TWI789177B - Methods and user equipment for concurrent gap configuration - Google Patents

Abstract

Apparatus and methods are provided for concurrent gap configuration. The method can include obtaining a concurrent gap configuration by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network, wherein the concurrent gap configuration configures a concurrent measurement gap and one or more associated usages for the concurrent measurement gap; configuring the concurrent measurement gap based on the concurrent gap configuration; performing one or more measurements corresponding to the one or more associated usages for the concurrent measurement gap during the configured concurrent measurement gap; and transmitting a measurement report to the wireless network including one or more measurement results upon detecting one or more configured triggering events.

Description

Concurrent gap configuration method and user equipment

The present invention relates generally to wireless communications, and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for multiple concurrent gap configurations.

Mobile network communications continue to grow rapidly, mobile data usage will continue to soar, and new data applications and services will require greater speed and efficiency. Big data bandwidth applications continue to attract more consumers, and the efficiency and rapid adaptation of new standards are key to mobile networks. With the rapid development of mobile networks, the design of a measurement gap (MG) for suspending communication to measure the gap time of mobile stations needs greater flexibility and efficiency.

In the current new radio (new radio, NR) system, for UEs that only support per-UE MG (per-UE MG) or support single FR per frequency range (frequency range, FR), in a measurement cycle Only a single MG pattern (pattern) can be configured in it. Therefore, the network must configure a reasonable synchronization signal block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) offset to align the SMTC windows of different measurement objects (MO) to the MG . At the same time, all other MOs across the radio access technology (RAT) MO and the reference signal (RS) will be measured in timing alignment within the SMTC window. A single MG will be used for different measurement purposes such as cross-RAT measurements, positioning or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurements. The latency of each MO will be scaled by a scaling factor within the gap: the carrier-specific scaling factor (CSSF). When all frequencies are measured in the same MG, the short SMTC of the frequency layer will not be fully utilized, which increases the complexity of the measurement and is not flexible.

Improvements and enhancements are needed to configure and perform measurements more efficiently.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a concurrency gap configuration method, including: obtaining a concurrency gap configuration in a wireless network by a user equipment, wherein the concurrency gap configuration is used to configure a concurrency measurement gap and the concurrency measurement gap one or more associated applications; configuring the concurrent measurement gap based on a concurrency gap configuration; performing one or more measurements corresponding to the one or more associated applications during the configured concurrent measurement gap; and When one or more configured trigger events are detected, a measurement report including one or more measurement results is sent to the wireless network.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a user equipment, including: a transceiver, used to send and receive radio frequency signals in a wireless network; a measurement gap module, used to obtain a concurrent gap configuration, wherein the concurrent Gap configuration is used to configure a concurrent measurement gap and one or more associated applications of the concurrent measurement gap; a gap configuration module is used to configure the concurrent measurement gap based on the concurrent measurement gap; a measurement control module, for performing one or more measurements corresponding to said one or more associated applications during said configured concurrent measurement gap; and a measurement reporting module, upon detection of one or more configured trigger events, to The wireless network sends a measurement report including one or more measurement results.

Reference will now be made in detail to some embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic system diagram of a wireless communication system with multiple concurrent gap configurations for measurement according to an embodiment of the present invention. The wireless communication system 100 includes one or more wireless networks, each wireless network comprising one or more fixed infrastructure units, such as receiving wireless communication devices or base units 102, 103, forming a network distributed over a geographical area and 104. A base unit may also be called an access point, access terminal, base station, Node-B, evolved Node-B (eNode-B), next-generation Node-B (gNB), or other terminology used in the art. The basic unit can be the implementation of gNB in 5G system NR. 5G NR is a radio interface specified in the communication standard formulated by 3GPP. Each of base units 102, 103 and 104 serves a geographic area. The base unit performs beamforming in NR networks. Xn interface connections 113, 114 and 115 connect to non-colocated receiving base station units (eg 102, 103 and 104). These connections can be ideal or non-ideal.

The wireless communication device 101 in the wireless communication system 100 is served by the base station 102 via an uplink 111 and a downlink 112 . The other UEs 105 and 106 are served by different base stations. UE 105 is served by base station 103 and UE 106 is served by base station 104 . If multiple MOs are configured with a single measurement gap configuration, the measurement delay of each MO will be extended. For example, there are four inter frequencies (inter frequency), among which the SMTC periods of f1 and f3 are shorter, and the SMTC periods of f0 and f2 are longer. Although f1, f3 have shorter SMTCs, these two frequency layers must share the same MG with the other two frequency layers with longer SMTCs. Since all span frequencies will be measured using a scaling factor of N=4, the measurement delay for each MO will be extended. Prioritizing some specific RATs can improve the MG sharing mechanism. For example, frequency span f3 may share the same MG as NR frequency. The network cannot prioritize measurements across frequency f3, which must be limited to the SMTC window and share the MG with other NR frequencies. Measurement latency is also extended due to gap sharing. In other networks, NR CSI-RS and positioning RS (positioning RS, PRS) measurements are also introduced. CSI-RS, PRS measurements will also share the same MG with SSB measurements. However, CSI-RS and PRS can have different SSB configurations. For SSB-based measurements, the MG must be aligned with the SMTC window. This means that the configuration of CSI-RS and PRS will be limited in the same SMTC window to share a single MG, and the network cannot make full use of the flexible configuration of CSI-RS and PRS.

In one embodiment, a new concurrent MG can be configured. Associated applications of concurrent MGs can also be configured together. For example, associated applications of concurrent MGs can be configured by associating predefined MOs with concurrent MGs. In one example, the UE 101 is configured to perform measurements based on the measurement gap configuration 181 from the base station 102 . When the UE 101 supports the new capability concurrency gap, the UE 101 is also configured to perform measurements based on the concurrency gap configuration 182 from the base station 102 . That is to say, the measurement gap configuration 181 and the concurrency gap configuration 182 can be configured between the UE 101 and the base station 102 . Depending on the capabilities of UE 101, different gap patterns can be configured.

FIG. 1 further shows a simplified block diagram of a wireless device/UE 101 and a base station 102 according to the present invention. The base station 102 has an antenna 126, which transmits and receives radio signals. The RF transceiver circuit 123 coupled to the antenna receives RF signals from the antenna 126 , converts the RF signals to baseband signals, and sends the baseband signals to the processor 122 . The RF transceiver 123 also converts the baseband signal received from the processor 122 into an RF signal and sends it to the antenna 126 . The processor 122 processes the received baseband signal, and invokes different function modules to execute the functions in the base station 102 . The memory 121 stores program instructions and data 124 to control the operation of the base station 102 . The base station 102 also includes a set of control modules, such as a measurement control circuit 171 for configuring the concurrent measurement gap and implementing the concurrent measurement gap function.

UE 101 has antenna 135 to transmit and receive radio signals. An RF transceiver circuit 134 coupled to the antenna receives RF signals from the antenna 35 , converts the RF signals to baseband signals, and sends the baseband signals to the processor 132 . The RF transceiver 134 also converts the baseband signal received from the processor 132 to an RF signal and sends it to the antenna 135 . The processor 132 processes the received baseband signals and invokes various functional modules to perform functions in the UE 101 . The memory 131 stores program instructions and data 136 to control the operation of the UE 101.

UE 101 also includes a set of control modules for performing functional tasks. These control modules can be implemented by circuits, software, firmware or a combination of the above. The measurement gap module 191 is used to obtain the concurrency gap configuration in the wireless network, and the above concurrency gap configuration is used to configure the concurrency measurement gap and one or more associated applications of the concurrency measurement gap. The gap configuration module 192 configures concurrent measurement gaps based on the concurrent gap configuration. The measurement control module 193 performs one or more measurements of one or more associated applications corresponding to the concurrent measurement gap during the configured concurrent measurement gap. The measurement report module 194 sends a measurement report including one or more measurement results to the wireless network when one or more configured trigger events are detected. The capability module 195 reports the UE's concurrent measurement gap support capability to the wireless network, and instructs the UE to support the concurrent measurement gap.

Fig. 2 is a top-level design flow chart of concurrent gap configuration and reporting UE concurrent gap support capability in a master node (MN) and secondary node (SN) scenario according to an embodiment of the present invention. UE 201 is connected to the wireless network. In one embodiment, UE 201 is connected to MN 202 and SN 203 . In one embodiment, the UE 201 reports the UE's concurrent measurement gap support capability to the wireless network, indicating that the UE supports the concurrent measurement gap. UE 201 obtains the concurrency gap configuration from the wireless network and performs measurements accordingly.

In one embodiment, in step 210, UE 201 reports UE concurrent gap support capability to MN 202. The UE Concurrent Gap Support Capability indicates that the UE supports concurrent measurement gaps. The UE concurrent gap support capability may further indicate one or more associated applications supported by the UE. For example, UE 201 reports a list of supported applications. Possible applications include one or more MOs for the same RAT, one or more MOs for different RATs, specific to one or more types of SSB periods, specific to CSI-RS, specific to PRS, specific to NR, Specific to clear channel assessment (clear channel assessment, CCA) received signal strength indicator (received signal strength indicator, RSSI), specific to cross-frequency, specific to the same frequency, specific to network controlled small gap (network controlled small gap, NCSG) And specific to NR unlicensed (NR unlicensed, NR-U). An exemplary application list includes {SSB cycle specific, NR specific, CSI-RS specific, PRS specific, CCA RSSI specific, cross/same frequency specific, NCSG specific, etc.}. For supported gap patterns, the UE shall reuse the gap pattern report for existing gaps. The supported gap patterns reported by the UE shall apply to existing gaps and task-specific gaps.

In another embodiment, UE 201 only reports supported gap patterns for task-specific/concurrent gaps. The above list of gap styles has nothing to do with existing gaps. Independent gap patterns for concurrent gaps provide flexibility for UEs to support this new feature. For example, a gap pattern supported by the UE only for concurrent gap reporting may be an alternative solution. Alternatively, the UE may report the same list of gap patterns as existing gaps, but with different values.

In step 220, the network configures the UE 201 with an existing gap with a gap pattern {measurement gap repetition period (MGRP), measurement gap length (measurement gap length, MGL), offset} for the UE 201 through the MN 202. Alternatively, in step 250, the network configures an existing gap with a gap pattern {MGRP, MGL, offset} through the SN 203 . In one embodiment, the network configures the concurrency gaps and associated applications through radio resource control (RRC) messages. At step 230, the network configures the concurrent measurement gap and associated application based on the RRC message from the MN 202. Similar to the existing gap, the corresponding MGRP, MGL and offset should be configured for the concurrent measurement gap in the gap configuration (GapConfig). The network may also configure the concurrent gap pattern at step 260 based on the RRC message from the SN 203 . In another embodiment, the network configures concurrency/task specific gaps with MO and associated RS. For example, if the network wants to configure the application of concurrent gaps to be specific to the SSB period, configure the MGRP, MGL, and offset of the concurrent measurement gaps to be associated with the target NR MO, where RS is configured as SSB. If the network wants to configure the application of concurrent gaps for different RATs, configure the MGRP, MGL and offset of the concurrent measurement gaps to be associated with the target different RAT MO. In yet another embodiment, the RRC message configures a network-specific set of gaps. Elements in the network-specific gap set include Associated Application, MGRP, MGL, and Offset. In one embodiment, the network further uses RRC messages, MAC CE commands or DCI signaling to dynamically indicate gap application and gap patterns for different purposes. For example, the network configures the network-specific gap set {associated application, MRGP, MGL, offset} through RRC messages as follows. Set 0: {Cross-band specific, 40, 6, 5}, Set 1: {CSI-RS specific, 20, 3, 0} etc. The network then indicates through a MAC CE command that set 0 or set 1 will be used for network specific gaps.

In an embodiment, when the UE 201 is connected to a network including an independent NR (NR standalone, NR SA), NR dual connectivity (dual connectivity, DC) or NR-evolved universal terrestrial radio access (NR-E-UTRA, NE) DC In the case of a mechanism-based system, the concurrency gap is configured by the MN 202 of the wireless network. When UE supports per-UE (per-UE) gaps, MN will configure measurement gaps; when UE supports per-frequency range (per-FR) gaps, MN will configure gaps for FR1, and SN will configure gaps for FR2 Clearance. In one embodiment, the UE can inherit the gap configuration mechanism from the existing connection. When UE 201 is connected to a system including E-UTRA-NR(EN) DC through the supported per-frequency gap, MN 202 configures FR1 of the concurrent measurement gap, and SN 203 configures FR2 of the concurrent measurement gap. Concurrent gaps may only be configured by the MN 202 when the UE 201 supports per-UE gaps. In NR SA, NR DC, NE DC, the measurement gap is always configured by the MN. Obviously, the concurrency gap can only be configured by the MN 202 . In other embodiments, configuration of concurrent gaps independent of network deployment may always come from the MN only.

In another embodiment, in EN DC or NE DC, if configured to monitor across frequency layers, only measurement gap patterns #0 and #1 are available for gaps per FR in E-UTRA and FR1 (if configured) Or for gaps per UE. When the UE supports NR-specific concurrent/task-specific gaps, only measurement gap modes #0 and #1 can be used for existing gaps. However, it is natural to allow all reported gap styles for concurrent/task-specific gaps. In Rel-16, some new mandatory gaps were introduced for NR-only measurements to avoid impact on existing measurements. New mandatory gaps can be applied when there is no LTE serving cell and no cross-frequency MO. In an embodiment, UE 201 extends the mandatory gap capability for concurrent gap configuration. When UE 201 reports support for "supportedGapPattern-NRonly" and concurrent/task-specific gaps are configured for cross-frequency measurements, NR-only measurements can always be applied to existing gaps because only NR MO will be measured in existing gaps.

In one embodiment, the concurrency gap configuration can configure a concurrency measurement gap and one or more applications associated with the concurrency measurement gap. Figures 3 to 5 show exemplary applications of concurrent measurement gaps.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring the related application of the concurrency gap to be specific to the SSB cycle according to an embodiment of the present invention. Intra-frequency MOs and cross-frequency MOs may have different SMTC configurations. In one embodiment, the network regroups MOs based on different SMTC periods. The same frequency f0 301 and the same frequency f1 302 have different SSB periods. Frequency span f2 303 and frequency span f3 304 have different SSB periods. The measurement gaps MG1 310 and MG2 320 are configured with different offsets to cover the same frequency f0 301 , the same frequency f1 302 , the span f2 303 and the span f3 304 . The MO-based SSB pattern can adopt other MG configurations, such as different MGL and/or MGRP. Concurrent measurement gaps are configured to be associated with one or more specific SSB periods, or to be specific to SSB periods.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring concurrent gap-related applications for different RATs according to an embodiment of the present invention. When UE needs to support at least 7 LTE frequencies based on measurement capabilities, different RAT MOs will share the same MG resources with NR frequencies. However, the physical layer structure measured across RATs is different from NR systems. These cross-RAT MOs can be measured at any time based on the PSS/SSS/CRS design in LTE. In an embodiment, the RAT-specific MGs can offload some of the NR frequency layer and share the work of the MGs across RATs. The configuration of this RAT-specific MG can be very flexible, it can be configured at any time to avoid conflicts with NR SMTC windows. A UE is configured with NR MO 401 and LTE MO 402 . In an embodiment, a concurrent gap may be associated with one or more MOs of different RATs, such as MG1 410 for NR and MG2 420 for LTE. In another embodiment, a concurrent gap may be associated with one or more MOs of the same RAT.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring the related application of the concurrency gap as CSI-RS-specific or PRS-specific according to an embodiment of the present invention. CSI-RS and PRS MO also share MG with SSB-based measurements. However, CSI-RS and PRS can have very flexible and different configurations compared to SSB. For example, a CSI-RS measurement may have a shorter measurement period, or a PRS may have a longer MGL compared to an SSB-based measurement. To take full advantage of the flexible configuration of RSs other than SSB, a new MG can be configured for measurements of these RSs. As shown, the UE is configured with SSB MO 501 and CSI-RS MO 502 . MG1 510 is configured for SSB MO 501 , and MG2 520 is configured for CSI-RS MO 502 . MG1 510 and MG2 520 have different MGL and MGPR. Concurrent measurement gaps provide flexibility for CSI-RS-specific and/or PRS-specific correlation applications.

In other embodiments, the relevant application of the concurrent measurement gap also includes CCA RRSI specific, cross-frequency specific, NCSG specific and NR-U specific. NR-U's RSSI measurements may conflict with SSB-based measurements. The NR-U RSSI measurement within the MG may also follow similar sharing rules. In an embodiment, a new concurrent MG is configured to measure the RSSI of NR-U to avoid restrictions on RSSI configuration and share the MG with NR SSB based measurements. In an embodiment, the pre-configured MG can be activated/deactivated based on switching of a bandwidth part (bandwidth part, BWP) of a serving cell. The network can also configure this concurrent MG for co-frequency measurement only. The advantage is that when all serving cells include SSB for measurement, the network can still schedule data. In another embodiment, the associated application is NCSG specific. The UE will report which cross-frequency layers can be measured without MG but with outage. When measuring these frequency layers, interruptions will only occur before or after the measurement opportunity. Therefore, data drop rates can be reduced when the network explicitly configures specific NCSG gaps for these frequency layers.

In an embodiment, a new carrier specific scaling factor (CSSF _{within_newGap,i} ) for new concurrency/task specific gaps will be introduced. CSSF _{within_newGap,i} for measurement object #i is used for the following measurement types: based on new concurrency/task-specific gap usage configuration for relevant frequency layers; when all SMTC opportunities of the same-frequency measurement object are covered by the new task-specific gap, no measurement The same-frequency measurement object of the gap; if the UE supports interFrequencyMeas-NoGap-r16 , when all SMTC opportunities of the inter-frequency measurement object are covered by the new task-specific gap, there is no inter-frequency measurement object of the measurement gap. The UE is expected to measure measurement object #i only within the new task-specific gap.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary schematic diagram of performing measurement prioritization when concurrent measurement gaps overlap with configured different measurement gaps according to an embodiment of the present invention. The configured MG1 610 overlaps the configured MG2 620 . MG1 610 and MG2 620 may overlap partially or completely. A conflict between two MGs occurs when the MGLs of two gaps partially or completely overlap. When two gaps have different MGRP and offset configurations, the new concurrent/task-specific gap may partially or completely overlap the existing gap. The main purpose of introducing new concurrency/task-specific gaps is that the network prefers to measure certain frequencies preferentially, and this will be measured in new concurrency/task-specific gaps.

In an embodiment 631, when a new concurrent/task-specific gap collides with an existing gap, the network may indicate which gap has a higher priority through RRC signaling. For example, at time T1, the network configures the "high priority" element as an existing gap. At time T2, the network configures the "high priority" element as a new concurrency gap. In another embodiment 632, when MGs collide, the UE determines priority. At which gap the frequency layer can be measured depends on the UE's implementation. In yet another embodiment 633, the prioritization is based on a set of pre-configured multi-gap sharing factors indicating the percentage of each respective measurement gap. The network configures the multi-gap sharing factor to indicate the percentage of each gap through the RRC signaling MultipleGapSharingScheme . For example:

K _legacy = X / 100

K _TaskGap = (100 – X) / 100

When the network indicates '00', it means K _legacy = 0, K _TaskGap = 1; when the network indicates '11', it means K _legacy = 1, K _TaskGap = 0. A sample table is as follows. MultipleGapSharingScheme Value of X (%) '00' 0 '01' 25 '10' 50 '11' 100

。其中，N 是與新的任務特定間隙發生衝突的既有時隙時機的數量。 When MeasGapSharingScheme is not present and there is no value stored in the field, it is up to the UE implementation to determine which measurement gap sharing scheme from the table to apply. In an embodiment 634, the factor E is used to prioritize the MGs. When a new concurrent/task-specific slot conflicts with an existing slot, the frequency layer configured to be measured within the new concurrent/task-specific slot has a higher priority than the frequency layer to be measured in the existing slot. Naturally, measurements of frequency layers in existing gaps will be extended. The expansion factor E can be

. where N is the number of existing slot opportunities that collide with the new task-specific gap.

FIG. 7 is an exemplary flowchart for concurrent gap configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. In step 701, the UE obtains a concurrency gap configuration in a wireless network, wherein the concurrency gap configuration is used to configure a concurrency measurement gap and one or more associated applications of the concurrency measurement gap. In step 702, the UE configures a concurrent measurement gap based on the concurrent gap configuration. In step 703, the UE performs one or more measurements of one or more associated applications corresponding to the concurrent measurement gap during the configured concurrent measurement gap. In step 704, when detecting one or more configured trigger events, the UE sends a measurement report including one or more measurement results to the wireless network.

In an embodiment, a storage medium (such as a computer-readable storage medium) stores a program, and when the above program is executed, the UE executes the embodiment of the present invention.

Although the present invention has been disclosed above with respect to preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Various changes, modifications and combinations can be made to each feature in each embodiment without departing from the scope of protection of the present invention defined by the patent scope of the application.

100: Wireless communication system 101, 105, 106, 201: UE 102-104: base station 111: Uplink 112: Downlink 113-115: Xn interface connection 121, 131: memory 122, 132: Processor 123, 133: Transceiver 124, 134: program 126, 135: Antenna 171: Measurement control circuit 181:Measurement gap configuration 182:Concurrent gap configuration 191: Gap measurement module 192: Gap configuration module 193:Measurement control module 194: Measurement report module 195: Ability Mod 202:MN 203:SN 210-260, 701-704: steps 301, 302: same frequency 303, 304: cross-frequency 310-320, 410-420, 510-520, 610-620: MG 401, 402, 501, 502: MO 631-634: Examples

A more complete understanding of this application can be had by reading the ensuing detailed description and examples with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a schematic system diagram of a wireless communication system with multiple concurrent gap configurations for measurement according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top-level design flow chart with concurrency gap configuration and reporting UE concurrency gap support capability in the master node and slave node scenarios according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring the related application of the concurrency gap to be specific to the SSB cycle according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring concurrent gap-related applications for different RATs according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is an exemplary schematic diagram of configuring the related application of the concurrency gap as CSI-RS-specific or PRS-specific according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is an exemplary schematic diagram of performing measurement prioritization when concurrent measurement gaps overlap with configured different measurement gaps according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is an exemplary flowchart for concurrent gap configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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Claims (9)

A concurrency gap configuration method, comprising: obtaining a concurrency gap configuration in a wireless network by a user equipment, wherein the concurrency gap configuration is used to configure a concurrency measurement gap and one or more correlations between the concurrency measurement gap configuring the concurrent measurement gap based on the concurrent measurement gap configuration; performing one or more measurements corresponding to the one or more associated applications during the configured concurrent measurement gap; and upon detecting a When one or more configured trigger events, send a measurement report including one or more measurement results to the wireless network, wherein when the user equipment is connected to a standalone new radio, a new radio dual connectivity, a new When radio-E-UTRAN dual connectivity, or the user equipment supports an E-UTRAN dual-connectivity system based on user equipment gaps, the concurrent gap configuration is determined by the wireless A master node configuration of the network; when the UE is connected to a system including an E-UTRA-NERA dual connectivity system where the UE supports gap-by-frequency, the wireless network's The primary node configures frequency range 1 of the concurrent measurement gap, and a secondary node of the wireless network configures frequency range 2 of the concurrent measurement gap. The concurrent gap configuration method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more associated applications include at least one of the following: one or more measurement objects for the same radio access technology, and one or more measurement objects for different radio access technologies One or more measurement objects of technology, specific to one or more types of sync block periods, specific to channel state information reference signal, specific to positioning reference signal, specific to new radio, specific to clear channel evaluation received signal strength indicator, Specific to cross-frequency, specific to intra-frequency, specific to network control small gaps, and specific to new radio unlicensed. The concurrent gap configuration method according to claim 1, wherein the concurrent gap The configuration further includes a measurement gap repetition period, a measurement gap length, and an offset. The concurrent gap configuration method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more associated applications are configured by associating one or more predefined measurement objects with the concurrent measurement gap. The concurrency gap configuration method according to claim 1, further comprising: reporting a UE concurrency gap support capability to the wireless network, so as to instruct the UE to support the concurrent measurement gap. The concurrent gap configuration method according to claim 1, wherein when the concurrent measurement gap overlaps with the configured different measurement gaps, a measurement prioritization is performed. The method for configuring concurrent gaps as claimed in claim 6, wherein the measurement prioritization is performed based on a measurement priority indication in a radio resource control message received from the wireless network. The concurrent gap configuration method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the measurement prioritization is determined by the UE. A user equipment, comprising: a transceiver, used to transmit and receive radio frequency signals in a wireless network; a measurement gap module, coupled to the transceiver, used to obtain a concurrent gap configuration, wherein the The concurrent gap configuration is used to configure a concurrent measurement gap and one or more associated applications of the concurrent measurement gap; a gap configuration module is used to configure the concurrent measurement gap based on the concurrent gap configuration; a measurement control module , configured to perform one or more measurements corresponding to the one or more associated applications during the configured concurrent measurement gap; and a measurement reporting module, configured to detect one or more configured trigger events , sending a measurement report including one or more measurement results to the wireless network, Wherein when the UE is connected to a network including a stand-alone New Radio, a New Radio Dual Connectivity, a New Radio-Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Dual Connectivity, or the UE supports an evolution by UE gap In a UTRA-New Radio dual connectivity system, the concurrent gap configuration is configured by a master node of the wireless network; In an E-UTRA-New Radio dual connectivity system, the primary node of the wireless network configures the frequency range 1 of the concurrent measurement gap, and a secondary node of the wireless network configures the Frequency range 2 for concurrent measurement gaps.

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