CN117641426A

CN117641426A - gap configuration method and device, terminal and network side equipment

Info

Publication number: CN117641426A
Application number: CN202210977680.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 魏旭昇
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-15
Filing date: 2022-08-15
Publication date: 2024-03-01
Also published as: WO2024037401A1

Abstract

The application discloses a gap configuration method, a device, a terminal and network side equipment, which belong to the technical field of communication, and the gap configuration method in the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: the terminal receives gap configuration information from network side equipment; the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves a first gap and a second gap when the first gap of a first gap pattern and the second gap of a second gap pattern collide.

Description

gap configuration method and device, terminal and network side equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a gap configuration method, a device, a terminal and network side equipment.

Background

In the related art, a gap configuration scheme capable of simultaneously configuring coexistence gaps (con gaps) of a plurality of gap patterns is provided, and two New gap pattern types of Pre-configured measurement gaps (Pre-configured measurement gap, pre-MG) and network control small gaps (network controlled small gap, NCSG) are introduced.

The gap conflict resolution for the con current gap in the related art relies on a 2 priority based scheme within the con current gap.

However, when one gap pattern in the current gap is Pre-MG or NCSG, the existing gap conflict solution based on 2 priorities is caused by the characteristics of Pre-MG and NCSG, and the problems of gap resource waste and low gap measurement efficiency exist.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a gap configuration method, a device, a terminal and network side equipment, which can reduce gap resource waste and improve gap measurement efficiency.

In a first aspect, a gap configuration method is provided, the method including:

the terminal receives gap configuration information from network side equipment;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves a first gap and a second gap when the first gap of a first gap pattern and the second gap of a second gap pattern collide.

In a second aspect, a gap configuration method is provided, the method including:

the network side equipment sends gap configuration information to the terminal;

In a third aspect, there is provided a gap configuration apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

The receiving module is used for receiving the gap configuration information from the network side equipment;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves a first gap and a second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern collide.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a gap configuration apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

the sending module is used for sending the gap configuration information to the terminal;

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a terminal 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 terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface; the communication interface is used for receiving gap configuration information from the network side equipment;

In a seventh aspect, a network side device is provided, 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 second aspect.

An eighth aspect provides a network side device, including a processor and a communication interface; the communication interface is used for sending gap configuration information to the terminal;

In a ninth aspect, a gap configuration system is provided, including: a terminal operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, and a network side device operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the second 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 second aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communication interface coupled to the processor, 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 second 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 steps of the method as described in the first aspect or to implement the steps of the method as described in the second aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal receives the gap configuration information from the network side device to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern, so that unnecessary measurement gap discarding is reduced, gap resource waste can be reduced, and gap measurement efficiency is improved.

Drawings

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a gap configuration method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a second flow chart of a gap configuration method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a gap configuration device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram of a gap configuration device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 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 uses NR terminology in much of the following description, but the techniques are also applicable to communication systems other than NR system applications, such as generation 6 (6) ^th Generation, 6G) communication system.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiment of the present application is applicable, and the wireless communication system shown in fig. 1 includes a terminal 11 and a network side 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 network-side device 12 may comprise an access network device or core network device, wherein the access network device 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. The access network device may include a base station, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, or the like, where the base station 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 receiving point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the field, and the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary so long as the same technical effect is achieved, and it should be noted that in the embodiment of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is described by way of example, and the specific type of the base station is not limited. The core network device may include, but is not limited to, at least one of: core network nodes, core network functions, mobility management entities (Mobility Management Entity, MME), access mobility management functions (Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF), session management functions (Session Management Function, SMF), user plane functions (User Plane Function, UPF), policy control functions (Policy Control Function, PCF), policy and charging rules function units (Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF), edge application service discovery functions (Edge Application Server Discovery Function, EASDF), unified data management (Unified Data Management, UDM), unified data repository (Unified Data Repository, UDR), home subscriber server (Home Subscriber Server, HSS), centralized network configuration (Centralized network configuration, CNC), network storage functions (Network Repository Function, NRF), network opening functions (Network Exposure Function, NEF), local NEF (or L-NEF), binding support functions (Binding Support Function, BSF), application functions (Application Function, AF), location management functions (location manage function, LMF), enhanced services mobile location center (Enhanced Serving Mobile Location Centre, E-SMLC), network data analysis functions (network data analytics function, NWDAF), and the like. In the embodiment of the present application, only the core network device in the NR system is described as an example, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited.

The following describes in detail the gap configuration method, the device, the terminal and the network side device provided in the embodiments of the present application through some embodiments and application scenarios thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiments of the present application provide a solution to the problem of inefficiency in gap configuration and measurement. In order to facilitate a clearer understanding of the embodiments of the present application, some related technical knowledge will be described first.

The RRM consistency assessment mainly tests whether the terminal meets the minimum requirement defined by the standard in terms of performance, and the consistency assessment has important significance for ensuring interconnection and interworking of networks and user experience of the terminal.

In RRM measurement, for inter-frequency and inter-RAT measurement, since the frequency points of the inter-frequency cell and the inter-RAT cell are different from those of the serving cell, the terminal cannot use the same RF chain to complete the signal transceiving of the serving cell and the measurement of different frequency points at the same time, so that under the condition that the terminal RF chain is limited, the terminal needs to introduce gap for measurement. When the terminal measures another cell in the gap, the terminal cannot complete the transmission and reception of the serving cell, and the throughput of the terminal is reduced.

In the NR Rel-15/16 version, as in LTE, one terminal can only be configured with one measurement gap pattern, in NR, the terminal level (per UE) can only be configured with one gap pattern; terminals using frequency range level measurement gaps (per FR gaps) can only be configured with one gap pattern per Frequency Range (FR). For NR, the complexity in the nature of the measurement object is much higher than that of LTE, such as positioning information, channel state information reference signals (Channel State Information Reference Signal, CSI-RS), multiple universal subscriber identity cards (Multi-USIM, MUSIM), non-terrestrial networks (non-terrestrial networks, NTN), etc. The increase in complexity in the time domain is manifested by an increase in non-periodic measurement objects or by a plurality of measurement objects (Measurement Object, MO) having different periods and offsets, and in the frequency domain is manifested by a substantial increase in the possible positions of the center frequency point of the measurement objects. Currently, in order to ensure more efficient measurement based on measurement gap, it is desirable to align multiple MOs, such as multiple synchronization signals/physical broadcast channel blocks (Synchronization Signal/PBCH blocks, SSBs), as much as possible in the time domain, which reduces the flexibility of network configuration. For more flexible network configuration and also for reducing overhead of measurement gap, R17 is planning to introduce a mechanism for configuring multiple measurement gap patterns for one terminal.

In the gap enhancement Working phase (WI) in R17, pre-MG and NCSG are introduced.

1. The Pre-MG mainly solves the problem that the gap configured by radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) cannot be adapted to the situation after the Bandwidth Part (BWP) is switched in time.

For example, a terminal configures measurement gap through RRC, and when the terminal operates in bandwidth part 1 (BWP 1), the terminal needs gap to perform correlation measurement, but when the terminal operates in bandwidth part 2 (BWP 2) through BWP handover, the terminal may perform correlation measurement without gap. However, since the gap is configured through RRC, the gap cannot be canceled even if it is not currently needed, ultimately resulting in reduced throughput of the terminal. The gap of the Pre-MG in Rel-17 can dynamically activate or deactivate the Pre-MG according to defined activation or deactivation conditions, so that the problems are solved, and the terminal throughput is improved.

2. The principle of NCSG is: assuming that the terminal has an idle radio frequency channel, measurement on the neighbor cell can be completed by using the idle radio frequency channel, and at this time, no network configuration measurement gap is needed, and when the idle radio frequency channel is measured, the measurement on the serving cell may be interrupted due to the opening or closing of the idle radio frequency channel.

Based on the above characteristics, NCSG defines an NCSG that can be understood as a virtual measurement gap, the NCSG has visible interrupt lengths (visible interruption length, VIL) 1 and VIL2 at both ends, and the measurement duration ML in the middle of gap can be used for data transmission, that is, has no influence on normal data transmission in ML.

At the terminal level (per UE level), at most two simultaneously configured gap patterns are supported, at the frequency range level (per FR level), any FR can support 2 simultaneously configured gap patterns, and the maximum value of the gap patterns of all FR is 3. In Rel-17 coherent gap, at most two gap patterns are supported, each gap pattern is configured with an associated priority, and when gaps of different gap patterns conflict, which gap is reserved and which gap is discarded is determined according to the priorities.

The gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to a terminal needing to be configured with the gap by the network side equipment.

Fig. 2 is one of the flow diagrams of the gap configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, the method includes step 201; wherein:

step 201, a terminal receives gap configuration information from network side equipment; the gap configuration information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern.

Specifically, in the related art, for example, a gap configuration scheme in which a plurality of gap patterns (con gaps) can be simultaneously configured is provided in R17, and the solution of gap collision in this scheme depends only on a scheme based on 2 different priorities within the con gap. The gap pattern of this scheme only supports the gap pattern types defined in Rel-16. Pre-MG and NCSG are also introduced into R17. When one gap pattern in the con gap is Pre-MG or NCSG, the current priority-based gap conflict solution of R17 cannot efficiently support the scenarios of Pre-MG and R16 legacy (legacy) measurement gap simultaneous configuration (con) due to the characteristics of Pre-MG and NCSG; nor can it efficiently support the scenarios of NCSG and R16 legacy measurement gap simultaneous configuration (current).

In an embodiment of the present application, the second gap pattern may comprise a gap pattern type defined in Rel-16. The network side device sends the gap configuration information to the terminal, and the terminal receives the gap configuration information from the network side device to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap instead of only resolving the gap conflict based on priority under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern are in conflict, and part of gap resources which are not affected by the gap conflict are reserved.

Alternatively, the first gap may be equivalent to that the terminal does not have a gap when a gap conflict occurs with the second gap. Alternatively, for the Pre-MG in the deactivated state, the gap conflict processing is not engaged even if it conflicts with other measured gaps, i.e., the measured gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state at this time is regarded as not present. For example, when a measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state collides with another measurement gap, the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may be regarded as absent, the other measurement gap may be reserved, and the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may also continue its own measurement. For another example, if there is a collision between the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state and another plurality of measurement gaps, the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may be regarded as absent, and other measurement gap collisions may be handled according to the existing scheme.

For example, in theory, a gap conflict may occur between the first gap and the second gap at a certain time point, but in fact, the first gap and the second gap may both be measured as measurement gaps at the time point, at this time, it may be understood that no gap conflict actually occurs between the first gap and the second gap, at this time, the terminal may reserve the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information, and may use the first gap and the second gap to perform measurement.

It should be noted that, the gap configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to both NR and LTE or other systems.

In the gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the terminal receives the gap configuration information from the network side device to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern collide, but the terminal only solves the gap collision based on the priority, so that part of gap resources which are not influenced by the gap collision are reserved, and the gap configuration and measurement efficiency can be effectively improved.

Optionally, in the case that the first gap collides with the second gap, the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information.

Optionally, the first gap pattern may include at least one of:

1) A preconfigured measurement gap (Pre-MG);

2) Network Control Small Gap (NCSG).

Optionally, the gap configuration information may include at least one of:

1. a first priority in which the first gap is in an activated state;

specifically, the first priority is used for indicating that the terminal determines to reserve the first gap or the second gap according to the priority of the first priority and the priority of the second gap when the first gap is in an activated state and the first gap collides with the second gap. For example, if the first priority is greater than the priority of the second gap, the first gap is reserved and the second gap is discarded; if the first priority is smaller than the priority of the second gap, the second gap is reserved, and the first gap is discarded.

Alternatively, the first priority may be a priority configured for the gap (without differentiating the gap state) using the prior art.

2. A second priority in which the first gap is in a deactivated state; the second priority is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide;

in particular, the second priority may include the lowest priority of the first gap or a special priority.

For example, for a Pre-MG, 2 different priorities may be set, the priority of the activated state and the priority of the deactivated state may be set to the lowest priority, while the measured gap of the Pre-MG that specifies that the deactivated state is in conflict or collision is not discarded. Alternatively, the lowest priority may refer to a minimum within a range of priority values specified by a protocol or configured by a network.

Alternatively, a special priority may be set for the Pre-MG in the deactivated state, specifying that none of the colliding or crashed measurement gaps is discarded when there is a collision or crashed measurement gap between the Pre-MG and the other non-Pre-MG gap patterns. Alternatively, the special priority may refer to a specific value within a priority value range specified by a protocol or configured by a network, where the specific value is used to indicate that, in a case where a gap in a deactivated state collides with other gaps, none of the bumped gaps is discarded.

3. The first indication information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide;

for example, the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may not be set with priority, and at this time, the terminal may be instructed by the first instruction information to not discard the measurement gap in which the first gap collides or collides with the measurement gap of the gap pattern of the other non-Pre-MG when the first gap is in the deactivated state.

4. The second indication information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap and the second gap collide;

for example, priority may not be set to the NCSG, and at this time, the second indication information may indicate that the terminal does not discard the measurement gap that is in collision or collision when the first gap of the NCSG collides with the measurement gap of the other non-NCSG gap pattern.

5. A third priority of the first gap; the third priority is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap and the second gap collide;

Specifically, the third priority may include the lowest priority or a special priority when the first gap is the NCSG.

For example, the priority of the NCSG may be set to be the lowest while the measurement gap of the NCSG that specifies a collision or collision is not discarded;

alternatively, a special priority may be set for the NCSG, specifying that when a collision or collision occurs between the measurement gap of the NCSG and other measurement gaps, none of the measurement gaps that have been collided or collided is discarded.

6. A fourth priority of the first gap; the fourth priority is used for indicating that the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide.

Specifically, the fourth priority may be a priority that is common to the Pre-MG in the activated state and in the deactivated state, and may be directly preconfigured or specified by a protocol: the Pre-MG in the deactivated state does not participate in the gap collision or collision handling.

For the Pre-MG, there are 2 states, an activated state and a deactivated state, the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the activated state is the same as the normal measurement gap, the terminal can measure other measurement objects with the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the activated state, and the serving cell cannot perform uplink and downlink transmission in the measurement gap. But while in the deactivated state, the terminal may simultaneously perform transmission of the serving cell and measurement of a suitable measurement object.

When the Pre-MG is in the deactivated state, it may be equivalent to the terminal not measuring gap at this time. When the terminal con configures a plurality of gap patterns, if the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state collides or collides (collided) with the measurement gap of other gap patterns, at this time, if the priority of the Pre-MG is higher than that of the other colliding or colliding gap patterns, the corresponding measurement gap of the other gap patterns should be discarded according to the original priority rule. However, in this case, the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may be equivalent to not having a measurement gap, and in this embodiment of the present application, other measurement gaps of the gap pattern that collide or collide with the measurement gap in the deactivated state Pre-MG may not be discarded, thereby improving the efficiency of gap configuration and measurement.

In addition, when the priority of the Pre-MG is lower than that of other collision or collision gap patterns, the corresponding measurement gap of the Pre-MG is discarded according to the original priority rule. However, the terminal at this time has the capability of measuring the measurement object on the Pre-MG, and in this embodiment of the present application, the measurement gap that collides or collides with the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may not be discarded, thereby improving the gap configuration and measurement efficiency.

In one embodiment, the Pre-MG is configured in accordance with the normal Rel-17 flow, and then the Pre-MG in the deactivated state is specified in the standard, and does not participate in gap conflict handling even if it conflicts with other measured gaps, i.e., the measured gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state at this time is deemed to be absent.

For example, when a measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state collides with another measurement gap, the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may be regarded as absent, the other measurement gap may be reserved, and the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may also continue its own measurement.

For another example, if there is a collision between the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state and another plurality of measurement gaps, the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in the deactivated state may be regarded as absent, and other measurement gap collisions may be handled according to the existing scheme.

It should be noted that, for the NCSG, the NCSG can be regarded as a measurement gap in which only two ends are interrupted and the data transmission and reception can be performed normally in the middle. In this embodiment, when the measurement gap of the NCSG collides or collides with the measurement gap of the other R16 legacy gap pattern, the measurement gap of the NCSG and the other measurement gaps that collide or collide are not discarded regardless of the priority of the NCSG.

Optionally, the second priority may include a lowest priority; and/or, the third priority may include a lowest priority.

Optionally, the implementation manner of reserving the first gap and the second gap by the terminal based on the gap configuration information may include at least one of the following:

the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the gap configuration information comprises the second priority and the first gap is in a deactivated state;

and if the gap configuration information comprises the third priority, the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap.

Specifically, in the case that the gap configuration information includes a second priority of the first gap in the deactivated state, and the first gap is currently in the deactivated state, if the first gap collides or collides with the second gap, the terminal may reserve the first gap and the second gap.

Alternatively, in the case where the gap configuration information includes the third priority configured for the NCSG, if the first gap collides or collides with the second gap, the terminal may reserve the first gap and the second gap.

Optionally, the gap configuration information may further include at least one of:

1) The identification of the first gap pattern;

2) The frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

3) The length of the first gap pattern;

4) The type of the first gap pattern;

specifically, the first gap pattern is of a type such as periodic gap, aperiodic gap, disposable gap, end-controlled gap, or dynamic gap.

5) A period of the first gap pattern;

6) Offset of the first gap pattern.

Alternatively, the gap configuration information may be carried through RRC reconfiguration signaling.

The gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to network side equipment which needs to configure the gap for the terminal.

FIG. 3 is a second flowchart of a gap configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in FIG. 3, the method includes step 301; wherein:

step 301, the network side equipment sends gap configuration information to the terminal; the gap configuration information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern.

Specifically, the network side device sends the gap configuration information to the terminal so as to indicate the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern; the terminal may receive the gap configuration information and reserve the first gap and the second gap in case of collision between the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information.

In the gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the network side equipment sends the gap configuration information to the terminal so as to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap instead of the terminal only solving the gap conflict based on the priority, and part of the gap resources which are not affected by the gap conflict are reserved, so that the gap configuration and measurement efficiency can be effectively improved.

Optionally, the first gap pattern may include at least one of:

1)Pre-MG；

2)NCSG。

optionally, the gap configuration information may include at least one of:

1. a first priority of the first gap in an activated state;

2. a second priority of the first gap in a deactivated state; the second priority is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide;

1) The identification of the first gap pattern;

2) The frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

3) The length of the first gap pattern;

4) The type of the first gap pattern;

5) A period of the first gap pattern;

6) Offset of the first gap pattern.

The following illustrates a gap configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application.

1. Pre-MG is one of concurrent gap pattern and the other concurrent gap pattern is R16 legacy gap pattern.

For the Pre-MG, 2 different priorities may be set, the priority of the activated state and the priority of the deactivated state may be set to be the lowest, while the measurement gap of the Pre-MG in which the deactivated state collides or collides is not discarded; or a special priority or no priority is set for the Pre-MG in the deactivated state, and when the measurement gap of the gap pattern of the Pre-MG and other non-Pre-MG collides or collides, the measurement gap which collides or collides is not discarded.

Signaling design embodiment 1 is as follows:

signaling design example 2 is as follows:

2. NCSG is one of concurrent gap pattern, and the other concurrent gap pattern is R16 legacy gap pattern.

A special priority or no priority is set for the NCSG, and when the NCSG collides or collides with the measurement gap of the other non-NCSG gap pattern, the measurement gap which collides or collides is not discarded.

Signaling design example 3 is as follows:

in this embodiment of the present application, a plurality of priorities may be configured for the gap pattern, which is a Pre-MG, specifically, a priority may be configured for each state (active state/inactive state) of the Pre-MG, and different states may have different priorities, so as to optimize a mechanism for measuring gap collision or collision. Special priorities may also be configured for NCSG and Pre-MG in deactivated state, and the gap collision or collision handling mechanism is measured using special priority optimizations. The efficiency of gap configuration and measurement can be effectively improved.

According to the gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application, the execution body can be a gap configuration device. In the embodiment of the present application, a gap configuration device is described by taking a gap configuration method performed by the gap configuration device as an example.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a gap configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4, the gap configuration device 400 is applied to a terminal, and includes:

a receiving module 401, configured to receive gap configuration information from a network side device;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern.

In the gap configuration device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the receiving module of the terminal can receive the gap configuration information from the network side device to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern collide, but the terminal only solves the gap collision based on the priority, so that part of gap resources which are not influenced by the gap collision are reserved, and the gap configuration and measurement efficiency can be effectively improved.

Optionally, the first gap pattern may include at least one of:

1)Pre-MG；

2)NCSG。

optionally, the gap configuration information may include at least one of:

1. a first priority of the first gap in an activated state;

Optionally, the gap configuration apparatus 400 further includes:

and the processing module is used for reserving the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information when the first gap and the second gap collide.

Optionally, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations:

1) The identification of the first gap pattern;

2) The frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

3) The length of the first gap pattern;

4) The type of the first gap pattern;

5) A period of the first gap pattern;

6) Offset of the first gap pattern.

Fig. 5 is a second schematic structural diagram of a gap configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5, the gap configuration device 500 is applied to a network side device, and includes:

a sending module 501, configured to send gap configuration information to a terminal;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern collides with the second gap of the second gap pattern.

In the gap configuration method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the sending module of the network side equipment sends the gap configuration information to the terminal so as to indicate that the terminal can reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern collide, but the terminal only solves the gap collision based on the priority, so that part of gap resources which are not influenced by the gap collision are reserved, and the gap configuration and measurement efficiency can be effectively improved.

Optionally, the first gap pattern may include at least one of:

1)Pre-MG；

2)NCSG。

optionally, the gap configuration information may include at least one of:

1. a first priority of the first gap in an activated state;

1) The identification of the first gap pattern;

2) The frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

3) The length of the first gap pattern;

4) The type of the first gap pattern;

5) A period of the first gap pattern;

6) Offset of the first gap pattern.

The gap configuration 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 the 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 gap configuration device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the embodiments of the methods of fig. 2 to 3, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is provided herein.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device provided in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 6, the communication device 600 includes a processor 601 and a memory 602, where a program or an instruction capable of running on the processor 601 is stored in the memory 602, for example, when the communication device 600 is a terminal, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 601 to implement each step of the above-mentioned embodiment of the gap configuration method on the terminal side, and the same technical effects can be achieved. When the communication device 600 is a network side device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 601, implements the steps of the above-mentioned embodiment of the gap configuration method of the network side device, and can achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for receiving the gap configuration information from the network side equipment;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves a first gap and a second gap under the condition that the first gap of the first gap pattern and the second gap of the second gap pattern collide. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the terminal-side method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 7, 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. 7 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal, and the terminal may include more or less components than shown, or may combine certain 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.

The embodiment of the application also provides network side equipment, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for sending gap configuration information to the terminal;

the gap configuration information is used for indicating that the terminal reserves a first gap and a second gap when the first gap of a first gap pattern and the second gap of a second gap pattern collide. The network side device embodiment corresponds to the network side device method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the network side device embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 8, the network side device 800 includes: an antenna 801, a radio frequency device 802, a baseband device 803, a processor 804, and a memory 805. The antenna 801 is connected to a radio frequency device 802. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 802 receives information via the antenna 801, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 803 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 803 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 802, and the radio frequency device 802 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 801.

The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment may be implemented in the baseband apparatus 803, where the baseband apparatus 803 includes a baseband processor.

The baseband device 803 may, for example, comprise at least one baseband board, on which a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 8, where one chip, for example, a baseband processor, is connected to the memory 805 through a bus interface, so as to invoke a program in the memory 805 to perform the network device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

The network side device may also include a network interface 806, 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 805 and executable on the processor 804, the processor 804 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 805 to perform the gap configuration method as described above and achieve the same technical effect, and are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a gap configuration system, which comprises: the terminal can be used for executing the step of the gap configuration method of the terminal side, and the network side equipment can be used for executing the step of the gap configuration method of the network side equipment.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, which may be volatile or non-volatile, and the readable storage medium stores a program or an instruction, where the program or the instruction implements each process of the above-mentioned gap configuration method embodiment when executed by a processor, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is provided herein.

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, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction, implement each process of the above-mentioned embodiment of the gap configuration method, and achieve the same technical effect, so as to avoid repetition, and not be repeated here.

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 above-mentioned gap configuration method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and details are not repeated herein.

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 gap configuration method, comprising:

2. The gap configuration method of claim 1, wherein the first gap pattern comprises at least one of:

a preconfigured measurement gap Pre-MG;

the network controls the small gap NCSG.

3. The gap configuration method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the gap configuration information includes at least one of:

the first gap is in a first priority of activating activated state;

the first gap is in a second priority of a deactivated state; the second priority is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide;

the first indication information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide;

The second indication information is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap and the second gap collide;

a third priority of the first gap; the third priority is used for indicating the terminal to reserve the first gap and the second gap under the condition that the first gap and the second gap collide;

a fourth priority of the first gap; the fourth priority is used for indicating that the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap when the first gap is in a deactivated state and the first gap and the second gap collide.

4. The gap configuration method of claim 3, wherein the second priority comprises a lowest priority; and/or, the third priority comprises a lowest priority.

5. The gap configuration method according to claim 3, characterized in that the method further comprises:

and under the condition that the first gap and the second gap collide, the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information.

6. The gap configuration method according to claim 5, wherein the terminal reserves the first gap and the second gap based on the gap configuration information, including at least one of:

7. The gap configuration method according to claim 3, wherein the gap configuration information further includes at least one of:

the identification of the first gap pattern;

the frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

the length of the first gap pattern;

the type of the first gap pattern;

a period of the first gap pattern;

offset of the first gap pattern.

8. The gap configuration method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the gap configuration information is carried by radio resource control, RRC, reconfiguration signaling.

9. A gap configuration method, comprising:

the network side equipment sends gap configuration information to the terminal;

10. The gap configuration method of claim 9, wherein the first gap pattern comprises at least one of:

a preconfigured measurement gap Pre-MG;

the network controls the small gap NCSG.

11. The gap configuration method according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that the gap configuration information includes at least one of:

the first gap is in a first priority of activating activated state;

12. The gap configuration method according to claim 11, wherein the second priority comprises a lowest priority; and/or, the third priority comprises a lowest priority.

13. The gap configuration method according to claim 11, wherein the gap configuration information further includes at least one of:

the identification of the first gap pattern;

the frequency point information of the first gap pattern;

the length of the first gap pattern;

the type of the first gap pattern;

a period of the first gap pattern;

offset of the first gap pattern.

14. The gap configuration method according to any one of claims 9 to 13, characterized in that the gap configuration information is carried by radio resource control, RRC, reconfiguration signaling.

15. A gap configuration apparatus, comprising:

16. A gap configuration apparatus, comprising:

17. A terminal 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 gap configuration method of any one of claims 1 to 8.

18. A network side 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 gap configuration method of any one of claims 9 to 14.

19. A readable storage medium, wherein a program or instructions is stored on the readable storage medium, which when executed by a processor, implements the gap configuration method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, or the steps of the gap configuration method according to any one of claims 9 to 14.