method for determining a measurement period according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application.

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

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device according to still another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

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

Fig. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a chip of an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system of an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

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

The technical solution of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: global system for mobile communications (Global System ofMobile communication, GSM) systems, code Division MultipleAccess, CDMA systems, wideband Code Division multiple access (Wideband Code Division MultipleAccess, WCDMA) systems, general packet Radio service (General Packet Radio Service, GPRS), long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) systems, long term evolution-advanced (Advanced long term evolution, LTE-a) systems, new Radio (NR) systems, evolved systems of NR systems, LTE-based access to unlicensed spectrum, LTE-U) systems over unlicensed spectrum, NR-based access to unlicensed spectrum, NR-U) systems over unlicensed spectrum, non-terrestrial communication network (Non-TerrestrialNetworks, NTN) systems, 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) systems, or other communication systems, and the like.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple concurrent and independent MG (also referred to as "gap") arrangements (multiple concurrent and independent MG patterns)

The UE can only employ one or two MGPs when performing RRM/positioning measurements. Depending on the UE capability, if per-FR gap is supported, one MGP may be configured on each of FR1 and FR 2; if per-UE gap is supported, only one MGP can be configured.

When the UE is configured to perform SSB measurements of multiple frequency points (corresponding to different SSB measurement time configurations (SSB Measurement Timing Configuration, SMTC) on different frequency points) or measurements of multiple different reference signals (e.g., SSB, channel state information reference signals (Channel State Information Reference Signal, CSI-RS), positioning reference signals (Positioning Reference Signal, PRS), etc.), using only one MGP configuration may not include all signals in the MG, resulting in some signals not being accurately measured or MG being wasted.

To solve this problem, multiple concurrent and independent MGPs are introduced in the 5G enhanced version, so that measurement can be better completed under different SMTC configurations, and/or different reference signals, and/or different Radio Access Types (RATs), such as E-UTRA, NR, etc.

The time domain relationship (i.e. whether there is a collision) between multiple MGPs has a certain flexibility, and taking 2 MGs (corresponding to 2 MGPs) as an example, referring to fig. 2, several exemplary cases are listed below:

complete-overlapped (FO): each interval position of one MG is completely covered by each interval position of another MG of the same period, and there are two cases where the measurement interval lengths (Measurement Gap Length, MGL) are the same and the measurement interval lengths are different.

Completely non-overlapping (FNO): all of the interval positions (or interval opportunities) in the 2 MGs are disjoint in the time domain.

Partial overlap (Partially overlapped): three situations are known:

(1) Full-partial overlap (FPO): each of the interval positions of one MG is partially overlapped by each of the interval positions of another MG of the same cycle.

(2) Partial-complete overlapped (PFO): each of the spaced positions of one MG is completely overlapped by the spaced position of a MG of another different period.

(3) Partial-partial overlap (PPO): each of the spaced positions of one MG is partially overlapped by the spaced position of another MG of a different period.

The UE behavior when the interval positions (hereinafter referred to as "positions") of the two MGs collide in the time domain may include: the UE can only select one of the conflicting MGs to make measurements, but how to select the MG needs further discussion. One possibility is that even if there are multiple MGs at the same time, only one MG is actually active, i.e. in terms of the MG that is eventually active, it can be considered as belonging to the FNO scenario.

If at least one of FO, FPO, PFO and PPO conditions is allowed to be further discussed on the basis of general assumptions, the following example processing may be referenced:

when two MGs are overlapping MGs, the UE measures only at the location of one MG. Further, if it is the case of the per-FR, different frequency bands are considered separately.

The usage rules for conflicting MG locations may be referred to as examples:

(1) Sharing interval

Introducing an interval sharing scale factor: for example, given 50% of the interval sharing, measurements on one MG will share about 50% of the time, with the other MG sharing the remaining time.

(2) Priority level

The UE can only measure in MG with high priority.

(3) Other options are not excluded.

Further, it may be considered whether each MG is associated to a specific usage scenario, such as a measurement of which MO the network configures a specific certain MG for. If so, the specific implementation can refer to the following example process:

(1) The MG is associated to a particular usage scenario.

It is necessary to consider whether all MGs are associated or whether a new MG is associated, and which usage scenarios should be associated.

(2) The Network (NW) configures the MG used by each MO.

(3) NW configures MO measured in each MG or new MG.

Carrier measurement time scaling factor (Carrier Specific Scaling Factor, CSSF) calculation for (two) MG

CSSF can be classified into CSSF based on whether it is measured in MG _{within_gap,i} And CSSF _{outside_gap,i} Two main categories. Specifically, the calculation may be performed according to different terminal operation scenarios, such as SA, EN-DC (EUTRA-NR Dual Connection, LTE and NR dual connectivity), NR-DC (NR dual connectivity), and the like. Here, a simple SA scenario is taken as an example.

The CSSF calculation of the external measurement (outlide gap) of MG considers the number of different service carriers and the number of different frequency MO;

the CSSF calculation measured in MG (Within gap) considers the number of all MOs under test that fall in the MG location. Optionally, CSSF of the co-frequency MO and the inter-frequency MO is further determined according to the gap sharing ratio indicated by the network.

1. CSSF of outlide gap in SA scenario _{outside_gap,i} Calculation of

The CSSF calculation of the outlide gap mainly relates to the number of carriers and the number of different-frequency MOs, the CSSF on the primary carrier (Primary Carrier Component, PCC) is determined according to the number of PCCs, and the CSSF on the secondary carrier (Sencondary Carrier Component, SCC) is determined according to the number of SCCs and the number of different-frequency MOs. Specifically as shown in table 1:

Table 1: CSSF of UE in SA mode _{outside_gap,i}

2. CSSF of witin gap under SA scene _{within_gap,i} Calculation of

CSSF measured by Within gap is related to MO number.

Further, according to the number M of the same-frequency measurement objects in each MG (denoted by j) _intra,i,j Number M of different frequency measurement objects _inter,i,j Number M of all measured objects _tot,i,j And the total number of NR PRS measurements, etc., determining the CSSF of the measurement object i, i.e., CSSF _{within_gap,i} . Wherein M is _tot,i,j ＝M _intra,i,j +M _inter,i,j 。

Further, sharing proportion of the same-frequency and different-frequency MOs can be allocated according to a sharing scheme SharingScheme indicated by the network.

Specifically, for each MGj, M used for long period measurement _intra,i,j ＝M _inter,i,j ＝M _tot,i,j ＝0。

CSSF _{within_gap,i} The method comprises the following steps:

(1) If the parameter measgapmering scheme indicates average shared MG, then:

CSSF _{within_gap,i} ＝max(ceil(R _i ×M _tot,i,j ) And) wherein j=0 … (160/MGRP) -1.MGRP is the period of MG, i.e., the measurement interval repetition period (Measurement Gap Repetition Period).

(2) If the parameter measGapSharingScheme indicates the non-average sharing MG, the same frequency proportion K is further indicated _intra Sum-to-different frequency ratio K _inter Then:

if the measurement object i is the same-frequency measurement object, then the CSSF _{within_gap,i} Is the maximum of the following values:

ceil(R _i ×K _intra ×M _intra,i,j ) Wherein M is _inter,i,j ≠0，j＝0,1…,((160/MGRP)-1)；

ceil(R _i ×M _intra,i,j ) Wherein M is _inter,i,j ＝0，j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

If the measurement object i is an inter-frequency measurement object or an NR PRS of an inter-RAT or any frequency layer, then the CSSF _{within_gap,i} Is the maximum of the following values:

ceil(R _i ×K _inter ×M _inter,i,j ) Wherein M is _intra,i,j ≠0,j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1；

ceil(R _i ×M _inter,i,j ) Wherein M is _intra,i,j ＝0,j＝0…(160/MGRP)-1。

(III) calculating a measurement period:

here, taking the detection time of the primary synchronization signal (Primary Synchronization Signal, PSS)/secondary synchronization signal (Secondary Synchronization Signal, SSS) during cell identification (cell identification) as an example of FR1 band on-channel measurement, the difference between the measurement outside the MG and the measurement in the MG during the calculation of the measurement time will be described. The time required for other measurement processes is similar, and the calculation modes are basically as follows: sample number x base time unit x carrier measurement time scaling factor (Carrier Specific Scaling Factor, CSSF). The basic time unit may relate to, among other things, a period of a signal, a period of a measurement window, a discontinuous reception (Discontinuous Reception, DRX) period, an MG period, etc.

It should be noted that, in the Layer 3 (Layer 3, L3) measurement process such as FR2 band measurement, different frequency SSB measurement, CSI-RS measurement, etc., the calculation process of the measurement time is similar, and no detailed description is given here.

1. Co-frequency measurement outside of MG

Table 2: PSS/SSS detection time (frequency band range FR 1)

The basic time units measured outside the MG, such as the SMTC period (SMTC period), DRX cycle (DRX period), max (SMTC period, DRX cycle), etc., are related to the SMTC period and DRX period.

CSSF of same frequency measurement _intra There are two cases, sometimes based on calculations outside the MG, sometimes based on calculations in the MG:

(1) It is based on the CSSF in the protocol when measurements are made outside the MG, e.g. when the frequency SMTC does not overlap or partially overlap the MG at all _{outside_gap,i} A determined scale factor;

(2) It is based on CSSF in the protocol when measurements are made in MG, e.g. when the same frequency SMTC is fully overlapped with MG _{within_gap,i} A determined scale factor.

K _p The value of the method is as follows:

(1) K when the same-frequency SMTC and MG are not overlapped or overlapped at all _p ＝1；

(2) When the common-frequency SMTC is partially overlapped with MG, K _p =1/(1- (SMTC period/MGRP)), where SMTC period<MGRP, MGRP is the measurement interval repetition period (Measurement Gap Repetition Period).

That is, K _p Normally, the value of 1 is taken, and only when SMTC and MG are partially overlapped (when measured outside MG), the part of SMTC falling into MG is removed.

2. Co-channel measurement in MG

Table 3: PSS/SSS detection time (frequency band range FR 1)

The basic time units measured in MG are related to SMTC period, DRX period and MGRP.

CSSF of same frequency measurements in table 4 _intra Is based on CSSF in the protocol when measurements are made in MG, e.g. when the same frequency SMTC is fully overlapped with MG _{within_gap,i} A determined scale factor.

For MO which originally needs to be measured only by MG, CSSF can only be measured in MG, so CSSF corresponding to measurement in MG _{within_gap,i} To calculate. The basic time unit of the calculation cycle is here in terms of the maximum of SMTC and MGRP, so that the introduction of a scaling factor K for the case of partial overlap is no longer necessary _p 。

(IV) Layer 1 (L1) measurement period

Taking the measurement of the L1 reference signal received power (Reference signal receivedpower, RSRP) SSB as an example, the calculation method of the L1 measurement period is described. Similar to the L3 measurement procedure for the measurement time described above, basically the number of samples x the basic time unit, where the basic time unit may be related to the period of the signal, the period of the measurement window, the DRX period, etc. In addition, the L1 measurement is performed outside the MG, and the L1 measurement cannot be performed for the reference signal falling within the MG, and this part of the reference signal needs to be discarded. The scaling factor P is thus introduced in the calculation of the measurement period. The manner in which P is valued will be described below.

1. Resources for FR1

(1) When there is a measurement interval configured for co-frequency, inter-frequency or inter-RAT measurements in the monitored cell, which measurement interval overlaps with some but not all occasions of the SSB,

(2) When no measurement interval overlaps with SSB in the monitored cell, p=1.

2. Resources for FR2

(1) When the SSB and MG do not overlap and the SSB and SMTC opportunities partially overlap (T _SSB <T _{SMTC period} ) In the time-course of which the first and second contact surfaces,

wherein T is _SSB For the period of SSB, T _SMTCperiod Is the period of SMTC.

(2) When the SSB and MG do not overlap and the SSB and SMTC periods completely overlap (T _SSB ＝T _{SMTC period} ) When p=p _{sharing factor} 。

(3) When the SSB partially overlaps the MG and the SSB partially overlaps the SMTC timing (T _SSB <T _{SMTC period} ) And SMTC occasions do not overlap with MG, and:

T _SMTCperiod not the MGRP, or,

T _SMTCperiod =mgrp simultaneous T _SSB <0.5*T _SMTCperiod When (1):

(4) When the SSB partially overlaps the MG and the SSB partially overlaps the SMTC timing (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And the SMTC occasion is not overlapped with MG and T _SMTCperiod ＝MGRP，T _SSB ＝0.5*T _SMTCperiod In the time-course of which the first and second contact surfaces,

(5) When SSB partially overlaps MG (T _SSB <MGRP) and SSB partially overlaps SMTC opportunities (T) _SSB <T _{SMTC period} ) And SMTC occasions overlap partially or completely with the MG,

(6) When SSB overlaps MG partially, SSB overlaps SMTC timing completely (T _SSB <T _{SMTC period} ) And the SMTC timing partially overlaps with MG (T _SMTCperiod <MGRP) of the base material,

wherein if SSB configured for L1-RSRP measurement outside MG is:

considering that SSB-tomeure is configured, which is a union of SSB-tomeure from all configured measurement objects on the same service carrier, does not overlap with SSB symbols indicated by SSB-tomeure, 1 data symbol before each consecutive SSB symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and 1 data symbol after each consecutive symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and,

Considering that SS-RSSI-Measurement is configured, not to overlap with the RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, 1 data symbol before each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, and 1 data symbol after each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement,

then P _{sharing factor} =1, otherwise, P _{sharing factor} ＝3。

Table 4 shows an example manner of calculation of the measurement period:

table 4: measurement period T of SSB for L1-RSRP measurement _{L1-RSRP_Measurement_Period_SSB}

According to the related art described above, the measurement time required for the measurement object based on MG measurement is determined according to the CSSF, the SMTC period, the minimum value between MGRP, and the like. When a plurality of concurrent MGs are configured, the measurement period may be different depending on the priority/sharing factor among the MGs, or the measurement time may be shortened due to the MO simultaneously measuring in the plurality of MGPs. How to determine the measurement period of MO when supporting multiple concurrent MGs is a challenge.

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

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

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method of determining a measurement period according to an embodiment of the present application. The method may alternatively be applied to the system shown in fig. 1, but is not limited thereto. As shown in fig. 3, the method includes at least part of the following:

s31: under the condition of supporting a plurality of MGPs, the terminal equipment respectively determines corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs in the plurality of MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the corresponding MGP;

s32: and the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.

Alternatively, the plurality of MGPs supported by the terminal device may be configured by the network.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the measurement interval (MG) may include an interval in which traffic data transceiving is interrupted in a time domain and used for MO measurement, for example, MG in an LTE system or a 5G system, and may also include a network controllable small interval (Network Control Small Gap, NCSG), that is, an interval in a time domain for performing radio frequency link adjustment so that idle radio frequency resources are utilized to perform measurement. The MG includes a plurality of MG positions (MG occalations) periodically appearing in the time domain.

Illustratively, the MGP is a measurement interval pattern, or MG configuration. One MGP corresponds to one MG, and may represent distribution of the MG in the time domain, and includes attribute information such as a period of the MG, a length of each MG position, and the like. It can be understood that the period of MGP is the period of MG. In the case where the MG is an interval for interrupting traffic data transmission/reception in the time domain and for MO measurement, the period of the MGP is referred to as MGRP. In the case where the MG is an NCSG, the period of the MG is a repetition period (Visible Interruption Repetition Period, VIRP) of the interruption.

Optionally, at least part of the MGPs, that is, all or part of the MGPs supported by the terminal device may include each MGP of the MGPs supported by the terminal device, and may also include a specific one or more MGPs of the MGPs supported by the terminal device.

Alternatively, in the embodiment of the present application, the MO may be a signal for layer 3 measurement, for example, the first MO may include SSB, CSI-RS, etc. for layer 3 measurement. Further, the first MO may be an MO for layer 3 measurements and requiring MG to make measurements.

Alternatively, the terminal device may determine the measurement time required to measure the first MO based on the respective MGPs with reference to the calculation manner of the measurement time of the MO in the MG in the related art (three) described above. For example, in case there is no overlap between MGPs, the terminal device determines a measurement time required to measure the first MO based on a certain MGP based on information such as a period of the MGP, a period of a measurement time window (e.g., SMTC) of the first MO, a DRX period, CSSF of the MGP, and the like.

Alternatively, in the case where there is an overlap between the MGPs, since the overlap between the MGPs may cause a part of MG positions of a certain MGP to be unavailable, a scaling factor may be set in the calculation manner of the first measurement time, denoted as an interval sharing scaling factor, for amplifying the measurement period to eliminate the influence of the overlap between the MGPs on the measurement accuracy. For a certain MGP, the terminal device may determine a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the MGP based on the interval sharing scaling factor and the above information of the period of the MGP, the period of the measurement time window (for example SMTC) of the first MO, the DRX period, the CSSF of the MGP, and so on.

It can be seen that, in the method for determining a measurement period provided in the embodiment of the present application, under the condition of supporting multiple MGPs, a terminal device determines, for one or more MGPs, measurement time required for measuring a first MO based on the MGPs, and then determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the determined measurement time corresponding to the MGPs, thereby implementing accurate determination of the measurement period of the first MO in a scenario of supporting multiple MGPs, laying a foundation for measurement by using multiple MGPs, and being beneficial to improving measurement accuracy.

In the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned related setting of at least part of MGPs may be implemented in various ways. Two specific examples are provided below.

Example one:

in this example, at least a portion of the MGPs include a first MGP corresponding to a first MO.

Illustratively, in a communication system, each MO may be configured to measure only on a specific one of the MGPs, i.e. a first MO may be configured to measure only on the basis of the first MGP. Even if the first MO has some resources or measurement time windows in other MGs, measurement in other MGs is not allowed. Correspondingly, the terminal equipment determines the period of the first MO according to the measurement time corresponding to the first MGP.

Alternatively, in calculating CSSF of each MGP, MO number is counted based only on MO corresponding to MGP. For example, when counting the number of MOs to calculate the CSSF of the first MGP, the first MO may be counted but not counted as other MOs that do not correspond to the first MGP. Accordingly, CSSF of other MGPs among the plurality of MGPs except the first MGP is not related to the first MO.

Optionally, S32: the terminal equipment determines a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time, and the method comprises the following steps:

and the terminal equipment determines the first measurement time corresponding to the first MGP as the measurement period of the first MO.

An example is that in the case where there is no overlap between the MGPs at all, the first measurement time corresponding to the first MGP, that is, the measurement period of the first MO is as shown in table 5:

table 5: measurement period of first MO (in T _{PSS/SSS_sync_intra} For example, there is no overlap between multiple MGPs

DRXcycle	T PSS/SSS_sync_intra
Without DRX	max(600ms,5×max(MGRP1,SMTCperiod))×CSSF intra
DRXcycle≤320ms	max(600ms,ceil(M2×5)×max(MGRP1,SMTCperiod,DRXcycle))×CSSF intra
DRXcycle>320ms	5×max(MGRP1,DRXcycle)×CSSF intra

Wherein MGRP1 is the period of the first MGP. SMTC period is the period of the measurement time window of the first MO.

Another example is that in case there is an overlap, e.g. a partial overlap or a complete overlap, between multiple MGPs, one MGP activation is chosen at the same time, thus requiring an amplification of the measurement period, introducing the above interval sharing scaling factor, denoted K _gap 。

For example, introducing a gap sharing scaling factor K when calculating a measurement period based on a base time unit and CSSF _gap . The first measurement time (i.e., the measurement period of the first MO) corresponding to the first MGP is shown in the following calculation mode 1 in table 6.

As another example, an interval sharing scaling factor K is introduced in determining the basic time unit of the measurement time _gap The first measurement time (i.e., the measurement period of the first MO) corresponding to the first MGP is shown in calculation mode 2 in table 6.

Table 6: measurement period of first MO (in T _{PSS/SSS_sync_intra} For example, there is overlap between multiple MGPs

Alternatively, the interval sharing scaling factor K is introduced when calculating the CSSF of the first MGP _gap The measurement period is then determined in accordance with the manner illustrated in table 5.

Optionally, the method for determining a measurement period further includes a step of determining a first MGP corresponding to the first MO from among the plurality of MGPs. Specifically, the method further comprises:

the terminal device determines a first MGP among the plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of the network device, related information of the plurality of MGPs, and related information of the first MO.

Optionally, the first MGP is indicated by first indication information of the network device, i.e. the first indication information is used to configure the MGP corresponding to the first MO.

That is, the network device may configure corresponding MGPs for the respective MOs through the first indication information. For example, the network device may configure MO1 of an intra-frequency SSB (intra-frequency SSB) measurement to correspond to MGP1, and MO2 of an inter-frequency SSB (inter-frequency SSB) measurement to correspond to MGP2, so that MO1 can only be measured based on MGP1, and MO2 can only be measured based on MGP 2. Here, the configuration of the network device needs to ensure that SMTC of MO1 overlaps partially or completely with MGP1, SMTC of MO2 overlaps partially or completely with MGP 2.

Alternatively, the first MGP may be determined according to the overlapping situation of the resource/measurement time window of the first MO and each MGP. Specifically, the terminal device determines a first MGP from among a plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of the network device, related information of the plurality of MGPs, and related information of the first MO, including:

and the terminal equipment determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO.

In an exemplary manner, the terminal device determines a first MGP from a plurality of MGPs according to overlapping situations of the plurality of MGPs and measurement time windows of the first MO, including:

the terminal device determines, as the first MGP, an MGP which most overlaps with a measurement time window of the first MO among the plurality of MGPs.

For example, the SMTC window of MO1 measured by intra-frequency SSB completely overlaps with MGP1 (i.e., all SMTCs are in MGP 1), but partially overlaps with MGP2 or completely does not overlap with MGP2, then the MGP corresponding to MO1 is MGP1.

In another example manner, the terminal device determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping situation of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO, including:

and the terminal equipment determines a first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition and the priorities of the plurality of MGPs.

For example, the terminal device may select, as the first MGP, an MGP having a higher priority and overlapping more with the measurement time window of the first MO.

Optionally, the terminal device determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping situation and priorities of the plurality of MGPs, including:

and the terminal equipment determines the first MGP from the MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first MO in the plurality of MGPs according to the priorities of the plurality of MGPs.

In practical application, the terminal device may determine all MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first MO among the plurality of MGPs, and then select the MGP with the highest priority among the MGPs. The terminal device may also traverse each MGP from high to low according to the priority of the MGP, and determine the MGP as the first MGP when traversing to an MGP that overlaps, e.g., partially overlaps or completely overlaps, the measurement time window of the first MO.

For example, MO1 measured by intra-frequency SSB of network configuration uses MGP with priority of MGP1> MGP2, and further determines the overlap condition of SMTC and MGP according to the order of MGP1 and MGP 2:

MO1 is measured using MGP1 if SMTC overlaps partially or completely with MGP 1.

MO1 is measured using MGP2 if SMTC does not overlap with MGP1 at all, but overlaps with MGP2 at all or partially.

Alternatively, the priority of MGPs may be indicated by network signaling. For example, the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs.

Example two:

in this example, at least part of the MGPs include each MGP of the plurality of MGPs that overlaps with a measurement time window of the first MO. That is, when the measurement resource/measurement time window configuration of the first MO is located within a plurality of MGPs at the same time, the first MO may be measured based on the plurality of MGPs. And the terminal equipment determines the period of the first MO according to the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP available to the first MO. The measurement configuration of this example is more flexible than that of example one, and the MG competition is also more intense.

According to the present example, network configuration etc. allows the first MO to use these MGPs for measurement as long as the first MO has a partial resource/measurement time window within some MGPs. Optionally, the first MO needs to be considered in calculating the CSSF of each MGP, i.e. the CSSF of each MGP is related to the first MO.

Optionally, the terminal device supports or allows measurement within multiple MGs, in particular the MG selected at each occasion depending on the terminal device implementation.

Optionally, the determining, by the terminal device, a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time includes:

And the terminal equipment determines the maximum value or the minimum value in the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP as the period of the first MO.

That is, for each MGP, a measurement time required for the first MO to measure based on the MGP is determined, and a maximum value or a minimum value of the measurement times corresponding to each MGP is taken as a final measurement period T of the first MO.

Taking no-DRX, and no overlap between the MGPs (including MGP1 and MGP 2) where the first MO is located as an example:

measurement time t1=max (600 ms,5×max (MGRP 1, SMTC period))×cssf of first MO in MGP1 _intra,MGP1 ；

Measurement time t2=max (600 ms,5×max (MGRP 2, SMTC period))×cssf of first MO in MGP2 _intra,MGP2 ；

The measurement period t=min (T1, T2) or t=max (T1, T2) of the first MO. In this example, MGRP1 is a period of MGP1, MGRP2 is a period of MGP2, and SMTC period is a period of a measurement time window of the first MO.

Taking no-DRX as an example, and there is an overlap between multiple MGPs (including MGP1 and MGP 2) where the first MO is located, it is necessary to consider the interval sharing scaling factor K when calculating the measurement time _gap Taking the manner shown in table 6 as an example, the measurement time is calculated as follows:

measurement time t1=max of the first MO in MGP1 (600 ms,5×max (mgrp1×k _gap ,SMTC period))×CSSF _{intra, MGP1} ；

Measurement time t2=max of the first MO in MGP2 (600 ms,5×max (mgrp2×k _gap ,SMTC period))×CSSF _{intra, MGP2} ；

The measurement period t=min (T1, T2) or t=max (T1, T2) of the first MO.

Optionally, the determining, by the terminal device, a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time includes:

and the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP and the offset information among the plurality of MGPs.

The terminal device may illustratively count the number of sampling points N required by the first MO _tot Assigned to different MGPs. The respective measurement time is then calculated from the number of sample points to which each MGP is assigned. Finally, considering the offset between the MGs, an extra delay, namely the offset information, is required to be introduced, and the measurement period of the first MO is determined based on the measurement time corresponding to each MGP and the offset information.

For example, the number of sampling points N required by the first MO _tot Distributed to MGP1 and MGP2, wherein the number of sampling points corresponding to MGP1 is N ₁ The number of sampling points corresponding to MGP2 is N ₂ N of the first MO ₁ The measurement time required by the sampling points in MGP1 is T ₁₁ N of the first MO ₂ The measurement time required by the sampling points in MGP2 is T ₂₂ . The period t=min of the first MO (T ₁₁ ,T ₂₂ )+T _delta Or t=max (T ₁₁ ,T ₂₂ )+T _delta . Wherein T is _delta The offset information is described above.

Optionally, the offset information is determined based on an offset between the plurality of MGPs or based on a period of the plurality of MGPs. For example, the maximum value of the offset between MGPs or the maximum value of MGRP.

Optionally, the offset information is related to a sampling point number corresponding to each MGP.

For example, in the case where the sum of sampling points corresponding to a plurality of MGPs is larger than the sampling point required for measuring the first MO (e.g., N ₁ +N ₂ >N _tot ) The offset information is a first preset value. The first preset value is, for example, 0.

In another example, when the sum of the sampling points corresponding to the plurality of MGPs is equal to or less than the sampling point required for measuring the first MO (N ₁ +N ₂ ≤N _tot ) The offset information is a maximum value of an offset between the MGPs or a maximum value in a period of the MGPs.

Optionally, the method may further include the step of allocating sampling points. There are a number of implementations of this step.

As an example, the method further includes:

determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO and the period of each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.

For example, if the MGPs supported by the terminal device include Z MGPs that can be used for MO1 measurement, the sampling points corresponding to the ith MGP in the Z MGPs are: Wherein, MGRP i is the period of the ith MGP, and MGRP j is the period of the jth MGP.

Taking MO1 as an example, measurement can be performed based on two MGPs (MGP 1 and MGP 2), the number of sampling points to be completed in MGP1 Sample points to be completed in MGP2

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the measurement time window (SMTC) period of the first MO is 20ms, the periods of the two MGPs are 80ms and 40ms, respectively, and the number of sampling points N required by the first MO _tot =5, then N ₁ ＝ceil(5*40/120)＝2,N ₂ Ceil (5 x 80/120) =4, the measurement time T required by the first MO at MGP1 ₁₁ ＝max(600ms,N ₁ ×max(MGRP1,SMTC period))×CSSF _intra,MGP1 . Measurement time T required by the first MO at MGP2 ₂₂ ＝max(600ms,N ₂ ×max(MGRP2,SMTC period))×CSSF _intra,MGP2 . It should be appreciated that if there is an overlap between multiple MGPs, the terminal device may introduce an interval sharing scaling factor K in calculating the measurement time _gap 。

As an example, the method further includes:

determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO, the period of each MGP and the CSSF of the first MO in each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.

Considering that CSSF indicates the scaling factor of multiple MOs within MGP, for example cssf=2 indicates that one MO is measured every two MG occasins, which is equivalent to amplifying MGRP.

Taking the example that MO1 can measure based on two MGPs (MGP 1 and MGP 2), then:

Sample points to be completed in MGP1

Sample points to be completed in MGP2

Wherein, CSSF1 is the CSSF of MGP1, and CSSF2 is the CSSF of MGP 2. Based on N ₁ Calculating measurement time corresponding to MGP1 and N-based ₂ Calculating the measurement time corresponding to MGP2 may be achieved with reference to the above example.

According to the foregoing description, in consideration of the fact that there is an overlap between MGPs, some MGPs may not be activated, and thus, an interval sharing scaling factor may be introduced to amplify the measurement time of the first MO in each MGP. Correspondingly, the terminal device determines corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs, respectively, including:

and the terminal equipment determines the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP according to the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in at least part of the MGPs.

Optionally, in the case where there is no overlap between the plurality of MGPs, the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is a second preset value. For example K _gap ＝1。

Optionally, in the case that there is an overlap between the MGPs, the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is determined according to a first ratio corresponding to each MGP; wherein the first ratio relates to the number of active MG positions per MGP.

Alternatively, for each MGP, the interval sharing scaling factor may be a first ratio between the total number of MG positions and the number of active MG positions.

The first ratio may be obtained by counting the number of active MG positions and the total number of MG positions, or may be determined based on an instruction of the network device.

Optionally, the method for determining a measurement period may further include a first ratio obtaining manner:

the terminal equipment determines the number of active MG positions of each MGP in a first time period based on the priority of each MGP, and determines a first ratio corresponding to each MGP based on the total number of MG positions of each MGP in the first time period and the number of active MG positions.

For example, the highest priority MGP is always active, its ratio between the total number of MG positions and the number of active MG positions in the first time period is 1, so the interval corresponding to the highest priority MGP shares the scaling factor K _gap =1. For MGPs with lower priority, the number of active MG locations in the first time period needs to be determined. Specifically, the active MG position of MGP2 may be determined by excluding MG positions overlapping with MGP1, counting the number of active MG positions, and determining the first ratio.

As shown in FIG. 5As shown, the periods of MGP1 and MGP2 are 20ms and 40ms, respectively, the first time length x=40 ms. Higher priority of MGP2, then the interval of MGP2 shares the scaling factor K _gap,2 =1. The priority of MGP1 is low, there are 2 MG1 positions in total in 40ms, but only one MG1 position is active, then the intervals of MGP1 share the scaling factor K _gap,1 ＝2/1。

Optionally, the first time period is determined based on a period of the plurality of MGPs. For example, the first duration is a least common multiple or a maximum of the periods of the plurality of MGPs. I.e. first time length x=lcm (MGRP 1, MGRP 2), or x=max (MGRP 1, MGRP 2).

Optionally, the first duration is a third preset value, for example 160ms.

As previously explained, the first ratio may also be determined based on an indication of the network device. For example, the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the second indication information sent by the network device.

As one example, the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs being related to the first ratio.

For example, the second indication information indicates that the sharing ratio of MGP1 and MGP2 is X1: x2, wherein x1+x2=100. Then the interval of MGP1 shares the scaling factor K _gap,1 Interval sharing scaling factor K for MGP2 =100/X1 _gap,2 ＝100/X2。

As another example, the second indication information includes a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of MGP. For example, the first bit stream has a total of 10 bits, 4 of which indicate that MGP1 is activated, the interval sharing scaling factor of MGP1 is 10/4.

One implementation is that the network device sends a first bit stream, wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.

For example, the first bit stream bitmap=1000, where each bit has a value of 1 for active MGP1 and a value of 0 for active MGP2.MG (media g)P1 interval sharing scaling factor K _gap,1 Interval sharing scale factor K for mgp2 =4/1 _gap,2 ＝4/3。

In another implementation manner, the network device sends a plurality of first bit streams, that is, the second indication information includes a plurality of first bit streams corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, where each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate whether the MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.

For example, a first bit stream bitmap=1000 corresponding to the network configuration MGP1, where each bit has a value of 1 to activate MGP1 and a value of 0 to deactivate or deactivate MGP1, and the intervals of MGP1 share the scaling factor K _gap,1 ＝4/1。

As another example, the first bit stream bitmap=0110 corresponding to the network configuration MGP2, where each bit has a value of 1 to activate MGP2 and a value of 0 to deactivate or deactivate MGP2, and the intervals of MGP2 share the scaling factor K _gap,2 ＝4/2。

The specific arrangement and implementation of embodiments of the present application with respect to the first MO are described above from different angles by way of various embodiments. In practical application, under the condition that the terminal equipment supports a plurality of MGPs, for a signal (hereinafter referred to as a first signal) measured outside the MG, a corresponding scaling factor may also be set, so as to solve the problem that part of measurement occasions of the signal are unavailable due to the plurality of MGPs, and improve measurement accuracy. Specifically, the method further comprises:

In case that the plurality of MGPs includes K second MGPs, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the related information of the K second MGPs; wherein the second MGP is an MGP overlapping with the position of the first signal, and K is an integer of 1 or more.

Alternatively, in case the plurality of MGPs does not include the second MGP, the out-of-interval measurement scaling factor may be a fourth preset value, e.g. 1.

Illustratively, measuring outside the interval includes measuring outside the MG or measuring outside the NCSG.

For example, the first signal measured outside the interval may comprise: the second MO and/or resources for layer 1 measurements.

For the second MO for layer 3 measurement, it may be measured outside the interval if certain conditions are met. Taking the second MO as an example of the common-frequency SSB, the measurement can be made outside the MG if the following condition is satisfied: the UE supports co-channel measurement with no-gap, or the SSB is completely within the active BWP, or the downlink active BWP is the initial BWP. In the case where the above condition is satisfied, if the SMTC window of the SSB is not overlapped with the MG at all or partially, the SSB is measured outside the interval. Measurement of the second MO needs to be performed in SMTC, and if the second MO is measured out of interval and the SMTC of the second MO overlaps one or more of the plurality of MGPs, it is necessary to calculate out-of-interval measurement scaling factor K according to information about the plurality of MGPs _p 。

For resources used for layer 1 measurements, it is desirable to measure as far as possible outside the MG and measurement time window, e.g. SMTC. If the resources are all within SMTC, a portion of the measurement time window is used for L1 measurements. If the time domain location of the resource for the layer 1 measurement overlaps with one or more of the plurality of MGPs, it is necessary to calculate an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor P from the related information of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, for the case that the first signal includes the second MO and/or the first frequency band resource for layer 1 measurement, the terminal device determines, according to relevant information of the K second MGPs, an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval, including:

under the condition that K is equal to 1, the terminal equipment determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the periods of K second MGPs;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

in case that K is greater than 1, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlap condition and period between the K second MGPs.

Illustratively, the first frequency band resource is a resource of FR 1.

Illustratively, where K is greater than 1, the K second MGPs include N second MGPs that overlap each other and/or M second MGPs that do not overlap at all with others of the K second MGPs (i.e., the M second MGPs do not overlap each other and each of the M second MGPs does not overlap with others of the second MGPs); wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

Correspondingly, the terminal equipment determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period among the K second MGPs, and the method comprises the following steps:

the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to a minimum value of periods of the N second MGPs and/or a period of each of the M second MGPs.

The following are specific examples for SSB for layer 3 measurements:

measuring scaling factor K outside interval of SSB based on period determination of MGP in case of overlap of only 1 MGP and SMTC _p . Specifically, K is determined from the ratio between the period of the SMTC and the period of the MGP _p 。

In the case where there are a plurality of MGPs and SMTCs overlapping, determining whether to determine K based on the minimum value of the periods of the plurality of MGPs or the period of each MGP, depending on whether there is an overlap between the plurality of MGPs _p . For two or more MGPs overlapping each other, in determining K _p The minimum of the periods of these MGPs is considered. For MGPs that do not overlap with other MGPs, then in determining K _p The period of each of these MGPs is considered. Specifically, K is determined based on the ratio of the period of the SMTC to the minimum or the ratio of the period of the SMTC to the period of each MGP _p 。

Specifically, taking SSB for layer 3 measurement as an example, measurements need to be made within the SMTC window, and the computation process is related to SMTC periods. If the terminal device supports two MGPs, including MGP1 and MGP2, there are the following cases of processing.

Case 1: SMTC partially overlaps MGP1, but SMTC does not overlap MGP2 at all.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,wherein T is _SMTCperiod MGRP1 is the period of SMTC and MGP1 is the period of MGP 1.

Case 2: SMTC partially overlaps with MGP1 and SMTC partially overlaps with MGP2 (SMTC partially in MGP1 and partially in MGP 2), and MGP1 and MGP2 do not overlap, and:

MGRP1 +.mgrp2, two MGRP periods different, both greater than SMTC period, or

MGRP1＝MGRP2，T _SMTCperiod <MGRP1, both MGRP periods are the same, but SMTC has a period less than half the MGRP period.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 3: SMTC partially overlaps with MGP1 and SMTC partially overlaps with MGP2 (SMTC partially in MGP1 and partially in MGP 2), and MGP1 partially or completely overlaps with MGP 2.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 4: SMTC does not overlap with either MGP1, MGP 2.

In this case, K _p ＝1。

The following is a specific example of SSB resources for layer 1 measurement for frequency band FR 1:

in case that only 1 MGP overlaps with the time domain position of SSB resources, the scaling factor P is measured outside the interval of SSB determined according to the period of the MGP. Specifically, P is determined according to a ratio between the period of SSB resources and the period of MGP.

In the case where there are time domain positions of the plurality of MGPs and SSB resources overlapping, it is determined whether to determine P based on a minimum value among periods of the plurality of MGPs or based on a period of each MGP, depending on whether there is an overlap between the plurality of MGPs. For two or more MGPs that overlap each other, the minimum value of the periods of these MGPs is considered in determining P. For MGPs that do not overlap with other MGPs, the period of each of these MGPs is considered in determining P. Specifically, P is determined according to a ratio between the period of the SSB resource and the minimum value or a ratio between the period of the SSB resource and the period of each MGP.

Specifically, taking SSB for layer 1 measurement as an example of FR1, it is necessary to make measurements as outside the SMTC window as possible, so the calculation process is related to the period of SSB resources. If the terminal device supports two MGPs, including MGP1 and MGP2, there are the following cases of processing.

Case 1: there is an MGP configured for co-frequency, inter-frequency or inter-RAT measurements in the monitored cell and only one MGP (e.g., MGP 1) overlaps with some but not all occasions of SSB.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,wherein T is _SSB Is the period of SSB resources.

Case 2: SSB partially overlaps MGP1 and SSB partially overlaps MGP2, and MGP1 and MGP2 are completely non-overlapping, and:

MGRP1 +.mgrp2, two MGRP periods different, or

MGRP1＝MGRP2，T _SSB <MGRP1, both MGRP periods are the same, but the period of the SSB signal is less than half the MGRP period.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 3: SSB partially overlaps with MGP1 (T _SSB < MGRP 1), SSB partially overlaps with MGP2 (T _SSB < MGRP 2), and MGP1 overlaps partially or completely with MGP 2.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 4: no MGP overlaps SSB in the monitored cell.

In this case, p=1.

Optionally, for a case that the first signal includes the second frequency band resource for layer 1 measurement, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the related information of the K second MGPs, including:

and the terminal equipment determines the measuring scaling factor outside the interval of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measuring time window of the first signal.

The second frequency band resource is, for example, a resource of FR 2.

Illustratively, the K second MGPs include at least one of:

l second MGPs overlapping each other;

p second MGPs overlapping with the measurement time windows of the first signals;

q second MGPs that do not overlap with other ones of the K second MGPs and do not overlap with a measurement time window of the first signal;

Wherein L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and P and Q are integers greater than or equal to 1;

correspondingly, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measurement time windows of the first signal, including:

the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on at least one of the following information:

a minimum value of the periods of the L second MGPs;

the minimum of the periods of the P second MGPs and the period of the measurement time window of the first signal or the period of each of the P second MGPs;

and a period of each of the Q second MGPs.

For example, if the second frequency band resource is not an SSB resource for Radio link monitoring (Radio LinkMonitoring, RLM) measurement of layer 1, for example, the second frequency band resource is a CSI-RS resource, or the second resource is an SSB resource for beam fault detection (BeamFailure Detection, BFD), candidate beam identification (Candidate Beam Identification, CBD) or L1-RSRP measurement of layer 1, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to a minimum value of a period of the P second MGPs and a period of a measurement time window of the first signal in case that the K second MGPs include the above-mentioned P second MGPs overlapping the measurement time window of the first signal.

For example, if the second band resource is an SSB resource for RRM measurement of layer 1, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to a period of each of the P second MGPs in case that the K second MGPs include the P second MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first signal.

The following will specifically describe the L1-RSRP SSB resource with the frequency band of FR2 as an example:

in the case where there are K second MGPs overlapping with the time domain positions of the SSB resources among the plurality of MGPs, since the SSB resources need to be measured not only outside the MG but also outside the SMTC as much as possible, it is necessary to determine whether or not the scaling factor P is to be determined based on the minimum value of the periods of the partial second MGPs, the minimum value of the periods of the partial second MGPs and the periods of the SMTC, the period of each of the partial second MGPs, depending on whether or not the K second MGPs overlap each other and whether or not each of the second MGPs overlaps the SMTC.

Specifically, for two or more MGPs that overlap each other, the minimum value of the periods of these MGPs is considered in determining P. For MGPs that overlap SMTCs, the minimum of the period of these MGPs and the period of SMTCs is considered in determining P. For MGPs that do not overlap with other MGPs and do not overlap with SMTCs, the period of each of these MGPs is considered in determining P.

Optionally, P is determined according to a ratio between the period of the SSB resource and the minimum value or a ratio between the period of the SSB resource and the period of each MGP.

Alternatively, if the SSB resources are all within SMTC, a portion of the measurement time window is used for L1 measurements (including L1-RSRP measurements andlayer 1 measurements in RLM/BFD/CBD flows etc. need to be considered for sharing factor P _{sharing factor} 。

Specifically, SSB resources need to be measured as far as possible outside the SMTC window, so the calculation process is related to the period of SSB resources. If the terminal device supports two MGPs, including MGP1 and MGP2, there are the following cases of processing.

Case 1: the SSB does not overlap any MGP and the SSB overlaps partially SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod )。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 2: the SSB does not overlap any MGP and the SSB completely overlaps SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod )。

In this case, p=p _{sharing factor} 。

Case 3: SSB overlaps only one MGP, e.g., MGP1, and SSB overlaps partially SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC does not overlap with the MGP1, and:

T _SMTCperiod not equal to MGRP1, or,

T _SMTCperiod =mgrp 1 simultaneous T _SSB <0.5*T _SMTCperiod 。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 4: the SSB partially overlaps both MGPs and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And the SMTC window does not overlap with both MGPs, and both MGPs partially or completely overlap, and:

T _SMTCperiod Not equal to min (MGRP 1, MGRP 2), or,

T _SMTCperiod =min (MGRP 1, MGRP 2) at the same time T _SSB <0.5*T _SMTCperiod 。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 5: SSB partially overlaps both MGPs, MGP1 and MGP2 do not overlap, and SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) The SMTC window does not overlap MGP1 but partially overlaps MGP2, and:

MGRP1≠min((T _SMTCperiod MGRP 2), or, alternatively,

MGRP1＝min(T _SMTCperiod MGRP 2) simultaneous T _SSB <0.5*MGRP1。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 6: SSB partially overlaps both MGPs, MGP1 and MGP2 do not overlap, and SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) SMTC does not overlap MGP2 but overlaps all or part of MGP1, and:

MGRP2≠min((T _SMTCperiod MGRP 1), or, alternatively,

MGRP2＝min(T _SMTCperiod MGRP 1) simultaneous T _SSB <0.5*MGRP2。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 7: the SSB partially overlaps both MGPs and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) SMTC does not overlap with the two MGPs, there is no overlap between the two MGPs at all, and part of SSB does not overlap with MGPs or SMTC, and:

T _SMTCperiod not equal to MGRP1 not equal to MGRP2 (the periods of SMTC, MGP1 and MGP2 are all different), or

Wherein two periods are identical and the other period is less than half of the same period, e.g. T _SMTCperiod <0.5 MGRP1, mgrp1=mgrp2, or,

wherein two periods are the same and the other period is equal to half of this period, but the SSB period is less than the smaller period, e.g. T _SMTCperiod ＝0.5*MGRP1，MGRP1＝MGRP2，T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod Or, alternatively,

T _SMTCperiod =mgrp1=mgrp2 simultaneous T _SSB <＝0.25*T _SMTCperiod 。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

Case 8: the SSB only partially overlaps one MGP, e.g., MGP1, and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC does not overlap with MGP1, and T _SSB ＝0.5*T _SMTCperiod . I.e. half of SSB is within a certain SMTC and the other half is within MGP1, SMTC and MGP1 do not overlap, then part of SMTC is used for L1 measurement.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 9: SSB partially overlaps one of MGPs such as MGP1 (T _SSB <MGRP 1), and SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T) _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially or completely overlaps MGP 1.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 10: SSB partially overlaps with two MGPs (T _SSB <MGRP1 and T _SSB <MGRP 2), and SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T) _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially or fully overlaps with the two MGPs, and the two MGPs partially or fully overlap, and:

MGRP1 +.mgrp2, or,

mgrp1=mgrp2 simultaneous T _SSB ＜0.5*MGRP1。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 11: SSB partially overlaps one of MGPs such as MGP1 and SSB fully overlaps SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with MGP1 (T _SMTCperiod <MGRP1)。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 12: SSB partially overlaps with two MGPs and SSB fully overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with the two MGPs (T _SMTCperiod <MGRP1 and T _SMTCperiod <MGRP 2), and the two MGPs do not overlap at all.

Mgrp1=mgrp2, and T _SMTCperiod <0.5 x MGRP1, or

MGRP 1+.mgrp2, which ensures that SMTC removes the part overlapping two MGPs and remains.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 13: s is SSB partially overlaps with two MGPs, and SSB fully overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with the two MGPs and the two MGPs partially overlap.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

wherein if SSB configured for L1-RSRP measurement outside MG is:

considering that SSB-tomeure is configured, which is a union of SSB-tomeure from all configured measurement objects on the same service carrier, does not overlap with SSB symbols indicated by SSB-tomeure, 1 data symbol before each consecutive SSB symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and 1 data symbol after each consecutive symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and,

considering that SS-RSSI-Measurement is configured, not to overlap with the RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, 1 data symbol before each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, and 1 data symbol after each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement,

then P _{sharing factor} =1, otherwise, P _{sharing factor} ＝3。

Optionally, when the SSB resource for layer 1 Radio link monitoring (Radio LinkMonitoring, RLM) measurement with the frequency band FR2 is used, in the case that the terminal device supports two MGPs, including MGP1 and MGP2, the determination manner of measuring the scaling factor outside the interval includes the following processes:

Case 1: the SSB does not overlap any MGP and the SSB overlaps partially SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod )。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 2: SSB does not overlap any MGP and SSB and SMTC are completeFull overlap (T) _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod )。

In this case, p=p _{sharing factor} 。

Case 3: SSB overlaps only one MGP, e.g., MGP1, and SSB overlaps partially SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC does not overlap with the MGP1, and:

T _SMTCperiod not equal to MGRP1, or,

T _SMTCperiod =mgrp 1 simultaneous T _SSB <0.5*T _SMTCperiod 。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 4: the SSB partially overlaps both MGPs and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And the SMTC window does not overlap with both MGPs, and both MGPs partially or completely overlap, and:

T _SMTCperiod not equal to min (MGRP 1, MGRP 2), or,

T _SMTCperiod =min (MGRP 1, MGRP 2) at the same time T _SSB <0.5*T _SMTCperiod 。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 5: the SSB partially overlaps with both MGPs and the two MGPs do not overlap, and the SSB partially overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod )，

When the SMTC window does not overlap with both MGPs, but the SSB at any one time is within the MGP or SMTC (i.e., SMTC and both MGPs combine to contain all SSB signals), or

When the SMTC window partially or fully overlaps with one or more of the MGPs,and mgrp1=mgrp2, and T _SSB <0.5 MGRP1, or MGRP1 +.mgrp 2,

in this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 6: the SSB partially overlaps with both MGPs and the two MGPs partially or completely overlap, and the SSB partially overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) The SMTC window partially or completely overlaps one or more MGPs therein, an

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 7: the SSB partially overlaps both MGPs and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) SMTC does not overlap with the two MGPs, there is no overlap between the two MGPs at all, and part of SSB does not overlap with MGPs or SMTC, and:

T _SMTCperiod not equal to MGRP1 not equal to MGRP2 (the periods of SMTC, MGP1 and MGP2 are all different), or

Wherein two periods are identical and the other period is less than half of the same period, e.g. T _SMTCperiod <0.5 MGRP1, mgrp1=mgrp2, or,

wherein two periods are the same and the other period is equal to half of this period, but the SSB period is less than the smaller period, e.g. T _SMTCperiod ＝0.5*MGRP1，MGRP1＝MGRP2，T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod Or, alternatively,

T _SMTCperiod =mgrp1=mgrp2 simultaneous T _SSB <＝0.25*T _SMTCperiod 。

(i.e., except for the portions overlapping the SMTC and MG, and also the portion of the SSB signal is neither within the SMTC nor within the MGP)

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 8: the SSB only partially overlaps one MGP, e.g., MGP1, and the SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC does not overlap with MGP1, and T _SSB ＝0.5*T _SMTCperiod . I.e. half of SSB is within a certain SMTC and the other half is within MGP1, SMTC and MGP1 do not overlap, then part of SMTC is used for L1 measurement.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 9: SSB partially overlaps one of MGPs such as MGP1 (T _SSB <MGRP 1), and SSB partially overlaps SMTC (T) _SSB <T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially or completely overlaps MGP 1.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 10: SSB partially overlaps one of MGPs such as MGP1 and SSB fully overlaps SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with MGP1 (T _SMTCperiod <MGRP1)。

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 11: SSB partially overlaps with two MGPs and SSB fully overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with the two MGPs (T _SMTCperiod <MGRP1 and T _SMTCperiod <MGRP 2), and two MGPs are not heavy at allAnd (3) stacking.

Mgrp1=mgrp2, and T _SMTCperiod <0.5 x MGRP1, or

MGRP 1+.mgrp2, which ensures that SMTC removes the part overlapping two MGPs and remains.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

case 12: SSB partially overlaps with two MGPs and SSB fully overlaps with SMTC (T _SSB ＝T _SMTCperiod ) And SMTC partially overlaps with the two MGPs and the two MGPs partially overlap.

In this case the number of the elements to be formed is,

wherein if SSB configured for L1-RSRP measurement outside MG is:

considering that SSB-tomeure is configured, which is a union of SSB-tomeure from all configured measurement objects on the same service carrier, does not overlap with SSB symbols indicated by SSB-tomeure, 1 data symbol before each consecutive SSB symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and 1 data symbol after each consecutive symbol indicated by SSB-tomeure, and,

Considering that SS-RSSI-Measurement is configured, not to overlap with the RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, 1 data symbol before each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement, and 1 data symbol after each RSSI symbol indicated by SS-RSSI-Measurement,

then P _{sharing factor} =1, otherwise, P _{sharing factor} ＝3。

In the above method, the terminal device may select the first MGP corresponding to the first MO based on the configuration of the network device, or determine an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP, so that the terminal device may determine, for each MGP, a measurement time corresponding to the measurement of the first MO, where multiple MGPs are supported. Accordingly, as shown in fig. 6, the embodiment of the present application further provides a method for determining a measurement period, including:

s61: the network equipment sends indication information to the terminal equipment;

the indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.

Optionally, at least part of the MGPs comprise first MGPs corresponding to the first MOs; the indication information includes first indication information for determining a first MGP among the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.

Optionally, the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the MGPs; the priority is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first MGP in the MGPs which are overlapped with the measurement time window of the first MO in the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, the indication information includes second indication information, where the second indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to determine an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in the at least part of MGPs; the interval sharing scaling factor is used to determine the first measurement time.

Optionally, the second indication information is used for indicating a first ratio corresponding to each MGP, and the first ratio is used for determining the interval sharing scaling factor.

Optionally, the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, where the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs is related to the first ratio.

Optionally, the second indication information comprises a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of MGP.

Optionally, each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, the second indication information includes a plurality of first bit streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, and each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate whether the MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.

The specific arrangements and implementations of the embodiments of the present application have been described above from a variety of angles by way of various embodiments. With the above at least one embodiment, in the case of supporting multiple MGPs, the terminal device determines, for one or more MGPs, measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the MGPs, and then determines a measurement period of the first MO according to the determined measurement time corresponding to the MGPs, so as to accurately determine the measurement period of the first MO in a scenario of supporting multiple MGPs, laying a foundation for measurement by using multiple MGPs, and being beneficial to improving measurement accuracy.

Corresponding to the processing method of at least one embodiment described above, the embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal device 100, referring to fig. 7, which includes:

a measurement time determining module 101, configured to, in a case where a plurality of measurement interval patterns MGPs are supported, determine corresponding first measurement times for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, respectively; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP;

The measurement period determining module 102 is configured to determine a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.

Wherein at least part of the MGPs comprise first MGPs corresponding to the first MOs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 8, the measurement period determining module includes:

a first determining unit 1021, configured to determine a first measurement time corresponding to the first MGP as a measurement period of the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the terminal device further includes:

the MGP determination module 103 is configured to determine a first MGP from among the plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of the network device, related information of the plurality of MGPs, and related information of the first MO.

The first indication information is used for configuring the MGP corresponding to the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the MGP determination module includes:

the MGP selection unit 1031 is configured to determine a first MGP from among the plurality of MGPs according to an overlapping situation of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO.

Wherein, the MGP selection unit is specifically configured to:

determining an MGP, which most overlaps with a measurement time window of the first MO, among the plurality of MGPs as the first MGP;

or,

and determining a first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition and the priorities of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the MGP selection unit is specifically configured to:

and determining the first MGP from the MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first MO according to the priorities of the MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs.

Wherein CSSF of other MGPs of the plurality of MGPs than the first MGP is uncorrelated with the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, at least part of the MGPs include each MGP of the plurality of MGPs overlapping with a measurement time window of the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 9, the measurement period determining module includes:

a second determining unit 1022, configured to determine a maximum value or a minimum value in the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP as a period of the first MO.

Wherein the measurement period determination module further comprises:

a third determining unit 1023, configured to determine a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP and offset information between the MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the terminal device further includes:

the sampling point determining module 104 is configured to determine, according to the sampling point required for measuring the first MO and the period of each MGP, the sampling point corresponding to each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.

The sampling point number determining module is specifically configured to:

determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO, the period of each MGP and the CSSF of the first MO in each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.

Wherein the offset information is determined based on an offset between the plurality of MGPs or based on a period of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, the offset information is a first preset value when a sum of sampling points corresponding to the MGPs is greater than a sampling point required for measuring the first MO.

Optionally, in a case where a sum of sampling points corresponding to the plurality of MGPs is equal to or less than a sampling point required to measure the first MO, the offset information is a maximum value of offsets between the plurality of MGPs or a maximum value in periods of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the measurement time determining module is specifically configured to:

and determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP according to the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in at least part of the MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, in a case where there is no overlap between the plurality of MGPs, the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is a second preset value.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, in a case where there is an overlap between the plurality of MGPs, an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is determined according to a first ratio corresponding to each MGP; wherein the first ratio relates to the number of active MG positions per MGP.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the measurement time determining module is further configured to:

and determining the number of active MG positions of each MGP in a first time period based on the priority of each MGP, and determining a first ratio corresponding to each MGP based on the total number of MG positions of each MGP in the first time period and the number of active MG positions.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first time period is determined based on a period of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first time period is a least common multiple or a maximum of periods of the plurality of MGPs.

The first duration is a third preset value.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on second indication information sent by the network device.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, where the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs is related to the first ratio.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information includes a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of MGP.

Wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information includes a plurality of first bit streams corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, and each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate whether the MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the terminal device further includes:

a scaling factor determining module 105 for determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the related information of the K second MGPs in case that the plurality of MGPs includes the K second MGPs; wherein the second MGP is an MGP overlapping with the position of the first signal, and K is an integer of 1 or more.

Optionally, the first signal includes the second MO and/or a first frequency band resource for layer 1 measurement;

accordingly, in the embodiment of the present application, the scaling factor determining module 105 is specifically configured to:

Determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on the period of the K second MGPs if K is equal to 1;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

in case K is greater than 1, determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlap condition and period between K second MGPs.

Wherein, in case of K being greater than 1, the K second MGPs include N second MGPs overlapping each other and/or M second MGPs completely non-overlapping with other of the K second MGPs; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

accordingly, the scaling factor determination module 105 is specifically configured to:

the scaling factor is determined outside the interval of the first signal based on a minimum of the periods of the N second MGPs and/or the period of each of the M second MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first signal includes a second frequency band resource for layer 1 measurement;

accordingly, the scaling factor determination module 105 is specifically configured to:

and determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measurement time window of the first signal.

Wherein the K second MGPs comprise at least one of:

l second MGPs overlapping each other;

P second MGPs overlapping with the measurement time windows of the first signals;

q second MGPs that do not overlap with other ones of the K second MGPs and do not overlap with a measurement time window of the first signal;

wherein L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and P and Q are integers greater than or equal to 1;

accordingly, the scaling factor determination module 105 is specifically configured to:

the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on at least one of the following information:

a minimum value of the periods of the L second MGPs;

the minimum of the periods of the P second MGPs and the period of the measurement time window of the first signal or the period of each of the P second MGPs;

and a period of each of the Q second MGPs.

The terminal device 100 in this embodiment of the present application may implement the corresponding functions of the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiment, and the flow, the functions, the implementation manner and the beneficial effects corresponding to each module (sub-module, unit or component, etc.) in the terminal device 100 may refer to the corresponding descriptions in the foregoing method embodiment, which are not repeated herein. It should be noted that, regarding the functions described in each module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.) in the terminal device 100 of the embodiment of the present application, the functions may be implemented by different modules (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), or may be implemented by the same module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), for example, the measurement time determining module and the measurement period determining module may be different modules, or may be the same module, and all the functions thereof in the embodiment of the present application may be implemented. In addition, the communication module in the embodiment of the application may be implemented by a transceiver of the device, and part or all of the remaining modules may be implemented by a processor of the device.

Corresponding to the processing method of at least one embodiment described above, the embodiment of the present application further provides a network device 200, referring to fig. 10, which includes:

an indication information sending module 201, configured to send indication information to a terminal device;

the indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first MO based on the corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, at least part of the MGPs include a first MGP corresponding to the first MO; the indication information includes first indication information for determining a first MGP among the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs; the priority is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first MGP in the MGPs which are overlapped with the measurement time window of the first MO in the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the indication information includes second indication information, where the second indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to determine an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in at least part of the MGPs; the interval sharing scaling factor is used to determine the first measurement time.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the second indication information is used to indicate a first ratio corresponding to each MGP, and the first ratio is used to determine an interval sharing scaling factor.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, where the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs is related to the first ratio.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information includes a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of MGP.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the second indication information includes a plurality of first bit streams corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, and each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate whether the MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.

The network device 200 of the embodiment of the present application can implement the corresponding functions of the network device in the foregoing method embodiment, and the flow, the functions, the implementation manner and the beneficial effects corresponding to each module (sub-module, unit or component, etc.) in the network device 200 can be referred to the corresponding description in the foregoing method embodiment, which is not repeated herein. It should be noted that, regarding the functions described in each module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.) in the network device 200 of the embodiment of the present application, the functions may be implemented by different modules (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), or may be implemented by the same module (sub-module, unit, or component, etc.), for example, the location determining module and the requirement determining module may be different modules, or may be the same module, and all the functions thereof in the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by the same module. In addition, the communication module in the embodiment of the application may be implemented by a transceiver of the device, and part or all of the remaining modules may be implemented by a processor of the device.

Fig. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 600 according to an embodiment of the present application, wherein the communication device 600 includes a processor 610, and the processor 610 may call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fig. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a chip 700 according to an embodiment of the present application, wherein the chip 700 includes a processor 710, and the processor 710 may call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

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

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

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the chip 700 may further 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, in an embodiment of the present application, 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, in the embodiment of the present application, the chip may be applied to the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application, and the chip may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the terminal device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, 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.

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

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

The memory mentioned above may be volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (random access memory, RAM).

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

Fig. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system 800 according to an embodiment of the present application, the communication system 800 comprising a terminal device 810.

Wherein, the terminal device 810 is configured to, in case of supporting a plurality of MGPs, determine, for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, corresponding first measurement times, respectively; and determining a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time. The first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP.

Optionally, the communication system 800 may also include a network device 820. The network device 820 is configured to send indication information to the terminal device, where the indication information is configured to instruct the terminal device to determine, for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, corresponding first measurement times, respectively, when the terminal device supports the plurality of MGPs.

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

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

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

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

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

Claims (97)

1. A method of determining a measurement period, comprising:

   in case of supporting a plurality of measurement interval patterns MGPs, the terminal device determines corresponding first measurement times for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, respectively; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP;

   And the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least a portion of MGPs comprise first MGPs corresponding to the first MOs.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time comprises:

   and the terminal equipment determines the first measurement time corresponding to the first MGP as the measurement period of the first MO.
4. A method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the method further comprises:

   the terminal device determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of the network device, related information of the plurality of MGPs, and related information of the first MO.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein the terminal device determines the first MGP from among the plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of a network device, related information of the plurality of MGPs, and related information of the first MO, comprising:

   And the terminal equipment determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the terminal device determining the first MGP among the plurality of MGPs according to an overlapping situation of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO, comprises:

   the terminal device determines the MGP which is most overlapped with the measurement time window of the first MO from among the plurality of MGPs as the first MGP;

   or,

   and the terminal equipment determines the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition and the priorities of the plurality of MGPs.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the terminal device determining the first MGP among the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition and priorities of the plurality of MGPs, comprising:

   and the terminal equipment determines the first MGP from the MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first MO according to the priorities of the MGPs.
9. The method of claim 7 or 8, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs.
10. The method of any of claims 2-9 wherein CSSF of other MGPs of the plurality of MGPs than the first MGP is uncorrelated with the first MO.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least a portion of MGPs comprises each MGP of the plurality of MGPs that overlaps with a measurement time window of the first MO.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time comprises:

    and the terminal equipment determines the maximum value or the minimum value in the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP as the period of the first MO.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining, by the terminal device, a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time comprises:

    and the terminal equipment determines the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP and the offset information among the plurality of MGPs.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

    determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO and the period of each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

    determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO, the period of each MGP and the CSSF of the first MO in each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.
16. The method of any of claims 13-15, wherein the offset information is determined based on an offset between the plurality of MGPs or based on a periodicity of the plurality of MGPs.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein the offset information is a first preset value if a sum of sampling points corresponding to the plurality of MGPs is greater than a sampling point required to measure the first MO.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein the offset information is a maximum value of offsets between the MGPs or a maximum value in periods of the MGPs in a case where a sum of sampling points corresponding to the MGPs is equal to or less than sampling points required to measure the first MO.
19. The method of any of claims 1-18, wherein the terminal device determines, for at least part of the plurality of MGPs, respective corresponding first measurement times, comprising:

    And the terminal equipment determines a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP according to the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in the at least partial MGP.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the interval sharing scaling factor for each MGP is a second preset value in the absence of overlap between the plurality of MGPs.
21. The method of claim 20 wherein, in the case where there is overlap between the plurality of MGPs, an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is determined according to a first ratio corresponding to each MGP; wherein the first ratio is related to the number of active MG positions per MGP.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein the method further comprises:

    and the terminal equipment determines the number of active MG positions of each MGP in a first time period based on the priority of each MGP, and determines a first ratio corresponding to each MGP based on the total number of MG positions of each MGP in the first time period and the number of active MG positions.
23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first duration is determined based on a period of the plurality of MGPs.
24. The method of claim 23, wherein the first duration is a least common multiple or a maximum of periods of the plurality of MGPs.
25. The method of claim 22, wherein the first duration is a third preset value.
26. The method of claim 21 wherein the first ratio for each MGP is determined based on second indication information sent by a network device.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs being related to the first ratio.
28. The method of claim 26, wherein the second indication information comprises a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of the MGP.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.
30. The method of claim 28 wherein the second indication information includes a plurality of the first bit streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, each bit in the first bit stream being used to indicate whether an MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.
31. The method of any one of claims 1-30, wherein the method further comprises:

    in the case that the plurality of MGPs includes K second MGPs, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the related information of the K second MGPs; wherein the second MGP is an MGP overlapping with the position of the first signal, and K is an integer of 1 or more.
32. The method of claim 31, wherein the first signal comprises a second MO and/or a first frequency band resource for layer 1 measurements;

    correspondingly, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the relevant information of the K second MGPs, and the method comprises the following steps:

    in the case that K is equal to 1, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the periods of the K second MGPs;

    and/or the number of the groups of groups,

    and under the condition that K is larger than 1, the terminal equipment determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period among the K second MGPs.
33. The method of claim 32 wherein, in the case where K is greater than 1, the K second MGPs include N second MGPs that overlap each other and/or M second MGPs that do not overlap at all with others of the K second MGPs; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

    Correspondingly, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period among the K second MGPs, and the method comprises the following steps:

    the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to a minimum value of periods of the N second MGPs and/or a period of each of the M second MGPs.
34. The method of claim 31, wherein the first signal comprises second frequency band resources for layer 1 measurements;

    correspondingly, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to the relevant information of the K second MGPs, and the method comprises the following steps:

    and the terminal equipment determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measurement time window of the first signal.
35. The method of claim 34, wherein the K second MGPs comprise at least one of:

    l second MGPs overlapping each other;

    p second MGPs overlapping with measurement time windows of the first signal;

    q second MGPs that do not overlap with others of the K second MGPs and do not overlap with a measurement time window of the first signal;

    Wherein L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and P and Q are integers greater than or equal to 1;

    correspondingly, the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measurement time window of the first signal, including:

    the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on at least one of:

    a minimum value of periods of the L second MGPs;

    a minimum value of the periods of the P second MGPs and the periods of the measurement time window of the first signal or the period of each of the P second MGPs;

    a period of each of the Q second MGPs.
36. A method of determining a measurement period, comprising:

    the network equipment sends indication information to the terminal equipment;

    the indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the plurality of MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring a first MO based on a corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.
37. The method of claim 36 wherein the at least a portion of MGPs comprise first MGPs corresponding to the first MOs; the indication information includes first indication information for determining the first MGP among a plurality of MGPs.
38. The method of claim 37 wherein the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.
39. The method of claim 37, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs; the priority is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first MGP in MGPs which are overlapped with the measurement time window of the first MO in a plurality of MGPs.
40. The method of claim 39 wherein the indication information includes second indication information for instructing the terminal device to determine an interval sharing scaling factor for each of the at least partial MGPs; the interval sharing scaling factor is used to determine the first measurement time.
41. The method of claim 40 wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a first ratio corresponding to each MGP, the first ratio being used to determine the interval sharing scaling factor.
42. The method of claim 41 wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs being related to the first ratio.
43. The method of claim 41, wherein the second indication information comprises a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of the MGP.
44. The method of claim 43 wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.
45. The method of claim 43 wherein the second indication information includes a plurality of the first bit streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, each bit in the first bit stream being for indicating whether or not an MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.
46. A terminal device, comprising:

    a measurement time determining module, configured to, in a case where a plurality of measurement interval patterns MGPs are supported, determine corresponding first measurement times for at least some MGPs of the plurality of MGPs, respectively; wherein the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring the first measurement object MO based on the corresponding MGP;

    And the measurement period determining module is used for determining the measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time.
47. The terminal device of claim 46, wherein the at least part of MGPs comprises a first MGP corresponding to the first MO.
48. The terminal device of claim 47, wherein the measurement period determination module comprises:

    and the first determining unit is used for determining the first measurement time corresponding to the first MGP as the measurement period of the first MO.
49. The terminal device of claim 47 or 48, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

    and the MGP determining module is used for determining the first MGP in the plurality of MGPs according to at least one of first indication information of the network equipment, related information of the plurality of MGPs and related information of the first MO.
50. The terminal device of claim 49, wherein the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.
51. The terminal device of claim 49, wherein the MGP determination module comprises:

    and the MGP selection unit is used for determining the first MGP from the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition of the plurality of MGPs and the measurement time window of the first MO.
52. The terminal device of claim 51, wherein the MGP selection unit is specifically configured to:

    determining an MGP of the plurality of MGPs that most overlaps with a measurement time window of the first MO as the first MGP;

    or,

    and determining the first MGP in the plurality of MGPs according to the overlapping condition and the priorities of the plurality of MGPs.
53. The terminal device of claim 52, wherein the MGP selection unit is specifically configured to:

    and determining the first MGP from the MGPs overlapping with the measurement time window of the first MO according to the priorities of the MGPs.
54. The terminal device of claim 52 or 53, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs.
55. The terminal device of any of claims 47-54, wherein CSSF of other MGPs of the plurality of MGPs than the first MGP is uncorrelated with the first MO.
56. The terminal device of claim 46, wherein the at least part of MGPs comprises each MGP of the plurality of MGPs overlapping with a measurement time window of the first MO.
57. The terminal device of claim 56, wherein the period determination module comprises:

    And a second determining unit, configured to determine a maximum value or a minimum value in the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP as a period of the first MO.
58. The terminal device of claim 56, wherein the period determination module further comprises:

    and a third determining unit, configured to determine a measurement period of the first MO according to the first measurement time corresponding to each MGP and offset information between the plurality of MGPs.
59. The terminal device of claim 58, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

    the sampling point number determining module is used for determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO and the period of each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.
60. The terminal device of claim 59, wherein said sample point number determining module is specifically configured to:

    determining the sampling point number corresponding to each MGP according to the sampling point number required by measuring the first MO, the period of each MGP and the CSSF of the first MO in each MGP; the sampling points are used for determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP.
61. The terminal device of any of claims 58-60, wherein the offset information is determined based on an offset between the plurality of MGPs or based on a periodicity of the plurality of MGPs.
62. The terminal device of claim 61, wherein the offset information is a first preset value in case that a sum of sampling points corresponding to the plurality of MGPs is greater than sampling points required to measure the first MO.
63. The terminal device of claim 62, wherein the offset information is a maximum value of offsets between the MGPs or a maximum value in periods of the MGPs in a case where a sum of sampling points corresponding to the MGPs is equal to or less than sampling points required to measure the first MO.
64. The terminal device of any of claims 46-63, wherein the measurement time determination module is specifically configured to:

    and determining a first measurement time corresponding to each MGP according to the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP in the at least partial MGP.
65. The terminal device of claim 64, wherein the interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is a second preset value in case there is no overlap between the plurality of MGPs.
66. The terminal device of claim 65, wherein, in case of overlap between the MGPs, an interval sharing scaling factor of each MGP is determined according to a first ratio corresponding to each MGP; wherein the first ratio is related to the number of active MG positions per MGP.
67. The terminal device of claim 66, wherein said measurement time determination module is further configured to:

    and determining the number of active MG positions of each MGP in a first time period based on the priority of each MGP, and determining a first ratio corresponding to each MGP based on the total number of MG positions of each MGP in the first time period and the number of active MG positions.
68. The terminal device of claim 67, wherein the first duration is determined based on a period of the plurality of MGPs.
69. The terminal device of claim 68, wherein the first duration is a least common multiple or a maximum of periods of the plurality of MGPs.
70. The terminal device of claim 67, wherein the first duration is a third preset value.
71. The terminal device of claim 66, wherein the first ratio for each MGP is determined based on second indication information sent by the network device.
72. The terminal device of claim 71, wherein the second indication information is configured to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs being related to the first ratio.
73. The terminal device of claim 71, wherein the second indication information comprises a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of the MGP.
74. The terminal device of claim 73, wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.
75. The terminal device of claim 73, wherein the second indication information includes a plurality of the first bit streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, each bit in the first bit stream being used to indicate whether an MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.
76. The terminal device of any of claims 46-75, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

    a scaling factor determining module, configured to determine, in a case where the plurality of MGPs includes K second MGPs, an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal measured out of interval according to related information of the K second MGPs; wherein the second MGP is an MGP overlapping with the position of the first signal, and K is an integer of 1 or more.
77. The terminal device of claim 76, wherein the first signal comprises a second MO and/or a first frequency band resource for layer 1 measurements;

    accordingly, the scaling factor determining module is specifically configured to:

    determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal from the period of the K second MGPs if K is equal to 1;

    and/or the number of the groups of groups,

    and in the case that K is greater than 1, determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period among the K second MGPs.
78. The terminal device of claim 77, wherein, in case K is greater than 1, the K second MGPs include N second MGPs overlapping each other and/or M second MGPs completely non-overlapping with others of the K second MGPs; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

    accordingly, the scaling factor determining module is specifically configured to:

    determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on a minimum of periods of the N second MGPs and/or a period of each of the M second MGPs.
79. The terminal device of claim 76, wherein the first signal includes second frequency band resources for layer 1 measurements;

    Accordingly, the scaling factor determining module is specifically configured to:

    and determining an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor of the first signal according to the overlapping condition and period between the K second MGPs and the measurement time window of the first signal.
80. The terminal device of claim 79, wherein the K second MGPs include at least one of:

    l second MGPs overlapping each other;

    p second MGPs overlapping with a measurement time window of the first signal;

    q second MGPs that do not overlap with other ones of the K second MGPs and do not overlap with a measurement time window of the first signal;

    wherein L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and P and Q are integers greater than or equal to 1;

    correspondingly, the scaling factor determining module is specifically configured to:

    the terminal device determines an out-of-interval measurement scaling factor for the first signal based on at least one of:

    a minimum value of periods of the L second MGPs;

    a minimum value of the periods of the P second MGPs and the periods of the measurement time window of the first signal or the period of each of the P second MGPs;

    a period of each of the Q second MGPs.
81. A network device, comprising:

    The indication information sending module is used for sending indication information to the terminal equipment;

    the indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to respectively determine corresponding first measurement time for at least part of the MGPs under the condition of supporting the plurality of MGPs; the first measurement time is a measurement time required for measuring a first MO based on a corresponding MGP, and is used for determining a measurement period of the first MO.
82. The network device of claim 81, wherein the at least part of MGPs comprises a first MGP corresponding to the first MO; the indication information includes first indication information for determining the first MGP among a plurality of MGPs.
83. The network device of claim 82, wherein the first indication information is used to configure an MGP corresponding to the first MO.
84. The network device of claim 83, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate priorities of the plurality of MGPs; the priority is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first MGP in MGPs which are overlapped with the measurement time window of the first MO in a plurality of MGPs.
85. The network device of claim 84, wherein the indication information includes second indication information for instructing the terminal device to determine an interval sharing scaling factor for each of the at least partial MGPs; the interval sharing scaling factor is used to determine the first measurement time.
86. The network device of claim 85, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a first ratio corresponding to each MGP, the first ratio being used to determine the interval sharing scaling factor.
87. The network device of claim 86, wherein the second indication information is configured to indicate a sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs, the sharing ratio of the plurality of MGPs being related to the first ratio.
88. The network device of claim 86, wherein the second indication information comprises a first bit stream; the first ratio corresponding to each MGP is determined based on the total number of bits in the first bit stream and the number of first bits in the first bit stream; wherein the first bit is used to indicate activation of the MGP.
89. The network device of claim 88, wherein each bit in the first bit stream is used to indicate an activated MGP of the plurality of MGPs.
90. The network device of claim 88, wherein the second indication information includes a plurality of the first bit streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of MGPs, each bit in the first bit stream being used to indicate whether an MGP corresponding to the first bit stream is activated.
91. A terminal device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory, performing the steps of the method of any of claims 1 to 35.
92. A network device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory to perform the steps of the method of any of claims 36 to 45.
93. A chip, comprising:

    a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory, causing a device on which the chip is mounted to perform the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 35.
94. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein,

    the computer program causes a computer to perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 45.
95. A computer program product comprising computer program instructions, wherein,

    the computer program instructions cause a computer to perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 45.
96. A computer program which causes a computer to perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 45.
97. A communication system, comprising:

    terminal device for performing the method of any of claims 1 to 35;

    network device for performing the method of any of claims 36 to 45.