WO2014005260A1 - Measurement control method, device and system - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a measurement control method, device and system. The measurement control method comprises: user equipment receiving a measreport configuration from a base station, the measreport configuration comprising a plurality of conditions for a measurement parameter; if a measurement result which is obtained in the measurement conducted by the user equipment aimed at the measurement parameter meets at least one of the plurality of conditions, generating a measurement report; and the user equipment reporting the measurement report to the base station. In the abovementioned technical solution, a plurality of conditions are set for the same measurement parameter in the measreport configuration, and thus, a plurality of measurement reports can be generated by one measreport configuration, and the number of measreport configurations is reduced, thereby solving the problem of excesive air interface resource consumption caused by too many measreport configurations in the prior art, and enabling a reduction in difficulty of measreport configuration management.

Description

 Measurement control method, device and system

[Technical Field]

 The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications, and more particularly to a measurement control method, device and system.

 【Background technique】

In a wireless communication system, a base station can give a connected user equipment (UE, User) Equipment) delivers measurement control, allowing the user equipment to measure current network conditions (eg, signal quality and other information) and report it to the base station, through which the base station performs various applications (eg, cell handover).

For example, in the current long-term evolution (LTE, Long Term In the Evolution system, the measurement control is mainly composed of two parts: measurement object configuration (MeasObject) and measurement report configuration (MeasReport). In general, a measurement object configuration and a measurement report configuration can uniquely determine a measurement. According to the agreement, the same measurement object configuration or measurement report configuration can be used by multiple measurements at the same time.

In many current application scenarios, the same measurement object configuration is shared by multiple measurements. In general, the same frequency point and the measurement under the same system can share a single measurement object configuration. However, there are very few scenarios in which the measurement report configuration is shared. The main reason is that the base station needs the user equipment to report different information to perform different network applications. After analyzing the application of the base station, it is found that the difference in the configuration of different measurement reports in many scenarios is only that the threshold configuration values reported are different, and the other configurations are identical.

In the prior art, one measurement report configuration can only be used to generate one measurement report, and multiple measurement report configurations are required for generating multiple measurement reports, so that the air interface resources are consumed excessively.

 [Summary of the Invention]

The present invention provides a measurement control method, device, and system, which can solve the problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports in the prior art.

An aspect of the present invention provides a measurement control method, including: a user equipment receives a measurement report configuration from a base station, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter; if the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for the measurement parameter meets multiple At least one condition of the condition generates a measurement report; the user equipment reports the measurement report to the base station.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a measurement control method, including: transmitting a measurement report configuration to a user equipment, where the measurement report configuration includes a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter; receiving a measurement report sent by the user equipment, where the measurement report is a measurement by the user equipment. The parameter is generated when the measurement result obtained by the measurement satisfies at least one of a plurality of conditions.

Another aspect of the present invention provides an apparatus including a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a measurement report configuration from the base station, wherein the measurement report configuration includes a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter. The processing unit is configured to generate a measurement report when the measurement result obtained by measuring the measurement parameter for the device satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions. The sending unit is configured to report the measurement report to the base station.

Another aspect of the present invention provides an apparatus including a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The sending unit is configured to send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, wherein the measurement report configuration includes a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter. The receiving unit is configured to receive a measurement report sent by the user equipment, where the measurement report is generated when the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of a plurality of conditions.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a system, where the system includes a base station and a user equipment, where the base station is configured to send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter; the user equipment is configured to receive from the base station The measurement report is configured to generate a measurement report and report the measurement report to the base station when the measurement result obtained by measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions; the base station is further configured to receive the measurement report sent by the user equipment.

In the foregoing technical solution, multiple conditions are set for the same measurement parameter in the measurement report configuration, and multiple measurement reports can be generated by one measurement report configuration, which reduces the number of measurement report configurations, thereby solving the problem of too many configuration reports in the prior art. The problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources can also reduce the management difficulty of the measurement report configuration.

 [Description of the Drawings]

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. Other drawings may also be obtained from those of ordinary skill in the art in light of the inventive work.

1 is a flow chart of a measurement control method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart of a measurement control method provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flow chart of a measurement control method provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

 【detailed description】

Embodiments of the invention are applicable to a variety of communication systems, such as LTE systems. The invention will now be described in detail in conjunction with the drawings and embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 1, FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a measurement control method provided by an embodiment of the present invention. The measurement control method provided in this embodiment includes the following steps.

Step S110: The user equipment receives the measurement report configuration from the base station. Wherein, the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter.

Optionally, the above measurement parameter is a signal quality parameter, or other measurement parameter.

Optionally, the foregoing condition is a plurality of thresholds set for one measurement parameter, such as an absolute threshold or a relative threshold, and may also be other determination conditions, such as a wireless network environment change, which are not described herein.

Step S120: Generate a measurement report if the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions.

Optionally, when the user equipment measures the measurement parameter to obtain the measurement result for the measurement parameter, the user equipment may compare the foregoing measurement result with the foregoing multiple conditions, and trigger any one of the multiple conditions in the measurement result. A corresponding measurement report is generated for one condition.

Step S130: The user equipment reports a measurement report to the base station.

In this embodiment, the measurement report configuration received by the user equipment includes setting multiple conditions for the same measurement parameter, so that even if the user equipment receives only one measurement report configuration, multiple measurement reports can be generated, thereby solving the prior art. The problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

Optionally, after the foregoing step S110, the measurement control method further includes the step of: the user equipment receives the measurement object configuration from the base station, and measures the measurement parameter of the measurement object. The measurement object configuration includes information of the measurement object and information of the measurement parameter, and is used to instruct the user equipment to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object. Since the measurement object configuration received by the user equipment includes the measurement object to be measured and the measurement parameter, the amount of data in the measurement report configuration is reduced.

Optionally, the foregoing measurement report configuration includes an identifier of a plurality of conditions, and the measurement report includes an identifier of the measurement result and a condition that the measurement result meets. Specifically, each condition in the measurement report configuration corresponds to one identifier, and the identifiers corresponding to different conditions are different. When the base station receives the measurement report, the condition corresponding to the measurement report may be determined according to the identifier in the measurement report. For example, the different conditions in a measurement report configuration are the strength of the signal. The strong signal identifier is 1, the strong signal is 2, the medium signal is 3, the weak signal is 4, and the signal is weak. The logo is 5. The measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter is medium signal, so a measurement report is generated, and in the measurement report, the flag is 3. When the base station receives the measurement report, it may determine that the measurement report is a measurement report obtained when the signal is medium according to the identifier 3 therein. The above manner can simplify the way in which the measurement report reflects the trigger condition, which is beneficial to further saving resources.

Referring to FIG. 2, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a measurement control method provided by another embodiment of the present invention. The measurement control method provided in this embodiment includes the following steps.

Step S210: Send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter.

Step S220: Receive a measurement report sent by the user equipment, where the measurement report is generated when the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of a plurality of conditions.

In this embodiment, the measurement report configuration sent by the network side device, for example, the base station, may include setting multiple conditions for the same measurement parameter, so that the user equipment can generate multiple measurement reports even if receiving a measurement report configuration, thereby solving the problem. In the prior art, the problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

Optionally, before the step S220, the method further includes the step of: transmitting a measurement object configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement object configuration includes information of the measurement object and information of the measurement parameter, and is used to indicate that the user equipment measures the measurement parameter of the measurement object.

Optionally, the foregoing measurement report configuration includes an identifier of a plurality of conditions, and the measurement report includes an identifier of the measurement result and a condition that the measurement result meets.

Optionally, each step in this embodiment may be performed by a base station, and may be combined with the steps performed by the user equipment in the method provided in the previous embodiment. For the technical details of the measurement report configuration, the measurement report, and the like in this embodiment, reference may be made to the example in the previous embodiment, and details are not described herein.

Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a measurement control method provided by another embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment can be understood as an example of detailed steps of the measurement control method provided by the foregoing embodiment, and the embodiment includes the following steps.

Step S310: The base station sends a measurement report configuration and a measurement object configuration to the user equipment. The measurement object configuration includes information of the measurement object and information of the measurement parameter for instructing the user equipment to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object. The measurement report configuration contains multiple conditions for one measurement parameter. The above measurement parameters are signal quality parameters, or other measurement parameters, and the condition is a plurality of threshold values set for one measurement parameter, such as an absolute threshold or a relative threshold, or other judgment conditions, such as a wireless network environment change. , not described here one by one.

This embodiment does not limit the transmission order of the measurement report configuration and the measurement object configuration, and is preferably transmitted at the same time. However, in other embodiments, the measurement report configuration or the measurement object configuration may also be sent first.

Step S320: The user equipment receives the measurement report configuration and the measurement object configuration from the base station.

Step S330: The user equipment measures the measurement parameters of the measurement object. If the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of a plurality of conditions in the measurement report configuration, step S340 is performed.

Step S340, generating a measurement report. Measurement results are included in the measurement report.

Step S350: The user equipment reports a measurement report to the base station.

Step S360: The base station receives the measurement report sent by the user equipment.

Optionally, the foregoing measurement report configuration includes an identifier of a plurality of conditions, and the measurement report includes an identifier of the measurement result and a condition that the measurement result meets. Specifically, each condition in the measurement report configuration corresponds to one identifier, and the identifiers corresponding to different conditions are different. When the base station receives the measurement report, the condition corresponding to the measurement report may be determined according to the identifier in the measurement report.

The measurement report configuration in this embodiment includes setting a plurality of conditions for the same measurement parameter, so that the user equipment can generate multiple measurement reports according to one measurement report configuration and different measurement results, thereby solving the prior art configuration of the measurement report. The problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

Referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a device 420 according to another embodiment of the present invention. The FIG. 4 further includes a base station 410 in communication with the device 420. In this embodiment, the device 420 includes a receiving unit 421, a processing unit 422, and a sending unit 423, which can be used to implement the foregoing steps S110-S130.

For example, receiving unit 421 is configured to receive a measurement report configuration from base station 410, wherein the measurement report configuration includes a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter. Optionally, the above measurement parameter is a signal quality parameter, or other measurement parameter. Optionally, the foregoing condition is a plurality of thresholds set for one measurement parameter, such as an absolute threshold or a relative threshold, and may also be other determination conditions, such as a wireless network environment change, which are not described herein.

The processing unit 422 is configured to generate a measurement report when the measurement result obtained by the device for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions. Optionally, when the processing unit 422 measures the measurement parameter to obtain a measurement result for the measurement parameter, the processing unit 422 may compare the measurement result with the multiple conditions, and trigger the multiple conditions in the measurement result. A corresponding measurement report is generated for any of the conditions.

The sending unit 423 is configured to report the measurement report to the base station 410.

Optionally, the device 420 is a user equipment.

In this embodiment, the measurement report configuration received by the device 420 includes setting a plurality of conditions for the same measurement parameter, so that even if the device 420 receives only one measurement report configuration, multiple measurement reports can be generated, thereby solving the prior art. The problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

Optionally, referring to FIG. 5, the device 420 further includes a measuring unit 424 in addition to the receiving unit 421, the processing unit 422, and the sending unit 423. The receiving unit 421 further receives the measurement object configuration from the base station 410. The measurement object configuration includes information of the measurement object and information of the measurement parameter for instructing the measurement unit 424 to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object. That is, the measuring unit 424 is configured to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object according to the measurement object configuration, and send the measurement result to the processing unit 422. Since the measurement object configuration received by the device 420 includes the measurement object to be measured and the measurement parameter, the amount of data in the measurement report configuration is reduced.

Optionally, the foregoing measurement report configuration includes an identifier of a plurality of conditions, and the measurement report includes an identifier of the measurement result and a condition that the measurement result meets. Specifically, each condition in the measurement report configuration corresponds to one identifier, and the identifiers corresponding to different conditions are different. The above manner can simplify the way in which the measurement report reflects the trigger condition, which is beneficial to further saving resources.

In the above embodiment, the receiving unit 421 in the device 420 may be a receiver, the processing unit 422 may be a processor, and the transmitting unit 423 may be a transmitter. The individual units may be combined by a plurality of sub-units, and different units may be combined into one unit. The present invention is not limited to the specific implementation forms provided by the embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a device 510 according to another embodiment of the present invention. The FIG. 6 further includes a base station 520 that is in communication with the device 510. In this embodiment, the device 510 includes a sending unit 511 and a receiving unit 512, which can be used to implement the foregoing steps S210-S220.

For example, the transmitting unit 511 is configured to send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment 520, wherein the measurement report configuration includes a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter.

The receiving unit 512 is configured to receive the measurement report sent by the user equipment 520, where the measurement report is generated when the measurement result obtained by the user equipment 520 for the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of a plurality of conditions.

Optionally, the sending unit 511 is further configured to send a measurement object configuration to the user equipment 520, where the measurement object is configured to instruct the user equipment 520 to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object.

Optionally, the device 510 is a base station.

In this embodiment, the measurement report configuration sent by the device 510 includes multiple conditions for the same measurement parameter. Therefore, even if the user equipment 520 receives only one measurement report configuration, multiple measurement reports can be generated, thereby solving the prior art. The problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

Referring to FIG. 7, FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the system includes a base station 610 and a user equipment 620, which can be used to implement the foregoing steps S310-S360. Also, base station 610 is preferably device 510, and user device 620 is preferably device 420.

For example, base station 610 is configured to send a measurement report configuration to user equipment 620, the measurement report configuration including a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter. The user equipment 620 is configured to receive a measurement report configuration from the base station 610. When the measurement result obtained by measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the multiple conditions, the measurement report is generated, and the measurement report is reported to the base station 610. The base station 610 is further configured to receive a measurement report sent by the user equipment 620.

In this embodiment, the measurement report configuration received by the user equipment 620 includes setting a plurality of conditions for the same measurement parameter. Therefore, even if the user equipment 620 receives only one measurement report configuration, multiple measurement reports can be generated, thereby solving the present problem. In the technology, the problem of excessive consumption of air interface resources due to excessive configuration of measurement reports can also reduce the management difficulty of measurement report configuration.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the device implementations described above are merely illustrative. For example, the division of the unit is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be another division manner, for example, multiple units or components may be combined or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed. In addition, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interface, device or unit, and may be electrical, mechanical or otherwise.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the present embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The above integrated unit can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software functional unit.

One of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the process of implementing the foregoing embodiments can be completed by a computer program to instruct related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. When executed, the flow of an embodiment of the methods as described above may be included. The storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or a read-only storage memory (Read-Only) Memory, ROM) or Random Access Memory (RAM).

The above is only the embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and the equivalent structure or equivalent process transformation of the present invention and the contents of the drawings may be directly or indirectly applied to other related technologies. The fields are all included in the scope of patent protection of the present invention.

Claims (14)

1. A measurement control method, comprising:

   The user equipment receives a measurement report configuration from a base station, the measurement report configuration including a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter;

   Generating a measurement report if the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions;

   The user equipment reports the measurement report to the base station.
2. The measurement control method according to claim 1, wherein after the user equipment receives the measurement report configuration from the base station, the method further includes:

   Receiving, by the user equipment, a measurement object configuration from the base station, where the measurement object configuration includes information of a measurement object and information of the measurement parameter;

   The user equipment measures the measurement parameter of the measurement object.
3. The measurement control method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the measurement report configuration includes an identifier of the plurality of conditions, the measurement report including the measurement result and a condition satisfied by the measurement result Logo.
4. A measurement control method, comprising:

   Sending a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, the measurement report configuration including a plurality of conditions for one measurement parameter;

   Receiving a measurement report sent by the user equipment, where the measurement report is generated when the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions.
5. The measurement control method according to claim 4, wherein before receiving the measurement report sent by the user equipment, the method further comprises: transmitting a measurement object configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement object configuration includes a measurement object The information and the information of the measurement parameter are used to instruct the user equipment to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object.
6. The measurement control method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the measurement report configuration includes an identifier of the plurality of conditions, the measurement report including the measurement result and the condition that the measurement result is satisfied Logo.
7. A device, characterized in that the device comprises:

   a receiving unit, configured to receive a measurement report configuration from a base station, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter;

   a processing unit, configured to generate a measurement report when the measurement result obtained by the device for measuring the measurement parameter satisfies at least one of the plurality of conditions; and

   And a sending unit, configured to report the measurement report to the base station.
8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive a measurement object configuration from the base station, where the measurement object configuration includes information of a measurement object and information of the measurement parameter; The method further includes a measuring unit for measuring the measured parameter of the measuring object.
9. The device of claim 7, wherein the measurement report configuration comprises an identification of the plurality of conditions, the measurement report comprising an identification of the measurement result and a condition satisfied by the measurement result.
10. A device according to any one of claims 7-9, wherein the device is a user device.
11. An apparatus, comprising:

    a sending unit, configured to send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter;

    And a receiving unit, configured to receive a measurement report sent by the user equipment, where the measurement report is generated when the measurement result obtained by the user equipment for the measurement parameter meets at least one of the multiple conditions.
12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the sending unit is further configured to send a measurement object configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement object configuration includes information of a measurement object and information of the measurement parameter, and is used for Instructing the user equipment to measure the measurement parameter of the measurement object.
13. The device according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that the device is a base station.
14. A system, comprising: a base station and a user equipment, wherein the base station is configured to send a measurement report configuration to the user equipment, where the measurement report configuration includes multiple conditions for one measurement parameter; The user equipment is configured to receive a measurement report configuration from the base station, and when the measurement result obtained by measuring the measurement parameter meets at least one of the multiple conditions, generate a measurement report, and report the measurement report to the a base station; the base station is further configured to receive a measurement report sent by the user equipment.

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