CN117941400A

CN117941400A - Measurement configuration method and device and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN117941400A
Application number: CN202180102167.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王淑坤
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-07
Filing date: 2021-12-07
Publication date: 2024-04-26
Also published as: WO2023102732A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a measurement configuration method and device and network equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the MN judges whether to configure a coexistence measurement interval; and under the condition that the MN decides to configure the coexistence measurement interval, the MN sends a first signaling to the SN, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.

Description

Measurement configuration method and device and network equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of mobile communication, in particular to a measurement configuration method and device and network equipment.

Background

For the terminal device to better perform mobility handover, the network may configure the terminal device with a specific time window, and the terminal device performs measurement within the specific time window, so that mobility handover is performed based on the measurement result. The specific time window is called a Measurement Gap (MG), and may also be simply called a Gap (Gap).

Currently, when configuring measurement intervals for a terminal device, the network can only configure 1 measurement interval in one period. The duration of 1 measurement interval is limited, resulting in a lower measurement efficiency. For this reason, a plurality of coexisting measurement intervals (simply referred to as coexistence measurement intervals (concurrent MG)) are introduced, and since the duration of the plurality of coexisting measurement intervals is long, measurement efficiency can be improved. However, for the dual connection (Dual Connectivity, DC) scenario, it is not clear how to support the coexistence measurement interval.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a measurement configuration method and device, network equipment, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program.

The measurement configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps:

A Master Node (MN) decides whether to configure a coexistence measurement interval;

And under the condition that the MN decides to configure the coexistence measurement interval, the MN sends a first signaling to a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.

The measurement configuration device provided by the embodiment of the application is applied to the MN, and comprises:

A decision unit for deciding whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval;

And the sending unit is used for sending a first signaling to the SN under the condition of deciding to configure the coexistence measurement interval, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the application comprises a processor and a memory. The memory is used for storing a computer program, and the processor is used for calling and running the computer program stored in the memory to execute the measurement configuration method.

The chip provided by the embodiment of the application is used for realizing the measurement configuration method.

Specifically, the chip includes: and a processor for calling and running the computer program from the memory, so that the device mounted with the chip executes the measurement configuration method.

The embodiment of the application provides a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program, which enables a computer to execute the measurement configuration method.

The computer program product provided by the embodiment of the application comprises computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions enable a computer to execute the measurement configuration method.

The computer program provided by the embodiment of the application, when running on a computer, causes the computer to execute the measurement configuration method.

Through the technical scheme, in the DC scene, the MN judges whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval; and under the condition that the MN decides to configure the coexistence measurement interval, the MN sends a first signaling to the SN, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN. In this way, it is clear how to negotiate the configuration of coexistence measurement interval between MN and SN, so that coexistence measurement interval can be supported in DC scenario as well.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and do not constitute a limitation on the application. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an SMTC provided by an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a chip of an embodiment of the application;

fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present application will be given with reference to the accompanying 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, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario according to an embodiment of the present application.

As shown in fig. 1, communication system 100 may include a terminal device 110 and a network device 120. Network device 120 may communicate with terminal device 110 over the air interface. Multi-service transmission is supported between terminal device 110 and network device 120.

It should be understood that embodiments of the present application are illustrated by way of example only with respect to communication system 100, and embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto. That is, the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application may be applied to various communication systems, for example: long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) systems, LTE time division duplex (Time Division Duplex, TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System, UMTS), internet of things (Internet of Things, ioT) systems, narrowband internet of things (Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT) systems, enhanced machine type communications (ENHANCED MACHINE-Type Communications, eMTC) systems, 5G communication systems (also known as New Radio (NR) communication systems), or future communication systems, etc.

In the communication system 100 shown in fig. 1, the network device 120 may be an access network device in communication with the terminal device 110. The access network device may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area and may communicate with terminal devices 110 (e.g., UEs) located within the coverage area.

The network device 120 may be an evolved base station (Evolutional Node B, eNB or eNodeB) in a long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) system, or a next generation radio access network (Next Generation Radio Access Network, NG RAN) device, or a base station (gNB) in a NR system, or a radio controller in a cloud radio access network (Cloud Radio Access Network, CRAN), or the network device 120 may be a relay station, an access point, a vehicle device, a wearable device, a hub, a switch, a bridge, a router, or a network device in a future evolved public land mobile network (Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN), etc.

Terminal device 110 may be any terminal device including, but not limited to, a terminal device that employs a wired or wireless connection with network device 120 or other terminal devices.

For example, the terminal device 110 may refer to an access terminal, user Equipment (UE), subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, or User Equipment. An access terminal may be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a session initiation protocol (Session Initiation Protocol, SIP) phone, an IoT device, a satellite handset, a wireless local loop (Wireless Local Loop, WLL) station, a Personal digital assistant (Personal DIGITAL ASSISTANT, PDA), a handset with wireless communication capabilities, a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a 5G network or a terminal device in a future evolution network, etc.

The terminal Device 110 may be used for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication.

The wireless communication system 100 may further comprise a core network device 130 in communication with the base station, which core network device 130 may be a 5G core,5gc device, e.g. an access and mobility management function (ACCESS AND Mobility Management Function, AMF), further e.g. an authentication server function (Authentication Server Function, AUSF), further e.g. a user plane function (User Plane Function, UPF), further e.g. a session management function (Session Management Function, SMF). Optionally, the Core network device 130 may also be a packet Core evolution (Evolved Packet Core, EPC) device of the LTE network, for example, a session management function+a data gateway (Session Management Function +core PACKET GATEWAY, SMF +pgw-C) device of the Core network. It should be appreciated that SMF+PGW-C may perform the functions performed by both SMF and PGW-C. In the network evolution process, the core network device may also call other names, or form new network entities by dividing the functions of the core network, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Communication may also be achieved by establishing connections between various functional units in the communication system 100 through a next generation Network (NG) interface.

For example, the terminal device establishes an air interface connection with the access network device through an NR interface, and is used for transmitting user plane data and control plane signaling; the terminal equipment can establish control plane signaling connection with AMF through NG interface 1 (N1 for short); an access network device, such as a next generation radio access base station (gNB), can establish a user plane data connection with a UPF through an NG interface 3 (N3 for short); the access network equipment can establish control plane signaling connection with AMF through NG interface 2 (N2 for short); the UPF can establish control plane signaling connection with the SMF through an NG interface 4 (N4 for short); the UPF can interact user plane data with the data network through an NG interface 6 (N6 for short); the AMF may establish a control plane signaling connection with the SMF through NG interface 11 (N11 for short); the SMF may establish a control plane signaling connection with the PCF via NG interface 7 (N7 for short).

Fig. 1 exemplarily illustrates one base station, one core network device, and two terminal devices, alternatively, the wireless communication system 100 may include a plurality of base station devices and each base station may include other number of terminal devices within a coverage area, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present application.

It should be noted that fig. 1 is only an exemplary system to which the present application is applicable, and of course, the method shown in the embodiment of the present application may be applicable to other systems. Furthermore, the terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably herein. The term "and/or" is herein merely an association relationship describing an associated object, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, may represent: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the front and rear associated objects are an "or" relationship. It should also be understood that, in the embodiments of the present application, the "indication" may be a direct indication, an indirect indication, or an indication having an association relationship. For example, a indicates B, which may mean that a indicates B directly, e.g., B may be obtained by a; it may also indicate that a indicates B indirectly, e.g. a indicates C, B may be obtained by C; it may also be indicated that there is an association between a and B. It should also be understood that "corresponding" mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may mean that there is a direct correspondence or an indirect correspondence between the two, may mean that there is an association between the two, and may also be a relationship between an instruction and an indicated, configured, or the like. It should also be understood that "predefined" or "predefined rules" mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by pre-storing corresponding codes, tables or other manners in which related information may be indicated in devices (including, for example, terminal devices and network devices), and the present application is not limited to a specific implementation manner thereof. Such as predefined may refer to what is defined in the protocol. It should be further understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the "protocol" may refer to a standard protocol in the field of communications, and may include, for example, an LTE protocol, an NR protocol, and related protocols applied in a future communication system, which is not limited by the present application.

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

With the pursuit of speed, delay, high speed mobility, energy efficiency and diversity and complexity of future life services, the third generation partnership project (3 ^rd Generation Partnership Project,3 GPP) international standards organization has begun to develop 5G for this purpose. The main application scenario of 5G is: enhanced mobile Ultra-wideband (enhanced Mobile Broadband, eMBB), low latency high reliability communications (Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications, URLLC), large scale machine class communications (MASSIVE MACHINE-Type Communications, mMTC).

On the one hand eMBB still aims at obtaining multimedia content, services and data by users, and the demand for which is growing very rapidly. On the other hand, since eMBB may be deployed in different scenarios, such as indoor, urban, rural, etc., the capability and demand of which are also quite different, detailed analysis must be performed in connection with a specific deployment scenario, not in general. Typical applications of URLLC include: industrial automation, electric power automation, remote medical operation (surgery), traffic safety guarantee and the like. Typical features of mMTC include: high connection density, small data volume, delay insensitive traffic, low cost and long service life of the module, etc.

At early deployment of NRs, full NR coverage is difficult to acquire, so typical network coverage is wide area LTE coverage and island coverage mode of NRs. And a large amount of LTE is deployed below 6GHz, and the frequency spectrum below 6GHz which can be used for 5G is few. NR must study spectral applications above 6GHz while high-band coverage is limited and signal fading is fast. Meanwhile, in order to protect the mobile operators from early investment in LTE, a working mode of close cooperation (tight interworking) between LTE and NR is proposed.

To enable 5G network deployment and commercial application as soon as possible, 3GPP first completes the first 5G release, LTE-NR dual connectivity (LTE-NR Dual Connectivity, EN-DC). In EN-DC, an LTE base station serves as a Master Node (MN), and an NR base station serves as a Secondary Node (SN), and is connected to an evolved packet core (Evolved Packet Core network, EPC). In the later stage of R15, other dual connectivity (Dual Connectivity, DC) modes will be supported, namely NR-LTE dual connectivity (NR-LTE Dual Connectivity, NE-DC), 5GC-EN-DC, NR DC. In NE-DC, an NR base station serves as MN, and an LTE base station serves as SN, and is connected to a 5G core network (5 GC). In 5GC-EN-DC, an LTE base station is used as an MN, an NR base station is used as an SN, and the 5GC is connected. In NR DC, NR base station is as MN, NR base station is as SN, and 5GC is connected. The MN is mainly responsible for RRC control functions and control plane to the core network, and the SN is mainly responsible for configuration auxiliary signaling, such as SRB3, and mainly provides data transfer functions.

NR can also be deployed independently. NR will be deployed in the future at high frequencies, and in order to improve coverage, in 5G, the need for coverage (coverage with space and space with time) is met by introducing a mechanism for beam scanning (beam sweeping). After beam sweeping is introduced, a synchronization signal needs to be transmitted in each beam direction, and the synchronization signal of 5G is given in the form of a synchronization signal Block (sspbch Block, SSB), including a primary synchronization signal (Primary Synchronisation Signal, PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (Secondary Synchronisation Signal, SSs), and a physical broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel, PBCH). The synchronization signal of 5G occurs periodically in the time domain in the form of a synchronization signal burst (SS burst set), and the period of SS burst set may also be referred to as the period of SSB.

The number of beams (beams) actually transmitted by each cell is determined by the network side configuration, but the frequency point where the cell is located determines the maximum number of beams that can be configured, as shown in table 1 below.

Frequency range	L (maximum beam number)
(2.4) GHz or lower	4

3(2.4)GHz—6GHz	8
6GHz—52.6GHz	64

TABLE 1

In radio resource management (Radio Resource Management, RRM) measurement, the measured reference signal may be SSB, i.e. the SSS signal in SSB or the Demodulation reference signal (Demodulation REFERENCE SIGNAL, DMRS) signal of PBCH is measured to obtain beam measurement results as well as cell measurement results. In addition, the terminal device in a radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) connected state may also configure a channel state indication reference signal (Channel Status Indicator REFERENCE SIGNAL, CSI-RS) as a reference signal for cell measurement.

The actual transmission position of SSB may be different for each cell for SSB-based measurements, as may the period of SS burst set. So in order for the terminal device to save energy during the measurement process, the network side configures the SSB measurement timing configuration (SS/PBCH block measurement timing configuration, SMTC) for the terminal device, and SMTC can be understood as a measurement window of SSB, and the terminal device only needs to perform measurement in SMTC, as shown in fig. 2.

Since the location of the SSB actually transmitted by each cell may be different, in order for the terminal device to find the location of the SSB actually transmitted as soon as possible, the network side may also configure the terminal device with the location of the SSB actually transmitted measured by the terminal device, for example, a union of the locations of the SSBs actually transmitted by all the measurement cells, as shown in table 2 below. As an example, at 3-6GHz, the length of the bitmap is 8 bits, and assuming that the bitmap of 8 bits is 10100110, the terminal device only needs to measure SSBs with SSB indexes 0,2,5,6 in candidate positions of 8 SSBs.

TABLE 2

Measurement interval

In order to better realize mobility switching, the network may configure the terminal device to measure a reference signal of a target neighboring cell in a specific time window, where the target neighboring cell may be a same-frequency neighboring cell, a different-frequency neighboring cell, or a different-network neighboring cell. As an example, the measured quantity of the reference signal may be a reference signal received Power (REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED Power, RSRP), or a reference signal received Quality (REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED Quality, RSRQ), or a signal to interference plus noise ratio (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio, SINR). The specific time window is called a measurement interval.

The NR system is mainly studied by considering two Frequency bands (FR), namely FR1 and FR2, wherein the Frequency ranges corresponding to FR1 and FR2 are shown in the following table 3, and FR1 is also called sub 6GHz band and FR2 is also called millimeter wave band. The frequency ranges corresponding to FR1 and FR2 are not limited to the frequency ranges shown in table 3, and may be adjusted.

Frequency band	Frequency range
FR1	450MHz–6GHz
FR2	24.25GHz–52.6GHz

TABLE 3 Table 3

Depending on whether the terminal device supports the capability of FR1 and FR2 to operate independently, there are two types of gap for the measurement interval, one is the UE granularity measurement interval (per UE gap) and the other is the FR granularity measurement interval (per FR gap), further, the per FR gap is further divided into per FR1 gap and per FR2 gap. Wherein, the per UE gap is also called gapUE, the per FR1 gap is also called gapFR1, and the per FR2 gap is also called gapFR2. At the same time, the terminal device introduces a capability indication, called independentGapConfig, for the network to determine whether a measurement interval of the per FR type, e.g. per FR1 gap, per FR2 gap, can be configured or not, whether independent operation of FR1 and FR2 is supported. Specifically, if the capability indication is used to instruct the terminal device to support independent operations of FR1 and FR2, the network can configure a measurement interval of the per FR type; if the capability indication is used to indicate that the terminal device does not support independent operations of FR1 and FR2, the network cannot configure the measurement interval of the per FR type, and can only configure the measurement interval of the per UE type (i.e. per UE gap).

The description of the per FR1 gap, the per FR2 gap, and the per UE gap follows.

Per FR1 gap (i.e. gapFR 1): measurement intervals belonging to the per FR1 gap type are only suitable for FR1 measurement. The per FR1 gap and the per UE gap do not support simultaneous configuration.

In E-UTRA and NR dual connectivity (E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity, EN-DC) mode, master Node (MN) is LTE system, auxiliary Node (SN) is NR system, only MN can configure per FR1 gap.

Per FR2 gap (i.e. gapFR 2): measurement intervals belonging to the per FR2 gap type are only suitable for FR2 measurement. The per FR2 gap and the per UE gap do not support simultaneous configuration. The per FR2 gap and the per FR1 gap support simultaneous configuration.

If the terminal device supports the capability of independent operation of FR1 and FR2 (i.e. INDEPENDENT GAP capability), the terminal device may perform independent measurements for FR1 and FR2, and the terminal device may be configured with a measurement interval of the per FR gap type, for example a measurement interval of the per FR1 gap type, a measurement interval of the per FR2 gap type.

Per UE gap (gapUE): the measurement interval belonging to the per UE gap type is suitable for measurement of all frequency bands (including FR1 and FR 2).

In EN-DC mode, MN is LTE system, SN is NR system, only MN can configure per UE gap. If the per UE gap is configured, then the per FR gap (e.g., per FR1 gap, per FR2 gap) cannot be reconfigured.

During the duration of the per UE gap type measurement interval, the terminal device is not allowed to transmit any data nor is it expected to adjust the receivers of the primary and secondary carriers.

Measurement configuration

The network configures a measurement configuration (i.e., measConfig) through RRC-dedicated signaling, as shown in table 4 below, the MeasConfig includes a measurement interval configuration, that is measGapConfig, and a measurement object configuration, that is, measObjectToAddModList.

TABLE 4 Table 4

Further, the contents of measGapConfig in table 4 are shown in the following table 5, wherein the configuration information of one measurement interval is: the measurement interval offset (i.e., gapOffset), the period of the measurement interval (i.e., MGRP), the duration of the measurement interval (i.e., MGL). Wherein the measurement interval offset is used to determine the start of the measurement interval.

TABLE 5

The type of one measurement interval may be per UE gap, or per FR1 gap, or per FR2 gap. Referring to table 6 below, the pattern of measurement intervals (simply referred to as interval pattern) supports 24 kinds, and MGRP and/or MGL corresponding to different interval patterns are different. Some spacing patterns were used for FR1 measurements, corresponding to per FR1 gap; some spacing pattern was used for FR2 measurements, corresponding to per FR2 gap.

Spacing pattern identification	MGL(ms)	MGRP(ms)
0	6	40
1	6	80
2	3	40
3	3	80
4	6	20
5	6	160
6	4	20
7	4	40
8	4	80
9	4	160
10	3	20
11	3	160
12	5.5	20
13	5.5	40
14	5.5	80
15	5.5	160
16	3.5	20
17	3.5	40
18	3.5	80
19	3.5	160
20	1.5	20
21	1.5	40
22	1.5	80
23	1.5	160

TABLE 6

In addition to the 24 interval patterns shown in table 6, other interval patterns may be introduced, for example, an interval pattern for measuring a Positioning reference signal (Positioning REFERENCE SIGNAL, PRS), and two interval patterns, which are identified as 24 and 25, for measuring PRS, are given with reference to table 7 below.

Spacing pattern identification	MGL(ms)	MGRP(ms)
24	10	80
25	20	160

TABLE 7

Further, the contents of measObjectToAddModList in table 4 are shown in table 8 below, where SMTC associated with a measurement object may be configured in configuration information of the measurement object, where SMTC may be configured to support {5,10,20,40,80,160} ms periods, and {1,2,3,4,5} ms window lengths, and a time offset (time offset) of SMTC is strongly related to the periods, and takes values {0, …, period-1, }. Since carrier frequencies are no longer contained in the measurement object, SMTC may be configured independently per MO instead of per frequency bin.

TABLE 8

Referring to table 9 below, for co-channel measurements of RRC connected state, 1 frequency layer may be configured with 2 SMTCs (SMTC and SMTC 2) that have the same time offset but different periods. For RRC connected inter-frequency measurements, only 1 SMTC is configured. As can be seen SMTC2 only supports configuration for on-channel measurements. Note that SMTC2 has a shorter period than SMTC; the time offset of SMTC2 may follow SMTC.

TABLE 9

Currently, when configuring measurement intervals for terminal devices, the network can configure only 1 measurement interval in one common period (common period). However, SMTCs may be configured independently for each MO, not for each frequency point, which may result in that 1 measurement interval often cannot cover a time window of a plurality of SMTCs or a plurality of reference signals, where a plurality of SMTCs may belong to different MOs or belong to the same MO (in the same frequency case), and if measurement within the time window of a plurality of SMTCs is desired or measurement of a plurality of reference signals is desired, a long measurement time is required, resulting in lower measurement efficiency. For this, a concept of a plurality of coexisting measurement intervals (simply referred to as coexistence measurement intervals (concurrent MG)) is introduced, by which configuration of the measurement intervals and measurement of the terminal device are flexibly supported. This concept is explained below.

Coexistence measurement interval

Multiple coexistence measurement intervals are configured and/or used for measurements within the same time period. Here, a plurality of coexistence measurement intervals have a coexistence relationship therebetween. In some alternative embodiments, the coexistence relationship between the plurality of coexistence measurement intervals may be embodied as: the plurality of coexistence measurement intervals are configured within the same time period. In some alternative embodiments, the coexistence relationship between the plurality of coexistence measurement intervals may be embodied as: multiple coexistence measurement intervals are used for measurements within the same time period.

The network device, when configuring the coexistence measurement interval for the terminal device, will consider the following use cases (use cases): SMTC configuration, reference signals (e.g. SSB, CSI-RS, PRS, RSSI), RAT. In addition, the network device may also consider the maximum number or total number of certain types of measurement intervals (e.g., per-UE gap, FR1-gap, FR 2-gap) in the coexistence measurement interval when configuring the coexistence measurement interval for the terminal device. In addition, the network device also considers Association (Association) for the above use case when configuring the coexistence measurement interval for the terminal device. One measurement interval may be associated with multiple frequency layers (which may be of the same or different use cases), one frequency layer being associated with only one measurement interval. Different reference signals are considered to be different frequency layers, e.g. SSB/CSI-RS/PRS.

Since the duration of the plurality of coexistence measurement intervals is longer, measurement efficiency can be improved. However, for the dual connection (Dual Connectivity, DC) scenario, it is not clear how to support the coexistence measurement interval. For this reason, the following technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are provided.

In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solution of the present application is described in detail below through specific embodiments. The above related technologies may be optionally combined with the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, which all belong to the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application. Embodiments of the present application include at least some of the following.

It should be noted that the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application may be applied to DC scenes, such as MR-DC, EN-DC, NE-DC, 5GC-EN-DC, NR-DC, etc., and the present application does not limit the types of DC scenes. In the DC scenario, a Cell Group (CG) on the MN side is called a Master CG (MCG), and a CG on the SN side is called a Secondary CG (SCG).

It should be noted that, in the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application, the signaling (e.g., the first signaling and the second signaling) of interaction between the MN and the SN refers to the signaling between the base stations, and, taking 5G as an example, the signaling of interaction between the MN and the SN refers to the Xn signaling.

Fig. 3 is a flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3, where the measurement configuration method includes the following steps:

step 301: the MN decides whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval.

Step 302: and under the condition that the MN decides to configure the coexistence measurement interval, the MN sends a first signaling to the auxiliary node SN, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.

Scheme one: the MN and SN negotiate to configure coexistence measurement intervals.

Scheme 1-1) in some alternative embodiments, the MN decides to configure all coexistence measurement intervals by the MN, in which case the MN sends a first signaling to the SN, the first signaling carrying only first information indicating the MN-configured coexistence measurement intervals.

After the configuration of the coexistence measurement interval is realized through the scheme, the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN.

Scheme 1-2) in some alternative embodiments, the MN decides to jointly configure a coexistence measurement interval by the MN and the SN, in which case the MN sends to the SN a first signaling carrying first information indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, further carrying second information indicating at least one of:

Allowing the SN to configure coexistence measurement intervals;

A type of coexistence measurement interval allowing the SN configuration;

a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals allowing the SN configuration;

A maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of a UE granularity measurement interval (per UE gap) type that allows the SN configuration;

A maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of FR1 granularity measurement interval (per FR1 gap) type that allows the SN configuration;

The SN configured maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of FR2 granularity measurement interval (per FR2 gap) type is allowed.

Based on this, the SN may configure the coexistence measurement interval according to the above-described second information, where the SN needs to consider the limitation of the above-described second information when configuring the coexistence measurement interval. For example, the type of the coexistence measurement interval configured by SN needs to be the type of the coexistence measurement interval that allows SN configuration indicated by the second information; for example, the number of coexistence measurement intervals of SN configuration needs to be less than or equal to the maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of SN configuration allowed as indicated by the second information; the number of coexistence measurement intervals of a certain type (e.g. per UE gap type, per FR1 gap type, per FR2 gap type) of SN configuration, for example, needs to be less than or equal to the maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of that type of allowed SN configuration indicated by the second information.

In some alternative embodiments, in the case that the SN configures the coexistence measurement interval, the MN receives a second signaling sent by the SN, where the second signaling carries third information, and the third information is used to indicate the coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN.

After the configuration of the coexistence measurement interval is realized through the scheme, the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN is sent to the terminal equipment by the MN, and the coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN is sent to the terminal equipment by the SN.

Scheme II: MO association coexistence measurement interval

In the embodiment of the application, each coexistence measurement interval is provided with an MG index, and for the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, the MG index is unique in the MCG or unique in the terminal equipment; for the coexistence measurement interval of SN configuration, the MG index is unique within the SCG or unique within the terminal device.

In some alternative embodiments, in the case that the MG index is unique in the terminal device, the first signaling sent by the MN to the SN further carries fourth information, where the fourth information is used to indicate an MG index range that can be used by the SN.

In the embodiment of the application, when configuring the MO, the network side associates the MO with at least one coexistence measurement interval, so that the measurement of the MO can be realized based on the associated coexistence measurement interval.

Scheme 2-1) in some alternative embodiments, the MN-configured MO is indexed by the MN with respect to at least one MG, and the SN-configured MO is indexed by the SN with respect to at least one MG; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.

Further optionally, the MG index is associated with a CG indication indicating whether the coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is MN configured or SN configured.

Further optionally, if the MO includes two reference signal configurations, the MO associates at most two MG indexes. Wherein, when the MO associates two MG indices, each of the two MG indices associates one of the two reference signal configurations. For example: MO includes SSB configuration and CSI-RS configuration, MO associates MG index 1 and MG index 2, MG index 1 associates SSB configuration, MG index 2 associates CSI-RS configuration, and MG index 1 is used to indicate concurrent MG and MG index 2 is used to indicate concurrent MG, therefore concurrent MG 1 associates SSB configuration, concurrent MG associates CSI-RS configuration, that is, concurrent MG 1 is used when measurement is performed based on SSB configuration, and concurrent MG 2 is used when measurement is performed based on CSI-RS configuration.

In the above scheme, the association performed by the MN is configured to the terminal device by the MN; the association by the SN is configured to the terminal equipment by the SN.

Scheme 2-2) in some alternative embodiments, the MN receives the MO of the SN configuration sent by the SN; the MN associates the MO configured by the MN with at least one MG index, and associates the MO configured by the SN with at least one MG index; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.

In the above scheme, the association performed by the MN is configured to the terminal device by the MN.

In the above-described scheme, the MG index associated with the MO configured by the MN may be the MG index of concurrent MG on the MCG side or the MG index of concurrent MG on the SCG side. Similarly, the MG index associated with MO in SN configuration may be the MG index of concurrent MG on SCG side or the MG index of concurrent MG on MCG side.

The following describes the technical scheme of the embodiment of the present application with reference to specific application examples.

Application example 1

The MN decides whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval and informs the SN through Xn signaling.

In some alternative embodiments, the MN decides to jointly configure the coexistence measurement interval by the MN and the SN. In this case, xn signaling carries first information and second information, where the first information is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, and the second information is used to indicate at least one of:

Allowing the SN to configure coexistence measurement intervals;

A type of coexistence measurement interval allowing the SN configuration;

allowing a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of the SN configured per UE gap type;

a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of per FR1 gap type allowing the SN configuration;

the maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of the per FR2 gap type of the SN configuration is allowed.

In some alternative embodiments, the MN decides to configure all coexistence measurement intervals by the MN. In this case, xn signaling carries first information, where the first information is used to indicate the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.

In the above scheme, the first information may include a coexistence measurement interval list for indicating which coexistence measurement intervals the MN configures. Further optionally, the first information may further include configuration information of each coexistence measurement interval in the coexistence measurement interval list, such as MGL, MGRP, and the like.

Application instance two

The MN decides whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval and notifies the SN about the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN through Xn signaling, and further, if the SN also configures the coexistence measurement interval, the SN also notifies the coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN to the MN through Xn signaling.

Here, the MN may configure the terminal device with its own configured coexistence measurement interval list, each coexistence measurement interval having an MG index. Further, if the SN also configures coexistence measurement interval, the SN also configures a self-configured coexistence measurement interval list to the terminal device, where each coexistence measurement interval has an MG index. Here, the MG index may be unique within the CG or unique within the terminal device. Alternatively, if the MG index is unique within the terminal device, the MN needs to allocate the SN an MG index range that the SN can use.

The MN and SN associate their own configured MOs with at least one MG index, respectively, and further, optionally, each MG index is also associated with a CG indication. For example, CG indicates MCG, then the coexistence measurement interval indicated by MG index is considered MN configured; for example, the CG indication is an SCG indication, then the coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is considered SN configured. Further optionally, if both SSB and CSI-RS configurations are contained in the MO, the MO may associate a maximum of two coexistence measurement intervals, and if the MO associates two coexistence measurement intervals, the MN and SN will also indicate whether each coexistence measurement interval associated with the respective configured MO is associated with an SSB configuration or a CSI-RS configuration, respectively. Further, the MN and the SN configure the association relationship to the terminal device through respective RRC signaling, respectively.

Application example three

The SN sends the self-configured MO to the MN, the MN associates the self-configured MO with at least one MG index, and associates the SN-configured MO with at least one MG index. Further optionally, each MG index is also associated with a CG indication. For example, CG indicates MCG, then the coexistence measurement interval indicated by MG index is considered MN configured; for example, the CG indication is an SCG indication, then the coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is considered SN configured. Further optionally, if both SSB and CSI-RS configurations are contained in the MO, the MO may associate a maximum of two coexistence measurement intervals, if the MO associates two coexistence measurement intervals, the MN will also indicate whether each coexistence measurement interval associated by the MO is associated with an SSB or CSI-RS configuration. Further, the MN configures this association relationship to the terminal device through RRC signaling.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application defines how to negotiate and configure the coexistence measurement interval and how to associate the measurement object with the coexistence measurement interval in the DC scene, so that the DC scene supports the coexistence measurement interval.

The preferred embodiments of the present application have been described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the specific details of the above embodiments, and various simple modifications can be made to the technical solution of the present application within the scope of the technical concept of the present application, and all the simple modifications belong to the protection scope of the present application. For example, the specific features described in the above embodiments may be combined in any suitable manner, and in order to avoid unnecessary repetition, various possible combinations are not described further. As another example, any combination of the various embodiments of the present application may be made without departing from the spirit of the present application, which should also be regarded as the disclosure of the present application. For example, on the premise of no conflict, the embodiments described in the present application and/or technical features in the embodiments may be combined with any other embodiments in the prior art, and the technical solutions obtained after combination should also fall into the protection scope of the present application.

It should be further understood that, in the various method embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the foregoing processes do not mean the order of execution, and the order of execution of the processes should be determined by the functions and internal logic of the processes, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application. Furthermore, in the embodiment of the present application, the terms "downstream", "upstream" and "sidestream" are used to indicate a transmission direction of signals or data, where "downstream" is used to indicate that the transmission direction of signals or data is a first direction from a station to a user equipment of a cell, and "upstream" is used to indicate that the transmission direction of signals or data is a second direction from the user equipment of the cell to the station, and "sidestream" is used to indicate that the transmission direction of signals or data is a third direction from the user equipment 1 to the user equipment 2. For example, "downstream signal" means that the transmission direction of the signal is the first direction. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the term "and/or" is merely an association relationship describing the association object, which means that three relationships may exist. Specifically, a and/or B may represent: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the front and rear associated objects are an "or" relationship.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a measurement configuration device provided in an embodiment of the present application, which is applied to a network device (such as MN), and as shown in fig. 4, the measurement configuration device includes:

a decision unit 401 for deciding whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval;

A sending unit 402, configured to send, to the SN, a first signaling carrying first information for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, in the case of deciding to configure the coexistence measurement interval.

In some alternative embodiments, the first signaling carries only the first information in case the decision unit 401 decides to configure all coexistence measurement intervals by the MN.

In some alternative embodiments, in a case where the decision unit 401 decides to jointly configure a coexistence measurement interval by the MN and the SN, the first signaling further carries second information, where the second information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

Allowing the SN to configure coexistence measurement intervals;

A type of coexistence measurement interval allowing the SN configuration;

In some alternative embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

A receiving unit 403, configured to receive a second signaling sent by the SN, where the second signaling carries third information, and the third information is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN.

In some alternative embodiments, the MN configured coexistence measurement interval is sent by the sending unit to a terminal device, and the SN configured coexistence measurement interval is sent by the SN to a terminal device.

In some alternative embodiments, each of the coexistence measurement intervals has a measurement interval MG index,

For the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, the MG index is unique in the MCG or unique in the terminal equipment;

for the coexistence measurement interval of SN configuration, the MG index is unique within the SCG or unique within the terminal device.

In some alternative embodiments, in a case that the MG index is unique in the terminal device, the first signaling further carries fourth information, where the fourth information is used to indicate a MG index range that the SN can use.

In some alternative embodiments, the apparatus further comprises: an association unit 404;

The MO configured by the MN is associated with at least one MG index by the association unit, and the MO configured by the SN is associated with at least one MG index by the SN; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.

In some alternative embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

A receiving unit 403, configured to receive an MO of the SN configuration sent by the SN;

An associating unit 404, configured to associate the MO configured by the MN with at least one MG index, and associate the MO configured by the SN with at least one MG index; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.

In some alternative embodiments, the MG index is associated with a CG indication indicating whether the coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is MN configured or SN configured.

In some alternative embodiments, if two reference signal configurations are included in the MO, the MO associates a maximum of two MG indices.

In some alternative embodiments, in the case that the MO associates two MG indices, each of the two MG indices is associated with one of the two reference signal configurations.

In some alternative embodiments, the association made by the MN is configured by the MN to a terminal device; and/or the association made by the SN is configured to the terminal equipment by the SN.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above description of the measurement configuration apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application may be understood with reference to the description of the measurement configuration method according to the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device 500 according to an embodiment of the present application. The communication device may be a network device (e.g., MN). The communication device 500 shown in fig. 5 comprises a processor 510, from which the processor 510 may call and run a computer program to implement the method in an embodiment of the application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 5, the communication device 500 may also include a memory 520. Wherein the processor 510 may call and run a computer program from the memory 520 to implement the method in an embodiment of the application.

Wherein the memory 520 may be a separate device from the processor 510 or may be integrated into the processor 510.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 5, the communication device 500 may further include a transceiver 530, and the processor 510 may control the transceiver 530 to communicate with other devices, and in particular, may send information or data to other devices, or receive information or data sent by other devices.

Wherein the transceiver 530 may include a transmitter and a receiver. The transceiver 530 may further include antennas, the number of which may be one or more.

Optionally, the communication device 500 may be specifically a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 500 may implement a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a chip of an embodiment of the present application. The chip 600 shown in fig. 6 includes a processor 610, and the processor 610 may call and run a computer program from a memory to implement the method in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 6, the chip 600 may further include a memory 620. Wherein the processor 610 may call and run a computer program from the memory 620 to implement the method in an embodiment of the application.

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

Optionally, the chip 600 may also include an input interface 630. The processor 610 may control the input interface 630 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, may acquire information or data sent by the other devices or chips.

Optionally, the chip 600 may further include an output interface 640. Wherein the processor 610 may control the output interface 640 to communicate with other devices or chips, and in particular, may output information or data to other devices or chips.

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

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

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system 700 provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 7, the communication system 700 includes a terminal device 710 and a network device 720.

The terminal device 710 may be configured to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the terminal device in the above method, and the network device 720 may be configured to implement the corresponding functions implemented by the network device in the above method, which are not described herein for brevity.

It should be appreciated that the processor of an embodiment of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be implemented by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in software form. The Processor may be a general purpose Processor, a digital signal Processor (DIGITAL SIGNAL Processor, DSP), an Application SPECIFIC INTEGRATED Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (Field Programmable GATE ARRAY, FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components. The disclosed methods, steps, and logic blocks in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in the execution of a hardware decoding processor, or in the execution of a combination of hardware and software modules in a decoding processor. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method.

It will be appreciated that the memory in embodiments of the application may be volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM) which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as static random access memory (STATIC RAM, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DYNAMIC RAM, DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate Synchronous dynamic random access memory (Double DATA RATE SDRAM, DDR SDRAM), enhanced Synchronous dynamic random access memory (ENHANCED SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SYNCHLINK DRAM, SLDRAM), and Direct memory bus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

It should be appreciated that the above memory is exemplary and not limiting, and for example, the memory in the embodiments of the present application may be static random access memory (STATIC RAM, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DYNAMIC RAM, DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (double DATA RATE SDRAM, DDR SDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ENHANCED SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous connection dynamic random access memory (SYNCH LINK DRAM, SLDRAM), direct Rambus RAM (DR RAM), and the like. That is, the memory in embodiments of the present application is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program.

Optionally, the computer readable storage medium may be applied to a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program causes a computer to execute a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program product comprising computer program instructions.

Optionally, the computer program product may be applied to a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and the computer program instructions cause a computer to execute corresponding processes implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which are not described herein for brevity.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer program.

Optionally, the computer program may be applied to a network device in the embodiment of the present application, and when the computer program runs on a computer, the computer is caused to execute a corresponding flow implemented by the network device in each method in the embodiment of the present application, which is not described herein for brevity.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not repeated herein.

In the several embodiments provided by the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit.

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

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present application, and the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will readily recognize that variations or substitutions are within the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A measurement configuration method, the method comprising:

the master node MN judges whether to configure a coexistence measurement interval;

And under the condition that the MN decides to configure the coexistence measurement interval, the MN sends a first signaling to the auxiliary node SN, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.
The method of claim 1, wherein the first signaling carries only the first information if the MN decides to configure all coexistence measurement intervals by the MN.
The method of claim 1, wherein the first signaling further carries second information indicating at least one of:

Allowing the SN to configure coexistence measurement intervals;

A type of coexistence measurement interval allowing the SN configuration;

a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals allowing the SN configuration;

allowing the SN configured maximum number of UE granularity measurement intervals per UE gap type coexistence measurement intervals;

allowing a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of the SN configured FR1 granularity measurement interval per FR1 gap type;

The SN configured FR2 granularity measurement interval per FR2 gap type coexistence measurement interval is allowed to be a maximum number.
A method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

the MN receives a second signaling sent by the SN, wherein the second signaling carries third information, and the third information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN.
The method of claim 3 or 4, wherein the MN-configured coexistence measurement interval is transmitted by the MN to a terminal device and the SN-configured coexistence measurement interval is transmitted by the SN to a terminal device.
The method of claim 5, wherein each of the coexistence measurement intervals has a measurement interval MG index,

For the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, the MG index is unique in the master cell group MCG or unique in the terminal equipment;

For the coexistence measurement interval of SN configuration, the MG index is unique within the secondary cell group SCG or unique within the terminal device.
The method of claim 6, wherein the first signaling further carries fourth information indicating a MG index range that the SN can use if the MG index is unique within a terminal device.
The method of any of claims 3 to 7, wherein the method further comprises:

The MN configured measurement object MO is associated with at least one MG index by the MN, and the SN configured MO is associated with at least one MG index by the SN; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.
The method of any of claims 3 to 7, wherein the method further comprises:

the MN receives the MO of the SN configuration sent by the SN;

The MN associates the MO configured by the MN with at least one MG index, and associates the MO configured by the SN with at least one MG index; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.
The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the MG index is associated with a cell group CG indication indicating whether a coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is MN configured or SN configured.
The method of any of claims 8-10, wherein the MO associates a maximum of two MG indices if two reference signal configurations are included in the MO.
The method of claim 11, wherein, in the case where the MO associates two MG indices, each of the two MG indices associates one of the two reference signal configurations.
The method according to any one of claims 8 to 12, wherein,

The association performed by the MN is configured to terminal equipment by the MN; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

The association made by the SN is configured to the terminal equipment by the SN.
A measurement configuration apparatus for use with a MN, the apparatus comprising:

A decision unit for deciding whether to configure the coexistence measurement interval;

And the sending unit is used for sending a first signaling to the SN under the condition of deciding to configure the coexistence measurement interval, wherein the first signaling carries first information, and the first information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN.
The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first signaling carries only the first information if the decision unit decides to configure all coexistence measurement intervals by the MN.
The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first signaling further carries second information indicating at least one of:

Allowing the SN to configure coexistence measurement intervals;

A type of coexistence measurement interval allowing the SN configuration;

a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals allowing the SN configuration;

allowing a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of the SN configured per UE gap type;

a maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of per FR1 gap type allowing the SN configuration;

the maximum number of coexistence measurement intervals of the per FR2 gap type of the SN configuration is allowed.
The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

And the receiving unit is used for receiving a second signaling sent by the SN, wherein the second signaling carries third information, and the third information is used for indicating the coexistence measurement interval configured by the SN.
The apparatus of claim 16 or 17, wherein the MN-configured coexistence measurement interval is transmitted by the transmitting unit to a terminal device, and the SN-configured coexistence measurement interval is transmitted by the SN to a terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 18, wherein each of the coexistence measurement intervals has a measurement interval MG index,

For the coexistence measurement interval configured by the MN, the MG index is unique in the MCG or unique in the terminal equipment;

for the coexistence measurement interval of SN configuration, the MG index is unique within the SCG or unique within the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first signaling further carries fourth information indicating a range of MG indexes that the SN can use if the MG index is unique within a terminal device.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 16 to 20, wherein the apparatus further comprises: an association unit;

The MO configured by the MN is associated with at least one MG index by the association unit, and the MO configured by the SN is associated with at least one MG index by the SN; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 16 to 20, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

A receiving unit, configured to receive an MO of the SN configuration sent by the SN;

An association unit, configured to associate the MO configured by the MN with at least one MG index, and associate the MO configured by the SN with at least one MG index; wherein the MG index is used to indicate a coexistence measurement interval.
The apparatus of claim 21 or 22, wherein the MG index is associated with a CG indication indicating whether a coexistence measurement interval indicated by the MG index is MN configured or SN configured.
The apparatus of any of claims 21-23, wherein the MO associates a maximum of two MG indices if two reference signal configurations are included in the MO.
The apparatus of claim 24, wherein, in the case where the MO associates two MG indices, each of the two MG indices associates one of the two reference signal configurations.
The apparatus of any one of claims 21 to 25, wherein,

The association performed by the MN is configured to terminal equipment by the MN; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

The association made by the SN is configured to the terminal equipment by the SN.
A network device, comprising: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being adapted to invoke and run the computer program stored in the memory, to perform the method according to any of claims 1 to 13.
A chip, comprising: a processor for calling and running a computer program from a memory, causing a device on which the chip is mounted to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer program product comprising computer program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 13.
A computer program which causes a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 13.