CN117424682A

CN117424682A - Information processing method and device

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Publication number: CN117424682A
Application number: CN202210806676.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵亚利; 曾二林
Original assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-07-08
Filing date: 2022-07-08
Publication date: 2024-01-19

Abstract

The application provides an information processing method and device. The method comprises the following steps: determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area, and generating indication information; and sending the indication information to network side equipment. According to the embodiment of the application, the NCR determines whether the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or generates the indication information after the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area, and sends the indication information to the network side equipment, so that the network side equipment can know which terminals can be served by the NCR, effective blind supplement is realized through the NCR, and user experience is improved.

Description

Information processing method and device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an information processing method and apparatus.

Background

In order to complement blind or coverage expansion, the current communication system mainly has two mechanisms: an integrated wireless backhaul (Integrated Access backhaul, IAB) and layer 1 relay (L1 repeater). The IAB cost is relatively high and the L1 repeater function is too simple (only amplify-and-forward can be supported), so the prior art proposes to introduce a more intelligent relay, called smart repeater (NCR) or Network-controlled relay (Network-Controlled Repeater). In the prior art, the network device cannot know whether there are terminals in the NCR coverage area and/or which functions are in the NCR coverage area, so that it cannot be determined whether data forwarding through the NCR is required, and thus effective blind-supplement through the NCR cannot be realized.

Disclosure of Invention

The purpose of the application is to provide an information processing method and device, which solve the problem that network side equipment cannot realize effective blind supplement through NCR.

The embodiment of the application provides an information processing method, which is applied to NCR and comprises the following steps:

determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area, and generating indication information;

and sending the indication information to network side equipment.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

whether the indication information of the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area or not;

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

and the NCR receives time-frequency resource information used by an uplink signal sent by the terminal.

Optionally, the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area includes:

and if the uplink signal sent by the terminal is received at the first time-frequency position, determining that the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area.

Optionally, determining the terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area includes:

receiving an uplink signal sent by a terminal at a first time-frequency position, wherein the uplink signal carries a terminal identifier;

and determining the terminal identifier carried in the uplink signal as the terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area.

Optionally, before the uplink signal sent by the terminal is received at the first time-frequency position, the method further includes:

the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

Optionally, the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

determining according to a preset mapping rule according to the downlink signal;

indicated by the downstream signal or by indication information contained in the downstream signal.

Optionally, the sending the indication information to the network side device includes:

transmitting the indication information to the network side equipment through a control link C-link;

the transmission mode of the indication information comprises one of the following steps:

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

Optionally, the indication information includes indication information of whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area, including:

the indication information carries 1-bit indication information, the value of the 1-bit indication information is a first value, and the indication information indicates that a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area; or the 1-bit indication information takes the value as a second value, which indicates that no terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR.

Optionally, sending the triggering condition of the indication information to the network side device, including one of the following:

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

Optionally, the triggering event corresponding to the event trigger includes at least one of the following:

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from a terminal to a terminal-free coverage area;

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

The embodiment of the application provides an information processing method, which is applied to network side equipment and comprises the following steps:

the network side equipment determines whether terminals exist in the NCR coverage area and/or terminal identification in the NCR coverage area.

Optionally, the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area includes:

receiving indication information sent by NCR, and determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area according to the indication information;

or,

and receiving measurement report sent by the terminal, and determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area according to the measurement report.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area according to the indication information includes:

determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area according to the 1-bit indication information carried by the indication information;

the 1-bit indication information takes a value as a first value, and a terminal is determined to exist in the NCR coverage area; or, the 1-bit information indicates that the value is a second value, and no terminal exists in the coverage range of the NCR.

Optionally, before the measurement report sent by the receiving terminal, the method further includes:

transmitting configuration information of a downlink signal to the NCR, wherein the configuration information comprises information of a second time-frequency position of the NCR for transmitting the downlink signal;

and/or

And sending measurement configuration information to the terminal, wherein the measurement configuration information comprises time-frequency position indication information and/or measurement reporting configuration information of a downlink signal measured by the terminal.

An embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus applied to NCR, including: memory, transceiver, processor:

A memory for storing a computer program; a transceiver for receiving and transmitting data under control of the processor; a processor for reading the computer program in the memory and performing the following operations:

the transceiver is used for: and sending the indication information to network side equipment.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the processor is configured to read the computer program in the memory and perform the following operations:

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to:

the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

Optionally, the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

Optionally, sending the indication information to the network side equipment through a control link C-link;

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

Periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

An embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus, applied to a network side device, including: memory, transceiver, processor:

it is determined whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage and/or a terminal identification in the NCR coverage.

Optionally, the transceiver is configured to:

or,

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to:

and/or

An embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus applied to NCR, including:

the first determining unit is used for determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area and generating indication information;

And the first sending unit is used for sending the indication information to the network side equipment.

An embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus, applied to a network side device, including:

and the second determining unit is used for determining whether the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area.

Embodiments of the present application provide a processor-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the information processing method described above.

The beneficial effects of the above-mentioned technical scheme of this application are:

according to the embodiment of the application, the NCR determines whether the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or generates the indication information after the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area, and sends the indication information to the network side equipment, so that the network side equipment can know which terminals can be served by the NCR, effective blind supplement is realized through the NCR, and user experience is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the structure of an NCR of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a second flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a third flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 shows one of schematic structural diagrams of an information processing apparatus of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a second schematic diagram showing the structure of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a third schematic diagram of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 shows a fourth schematic configuration diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages to be solved by the present application more apparent, the following detailed description will be given with reference to the accompanying drawings and the specific embodiments. In the following description, specific details such as specific configurations and components are provided merely to facilitate a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present application. It will therefore be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made to the embodiments described herein without departing from the scope and spirit of the application. In addition, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted for clarity and conciseness.

It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present application. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

In various embodiments of the present application, it should be understood that the sequence numbers of the following 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.

In the embodiment of the application, the term "and/or" describes the association relationship of the association objects, which means that three relationships may exist, for example, a and/or B may be represented: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the context-dependent object is an "or" relationship.

The term "plurality" in the embodiments of the present application means two or more, and other adjectives are similar thereto.

The following description of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without undue burden from the present disclosure, are within the scope of the present disclosure.

In describing embodiments of the present application, some concepts used in the following description are first explained.

1. NCR.

The structure of NCR is shown in FIG. 1, and comprises the following functional entities:

(1) NCR-MT (Mobile Termination) entity: the functional entity performs Control information interaction with the network device (such as NR Node B, gNB) through a Control link (C-link), where the Control information is used to Control NCR-Fwd, and specific Control information includes, but is not limited to:

beam information (Beam information);

timing information (Timing information);

UL/DL TDD configuration information (UL/DL TDD configuration information);

ON/OFF information (ON-OFF information);

power control information (Power control information).

(2) NCR-Fwd (Forwarding) entity: the functional entity is used for amplifying and forwarding the UL/DL radio frequency signal, wherein the behavior of the NCR-Fwd is controlled by control information received by the NCR-MT, for example, the NCR-Fwd needs to be closed under the condition that the NCR-MT receives the OFF indication information.

The embodiment of the application provides an information processing method and device, which are used for solving the problem that network side equipment cannot realize effective blind supplement through NCR.

The method and the device are based on the same application, and because the principles of solving the problems by the method and the device are similar, the implementation of the device and the method can be referred to each other, and the repetition is not repeated.

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present application provides an information processing method, which is applied to NCR, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 201, determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identification in the NCR coverage area, and generating indication information;

the NCR may detect whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage and/or the NCR may determine the identity of the terminal in the NCR coverage. And under the condition that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR, determining the terminal identification in the coverage area of the NCR. Optionally, the indication information is determined according to a result of whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identification in the NCR coverage area, and the indication information may indicate: whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identification in the NCR coverage area exists.

Step 202, sending the indication information to the network side equipment.

The NCR is a relay of network control, after the NCR generates the indication information, the indication information is sent to network side equipment, and the network side equipment can know which terminals can be served by the NCR, so that the control of the terminals through an NCR system is realized.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

1) Whether the indication information of the terminal exists in the NCR coverage area or not; specifically, it may include: the indication information of the terminal is in the NCR coverage area or the indication information of the terminal is not in the NCR coverage area.

In this embodiment, when the NCR reports the indication information to the network side device, the NCR may carry 1-bit indication information, and indicate whether there is a terminal in the coverage area of the NCR through the 1-bit indication information. Taking the first value as "1" and the second value as "0", for example: the 1 bit indication information has a value of 1, and indicates that the NCR detects that a terminal exists in the coverage area; the 1-bit indication information takes a value of 0, which indicates that the NCR does not detect the terminal in its coverage area.

Optionally, the indication information may further carry N bits of indication information, where the N bits of indication information may be used to indicate whether or not there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area, and other information may also be indicated. For example, a change in the number of terminals within the NCR coverage may also be indicated. And N is an integer greater than 1.

2) Terminal identification in the NCR coverage area; if there is a terminal in the coverage area of the NCR, the NCR can report the terminal identification in the coverage area to the network side equipment.

3) The NCR receives time-frequency resource information used by an uplink signal sent by a terminal; time domain resource and/or frequency domain resource information may be included. The uplink signal may be used to determine whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area, for example: and when the NCR receives the uplink signal at the first time-frequency position, the NCR indicates that a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR.

As an optional embodiment, the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area includes:

In this embodiment, the NCR receives the uplink signal sent by the terminal at the designated first time-frequency location, and if the uplink signal is received, it is determined that there is a terminal in the coverage area of the NCR.

As an optional embodiment, the determining the terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area includes:

receiving an uplink signal sent by a terminal at a first time-frequency position, wherein the uplink signal carries a terminal identifier; and determining the terminal identifier carried in the uplink signal as the terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area.

In this embodiment, the NCR receives an uplink signal sent by a terminal at a designated first time-frequency location, and if the uplink signal is received, a terminal identifier carried in the uplink signal is a terminal identifier within the NCR coverage area. The terminal identity is for example: a cell radio network temporary identity (Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier, C-RNTI) of the terminal.

The NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position; wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

In this embodiment, the downlink signal may be a downlink probe signal. And the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a designated second time-frequency position, and if the terminal can detect the downlink signal transmitted by the NCR, the terminal transmits the uplink signal at the first time-frequency position. The terminal receives the downlink signal, and can determine that there is NCR, and then send the uplink signal. Alternatively, the second time-frequency location may be preconfigured.

Optionally, the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

In this embodiment, the first time-frequency location may be preconfigured, as agreed upon by the protocol. The first time-frequency position may also be determined according to a predetermined mapping rule according to a downlink signal sent by the NCR, for example: the mapping relationship between the frequency domain resource R1 of the downlink signal at the time T1 and the frequency domain resources R2, T1/R1 and T2/R2 of the first time-frequency position at the time T2 is preset. The first time-frequency position may be indicated in the downlink signal, and after the terminal receives the downlink signal, the time-frequency position of sending the uplink signal may be determined, and the NCR may also determine the time-frequency position of receiving the uplink signal. Alternatively, the downlink signal may be a downlink probe signal.

As an optional embodiment, the sending the indication information to the network side device includes:

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

In this embodiment, the NCR reports the indication information to the network side device through the C-link. The specific reporting mode may be that: RRC signaling, MAC signaling, or physical layer uplink message carrying.

As an optional embodiment, the triggering condition for sending the indication information to the network side device includes one of the following:

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

In this embodiment, the reporting of the indication information to the network side device by the NCR may be event triggered reporting or periodic triggered reporting. The period of the periodic trigger report can be protocol agreement or configured by the network side equipment through C-link.

1) The coverage area of the NCR is changed from a terminal to a terminal-free coverage area;

As an optional embodiment, the NCR may detect whether there is a terminal in the coverage area at a predetermined time interval, and if the NCR last detected that there is no terminal in the coverage area and the last detected that there is a terminal in the coverage area, the trigger condition for reporting the indication information is satisfied.

2) The coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

as an optional embodiment, the NCR may detect whether there is a terminal in the coverage area at a predetermined time interval, and if the NCR last detected that there is a terminal in the coverage area and previously detected that there is no terminal in the coverage area, the trigger condition for reporting the indication information is satisfied.

3) The number of terminals in the NCR coverage range is changed;

as an optional embodiment, the NCR satisfies a trigger condition for reporting the indication information when it detects that there is a terminal in the coverage area for the last time, the number of terminals is M, and the number of terminals in the coverage area is N for the last time.

The following describes the implementation of determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area by means of specific embodiments.

The process of detecting whether a terminal exists in the coverage area and reporting indication information to the network side device by the NCR is shown in fig. 3, and includes:

Step 1: the terminal sends an uplink signal;

specifically, the terminal sends the uplink signal at the first time-frequency position. The first time-frequency position may be a time-frequency position agreed by a protocol.

Step 2: NCR carries out terminal detection;

in this step, the NCR may detect whether there is a terminal in its coverage area through an access link (access link), and generate indication information. Specifically, the NCR receives an uplink signal sent by the terminal at the first time-frequency position, and if the uplink signal is received, determines that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR.

Step 3: the NCR informs network side devices such as base stations.

And if the NCR detects that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR through the access link in the step 2, the NCR needs to report the indication information to the base station through the C-link.

The indication information specifically comprises one or more of the following information:

an indication of whether there is a terminal within the NCR coverage;

terminal identification within NCR coverage;

the NCR detects a time-frequency resource used by an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal.

Specifically, the reporting manner of the indication information may be one of the following:

carrying by using RRC signaling;

carrying by using MAC signaling;

and carrying by using the physical layer uplink message.

For example: and the NCR only reports whether a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR, and the NCR reports a detection result (namely, an indication of whether the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR) to the network side equipment through the C-link. When reporting the detection result, the RRC signaling, the MAC signaling, or the physical layer uplink message may only carry 1bit indication information, where the 1bit value is 1, which indicates that the NCR detects that a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR; the 1bit has a value of 0, which indicates that the NCR does not detect a terminal in its coverage area. Or, the 1bit has a value of 0, which indicates that the NCR detects that a terminal exists in the coverage area; the 1bit value of 1 indicates that the NCR does not detect a terminal in its coverage area.

The NCR may report the indication information in an event-triggered manner or periodically. The period of the periodic trigger report may be a protocol contract or configured by the base station through the C-link.

The trigger event corresponding to the event trigger report may be, but is not limited to, one or a combination of the following:

2) The coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

3) The number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

The network side device receives the indication information reported by the terminal, and can execute the following operations: switching the relay NCR-Fwd functional entity, determining whether to serve the terminal through NCR, and the like.

As an optional embodiment, the process of detecting whether there is a terminal in the coverage area and reporting the indication information to the network side device by the NCR is shown in fig. 4, and includes:

step 0: the NCR transmits a downlink signal; alternatively, the downlink signal may be a downlink probe signal.

In this step, the NCR sends the downlink signal at a second time-frequency location, where the second time-frequency location may be a time-frequency location agreed by a protocol.

Step 1: the terminal transmits an uplink signal.

Specifically, if the terminal detects the downlink signal sent by the NCR, the terminal also sends the uplink signal at the first time-frequency position.

The first time-frequency position can be a time-frequency position agreed by a protocol; or the first time-frequency position is a time-frequency position indicated in a downlink signal sent by the NCR; or the first time-frequency position is a time-frequency position determined according to a certain mapping rule according to the downlink signal sent by the NCR.

Step 2: the NCR performs terminal detection.

In the step, the NCR can detect whether a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR through an access link, and generate indication information. Specifically, the NCR receives an uplink signal sent by the terminal at the first time-frequency position, and if the uplink signal is received, determines that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR.

Step 3: the NCR informs network side devices such as base stations.

If the NCR detects that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR through the access link in the step 2, the NCR can report corresponding indication information to the network side equipment through the C-link.

an indication of whether there is a terminal within the NCR coverage;

terminal identification within NCR coverage;

carrying by using RRC signaling;

carrying by using MAC signaling;

and carrying by using the physical layer uplink message.

2) The coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal.

As an alternative embodiment, the NCR determines whether the coverage area is covered by a terminal and determines the identity of the terminal in the coverage area, as shown in fig. 5, including:

step 1: the terminal sends an uplink signal;

specifically, the terminal transmits an uplink signal at a first time-frequency position. The first time-frequency position may be a time-frequency position agreed by a protocol.

Step 2: NCR carries out terminal detection;

in this step, the NCR detects whether there is a terminal in its coverage area, and if there is a terminal in its coverage area, obtains the terminal identification in its coverage area, and generates indication information. Specific: the NCR receives an uplink signal sent by the terminal at a first time-frequency position, and if the NCR receives the uplink signal, the NCR determines terminal identification information according to information carried by the uplink signal.

Step 3: the NCR informs network side devices such as base stations.

And if the NCR detects that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR through the access link and acquires the terminal identification in the step 2, the NCR needs to report the indication information to the network side equipment through the C-link.

carrying by using RRC signaling;

carrying by using MAC signaling;

and carrying by using the physical layer uplink message.

If the NCR determines that there is a terminal in its coverage area and obtains a terminal identifier in its coverage area, in this step, the NCR may report the indication information to a network side device through a C-link, and specifically may be carried in the RRC signaling, MAC signaling, or a physical layer uplink message, where the indication information includes terminal identifier information, and the terminal identifier information includes, but is not limited to, a C-RNTI of the terminal.

The reporting mode of the indication information can be event trigger reporting or periodic reporting. The period of periodic reporting may be a protocol contract or a period of reporting by a base station through a C-link configuration NCR;

the specific trigger event at the time of event trigger reporting may be, but is not limited to, one or a combination of the following:

the coverage area of NCR is changed from a terminal with a terminal without a terminal;

Changing the coverage area of NCR from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

The network side device receives the indication information reported by the NCR, and can execute the following operations: switching the relay NCR-Fwd functional entity, determining whether to serve the terminal through NCR, and the like.

As an alternative embodiment, the NCR determines whether the coverage area is covered by a terminal and determines the identity of the terminal in the coverage area, as shown in fig. 6, including:

step 0: the NCR transmits a downlink signal, which may alternatively be a downlink probe signal.

Step 1: the terminal transmits an uplink signal.

Specifically, if the terminal detects a downlink signal sent by the NCR, the terminal sends an uplink signal at a first time-frequency position.

Step 2: the NCR performs terminal detection.

In the step, the NCR can detect whether a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR through the access link, and if the terminal exists, the NCR acquires the terminal identification of the terminal and generates the indication information. Specifically, the NCR receives an uplink signal sent by the terminal at the first time-frequency position, and if the uplink signal is received, determines that the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR.

Step 3: the NCR informs network side devices such as base stations.

an indication of whether there is a terminal within the NCR coverage;

terminal identification within NCR coverage;

carrying by using RRC signaling;

carrying by using MAC signaling;

and carrying by using the physical layer uplink message.

2) The coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

3) The number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

As shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application further provides an information processing method, which is applied to a network side device, including:

In step 701, the network side device determines whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area.

In this embodiment, the network side device may determine whether there is a terminal in the coverage area of the NCR, and may further determine a terminal identifier in the coverage area when there is a terminal in the coverage area of the NCR, so that an appropriate NCR node may be selected to provide services for the terminal, thereby improving network performance and solving coverage blind areas.

As an optional embodiment, the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area includes:

mode one: receiving indication information sent by NCR, and determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area according to the indication information;

or,

mode two: and receiving measurement report sent by the terminal, and determining whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area according to the measurement report.

In this embodiment, for the first mode, the NCR detects whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area, and generates indication information; and the NCR sends the indication information to the network side equipment. The indication information is determined according to the result of whether terminals exist in the NCR coverage area and/or the terminal identification in the NCR coverage area.

For the second mode, the network side device determines whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area according to measurement report (measurement report) sent by the terminal, specifically, the terminal may measure a downlink signal sent by the NCR and send measurement report to the network side device. Alternatively, the downlink signal may be a downlink probe signal.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

Optionally, the indication information may further carry N bits of indication information, where the N bits of indication information are used to indicate whether a terminal exists in the NCR coverage area, and other information may also be indicated. For example, a change in the number of terminals within the NCR coverage may also be indicated. And N is an integer greater than 1.

As an optional embodiment, before the measurement report sent by the receiving terminal, the method further includes:

and/or

In this embodiment, the downlink signal may be a downlink probe signal. The network side device may send configuration information of the downlink signal to the NCR, for example, the NCR sends a second time domain position of the downlink signal. The NCR may transmit a downlink signal at a second time-frequency location; if the terminal can detect the downlink signal, the terminal can send an uplink signal at the first time-frequency position; the NCR determines that a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR if the NCR receives the uplink signal at the first time-frequency position; or alternatively. And the terminal measures the downlink signal and performs measurement report to the network side equipment, and the network side equipment determines whether a terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR according to the measurement report.

The network side device may also send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes time-frequency location indication information and/or measurement reporting configuration information for the terminal to measure the downlink signal. The time-frequency position indication information is used for indicating a second time-frequency position where the terminal receives the downlink signal. The measurement report configuration information may include information content that the terminal needs to measure and report. And the terminal measures the downlink signal sent by the NCR according to the measurement configuration information, and performs measurement report to the network side equipment, and the network side equipment determines whether the terminal exists in the coverage area of the NCR according to the measurement result reported by the terminal.

According to the embodiment of the application, the network side equipment determines whether terminals exist in the NCR coverage area and/or terminal identifiers in the NCR coverage area, and can know which terminals can be served by the NCR, so that a proper NCR node is selected to serve the terminals, network performance is improved, and coverage blind areas are solved.

The foregoing embodiments are described with respect to the information processing method of the present application, and the following embodiments will further describe the corresponding apparatus with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus 800, applied to NCR, including:

a first determining unit 810, configured to determine whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area, and generate indication information;

a first sending unit 820, configured to send the indication information to a network side device.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the first determining unit is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

second transmission signal: the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

Optionally, the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

Optionally, the first sending unit is specifically configured to:

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

It should be noted that, the above device provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement all the method steps implemented in the method embodiment applied to NCR, and can achieve the same technical effects, and detailed descriptions of the same parts and beneficial effects as those in the method embodiment in this embodiment are omitted.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 9, an embodiment of the present application provides an information processing apparatus 900, applied to a network side device, including:

a second determining unit 910, configured to determine whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identifier in the NCR coverage area.

Optionally, the second determining unit is specifically configured to:

or,

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the second determining unit is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a third sending unit, configured to send configuration information of a downlink signal to the NCR, where the configuration information includes information of a second time-frequency location where the NCR sends the downlink signal;

And/or

And the fourth sending unit is used for sending measurement configuration information to the terminal, wherein the measurement configuration information comprises time-frequency position indication information and/or measurement reporting configuration information of a downlink signal measured by the terminal.

It should be noted that, the above device provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement all the method steps implemented in the method embodiment applied to the network side device, and can achieve the same technical effects, and detailed descriptions of the same parts and beneficial effects as those in the method embodiment in this embodiment are omitted.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the units is schematic, which is merely a logic function division, and other division manners may be implemented in actual practice. In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit. The integrated units may be implemented in hardware or in software functional units.

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

As shown in fig. 10, an embodiment of the present application further provides an information processing apparatus, applied to NCR, including: memory 1020, transceiver 1000, processor 1010; wherein the memory 1020 is used for storing a computer program; a transceiver 1000 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 1010; a processor 1010 for reading the computer program in the memory and performing the following operations:

the transceiver 1000 is configured to: and sending the indication information to network side equipment.

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to:

the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

Optionally, the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

Optionally, the transceiver is configured to: transmitting the indication information to the network side equipment through a control link C-link;

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

Wherein in fig. 10, a bus architecture may comprise any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and in particular one or more processors represented by processor 1010 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 1020, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. Transceiver 1000 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a transceiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The processor 1010 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 1020 may store data used by the processor 1010 in performing operations.

The processor 1010 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), a Field programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Arra, FPGA) or a complex programmable logic device (Complex Programmable Logic Device, CPLD), or it may employ a multi-core architecture.

As shown in fig. 11, an embodiment of the present application further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a network side device, including: memory 1120, transceiver 1100, processor 1110; wherein the memory 1120 is used for storing a computer program; a transceiver 1100 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 1110; a processor 1110 for reading the computer program in the memory and performing the following operations:

Optionally, the transceiver is configured to:

or,

Optionally, the indication information includes at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

Optionally, the transceiver is further configured to:

And/or

Wherein in fig. 11, a bus architecture may comprise any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and in particular one or more processors represented by processor 1110 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 1120, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. Transceiver 1100 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a transceiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The processor 1110 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 1120 may store data used by the processor 1110 in performing operations.

The processor 1110 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), a Field programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Arra, FPGA) or a complex programmable logic device (Complex Programmable Logic Device, CPLD), or it may employ a multi-core architecture.

In addition, the specific embodiment of the present application further provides a processor readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the program when executed by a processor implements the steps of the information processing method described above, and the same technical effects can be achieved, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein. The readable storage medium may be any available medium or data storage device that can be accessed by a processor, including, but not limited to, magnetic storage (e.g., floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tape, magneto-optical disks (MOs), etc.), optical storage (e.g., CD, DVD, BD, HVD, etc.), and semiconductor storage (e.g., ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, nonvolatile storage (NAND FLASH), solid State Disk (SSD)), etc.

It should be noted that the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application may be applicable to various systems, especially a 5G system. For example, suitable systems may be global system for mobile communications (global system of mobile communication, GSM), code division multiple access (code division multiple access, CDMA), wideband code division multiple access (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) universal packet Radio service (general packet Radio service, GPRS), long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE), LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD), LTE time division duplex (time division duplex, TDD), long term evolution-advanced (long term evolution advanced, LTE-a), universal mobile system (universal mobile telecommunication system, UMTS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (worldwide interoperability for microwave access, wiMAX), 5G New air interface (New Radio, NR), and the like. Terminal devices and network devices are included in these various systems. Core network parts such as evolved packet system (Evolved Packet System, EPS), 5G system (5 GS) etc. may also be included in the system.

The terminal device according to the embodiments of the present application may be a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user, a handheld device with a wireless connection function, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, etc. The names of the terminal devices may also be different in different systems, for example in a 5G system, the terminal devices may be referred to as User Equipment (UE). The wireless terminal device may communicate with one or more Core Networks (CNs) via a radio access Network (Radio Access Network, RAN), which may be mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones (or "cellular" phones) and computers with mobile terminal devices, e.g., portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-built-in or vehicle-mounted mobile devices that exchange voice and/or data with the radio access Network. Such as personal communication services (Personal Communication Service, PCS) phones, cordless phones, session initiation protocol (Session Initiated Protocol, SIP) phones, wireless local loop (Wireless Local Loop, WLL) stations, personal digital assistants (Personal Digital Assistant, PDAs), and the like. The wireless terminal device may also be referred to as a system, subscriber unit (subscriber unit), subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile station (mobile), remote station (remote station), access point (access point), remote terminal device (remote terminal), access terminal device (access terminal), user terminal device (user terminal), user agent (user agent), user equipment (user device), and the embodiments of the present application are not limited.

The network device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a base station, where the base station may include a plurality of cells for providing services for a terminal. A base station may also be called an access point or may be a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminal devices, or other names, depending on the particular application. The network device may be operable to exchange received air frames with internet protocol (Internet Protocol, IP) packets as a router between the wireless terminal device and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) communication network. The network device may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the network device according to the embodiments of the present application may be a network device (Base Transceiver Station, BTS) in a global system for mobile communications (Global System for Mobile communications, GSM) or code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), a network device (NodeB) in a wideband code division multiple access (Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA), an evolved network device (evolutional Node B, eNB or e-NodeB) in a long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, a 5G base station (gNB) in a 5G network architecture (next generation system), a home evolved base station (Home evolved Node B, heNB), a relay node (relay node), a home base station (femto), a pico base station (pico), and the like. In some network structures, the network device may include a Centralized Unit (CU) node and a Distributed Unit (DU) node, which may also be geographically separated.

Multiple-input Multiple-output (Multi Input Multi Output, MIMO) transmissions may each be made between a network device and a terminal device using one or more antennas, and the MIMO transmissions may be Single User MIMO (SU-MIMO) or Multiple User MIMO (MU-MIMO). The MIMO transmission may be 2D-MIMO, 3D-MIMO, FD-MIMO, or massive-MIMO, or may be diversity transmission, precoding transmission, beamforming transmission, or the like, depending on the form and number of the root antenna combinations.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, magnetic disk storage, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flowchart and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flowcharts and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer-executable instructions. These computer-executable instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These processor-executable instructions may also be stored in a processor-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the processor-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These processor-executable instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present application without departing from the spirit or scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims and the equivalents thereof, the present application is intended to cover such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. An information processing method applied to a network-controlled relay NCR, comprising:

and sending the indication information to network side equipment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the terminal identity within the NCR coverage area comprises:

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein before receiving the uplink signal sent by the terminal at the first time-frequency location, the method further comprises:

the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

6. The method of claim 3 or 4, wherein the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending the indication information to the network side device comprises:

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the indication information includes indication information of whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area, including:

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the triggering condition for sending the indication information to the network side device comprises one of:

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the event triggering the corresponding triggering event comprises at least one of:

the coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

11. An information processing method applied to a network side device, comprising the following steps:

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area and/or a terminal identification in the NCR coverage area comprises:

or,

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

14. The method of claim 13, wherein determining whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area based on the indication information comprises:

15. The method of claim 12, wherein prior to receiving the measurement report sent by the terminal, the method further comprises:

and/or

16. An information processing apparatus, characterized by comprising: memory, transceiver, processor:

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of:

terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to read the computer program in the memory and perform the following:

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to read the computer program in the memory and perform the following:

20. The apparatus of claim 18 or 19, wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

the NCR transmits a downlink signal at a second time-frequency position;

wherein the uplink signal is a feedback signal for the downlink signal.

21. The apparatus of claim 18 or 19, wherein the first time-frequency location is determined by one of:

pre-configuring;

22. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the transceiver is configured to: transmitting the indication information to the network side equipment through a control link C-link;

carried by radio resource control, RRC, signaling;

carried by Media Access Control (MAC) signaling;

carried by physical layer uplink messages.

23. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the indication information comprises indication information of whether there is a terminal in the NCR coverage area, comprising:

24. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the trigger condition for sending the indication information to the network side device comprises one of:

periodically triggering;

and triggering an event.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the event triggering the corresponding triggering event comprises at least one of:

The coverage area of the NCR is changed from no terminal to a terminal;

the number of terminals within the NCR coverage varies.

26. An information processing apparatus, characterized by comprising: memory, transceiver, processor:

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the transceiver is configured to:

or,

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of:

Terminal identification in the NCR coverage area;

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the processor is configured to read the computer program in the memory and perform the following:

30. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

and/or

31. An information processing apparatus, characterized by comprising:

32. An information processing apparatus, characterized by comprising:

33. A processor readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program, characterized in that the computer program when executed by a processor realizes the steps of the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10 or the steps of the information processing method according to any one of claims 11 to 15.