WO2017080248A1 - 非授权载波的测量上报方法和终端及配置方法和基站 - Google Patents

非授权载波的测量上报方法和终端及配置方法和基站 Download PDF

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WO2017080248A1
WO2017080248A1 PCT/CN2016/090459 CN2016090459W WO2017080248A1 WO 2017080248 A1 WO2017080248 A1 WO 2017080248A1 CN 2016090459 W CN2016090459 W CN 2016090459W WO 2017080248 A1 WO2017080248 A1 WO 2017080248A1
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  • the present application relates to, but is not limited to, the field of communications, and in particular, to a method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier, a terminal, a configuration method, and a base station.
  • cell reselection and handover are important functions.
  • the UE User Equipment
  • the UE needs to measure the signal quality of different cells in order to select a suitable cell to camp.
  • the UE After the UE establishes a connection with the network in a certain cell, the UE still needs to measure the signal quality of its neighboring cell, so as to select a suitable cell for handover to meet the mobility requirement.
  • the network side sends a measurement control message to the UE, where the measurement control message includes the measurement identifier, the measurement object, the report configuration, and Other relevant properties of the measurement.
  • the measurement object contains measurement object attributes (such as carrier frequency, neighbor list, etc.), and the report configuration includes report configuration attributes (such as event trigger or periodic report, triggered event definition (A1, A2%), number of reports, etc.).
  • the UE performs measurement and evaluation according to the measurement object and the report configuration in the measurement control message, and generates a measurement report according to the measurement result and reports it to the network side.
  • the duration is equal to or greater than TTT (Time To Trigger).
  • TTT Time To Trigger
  • LTE-A Long Term Evolution Advance
  • CA Carrier Aggregation
  • Pcell Primary Cell
  • Scell Secondary Cell
  • Dual Connectivity Dual Connectivity
  • a dual-connected terminal can remain connected to more than two network nodes at the same time, but the control plane connection is only connected to one of the cells, such as a macro cell.
  • the multiple service nodes of the terminal are multiple base stations, and the delay between the base stations is not negligible.
  • MeNB macro base station
  • SeNB small cell base station
  • Unlicensed carrier refers to the spectrum (or carrier) that can be used directly without authorization, subject to the relevant regulations (radio control) of government agencies (eg, National Radio Regulatory Commission). For example, microwave ovens, remote control toy airplanes, wireless mice, wireless keyboards, and wireless fidelity (WiFi) use unlicensed carriers. In some cases, unlicensed carriers need to compete to be used. If the base station (including the WiFi access point) does not compete for resources, the unlicensed carrier cannot be used.
  • the unlicensed carrier and the authorized carrier may be used in a carrier aggregation manner or in a dual connectivity manner.
  • the unlicensed carrier is generally used as a supplement to the data transmission, that is, the authorized carrier is used as the primary serving cell, and the unlicensed carrier is used as the secondary serving cell.
  • the unlicensed carrier resource has a lot of speciality and randomness.
  • the terminal needs to report all received signal strength indications (RSSI), which reflect the busy idleness on the unlicensed carrier to a certain extent.
  • RSSI received signal strength indications
  • the reported content includes the average value of the sampled RSSI and the ratio of the sampled RSSI above a specified threshold, but due to the unlicensed carrier environment, the guidance on the unlicensed carrier
  • the frequency resource needs to be obtained through competition, and includes a specified correlation signal, such as a CRS, sent by the base station (eNB) for performing RRM (Radio Resource Management) measurement on the terminal.
  • the resource competition fails, the specified correlation signal used for measurement cannot be sent.
  • the terminal cannot measure the strength and quality of the pilot signal on the unlicensed carrier. If only the average value of the RSSI above or above the ratio of the specified threshold is reported, the base station still cannot obtain sufficiently accurate and reliable measurement results as a reference, and the base station cannot make a reasonable judgment according to the reliable and accurate measurement report.
  • the call is interrupted or the user communication service experience is degraded.
  • the embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier, a terminal, a configuration method, and a base station, to at least solve the accuracy of a policy performed by a base station caused by unreliable data about an unlicensed carrier reported by a terminal in the related art. Lower question.
  • a method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier including: receiving a measurement control message sent by a base station, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that measurement is needed.
  • the unlicensed carrier the plurality of pilot signals from different target cells are measured on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information, and the measurement result of the pilot signal is reported to the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • Layer 3 records a timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal, and operates a time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp, wherein the result of the operation is used to indicate the foregoing
  • the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the situation in which the terminal can receive the measured pilot signal reporting the result of the foregoing operation to the base station.
  • the operation of the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp includes at least one of: performing an averaging operation on the time difference value, and performing the time difference value The average value is used as a result of the above operation; the variance time difference operation is performed on the time difference value, and the variance value of the time difference value is used as a result of the operation; and the time difference value is statistically operated to make the time difference value smaller than Or the number of low-latency samples equal to the first predetermined threshold as the above operation The result of the work.
  • the foregoing operations on the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamps include:
  • the above operation is performed on the above time difference value in the above time difference set.
  • measuring the multiple pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information includes: measuring a signal strength or a quality of the pilot signal according to the measurement control message; When the signal strength or quality is greater than the second predetermined threshold, it is determined that the pilot signal is measured.
  • a method for configuring an unlicensed carrier including: sending a measurement control message to a terminal, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal needs The measured unlicensed carrier; receiving the result of the operation reported by the terminal, wherein the result of the foregoing operation is that the pilot detects the pilot signal from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier a result obtained by operating a time difference between time stamps corresponding to the measurement result of the signal, the result of the foregoing operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier, and the terminal is capable of receiving the measured pilot signal
  • the resource configuration operation is performed according to the result of the foregoing operation, where the resource configuration operation includes at least one of the following: cell handover, cell reselection, and reconfiguration radio bearer.
  • performing the resource configuration operation according to the result of the foregoing operation includes: when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle, switching the secondary serving cell on the current source unlicensed carrier of the terminal to the target unlicensed carrier.
  • the upper auxiliary service area when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle, switching the secondary serving cell on the current source unlicensed carrier of the terminal to the target unlicensed carrier.
  • performing the resource configuration operation according to the result of the foregoing operation includes: reconfiguring the radio bearer for the terminal when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle.
  • performing the resource configuration operation according to the result of the foregoing operation when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is busy or heavy, performing deletion or removal of the secondary serving cell on the source unlicensed carrier. If the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle or the load is light, the terminal is added or activated on the unlicensed carrier.
  • a measurement reporting terminal of an unlicensed carrier including: a receiving unit, configured to receive a measurement control message sent by a base station, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication is The information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that needs to be measured; the measuring unit is configured to measure a plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information, and report the measurement result of the pilot signal to The air interface protocol layer 3; the recording unit is configured to record a timestamp respectively corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal in the air interface protocol layer 3; the operation unit is set to be adjacent to the two timestamps of the record The time difference between the time stamps is used, wherein the result of the foregoing operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the terminal can receive the measured pilot signal; and the reporting unit is configured to report the foregoing The result of the operation is given to the above base station.
  • the above operation unit includes at least one of the following:
  • the first operation module is configured to perform an averaging operation on the time difference value, and use an average value of the time difference values as a result of the foregoing operation;
  • the second operation module is configured to perform a variance operation on the time difference, and use the variance value of the time difference as a result of the operation;
  • the third operation module is configured to perform a statistical operation on the time difference, and the number of low-latency samples whose time difference is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold is used as a result of the foregoing operation.
  • the foregoing operating unit includes:
  • the processing module is configured to repeatedly perform the following steps to obtain a time difference set until the measurement end time or the evaluation time window closing time for measuring the pilot signal indicated by the measurement control message is reached: the acquisition corresponds to the current measurement result.
  • the current timestamp of the next measurement result obtained after the current timestamp is obtained; the time difference between the current timestamp and the next timestamp is obtained, and the time difference value is recorded to the above In the time difference set; the next timestamp is taken as the next current timestamp;
  • the fourth operation module is configured to perform the foregoing operation on the time difference value in the set of time difference values.
  • the measuring unit includes: a measuring module configured to measure a signal strength or a quality of the pilot signal according to the foregoing measurement control message; and a determining module configured to: when the measured signal strength or quality is greater than a second predetermined threshold It is determined that the above pilot signal is measured.
  • a configuration base station for an unlicensed carrier including: a sending unit, configured to send a measurement control message to the terminal, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used by And the receiving unit is configured to receive a result of the operation reported by the terminal, where the result of the foregoing operation is that the terminal sends multiple pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier. And performing, when performing the measurement, a result obtained by operating a time difference between time stamps corresponding to the measured measurement result of the pilot signal, wherein the result of the operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and The foregoing terminal is configured to receive the measured pilot signal.
  • the configuration unit is configured to perform a resource configuration operation according to the result of the foregoing operation, where the resource configuration operation includes at least one of the following: cell handover, cell reselection, and reconfiguration radio bearer. .
  • the configuration unit includes: a first configuration module, configured to: when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle, switch the secondary serving cell on the current source unlicensed carrier of the terminal to the target unlicensed carrier The upper auxiliary service area.
  • the configuration unit includes: a second configuration module, configured to reconfigure the radio bearer for the terminal when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle.
  • the configuration unit includes: a third configuration module, configured to: when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is busy or heavy, perform deletion of the secondary serving cell on the source unlicensed carrier, or Deactivation; or, when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle or the load is light, the terminal is added or activated on the unlicensed carrier.
  • a third configuration module configured to: when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is busy or heavy, perform deletion of the secondary serving cell on the source unlicensed carrier, or Deactivation; or, when the result of the foregoing operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle or the load is light, the terminal is added or activated on the unlicensed carrier.
  • the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, where the computer executable instructions are implemented to implement the measurement reporting method of the unlicensed carrier.
  • the embodiment of the invention further provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, the method for configuring the unlicensed carrier is implemented when the computer executable instructions are executed.
  • the terminal receives the measurement control message sent by the base station, and measures multiple pilot signals on the unlicensed carrier according to the indication of the indication information of the unlicensed carrier that is required to be measured in the measurement control message, and guides
  • the measurement result of the frequency signal is reported to the layer 3; the timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal is recorded in the layer 3; the time difference between the adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp is operated to
  • the result of the operation for indicating the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier is obtained, and the result of the operation is reported to the base station. Therefore, the base station can be combined with the operation result reported by the terminal to make a more accurate and reliable decision, thereby solving the call drop problem caused by the base station unable to accurately make a reasonable judgment in the related art.
  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an optional method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an optional method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another optional measurement reporting method for an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an optional measurement reporting terminal of an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a configuration base station of an optional unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes the following steps:
  • Step S102 receiving a measurement control message sent by the base station, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that needs to be measured;
  • Step S104 measuring a plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information, and reporting the measurement result of the pilot signal to the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • Step S106 Record a timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal in the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • Step S108 operating a time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp, wherein the result of the operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the terminal can receive the measured guide.
  • Step S110 reporting the result of the operation to the base station.
  • the measurement reporting method of the unlicensed carrier may be applicable to the LTE system, and may be applicable to all communication systems that need to use the unlicensed carrier radio resources through contention preemption.
  • the secondary base station (eNB) acquires the wireless status of the terminal side through the measurement result of the unlicensed carrier reported by the terminal (UE), thereby making a more reasonable radio resource selection decision for the terminal. If the occupation of the unlicensed carrier is obtained, the time map of the occupied and relatively idle is implemented to decide whether to perform the addition and deletion of the radio bearer.
  • the foregoing method may further include, but is not limited to, a signal strength indication (RSSI) of the UE during a certain period of network configuration.
  • RSSI signal strength indication
  • the pilot signal transmitted by the receiving base station (eNB) is filtered by the physical layer layer, and then reported to the air interface protocol layer layer three, and the result is divided into R0, R1....Rn-1, where R0 is the time at which the pilot signal transmitted by the eNB on the unlicensed carrier is filtered by the physical layer layer and then reported to the air interface protocol layer 3, It is assumed that the time at this time is T0; R1 is the time when the pilot signal transmitted by the eNB received on the unlicensed carrier passes through the physical layer layer and then filtered to the second measurement result reported to layer 3, assuming that the time at this time is T1.
  • the time to receive Rn-1 is Tn-1.
  • the time for the base station to transmit the pilot signal for measurement is uncertain, so that the UE measures the pilot signal.
  • the time reported to Layer 3 is also uncertain and acyclic on the time axis. Therefore, in this embodiment, the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the measurement result reported by the physical layer, that is, the time difference between two adjacent timestamps is: T1-T0, T2-T1, ... Tn-1-Tn-2, the values of the time difference values may be the same or different.
  • the above-mentioned time difference can reflect the probability that the base station acts as the transmitting end and can compete for the acquisition of the unlicensed carrier resources. For example, if the time difference is large, it indicates that the base station side is busy, and the probability that the base station can compete for the unlicensed carrier resource is lower. Otherwise, the base station side radio resource (such as the unlicensed carrier resource) is idle. In addition, if the dynamic range of these time differences is large, it means that the base station can successfully compete for unlicensed carrier resources with a large randomness, and vice versa. That is to say, based on the time difference, the base station can not only obtain the wireless status of the terminal side, but also more accurately analyze the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier.
  • the cell where the terminal resides is different from the cell to be tested covered by the unlicensed carrier.
  • the cell to be tested and the terminal cell that are covered by the unlicensed carrier may be aggregated.
  • the foregoing aggregation may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: carrier aggregation and dual connectivity.
  • the foregoing operation of the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:
  • the variance value of the time difference is :VAR ⁇ (T1-T0), (T2-T1), ...(Tn-1-Tn-2) ⁇ ;
  • the third step 3) performing statistical operations on the time difference, and taking the number of low-latency samples whose time difference is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold as a result of the operation; for example, based on the n pilot signals transmitted by the base station, for example, the first The predetermined threshold value is Thresh-1, and the number of the above-mentioned time difference values exceeding the first predetermined threshold Thresh-1 configured by the base station is counted.
  • the terminal filters the measured pilot signal through the physical layer, the measurement result of the pilot signals of the layer 3, such as the effective sampling value, and the time of each valid sample value obtained will be reported. Recorded as a timestamp with a corresponding pilot signal.
  • the terminal receives the measurement control message sent by the base station, and measures multiple pilot signals on the unlicensed carrier according to the indication of the indication information of the uncontrolled carrier that is required to be measured in the measurement control message, and Reporting the measurement result of the pilot signal to layer 3; recording the timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal in layer 3; and operating the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp
  • the result of the operation for indicating the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier is obtained, and the result of the operation is reported to the base station. Therefore, the base station can be combined with the operation result reported by the terminal to make a more accurate and reliable decision, thereby solving the call drop problem caused by the base station unable to accurately make a reasonable judgment in the related art.
  • the operation of the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp includes at least one of the following:
  • the following example is used to illustrate, for example, the terminal camps on the cell 1, the working frequency of the cell 1 is f1, and the radio resource control protocol (RRC) connection is initiated on the cell 1, and after the RRC connection establishment process is completed, The terminal enters the connected state. Further, the indication information in the measurement control message sent by the terminal to the base station indicates that the unlicensed carrier is measured, wherein the frequency of the unlicensed carrier is f2.
  • RRC radio resource control protocol
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T1; at T2, the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T2, where the time difference between T2 and T1 It is 80ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T3; the time difference between T3 and T2 is 40 ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T4; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 40 ms. Reporting the signal of f2 at the physical layer at T5 Give layer three and record the timestamp T5; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 40ms.
  • the terminal averages the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, a total of five time-stamps of the pilot signal are received, and there are four time difference values, which are 80 ms, 40 ms, 40 ms, and 40 ms, and the average value is 50 ms, and the average value of the result of the above operation can be reported as 50 ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three at T1, and records the timestamp T1.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T2 is recorded, wherein the time difference between T2 and T1 is recorded. The value is 30ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T3 is recorded; the time difference between T3 and T2 is 50 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T4 is recorded; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T5 is recorded; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T6 is recorded; the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal When the measurement end time of the RSSI measurement of the f2 is indicated by the measurement control message, the terminal performs the variance operation of the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, when a total of six pilot signals are received, there are five time differences, which are 30 ms, 50 ms, 55 ms, 35 ms, 70 ms, and the variance value is 257.5 ms, and the result variance value of the above operation can be reported. 257.5ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer at time F1 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T1 is recorded.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T2 is recorded, wherein the time of T2 and T1 is recorded.
  • the difference is 30ms. Reported to Layer 3 at T3 and records the timestamp T3; T3 and T2 The time difference is 50ms.
  • T4 it is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T4 is recorded; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T5 is recorded; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms.
  • T6 it is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T6 is recorded; the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal When the measurement end time of the RSSI measurement of the f2 is indicated by the measurement control message, the terminal performs the variance operation of the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, a total of 6 time slots of the pilot signals are received, and there are 5 time differences, which are 30 ms, 50 ms, 55 ms, 35 ms, and 70 ms, respectively, wherein the number of lower than or equal to the first predetermined threshold of 50 ms is 3.
  • the result of operating the time difference between two adjacent timestamps of the measurement results reported by the plurality of physical layers to the layer 3 is obtained by the at least one operation, and the operation is performed.
  • the results are reported to the base station to enable the base station to make more accurate decisions with more accurate and reliable results.
  • the operation of the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp includes:
  • the following example is used to illustrate that the terminal currently measures the RSSI of the f2 to report the current timestamp of the layer 3 to T3, and records the timestamp T3; then obtains the next timestamp T4 after T3, and acquires the time of T4 and T3. The difference, ie, 40ms. Then, the next timestamp T4 after T3 is taken as the next current timestamp, the next timestamp T5 after T4 is obtained, and so on, until the end of the measurement of the RSSI measurement of the pilot signal indicated by the measurement control message is reached. time.
  • the time difference between two adjacent timestamps is obtained, so that the occupancy of the unlicensed carrier by the base station is obtained by using the time difference, that is, as the transmitting end.
  • the probability of competing for unlicensed carrier resources and the regularity of successful competition to acquire unlicensed carrier resources is obtained.
  • measuring a plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information includes:
  • the measured signal strength or quality is greater than a second predetermined threshold, it is determined that the pilot signal is measured.
  • the present application by measuring the signal strength or quality of the pilot signal of the unlicensed carrier to be measured according to the indication of the indication information in the measurement control message, after the measured signal strength or quality is greater than a certain threshold, it is determined.
  • the pilot signal is measured.
  • the time difference of the measurement time of the adjacent pilot signals is obtained by using the measurement time to improve the accuracy and reliability of the decision making by the base station.
  • the base station provides coverage of two cells, the working frequency of cell 1 (distributed on the authorized carrier) is f1, and the working frequency of cell 3 (distributed on the unlicensed carrier) is f2.
  • Cell 1 and cell 3 can perform carrier aggregation.
  • the cell 3 of the cell 1 and the unlicensed carrier is aggregated by means of dual connectivity.
  • the terminal camps on the cell 1 and initiates an RRC connection setup on the cell 1. After the RRC connection setup process is complete, the UE enters a connected state, and the cell 1 is a PCell.
  • the base station needs to configure carrier aggregation for the UE, and the network side sends an RRC message containing measurement control message information to the UE, where the measurement task is: measuring the RSSI of the unlicensed carrier f2, the measurement object is carried. Frequency f2, periodic report, reported once.
  • the reported content includes the average value of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than the specified threshold such as the ratio of Thresh, and the time difference of the received time stamps of the adjacent two pilot signals.
  • the terminal Upon receiving the measurement task, the terminal immediately begins measuring the RSSI of f2 and the measurement of the associated pilot signal.
  • the terminal measures multiple pilot signals on an unlicensed carrier:
  • the terminal When T1, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T1;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T2, T2.
  • the difference from the T1 time is 80ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T3, and the time difference between T3 and T2 is 40 ms;
  • the terminal When T4, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T4, and the time difference between T4 and T3 is 40 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T5, and the time difference between T5 and T4 is 40 ms;
  • the terminal averages the RSSI of f2 reported by all physical layers, and calculates the ratio of RSSI higher than a specified threshold such as Thresh.
  • a specified threshold such as Thresh.
  • the average of the time difference of the measurement result (such as the effective sampling value), a total of 5 pilot-related effective sampling values are received, and there are 4 time difference values, which are 80 ms, 40 ms, 40 ms, 40 ms, and the average value is 50 ms.
  • the above three results are reported (the average of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than a specified threshold such as the ratio of Thresh 0.8, and the time difference of the received time stamps of the adjacent two pilot signals is 50 ms) to the base station.
  • the terminal camps on the cell 1 and initiates an RRC connection setup on the cell 1. After the RRC connection setup process is complete, the UE enters a connected state, and the cell 1 is a PCell.
  • the base station needs to configure carrier aggregation for the UE, and the network side sends an RRC message containing measurement control message information to the UE, where the measurement task is: measuring the RSSI of the unlicensed carrier f2, the measurement object is carried.
  • Frequency f2 periodic report, reported once.
  • the reported content includes the average value of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than a specified threshold such as the ratio of Thresh, and the time difference variance of the received time stamps of two adjacent pilot signals.
  • the terminal receives the measurement task and immediately begins measuring the RSSI of f2 and the measurement of the associated pilot signal.
  • the terminal measures multiple pilot signals on an unlicensed carrier:
  • the terminal When T1, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T1;
  • the terminal When T2, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, records the timestamp T2, and the time difference between T2 and T1 is 30 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T3, T3 and The time difference of T2 is 50ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T4, and the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T5, and the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer three, and records the time T6, and the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal averages the RSSI of f2 reported by all physical layers.
  • the average of the time difference of the measurement result (such as the effective sampling value), a total of 6 pilot-related effective sampling values are received, and there are 5 time difference values, respectively 30ms, 50ms, 55ms, 35ms, 70ms, variance value
  • the above three results are reported (the average of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than the specified threshold such as the ratio of Thresh by 0.67 or 67%, and the time difference of the received time stamps of the adjacent two pilot signals is 257.5 ms)
  • the base station the average of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than the specified threshold such as the ratio of Thresh by 0.67 or 67%, and the time difference of the received time stamps of the adjacent two pilot signals is 257.5 ms
  • the terminal camps on the cell 1 and initiates an RRC connection setup on the cell 1. After the RRC connection setup process is complete, the UE enters a connected state, and the cell 1 is a PCell.
  • the base station needs to configure carrier aggregation for the UE, and the network side sends an RRC message containing measurement control message information to the UE, where the measurement task is: measuring the RSSI of the unlicensed carrier f2, the measurement object is carried.
  • Frequency f2 periodic report, reported once.
  • the reported content includes the average value of the RSSI, the RSSI is higher than the specified threshold, such as the ratio of Thresh, and the time difference of the received time stamps of the adjacent two pilot signals is lower than or equal to the threshold configured by the eNB (in this case, 50 ms) The number.
  • the terminal receives the measurement task and immediately begins measuring the RSSI of f2 and the measurement of the associated pilot signal.
  • the terminal measures multiple pilot signals on an unlicensed carrier:
  • the terminal When T1, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the timestamp T1;
  • the terminal When T2, the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, records the timestamp T2, and the time difference between T2 and T1 is 30 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T3, T3 and The time difference of T2 is 50ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T4, and the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer 3, and records the time T5, and the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms;
  • the terminal reports the measured RSSI of f2 to layer three, and records the time T6, and the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal averages the RSSI of f2 reported by all physical layers.
  • the average of the time difference of the measurement result (such as the effective sampling value), a total of 6 pilot-related effective sampling values are received, and there are 5 time difference values, respectively 30ms, 50ms, 55ms, 35ms, 70ms, which are lower than Or the number of the specified threshold (50ms) is 3.
  • the above three results are reported (the average value of RSSI, the RSSI is higher than the specified threshold, such as the proportion of Thresh, 67%, and the adjacent two guides are received.
  • the time difference of the time stamp of the frequency signal is lower than or equal to the number of eNB configured thresholds (in this case, 50 ms) 3) to the base station.
  • the method according to the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, or by hardware, but in many cases, the former is more Good implementation.
  • the technical solution of the present application which is essential or contributes to the related art, may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, CD-ROM).
  • the instructions include a number of instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a cell phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for configuring an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the method includes the following steps:
  • Step S402 sending a measurement control message to the terminal, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that the terminal needs to measure;
  • Step S404 receiving a result of the operation reported by the terminal, where the result of the operation is terminal right
  • the result obtained by operating the time difference between the timestamps corresponding to the measured result of the measured pilot signal the result of the operation is used to indicate the base station The occupancy on the unlicensed carrier and the condition that the terminal can receive the measured pilot signal;
  • Step S406 performing a resource configuration operation according to the result of the operation, where the resource configuration operation includes at least one of the following: cell handover, cell reselection, and reconfiguration radio bearer.
  • the method for configuring the unlicensed carrier may be applicable to the LTE system, and may be applicable to all communication systems that need to use the unlicensed carrier radio resources through contention preemption.
  • the secondary base station (eNB) acquires the wireless status of the terminal side through the measurement result of the unlicensed carrier reported by the terminal (UE), thereby making a more reasonable radio resource selection decision for the terminal.
  • the foregoing base station may include, but is not limited to, a current base station or a target base station.
  • the action that can be performed on the base station side depends on various specific policy implementations in the base station, for example, based on the measurement result reported by the terminal, performing mobility cell handover (including intra-frequency cell handover, inter-frequency cell handover, and different system). Switching), resource reconfiguration of data radio bearers, carrier aggregation secondary cell reselection, and so on.
  • the comprehensive evaluation process is performed by combining the results of the operations reported by the terminal in the embodiment, so that the base station can make more accurate and reliable decisions, thereby keeping the ongoing service of the terminal continuous, the user communication performance experience is maintained, and the system resource efficiency can be maintained. Efficient and so on.
  • performing a resource configuration operation according to a result of the operation includes at least one of the following:
  • the secondary serving cell on the current source unlicensed carrier of the terminal is switched to the secondary serving cell on the target unlicensed carrier
  • the radio bearer is reconfigured for the terminal
  • the terminal When the result of the operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is busy or heavy, the terminal performs deletion or deactivation of the secondary serving cell on the source unlicensed carrier; or, when the result of the operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle or the load is light Adding or activating the secondary serving cell on the unlicensed carrier to the terminal.
  • the foregoing cell handover may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: co-frequency cell handover, inter-frequency cell handover, and different system handover.
  • the above cell reselection is a carrier aggregation secondary cell reselection.
  • the cell in which the terminal resides is a primary cell
  • the measurement cell covered by the unlicensed carrier is a secondary cell
  • the primary cell and the secondary cell are aggregated
  • the aggregation mode includes at least one of the following: carrier aggregation. , double connection.
  • a measurement reporting terminal of an unlicensed carrier is further provided, and the terminal is used to implement the foregoing embodiment and the optional implementation manner, and details are not described herein.
  • the term "module” may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function.
  • the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a measurement reporting terminal of an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the terminal includes:
  • the receiving unit 502 is configured to receive a measurement control message sent by the base station, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that needs to be measured;
  • the measuring unit 504 is configured to measure a plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information, and report the measurement result of the pilot signal to the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • the recording unit 506 is configured to record a timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal in the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • the operation unit 508 is configured to operate on a time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp, wherein the result of the operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the terminal can receive the measurement The situation of the pilot signal to;
  • the reporting unit 510 is configured to report the result of the operation to the base station.
  • the measurement reporting terminal of the unlicensed carrier may be, but is not limited to, applied to an LTE system, and may be applicable to all communication systems that need to use preemptive carrier to use radio resources on an unlicensed carrier.
  • the secondary base station obtains the wireless status of the terminal side through the measurement result of the unlicensed carrier reported by the terminal, thereby making a more reasonable radio resource selection decision for the terminal. If the occupation of the unlicensed carrier is obtained, the time map of the occupied and relatively idle is implemented to decide whether to perform the addition and deletion of the radio bearer.
  • the pilot signal transmitted by the base station is filtered by the physical layer layer to the air interface protocol layer.
  • n results respectively R0, R1....Rn-1, where R0 is the first of the unsolicited carrier received by the base station transmitted pilot signal through the physical layer layer filtered to the air interface protocol layer three The time of the measurement result is assumed to be T0 at this time; R1 is the time when the pilot signal transmitted by the base station on the unlicensed carrier is filtered by the physical layer layer and reported to the second measurement result of the layer 3, assuming that The time is T1, and so on, and the time to receive Rn-1 is Tn-1.
  • the time for the base station to transmit the pilot signal for measurement is uncertain, so that the terminal measures the pilot signal.
  • the time reported to Layer 3 is also uncertain and acyclic on the time axis. Therefore, in this embodiment, the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the measurement result reported by the physical layer, that is, the time difference between two adjacent timestamps is T1-T0, T2- T1, ... Tn-1-Tn-2, the values of the time difference values may be the same or different.
  • the above-mentioned time difference can reflect the probability that the base station acts as the transmitting end and can compete for the acquisition of the unlicensed carrier resources. For example, if the time difference is large, it indicates that the base station side is busy, and the probability that the base station can compete for the unlicensed carrier resource is lower. Otherwise, the base station side radio resource (such as the unlicensed carrier resource) is idle. In addition, if the dynamic range of these time differences is large, it means that the base station can successfully compete for unlicensed carrier resources with a large randomness, and vice versa. That is to say, based on the time difference, the base station can not only obtain the wireless status of the terminal side, but also more accurately analyze the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier.
  • the cell where the terminal resides is different from the cell to be tested covered by the unlicensed carrier.
  • the cell to be tested and the terminal cell that are covered by the unlicensed carrier may be aggregated.
  • the foregoing aggregation may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: carrier aggregation and dual connectivity.
  • the foregoing operation of the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:
  • the variance value of the time difference Is VAR ⁇ (T1-T0), (T2-T1), ... (Tn-1-Tn-2) ⁇ ;
  • the third step 3) performing statistical operations on the time difference, and taking the number of low-latency samples whose time difference is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold as a result of the operation; for example, based on the n pilot signals transmitted by the base station, for example, the first The predetermined threshold value is Thresh-1, and the number of the above-mentioned time difference values exceeding the first predetermined threshold Thresh-1 configured by the base station is counted.
  • the terminal filters the measured pilot signal through the physical layer, the measurement result of the pilot signals of the layer 3, such as the effective sampling value, and the time of each valid sample value obtained will be reported. Recorded as a timestamp with a corresponding pilot signal.
  • the terminal receives the measurement control message sent by the base station, and measures multiple pilot signals on the unlicensed carrier according to the indication of the indication information of the uncontrolled carrier that is required to be measured in the measurement control message, and Reporting the measurement result of the pilot signal to layer 3; recording the timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal in layer 3; and operating the time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp
  • the result of the operation for indicating the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier is obtained, and the result of the operation is reported to the base station. Therefore, the base station can be combined with the operation result reported by the terminal to make a more accurate and reliable decision, thereby solving the call drop problem caused by the base station unable to accurately make a reasonable judgment in the related art.
  • the operating unit 508 includes at least one of the following:
  • the first operation module is configured to perform an averaging operation on the time difference, and the average value of the time difference is used as a result of the operation;
  • the following example is used to illustrate, for example, the terminal camps on the cell 1, the working frequency of the cell 1 is f1, and the radio resource control protocol (RRC) connection is initiated on the cell 1, and after the RRC connection establishment process is completed, The terminal enters the connected state. Further, the indication information in the measurement control message sent by the terminal to the base station indicates that the unlicensed carrier is measured, wherein the frequency of the unlicensed carrier is f2.
  • RRC radio resource control protocol
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T1; at T2, the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T2, where the time difference between T2 and T1 It is 80ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T3; The time difference between T3 and T2 is 40ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T4; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 40 ms.
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three, and records the timestamp T5; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 40 ms.
  • the terminal averages the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, a total of five time-stamps of the pilot signal are received, and there are four time difference values, which are 80 ms, 40 ms, 40 ms, and 40 ms, and the average value is 50 ms, and the average value of the result of the above operation can be reported as 50 ms.
  • the second operation module is configured to perform a variance value operation on the time difference value, and use the variance value of the time difference value as a result of the operation;
  • the physical layer reports the signal of f2 to layer three at T1, and records the timestamp T1.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T2 is recorded, wherein the time difference between T2 and T1 is recorded. The value is 30ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T3 is recorded; the time difference between T3 and T2 is 50 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T4 is recorded; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T5 is recorded; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T6 is recorded; the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal When the measurement end time of the RSSI measurement of the f2 is indicated by the measurement control message, the terminal performs the variance operation of the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, when a total of six pilot signals are received, there are five time differences, which are 30 ms, 50 ms, 55 ms, 35 ms, 70 ms, and the variance value is 257.5 ms, and the result variance value of the above operation can be reported. 257.5ms.
  • the third operation module is configured to perform a statistical operation on the time difference, and the number of low-delay samples whose time difference is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold is used as a result of the operation.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T1 is recorded;
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer 3, and the timestamp T2 is recorded, wherein the time difference between T2 and T1 is 30 ms.
  • the time difference between T3 and T2 is 50 ms.
  • it is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T4 is recorded; the time difference between T4 and T3 is 55 ms.
  • the signal reported by the physical layer to f2 is reported to layer three, and the timestamp T5 is recorded; the time difference between T5 and T4 is 35 ms.
  • the timestamp T6 is recorded; the time difference between T6 and T5 is 70 ms.
  • the terminal When the measurement end time of the RSSI measurement of the f2 is indicated by the measurement control message, the terminal performs the variance operation of the time difference obtained by the f2 of all physical layers after the RSSI measurement. That is, a total of 6 time slots of the pilot signals are received, and there are 5 time differences, which are 30 ms, 50 ms, 55 ms, 35 ms, and 70 ms, respectively, wherein the number of lower than or equal to the first predetermined threshold of 50 ms is 3.
  • the result of operating the time difference between two adjacent time stamps in the measurement results reported by the plurality of physical layers to the layer 3 is obtained by using the at least one operation, and the result of the operation is performed. Reported to the base station to enable the base station to make more accurate decisions with more accurate and reliable results.
  • the operating unit 508 includes:
  • the processing module is configured to repeatedly perform the following steps to obtain the time difference set until the measurement end time or the evaluation time window closing time for measuring the pilot signal indicated by the measurement control message is reached: acquiring the current corresponding to the current measurement result a timestamp; obtaining a next timestamp corresponding to the next measurement result obtained after the current timestamp; obtaining a time difference between the current timestamp and the next timestamp, and recording the time difference value into the time difference difference set; The next timestamp is used as the next current timestamp;
  • the fourth operation module is configured to operate on the time difference in the time difference set.
  • the following example is used to illustrate that the terminal currently measures the RSSI of the f2 to report the current timestamp of the layer 3 to T3, and records the timestamp T3; then obtains the next timestamp T4 after T3, and acquires the time of T4 and T3. The difference, ie, 40ms. Then, the next timestamp T4 after T3 is taken as the next current timestamp, the next timestamp T5 after T4 is obtained, and so on, until the end of the measurement of the RSSI measurement of the pilot signal indicated by the measurement control message is reached. time.
  • the time difference between two adjacent timestamps is obtained, so that the occupancy of the unlicensed carrier by the base station is obtained by using the time difference, that is, the transmitting end competes for the unlicensed carrier resource. Probability, as well as the regularity of successful competition to obtain unlicensed carrier resources.
  • the measuring unit 504 includes:
  • a measurement module configured to measure a signal strength or quality of the pilot signal according to the measurement control message
  • the determining module is configured to determine that the measured pilot signal is measured when the measured signal strength or quality is greater than a second predetermined threshold.
  • the present application by measuring the signal strength or quality of the pilot signal of the unlicensed carrier to be measured according to the indication of the indication information in the measurement control message, after the measured signal strength or quality is greater than a certain threshold, it is determined.
  • the pilot signal is measured.
  • the time difference of the measurement time of the adjacent pilot signals is obtained by using the measurement time to improve the accuracy and reliability of the decision making by the base station.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a configuration base station of an unlicensed carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the base station includes:
  • the sending unit 602 is configured to send a measurement control message to the terminal, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that the terminal needs to measure;
  • the receiving unit 604 is configured to receive a result of the operation reported by the terminal, where the result of the operation is that when the terminal measures the plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier, the measurement result of the measured pilot signal corresponds to The result of the operation performed by the time difference between the time stamps, the result of the operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the terminal can receive the measured pilot signal;
  • the configuration unit 606 is configured to perform a resource configuration operation according to a result of the operation, where the resource configuration operation includes at least one of the following: a cell handover, a cell reselection, and a reconfiguration radio bearer.
  • the method for configuring the unlicensed carrier may be applicable to the LTE system, and may be applicable to all communication systems that need to use the unlicensed carrier radio resources through contention preemption.
  • the secondary base station obtains the result of the measurement of the unlicensed carrier reported by the terminal The wireless status on the terminal side, thereby making more reasonable radio resource selection decisions for the terminal.
  • the foregoing base station may include, but is not limited to, a current base station or a target base station.
  • the action that can be performed on the base station side depends on various specific policy implementations in the base station, for example, based on the measurement result reported by the terminal, performing mobility cell handover (including intra-frequency cell handover, inter-frequency cell handover, and different system). Switching), resource reconfiguration of data radio bearers, carrier aggregation secondary cell reselection, and so on.
  • the comprehensive evaluation process is performed by combining the results of the operations reported by the terminal in the embodiment, so that the base station can make more accurate and reliable decisions, thereby keeping the ongoing service of the terminal continuous, the user communication performance experience is maintained, and the system resource efficiency can be maintained. Efficient and so on.
  • the configuration unit 606 includes at least one of the following:
  • a first configuration module configured to: when the result of the operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle, the secondary serving cell on the current source unlicensed carrier of the terminal is switched to the secondary serving cell on the target unlicensed carrier;
  • a second configuration module configured to reconfigure the radio bearer for the terminal when the result of the operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is idle;
  • the third configuration module is configured to: when the result of the operation indicates that the radio resource of the target cell is busy or heavy, perform deletion or deactivation of the secondary serving cell on the source unlicensed carrier; or, the result of the operation indicates the target cell When the radio resource is idle or the load is light, the terminal is added or activated to the secondary serving cell on the unlicensed carrier.
  • the foregoing cell handover may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: co-frequency cell handover, inter-frequency cell handover, and different system handover.
  • the above cell reselection is a carrier aggregation secondary cell reselection.
  • the cell in which the terminal resides is a primary cell
  • the measurement cell covered by the unlicensed carrier is a secondary cell
  • the primary cell and the secondary cell are aggregated
  • the aggregation mode includes at least one of the following: carrier aggregation. , double connection.
  • each of the foregoing modules may be implemented by software or hardware.
  • the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; or, the modules are located in multiple In the processor.
  • Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer readable storage medium.
  • the computer readable storage medium described above can be configured to store program code for performing the following steps:
  • Step S1 Receive a measurement control message sent by the base station, where the measurement control message carries indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an unlicensed carrier that needs to be measured;
  • Step S2 measuring a plurality of pilot signals from different target cells on the unlicensed carrier indicated by the indication information, and reporting the measurement result of the pilot signal to the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • Step S3 recording a timestamp corresponding to the measurement result of the pilot signal at the air interface protocol layer 3;
  • Step S4 operating a time difference between two adjacent timestamps in the recorded timestamp, wherein the result of the operation is used to indicate the occupancy of the base station on the unlicensed carrier and the terminal can receive the measured guide Frequency signal situation;
  • step S5 the result of the operation is reported to the base station.
  • the computer readable storage medium may include, but is not limited to, a USB flash drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), and a mobile device.
  • ROM Read-Only Memory
  • RAM Random Access Memory
  • the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, where the computer executable instructions are implemented to implement the measurement reporting method of the unlicensed carrier.
  • the embodiment of the invention further provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, the method for configuring the unlicensed carrier is implemented when the computer executable instructions are executed.
  • modules or steps of the present application can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices. They may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device for execution by the computing device and, in some cases, may be performed in a different order than that illustrated herein. Or describing the steps, or making them into a single integrated circuit module, or making multiple modules or steps into a single integration The circuit module is implemented. Thus, the application is not limited to any particular combination of hardware and software.
  • the embodiment of the present application provides a method for measuring and reporting an unlicensed carrier, a terminal, a configuration method, and a base station, which are convenient for the base station to make more accurate and reliable decisions in combination with the operation result reported by the terminal, thereby solving the problem that the base station cannot accurately make the relevant in the related art.

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Abstract

一种非授权载波的测量上报方法,包括:接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;在指示信息指示的非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;在空口协议层层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;上报操作的结果给基站。通过上述方案,解决相关技术中基站无法准确做出合理的判决所导致的掉话问题。

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非授权载波的测量上报方法和终端及配置方法和基站 技术领域
本申请涉及但不限于通信领域,尤其涉及一种非授权载波的测量上报方法和终端及配置方法和基站。
背景技术
在移动通信系统中,小区重选和切换是其重要的功能。为了顺利实现小区重选,UE(User Equipment,终端)需要对不同小区的信号质量进行测量,以便选择合适的小区进行驻留。当UE在某个小区与网络建立连接之后,UE仍然需要对其相邻小区的信号质量进行测量,以便选择合适的小区进行切换,满足移动性要求。
长期演进(LTE,Long Term Evolution)系统中,在连接态下,测量的具体过程是:网络侧将测量控制消息发送给UE,其中,该测量控制消息中包括测量标识、测量对象、报告配置以及测量的其他相关属性。测量对象包含了测量对象属性(如载频、邻区列表等),报告配置包含了报告配置属性(如事件触发或周期上报、触发的事件定义(A1、A2…)、上报次数等)。UE根据测量控制消息中的测量对象、报告配置去执行测量和评估,并根据测量结果生成测量报告上报给网络侧。对于事件触发的测量任务,当测量对象满足事件的准入条件(比如测量对象信号质量优于门限)的持续时间等于或大于TTT(Time To Trigger,触发时间)时才被认为是满足事件触发条件的测量对象。当有测量对象满足事件的触发条件后,上报测量报告给网络侧。
为了向移动用户提供更高的数据速率,高级长期演进系统(Long Term Evolution Advance,简称LTE-A)提出了载波聚合技术(Carrier Aggregation,简称CA),其目的是为具有相应能力的UE提供更大宽带,提高UE的峰值速率。LTE中,系统支持的最大下行传输带宽为20MHz,载波聚合是将两个或者更多的分量载波(Component Carriers,简称CC)聚合起来支持大于20MHz,最大不超过100MHz的传输带宽。引入载波聚合技术后,处于连接状态的UE可以同时通过多个分量载波(CC,Component Carriers)与源基站 进行通信,引入CA技术后,还引入了主服务小区(Pcell,Primary Cell)和辅服务小区(Scell,Secondary Cell)。
由于频谱资源的匮乏,以及移动用户的大流量业务的激增,采用高频点如3.5GHz进行热点覆盖的需求日益明显,采用低功率的节点成为新的应用场景,为的是增加用户吞吐量和增强移动性能。但是由于高频点的信号衰减比较厉害,小区的覆盖范围比较小,并且与现有的小区不共站点,目前不少公司和运营商都倾向于寻求一种新的增强方案,双连接(Dual Connectivity)就是其中之一。双连接下终端可以同时与两个以上的网络节点保持连接,但是控制面连接只与其中一个小区比如宏小区有连接。终端的多个服务节点是多个基站,基站之间的时延不可忽略。比如,一个网络节点是宏基站称为MeNB,另外一个网络节点是小小区基站称为SeNB。
随着数据业务的快速增长,在不久的将来,授权频谱将不能承受如此巨大的数据量;所以LTE运营商考虑在非授权频谱资源(Unlicensed Carrier)中部署LTE,通过非授权频谱来分担授权载波中的数据流量。非授权载波(免授权频谱)是指在满足政府部门(如,国家无线电管理委员会)有关规定(无线电管制)下,不需要授权就能直接使用的频谱(或载波)。例如,微波炉、遥控玩具飞机、无线鼠标、无线键盘、高保真无线上网(Wireless Fidelity,WiFi)等都使用了非授权载波。在有的情况下,非授权载波需要通过竞争才能使用。如果基站(包括WiFi接入点)没有竞争到资源,则不能使用非授权载波。非授权载波和授权载波可以通过载波聚合的方式使用,也可以通过双连接的方式使用,非授权载波一般作为数据传输的补充,即授权载波作为主服务小区,非授权载波作为辅服务小区。
非授权载波资源有很大的特殊性和随机性,在此场景下,需要终端上报接收到的所有信号强度指示(RSSI,Received Signal Strength Indication),在一定程度反映了非授权载波上的忙闲程度,辅助基站进行资源管理,如载波信道选择等,上报的内容包含采样RSSI的平均值,以及采样RSSI高于某指定门限的比例值,但是由于非授权载波环境下,非授权载波上的导频资源需要通过竞争才能获取使用,包括基站(eNB)发送的用于终端进行RRM(Radio Resource Management,无线资源管理)测量的指定相关信号,如CRS (Cell-specific Reference Signal,小区专有导频)、CSI-RS(Channel State Information-Reference Signal,信道状态信息测量导频)等,如果资源竞争失败,用于测量的指定相关信号则无法发送,终端无法测量到非授权载波上的导频信号强度和质量。如果只是上报上述RSSI的平均值/高于某指定门限的比例值的内容,基站仍然不能获得足够准确可靠的测量结果作为参考,导致基站不能根据可靠准确的测量报告进行合理的判决,严重时会产生通话中断或者用户通讯服务体验下降。
针对相关技术中的上述问题,目前尚未有效的解决方案。
发明内容
以下是对本文详细描述的主题的概述。本概述并非是为了限制权利要求的保护范围。
本发明实施例提供了一种非授权载波的测量上报方法和终端及配置方法和基站,以至少解决相关技术中终端上报的关于非授权载波的数据不可靠所导致的基站作出的策略的准确性较低的问题。
根据本发明实施例的一个方面,提供了一种非授权载波的测量上报方法,包括:接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,上述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,上述指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;在上述指示信息指示的上述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将上述导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;在上述空口协议层层三记录与上述导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;对记录的上述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,上述操作的结果用于指示上述基站在上述非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;上报上述操作的结果给上述基站。
可选地,上述对记录的上述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括以下至少之一:对上述时间差值进行取平均值操作,将上述时间差值的平均值作为上述操作的结果;对上述时间差值进行取方差值操作,将上述时间差值的方差值作为上述操作的结果;对上述时间差值进行统计操作,将上述时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为上述操 作的结果。
可选地,上述对记录的上述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括:
重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达上述测量控制消息所指示的对上述导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在上述当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取上述当前时间戳与上述下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将上述时间差值记录到上述时间差值集合中;将下一个时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
对上述时间差值集合中的上述时间差值进行上述操作。
可选地,上述在上述指示信息指示的上述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号包括:根据上述测量控制消息测量上述导频信号的信号强度或质量;在测量到的上述信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到上述导频信号。
根据本发明实施例的另一个方面,提供了一种非授权载波的配置方法,包括:向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,上述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,上述指示信息用于指示上述终端需要测量的非授权载波;接收上述终端上报的操作的结果,其中,上述操作的结果为上述终端对上述非授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的上述导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,上述操作的结果用于指示上述基站在上述非授权载波上的占用情况以及上述终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;根据上述操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,上述资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
可选地,上述根据上述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将上述终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区。
可选地,上述根据上述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为上述终端重配上述无线承载。
可选地,上述根据上述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对上述终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对上述终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
根据本发明实施例的又一方面,提供了一种非授权载波的测量上报终端,包括:接收单元,设置为接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,上述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,上述指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;测量单元,设置为在上述指示信息指示的上述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将上述导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;记录单元,设置为在上述空口协议层层三记录与上述导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;操作单元,设置为对记录的上述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,上述操作的结果用于指示上述基站在上述非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;上报单元,设置为上报上述操作的结果给上述基站。
可选地,上述操作单元包括以下至少之一:
第一操作模块,设置为对上述时间差值进行取平均值操作,将上述时间差值的平均值作为上述操作的结果;
第二操作模块,设置为对上述时间差值进行取方差值操作,将上述时间差值的方差值作为上述操作的结果;
第三操作模块,设置为对上述时间差值进行统计操作,将上述时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为上述操作的结果。
可选地,上述操作单元包括:
处理模块,设置为重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达上述测量控制消息所指示的对上述导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在上述当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取上述当前时间戳与上述下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将上述时间差值记录到上述时间差值集合中;将下一个时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
第四操作模块,设置为对上述时间差值集合中的上述时间差值进行上述操作。
可选地,上述测量单元包括:测量模块,设置为根据上述测量控制消息测量上述导频信号的信号强度或质量;判定模块,设置为在测量到的上述信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到上述导频信号。
根据本发明实施例的又一方面,提供了一种非授权载波的配置基站,包括:发送单元,设置为向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,上述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,上述指示信息用于指示上述终端需要测量的非授权载波;接收单元,设置为接收上述终端上报的操作的结果,其中,上述操作的结果为上述终端对上述非授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的上述导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,上述操作的结果用于指示上述基站在上述非授权载波上的占用情况以及上述终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;配置单元,设置为根据上述操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,上述资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
可选地,上述配置单元包括:第一配置模块,设置为在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将上述终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区。
可选地,上述配置单元包括:第二配置模块,设置为在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为上述终端重配上述无线承载。
可选地,上述配置单元包括:第三配置模块,设置为:在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对上述终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,在上述操作的结果指示上述目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对上述终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
本发明实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质,存储有计算机可执行指令,所述计算机可执行指令被执行时实现上述非授权载波的测量上报方法。
本发明实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质,存储有计算机可执行指令,所述计算机可执行指令被执行时实现上述非授权载波的配置方法。
通过本发明实施例,终端接收基站发送的测量控制消息,并根据测量控制消息中用于指示需要测量的非授权载波的指示信息的指示测量非授权载波上的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给层三;在层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,以得到用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况的操作的结果,并将该操作的结果上报给基站。从而便于基站结合终端上报的操作结果做出更加准确可靠的决策,进而解决相关技术中基站无法准确做出合理的判决所导致的掉话问题。
在阅读并理解了附图和详细描述后,可以明白其他方面。
附图概述
此处所说明的附图用来提供对本申请的进一步理解,构成本申请的一部分,本申请的示意性实施例及其说明用于解释本申请,并不构成对本申请的不当限定。在附图中:
图1是根据本发明实施例的一种可选的非授权载波的测量上报方法的流程图;
图2是根据本发明实施例的一种可选的非授权载波的测量上报方法的示意图;
图3是根据本发明实施例的另一种可选的非授权载波的测量上报方法的示意图;
图4是根据本发明实施例的另一种可选的非授权载波的配置方法的流程图;
图5是根据本发明实施例的一种可选的非授权载波的测量上报终端的示意图;以及
图6是根据本发明实施例的一种可选的非授权载波的配置基站的示意图。
本发明的实施方式
下文中将参考附图并结合实施例来详细说明本申请。需要说明的是,在 不冲突的情况下,本申请中的实施例及实施例中的特征可以相互组合。
需要说明的是,本申请的说明书和权利要求书及上述附图中的术语“第一”、“第二”等是用于区别类似的对象,而不必用于描述特定的顺序或先后次序。
实施例一
在本实施例中提供了一种非授权载波的测量上报方法,图1是根据本发明实施例的非授权载波的测量上报方法的流程图,如图1所示,该方法包括如下步骤:
步骤S102,接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;
步骤S104,在指示信息指示的非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;
步骤S106,在空口协议层层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;
步骤S108,对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
步骤S110,上报操作的结果给基站。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述非授权载波的测量上报方法可以但不限于应用于LTE系统,还可以适用于所有需要通过竞争抢占才能使用非授权载波上无线资源的通讯系统。辅助基站(eNB)通过终端(UE)上报的非授权载波的测量的结果获取终端侧的无线状况,从而为终端做出更合理的无线资源选择决策。如获取到对非授权载波的占用情况,以实现通过被占用和相对空闲的时间图,来决策是否进行无线承载的增删。
可选地,在本实施例中,在接收基站发送的测量控制消息之前,上述方法还可以包括但不限于:UE在进行网络配置的某段时间内信号强度指示(RSSI,Received Signal Strength Indication)的测量过程中,收到基站(eNB)发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向空口协议层层三上报n个结果,分 别为R0,R1….Rn-1,其中,R0为非授权载波上收到eNB发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向空口协议层层三上报的第一个测量结果的时间,假设此时的时间为T0;R1为非授权载波上收到eNB发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向层三上报的第二个测量结果的时间,假设此时的时间为T1,以此类推,收到Rn-1的时间为Tn-1。
需要说明的是,由于eNB受到LBT(Listen Before Talk,先听后说)机制的约束,因而,基站发送上述用于测量的导频信号的时间是不确定的,从而导致UE测量到导频信号并上报给层三的时间在时间轴上也是不确定且是非周期的。因此,在本实施例中,上述物理层上报的测量结果中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值,即,相邻两个时间戳之间的时间差值为:T1-T0,T2-T1,…Tn-1-Tn-2,时间差值的数值可以相同,也可以不相同。
上述时间差值从一定程度上可以反映出基站作为发送端,可以竞争获取到非授权载波资源的概率。比如,如果这些时间差值都很大,则表示基站侧竞争繁忙,基站可以竞争到非授权载波资源的概率也就较低,反之则表示基站侧无线资源(如非授权载波资源)较空闲。此外,如果这些时间差值的动态范围很大,则表示基站可以成功竞争到非授权载波资源的随机性很大,反之则比较规律。也就是说,基于时间差值,基站不仅可以获取终端侧的无线状况,还可以更加准确地分析出基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况。
可选地,在本实施例中,终端所驻留的小区与非授权载波所覆盖的待测小区不同。其中,非授权载波所覆盖的待测小区与终端小区可以进行聚合,其中,上述聚合可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:载波聚合、双连接。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:
1)、对时间差值进行取平均值操作,将时间差值的平均值作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站发射的n个导频信号为示例,时间差值的平均值为:Mean{(T1-T0),(T2-T1),……(Tn-1-Tn-2)}=(Tn-1-T0)/(n-1);
2)、对时间差值进行取方差值操作,将时间差值的方差值作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站发射的n个导频信号为示例,时间差值的方差值为:VAR{(T1-T0),(T2-T1),……(Tn-1-Tn-2)};
3)、对时间差值进行统计操作,将时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站发射的n个导频信号为示例,第一预定阈值为Thresh-1,则统计上述时间差值中超过基站配置的第一预定阈值Thresh-1的个数。
需要说明的是,终端对测量到的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后,将上报层三这些导频信号的测量结果,如有效采样值,并将获取到的每一个有效采样值的时间记录为与对应的一个导频信号的时间戳。
通过本申请提供的实施例,终端接收基站发送的测量控制消息,并根据测量控制消息中用于指示需要测量的非授权载波的指示信息的指示测量非授权载波上的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给层三;在层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,以得到用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况的操作的结果,并将该操作的结果上报给基站。从而便于基站结合终端上报的操作结果做出更加准确可靠的决策,进而解决相关技术中基站无法准确做出合理的判决所导致的掉话问题。
作为一种可选的方案对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括以下至少之一:
1)、对时间差值进行取平均值操作,将时间差值的平均值作为操作的结果。
结合以下示例进行说明,例如,终端驻留在小区1,小区1的工作频点是f1,在小区1上发起无线资源控制协议(RRC,Radio Resource Control)连接建立,RRC连接建立过程完成后,终端进入连接态。进一步,终端接收到基站发送的测量控制消息中的指示信息指示测量非授权载波,其中,非授权载波的频点是f2。
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在T2时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是80ms。在T3时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T3;T3与T2的时间差值是40ms。在T4时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是40ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号 给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是40ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取平均值操作。即,一共收到5个导频信号的时间戳,有4个时间差值,分别为80ms,40ms,40ms,40ms,平均值为50ms,则可以上报上述操作的结果平均值50ms。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/5=0.8,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.8,以及RSSI的平均值。
2)、对时间差值进行取方差值操作,将时间差值的方差值作为操作的结果。
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在T2时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是30ms。在T3时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T3;T3与T2的时间差值是50ms。在T4时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是55ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是35ms。在T6时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T6;T6与T5的时间差值是70ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取方差值操作。即,一共收到6个导频信号的测量时间,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,方差值为257.5ms,则可以上报上述操作的结果方差值257.5ms。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/6=0.67,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.67,以及RSSI的平均值。
3)、对时间差值进行统计操作,将时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为操作的结果。
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在T2时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是30ms。在T3时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T3;T3与T2 的时间差值是50ms。在T4时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是55ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是35ms。在T6时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T6;T6与T5的时间差值是70ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取方差值操作。即,一共收到6个导频信号的时间戳,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,其中低于或等于第一预定阈值50ms的个数为3。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/6=0.67,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.67,以及RSSI的平均值。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过上述至少一种操作获取对多个物理层上报给层三的测量结果中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作的结果,将上述操作的结果上报给基站,以使基站利用更加准确可靠的结果做出更加准确的决策。
作为一种可选的方案,对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括:
重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达测量控制消息所指示的对导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取当前时间戳与下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将时间差值记录到时间差值集合中;将下一个时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
对时间差值集合中的时间差值进行操作。
结合以下示例进行说明,假设终端当前测量到f2的RSSI上报给层三当前时间戳为T3,并记录下时间戳T3;则获取在T3之后的下一个时间戳T4,并获取T4与T3的时间差值,即,40ms。然后,将T3之后的下一个时间戳T4作为下一个当前时间戳,获取T4之后的下一个时间戳T5,以此类推,直至到达测量控制消息所指示的对导频信号进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过获取相邻两次时间戳之间的时间差值,从而实现通过时间差值获取基站对非授权载波的占用情况,即,作为发送端 竞争到非授权载波资源的概率,以及成功竞争获取到非授权载波资源的规律性。
作为一种可选的方案,在指示信息指示的非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号包括:
根据测量控制消息测量导频信号的信号强度或质量;
在测量到的信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到导频信号。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过根据测量控制消息中指示信息的指示测量待测量的非授权载波的导频信号的信号强度或质量,在测量到的信号强度或质量大于一定阈值后,判断出测量到该导频信号。从而实现利用测量时间获取相邻导频信号的测量时间的时间差值来提高基站进行决策的准确性及可靠性。
结合以下实施方式进行描述。假设基站有提供了两个小区的覆盖,小区1(部署在授权载波上)工作频点是f1,小区3(部署在非授权载波上)工作频点是f2。小区1和小区3可以进行载波聚合。对于小区1与非授权载波的小区3通过双连接的方式进行聚合。
作为一种可选的实施方式,终端驻留在小区1上,并在小区1上发起RRC连接建立,RRC连接建立过程完成后,UE进入连接态,小区1即为PCell。
由于业务的需要,基站需要给UE配置载波聚合,网络侧发送含有测量控制消息信息的RRC消息给UE,其中包含一个测量任务是:测量非授权载波f2的RSSI的测量任务1,测量对象是载频f2,周期上报,上报1次。上报内容包含RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差平均值。
终端收到该测量任务,立刻开始测量f2的RSSI,和相关导频信号的测量。
如图2所示,终端在非授权载波上测量到多个导频信号:
T1时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;
T2时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T2,T2 与T1时间差值是80ms;
T3时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T3,T3与T2时间差值是40ms;
T4时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T4,T4与T3时间差值是40ms;
T5时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T5,T5与T4时间差值是40ms;
达到测量RSSI的测量结束时刻,终端将所有物理层上报的f2的RSSI进行平均,另外,计算RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例,此时为4/5=0.8,先后收到两个导频的测量结果(如有效采样值)的时间差值的平均值,一共收到5个导频相关有效采样值,有4个时间差值,分别为80ms,40ms,40ms,40ms,平均值为50ms,上报上述三个结果(RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例0.8、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差平均值50ms)给基站。
如果需要上报多次,上述步骤进行重复。
作为另一种可选的实施方式,终端驻留在小区1上,并在小区1上发起RRC连接建立,RRC连接建立过程完成后,UE进入连接态,小区1即为PCell。
由于业务的需要,基站需要给UE配置载波聚合,网络侧发送含有测量控制消息信息的RRC消息给UE,其中包含一个测量任务是:测量非授权载波f2的RSSI的测量任务1,测量对象是载频f2,周期上报,上报1次。上报内容包含RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差方差值。
终端收到测量任务,立刻开始测量f2的RSSI,和相关导频信号的测量。
如图3所示,终端在非授权载波上测量到多个导频信号:
T1时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;
T2时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T2,T2与T1时间差是30ms;
T3时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T3,T3与 T2时间差是50ms;
T4时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T4,T4与T3时间差是55ms;
T5时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T5,T5与T4时间差是35ms;
T6时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T6,T6与T5时间差是70ms。
达到测量RSSI的测量结束时刻,终端将所有物理层上报的f2的RSSI进行平均,另外,计算RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例此时为4/6=0.67,先后收到两个导频的测量结果(如有效采样值)的时间差值的平均值,一共收到6个导频相关有效采样值,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,方差值为257.5ms,上报上述三个结果(RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例0.67或67%、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差方差值257.5ms)给基站。
作为又一种可选的实施方式,终端驻留在小区1上,并在小区1上发起RRC连接建立,RRC连接建立过程完成后,UE进入连接态,小区1即为PCell。
由于业务的需要,基站需要给UE配置载波聚合,网络侧发送含有测量控制消息信息的RRC消息给UE,其中包含一个测量任务是:测量非授权载波f2的RSSI的测量任务1,测量对象是载频f2,周期上报,上报1次。上报内容包含RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差值中低于或等于eNB配置的门限(此时为50ms)的个数。
终端收到测量任务,立刻开始测量f2的RSSI,和相关导频信号的测量。
如图3所示,终端在非授权载波上测量到多个导频信号:
T1时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;
T2时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间戳T2,T2与T1时间差是30ms;
T3时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T3,T3与 T2时间差是50ms;
T4时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T4,T4与T3时间差是55ms;
T5时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T5,T5与T4时间差是35ms;
T6时,终端将测量到的f2的RSSI上报给层三,记录下时间T6,T6与T5时间差是70ms。
达到测量RSSI的测量结束时刻,终端将所有物理层上报的f2的RSSI进行平均,另外,计算RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例此时为4/6=0.67,先后收到两个导频的测量结果(如有效采样值)的时间差值的平均值,一共收到6个导频相关有效采样值,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,其中低于或等于指定门限(50ms)的个数为3,如图3所示,上报上述三个结果(RSSI的平均值、RSSI高于指定门限比如Thresh的比例67%、收到的相邻两个导频信号的时间戳的时间差值中低于或等于eNB配置的门限(此时为50ms)的个数3)给基站。
通过以上的实施方式的描述,本领域的技术人员可以清楚地了解到根据上述实施例的方法可借助软件加必需的通用硬件平台的方式来实现,也可以通过硬件,但很多情况下前者是更佳的实施方式。基于这样的理解,本申请的技术方案本质上或者说对相关技术做出贡献的部分可以以软件产品的形式体现出来,该计算机软件产品存储在一个存储介质(如ROM/RAM、磁碟、光盘)中,包括若干指令用以使得一台终端设备(可以是手机,计算机,服务器,或者网络设备等)执行本申请各个实施例所述的方法。
实施例二
在本实施例中提供了一种非授权载波的配置方法,图4是根据本发明实施例的非授权载波的配置方法的流程图,如图4所示,该方法包括如下步骤:
步骤S402,向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示终端需要测量的非授权载波;
步骤S404,接收终端上报的操作的结果,其中,操作的结果为终端对非 授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
步骤S406,根据操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述非授权载波的配置方法可以但不限于应用于LTE系统,还可以适用于所有需要通过竞争抢占才能使用非授权载波上无线资源的通讯系统。辅助基站(eNB)通过终端(UE)上报的非授权载波的测量的结果获取终端侧的无线状况,从而为终端做出更合理的无线资源选择决策。其中,上述基站可以包括但不限于:当前基站或目标基站。
需要说明的是,在基站侧可以做的动作依赖于基站内部各种具体的策略实现,比如基于终端上报的测量结果,进行移动性小区切换(包括同频小区切换、异频小区切换、异系统切换),数据无线承载的资源重配,载波聚合辅小区重选等等。通过结合本实施例中记载的终端上报的操作的结果进行综合评估处理,以使基站作出更加准确可靠的决策,从而保持终端正在进行的业务能够连续,用户通讯性能体验维持,系统资源效率能够保持高效等。
可选地,在本实施例中,根据操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:
在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区;
在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为终端重配无线承载;
在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
需要说明的是,上述小区切换可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:同频小区切换、异频小区切换、异系统切换。上述小区重选是载波聚合辅小区重选。 其中,在本实施例中,上述终端驻留的小区为主小区,非授权载波所覆盖的测量小区为辅小区,主小区和辅小区将进行聚合,聚合的方式包括以下至少之一:载波聚合、双连接。
实施例三
在本实施例中还提供了一种非授权载波的测量上报终端,该终端用于实现上述实施例及可选实施方式,已经进行过说明的不再赘述。如以下所使用的,术语“模块”可以实现预定功能的软件和/或硬件的组合。尽管以下实施例所描述的装置较佳地以软件来实现,但是硬件,或者软件和硬件的组合的实现也是可能并被构想的。
图5是根据本发明实施例的非授权载波的测量上报终端的示意图,如图5所示,该终端包括:
接收单元502,设置为接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;
测量单元504,设置为在指示信息指示的非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;
记录单元506,设置为在空口协议层层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;
操作单元508,设置为对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
上报单元510,设置为上报操作的结果给基站。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述非授权载波的测量上报终端可以但不限于应用于LTE系统,还可以适用于所有需要通过竞争抢占才能使用非授权载波上无线资源的通讯系统。辅助基站通过终端上报的非授权载波的测量的结果获取终端侧的无线状况,从而为终端做出更合理的无线资源选择决策。如获取到对非授权载波的占用情况,以实现通过被占用和相对空闲的时间图,来决策是否进行无线承载的增删。
可选地,在本实施例中,在接收基站发送的测量控制消息之前,还可以 包括但不限于终端在进行网络配置的某段时间内信号强度指示(RSSI,Received Signal Strength Indication)的测量过程中,收到基站发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向空口协议层层三上报n个结果,分别为R0,R1….Rn-1,其中R0为非授权载波上收到基站发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向空口协议层层三上报的第一个测量结果的时间,假设此时的时间为T0;R1为非授权载波上收到基站发射的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后向层三上报的第二个测量结果的时间,假设此时的时间为T1,以此类推,收到Rn-1的时间为Tn-1。
需要说明的是,由于eNB受到LBT(Listen Before Talk,先听后说)机制的约束,因而,基站发送上述用于测量的导频信号的时间是不确定的,从而导致终端测量到导频信号并上报给层三的时间在时间轴上也是不确定且是非周期的。因此,在本实施例中,上述物理层上报的测量结果中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值即,相邻两个时间戳之间的时间差值为T1-T0,T2-T1,…Tn-1-Tn-2,时间差值的数值可以相同,也可以不相同。
上述时间差值从一定程度上可以反映出基站作为发送端,可以竞争获取到非授权载波资源的概率。比如,如果这些时间差值都很大,则表示基站侧竞争繁忙,基站可以竞争到非授权载波资源的概率也就较低,反之则表示基站侧无线资源(如非授权载波资源)较空闲。此外,如果这些时间差值的动态范围很大,则表示基站可以成功竞争到非授权载波资源的随机性很大,反之则比较规律。也就是说,基于时间差值,基站不仅可以获取终端侧的无线状况,还可以更加准确地分析出基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况。
可选地,在本实施例中,终端所驻留的小区与非授权载波所覆盖的待测小区不同。其中,非授权载波所覆盖的待测小区与终端小区可以进行聚合,其中,上述聚合可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:载波聚合、双连接。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:
1)、对时间差值进行取平均值操作,将时间差值的平均值作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站eNB发射的n个导频信号为示例,时间差值的平均值为:Mean{(T1-T0),(T2-T1),……(Tn-1-Tn-2)}=(Tn-1-T0)/(n-1);
2)、对时间差值进行取方差值操作,将时间差值的方差值作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站eNB发射的n个导频信号为示例,时间差值的方差值为:VAR{(T1-T0),(T2-T1),……(Tn-1-Tn-2)};
3)、对时间差值进行统计操作,将时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为操作的结果;例如,基于上述基站发射的n个导频信号为示例,第一预定阈值为Thresh-1,则统计上述时间差值中超过基站配置的第一预定阈值Thresh-1的个数。
需要说明的是,终端对测量到的导频信号经过物理层层一过滤后,将上报层三这些导频信号的测量结果,如有效采样值,并将获取到的每一个有效采样值的时间记录为与对应的一个导频信号的时间戳。
通过本申请提供的实施例,终端接收基站发送的测量控制消息,并根据测量控制消息中用于指示需要测量的非授权载波的指示信息的指示测量非授权载波上的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给层三;在层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,以得到用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况的操作的结果,并将该操作的结果上报给基站。从而便于基站结合终端上报的操作结果做出更加准确可靠的决策,进而解决相关技术中基站无法准确做出合理的判决所导致的掉话问题。
作为一种可选的方案,操作单元508包括以下至少之一:
第一操作模块,设置为对时间差值进行取平均值操作,将时间差值的平均值作为操作的结果;
结合以下示例进行说明,例如,终端驻留在小区1,小区1的工作频点是f1,在小区1上发起无线资源控制协议(RRC,Radio Resource Control)连接建立,RRC连接建立过程完成后,终端进入连接态。进一步,终端接收到基站发送的测量控制消息中的指示信息指示测量非授权载波,其中,非授权载波的频点是f2。
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在T2时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是80ms。在T3时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T3; T3与T2的时间差值是40ms。在T4时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是40ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是40ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取平均值操作。即,一共收到5个导频信号的时间戳,有4个时间差值,分别为80ms,40ms,40ms,40ms,平均值为50ms,则可以上报上述操作的结果平均值50ms。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/5=0.8,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.8,以及RSSI的平均值。
第二操作模块,设置为对时间差值进行取方差值操作,将时间差值的方差值作为操作的结果;
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在T2时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是30ms。在T3时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T3;T3与T2的时间差值是50ms。在T4时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是55ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是35ms。在T6时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T6;T6与T5的时间差值是70ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取方差值操作。即,一共收到6个导频信号的测量时间,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,方差值为257.5ms,则可以上报上述操作的结果方差值257.5ms。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/6=0.67,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.67,以及RSSI的平均值。
第三操作模块,设置为对时间差值进行统计操作,将时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为操作的结果。
假设在T1时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T1;在 T2时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T2,其中,T2与T1的时间差值是30ms。在T3时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T3;T3与T2的时间差值是50ms。在T4时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T4;T4与T3的时间差值是55ms。在T5时物理层上报f2的信号上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T5;T5与T4的时间差值是35ms。在T6时上报给层三,并记录下时间戳T6;T6与T5的时间差值是70ms。
在测量控制消息所指示的对f2进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻到达时,终端将所有物理层上报的f2在RSSI测量后得到的时间差值进行取方差值操作。即,一共收到6个导频信号的时间戳,有5个时间差值,分别为30ms,50ms,55ms,35ms,70ms,其中低于或等于第一预定阈值50ms的个数为3。此外,计算高于指定门限值Thresh的比例,假设此时为4/6=0.67,则还可以向基站上报高于指定门限值Thresh的比例0.67,以及RSSI的平均值。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过上述至少一种操作获取对多个物理层上报给层三的测量结果中两两相邻时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作的结果,将上述操作的结果上报给基站,以使基站利用更加准确可靠的结果做出更加准确的决策。
作为一种可选的方案,操作单元508包括:
处理模块,设置为重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达测量控制消息所指示的对导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取当前时间戳与下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将时间差值记录到时间差值集合中;将下一个时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
第四操作模块,设置为对时间差值集合中的时间差值进行操作。
结合以下示例进行说明,假设终端当前测量到f2的RSSI上报给层三当前时间戳为T3,并记录下时间戳T3;则获取在T3之后的下一个时间戳T4,并获取T4与T3的时间差值,即,40ms。然后,将T3之后的下一个时间戳T4作为下一个当前时间戳,获取T4之后的下一个时间戳T5,以此类推,直至到达测量控制消息所指示的对导频信号进行RSSI测量的测量结束时刻。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过获取相邻两次时间戳之间的时间差值,从而实现通过时间差值获取基站对非授权载波的占用情况,即,作为发送端竞争到非授权载波资源的概率,以及成功竞争获取到非授权载波资源的规律性。
作为一种可选的方案,测量单元504包括:
测量模块,设置为根据测量控制消息测量导频信号的信号强度或质量;
判定模块,设置为在测量到的信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到导频信号。
通过本申请提供的实施例,通过根据测量控制消息中指示信息的指示测量待测量的非授权载波的导频信号的信号强度或质量,在测量到的信号强度或质量大于一定阈值后,判断出测量到该导频信号。从而实现利用测量时间获取相邻导频信号的测量时间的时间差值来提高基站进行决策的准确性及可靠性。
实施例四
图6是根据本发明实施例的非授权载波的配置基站的示意图,如图6所示,该基站包括:
发送单元602,设置为向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示终端需要测量的非授权载波;
接收单元604,设置为接收终端上报的操作的结果,其中,操作的结果为终端对非授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
配置单元606,设置为根据操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述非授权载波的配置方法可以但不限于应用于LTE系统,还可以适用于所有需要通过竞争抢占才能使用非授权载波上无线资源的通讯系统。辅助基站通过终端上报的非授权载波的测量的结果获取 终端侧的无线状况,从而为终端做出更合理的无线资源选择决策。其中,上述基站可以包括但不限于:当前基站或目标基站。
需要说明的是,在基站侧可以做的动作依赖于基站内部各种具体的策略实现,比如基于终端上报的测量结果,进行移动性小区切换(包括同频小区切换、异频小区切换、异系统切换),数据无线承载的资源重配,载波聚合辅小区重选等等。通过结合本实施例中记载的终端上报的操作的结果进行综合评估处理,以使基站作出更加准确可靠的决策,从而保持终端正在进行的业务能够连续,用户通讯性能体验维持,系统资源效率能够保持高效等。
可选地,在本实施例中,配置单元606包括以下至少之一:
第一配置模块,设置为在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区;
第二配置模块,设置为在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为终端重配无线承载;
第三配置模块,设置为:在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,在操作的结果指示目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
需要说明的是,上述小区切换可以包括但不限于以下至少之一:同频小区切换、异频小区切换、异系统切换。上述小区重选是载波聚合辅小区重选。其中,在本实施例中,上述终端驻留的小区为主小区,非授权载波所覆盖的测量小区为辅小区,主小区和辅小区将进行聚合,聚合的方式包括以下至少之一:载波聚合、双连接。
需要说明的是,上述每个模块是可以通过软件或硬件来实现的,对于后者,可以通过以下方式实现,但不限于此:上述模块均位于同一处理器中;或者,上述模块分别位于多个处理器中。
实施例五
本发明的实施例还提供了一种计算机可读存储介质。可选地,在本实施 例中,上述计算机可读存储介质可以被设置为存储用于执行以下步骤的程序代码:
步骤S1,接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,测量控制消息中携带指示信息,指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;
步骤S2,在指示信息指示的非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;
步骤S3,在空口协议层层三记录与导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;
步骤S4,对记录的时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,操作的结果用于指示基站在非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
步骤S5,上报操作的结果给基站。
可选地,在本实施例中,上述计算机可读存储介质可以包括但不限于:U盘、只读存储器(ROM,Read-Only Memory)、随机存取存储器(RAM,Random Access Memory)、移动硬盘、磁碟或者光盘等各种可以存储程序代码的介质。
可选地,本实施例中的具体示例可以参考上述实施例及可选实施方式中所描述的示例,本实施例在此不再赘述。
本发明实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质,存储有计算机可执行指令,所述计算机可执行指令被执行时实现上述非授权载波的测量上报方法。
本发明实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质,存储有计算机可执行指令,所述计算机可执行指令被执行时实现上述非授权载波的配置方法。
本领域的技术人员应该明白,上述的本申请的模块或步骤可以用通用的计算装置来实现,它们可以集中在单个的计算装置上,或者分布在多个计算装置所组成的网络上,可选地,它们可以用计算装置可执行的程序代码来实现,从而,可以将它们存储在存储装置中由计算装置来执行,并且在某些情况下,可以以不同于此处的顺序执行所示出或描述的步骤,或者将它们分别制作成单个集成电路模块,或者将它们中的多个模块或步骤制作成单个集成 电路模块来实现。这样,本申请不限制于任何特定的硬件和软件结合。
以上所述仅为本申请的可选实施例而已,并不用于限制本申请,对于本领域的技术人员来说,本申请可以有各种更改和变化。凡在本申请的精神和原则之内,所作的任何修改、等同替换、改进等,均应包含在本申请的保护范围之内。
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  1. 一种非授权载波的测量上报方法,包括:
    接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,所述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,所述指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;
    在所述指示信息指示的所述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将所述导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;
    在所述空口协议层层三记录与所述导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;
    对记录的所述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,所述操作的结果用于指示所述基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
    上报所述操作的结果给所述基站。
  2. 根据权利要求1所述的方法,其中,所述对记录的所述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括以下至少之一:
    对所述时间差值进行取平均值操作,将所述时间差值的平均值作为所述操作的结果;
    对所述时间差值进行取方差值操作,将所述时间差值的方差值作为所述操作的结果;
    对所述时间差值进行统计操作,将所述时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为所述操作的结果。
  3. 根据权利要求1所述的方法,其中,所述对记录的所述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作包括:
    重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达所述测量控制消息所指示的对所述导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在所述当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取所述当前时间戳与所述下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将所述时间差值记录到所述时间差值集合中;将下一个 时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
    对所述时间差值集合中的所述时间差值进行所述操作。
  4. 根据权利要求1所述的方法,其中,所述在所述指示信息指示的所述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号包括:
    根据所述测量控制消息测量所述导频信号的信号强度或质量;
    在测量到的所述信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到所述导频信号。
  5. 一种非授权载波的配置方法,包括:
    向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,所述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,所述指示信息用于指示所述终端需要测量的非授权载波;
    接收所述终端上报的操作的结果,其中,所述操作的结果为所述终端对所述非授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的所述导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,所述操作的结果用于指示基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况以及所述终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
    根据所述操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,所述资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
  6. 根据权利要求5所述的方法,其中,所述根据所述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:
    在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将所述终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区。
  7. 根据权利要求5所述的方法,其中,所述根据所述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:
    在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为所述终端重配所述无线承载。
  8. 根据权利要求5所述的方法,其中,所述根据所述操作的结果执行资源配置操作包括:
    在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对所述终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,
    在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对所述终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
  9. 一种非授权载波的测量上报终端,包括:
    接收单元,设置为接收基站发送的测量控制消息,其中,所述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,所述指示信息用于指示需要测量的非授权载波;
    测量单元,设置为在所述指示信息指示的所述非授权载波上测量来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号,并将所述导频信号的测量结果上报给空口协议层层三;
    记录单元,设置为在所述空口协议层层三记录与所述导频信号的测量结果分别对应的时间戳;
    操作单元,设置为对记录的所述时间戳中两两相邻的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作,其中,所述操作的结果用于指示所述基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况以及终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
    上报单元,设置为上报所述操作的结果给所述基站。
  10. 根据权利要求9所述的终端,其中,所述操作单元包括以下至少之一:
    第一操作模块,设置为对所述时间差值进行取平均值操作,将所述时间差值的平均值作为所述操作的结果;
    第二操作模块,设置为对所述时间差值进行取方差值操作,将所述时间差值的方差值作为所述操作的结果;
    第三操作模块,设置为对所述时间差值进行统计操作,将所述时间差值小于或等于第一预定阈值的低延时采样数量作为所述操作的结果。
  11. 根据权利要求9所述的终端,其中,所述操作单元包括:
    处理模块,设置为重复执行以下步骤,以得到时间差值集合,直至到达所述测量控制消息所指示的对所述导频信号进行测量的测量结束时刻或者评 估时间窗关闭时刻:获取与当前测量结果对应的当前时间戳;获取在所述当前时间戳之后得到的下一个测量结果对应的下一个时间戳;获取所述当前时间戳与所述下一个时间戳的时间差值,并将所述时间差值记录到所述时间差值集合中;将下一个时间戳作为下一个当前时间戳;
    第四操作模块,设置为对所述时间差值集合中的所述时间差值进行所述操作。
  12. 根据权利要求9所述的终端,其中,所述测量单元包括:
    测量模块,设置为根据所述测量控制消息测量所述导频信号的信号强度或质量;
    判定模块,设置为在测量到的所述信号强度或质量大于第二预定阈值时,判断出测量到所述导频信号。
  13. 一种非授权载波的配置基站,包括:
    发送单元,设置为向终端发送测量控制消息,其中,所述测量控制消息中携带指示信息,所述指示信息用于指示所述终端需要测量的非授权载波;
    接收单元,设置为接收所述终端上报的操作的结果,其中,所述操作的结果为所述终端对所述非授权载波上来自不同目标小区的多个导频信号进行测量时,对测量的所述导频信号的测量结果对应的时间戳之间的时间差值进行操作所得到的结果,所述操作的结果用于指示基站在所述非授权载波上的占用情况以及所述终端能够接收测量到的导频信号情况;
    配置单元,设置为根据所述操作的结果执行资源配置操作,其中,所述资源配置操作包括以下至少之一:小区切换、小区重选、重配无线承载。
  14. 根据权利要求13所述的基站,其中,所述配置单元包括:
    第一配置模块,设置为在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,将所述终端当前的源非授权载波上辅服务小区切换到目标非授权载波上辅服务小区。
  15. 根据权利要求13所述的基站,其中,所述配置单元包括:
    第二配置模块,设置为在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲时,为所述终端重配所述无线承载。
  16. 根据权利要求13所述的基站,其中,所述配置单元包括:
    第三配置模块,设置为:在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源忙碌或者负荷重时,对所述终端进行源非授权载波上辅服务小区的删除或者去激活;或者,在所述操作的结果指示所述目标小区的无线资源空闲或负荷轻时,对所述终端进行非授权载波上辅服务小区的添加或者激活。
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