WO2022067525A1

WO2022067525A1 - Service state indication method, base station, and terminal

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Publication number: WO2022067525A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/118902
Authority: WO
Inventors: 马川; 马景旺; 周彧; 陈中平
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2020-09-29
Filing date: 2020-09-29
Publication date: 2022-04-07

Abstract

Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a service state indication method, a base station, and a terminal. The method comprises: a base station configures a binding relationship between a service data radio bearer (DRB) and a report DRB, the service DRB being used for transmitting data of a service, the report DRB being used for transmitting service state information of the service, and the service state information being used for indicating the current service state of the service; the base station sends to a terminal binding information used for indicating the binding relationship; and the base station receives the service state information sent by the terminal on the basis of the report DRB, and adjusts a transmission policy of the service DRB. The problem that a network cannot obtain the service state information in time, causing a transmission delay when a data packet is transmitted, so that a service requirement cannot be met or a transmission resource is wasted can be solved by using the embodiments of the present application.

Description

A method, base station and terminal for indicating service status

technical field

The present application is in the field of communication technologies, and in particular, relates to a method, a base station, and a terminal for indicating service status.

Background technique

The terminal and the network need to determine the upstream and downstream data packet filter sets respectively according to the service status, and the data packet filter sets are used to map the data packets to the QoS flow. However, when the terminal senses the service state, the service state information needs to be sent by the terminal to the network, and a transmission delay will occur during the sending process. Therefore, the network cannot obtain the service status information in time, and therefore cannot update the downstream packet filter set in time. As a result, during the transmission delay period, the downstream data packets are transmitted on the wrong QoS flow/DRB, resulting in the failure of service requirements. Get satisfied or waste valuable transmission resources.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The technical problem to be solved by the embodiments of the present application is to provide a method, a base station and a terminal for indicating a service state, so as to solve the problem that the network cannot obtain the service state information in time, which causes a transmission delay in the transmission of data packets, so that the service requirements cannot be satisfied. Or the problem of wasting transmission resources.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for indicating a service status, including:

The base station configures the binding relationship between the service data radio bearer DRB and the report DRB, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, the report DRB is used to transmit the service state information of the service, and the service state information is used to indicate the data of the service. the current business status of the business;

sending, by the base station, binding information for indicating the binding relationship to the terminal;

The base station receives the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB.

The report DRB may be the same as the service DRB, or may be different from the service DRB.

By adopting the embodiment of the present application, the binding relationship between the service DRB of the current service of the terminal and the report DRB is configured, so that the base station can obtain the service status information in time.

In a possible implementation manner, before the base station configures the binding relationship between the service DRB and the reporting DRB, the method further includes:

The base station acquires service information of the current service of the terminal, where the service information includes an identifier of the service and an identifier of a service DRB of the service.

The service information may be notified to the base station by the UPF or the terminal, or may be obtained by the base station by detecting and analyzing data packets.

By acquiring the service information of the current service of the terminal, the base station can quickly locate the service to be processed and improve the efficiency of information transmission.

In a possible implementation manner, the business state includes:

The state of the service control error, the stable state of the service control system, the state of the priority of the service, or the state of the delay requirement of the service.

In a possible implementation, the binding information includes:

The identifier of the service, the service DRB identifier of the service, and the report DRB identifier of the service.

The binding information may include binding relationships of multiple services, that is, the information may include multiple sets of binding configurations, and each set of configurations corresponds to one service.

By carrying the binding configuration of multiple groups of services in one binding information, the terminal can send multiple service status information in parallel, and the base station can flexibly adjust the service status changes of multiple services at the same time, which improves the service status report. The efficiency is conducive to the reasonable transmission of data packets, and is also conducive to the control of the energy consumption of the base station.

In a possible implementation manner, the service status information includes:

The identification of the service and the service state index of the service.

The service state index may be a sequence number, and different index sequence numbers correspond to different service states; it may also be a character string, or other indication methods.

The base station can locate the current service and its state as soon as possible according to the indication of the service state information.

In a possible implementation manner, the service status information further includes: a service DRB identifier of the service.

By directly sending the service DRB identifier of the service to the base station, the base station can directly know the identifier of the service DRB that needs to send the service state index, and can locate the service DRB of the current service as soon as possible, which saves time and facilitates reasonable transmission of data packets.

In a possible implementation manner, the base station receives the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, including:

The first packet data convergence protocol PDCP entity in the base station receives the service state information, extracts the service state index of the service, and sends the service state index to the second PDCP entity in the base station, wherein , the first PDCP entity corresponds to the report DRB, and the second PDCP entity corresponds to the service DRB bound to the report DRB.

The base station configures the internal PDCP entities to transmit data to each other, so that the service state information carried by the first PDCP entity can be transmitted to the second PDCP entity, so that the service state information can be transmitted to the service DRB of the service.

In a possible implementation manner, after the base station receives the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the method further includes:

The second PDCP entity learns the current service state of the service according to the service state index, and adjusts the transmission policy of the service DRB according to the current service state of the service.

The base station can learn the current service state of the service through the service state index. When the current service state of the service does not match the current service DRB transmission policy of the service, it adjusts the service DRB transmission policy, which is conducive to the reasonable transmission of data packets and is also conducive to satisfying Business requirements or make full use of network resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the adjusting the transmission policy of the service DRB includes:

adjusting the data transmission rate of the service;

adjusting the transmission priority of the data of the service;

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service.

Through the indication of the service state index, the base station terminal can be informed of the service state of the service currently processed by the terminal, so that the base station can timely make an indication according to the change of the current service state of the terminal and adjust the transmission strategy of the service DRB, so as to well meet the service requirements or Make full use of network resources.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for indicating a service status, including:

The terminal receives the binding information sent by the base station, where the binding information is used to indicate the binding relationship between the service DRB of the terminal's current service and the report DRB, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, and the report DRB Service state information for transmitting the service, where the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service;

Perceive the business status of the business;

Sending traffic status information to the base station based on the reported DRB.

By adopting the embodiment of the present application, the binding relationship between the service DRB of the terminal's current service and the report DRB is configured. After the terminal perceives the service state of the service, the service state information can be quickly sent to the base station, so that the base station can quickly obtain the service state information. .

In a possible implementation manner, the business state includes:

In a possible implementation, the binding information includes:

The binding information may include binding relationships of multiple services, that is, the information may include multiple groups of binding configurations, and each group of configurations corresponds to one service.

By carrying the binding configuration of multiple groups of services in one binding information, the terminal can send multiple service status information in parallel, and the base station can flexibly adjust the service status changes of multiple services at the same time, which improves the service status report. The efficiency is conducive to the reasonable transmission of data packets, and is also conducive to the control of terminal energy consumption.

In a possible implementation manner, the service status information includes:

The identification of the service and the service state index of the service.

By sending the service state information of the current service to the base station, the terminal can enable the base station to locate the current service and its state information as soon as possible, so as to adjust the transmission strategy of the DRB as soon as possible.

By directly sending the service DRB identifier of the service to the base station, the base station can directly know the identifier of the service DRB that needs to send the service state index, and can locate the current service, the state information of the current service and the service DRB of the current service as soon as possible, and can locate the current service as soon as possible. The service DRB can save time and facilitate the reasonable transmission of data packets.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a base station, including:

a processing unit, configured to configure a binding relationship between a service data radio bearer DRB and a report DRB, where the service DRB is used to transmit service data, the report DRB is used to transmit service status information of the service, and the service status information Used to indicate the current service state of the service;

The transceiver unit is configured to send the binding information for indicating the binding relationship to the terminal; and receive the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB.

In a possible implementation manner, before configuring the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, the processing unit further includes:

Acquire the service information of the current service of the terminal, where the service information includes the identifier of the service and the identifier of the service DRB of the service.

In a possible implementation manner, the business state includes:

In a possible implementation, the binding information includes:

In a possible implementation manner, the service state information includes: an identifier of the service and a service state index of the service.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB includes:

The first packet data convergence protocol PDCP entity in the receiving unit receives the service state information, extracts the service state index of the service, and sends the service state index to the second PDCP entity in the receiving unit , wherein the first PDCP entity corresponds to the report DRB, and the second PDCP entity corresponds to the service DRB bound to the report DRB.

In a possible implementation manner, after receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the method further includes:

adjusting the data transmission rate of the service;

adjusting the transmission priority of the data of the service;

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, including:

a transceiver unit, configured to receive binding information sent by the base station, where the binding information is used to indicate the binding relationship between the service DRB of the current service of the terminal and the report DRB, and the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, The report DRB is used to transmit the service state information of the service, and the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service; based on the report DRB, the service state information is sent to the base station;

The processing unit is used for sensing the service state of the service.

In a possible implementation manner, the business state includes:

In a possible implementation, the binding information includes:

The identity of the service, the service DRB identity of the service, and the report DRB identity of the service;

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an apparatus. The apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application has the function of implementing the behavior of the base station or the terminal in the above method aspect, and includes components corresponding to the steps or functions described in the above method aspect. The steps or functions can be implemented by software, or by hardware (circuit), or by a combination of software and hardware.

In one possible design, the apparatus described above includes one or more processors and communication units. The one or more processors are configured to support the apparatus to perform the corresponding functions of the base station in the above method. For example, it is used to obtain the service information of the current service of the terminal, configure the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, and adjust the transmission policy of the service DRB according to the service status information. The communication unit is used to support the device to communicate with other devices, and realize the function of receiving and/or sending. For example, the service binding information is sent to the terminal, and the service status information sent by the terminal is received.

Optionally, the apparatus may further include one or more memories, which are coupled to the processor and store necessary program instructions and/or data of the apparatus. The one or more memories may be integrated with the processor, or may be provided separately from the processor. This application is not limited.

The apparatus may be a base station, a gNB or a TRB, etc., and the communication unit may be a transceiver, or a transceiver circuit. Optionally, the transceiver may also be an input/output circuit or an interface.

The device may also be a communication chip. The communication unit may be an input/output circuit or an interface of a communication chip.

In another possible design, the above device includes a processor, a transceiver and a memory. The processor is used to control the transceiver or the input/output circuit to send and receive signals, the memory is used to store a computer program, the processor is used to run the computer program in the memory, so that the apparatus performs the first aspect or any one of the first aspects It is possible to implement the method performed by the base station in the manner.

In one possible design, the apparatus described above includes one or more processors and communication units. The one or more processors are configured to support the apparatus to perform the corresponding functions of the terminal in the above method. For example, perceive the business status of the business. The communication unit is used to support the communication between the apparatus and other devices, and realize the function of receiving and/or sending. For example, the binding information sent by the base station is received, and the service status information is sent to the base station.

The apparatus may be a smart terminal or a wearable device, etc., and the communication unit may be a transceiver or a transceiver circuit. Optionally, the transceiver may also be an input/output circuit or an interface.

In another possible design, the above device includes a transceiver, a processor and a memory. The processor is used to control the transceiver or the input/output circuit to send and receive signals, the memory is used to store a computer program, and the processor is used to run the computer program in the memory, so that the apparatus performs the second aspect or any one of the second aspects. The method that the terminal completes in the implementation.

In a sixth aspect, a system is provided, and the system includes the above-mentioned base station and terminal.

In a seventh aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing a computer program, the computer program comprising instructions for performing the method in the first aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect.

In an eighth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing a computer program, the computer program comprising instructions for executing the method in the second aspect or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, a computer program product is provided, the computer program product comprising: computer program code, when the computer program code is run on a computer, the computer is made to execute the first aspect or any one of the first aspects methods in possible implementations.

In a tenth aspect, a computer program product is provided, the computer program product comprising: computer program code, when the computer program code is run on a computer, causing the computer to execute any one of the second aspect and the second aspect above methods in possible implementations.

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application or the background technology, the accompanying drawings required in the embodiments or the background technology of the present application will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a method for indicating a service status provided by an embodiment of the present application;

3 is a schematic flowchart of another method for indicating a service status provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the composition of a base station according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another base station according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another base station according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the composition of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application.

The terms "comprising" and "having", and any variations thereof, in the description and claims of this application and the above figures are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, product or device comprising a series of steps or units is not limited to the listed steps or units, but optionally also includes unlisted steps or units, or optionally also includes For other steps or units inherent to these processes, methods, products or devices.

The method and device for cooperative transmission according to the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a schematic structural diagram of a communication system in an embodiment of the present application, which may include a base station 10 and a terminal 20 .

The base station 10 is an NR base station (gNB), an evolved Node B (evolved Node B, eNB for short), a Node B (Node B, NB for short), a base station controller (Base Station Controller, BSC for short), a base transceiver station ( Base Transceiver Station, referred to as BTS), home base station (for example, Home evolved NodeB, or Home Node B, referred to as HNB), baseband unit (BaseBand Unit, referred to as BBU) and so on. It may also be called a base station transceiver, a wireless base station, a wireless transceiver, a transceiver function, a Base Station Subsystem (BSS for short) or some other appropriate term by those skilled in the art. It is an entity on the network side for transmitting or receiving signals. In the embodiment of the present application, the base station 10 can obtain the service information of the current service of the terminal, configure the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, and bind the service binding information. It is sent to the terminal to receive the service status information sent by the terminal, and further, according to the service status information, the transmission strategy of the service DRB is adjusted.

The terminal 20 may also be referred to as user equipment (User Equipment, UE for short). It can be deployed on land, including indoor or outdoor, handheld, wearable or vehicle-mounted; it can also be deployed on water (such as ships, etc.); it can also be deployed in the air (such as aircraft, balloons, and satellites, etc.). It can also be called user terminal, terminal equipment, access terminal equipment, vehicle terminal, industrial control terminal, UE unit, UE station, mobile station, mobile station, remote station, remote terminal equipment, mobile equipment, UE terminal equipment, mobile Terminal, wireless communication device, UE proxy or UE device, etc. The terminal may also be stationary or mobile, etc. Its specific form can be mobile phone (mobile phone), tablet computer (Pad), computer with wireless transceiver function, virtual reality (VR) terminal equipment, augmented reality (AR) terminal equipment, wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control) , in-vehicle terminal equipment, wireless terminals in self-driving, wireless terminals in remote medical, wireless terminals in smart grid, wireless terminals in transportation safety, Wireless terminals in smart cities, wireless terminals in smart homes, wearable terminal devices, etc. It is an entity on the user side for receiving or transmitting signals. In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal 20 is used to receive the binding information sent by the base station, perceive the service status of the service, and send the service status information to the base station. For simplicity of description, only one terminal 20 is shown in this embodiment of the present application. In an actual scenario, the number of terminals 20 may be one or more. A user group and the like may also be formed with the terminal, which is not limited in any embodiment of the present application.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a schematic flowchart of a method for indicating a service status provided by an embodiment of the present application; the method includes the following steps:

S201, the base station configures the binding relationship between the service data radio bearer DRB and the report DRB.

Optionally, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, the report DRB is used to transmit the service state information of the service, and the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service;

When the terminal's current service DRB has a DRB that can support the terminal to transmit data packets to the base station, the report DRB may be the same as the service DRB, that is, the DRB is both a report DRB and a service DRB at this time.

When there is no DRB in the terminal's current service DRB that can support the terminal to transmit data packets to the base station, the report DRB may be different from the service DRB, and a DRB other than the service DRB needs to be selected to send service status information.

Optionally, when the terminal is an industrial sensor, an industrial controller, or a terminal for executing industrial applications, the service state can be a state of control error, which includes three situations: high, medium, and low; it can also be a control system. Stable state, this state includes two situations: stable and unstable; when the terminal is AR, VR or a terminal used for executing communication applications, the service state can be the priority state of the service, including high priority state, low priority state It can also be the latency requirement status of the business, including the low latency requirement status and the high latency requirement status.

It should be understood that the service status includes, but is not limited to, the status of control errors, the stable status of the control system, the priority status of services, or the status of delay requirements of services. In addition, there are other service statuses applicable to the embodiments of the present application. , which is not limited here.

S203: Send binding information for indicating the binding relationship to the terminal.

The terminal can process multiple services, and each service has service status information used by the report DRB for transmitting the service, and data used by the service DRB for transmitting the service. The service DRB of the service and the report DRB have a binding relationship. The binding information may include binding relationships of multiple services, that is, the information may include multiple sets of binding configurations, each of which corresponds to one service.

S205: Receive the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB.

Optionally, the service state information may include an identifier of the service and a service state index of the service.

According to the indication of the service state information, the base station can locate the current service and its state information as soon as possible.

Optionally, the service state information may include an identifier of the service, a service state index of the service, and a service DRB identifier of the service.

By directly sending the service DRB identifier of the service to the base station, the base station can directly know the identifier of the service DRB that needs to send the service status index, and can locate the current service, the status information of the current service and the service DRB of the current service as soon as possible, which saves time and is beneficial to Reasonable transmission of packets.

Optionally, the receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB includes:

By setting the internal PDCP entities to transmit data to each other, the base station enables the service state information carried by the first PDCP entity to be transmitted to the second PDCP entity, thereby realizing information exchange between PDCP entities within the base station.

After receiving the service state information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the base station can adjust the transmission strategy of the service DRB according to the service state information.

Optionally, before step S201, it may further include:

The service information may be notified to the base station by a user plane function (User Plane Function, UPF for short) or a terminal, or may be obtained by the base station by detecting and analyzing data packets.

Optionally, after step S205, it may further include:

S207: Adjust the transmission policy of the service DRB.

The second PDCP entity of the base station acquires the current service state of the service according to the service state index, and adjusts the transmission policy of the service DRB according to the current service state of the service.

The base station can learn the current service state of the service through the service state index. When the current service state of the service does not match the current service DRB transmission policy of the service, it adjusts the service DRB transmission policy; When the transmission strategies of the DRBs match, the transmission strategies of the current service DRBs are maintained unchanged; this is conducive to the reasonable transmission of data packets, and is also conducive to meeting service requirements or making full use of network resources.

Optionally, the adjusting the transmission policy of the service DRB includes:

The data transmission rate of the service is adjusted. For example, when it is found that the service state changes to a low rate state, the transmission rate of the service DRB is reduced; when it is found that the service state changes to a high rate state, the transmission rate of the service DRB is increased.

Adjust the transmission priority of the data of the service; for example, when it is found that the service state changes to a low priority state, the PDCP entity reduces the transmission priority of the downlink PDCP data protocol data unit PDU of the service; when it is found that the service state changes In the high-priority state, the PDCP entity increases the transmission priority of the downlink PDCP data PDU of the service.

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service. When it is found that the service state has changed to a service state with low latency requirements, the PDCP entity reduces the number of retransmissions of the downlink PDCP data PDU of the service at the RLC layer and/or the MAC layer. When it is found that the service state has changed to a service state with high delay requirements, the PDCP entity adds the downlink PDCP data PDU of the service to the Radio Link Control (Radio Link Control, RLC for short) layer and/or the media intervention control (Media intervention control layer). The number of retransmissions at the Access Control (MAC) layer.

Through the indication of the service state index, the base station terminal can be informed of the service state of the service currently being processed, so that the base station can timely make an indication according to the change of the current service state of the terminal, and adjust the transmission strategy of the service DRB, so as to well meet the service requirements or Make full use of network resources.

Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of another method for indicating a service status provided by an embodiment of the present application; the method includes the following steps:

S301, the terminal receives the binding information sent by the base station.

Optionally, the binding information is used to indicate the binding relationship between the service DRB of the current service of the terminal and the report DRB, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, and the report DRB is used to transmit the data of the service. Service state information, where the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service;

Optionally, the binding information includes: an identifier of the service, a service DRB identifier of the service, and a report DRB identifier of the service.

By carrying the binding configuration of multiple groups of services in one binding information, the terminal can send multiple service status information in parallel, and the base station can flexibly adjust the service status changes of multiple services at the same time, which improves the service status report. The efficiency is conducive to the reasonable transmission of data packets.

S303, perceive the service state of the service.

Optionally, when the terminal is an industrial sensor, an industrial controller, or a terminal for executing industrial applications, the service state can be a state of control error, which includes three situations: high, medium, and low; it can also be a control system. Stable state, this state includes two situations: stable and unstable; when the terminal is AR, VR or a terminal used to execute communication applications, the service state can be the priority state of the service, including high priority state, low priority state It can also be the latency requirement status of the business, including the low latency requirement status and the high latency requirement status.

S305: Send service status information to the base station based on the reported DRB.

Optionally, when the service state of the current service of the terminal changes, the terminal sends service state information to the base station based on the reported DRB;

Alternatively, the terminal may periodically send service status information to the base station based on the reported DRB;

Alternatively, when a service DRB sends data from the terminal to the base station, the terminal sends service status information to the base station based on the reported DRB.

There are various triggering modes for the terminal to send the service status information to the base station based on the reported DRB, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic diagram of the composition of a base station according to an embodiment of the present application; it may include:

Optionally, before configuring the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, the processing unit further includes:

Optionally, the service status includes:

Optionally, the binding information includes:

Optionally, the service state information includes: an identifier of the service and a service state index of the service.

Optionally, the service status information further includes: a service DRB identifier of the service.

Optionally, after receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the method further includes:

Optionally, the adjusting the transmission policy of the service DRB includes:

adjusting the data transmission rate of the service;

adjusting the transmission priority of the data of the service;

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service.

For concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the base station, for explanations and detailed descriptions, and other steps, please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

Please refer to FIG. 5 , which is a schematic diagram of the composition of another base station provided by an embodiment of the present application; as shown in FIG. 5 , the base station may include a processor 110 , a memory 120 , and a transceiver 130 . The processor 110, the memory 120 and the transceiver 130 are connected through a bus 140, the memory 120 is used to store instructions, and the processor 110 is used to execute the instructions stored in the memory 120 to implement the steps performed by the base station in the method corresponding to FIG. 2 above. .

The processor 110 is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory 120 to control the transceiver 130 to receive and transmit signals, and to complete the steps performed by the base station in the above method. Wherein, the memory 120 may be integrated in the processor 110 , or may be provided separately from the processor 110 .

As an implementation manner, the function of the transceiver 130 may be implemented by a transceiver circuit or a dedicated chip for transceiver. The processor 110 can be considered to be implemented by a dedicated processing chip, a processing circuit, a processor or a general-purpose chip.

As another implementation manner, a general-purpose computer may be used to implement the base station provided in the embodiment of the present application. The program codes that will implement the functions of the processor 110 and the transceiver 130 are stored in the memory 120 , and a general-purpose processor implements the functions of the processor 110 and the transceiver 130 by executing the codes in the memory 120 .

Please refer to FIG. 6 , which is a schematic diagram of the composition of another base station provided by an embodiment of the present application; as shown in FIG. 6 , the apparatus 1100 includes one or more radio frequency units, such as a remote radio unit (remote radio unit, RRU for short) 1110 and one or more baseband units (baseband units, BBUs for short) (also referred to as digital units, digital units, DUs for short) 1120 . The RRU 1110 may be called a transceiver module, which corresponds to the transceiver unit 100 in FIG. 4 , and optionally, the transceiver module may also be called a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, or a transceiver, etc., which may include at least one antenna 1111 and RF unit 1112. The part of the RRU 1110 is mainly used for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals and converting radio frequency signals and baseband signals, for example, for sending resource configuration information to the terminal. The part of the BBU 1110 is mainly used to perform baseband processing, control the base station, and the like. The RRU 1110 and the BBU 1120 may be physically set together, or may be physically separated and set up, that is, a distributed base station.

The BBU 1120 is the control center of the base station, and can also be referred to as a processing module, which can correspond to the processing unit 200 in FIG. 4 , and is mainly used to complete baseband processing functions, such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulation, spread spectrum, and the like. For example, the BBU (processing module) may be used to control the base station to perform the operation procedures of the base station in the above method embodiments, for example, to configure the binding relationship between the report DRB and the service DRB.

In one example, the BBU 1120 may be composed of one or more boards, and the multiple boards may jointly support a wireless access network (such as an LTE network) of a single access standard, or may respectively support a wireless access network of different access standards. Wireless access network (such as LTE network, 5G network or other network). The BBU 1120 also includes a memory 1121 and a processor 1122. The memory 1121 is used to store necessary instructions and data. The processor 1122 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform the operation procedures of the base station in the foregoing method embodiments. The memory 1121 and the processor 1122 may serve one or more single boards. That is to say, the memory and processor can be provided separately on each single board. It can also be that multiple boards share the same memory and processor. In addition, necessary circuits may also be provided on each single board.

As another form of this embodiment, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which an instruction is stored, and when the instruction is executed, the method on the base station side in the foregoing method embodiment is performed.

As another form of this embodiment, a computer program product including an instruction is provided, and when the instruction is executed, the method on the base station side in the foregoing method embodiment is executed.

Please refer to FIG. 7, which is a schematic diagram of the composition of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application; may include:

The processing unit is used for sensing the service state of the service.

Optionally, the service status includes:

Optionally, the binding information includes:

For concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the terminal, for explanations and detailed descriptions, and other steps, please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

Please refer to FIG. 8 , which is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal provided by an embodiment of the present application; as shown in FIG. 8 , the terminal may include a processor 210 , a memory 220 and a transceiver 230 . The processor 210, the memory 220 and the transceiver 230 are connected through a bus 240, the memory 220 is used to store instructions, and the processor 210 is used to execute the instructions stored in the memory 220 to implement the steps performed by the terminal in the method corresponding to FIG. 3 above. .

The processor 210 is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory 220 to control the transceiver 230 to receive and transmit signals, and to complete the steps performed by the terminal in the above method. The memory 220 may be integrated in the processor 210, or may be provided separately from the processor 210.

As an implementation manner, the function of the transceiver 230 may be implemented by a transceiver circuit or a dedicated chip for transceiver. The processor 210 can be considered to be implemented by a dedicated processing chip, a processing circuit, a processor or a general-purpose chip.

As another implementation manner, a general-purpose computer may be used to implement the terminal provided by the embodiments of the present application. The program codes that will implement the functions of the processor 210 and the transceiver 230 are stored in the memory 220 , and a general-purpose processor implements the functions of the processor 210 and the transceiver 230 by executing the codes in the memory 220 .

An embodiment of the present application also provides a communication device, where the communication device may be a terminal or a circuit. The communication apparatus may be configured to perform the actions performed by the terminal in the foregoing method embodiments.

Please refer to FIG. 9 , which is a schematic diagram of the composition of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present application; for ease of understanding and illustration, in FIG. 9 , the terminal takes a mobile phone as an example. As shown in FIG. 9 , the terminal includes a processor, a memory, a radio frequency circuit, an antenna, and an input and output device. The processor is mainly used to process communication protocols and communication data, control terminals, execute software programs, and process data of software programs. The memory is mainly used to store software programs and data. The radio frequency circuit is mainly used for the conversion of the baseband signal and the radio frequency signal and the processing of the radio frequency signal. Antennas are mainly used to send and receive radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, and keyboards, are mainly used to receive data input by users and output data to users. It should be noted that some types of terminal equipment may not have input and output devices.

When data needs to be sent, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent, and outputs the baseband signal to the radio frequency circuit. The radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signal and sends the radio frequency signal through the antenna in the form of electromagnetic waves. When data is sent to the terminal, the radio frequency circuit receives the radio frequency signal through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signal into a baseband signal, and outputs the baseband signal to the processor, which converts the baseband signal into data and processes the data. For ease of illustration, only one memory and processor are shown in FIG. 9 . In an actual end product, there may be one or more processors and one or more memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device or the like. The memory may be set independently of the processor, or may be integrated with the processor, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In the embodiments of the present application, the antenna and the radio frequency circuit with a transceiver function may be regarded as a transceiver unit of the terminal device, and the processor with a processing function may be regarded as a processing unit of the terminal device. As shown in FIG. 9 , the terminal includes a transceiver unit 1210 and a processing unit 1220 . The transceiving unit may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiver, a transceiving device, or the like. The processing unit may also be referred to as a processor, a processing single board, a processing module, a processing device, and the like. Optionally, the device for implementing the receiving function in the transceiver unit 1210 may be regarded as a receiving unit, and the device for implementing the transmitting function in the transceiver unit 1210 may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiver unit 1210 includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. The transceiver unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiver, or a transceiver circuit. The receiving unit may also sometimes be referred to as a receiver, receiver, or receiving circuit, or the like. The transmitting unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transmitter, a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, or the like.

It should be understood that the transceiver unit 1210 is configured to perform the sending and receiving operations on the terminal side in the foregoing method embodiments, and the processing unit 1220 is configured to perform other operations on the terminal except for the sending and receiving operations in the foregoing method embodiments.

For example, in an implementation manner, the transceiver unit 1210 is configured to perform the sending operation on the terminal side in steps S201-S202 in FIG. 2 , and/or the transceiver unit 1210 is further configured to perform other transceivers on the terminal side in this embodiment of the present application step. The processing unit 1220 is configured to perform step S502 in FIG. 5 and step S602 in FIG. 6 , and/or the processing unit 1220 is further configured to perform other processing steps on the terminal side in this embodiment of the present application.

When the terminal is a chip-type device or circuit, the device may include a transceiver unit and a processing unit. The transceiver unit may be an input/output circuit and/or a communication interface; the processing unit may be an integrated processor, a microprocessor or an integrated circuit.

For the terminal in this embodiment of the present application, reference may be made to the device shown in FIG. 10 . As an example, the device may perform functions similar to the processor 210 in FIG. 8 . In FIG. 10 , the device includes a processor 1310 , a transmit data processor 320 , and a receive data processor 1330 . The processing unit 400 in the above-mentioned embodiment may be the processor 1310 in FIG. 10 and perform corresponding functions. The transceiver unit 300 in the above embodiment may be the transmit data processor 1320 and/or the receive data processor 1330 in FIG. 10 . Although the channel encoder and the channel decoder are shown in FIG. 10 , it can be understood that these modules do not constitute a limitative description of this embodiment, but are only illustrative.

FIG. 11 shows another form of this embodiment. The processing device 1400 includes modules such as a modulation subsystem, a central processing subsystem, and a peripheral subsystem. The communication apparatus in this embodiment may serve as a modulation subsystem therein. Specifically, the modulation subsystem may include a processor 1403 and an interface 1404 . The processor 1403 completes the functions of the above-mentioned processing unit 400 , and the interface 1404 implements the functions of the above-mentioned transceiver unit 300 . As another variant, the modulation subsystem includes a memory 1406, a processor 1403, and a program stored in the memory 1406 and executable on the processor. When the processor 1403 executes the program, the terminal side of the above method embodiment is implemented. method. It should be noted that the memory 1406 can be non-volatile or volatile, and its location can be located inside the modulation subsystem or in the processing device 1400, as long as the memory 1406 can be connected to the The processor 1403 is sufficient.

As another form of this embodiment, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which an instruction is stored, and when the instruction is executed, the method on the terminal side in the foregoing method embodiment is executed.

As another form of this embodiment, a computer program product including an instruction is provided, and when the instruction is executed, the method on the terminal side in the foregoing method embodiment is executed.

It should be noted that when the application server perceives the service state, the service state information needs to be sent by the network to the terminal, and a transmission delay will also occur during the sending process. It should be understood that the network can also adjust the transmission strategy of the DRB by informing the base station of the current service status of the service. This scenario also belongs to this embodiment of the present application.

Those skilled in the art can understand that, for the convenience of description, only one memory and one processor are shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 8 . In an actual controller, there may be multiple processors and memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

It should be understood that, in this embodiment of the present application, the processor may be a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, referred to as CPU), and the processor may also be other general-purpose processors, digital signal processors (Digital Signal Processing, referred to as DSP), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc.

It should also be understood that the memory mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention may be volatile memory or non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. Among them, the non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, referred to as ROM), a programmable read-only memory (Programmable ROM, referred to as PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (Erasable PROM, referred to as EPROM) , Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM for short) or flash memory. The volatile memory may be Random Access Memory (RAM for short), which is used as an external cache. By way of example but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), Synchronous DRAM, referred to as SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (Double Data Rate SDRAM, referred to as DDR SDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (Enhanced SDRAM, referred to as ESDRAM), synchronous connection dynamic random access memory (Synchlink DRAM, referred to as SLDRAM) and direct memory bus random access memory (Direct Rambus RAM, referred to as DR RAM).

It should be noted that when the processor is a general-purpose processor, DSP, ASIC, FPGA or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, or discrete hardware components, the memory (storage module) is integrated in the processor.

It should be noted that the memory described herein is intended to include, but not be limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In addition to the data bus, the bus may also include a power bus, a control bus, a status signal bus, and the like. However, for the sake of clarity, the various buses are labeled as buses in the figure.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" in this document is only an association relationship to describe associated objects, indicating that there can be three kinds of relationships, for example, A and/or B, which can mean that A exists alone, and A and B exist at the same time , there are three cases of B alone. In addition, the character "/" in this document generally indicates that the related objects are an "or" relationship.

In the implementation process, each step of the above-mentioned method can be completed by a hardware integrated logic circuit in a processor or an instruction in the form of software. The steps of the methods disclosed in conjunction with the embodiments of the present application may be directly embodied as executed by a hardware processor, or executed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor. The software modules may be located in random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers and other storage media mature in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory, and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware. To avoid repetition, detailed description is omitted here.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application further provides a system, which includes the aforementioned base station, terminal, and the like.

In various embodiments of the present application, the size of the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes does not mean the sequence of execution, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its functions and internal logic, rather than the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application. constitute any limitation.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can realize that various illustrative logical blocks (ILBs) and steps described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. accomplish. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality using different methods for each particular application, but such implementations should not be considered beyond the scope of this application.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are only illustrative. For example, the division of the units is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be other division methods. For example, multiple units or components may be combined or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored, or not implemented. On the other hand, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be through some interfaces, indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units, and may be in electrical, mechanical or other forms.

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

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

In the above-mentioned embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, it can be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present application are generated. The computer may be a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be downloaded from a website site, computer, server, or data center Transmission to another website site, computer, server, or data center by wire (eg, coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line) or wireless (eg, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, a data center, or the like that includes an integration of one or more available media. The usable media may be magnetic media (eg, floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tapes), optical media (eg, DVDs), or semiconductor media (eg, solid state drives), and the like.

The above are only specific embodiments of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited to this. should be covered within the scope of protection of this application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application should be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A method for indicating service status, comprising:

The base station configures the binding relationship between the service data radio bearer DRB and the report DRB, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, the report DRB is used to transmit the service state information of the service, and the service state information is used to indicate the data of the service. the current business status of the business;

sending, by the base station, binding information for indicating the binding relationship to the terminal;

The base station receives the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB.
The method according to claim 1, wherein before the base station configures the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, the method further comprises:

The base station acquires service information of the current service of the terminal, where the service information includes an identifier of the service and an identifier of a service DRB of the service.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the service status comprises:

The state of the service control error, the stable state of the service control system, the state of the priority of the service, or the state of the delay requirement of the service.
The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the binding information comprises:

The identifier of the service, the service DRB identifier of the service, and the report DRB identifier of the service.
The method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the service status information comprises:

The identification of the service and the service state index of the service.
The method according to claim 5, wherein the service status information further comprises: a service DRB identifier of the service.
The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the receiving, by the base station, the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB comprises:

The first packet data convergence protocol PDCP entity in the base station receives the service state information, extracts the service state index of the service, and sends the service state index to the second PDCP entity in the base station, wherein , the first PDCP entity corresponds to the report DRB, and the second PDCP entity corresponds to the service DRB bound to the report DRB.
The method according to claim 7, wherein after the base station receives the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the method further comprises:

The second PDCP entity learns the current service state of the service according to the service state index, and adjusts the transmission policy of the service DRB according to the current service state of the service.
The method according to claim 8, wherein the adjusting the transmission policy of the service DRB comprises at least one of the following:

adjusting the data transmission rate of the service;

adjusting the transmission priority of the data of the service;

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service.
A method for indicating service status, comprising:

The terminal receives the binding information sent by the base station, where the binding information is used to indicate the binding relationship between the service DRB of the terminal's current service and the report DRB, the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, and the report DRB Service state information for transmitting the service, where the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service;

Perceive the business status of the business;

Sending traffic status information to the base station based on the reported DRB.
The method according to claim 10, wherein the service status comprises:

The state of the service control error, the stable state of the service control system, the state of the priority of the service, or the state of the delay requirement of the service.
The method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the binding information comprises:

The identifier of the service, the service DRB identifier of the service, and the report DRB identifier of the service.
The method according to any one of claims 10-12, wherein the service state information includes: an identifier of the service and a service state index of the service.
A base station, characterized in that it includes:

a processing unit, configured to configure a binding relationship between a service data radio bearer DRB and a report DRB, where the service DRB is used to transmit data of a service, the report DRB is used to transmit service status information of the service, and the service status information Used to indicate the current service state of the service;

The transceiver unit is configured to send the binding information for indicating the binding relationship to the terminal; and receive the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB.
The base station according to claim 14, wherein before configuring the binding relationship between the service DRB and the report DRB, the processing unit further comprises:

Acquire the service information of the current service of the terminal, where the service information includes the identifier of the service and the identifier of the service DRB of the service.
The base station according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the service status includes:

The state of the service control error, the stable state of the service control system, the state of the priority of the service, or the state of the delay requirement of the service.
The base station according to any one of claims 14-16, wherein the binding information comprises:

The identifier of the service, the service DRB identifier of the service, and the report DRB identifier of the service.
The base station according to any one of claims 14-17, wherein the service state information includes: an identifier of the service and a service state index of the service.
The base station according to claim 18, wherein the service status information further comprises: a service DRB identifier of the service.
The base station according to claim 18 or 19, wherein the receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB comprises:

The first packet data convergence protocol PDCP entity in the receiving unit receives the service state information, extracts the service state index of the service, and sends the service state index to the second PDCP entity in the receiving unit. , wherein the first PDCP entity corresponds to the report DRB, and the second PDCP entity corresponds to the service DRB bound to the report DRB.
The base station according to claim 20, wherein after receiving the service status information sent by the terminal based on the report DRB, the method further comprises:

The second PDCP entity learns the current service state of the service according to the service state index, and adjusts the transmission strategy of the service DRB according to the current service state of the service.
The base station according to claim 21, wherein the adjusting the transmission policy of the service DRB comprises at least one of the following:

adjusting the data transmission rate of the service;

adjusting the transmission priority of the data of the service;

Adjust the number of retransmissions of the data of the service.
A terminal, characterized in that it includes:

a transceiver unit, configured to receive binding information sent by the base station, where the binding information is used to indicate the binding relationship between the service DRB of the current service of the terminal and the report DRB, and the service DRB is used to transmit the data of the service, The report DRB is used to transmit the service state information of the service, and the service state information is used to indicate the current service state of the service; based on the report DRB, the service state information is sent to the base station;

The processing unit is used for sensing the service state of the service.
The terminal according to claim 23, wherein the service status comprises:

The state of the service control error, the stable state of the service control system, the state of the priority of the service, or the state of the delay requirement of the service.
The terminal according to claim 23 or 24, wherein the binding information comprises:

The identifier of the service, the service DRB identifier of the service, and the report DRB identifier of the service.
The terminal according to any one of claims 23-25, wherein the service status information includes: an identifier of the service and a service status index of the service.
A base station, characterized in that it includes:

A processor, a memory, and a bus, the processor and the memory are connected by a bus, wherein the memory is used for storing a set of program codes, and the processor is used for calling the program codes stored in the memory, and executes the process as claimed in claim 1 The method of any one of -9.
A terminal, characterized in that it includes:

A processor, a memory and a bus, the processor and the memory are connected by a bus, wherein the memory is used for storing a set of program codes, the processor is used for calling the program codes stored in the memory, and executes the process as claimed in claim 10 - The method of any one of 13.
A computer-readable storage medium, comprising:

The computer-readable storage medium has stored therein instructions that, when executed on a computer, implement the method of any one of claims 1-9.
A computer-readable storage medium, comprising:

The computer-readable storage medium has stored therein instructions which, when executed on a computer, implement the method of any one of claims 10-13.