WO2021057911A1

WO2021057911A1 - Cell management method and device

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Publication number: WO2021057911A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/117807
Authority: WO
Inventors: 吴昱民
Original assignee: 维沃移动通信有限公司
Priority date: 2019-09-27
Filing date: 2020-09-25
Publication date: 2021-04-01
Also published as: CN112584304A

Abstract

Disclosed are a cell management method and device. The method comprises: receiving configuration information of condition-based cell management, wherein the configuration information comprises a trigger condition for triggering cell management; and when the trigger condition is satisfied, triggering the process of managing a target cell, wherein the trigger condition comprises at least one of the following: geographic location information of a terminal device satisfying a first specific condition; and a congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfying a second specific condition.

Description

Cell management method and equipment

Cross-references to related applications

This application claims the priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201910927158.6 filed in China on September 27, 2019, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The embodiment of the present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a cell management method and device.

Background technique

In the 5G system, the terminal equipment adopts a dual connectivity (Dual Connectivity, DC) architecture. The DC architecture includes two cell groups, namely, a primary cell group (Master Cell Group, MCG) and a secondary cell group (Secondary Cell Group, SCG). The MCG includes a primary cell (PCell), and optionally, one or more secondary cells (SCell); the SCG includes a primary and secondary cell (PSCell), and optionally, one or more secondary cells (SCell).

In the related technology, the cell can be managed in a condition-triggered manner. The above-mentioned triggering conditions include, for example, that the conventional measurement result of the signal of the target cell (for example, signal strength) exceeds a threshold; the above-mentioned management cell includes, for example, adding or deleting a secondary cell, and switching to a primary cell.

However, the definition of the above trigger conditions is not comprehensive enough to be suitable for current complex application scenarios. For example, when a terminal device is working in an unlicensed frequency band, what trigger condition should be used to manage the cell; another example, the terminal device can obtain the geographic location What kind of trigger conditions should be used to manage the cell when the conventional measurement results cannot be obtained because of the information.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a cell management method and device to solve the problem that the trigger conditions for managing a cell in the related technology are not comprehensive enough to be suitable for complex application scenarios.

In the first aspect, a cell management method is provided, which is executed by a terminal device and includes:

Receiving configuration information of a condition management cell, where the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell;

When the trigger condition is met, the process of managing the target cell is triggered,

The trigger condition includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition.

In a second aspect, a cell management method is provided, which is executed by a network device, and includes:

Send the configuration information of the condition management cell,

Wherein, the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell, and the trigger condition is used for the terminal device to trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met; the trigger condition includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first A specific condition; the congestion measurement value of the target cell meets the second specific condition.

In a third aspect, a terminal device is provided, and the terminal device includes:

A receiving module, configured to receive configuration information of a condition management cell, the configuration information including trigger conditions for triggering the management cell;

The cell management module is used to trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger conditions are met,

In a fourth aspect, a network device is provided, and the network device includes:

The sending module is used to send the configuration information of the condition management cell,

In a fifth aspect, a terminal device is provided. The terminal device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program that is stored in the memory and can run on the processor. When the computer program is executed by the processor, the computer program described in the first aspect is implemented. Steps of the cell management method.

In a sixth aspect, a network device is provided. The network device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program that is stored in the memory and can run on the processor. When the computer program is executed by the processor, the computer program as described in the second aspect is implemented. Steps of the cell management method.

In a seventh aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, and a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium. When the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the cell management method as described in the first and second aspects are realized.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device receives configuration information of the condition management cell, and the trigger condition for triggering the management cell in the configuration information includes at least one of the following: geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; congestion of the target cell The measured value satisfies the second specific condition, so that the terminal device can trigger the process of managing the target cell when the above trigger condition is met. Since the geographic location information of the terminal device and/or the congestion measurement value of the target cell is introduced into the trigger condition, the definition of the trigger condition is more comprehensive, which is convenient to adapt to the current complex application scenarios.

Description of the drawings

The drawings described here are used to provide a further understanding of the application, constitute a part of the application, are only used to explain the application, and do not constitute an improper limitation of the application. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a cell management method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a cell management method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present application clearer, the technical solutions of the present application will be described clearly and completely in conjunction with specific embodiments of the present application and the corresponding drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in this application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative work shall fall within the protection scope of this application. The "and/or" in each embodiment of this specification means at least one of the front and back.

It should be understood that the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention can be applied to various communication systems, such as: Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, and LTE Time Division Duplex (LTE) system. Time Division Duplex (TDD), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication system, 5G system, or New Radio (NR) System, or the subsequent evolution of the communication system.

In the embodiment of the present invention, terminal equipment may include, but is not limited to, a mobile station (Mobile Station, MS), a mobile terminal (Mobile Terminal), a mobile phone (Mobile Telephone), a user equipment (User Equipment, UE), and a mobile phone (handset) And portable equipment (portable equipment), vehicles (vehicle), etc., the terminal equipment can communicate with one or more core networks through a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), for example, the terminal equipment can be a mobile phone (or It is called a "cellular" phone), a computer with wireless communication function, etc. The terminal device can also be a portable, pocket-sized, handheld, built-in computer or vehicle-mounted mobile device.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a network device is a device deployed in a wireless access network to provide wireless communication functions for terminal devices. The network equipment may be a base station, and the base station may include various forms of macro base stations, micro base stations, relay stations, and access points. In systems using different wireless access technologies, the names of devices with base station functions may be different. For example, in an LTE network, it is called an evolved NodeB (evolved NodeB, eNB, or eNodeB), and in a third generation (3rd Generation, 3G) network, it is called a Node B (Node B), or a subsequent evolutionary communication system. Network equipment, etc., however, the terms used do not constitute a restriction.

As shown in FIG. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a cell management method 100. The method 100 can be executed by a terminal device. In other words, the method 100 can be executed by software or hardware installed on the terminal device. Including the following steps:

S102: Receive configuration information of a condition management cell, where the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell.

The configuration information of the above condition management cell may come from the source master node.

The foregoing configuration information may include a trigger condition for triggering the management cell, and may also include related configuration information used to manage the target cell when the foregoing trigger condition is satisfied.

The above trigger condition may include at least one of the following:

1) The geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition.

For example, the terminal device enters a specific geographic location area; for another example, the distance of the terminal device from a certain transmission node is less than a preset value, and the terminal device is located in a certain beam direction of the transmission node with better beam quality.

2) The congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition.

The target cell mentioned here may include a serving cell and/or a non-serving cell.

Specifically, for example, the congestion measurement value of the neighboring cell is lower than the first preset threshold; for another example, the congestion measurement value of the serving cell (for example, PCell) is higher than the second preset threshold, and the congestion measurement value of a certain neighboring cell is lower than the first preset threshold. Three preset thresholds.

The congestion measurement values mentioned in the various embodiments of this specification may include at least one of the following: received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement results; channel occupancy ratio (CR) measurement results; channel busy Rate (Channel Busy Ratio, CBR) measurement results.

It can be understood that when the trigger condition is that the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition, it is particularly suitable for the case where the terminal device can obtain geographic location information, but it is difficult to obtain some conventional measurement values. The conventional measurement values mentioned here include, for example, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) and so on.

It can be understood that when the trigger condition is that the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition, it is particularly suitable for unlicensed frequency (Unlicensed Frequency) application scenarios. Since the frequency is shared and used by multiple different wireless technologies, Detecting the congestion measurement value of the target cell can prevent the terminal equipment from working in the congested cell, and at the same time, it is convenient to reduce the congestion degree of the serving cell.

When the trigger condition includes that the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; and the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition, it is particularly suitable for the application scenario of unlicensed frequency points, and the terminal device can obtain the geographic location. Location information, and it is difficult to obtain some conventional measurement values.

In the actual application process, after receiving the configuration information of the condition management cell, the terminal device can evaluate whether the trigger condition is satisfied according to the configuration information. For example, assess whether the geographic location information of the terminal device meets the trigger condition; assess whether the congestion measurement value of the neighboring cell meets the trigger condition; assess whether the serving cell and the congestion measurement value of the neighboring cell meet the trigger condition, and so on.

Optionally, the aforementioned trigger condition may further include: the signal strength or quality of the target cell satisfies the third specific condition. That is, the trigger condition may also be: 1) the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition, and the signal strength or quality of the target cell satisfies the third specific condition; 2) the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition, and The signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition; 3) The geographic location information of the terminal device meets the first specific condition, the congestion measurement value of the target cell meets the second specific condition, and the signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition. Specific conditions.

The signal strength mentioned in each embodiment of this specification includes, for example, RSRP.

The signal quality mentioned in each embodiment of this specification includes, for example, at least one of the following: RSRQ, signal to interference and noise ratio (Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio, SINR), and so on.

As shown in FIG. 1, the method 100 further includes:

S104: Trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met.

As mentioned above, after receiving the configuration information of the condition management cell, the terminal device can evaluate whether the trigger condition is satisfied according to the configuration information. If the evaluation result is that the trigger condition is met, the process of managing the target cell is triggered.

For the introduction of satisfying the trigger condition, please refer to the description in S102.

Optionally, the management target cell mentioned in this step includes the handover target cell. For example, handover the primary cell. In this way, the process of triggering the management of the target cell includes, for example, initiating a random access process in the target cell to be handed over, and performing configuration according to the configuration information of the target cell to be handed over.

Optionally, the foregoing management of the target cell includes: adding, changing or deleting the target cell. For example, adding, changing or deleting primary and secondary cells; adding, changing or deleting secondary cells and so on.

In the cell management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a terminal device receives configuration information of a conditional management cell, and the trigger condition for triggering the management cell in the configuration information includes at least one of the following: geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies a first specific condition; The congestion measurement value of the cell satisfies the second specific condition, so that the terminal device can trigger the process of managing the target cell when the above trigger condition is satisfied. Since the geographic location information of the terminal device and/or the congestion measurement value of the target cell is introduced into the trigger condition, the definition of the trigger condition is more comprehensive, which is convenient to adapt to the current complex application scenarios.

The cell management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention facilitates the terminal device to change its serving cell to a cell without congestion or to a cell with coverage of the expected geographic location in a manner triggered by conditions, thereby facilitating the improvement of the serving cell of the terminal device The signal quality reduces the congestion level of the serving cell.

Optionally, the geographic location information of the terminal device mentioned in the trigger condition of the foregoing embodiment satisfies the first specific condition, which may include at least one of the following:

1) The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area.

2) The mobile rate of the terminal device meets the preset rate condition. For example, the mobile speed of the terminal device exceeds the threshold configured by the network (for example, 30 km/h).

3) The moving direction of the terminal device satisfies the preset direction condition. For example, the moving direction of the terminal device is within a range of 20 degrees east of north.

Optionally, the entry of the aforementioned terminal device into a specific geographic location area includes at least one of the following:

1) The vertical coordinate of the terminal device meets the preset vertical coordinate condition. For example, the relative height (for example, the height and/or the altitude relative to the ground) of the terminal device satisfies a certain height range.

2) The horizontal coordinate of the terminal device meets the preset horizontal coordinate condition. For example, the longitude and/or latitude of the terminal device meets the preset longitude and/or latitude range.

3) The distance between the terminal device and the specific location meets the preset distance condition. For example, the distance between the terminal device and the transmission node 1 of the cell 1 is less than the preset distance.

For the terminal equipment mentioned above that meeting the trigger condition is that the terminal equipment enters a specific geographic location area, the following will illustrate with an example:

For example, the network side configures the terminal device to enter the condition state (Entering Condition) within a specific time range (for example, the trigger time (Time To Trigger, TTT) = 1s), and then the corresponding cell is performed if the trigger condition is satisfied. management. Wherein, the entry condition is that the height of the terminal device exceeds the threshold of the network configuration (for example, 100m). The network can also configure the "Leaving Condition" (Leaving Condition) of the terminal device to be that the height of the terminal device is lower than the threshold configured by the network (for example, 80m).

For another example, the network side configures the terminal device to enter the condition state (Entering Condition) within a specific time range (for example, TTT) = 1s, and then the corresponding cell management is performed if the trigger condition is satisfied. Wherein, the entry condition is that the height of the terminal device is lower than the threshold value of the network configuration (for example, 80m). The network can also configure the "Leaving Condition" (Leaving Condition) of the terminal device to be that the height of the terminal device is higher than the threshold configured by the network (for example, 100m).

For another example, the network side configures the terminal device to enter the condition state (Entering Condition) within a specific time range (for example, TTT) = 1s, and then the trigger condition is met, and the corresponding cell management is performed. Wherein, the entry condition is that the longitude and/or latitude of the terminal device meets the preset longitude and latitude range. The network may also configure the “Leaving Condition” (Leaving Condition) of the terminal device to indicate that the longitude and/or latitude of the terminal device does not meet the aforementioned preset longitude and latitude range.

For another example, the network side configures the terminal device to enter the condition state (Entering Condition) within a specific time range (for example, TTT) = 1s, and then the trigger condition is met, and the corresponding cell management is performed. Wherein, the entry condition is that the distance between the terminal device and the transmission node 1 corresponding to the cell 1 exceeds 100 m. Among them, the network can also configure the "Leaving Condition" (Leaving Condition) of the terminal device to be that the distance between the terminal device and the transmission node 1 corresponding to the cell 1 is less than 80m.

Optionally, the target cell mentioned in the foregoing several embodiments includes the current serving cell and/or neighboring cell of the terminal device, so that the trigger condition includes that the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition; and/or When the signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition, the trigger condition in S104 in the foregoing embodiments may include one of the following:

1) The signal strength or quality of the specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network.

For example, the RSRP of serving cell 1 exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of serving cell 1 is lower than the threshold configured by the network. The serving cell 1 may be an SCell, and subsequently the serving cell 1 may be switched to a PCell.

2) The congestion measurement value of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold value configured by the network.

For example, the congestion measurement value of serving cell 1 exceeds the threshold configured by the network. The serving cell 1 may be an SCell, and the serving cell 1 may be deleted later.

3) The congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold value configured by the network.

For example, the congestion measurement value of neighboring cell 1 is lower than the threshold configured by the network. Subsequently, the neighboring cell 1 can be added as an SCell.

4) The signal strength or quality of the specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of the specific serving cell and the value exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network.

For example, the RSRP of neighboring cell 1 exceeds the RSRP value of the PCell and exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of neighboring cell 1 is lower than the threshold configured by the network. Subsequently, the neighboring cell 1 can be switched to PCell.

5) The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds that of a specific serving cell. The value of the signal strength or quality exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell exceeds the value of the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell. Threshold of network configuration.

For example, if the RSRP of neighboring cell 1 exceeds the RSRP value of PCell, it exceeds the threshold value configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of PCell exceeds the value of the congestion measurement value of neighboring cell 1 exceeds the threshold value configured by the network. Subsequently, the neighboring cell 1 can be switched to PCell.

6) The signal strength or quality of the specific neighboring cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network.

For example, the RSRP of neighboring cell 1 exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of neighboring cell 1 is lower than the threshold configured by the network. Subsequently, the neighboring cell 1 can be added as an SCell, and the neighboring cell 1 can also be switched to a PCell.

7) The signal strength or quality of the specific serving cell is lower than the network configuration threshold, and the signal strength or quality of the specific neighboring cell is higher than the network configuration threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the network configuration The threshold value.

For example, the signal strength (or quality) of PCell/PSCell/SCell is lower than the network configured threshold, and the signal strength (or quality) of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the network configured threshold, and the specific neighboring cell is congested The measured value is lower than the threshold of the network configuration.

For example, the RSRP of the PCell is lower than the threshold configured by the network, the RSRP of the neighboring cell 1 is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the CO of the neighboring cell 1 is lower than the threshold configured by the network. Subsequently, the neighboring cell 1 can be switched to PCell.

The cell management method according to the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail above with reference to FIG. 1. In the following, a cell management method according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2. It can be understood that the interaction between the network device and the terminal device described from the network device side is the same as the description on the terminal device side in the method shown in FIG. 1, and to avoid repetition, the related description is appropriately omitted.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the implementation process of the cell management method according to the embodiment of the present invention, which can be applied to the network device side. As shown in FIG. 2, the method 200 includes:

S202: Send configuration information of the condition management cell.

Wherein, the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell, and the trigger condition is used for the terminal device to trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met. The trigger condition includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies the second specific condition.

In the cell management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a network device sends configuration information of a conditional management cell, and the trigger condition for triggering the management cell in the configuration information includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; The congestion measurement value of the cell satisfies the second specific condition, so that the terminal device can trigger the process of managing the target cell when the above trigger condition is satisfied. Since the geographic location information of the terminal device and/or the congestion measurement value of the target cell is introduced into the trigger condition, the definition of the trigger condition is more comprehensive, which is convenient to adapt to the current complex application scenarios.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the trigger condition further includes:

The signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition.

Optionally, as an embodiment, that the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition includes at least one of the following:

The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area;

The mobile speed of the terminal equipment meets the preset speed condition;

The moving direction of the terminal device satisfies the preset direction condition.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the terminal device entering a specific geographic location area includes at least one of the following:

The vertical coordinate of the terminal device satisfies the preset vertical coordinate condition;

The horizontal coordinate of the terminal device meets the preset horizontal coordinate condition;

The distance between the terminal device and the specific location meets the preset distance condition.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the trigger condition includes one of the following:

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell and the value exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell exceeds the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration. Threshold value;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is lower than the network configured threshold, and the signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the network configured threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the network configured threshold Limit.

Wherein, the target cell includes a specific serving cell and/or a specific neighboring cell.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the congestion measurement value includes at least one of the following:

RSSI;

CR;

CBR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the signal strength includes RSRP;

The signal quality includes at least one of the following: RSRQ, SINR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, managing the target cell includes:

Handover the target cell, the target cell includes the primary cell; or

Add, change or delete a target cell, the target cell including at least one of a primary and secondary cell and a secondary cell.

The cell management method according to the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 2. The terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 3.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 3, the terminal device 300 includes:

The receiving module 302 may be used to receive configuration information of a condition management cell, and the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell.

The cell management module 304 may be used to trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met.

The terminal device provided by the embodiment of the present invention manages the configuration information of the cell by receiving conditions, and the trigger condition for triggering the management cell in the configuration information includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; The congestion measurement value satisfies the second specific condition, so that the terminal device can trigger the process of managing the target cell when the above trigger condition is met. Since the geographic location information of the terminal device and/or the congestion measurement value of the target cell is introduced into the trigger condition, the definition of the trigger condition is more comprehensive, which is convenient to adapt to the current complex application scenarios.

The implementation of the present invention is convenient for the terminal equipment to change its serving cell to a cell without congestion or to a cell with coverage of the expected geographic location in a manner triggered by conditions, thereby facilitating the improvement of the signal quality of the serving cell of the terminal equipment and the reduction of serving cells. The degree of congestion.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the trigger condition further includes:

The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area;

The mobile speed of the terminal equipment meets the preset speed condition;

RSSI;

CR;

CBR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the signal strength includes RSRP;

The signal quality includes at least one of the following: RSRQ, SINR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, managing the target cell includes:

Handover the target cell, the target cell includes the primary cell; or

The terminal device 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention may refer to the process of the method 100 corresponding to the embodiment of the present invention, and each unit/module in the terminal device 300 and the other operations and/or functions mentioned above are used to implement the corresponding methods in the method 100. The process, and can achieve the same or equivalent technical effect, for the sake of brevity, it will not be repeated here.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the network device 400 includes:

The sending module 402 may be used to send configuration information of the condition management cell.

The network device provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends configuration information of a condition management cell, and the trigger condition for triggering the management cell in the configuration information includes at least one of the following: geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies the first specific condition; The congestion measurement value satisfies the second specific condition, so that the terminal device can trigger the process of managing the target cell when the above trigger condition is met. Since the geographic location information of the terminal device and/or the congestion measurement value of the target cell is introduced into the trigger condition, the definition of the trigger condition is more comprehensive, which is convenient to adapt to the current complex application scenarios.

The embodiment of the present invention facilitates the terminal equipment to change its serving cell to a cell without congestion or to a cell with coverage of the expected geographic location in a manner triggered by conditions, thereby facilitating the improvement of the signal quality of the serving cell of the terminal equipment and the reduction of services. The congestion level of the cell.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the trigger condition further includes:

The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area;

The mobile speed of the terminal equipment meets the preset speed condition;

RSSI;

CR;

CBR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the signal strength includes RSRP;

The signal quality includes at least one of the following: RSRQ, SINR.

Optionally, as an embodiment, managing the target cell includes:

Handover the target cell, the target cell includes the primary cell; or

The network device 400 according to the embodiment of the present invention can refer to the process of the method 200 corresponding to the embodiment of the present invention, and each unit/module in the network device 400 and the other operations and/or functions described above are used to implement the corresponding steps in the method 200. The process, and can achieve the same or equivalent technical effect, for the sake of brevity, it will not be repeated here.

Fig. 5 is a block diagram of a terminal device according to another embodiment of the present invention. The terminal device 500 shown in FIG. 5 includes: at least one processor 501, a memory 502, at least one network interface 504, and a user interface 503. The various components in the terminal device 500 are coupled together through the bus system 505. It can be understood that the bus system 505 is used to implement connection and communication between these components. In addition to the data bus, the bus system 505 may also include a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus. However, for the sake of clear description, various buses are marked as the bus system 505 in FIG. 5.

Wherein, the user interface 503 may include a display, a keyboard, a pointing device (for example, a mouse, a trackball), a touch panel or a touch screen, etc.

It can be understood that the memory 502 in the embodiment of the present invention may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. Among them, the non-volatile memory can be read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), programmable read-only memory (Programmable ROM, PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (Erasable PROM, EPROM), and electrically available Erase programmable read-only memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM) or flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), which is used as an external cache. By way of exemplary but not restrictive description, many forms of RAM are available, such as static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (Dynamic RAM, DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Double Data Rate SDRAM, DDRSDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), Synchronous Link Dynamic Random Access Memory (Synch link DRAM, SLDRAM) ) And Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 502 of the system and method described in the embodiment of the present invention is intended to include, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some embodiments, the memory 502 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or their subsets, or their extended sets: operating system 5021 and application programs 5022.

Among them, the operating system 5021 includes various system programs, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, etc., for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application program 5022 includes various application programs, such as a media player (Media Player), a browser (Browser), etc., which are used to implement various application services. The program for implementing the method of the embodiment of the present invention may be included in the application program 5022.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device 500 may further include: a computer program stored in the memory 502 and capable of running on the processor 501, and the computer program is executed by the processor 501 to implement the steps of the method 100.

The method disclosed in the foregoing embodiment of the present invention may be applied to the processor 501 or implemented by the processor 501. The processor 501 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capability. In the implementation process, the steps of the foregoing method may be completed by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in the processor 501 or instructions in the form of software. The aforementioned processor 501 may be a general-purpose processor, a digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other Programmable logic devices, discrete gates or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components. The methods, steps, and logical block diagrams disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention can be implemented or executed. The general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may also be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in combination with the embodiments of the present invention may be directly embodied as being executed and completed by a hardware decoding processor, or executed and completed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in a computer-readable storage medium that is mature in the field, such as random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers. The computer-readable storage medium is located in the memory 502, and the processor 501 reads the information in the memory 502, and completes the steps of the foregoing method in combination with its hardware. Specifically, a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by the processor 501, each step of the above-mentioned method 100 embodiment is implemented.

It can be understood that the embodiments described in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, or a combination thereof. For hardware implementation, the processing unit can be implemented in one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processing, DSP), digital signal processing equipment (DSP Device, DSPD), programmable Logic Device (Programmable Logic Device, PLD), Field-Programmable Gate Array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA), general-purpose processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and others for performing the functions described in this application Electronic unit or its combination.

For software implementation, the technology described in the embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by modules (for example, procedures, functions, etc.) that execute the functions described in the embodiments of the present invention. The software codes can be stored in the memory and executed by the processor. The memory can be implemented in the processor or external to the processor.

The terminal device 500 can implement each process implemented by the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments, and can achieve the same or equivalent technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again.

Please refer to FIG. 6. FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a network device applied in an embodiment of the present invention, which can implement the details of the method embodiment 200 and achieve the same effect. As shown in FIG. 6, the network device 600 includes: a processor 601, a transceiver 602, a memory 603, and a bus interface, where:

In the embodiment of the present invention, the network device 600 may further include: a computer program stored in the memory 603 and running on the processor 601, and the computer program is executed by the processor 601 to implement the steps of the method 200.

In FIG. 6, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges. Specifically, one or more processors represented by the processor 601 and various circuits of the memory represented by the memory 603 are linked together. The bus architecture can also link various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are all known in the art, and therefore, will not be further described herein. The bus interface provides the interface. The transceiver 602 may be a plurality of elements, including a transmitter and a receiver, and provide a unit for communicating with various other devices on the transmission medium.

The processor 601 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 603 can store data used by the processor 601 when performing operations.

The embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored. When the computer program is executed by a processor, each process of the above method embodiment 100 and method embodiment 200 is implemented, and can be To achieve the same technical effect, in order to avoid repetition, I will not repeat them here. Wherein, the computer-readable storage medium may be a non-transitory storage medium, such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, or optical disk.

It should be noted that in this article, the terms "include", "include" or any other variants thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements not only includes those elements, It also includes other elements not explicitly listed, or elements inherent to the process, method, article, or device. If there are no more restrictions, the element defined by the sentence "including a..." does not exclude the existence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or device that includes the element.

Various aspects of the present disclosure have been described above with reference to flowcharts and/or block diagrams of methods, devices (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the present invention. It should be understood that each block in the flowcharts and/or block diagrams and combinations of blocks in the flowcharts and/or block diagrams can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions can be provided to the processor of a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine that enables the execution of these instructions via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device Implementation of the functions/actions specified in one or more blocks of the flowcharts and/or block diagrams. Such a processor may be, but is not limited to, a general-purpose processor, a special-purpose processor, a special application processor, or a field programmable logic array. It can also be understood that each block in the block diagram and/or flowchart and the combination of the blocks in the block diagram and/or flowchart can also be implemented by dedicated hardware that performs specified functions or actions, or can be implemented by dedicated hardware and A combination of computer instructions.

Through the description of the above implementation manners, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-mentioned embodiment method can be implemented by means of software plus the necessary general hardware platform, of course, it can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases the former is better.的实施方式。 Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present invention essentially or the part that contributes to the existing technology can be embodied in the form of a software product, and the computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, The optical disc) includes a number of instructions to enable a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method described in each embodiment of the present invention.

The embodiments of the present invention are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned specific embodiments. The above-mentioned specific embodiments are only illustrative and not restrictive. Those of ordinary skill in the art are Under the enlightenment of the present invention, many forms can be made without departing from the purpose of the present invention and the scope of protection of the claims, all of which fall within the protection of the present invention.

Claims

A cell management method, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method includes:

Receiving configuration information of a condition management cell, where the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell;

Triggering the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met;

The trigger condition includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies a first specific condition; and the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies a second specific condition.
The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger condition further comprises:

The signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfying the first specific condition includes at least one of the following:

The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area;

The moving rate of the terminal device satisfies a preset rate condition;

The moving direction of the terminal device satisfies a preset direction condition.
The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal device entering a specific geographic location area includes at least one of the following:

The vertical coordinate of the terminal device satisfies a preset vertical coordinate condition;

The horizontal coordinate of the terminal device satisfies a preset horizontal coordinate condition;

The distance between the terminal device and the specific location satisfies a preset distance condition.
The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the trigger condition includes one of the following:

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of the specific serving cell and the value exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell exceeds the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration. Threshold value;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is lower than the network configured threshold, and the signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the network configured threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the network configured threshold Limit

Wherein, the target cell includes the specific serving cell and/or the specific neighboring cell.
The method of claim 1 or 5, wherein the congestion measurement value includes at least one of the following:

Received signal strength indicator RSSI;

Channel occupancy rate CR;

Channel busy rate CBR.
The method of claim 2, wherein:

The signal strength includes the reference signal received power RSRP;

The signal quality includes at least one of the following: reference signal reception quality RSRQ, signal to interference noise ratio SINR.
The method of claim 1, wherein the managing the target cell comprises:

Handover the target cell, the target cell includes the primary cell; or

Add, change or delete a target cell, the target cell including at least one of a primary and secondary cell and a secondary cell.
A cell management method, the method is executed by a network device, and the method includes:

Send the configuration information of the condition management cell,

Wherein, the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering a management cell, and the trigger condition is used for a terminal device to trigger a process of managing a target cell when the trigger condition is met; the trigger condition includes at least one of the following: The geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies a first specific condition; the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies a second specific condition.
9. The method of claim 9, wherein the trigger condition further comprises:

The signal strength or quality of the target cell meets the third specific condition.
The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfying the first specific condition comprises at least one of the following:

The terminal device enters a specific geographic location area;

The moving rate of the terminal device satisfies a preset rate condition;

The moving direction of the terminal device satisfies a preset direction condition.
The method of claim 11, wherein the terminal device entering a specific geographic location area includes at least one of the following:

The vertical coordinate of the terminal device satisfies a preset vertical coordinate condition;

The horizontal coordinate of the terminal device satisfies a preset horizontal coordinate condition;

The distance between the terminal device and the specific location satisfies a preset distance condition.
The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the trigger condition includes one of the following:

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific serving cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network;

The congestion measurement value of a specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell and the value exceeds the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell exceeds the signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell exceeds the congestion measurement value of the specific serving cell. The value exceeds the network configuration. Threshold value;

The signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the threshold configured by the network, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the threshold configured by the network;

The signal strength or quality of a specific serving cell is lower than the network configured threshold, and the signal strength or quality of a specific neighboring cell is higher than the network configured threshold, and the congestion measurement value of the specific neighboring cell is lower than the network configured threshold Limit,

Wherein, the target cell includes the specific serving cell and/or the specific neighboring cell.
The method of claim 9 or 13, wherein the congestion measurement value includes at least one of the following:

RSSI;

CR;

CBR.
The method of claim 10, wherein:

The signal strength includes RSRP;

The signal quality includes at least one of the following: RSRQ, SINR.
The method according to claim 9, wherein the managing the target cell comprises:

Handover the target cell, the target cell includes the primary cell; or

Add, change or delete a target cell, the target cell including at least one of a primary and secondary cell and a secondary cell.
A terminal device, including:

A receiving module, configured to receive configuration information of a condition management cell, where the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering the management cell;

The cell management module is used to trigger the process of managing the target cell when the trigger condition is met,

The trigger condition includes at least one of the following: the geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies a first specific condition; and the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies a second specific condition.
A network device including:

The sending module is used to send the configuration information of the condition management cell,

Wherein, the configuration information includes a trigger condition for triggering a management cell, and the trigger condition is used for a terminal device to trigger a process of managing a target cell when the trigger condition is met; the trigger condition includes at least one of the following: The geographic location information of the terminal device satisfies a first specific condition; the congestion measurement value of the target cell satisfies a second specific condition.
A terminal device, comprising: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and running on the processor, the computer program being executed by the processor is implemented as in claims 1 to 8 Steps of any of the cell management methods.
A network device, comprising: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and running on the processor, the computer program being executed by the processor is implemented as in claims 9 to 16 Steps of any of the cell management methods.
A computer-readable storage medium with a computer program stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the cell management method according to any one of claims 1 to 16 are realized.