CN117499973A

CN117499973A - Data acquisition method and device and communication equipment

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Publication number: CN117499973A
Application number: CN202210872114.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周通; 吴昊; 施源; 宋二浩
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-07-22
Filing date: 2022-07-22
Publication date: 2024-02-02
Also published as: WO2024017239A1

Abstract

The application discloses a data acquisition method and device and communication equipment, which belong to the technical field of communication, and the data acquisition method of the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that first communication equipment sends first information to second communication equipment, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment; the first communication equipment receives second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment; the first communication device obtains a data sample based on the second information. The present embodiments enable AI-based beam prediction.

Description

Data acquisition method and device and communication equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a data acquisition method and device and communication equipment.

Background

In millimeter wave wireless communication, communication transceivers (e.g., base stations and terminals) are each configured with a plurality of analog beams. The channel quality measured at the different transmit and receive analog beams varies for the same terminal. How to quickly and accurately find the transmit-receive beam group with the highest channel quality from all possible transmit-receive analog beam combinations is a key to influencing the transmission quality. After the AI neural network model is introduced, the terminal can effectively predict the receiving and transmitting analog wave beam with the highest channel quality based on the historical channel quality information and report the wave beam to a network side.

If the deployed AI model is trained based on simulation data, there is a risk that the cell environment may not be adapted.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a data acquisition method and device, and communication equipment, and beam prediction based on AI is enabled.

In a first aspect, a data acquisition method is provided, including:

the method comprises the steps that first communication equipment sends first information to second communication equipment, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment;

the first communication equipment receives second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment;

the first communication device obtains a data sample based on the second information.

In a second aspect, there is provided a data acquisition device comprising:

the first sending module is used for sending first information to the second communication equipment, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment;

The first receiving module is used for receiving second information sent by the second communication equipment, and the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment;

and the processing module is used for acquiring a data sample based on the second information.

In a third aspect, a data acquisition method is provided, including:

the method comprises the steps that a second communication device receives first information sent by a first communication device, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication device;

the second communication device sends second information to the first communication device, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication device.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a data acquisition device comprising:

the second receiving module is used for receiving first information sent by the first communication equipment, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment;

And the second sending module is used for sending second information to the first communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating the beam configuration of the second communication equipment.

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a first communications device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the first aspect.

In a sixth aspect, a first communication device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to send first information to a second communication device, where the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, where the first auxiliary information is used to indicate an auxiliary requirement for data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used to indicate a data acquisition capability of the first communication device; receiving second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment; the processor is configured to obtain a data sample based on the second information.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a second communication device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the third aspect.

An eighth aspect provides a second communication device, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to receive first information sent by a first communication device, where the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, where the first auxiliary information is used to indicate an auxiliary requirement for data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used to indicate a data acquisition capability of the first communication device; and sending second information to the first communication device, wherein the second information is used for indicating the beam configuration of the second communication device.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device operable to perform the steps of the data acquisition method as described in the first aspect, and a second communication device operable to perform the steps of the data acquisition method as described in the third aspect.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or instructions which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method according to the first aspect, or performs the steps of the method according to the third aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor being coupled, the processor being for running a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect or to implement the method according to the third aspect.

In a twelfth aspect, there is provided a computer program/program product stored in a storage medium, the computer program/program product being executed by at least one processor to implement the data acquisition method as described in the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the data acquisition method as described in the third aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the first communication device may indicate, through the first information, that the second communication device is configured to be a desired beam, and learn, through the second information, whether the second communication device is configured to be the desired beam, so as to determine whether a plurality of measurement results may be combined together to be used as a beam prediction training sample, an inference sample, or a performance monitoring sample. The terminal is enabled to be configured into a desired beam, the network side predicts the optimal transmission beam based on historical transmission beam information, or the network side is configured into the desired beam, the terminal side predicts training samples of the optimal reception beam based on historical reception beam information to be collected online, or reasoning samples to be collected online, or performance monitoring samples to be collected online, so that the AI-based beam prediction is enabled.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable;

fig. 2 is a flow chart of a data collection method at a first communication device side according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3a and fig. 3b are schematic diagrams of data acquisition performed by a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIGS. 4-7 are schematic diagrams of determining samples according to first and second periods in accordance with embodiments of the present application;

fig. 8a and 8b are schematic diagrams of data acquisition performed by a base station according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a flow chart of a second communication device side data collection method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application are within the scope of the protection of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein, and that the terms "first" and "second" are generally intended to be used in a generic sense and not to limit the number of objects, for example, the first object may be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means a relationship in which the associated object is an "or" before and after.

It is noted that the techniques described in embodiments of the present application are not limited to long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/LTE evolution (LTE-Advanced, LTE-a) systems, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the techniques described may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes a New air interface (NR) system for purposes of example and NR terminology is used in much of the description below, but these techniques may also be applied to applications other than NR system applications, such as the 6th generation (6th Generation,6G) communication system.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a first communication device 12. The terminal 11 may be a mobile phone, a tablet (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer) or a terminal-side Device called a notebook, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a palm top, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal Computer (ultra-mobile personal Computer, UMPC), a mobile internet appliance (Mobile Internet Device, MID), an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) Device, a robot, a Wearable Device (weather Device), a vehicle-mounted Device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), a smart home (home Device with a wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or a furniture), a game machine, a personal Computer (personal Computer, PC), a teller machine, or a self-service machine, and the Wearable Device includes: intelligent wrist-watch, intelligent bracelet, intelligent earphone, intelligent glasses, intelligent ornament (intelligent bracelet, intelligent ring, intelligent necklace, intelligent anklet, intelligent foot chain etc.), intelligent wrist strap, intelligent clothing etc.. Note that, the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The first communication device 12 may comprise an access network device or a core network device, wherein the access network device 12 may also be referred to as a radio access network device, a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), a radio access network function or a radio access network element. Access network device 12 may include a base station, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, or the like, which may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (Basic Service Set, BSS), an extended service set (Extended Service Set, ESS), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a transmission and reception point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the art, and the base station is not limited to a particular technical vocabulary so long as the same technical effect is achieved, and it should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only a base station in an NR system is described as an example, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

In order to improve the prediction performance of the AI model, an effective method is to collect the data of the cell in real time and then perform offline or online model training based on the data collected by the current network.

In the AI-based beam prediction, one method is to predict an optimal transmit-receive beam pair based on historical beam pair information, another method is that the terminal is configured as a first auxiliary beam, the network side predicts an optimal transmit beam based on historical transmit beam information, or the network side is configured as a first auxiliary beam, and the terminal side predicts an optimal receive beam based on historical receive beam information. In regard to the latter, the current protocols do not support configuring the desired beam (spatial filter) between multiple measurement reports.

The present application proposes a method of requesting that the transmitting or receiving end be configured as a desired spatial filter to enable AI-based beam prediction.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, some related concepts are described below.

1. Beam

The beam may be embodied in the NR protocol as a spatial filter (spatial domain filter), or spatial filter, or spatial parameter (spatial parameter). The beam used to transmit the signal may be referred to as a transmit beam (transmission beam, tx beam), may be referred to as a beamformer (spatial domain transmission filter) or spatial transmission parameters (spatial transmission parameter); the beam used to receive the signal may be referred to as a receive beam (Rx beam), may be referred to as a spatial receive filter (spatial domain receive filter) or spatial receive parameters (spatial RX parameter).

The transmit beam may refer to a distribution of signal strengths formed in spatially different directions after signals are transmitted through the antennas, and the receive beam may refer to a distribution of signal strengths of wireless signals received from the antennas in spatially different directions.

Furthermore, the beam may be a wide beam, or a narrow beam, or other type of beam. The technique of forming the beam may be a beamforming technique or other technique. The beamforming technique may specifically be a digital beamforming technique, an analog beamforming technique, or a hybrid digital/analog beamforming technique, etc.

The beam generally corresponds to a resource, for example, when the network device measures the beam, the network device measures different beams through different resources, the terminal device feeds back the measured quality of the resource, and the network device knows the quality of the corresponding beam. At the time of data transmission, beam information is also indicated by its corresponding resource. For example, the network device indicates information of the terminal device physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH) beam by means of transmission configuration indication (transmission configuration indication, TCI) resources in the downlink control information (downlink control information, DCI).

Alternatively, a plurality of beams having the same or similar communication characteristics may be regarded as one beam.

One or more antenna ports may be included in a beam for transmitting data channels, control channels, and sounding signals, etc. One or more antenna ports forming a beam may also be considered as a set of antenna ports.

In beam measurement, each beam of the network device corresponds to a resource, and thus the beam to which the resource corresponds can be uniquely identified by an index of the resource.

The technique of forming the beam may be a beamforming technique (beamforming) or other technical means. Beamforming techniques may achieve higher antenna array gain by spatially orienting a particular direction. The beamforming technique may be embodied as a digital beamforming technique, an analog beamforming technique, a hybrid digital/analog beamforming technique. Analog beamforming may be implemented by a phase shifter. A radio frequency link (radio frequency chain, RF chain) adjusts phase through a phase shifter to control changes in analog beam direction. Thus, only one analog beam can be driven out by one radio frequency link at a time.

The radio frequency link may also be referred to as a radio frequency channel. I.e. one radio frequency channel can only fire one beam at a time.

2. Beam resources

In beam measurement, a beam to which a resource corresponds may be uniquely identified by an index of the resource.

The resource may be an uplink signal resource or a downlink signal resource.

The upstream signals include, but are not limited to: sounding reference signals (sounding reference signal, SRS) and demodulation reference signals (demodulation reference signal, DMRS).

The downstream signals include, but are not limited to: channel state information reference signals (channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS), cell specific reference signals (cell specific reference signal, CSRS), UE specific reference signals (user equipment specific reference signal, US-RS), demodulation reference signals (demodulation reference signal, DMRS), and synchronization signals/physical broadcast channel blocks (synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block, SS/PBCH block). Wherein SS/PBCH block may be simply referred to as a synchronization signal block (synchronization signal block, SSB).

The resources may be configured by radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) signaling.

In the configuration structure, a resource is a data structure, which includes relevant parameters of the corresponding uplink/downlink signals, such as the type of the uplink/downlink signals, resource grains carrying the uplink/downlink signals, the sending time and period of the uplink/downlink signals, the number of ports used for sending the uplink/downlink signals, and the like.

The resources of each uplink/downlink signal have a unique index to identify the resources of the uplink/downlink signal.

It will be appreciated that the index of a resource may also be referred to as an identification of the resource, which embodiments of the present application do not impose any limitation.

3. Beam management

The network device may generate beams in different directions, and specifically, what direction of beam is used to communicate with the terminal device, which is determined by beam management.

The beam management mainly comprises the following steps:

step one, the network equipment configures beam resources.

As an example, the network device configuring beam resources includes: the network device generates measurement configuration information (i.e., beam measurement configuration information) and transmits the measurement configuration information to the terminal device.

The measurement configuration information mainly comprises two parts: resource configuration information and reporting configuration information.

The resource configuration information refers to information related to measurement resources. The resource configuration information may be configured in a protocol by a three-level structure (resource configuration (resource Set) -resource (resource)).

Reporting configuration information refers to information related to reporting of measurement results. Reporting configuration information can be configured in the protocol by reporting configuration (Report Config).

The network device may send measurement configuration information to the terminal through radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) signaling.

And step two, the terminal equipment measures the beam communication quality.

The network device sends a downlink signal (i.e., a beam) on the resource grain corresponding to the resource configured by the resource configuration information.

The terminal equipment receives the downlink signal on the resource grain corresponding to the resource configured by the resource configuration information, and measures the downlink signal according to the measurement configuration information to obtain the quality of the downlink signal, namely the communication quality of the wave beam.

And thirdly, the terminal equipment selects the optimal beam and reports the optimal beam to the network equipment.

As an example, the terminal device sends a beam measurement report to the network device for indicating the best beam. The beam measurement report may include an index and quality of one or more resources, etc.

The beam measurement report may be carried in a physical uplink control channel (physical uplink control channel, PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH).

4. Beam management resources

Beam management resources refer to resources used for beam management and may in turn be embodied as resources used for calculating and measuring beam quality. The beam quality includes layer one received reference signal power (layer 1reference signal received power,L1-RSRP), layer one received reference signal quality (layer 1reference signal received quality,L1-RSRQ), and so on. Specifically, the beam management resource may include a synchronization signal, a broadcast channel, a downlink channel measurement reference signal, a tracking signal, a downlink control channel demodulation reference signal, a downlink shared channel demodulation reference signal, an uplink sounding reference signal, an uplink random access signal, and the like.

5. Beam indication information

The beam indication information is used to indicate the beam used for transmission, including the transmit beam and/or the receive beam. Including beam number, beam management resource number, uplink signal resource number, downlink signal resource number, absolute index of beam, relative index of beam, logical index of beam, index of antenna port corresponding to beam, antenna port group index corresponding to beam, index of downlink signal corresponding to beam, time index of downlink synchronization signal block corresponding to beam, beam pair link, BPL) information, a transmission parameter (Tx parameter) corresponding to the beam, a reception parameter (Rx parameter) corresponding to the beam, a transmission weight corresponding to the beam, a weight matrix corresponding to the beam, a weight vector corresponding to the beam, a reception weight corresponding to the beam, an index of a transmission weight corresponding to the beam, an index of a weight matrix corresponding to the beam, an index of a weight vector corresponding to the beam, an index of a reception weight corresponding to the beam, a reception codebook corresponding to the beam, a transmission codebook corresponding to the beam, an index of a reception codebook corresponding to the beam, an index of a transmission codebook corresponding to the beam, a downlink signal including any one of a synchronization signal, a broadcast channel, a broadcast signal demodulation signal, a channel state information downlink signal (channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS), a cell specific reference signal (cell specific reference signal, CSRS), a UE specific reference signal (user equipment specific reference signal, US-RS), a downlink control channel demodulation reference signal, a downlink data channel demodulation reference signal, and a downlink phase noise tracking signal. The uplink signal comprises any one of an uplink random access sequence, an uplink sounding reference signal, an uplink control channel demodulation reference signal, an uplink data channel demodulation reference signal and an uplink phase noise tracking signal. Optionally, the network device may further allocate a QCL identifier to a beam having a quasi co-location (QCL) relationship among beams associated with the frequency resource group. The beams may also be referred to as spatial transmit filters, the transmit beams may also be referred to as spatial transmit filters, and the receive beams may also be referred to as spatial receive filters. The beam indication information may also be embodied as a transmission configuration number (transmission configuration index, TCI) in which various parameters may be included, such as cell number, bandwidth part number, reference signal identity, synchronization signal block identity, QCL type, etc.

6. Beam quality

The present application is not limited to metrics that measure beam quality.

Metrics that measure beam quality include, but are not limited to:

reference signal received power (reference signal received power, RSRP);

reference signal received quality (reference signal received quality, RSRQ);

a reference signal received strength indication (received signal strength indicator, RSSI);

signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (signal to interference and noise ratio, SINR);

block error rate (BLER);

signal quality indication (channel quality indicator, CQI).

7. Quasi co-position (QCL)

The co-ordination relationship is used to indicate that the plurality of resources have one or more identical or similar communication characteristics therebetween, and the same or similar communication configuration may be employed for the plurality of resources having the co-ordination relationship. For example, if two antenna ports have a co-located relationship, the channel large-scale characteristics of one port transmitting one symbol can be inferred from the channel large-scale characteristics of the other port transmitting one symbol. The large scale characteristics may include: delay spread, average delay, doppler spread, doppler shift, average gain, reception parameters, terminal device reception beam number, transmit/receive channel correlation, reception angle of arrival, spatial correlation of receiver antennas, main-angle of arrival (AoA), average angle of arrival, extension of AoA, etc.

8. Airspace quasi-co-position (spatial QCL)

Spatial quasi-co-location may be considered a type of QCL. There are two angles to the spatial as can be appreciated: from the transmitting end or from the receiving end. From the transmitting end, if two antenna ports are said to be spatially co-located, it means that the corresponding beam directions of the two antenna ports are spatially identical. From the receiving end, if the two antenna ports are spatially co-located, it means that the receiving end can receive the signals transmitted by the two antenna ports in the same beam direction.

9. Quasi co-position hypothesis (QCL assumption)

Quasi co-parity assumption refers to assuming whether there is a QCL relationship between two ports. The configuration and indication of quasi-parity hypotheses may be used to aid the receiving end in the reception and demodulation of signals. For example, the receiving end can confirm that the a port and the B port have QCL relationship, that is, the large scale parameters of the signal measured on the a port can be used for signal measurement and demodulation on the B port.

10. Simultaneous reception of

Simultaneous reception includes a receiving end (e.g., a terminal device) receiving a plurality of signals on one reception parameter, and also includes receiving a plurality of signals on a plurality of simultaneously usable reception parameters.

11. Antenna panel (Panel)

Signals for wireless communication need to be received and transmitted by an antenna, and a plurality of antenna elements (antenna elements) may be integrated on a panel (panel), which may be referred to as an antenna panel. The antenna panel may in turn be denoted as an antenna array (antenna array) or an antenna sub-array (antenna sub-array). An antenna panel may include one or more antenna arrays/sub-arrays. An antenna panel may have one or more crystal oscillator (oscillator) controls.

In embodiments of the present application, a terminal device may include a plurality of antenna panels, each including one or more beams. The network device may also include a plurality of antenna panels, each antenna panel including one or more beams.

The antenna elements are driven by radio frequency links. One radio frequency link may drive one or more antenna elements. An antenna panel may be driven by one radio frequency link or by a plurality of radio frequency links. In this application, the antenna panel may be replaced by a radio frequency link, or multiple radio frequency links driving one antenna panel, or one or more radio frequency links controlled by one crystal oscillator.

The radio frequency link may also be referred to as a radio frequency channel.

For example, the radio frequency channels may include a receive channel and/or a transmit channel.

The radio frequency link or channel may also be referred to as a receiver branch.

The data acquisition method provided by the embodiment of the application is described in detail below by means of some embodiments and application scenes thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

An embodiment of the present application provides a data acquisition method, as shown in fig. 2, including:

step 101: the method comprises the steps that first communication equipment sends first information to second communication equipment, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment;

step 102: the first communication equipment receives second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment;

step 103: the first communication device obtains a data sample based on the second information.

In some embodiments, the first auxiliary information includes demand information indicating a period of a beam measurement single sample, and a first auxiliary beam,

Also included is at least one of:

the beam measures the total number of measurement cycles of a single sample, i.e. the number of measurement cycles of one sample in the time dimension. In the measurement configuration of one measurement period, the measurement configuration can be divided into a plurality of reference resources, and a plurality of beams can be correspondingly measured. For example, the interval of the measurement period is 40ms, and 8 reference signals are configured for measurement of one measurement period, the number of the measurement periods in 160ms is 4, and each measurement period can measure 8 beams; the number of beam measurement samples;

wherein the requirement of the period of the beam measurement single sample characterizes the requirement that the second communication device is configured as the first auxiliary beam in a reference signal resource dimension and/or a time dimension, the requirement of the period of the beam measurement single sample comprising a beam measurement period number, and at least one of:

the second communication device is configured as a first number of first reference signal resources, the first reference signal resources being reference signal resources of a first auxiliary beam used by the second communication device;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

Wherein the first auxiliary beam is a beam of a second communication device requested by the first communication device, and comprises at least one of the following:

configuring a second auxiliary beam in a beam measurement period, wherein the second auxiliary beam is a beam of a second communication device with highest channel quality of the first communication device;

and configuring the beam of the preset second communication device in the beam measurement period.

The above information indicates the number or proportion of resources of the second communication device configured as the first auxiliary beam in the reference resource dimension and/or the time dimension, wherein the first auxiliary beam is a beam of the second communication device requested by the first communication device. When the second communication device is configured according to the requirement, the data collected by the first communication device can be used for single-side beam prediction, beam reasoning or beam performance evaluation. Otherwise, if the second communication device is not configured as the first auxiliary beam, the data collected by the first communication device is directly used for training or reasoning of the AI model, and the effect of single-side prediction cannot be achieved.

In this embodiment, the first communication device may be a network side device or a terminal, and the second communication device may be a terminal or a network side device. The first communication device can indicate the second communication device to configure the first auxiliary beam through the first information, and know whether the second communication device configures the first auxiliary beam through the second information, so that whether a plurality of measurement results can be combined together to serve as a beam prediction training sample, an inference sample or a performance monitoring sample can be judged. The terminal is enabled to be configured as a first auxiliary beam, the network side predicts the optimal transmission beam based on historical transmission beam information, or the network side is configured as the first auxiliary beam, the terminal side predicts training samples of the optimal reception beam based on historical reception beam information to be collected online, or reasoning samples to be collected online, or performance monitoring samples to be collected online, so that the AI-based beam prediction is enabled. The first auxiliary beam is a preset beam or a network side transmitting beam or a terminal receiving beam with the highest quality of the received signals.

In some embodiments, the capability information of the first communication device includes at least one of:

whether or not data acquisition is supported under the condition that the second communication device does not use the first auxiliary beam, if the indication indicates that the second communication device does not need to use the first auxiliary beam, the second communication device can use the beam according to the own target without auxiliary cooperation with the first communication device. In this case, the first communication device has relatively strong capability, and can support AI reasoning, training and performance monitoring in a scenario where the second communication device does not assist in cooperation. If the second communication equipment is indicated to be matched with the first auxiliary beam, the capacity of the first communication equipment cannot perform AI reasoning, training and data acquisition required by performance monitoring under the condition that the second communication equipment is not assisted;

the type of the first auxiliary beam capable of supporting data acquisition, wherein the more the type of the first auxiliary beam capable of supporting the first auxiliary beam is, the stronger the capability of the first device is;

the smaller the number of the minimum measurement cycles of the first auxiliary beam capable of supporting data acquisition, the lower the degree of the auxiliary requirement of the second communication equipment is, and the stronger the capability of the first communication equipment is;

The third number of minimum reference signal resources of the first auxiliary beam that may support data acquisition is indicative of the capabilities of the first communication device and also indicative of the degree of coordination of the second communication device. The smaller the number is, the lower the degree of assistance of the second communication device is needed, and the stronger the capability of the first communication device is;

the minimum proportion of the third number to the second number that can support data acquisition is indicative of the capabilities of the first communication device and also indicative of the degree of coordination of the second communication device. The smaller the minimum ratio, the lower the level of assistance that the second communication device is required, the more powerful the first communication device is.

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

the second communication device uses the same beam indication for the current measurement configuration and the history measurement configuration;

the second communication device uses the identification of the historical measurement configuration of the same wave beam with the current measurement configuration;

the second communication device uses the same wave beam with the last measurement configuration;

the second communication equipment uses the same beam period number with the current measurement configuration in the future;

an indication that the second communication device is configured to use the second auxiliary beam;

The second communication device using a number of periods of the second auxiliary beam in the future;

the second communication device using a number of cycles of the first auxiliary beam in the future;

the second communication device configures the type of the first auxiliary beam in the current measurement;

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

In this way, the first communication device knows whether the second communication device is configured as the first auxiliary beam through the second information, and can further judge whether a plurality of measurement results can be combined together to be used as a beam prediction training sample, an inference sample or a performance monitoring sample. The terminal is enabled to be configured as a first auxiliary beam, the network side predicts the optimal transmission beam based on historical transmission beam information, or the network side is configured as the first auxiliary beam, the terminal side predicts training samples of the optimal reception beam based on historical reception beam information to be collected online, or reasoning samples to be collected online, or performance monitoring samples to be collected online, so that the AI-based beam prediction is enabled. The first auxiliary beam is a preset beam or a network side transmitting beam or a terminal receiving beam with the highest quality of the received signals.

In some embodiments, the period of the beam measurement single sample includes a first period and a second period, and the first communication device obtaining the data sample based on the second information includes:

The first communication device measuring a beam at the first period as an input of a beam measurement sample; the beam is measured over the second period as a tag of a beam measurement sample.

In some embodiments, the first communication device is a terminal (UE), the second communication device is a network side device (including a base station), the second information includes measurement configuration information, and the terminal may perform beam measurement according to the measurement configuration information after receiving the measurement configuration information of the network side device.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 3a, the present embodiment includes the following steps:

step 1: the UE sends a receiving-end model reasoning data collection request (i.e., first information) to the base station, including: the first cycle number K1 required by one sample corresponds to the number of historical time intervals in input and the second cycle number K2 is configured to be empty; at this time, the number of total measurement periods of the beam measurement single sample n=k1; the base station is configured to be the minimum number of resources of the first auxiliary beam (i.e., the minimum number of measurable beams per time interval in the input period of the beam measurement samples) in the K1 period; the first auxiliary beam type is a certain preset beam; and the total number of samples.

Step 2: the base station finds a suitable transmitting beam, such as the best transmitting beam reported by the last UE, or obtains the best transmitting beam through prediction, and fixes the transmitting beam as the preset beam;

step 3: the base station transmits measurement configuration information to the UE, including:

one or more non-zero power channel state information reference signal resource sets (NZP-CSI-RS-resource set) including repetition ON/off, i.e., whether repeated;

an indication that the current measurement configuration uses the same beam (spatial transmit filter) as the previous measurement configuration;

the number of times the same beam is used in future and this measurement configuration;

the first auxiliary beam type capable of supporting data acquisition is a certain preset beam;

the prediction error of the optimal transmitting wave beam at the base station side;

step 4: and the UE performs beam quality measurement based on the measurement configuration, namely performs data acquisition, and generates a sample based on the second information.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the second information, whether the base station is configured as the first auxiliary beam in the current measurement configuration, that is, a certain preset beam is expected, so that the UE can be helped to determine whether a plurality of measurement results can be combined together to be used as a beam prediction reasoning sample. The UE is enabled to predict an inferential sample online collection of the best receive beam based on historical receive beam information when the base station configures the transmit beam to be the first secondary beam.

In some embodiments, after the first communication device receives the second information of the second communication device, the method further comprises:

the first communication equipment performs beam measurement on the configured reference signals;

judging whether a beam measurement sample is formed by the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device in the second information are the same or not or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam or not.

And judging whether the current beam measurement belongs to one of a first period or a second period according to the first number of the current beam measurement.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 3b, the present embodiment includes the following steps:

step 1: the UE sends a receiver-side model training or model performance monitoring data collection request (i.e., first information) to the base station, including: the first period number K1, K1 corresponds to the number of historical time intervals in the input; the second cycle number K2, K2 corresponds to the number of the wave beam prediction time intervals in the tag; at this time, the period required for one sample (i.e., the number of total measurement periods of a beam measurement single sample) n=k1+k2; the base station is configured to be the minimum number of resources of the first auxiliary beam (i.e., the minimum number of measurable beams per time interval in the input period of the beam measurement samples) in the K1 period; the base station is configured to be the minimum number of resources of the first auxiliary beam (i.e., the minimum number of measurable beams per time interval in the tag period of the beam measurement sample) in the K2 period; the first auxiliary beam type is a second auxiliary beam; and the total number of samples.

Step 2: the base station finds a suitable transmitting beam, such as the best transmitting beam reported by the last time by the UE, or obtains the best transmitting beam through prediction;

the measurement configuration is carried out at this time, and whether the base station is configured as the optimal transmitting beam or not;

in the future, the base station configures the number of times of the best transmission beam;

the first auxiliary beam type capable of supporting data acquisition is a second auxiliary beam;

step 4: the UE performs beam quality measurements, i.e. data acquisition, based on the measurement configuration. And generating a sample based on the second information.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the second information, whether the base station is configured as the second auxiliary beam in the measurement configuration, that is, the beam with the highest receiving quality of the terminal, so that the UE may be helped to determine whether a plurality of measurement results may be combined together to be used as a beam prediction training sample or a performance monitoring sample. The UE is enabled to predict training samples for the best receive beam on-line collection or performance monitoring samples on-line collection based on historical receive beam information when the network configures the transmit beam to be the second auxiliary beam.

In a specific example, as shown in fig. 4, the number of measurement cycles of the first period in the first information is 2, and in one measurement resource configuration, the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 2; the number of measurement periods in the second period is 1, and in one measurement resource configuration, the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 8; the UE receives the second information measured in 3 periods, where the 1 st second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 2, the 2 nd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 2, and the 3 rd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 8.

Thus, the beam information measured in the first 2 cycles can be used as input, and the beam information measured in the last cycle can be used as a tag, combined into a training or performance monitoring sample based on 2 cycles of history, predicting 1 cycle in the future.

In another specific example, as shown in fig. 5, the number of measurement cycles of the first period in the first information is 2, and in one measurement resource configuration, the second communication device is configured to have the number of reference signal resources of the first auxiliary beam is 2; the number of measurement periods in the second period is 2, and in one measurement resource configuration, the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 8; the UE receives second information measured in 4 periods, the 1 st second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 2, the 2 nd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 2, the 3 rd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 8, and the 4 th second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to the first auxiliary beam is 8.

Thus, the beam information measured in the first 2 cycles can be used as input, and the beam information measured in the last 2 cycles can be used as a tag, combined into one training or performance monitoring sample based on the historical 2 cycles, predicting the next 2 cycles.

In yet another specific example, as shown in fig. 6, the number of measurement cycles of the first period in the first information is 2, and in one measurement resource configuration, the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device to be the first auxiliary beam is 8; the number of measurement periods in the second period is 1, and in one measurement resource configuration, the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 8; the UE receives second information measured in 3 periods, the 1 st second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication equipment as the first auxiliary beam is 8, and the number of periods configured by the second communication equipment as the first auxiliary beam in the future is 1; the 2 nd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 8, and the number of cycles configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 0 in the future; the 3 rd second information indicates that the second communication device is configured with the number of reference signal resources of the first auxiliary beam as 8.

Thus, the beam information measured in the first 2 cycles can be used as input, and the beam information measured in the last 1 cycle can be used as a tag, combined into one training or performance monitoring sample based on the historical 2 cycles, predicting the next 1 cycle.

In still another specific example, as shown in fig. 7, the number of measurement cycles of the first period in the first information is 3, and in one measurement resource configuration, the second communication device is configured to have a number of reference signal resources of the first auxiliary beam of 2; the measurement cycle number of the second cycle is 0; the UE receives second information measured in 3 periods, the 1 st second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication equipment as the first auxiliary beam is 2, and the number of periods configured by the second communication equipment as the first auxiliary beam in the future is 2; the 2 nd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 2, and the number of cycles configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 1 in the future; the 3 rd second information indicates that the number of reference signal resources configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 2, and the number of cycles configured by the second communication device as the first auxiliary beam is 0 in the future. Thus, the beam information measured for 3 cycles can be combined as input into one input part based on the historical 3 cycles, predicting the inference sample for one or several cycles in the future.

In some embodiments, the first communication device is a network side device, the second communication device is a terminal, the first information further includes measurement configuration information, and the second information includes a beam measurement result and a beam configuration of the second communication device. After receiving the measurement configuration information of the network side equipment, the terminal can perform beam measurement according to the measurement configuration information and feed back whether to respond to the measurement configuration information or not to the network side equipment.

In yet another embodiment, as shown in fig. 8a, the present embodiment includes the following steps:

step 1: the base station transmits measurement configuration information (including first information) to the UE, including

One or more NZP-CSI-RS-resource sets for indicating to the UE that the measurement configuration uses the reference signal resource configuration of the first auxiliary beam at this time, including repetition off, i.e. not repeated;

the first auxiliary beam type is a certain preset beam;

an indication of whether the UE current measurement configuration uses the same beam (spatial receive filter) as the last measurement configuration;

the UE configures the periodicity of the beam which is the same as the current measurement in the future;

and measuring the number of reported RSRP.

Step 2: the UE determines the received beam as a first auxiliary beam, performs beam measurement, and reports a beam measurement result, including:

Beam ID and RSRP;

an indication of whether the UE current measurement configuration and the last measurement configuration use the same beam;

the UE uses the same period number of the receiving beam in the future and the measurement configuration;

the first auxiliary beam type is a certain preset beam;

the prediction error of the optimal receiving beam at the UE side;

step 3: the base station generates a sample based on the second information.

In this embodiment, the terminal may indicate, through the second information, whether the received beams among the multiple measurement reports are consistent, so as to help the base station determine whether the multiple measurement report results may be combined together as one beam prediction training sample, or an inference sample, or a performance monitoring sample. The base station predicts the training sample on-line collection of the best transmit beam based on historical transmit beam information, or inferential sample on-line collection, or performance monitoring sample on-line collection, when the terminal is configured as the first auxiliary beam.

In yet another embodiment, as shown in fig. 8b, the present embodiment includes the following steps:

The first auxiliary beam type is a second auxiliary beam;

the UE configures an indication of a second auxiliary beam in the measurement;

the UE configures the number of periods of the second auxiliary beam in the future;

and measuring the number of reported RSRP.

Step 2: the UE determines a receiving beam, performs beam measurement, and reports a beam measurement result, including:

beam ID and RSRP;

an indication of whether the UE current measurement configuration uses a second auxiliary beam;

the first auxiliary beam type is a second auxiliary beam;

the prediction error of the optimal receiving beam at the UE side;

step 3: the base station generates a sample based on the second information.

In this embodiment, the terminal may indicate, through the second information, whether the plurality of measurement reports all use the second auxiliary beam, so as to help the base station determine whether the plurality of measurement report results may be combined together as one beam prediction training sample, or an inference sample, or a performance monitoring sample. The network is enabled to predict training samples for the best transmit beam to collect online, or inferential samples to collect online, or performance monitoring samples to collect online, based on historical transmit beam information when the terminal is configured as the second auxiliary beam.

In the above embodiments of the present application, the number of cycles corresponds to the number of cycles, the number of cycles or the number of cycles.

The embodiment of the application also provides a data acquisition method, as shown in fig. 9, including:

step 201: the method comprises the steps that a second communication device receives first information sent by a first communication device, wherein the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication device;

step 202: the second communication device sends second information to the first communication device, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication device.

also included is at least one of:

the number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

whether data acquisition is supported without the second communication device using the first auxiliary beam;

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

a minimum number of measurement cycles of the first auxiliary beam that may support data acquisition;

a third number of minimum reference signal resources of the first auxiliary beam that may support data acquisition;

The third number, which may support data acquisition, is a minimum proportion of the second number.

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

In some embodiments, the first communication device is a terminal, the second communication device is a network side device, and the second information includes measurement configuration information.

In some embodiments, the first communication device is a network side device, the second communication device is a terminal, the first information further includes measurement configuration information, and the second information includes a beam measurement result and a beam configuration of the second communication device.

In some embodiments, the second communication device transmitting second information responsive to the first information to the first communication device comprises:

the second communication device determines a wave beam of the second communication device according to the first information;

the second communication equipment performs beam measurement on the configured reference signals;

the second communication device determines second information indicating whether the second communication device adopts the same beam as the history measurement configuration or whether the second communication device uses a beam that makes the channel quality of the first communication device highest, the second information further including beam quality information.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

judging whether a beam measurement sample is formed by the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device use the same beam or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam in the second information.

According to the data acquisition method provided by the embodiment of the application, the execution main body can be a data acquisition device. In the embodiment of the application, a data acquisition device is taken as an example to execute a data acquisition method by using the data acquisition device, and the data acquisition device provided by the embodiment of the application is described.

The embodiment of the application provides a data acquisition device, which is applied to first communication equipment and comprises:

also included is at least one of:

the beam measures the total number of measurement cycles of a single sample, i.e. the number of measurement cycles of one sample in the time dimension. In the measurement configuration of one measurement period, the measurement configuration can be divided into a plurality of reference resources, and a plurality of beams can be correspondingly measured. For example, the interval of the measurement period is 40ms, and 8 reference signals are configured for measurement of one measurement period, the number of the measurement periods in 160ms is 4, and each measurement period can measure 8 beams;

The number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

In some embodiments, the period of the beam measurement single sample includes a first period and a second period, and the processing module is configured to measure a beam as an input of the beam measurement sample at the first period; the beam is measured over the second period as a tag of a beam measurement sample.

In some embodiments, the processing module is configured to perform beam measurement on the configured reference signal; judging whether a beam measurement sample is formed by the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device in the second information are the same or not or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam or not.

In some embodiments, the processing module is configured to determine, according to the first number of current beam measurements, that the current beam measurement belongs to one of a first period and a second period.

In some embodiments, the processing module is configured to determine whether the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result form a beam measurement sample according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device use the same beam in the second information or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam.

The embodiment of the application provides a data acquisition device, is applied to second communication equipment, includes:

also included is at least one of:

The number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

In some embodiments, the second sending module is configured to determine a beam of the second communication device according to the first information; performing beam measurement on the configured reference signals; determining second information indicating whether the second communication device adopts the same beam as the history measurement configuration or whether the second communication device uses a beam that maximizes the channel quality of the first communication device, the second information further including beam quality information.

In some embodiments, the second sending module is configured to determine whether the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result form a beam measurement sample according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device use the same beam in the second information or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam.

The data acquisition device in the embodiment of the application may be an electronic device, for example, an electronic device with an operating system, or may be a component in an electronic device, for example, an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal, or may be other devices than a terminal. By way of example, terminals may include, but are not limited to, the types of terminals 11 listed above, other devices may be servers, network attached storage (Network Attached Storage, NAS), etc., and embodiments of the application are not specifically limited.

The data acquisition device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the embodiments of the methods of fig. 2 to 9, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is provided herein.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 10, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 600, including a processor 601 and a memory 602, where the memory 602 stores a program or instructions that can be executed on the processor 601, for example, when the communication device 600 is a first communication device, the program or instructions implement the steps of the above-mentioned data acquisition method embodiment when executed by the processor 601, and achieve the same technical effects. When the communication device 600 is a second communication device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 601, implements the steps of the above-described data acquisition method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a first communication device, which comprises a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores a program or instructions executable on the processor, and the program or instructions implement the steps of the data acquisition method when executed by the processor.

The embodiment of the application also provides first communication equipment, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for sending first information to second communication equipment, the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment; receiving second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment; the processor is configured to obtain a data sample based on the second information.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a second communication device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method according to the third aspect.

The embodiment of the application also provides second communication equipment, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for receiving first information sent by first communication equipment, the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication equipment, the first auxiliary information is used for indicating auxiliary requirements of data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication equipment is used for indicating data acquisition capability of the first communication equipment; and sending second information to the first communication device, wherein the second information is used for indicating the beam configuration of the second communication device.

The first communication device may be a network side device or a terminal, and the second communication device may be a terminal or a network side device.

When the first communication device or the second communication device is a terminal, the embodiment of the application further provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface, where each implementation process and implementation manner of the above method embodiment are applicable to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effect can be achieved. Specifically, fig. 11 is a schematic hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The terminal 700 includes, but is not limited to: at least some of the components of the radio frequency unit 701, the network module 702, the audio output unit 703, the input unit 704, the sensor 705, the display unit 706, the user input unit 707, the interface unit 708, the memory 709, and the processor 710.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal 700 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and that the power source may be logically coupled to the processor 710 via a power management system so as to perform functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption via the power management system. The terminal structure shown in fig. 11 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal, and the terminal may include more or less components than shown, or may combine some components, or may be arranged in different components, which will not be described in detail herein.

It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the input unit 704 may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 7041 and a microphone 7042, with the graphics processor 7041 processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 706 may include a display panel 7061, and the display panel 7061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 707 includes at least one of a touch panel 7071 and other input devices 7072. The touch panel 7071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 7071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 7072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and so forth, which are not described in detail herein.

In this embodiment, after receiving downlink data from the network side device, the radio frequency unit 701 may transmit the downlink data to the processor 710 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 701 may send uplink data to the network side device. Typically, the radio unit 701 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

The memory 709 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 709 may mainly include a first storage area storing programs or instructions and a second storage area storing data, wherein the first storage area may store an operating system, application programs or instructions (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. Further, the memory 709 may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or the memory 709 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), static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (ddr SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (Enhanced SDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct RAM (DRRAM). Memory 709 in embodiments of the present application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

Processor 710 may include one or more processing units; optionally, processor 710 integrates an application processor that primarily processes operations involving an operating system, user interface, application programs, and the like, and a modem processor that primarily processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 710.

In some embodiments, the first communication device is a terminal, and the processor 710 is configured to send first information to the second communication device, where the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, where the first auxiliary information is used to indicate an auxiliary requirement for data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used to indicate a data acquisition capability of the first communication device; receiving second information sent by the second communication equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating beam configuration of the second communication equipment; and acquiring a data sample based on the second information.

Also included is at least one of:

the number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

and a predictive power indicator for the second auxiliary beam.

In some embodiments, the second information comprises measurement configuration information.

In some embodiments, the period of the beam measurement single sample includes a first period and a second period, and the processor 710 is configured to measure the beam as an input of the beam measurement sample in the first period; the beam is measured over the second period as a tag of a beam measurement sample.

In some embodiments, processor 710 is configured to perform beam measurements on configured reference signals; judging whether a beam measurement sample is formed by the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device in the second information are the same or not or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam or not.

In some embodiments, the processor 710 is configured to determine that the current beam measurement belongs to one of the first period or the second period according to the first number of the current beam measurement.

In some embodiments, the second communication device is a terminal, and the processor 710 is configured to receive first information sent by the first communication device, where the first information indicates first auxiliary information and/or capability information of the first communication device, where the first auxiliary information is used to indicate an auxiliary requirement for data acquisition, and the capability information of the first communication device is used to indicate a data acquisition capability of the first communication device; and sending second information to the first communication device, wherein the second information is used for indicating the beam configuration of the second communication device.

also included is at least one of:

the number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

A second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of:

and a predictive power indicator for the second auxiliary beam.

In some embodiments, the first information further includes measurement configuration information, and the second information includes beam measurement results and beam configuration of the second communication device.

In some embodiments, processor 710 is configured to determine a beam of the second communication device based on the first information; performing beam measurement on the configured reference signals; determining second information indicating whether the second communication device adopts the same beam as the history measurement configuration or whether the second communication device uses a beam that maximizes the channel quality of the first communication device, the second information further including beam quality information.

In some embodiments, the processor 710 is configured to determine whether the current beam measurement result and the historical beam measurement result form a beam measurement sample according to whether the current measurement configuration and the historical measurement configuration of the second communication device use the same beam or whether the current measurement configuration of the second communication device uses a second auxiliary beam in the second information.

When the first communication device or the second communication device is a network side device, the embodiment of the application further provides a network side device, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The implementation processes and implementation manners of the method embodiment are applicable to the network side device embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

Specifically, the embodiment of the application also provides network side equipment. As shown in fig. 12, the network side device 800 includes: an antenna 81, a radio frequency device 82, a baseband device 83, a processor 84 and a memory 85. The antenna 81 is connected to a radio frequency device 82. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 82 receives information via the antenna 81, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 83 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 83 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 82, and the radio frequency device 82 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 81.

The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment may be implemented in the baseband apparatus 83, and the baseband apparatus 83 includes a baseband processor.

The baseband device 83 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, where a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 12, where one chip, for example, a baseband processor, is connected to the memory 85 through a bus interface, so as to call a program in the memory 85 to perform the network device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

The network-side device may also include a network interface 86, such as a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the network side device 800 of the embodiment of the present invention further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 85 and executable on the processor 84, the processor 84 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 85 to perform the data acquisition method as described above and achieve the same technical effects, and are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the processes of the embodiment of the data acquisition method are implemented, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

Wherein the processor is a processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer readable storage medium such as computer readable memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic or optical disk, etc.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled with the processor, the processor is used for running a program or an instruction, implementing each process of the above data acquisition method embodiment, and achieving the same technical effect, so as to avoid repetition, and no redundant description is provided herein.

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 embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program/program product, where the computer program/program product is stored in a storage medium, and the computer program/program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each process of the embodiments of the data acquisition method, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and details are not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication system, which comprises: a first communication device operable to perform the steps of the data acquisition method as described above, and a second communication device operable to perform the steps of the data acquisition method as described above.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in an opposite order depending on the functions involved, e.g., the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may also be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a computer software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk), comprising several instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method described in the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are also within the protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A method of data acquisition, comprising:

2. The data acquisition method of claim 1 wherein the first auxiliary information includes demand information indicating a period of a beam measurement single sample, and a first auxiliary beam,

Also included is at least one of:

the number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

3. The data acquisition method of claim 2, wherein the capability information of the first communication device includes at least one of:

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

4. The data acquisition method of claim 2, wherein the second information comprises at least one of:

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

5. The data acquisition method according to claim 2, wherein the first communication device is a terminal, the second communication device is a network side device, and the second information includes measurement configuration information.

6. The data acquisition method of claim 2 or 5, wherein the period of the beam measurement single sample includes a first period and a second period, and wherein the first communication device acquiring the data sample based on the second information includes:

7. The data acquisition method of claim 6, wherein after the first communication device receives the second information of the second communication device, the method further comprises:

8. The data acquisition method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

9. The data acquisition method according to claim 1, wherein the first communication device is a network side device, the second communication device is a terminal, the first information further includes measurement configuration information, and the second information includes a beam measurement result and a beam configuration of the second communication device.

10. The data acquisition method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

11. A method of data acquisition, comprising:

12. The data acquisition method of claim 11 wherein the first auxiliary information includes demand information indicating a period of a beam measurement single sample, and a first auxiliary beam,

also included is at least one of:

the number of total measurement cycles of the beam measurement single sample;

the number of beam measurement samples;

a second number of total reference signal resources;

the first number being proportional to the second number;

a type indication of the first auxiliary beam;

13. The data acquisition method of claim 12, wherein the capability information of the first communication device includes at least one of:

the type of the first auxiliary beam that can support data acquisition;

14. The data acquisition method of claim 12, wherein the second information comprises at least one of:

and the predictive power index of the second auxiliary beam.

15. The data acquisition method according to claim 12, wherein the first communication device is a terminal, the second communication device is a network side device, and the second information includes measurement configuration information.

16. The data acquisition method according to claim 11, wherein the first communication device is a network side device, the second communication device is a terminal, the first information further includes measurement configuration information, and the second information includes a beam measurement result and a beam configuration of the second communication device.

17. The data collection method of claim 16 wherein the second communication device transmitting second information to the first communication device in response to the first information comprises:

18. The method of data acquisition according to claim 16, further comprising:

19. A data acquisition device, comprising:

20. A data acquisition device, comprising:

21. A communication device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the data acquisition method of any one of claims 1 to 18.

22. A readable storage medium, characterized in that the readable storage medium has stored thereon a program or instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the data acquisition method according to any one of claims 1-18.