CN117676642A

CN117676642A - Cell configuration method, device, relay equipment, terminal and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN117676642A
Application number: CN202311699413.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 毛源泽
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-12-11
Filing date: 2023-12-11
Publication date: 2024-03-08

Abstract

The application discloses a cell configuration method, a device, a relay device, a terminal and a network device, which belong to the technical field of communication, and the cell configuration method in the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: the relay equipment receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message is used for requesting network equipment to configure a Scell for the first terminal; the relay device sends a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; the relay device receives Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; and the relay equipment sends the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

Description

Cell configuration method, device, relay equipment, terminal and network equipment

Technical Field

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

Background

Relay (Relay) technology in a wireless communication system, that is, one or more Relay devices are added between a Network device (e.g., a base station) and a terminal to forward a wireless signal one or more times, for example, when the link quality between a remote User Equipment (UE) and the Network device is poor, the remote UE may select an appropriate Relay UE, and ensure service continuity through the UE-to-Network (U2N) Relay technology. The remote UE may also be referred to as a remote terminal or a remote terminal.

Currently, carrier aggregation (Carrier Aggregation, CA) is introduced in order to improve network resource utilization, transmission rate, etc. However, in the related art, the CA configuration for the terminal and the CA configuration for the relay device are independent from each other, which easily causes mismatching between the terminal transmission rate and the relay device transmission rate, and affects the terminal transmission rate.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a cell configuration method, a cell configuration device, a relay device, a terminal and network equipment, which can reduce the occurrence of the condition that the transmission rate of the terminal is not matched with the transmission rate of the relay device and ensure the transmission rate of the terminal.

In a first aspect, a cell configuration method is provided, where the method includes:

The relay device receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message is used for requesting a network device to configure a Secondary Cell (Scell) for the first terminal;

the relay device sends a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message;

the relay device receives Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device;

and the relay equipment sends the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

In a second aspect, there is provided a cell configuration apparatus applied to a relay device, the apparatus comprising:

a first receiving module, configured to receive a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

a first sending module, configured to send a second request message to a network device, where the second request message is determined according to the first request message;

a second receiving module, configured to receive Scell configuration information sent by the network device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device;

And the second sending module is used for sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

In a third aspect, a cell configuration method is provided, where the method includes:

the method comprises the steps that a first terminal sends a first request message to relay equipment, wherein the first request message is used for requesting network equipment to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

the first terminal receives Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device;

the first terminal activates the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a cell configuration apparatus applied to a first terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a fourth sending module, configured to send a first request message to a relay device, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device;

And the first activation module is used for activating the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

In a fifth aspect, a cell configuration method is provided, where the method includes:

the network equipment receives a second request message sent by the relay equipment, wherein the second request message is used for requesting the network equipment to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

the network device sends Scell configuration information to the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In a sixth aspect, there is provided a cell configuration apparatus applied to a network device, the apparatus comprising:

a sixth receiving module, configured to receive a second request message sent by a relay device, where the second request message is used to request the network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

and a sixth sending module, configured to send Scell configuration information to the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a relay 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.

An eighth aspect provides a relay device, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to receive a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is configured to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; sending a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; and sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

In a ninth 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, carries out the steps of the method according to the third aspect.

In a tenth aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to send a first request message to a relay device, where the first request message is configured to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; the processor is configured to activate the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a network 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 fifth aspect.

A twelfth aspect provides a network device, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to receive a second request message sent by a relay device, where the second request message is configured to request the network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for a first terminal; and sending Scell configuration information to the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring the Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In a thirteenth aspect, there is provided a cell configuration system, including: relay device, terminal and network device, the relay device being operable to perform the steps of the cell configuration method as described in the first aspect, the terminal being operable to perform the steps of the cell configuration method as described in the third aspect, the network device being operable to perform the steps of the cell configuration method as described in the fifth aspect.

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

In a fifteenth 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, implementing the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, or implementing the steps of the method as described in the third aspect, or implementing the steps of the method as described in the fifth aspect.

In a sixteenth aspect, there is provided a computer program/program product stored in a storage medium, the computer program/program product being executable by at least one processor to perform the steps of the method according to the first aspect, or to perform the steps of the method according to the third aspect, or to perform the steps of the method according to the fifth aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, a relay device receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a Scell for the first terminal; sending a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; and sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal, that is, the embodiment of the application configures the Scell information added by the relay device to the first terminal under the condition of configuring the Scell for the first terminal, which is beneficial to ensuring the consistency of the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal, so that the occurrence of the condition that the transmission rate of the first terminal is not matched with the transmission rate of the relay device can be reduced, and the transmission rate of the first terminal is ensured.

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 flowchart of a cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of another cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of yet another cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of yet another cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a block diagram of a cell configuration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a block diagram of another cell configuration apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of yet another cell configuration apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a block diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a block diagram of a network 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 this application are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not 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, the "or" in this application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, "a or B" encompasses three schemes, scheme one: including a and excluding B; scheme II: including B and excluding a; scheme III: both a and B. The character "/" generally indicates that the context-dependent object is an "or" relationship.

The term "indication" in this application may be either a direct indication (or an explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or an implicit indication). The direct indication may be understood that the sender explicitly informs the specific information of the receiver, the operation to be executed, the request result, and other contents in the sent indication; the indirect indication may be understood as that the receiving side determines corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sending side, or determines and determines an operation or a request result to be executed according to a determination result.

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), or 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 description that follows, but these techniques are also applicable to systems other than NR systems, such as generation 6 (6) ^th 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 network device 12. The terminal 11 may be a mobile phone, a tablet (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer), 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 Device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), an augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR), a Virtual Reality (VR) Device, a robot, a Wearable Device (Weiable Device), an aircraft (flight vehicle), a vehicle-mounted Device (Vehicle User Equipment, vue), a ship-mounted Device, a pedestrian terminal (Pedestrian User Equipment, PUE), an intelligent home (home Device with a wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, furniture, etc.), a game machine, a personal Computer (Personal Computer, PC), a teller machine, or a self-service machine, etc. 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.. The in-vehicle apparatus may also be referred to as an in-vehicle terminal, an in-vehicle controller, an in-vehicle module, an in-vehicle component, an in-vehicle chip, an in-vehicle unit, or the like. Note that, the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The network device 12 may comprise an access network device or a core network device, wherein the access network device may also be referred to as a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN) device, a radio access network function or a radio access network element. The Access network device may include a base station, a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN) Access Point (AP), or a wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, wiFi) node, etc. The base station may be referred to as a Node B (NB), an Evolved Node B (eNB), a next generation Node B (the next generation Node B, gNB), a New air Node B (New Radio Node B, NR Node B), an access point, a relay station (Relay Base Station, RBS), a serving base station (Serving Base Station, SBS), 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 (home Node B, HNB), a home Evolved Node B (home Evolved Node B), a transmission/reception point (Transmission Reception Point, TRP), or some other suitable term in the field, so long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary, and it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the base station in the NR system is only described as an 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), 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.

It should be noted that, the first terminal provided in the embodiments of the present application may be any terminal that communicates with the network device through the relay device, and the first terminal may be referred to as a remote terminal or a remote UE or a remote terminal or a remote UE. The relay device provided in the embodiment of the present application may be a terminal, a base station, or the like, where in the case where the relay device is a terminal, the terminal with the relay function may be referred to as a relay device, a relay UE, or the like.

The cell configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application is described in detail below by some embodiments and application scenarios thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart of a cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method may be performed by a relay device, as shown in fig. 2, and includes the following steps:

step 201, a relay device receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a Scell for the first terminal.

In this embodiment, the first request message is used to request the network device to configure the Scell for the first terminal, and may also be referred to as the first request message being used to request adding the Scell, configuring the CA, adding the CA, or the like for the first terminal. That is, configuring the Scell in this embodiment may also be referred to as adding the Scell, or configuring the CA, or adding the CA, or the like.

In some alternative embodiments, the first request message may include a measurement report of the cell, for example, the first request message may include an A4 measurement report of the cell. Further, the first request message may be a radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) message.

In some optional embodiments, the first request message may include CA information of the relay device, where the CA information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

It will be appreciated that the communication connection is established between the first terminal and the relay device before the relay device receives the first request message sent by the first terminal.

Step 202, the relay device sends a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message.

The second request message may be the same as the first request message, i.e. the relay device simply forwards the first request message received from the first terminal to the network device; alternatively, the second request message may be a request message newly generated according to the first request message, for example, the relay device may insert information of the Scell added by the relay device into the first request message, and send the first request message after inserting the information of the Scell added by the relay device to the network device, where the second request message is the first request message after inserting the information of the Scell added by the relay device.

The following is described:

case one: adding, by the first terminal, CA information of the relay device, that is, the first request message includes CA information of the relay device, the second request message also includes CA information of the relay device, and the CA information of the relay device included in the second request message is the same as the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message. In this case, the relay device may directly forward the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message to the network device upon receiving the first request message.

And a second case: the CA information of the relay device is added by the relay device, i.e. the first request message may not comprise the CA information of the relay device, whereas the second request message comprises the CA information of the relay device. In this case, the relay device may insert CA information of the relay device in the first request message in the case of receiving the first request message, and transmit the first request message after the CA information of the relay device is inserted to the network device. The second request message is the first request message after the CA information of the relay device is inserted.

And a third case: the network device obtains the CA information of the relay device from the local, that is, the first request message may not include the CA information of the relay device, and the second request message may not include the CA information of the relay device, where the network device obtains the CA information of the relay device from the local when receiving the second request message.

It may be appreciated that the network device may configure the Scell for the first terminal in case of receiving the second request message, e.g. in case the second request message includes information of the Scell added by the relay device, the network device may configure the Scell added by the relay device to the first terminal; in the case that the second request message does not include the information of the Scell added by the relay device, the network device may locally search for the information of the Scell added by the relay device, and may further configure the Scell added by the relay device to the first terminal.

Step 203, the relay device receives Scell configuration information sent by the network device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In this embodiment, the above Scell configuration information may include information of at least one Scell, where the information of the at least one Scell includes information of a Scell added by the relay device, that is, the network device may configure at least one Scell for the first terminal, where the at least one Scell includes a Scell added by the relay device. The information of the Scell may include, but is not limited to, at least one of identification of the Scell (i.e., scell ID), bandwidth of the Scell, frequency point of the Scell, and the like.

Step 204, the relay device sends the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

In this step, the relay device may forward Scell configuration information received from the network device to the first terminal, and the first terminal may activate the Scell based on the Scell configuration information. For example, in case the Scell configuration information includes information of one Scell, the first terminal may activate the Scell; in case that the Scell configuration information includes information of at least two scells, the first terminal may activate at least one Scell of the at least two scells.

In the cell configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application, a relay device receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a Scell for the first terminal; sending a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; and sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal, that is, the embodiment of the application configures the Scell information added by the relay device to the first terminal under the condition of configuring the Scell for the first terminal, which is beneficial to ensuring the consistency of the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal, so that the occurrence of the condition that the transmission rate of the first terminal is not matched with the transmission rate of the relay device can be reduced, and the transmission rate of the first terminal is ensured.

Optionally, the second request message includes CA information of the relay device, where the CA information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In this embodiment, the second request message sent by the relay device to the network device includes CA information of the relay device, where the CA information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device. In some alternative embodiments, the CA information may further include information of a Primary Cell (PCell) of the relay device.

For example, the first terminal may include CA information of the relay device in the first request message, in which case the CA information of the relay device included in the second request message may be the same as the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message; alternatively, the CA information of the relay device may be added by the relay device to the received first request message, in which case the second request message may be the first request message after adding the CA information of the relay device.

In this embodiment, the second request message sent to the network device includes the CA information of the relay device, so the network device may configure the Scell for the first terminal directly according to the CA information of the relay device included in the second request message, so the operation of the network device may be reduced while the consistency of the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal may be ensured.

Optionally, before the relay device sends the second request message to the network device, the method further includes:

the relay device generates a second request message according to the first request message and CA information of the relay device.

In this embodiment, when the relay device receives the first request message, the CA information of the relay device may be added to the first request message to obtain the second request message, that is, the second request message is the first request message after the CA information of the relay device is added, and then the relay device may send the second request message to the network device.

It should be noted that, in some scenarios, CA information of the relay device may change, for example, the Scell added by the relay device may change when the relay device moves, so that adding, by the relay device, CA information of the relay device in the first request message is beneficial to ensuring that the added CA information is current CA information of the relay device, so that a situation that the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal are inconsistent due to the change of the CA information of the relay device may be reduced.

In some alternative embodiments, in case the relay device is not currently added or configured with scells or CAs, the relay device may directly forward the first request message to the network device in case the first request message is received, in which case the network device may configure the Scell for the first terminal in a prior art Scell configuration manner, e.g. may configure the Scell for the first terminal based on measurement reports of cells reported by the first terminal.

Optionally, the relay device generates a second request message according to the first request message and CA information of the relay device, including:

generating a second request message by the relay device according to the first request message and the current CA information of the relay device under the condition that a first condition is met between the relay device and the first terminal;

wherein the first condition includes any one of:

the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same operator;

the method comprises the steps that a first operator to which a first SIM card belongs is different from a second operator to which a second SIM card belongs, and different network roaming is supported between a network of the first operator and a network of the second operator;

the first SIM card is used by the relay equipment connection network, and the second SIM card is used by the first terminal connection network.

It should be noted that, in the case where the first condition is not satisfied between the relay device and the first terminal, the relay device may directly forward the first request message to the network device, in which case, the network device may configure the Scell for the first terminal according to the Scell configuration manner in the prior art, for example, may configure the Scell for the first terminal based on the measurement report of the cell reported by the first terminal.

In this embodiment, when the first condition is satisfied between the relay device and the first terminal, the relay device generates the second request message according to the first request message and the current CA information of the relay device, so that the occurrence of failure in adding the secondary cell to the first terminal caused by the operator network used by the first terminal and the relay device can be reduced, and the efficiency of adding the secondary cell to the first terminal is improved.

Optionally, before the relay device receives the first request message sent by the first terminal, the method further includes:

the relay equipment receives a query request sent by the first terminal, wherein the query request is used for requesting to query CA information of the relay equipment;

the relay device sends query response information to the first terminal, wherein the query response information comprises CA information of the relay device.

For example, the first terminal may send a query request to the relay device in case that it is determined that the secondary cell needs to be added, and the relay device sends current CA information of the relay device to the first terminal in response to the query request; or in a time period in a communication connection state between the relay device and the first terminal, the relay device may synchronize its CA information to the first terminal, for example, the first terminal may send a query request to the relay device every preset time period, and the relay device may send the current CA information of the relay device to the first terminal in response to the query request, where the preset time period may be reasonably set according to an actual requirement, for example, 1 minute or 5 minutes, etc.

When the first terminal receives the CA information of the relay device, the first terminal may store the CA information of the relay device or transmit the CA information of the relay device to the network device.

In this embodiment, the relay device synchronizes its CA information to the first terminal, so that the first terminal is convenient to perform secondary cell configuration or addition based on the CA information of the relay device, for example, the first request message is sent to the network device according to the CA information of the relay device, or if the network device fails to configure the secondary cell for the first terminal, the secondary cell is added according to the CA information of the relay device, so that consistency of the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal is guaranteed.

Optionally, the first request message includes CA information of the relay device, the second request message includes CA information of the relay device, and the CA information of the relay device included in the second request message is the same as the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message.

For example, the first terminal may add the CA information of the relay device in the first request message in case of acquiring the CA information of the relay device. The relay device may forward CA information of the relay device included in the first request message to the network device when receiving the first request message, and in this case, the second request message may be a message forwarded by the relay device to the network device, where the message includes CA information of the relay device included in the first request message.

In this embodiment, the first terminal adds the CA information of the relay device to the first request message, in which case the relay device may directly forward the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message to the network device, so that the processing flow of the relay device may be simplified.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart of a cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method may be performed by a first terminal, as shown in fig. 3, and includes the following steps:

step 301, a first terminal sends a first request message to a relay device, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a Scell for the first terminal.

In this embodiment, the first terminal may send a first request message to the relay device when it is determined that the Scell needs to be added according to the service status, for example, the first terminal sends the first request message to the relay device when it is required to perform a service with a higher requirement on the network rate, so as to request the network device to configure the Scell for the first terminal. Such services with high network rate requirements, e.g., live broadcast, video, gaming, etc.

The first request message in this embodiment may refer to the related description of the foregoing embodiment, and will not be described herein.

It will be appreciated that the first terminal has established a communication connection with the primary cell and has established a communication connection with the relay device before sending the first request message to the relay device.

Step 302, the first terminal receives Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

The Scell configuration information in this embodiment may be referred to the related description of the foregoing embodiments, and will not be described herein.

Step 303, the first terminal activates the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

For example, in case that the Scell configuration information includes information of one Scell, the first terminal may activate the Scell, i.e., the Scell added by the relay apparatus; in case that the Scell configuration information includes information of at least two scells, the first terminal may activate at least one Scell of the at least two scells, for example, activate a Scell added by the relay apparatus.

In this embodiment, the Scell configuration information includes the information of the Scell added by the relay device, that is, the information of the Scell added by the relay device is configured to the first terminal when the Scell is configured for the first terminal, which is favorable for ensuring consistency between the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal, so that occurrence of a situation that the transmission rate of the first terminal is not matched with the transmission rate of the relay device can be reduced, and the transmission rate of the first terminal is ensured.

Optionally, before the first terminal sends the first request message to the relay device, the method further includes:

the first terminal sends a query request to the relay device, wherein the query request is used for requesting to query Carrier Aggregation (CA) information of the relay device, and the CA information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device;

the first terminal receives inquiry response information sent by the relay equipment, wherein the inquiry response information comprises CA information of the relay equipment;

the first terminal stores CA information of the relay device.

In this embodiment, the first terminal obtains and stores the CA information of the relay device, so that the first terminal is convenient to perform secondary cell configuration or addition based on the CA information of the relay device, for example, the first terminal sends a secondary cell configuration request, that is, a first request message, to the network device according to the CA information of the relay device, or adds a secondary cell according to the CA information of the relay device when the network device fails to configure the secondary cell for the first terminal, which is further beneficial to ensuring consistency of the Scell added by the relay device and the Scell added by the first terminal.

Optionally, the first request message includes CA information of the relay device.

For example, the first terminal may add the CA information of the relay device to the first request message in case of acquiring the CA information of the relay device, so that the relay device may forward the CA information of the relay device included in the first request message to the network device in case of receiving the first request message.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and under the condition that the first terminal fails to receive the Scell configuration information sent by the relay equipment, the first terminal activates the Scell according to the stored CA information of the relay equipment.

In this embodiment, when the first terminal fails to receive the Scell configuration information, for example, due to failure in receiving the Scell configuration information caused by poor network quality, the first terminal may acquire the stored CA information of the relay device, acquire the information of the Scell added by the relay device from the CA information of the relay device, and activate the Scell added by the relay device, that is, use the Scell added by the relay device as the Scell of the first terminal, so that failure in adding the Scell to the first terminal caused by failure in receiving the Scell configuration information may be reduced, which is beneficial to ensuring the transmission rate of the first terminal.

In some alternative embodiments, after the first terminal activates the Scell, a feedback message may be sent to the network device to indicate to the network device the Scell it activates, so as to ensure consistency of understanding by the first terminal and the network device.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a flowchart of a cell configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method may be performed by a network device, as shown in fig. 4, and includes the following steps:

Step 401, the network device receives a second request message sent by the relay device, where the second request message is used to request the network device to configure a Scell for the first terminal.

It should be noted that, the second request message in this embodiment may refer to the related description of the foregoing embodiment, which is not described herein.

Step 402, the network device sends Scell configuration information to the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

In this embodiment, the network device may configure the Scell for the first terminal when receiving the second request message, for example, when the second request message includes information of the Scell added by the relay device, the network device may configure the Scell added by the relay device to the first terminal; in the case that the second request message does not include the information of the Scell added by the relay device, the network device may locally search for the information of the Scell added by the relay device, and may further configure the Scell added by the relay device to the first terminal.

When the network device configures the Scell for the first terminal, in addition to the information of the Scell added by the relay device, factors such as the signal quality of the cell and the capability of the terminal need to be considered, for example, when the signal quality of the Scell added by the relay device meets the threshold requirement, the Scell added by the relay device may be configured for the first terminal preferentially, and when the signal quality of the Scell added by the relay device does not meet the threshold requirement, the network device may not configure the Scell added by the relay device for the first terminal.

It should be noted that, the implementation manner of this embodiment may refer to the related description of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, which is not described herein.

Optionally, after the network device receives the second request message sent by the relay device, the method further includes:

the network equipment acquires the information of the Scell added by the relay equipment;

and the network equipment determines the Scell configuration information according to the information of the Scell added by the relay equipment.

For example, in the case that the second request message does not carry CA information of the relay device, the network device may locally find the CA information of the relay device, and further configure the information of the Scell in the CA information of the relay device to the first terminal, that is, include the information of the Scell added by the relay device in the Scell configuration information.

In this embodiment, the network device determines the information of the Scell added by the relay device and configures the information to the first terminal, so that not only can the Scell configured for the first terminal be ensured to be the current Scell of the relay device, but also signaling overhead can be saved.

Embodiments of the present application are illustrated below in conjunction with examples:

as shown in fig. 5, the cell configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application includes the following steps:

Step 501, the first terminal inserts the SIM card, and performs communication service after network residence.

In the step, a first terminal selects a cell in a CA cell set to access, and completes a network attachment flow on a Pcell to establish initial connection. The Pcell refers to a cell where the first terminal resides, i.e., a primary serving cell of the first terminal, and is responsible for RRC communication with the first terminal.

Note that SCell is added at RRC reconfiguration to provide additional radio resources. The CA cell set refers to that a plurality of cells are configured into a logic set on a base station, only the cells in the set are allowed to aggregate, and the network equipment configures relevant parameters of the CA cell set.

Step 502, the relay device inserts the SIM card and performs communication service after network residence.

In this step, the relay device inserts the SIM card, selects a corresponding cell to camp on, and performs a communication service, for example, the relay device registers in the 5G network.

Step 503, the relay device selects SCell addition and activation.

In this step, the relay device may send an A4 measurement report to the network device, asking the network device to configure it with the corresponding Scell. After receiving the measurement report of the relay device, the network device may send a corresponding Scell to the relay device in the RRC message. The relay device parses out the Scell, and adds and activates the Scell.

Step 504, the first terminal selects a suitable relay device to establish connection and communicate.

In this step, the first terminal sends a query signaling to the relay devices around it, and selects the relay devices that meet the threshold condition (e.g., signal threshold, connection threshold, etc.) and that have matched capabilities to access, and establishes traffic communication.

Step 505, the first terminal sends a query request for registering the frequency band and the CA information to the relay device.

In this step, the first terminal transmits registration band and CA information Query (Query) signaling to the connected relay device. For example, a pair of signaling may be newly added to serve exclusively as a query and synchronization of registration frequency band and CA information between the relay device and the first terminal.

And step 506, the relay device sends the registered frequency band and the CA information to the first terminal.

In this step, after receiving the inquiry signaling of the registered frequency band and CA information sent by the first terminal, the relay device inserts the currently registered frequency band information and CA information into the inquiry Response information (Response) signaling and sends the inquiry Response information and CA information to the first terminal.

It should be noted that, when the relay device currently has the Scell added, the information of the Scell is carried in the CA field in the query response information; when the relay device does not add the Scell currently, the CA field is not carried in the query response information.

Step 507, the first terminal sends a Scell adding request message to the relay device under the condition that the first terminal determines that the Scell needs to be added according to the current service state.

In the step, after receiving the inquiry response information signaling of the relay device, the first terminal analyzes the carried frequency band information and CA information and stores the information in the first terminal. When the first terminal performs a corresponding communication service, for example, playing a game or checking live broadcast, if the first terminal determines that a corresponding Scell needs to be added so as to accelerate a network rate to obtain a better network experience, the first terminal sends a Scell adding request message (i.e. a first request message) to the relay device, so as to inform the relay device that the first terminal currently requests to add or configure the Scell. The Scell addition request message includes a measurement report, e.g., an A4 measurement report.

Step 508, the relay device synchronizes the Scell adding request message sent by the first terminal to the network device.

In the step, after receiving a measurement report sent by a first terminal, a relay device analyzes registration information of the first terminal in the measurement report, and performs corresponding processing according to the registration information of the first terminal, which is described in the following cases:

(1) When the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same operator, the relay device executes the following processing:

If the relay device has added the Scell, the relay device will insert the CA information added by itself into the A4 measurement report, and then synchronize the measurement report to the network device;

if the relay device does not currently add the Scell, the relay device sends a measurement report to the network device.

(2) And when the first SIM card and the second SIM card do not belong to the same operator, the relay equipment directly sends the measurement report to the network equipment.

(3) When the first SIM card and the second SIM card do not belong to the same operator, but the two operator networks support different network roaming, the relay device executes the following processing:

Step 509, the network device returns Scell configuration information to the relay device according to the Scell addition request message.

In the step, after receiving a measurement report sent by a relay device, the network device analyzes CA information in the measurement report, and if the measurement report contains the CA information, the network device directly inserts Scell information in the CA information into an RRC message and feeds the RRC message back to the relay device; if the measurement report does not contain CA information, the network device needs to query and issue Scell information to the relay device according to the current network condition, and the Scell information is also inserted in the RRC signaling.

Step 510, the relay device synchronizes the received Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

In this step, when the relay device receives the RRC signaling sent by the network device, the relay device continues to send the RRC signaling to the first terminal.

Step 511, the first terminal activates the Scell configuration information returned by the relay device.

In this step, when the first terminal receives the RRC signaling sent by the relay device, the first terminal analyzes the Scell configuration information in the RRC signaling, updates the CA information stored in the first terminal in step 507, and activates the Scell obtained by the analysis, so that the copying of the CA on the relay device to the first terminal is completed.

And step 512, after the related service of the first terminal is completed, deactivating the Scell returned by the relay equipment.

In this step, when the first terminal completes the corresponding communication service, the added Scell is deactivated, so that the power saving requirement can be met to a certain extent.

In summary, it can be known that the embodiments of the present application combine the advantages of the CA and side link (Sidelink) relay (oly) technology, after selecting the relay device, the first terminal may copy the CA of the relay device to the first terminal, so that on one hand, the flow of CA adding performed by the first terminal may be optimized, the CA adding efficiency may be improved, and on the other hand, the CAs of the first terminal and the relay device may be unified, and to some extent, the phenomenon of congestion and jamming caused by mismatching of transmission rates may be avoided, and further, service experience such as surfing by a user may be improved.

It should be noted that, in the cell configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution body may be a cell configuration device, or a control module in the cell configuration device for executing the cell configuration method. In the embodiment of the present application, a cell configuration device is described by taking a cell configuration method performed by a cell configuration device as an example.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a block diagram of a cell configuration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 6, a cell configuration apparatus 600 includes:

A first receiving module 601, configured to receive a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

a first sending module 602, configured to send a second request message to a network device, where the second request message is determined according to the first request message;

a second receiving module 603, configured to receive Scell configuration information sent by the network device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device;

a second sending module 604, configured to send the Scell configuration information to the first terminal.

Optionally, the second request message includes carrier aggregation CA information of the relay device, where the CA information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

and the generation module is used for generating a second request message according to the first request message and the CA information of the relay equipment before the second request message is sent to the network equipment.

Optionally, the generating module is specifically configured to:

Generating a second request message according to the first request message and the current CA information of the relay device under the condition that a first condition is met between the relay device and the first terminal;

wherein the first condition includes any one of:

the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same operator;

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the third receiving module is used for receiving a query request sent by the first terminal before the first request message sent by the first terminal is received, wherein the query request is used for requesting to query CA information of the relay equipment;

and the third sending module is used for sending query response information to the first terminal, wherein the query response information comprises CA information of the relay equipment.

The cell 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, a base station, or other devices other than a terminal and a base station. 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 cell configuration device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 2, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a block diagram of a cell configuration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 7, a cell configuration apparatus 700 includes:

a fourth sending module 701, configured to send a first request message to a relay device, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

a fourth receiving module 702, configured to receive Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device;

A first activation module 703, configured to activate the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a fifth sending module, configured to send a query request to a relay device before the first request message is sent to the relay device, where the query request is used to request to query carrier aggregation CA information of the relay device, where the CA information includes information of scells added by the relay device;

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive query response information sent by the relay device, where the query response information includes CA information of the relay device;

and the storage module is used for storing the CA information of the relay equipment.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

and the second activation module is used for activating the Scell according to the stored CA information of the relay equipment under the condition that the receiving of the Scell configuration information sent by the relay equipment fails.

The cell 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 cell configuration device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 3, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

Referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a block diagram of a cell configuration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 8, a cell configuration apparatus 800 includes:

a sixth receiving module 801, configured to receive a second request message sent by a relay device, where the second request message is used to request the network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for a first terminal;

a sixth sending module 802, configured to send Scell configuration information to the relay device, where the Scell configuration information is used to configure a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information includes information of the Scell added by the relay device.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the information of the Scell added by the relay equipment after the second request message sent by the relay equipment is received;

And the determining module is used for determining the Scell configuration information according to the information of the Scell added by the relay equipment.

The cell 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 network device or may be other devices besides a network device. By way of example, network devices may include, but are not limited to, the types of network devices 12 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 cell configuration device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 4, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 9, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 900, including a processor 901 and a memory 902, where the memory 902 stores a program or an instruction that can be executed on the processor 901, for example, when the communication device 900 is a relay device, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 901 to implement each step of the embodiment of the method for configuring a cell on the relay device side, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and when the communication device 900 is a first terminal, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 901 to implement each step of the embodiment of the method for configuring a cell on the first terminal side, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 900 is a network device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 901, implements the steps of the above-described embodiment of the network device side cell configuration method, 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 when the terminal is a relay device, the communication interface is used for receiving a first request message sent by a first terminal, and the first request message is used for requesting network equipment to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; sending a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal;

or,

when the terminal is a first terminal, the communication interface is used for sending a first request message to the relay device, wherein the first request message is used for requesting the network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; the processor is configured to activate the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

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. Specifically, fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The terminal 1000 includes, but is not limited to: at least some of the components of the radio frequency unit 1001, the network module 1002, the audio output unit 1003, the input unit 1004, the sensor 1005, the display unit 1006, the user input unit 1007, the interface unit 1008, the memory 1009, and the processor 1010, etc.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that terminal 1000 can also include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, which can be logically connected to processor 1010 by a power management system so as to perform functions such as managing charge, discharge, and power consumption by the power management system. The terminal structure shown in fig. 10 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 understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 1004 may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, and the graphics processor 10041 processes image data of still pictures or videos obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1007 includes at least one of a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 can include two portions, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 10072 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 device, the radio frequency unit 1001 may transmit the downlink data to the processor 1010 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 1001 may send uplink data to the network device. In general, the radio frequency unit 1001 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 1009 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1009 may mainly include a first memory area storing programs or instructions and a second memory area storing data, wherein the first memory 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 1009 may include volatile memory or 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 1009 in embodiments of the present application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The processor 1010 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1010 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 1010.

The radio frequency unit 1001 is configured to receive a first request message sent by a first terminal, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; sending a second request message to the network device, wherein the second request message is determined according to the first request message; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device; sending the Scell configuration information to the first terminal;

or,

a radio frequency unit 1001, configured to send a first request message to a relay device, where the first request message is used to request a network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal; receiving Scell configuration information sent by the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring a Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device;

And a processor 1010, configured to activate the Scell configured by the Scell configuration information.

It can be appreciated that the implementation process of each implementation manner mentioned in this embodiment may refer to the related description of the foregoing method embodiment, and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects, so that the description is omitted herein for avoiding repetition.

The embodiment of the application also provides a network device, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for receiving a second request message sent by the relay device, and the second request message is used for requesting the network device to configure a secondary cell Scell for a first terminal; and sending Scell configuration information to the relay device, wherein the Scell configuration information is used for configuring the Scell for the first terminal, and the Scell configuration information comprises information of the Scell added by the relay device. The network device embodiment corresponds to the network device method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the network device embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

Specifically, the embodiment of the application also provides a network device. As shown in fig. 11, the network device 1100 includes: an antenna 1101, a radio frequency device 1102, a baseband device 1103, a processor 1104 and a memory 1105. The antenna 1101 is connected to a radio frequency device 1102. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 1102 receives information via the antenna 1101, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 1103 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 1103 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 1102, and the radio frequency device 1102 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 1101.

The method performed by the network device in the above embodiment may be implemented in the baseband apparatus 1103, where the baseband apparatus 1103 includes a baseband processor.

The baseband apparatus 1103 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, where a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 11, where one chip, for example, a baseband processor, is connected to the memory 1105 through a bus interface, so as to call a program in the memory 1105 to perform the network device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

The network device may also include a network interface 1106, such as a common public radio interface (Common Public Radio Interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the network device 1100 of the embodiment of the present application further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 1105 and executable on the processor 1104, the processor 1104 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 1105 to perform the method performed by the modules shown in fig. 8 and achieve the same technical effects, so repetition is avoided and will not be described here.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the processes of the embodiment of the cell configuration method are implemented, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no redundant 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. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

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 embodiment of the cell configuration method, and achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, 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 above-mentioned embodiment of the cell configuration method, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and details are not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a cell configuration system, which comprises: the relay device is configured to execute each process of the method embodiments shown in fig. 2 and described above, the first terminal is configured to execute each process of the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and described above, and the network device is configured to execute each process of the method embodiments shown in fig. 4 and described above, so that the same technical effects can be achieved, and for avoiding repetition, a description is omitted here.

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 description of the embodiments above, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described example methods may be implemented by means of a computer software product plus a necessary general purpose hardware platform, but may also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored on a storage medium (e.g., ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) and includes instructions for causing a terminal or network device to perform the methods described in the various 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 of embodiments 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 protection of the claims, which fall within the protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a cell, comprising:

the relay equipment receives a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message is used for requesting network equipment to configure a secondary cell Scell for the first terminal;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second request message includes carrier aggregated CA information of the relay device, the CA information including information of scells added by the relay device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein before the relay device sends the second request message to the network device, the method further comprises:

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the relay device generating a second request message from the first request message and CA information of the relay device comprises:

wherein the first condition includes any one of:

the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same operator;

5. The method of claim 1, wherein before the relay device receives the first request message sent by the first terminal, the method further comprises:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first request message includes CA information of the relay device, wherein the second request message includes CA information of the relay device, and wherein the second request message includes the same CA information of the relay device as the first request message.

7. A method for configuring a cell, comprising:

8. The method of claim 7, wherein before the first terminal sends the first request message to the relay device, the method further comprises:

the first terminal stores CA information of the relay device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first request message includes CA information of the relay device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

11. A method for configuring a cell, comprising:

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second request message includes carrier aggregated CA information of the relay device, the CA information including information of scells added by the relay device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein after the network device receives the second request message sent by the relay device, the method further comprises:

14. A cell configuration apparatus applied to a relay device, comprising:

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the second request message comprises carrier aggregated CA information of the relay device, the CA information comprising information of scells added by the relay device.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the generating module is specifically configured to:

wherein the first condition includes any one of:

the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same operator;

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the first request message comprises CA information of the relay device, wherein the second request message comprises CA information of the relay device, and wherein the second request message comprises the same CA information of the relay device as the first request message.

20. A cell configuration apparatus applied to a first terminal, comprising:

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the first request message comprises CA information for the relay device.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

24. A cell configuration apparatus applied to a network device, comprising:

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the second request message comprises carrier aggregated CA information for the relay device, the CA information comprising information for a Scell added by the relay device.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

27. A relay 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 cell configuration method of any of claims 1 to 6.

28. A terminal comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the cell configuration method of any of claims 7 to 10.

29. A network 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 cell configuration method of any of claims 11 to 13.

30. 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 cell configuration method according to any of claims 1 to 6, or the steps of the cell configuration method according to any of claims 7 to 10, or the steps of the cell configuration method according to any of claims 11 to 13.