CN111565412A

CN111565412A - Measurement method, terminal equipment and network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111565412A
Application number: CN201910115160.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 严乐; 耿婷婷; 曾清海
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-02-14
Filing date: 2019-02-14
Publication date: 2020-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 2039-02-14
Also published as: WO2020164418A1; CN111565412B

Abstract

The application provides a measurement method, terminal equipment and a base station. The method comprises the following steps: the terminal equipment receives measurement configuration information, wherein the measurement configuration information indicates at least one frequency domain resource group, and the frequency domain resource group comprises frequency domain resources used for carrier aggregation, or the frequency domain resource group comprises frequency domain resources used for multi-connection; and the terminal equipment measures the frequency domain resources according to the frequency domain resource group. According to the embodiment of the application, the measurement configuration can be reasonably carried out, the terminal equipment can carry out measurement efficiently and report the measurement report quickly, so that the carrier aggregation configuration or the dual-connection configuration can be configured for the terminal equipment in time when the terminal equipment is switched from a non-connection state to a connection state or after the terminal equipment is switched to a new service base station.

Description

Measurement method, terminal equipment and network equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of network communications, and in particular, to a measurement method, a terminal device, and a network device.

Background

In order to improve the spectral efficiency and user throughput of the system, Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology and Dual Connectivity (DC) technology are introduced. The CA technology supports a terminal device to simultaneously use different carriers of multiple cells (cells) under the same base station for uplink and downlink communication, thereby supporting high-speed data transmission. The DC technology supports the terminal device to use the carriers of multiple cells of two different base stations for uplink and downlink communication at the same time.

In the DC and CA technologies, when a terminal device needs to switch a serving base station, or when the terminal device is switched from a non-connected state to a connected state, the existing measurement configuration is not reasonable enough, the measurement efficiency is low, and the carrier aggregation configuration or the dual-connection configuration cannot be configured for the terminal device in time, thereby affecting the communication quality of the terminal device.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a measurement method, a terminal device and a network device.

In a first aspect, a measurement method is provided, which may be performed by a terminal device, or may also be performed by a chip or a circuit configured in the terminal device, and this application is not limited thereto.

Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the terminal equipment receives measurement configuration information, wherein the measurement configuration information indicates at least one frequency-domain resource group, and the at least one frequency-domain resource group comprises frequency-domain resources used for carrier aggregation, or the at least one frequency-domain resource group comprises frequency-domain resources used for multi-connection; and the terminal equipment measures the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group.

The embodiment of the application can reasonably perform measurement configuration, for example, only frequency domain resources which can be used for carrier aggregation or multi-connection can be measured, so that some invalid measurements of the terminal device can be reduced (for example, the measurement of the frequency domain resources which do not support carrier aggregation or multi-connection), so that the measurement of the terminal device can be more efficient, and a measurement report can be reported quickly, so that the terminal device can configure carrier aggregation configuration or dual-connection configuration for the terminal device in time after being switched to a new serving base station or being switched from an idle state to a connected state, and the quality of data transmission of the terminal device is ensured.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the at least one frequency-domain resource group includes a first frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with the first frequency-domain resources, or the first frequency-domain resource group includes frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with the first frequency-domain resources.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the measuring, by the terminal device, the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group includes: and the terminal equipment measures the first frequency domain resource and determines whether to measure other frequency domain resources in the first frequency domain resource group according to the measurement result.

The embodiment of the application can reasonably perform measurement configuration, for example, measurement information can be configured according to the combination of the frequency domain resources supported by the base station, so that the terminal device can determine whether to measure other frequency domain resources in the group according to the obtained measurement result, and when the measurement result does not meet the requirement, the other frequency domain resources in the group are not measured, thereby improving the measurement efficiency of the terminal device.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the using the first frequency-domain resource by multiple cells, the measuring the first frequency-domain resource by the terminal device, and determining whether to measure other frequency-domain resources according to the measurement result includes: the terminal device measures the first frequency domain resources used by the cells respectively;

and under the condition that the measurement result of at least one cell in the plurality of cells is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold value, measuring other frequency-domain resources in the first frequency-domain resource group.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the measuring, by the terminal device, the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group includes: the terminal equipment determines at least one target frequency domain resource from a second frequency domain resource group, wherein the target frequency domain resource is a frequency domain resource which can be supported by the terminal equipment, and the second frequency domain resource group is any one of the at least one frequency domain resource group; and the terminal equipment measures the target frequency domain resource.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the determining, by the terminal device, at least one target frequency-domain resource from the second frequency-domain resource group includes determining, by the terminal device, at least one target frequency-domain resource from the second frequency-domain resource group according to support capability information, where the support capability information indicates frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation that the terminal device can support; or the supporting capability information indicates frequency domain resources for multiple connections that the terminal device can support.

According to the method and the device, the configured frequency domain resources can be screened according to the support capability information of the terminal equipment, for example, the frequency domain resources which are not supported by the terminal equipment and are used for carrier aggregation or the frequency domain resources used for multi-connection can be screened, only the frequency domain resources supported by the terminal equipment are measured, and the measurement efficiency is improved.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the frequency domain resources include frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or the frequency domain resource does not include a frequency domain resource used by a serving cell of the terminal device.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, when the plurality of frequency-domain resource groups are provided, the measuring, by the terminal device, the frequency-domain resources according to the at least one frequency-domain resource group includes: the terminal equipment determines the priority of each frequency domain resource group; and the terminal equipment measures the frequency domain resources in the frequency domain resource group according to the priority.

In a second aspect, a measurement method is provided, which may be performed by a network device, or may also be performed by a chip or a circuit configured in the network device, and this application is not limited thereto.

For example, the network device may be a base station, such as an eNB, a gNB, a CU, or a DU, without limitation.

Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: generating measurement configuration information indicating at least one frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation or frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity; and sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal equipment.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the at least one frequency-domain resource group includes a first frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with the first frequency-domain resources, or includes frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with the first frequency-domain resources.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the frequency domain resources include frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or the frequency domain resource does not include a frequency domain resource used by a serving cell of the terminal device.

In a third aspect, a measurement method is provided, which may be performed by a terminal device, or may also be performed by a chip or a circuit configured in the terminal device, and this application is not limited thereto.

Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the terminal equipment determines a plurality of measurement GAPs GAP, wherein the lengths of any two measurement GAPs in the plurality of measurement GAPs are different; the terminal equipment determines a second measurement GAP from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the number of the second frequency point groups to be measured; and the terminal equipment measures the frequency points in the second frequency point group according to the second measurement GAP.

The embodiment of the application configures a plurality of sets of measurement GAPs, can flexibly select the measurement GAPs according to the number of measurement targets (frequency points), thereby conveniently and reasonably configuring the measurement GAPs to improve the measurement effect, and on the other hand, the embodiment of the application can meet the requirement of data scheduling of the terminal equipment as much as possible, and improves the use experience of users.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementation manners of the third aspect, the determining, by the terminal device, a second measurement GAP from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the number of second frequency point groups to be measured includes: the terminal device determines a second measurement GAP from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the relationship between the number of the second frequency point groups and the number of the first frequency point groups and the first measurement GAP, wherein the first frequency point group is a frequency point group measured before the second frequency point group, and the first measurement GAP is a measurement GAP used when the terminal device measures the first frequency point group.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain implementations of the third aspect, when the length of the second measurement GAP is not equal to the length of the first measurement GAP, the method further includes: the terminal device sends notification information to the base station, where the notification information is used to notify that the measurement GAP currently used by the terminal device is the second measurement GAP.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain implementations of the third aspect, the method further includes: the terminal equipment determines a third measurement GAP from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the completion condition of the second measurement GAP for measuring the frequency points in the second frequency point group; and the terminal equipment measures the frequency points in the second frequency point group according to the third measurement GAP.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a terminal device comprising means for performing the steps of the methods in the first, third and their respective implementations described above.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided, which comprises means for performing the steps of the method in the second aspect and its implementations.

In a sixth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided that includes a processor configured to couple to a memory and to read instructions or programs stored in the memory. Optionally, the communication device may further comprise the memory for storing instructions or programs. The processor is configured to invoke and execute the instructions or the program from the memory, so that the communication apparatus executes the communication method of the first aspect or the third aspect and various possible implementations thereof.

Optionally, the number of the processors is one or more, and the number of the memories is one or more.

Alternatively, the memory may be integral to the processor or separate from the processor.

Optionally, the communication device further comprises a transmitter (or a transmitter) and a receiver (or a receiver).

In a seventh aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor configured to couple with a memory and to read instructions or programs stored in the memory. Optionally, the communication device may further comprise the memory for storing instructions or programs. The processor is configured to call and execute the instructions or the program from the memory, so that the communication device executes the communication method of the second aspect and its various implementations.

In an eighth aspect, a communication system is provided, which includes the communication device provided in the above sixth aspect and/or the communication device provided in the seventh aspect.

In a possible design, the communication system may further include other devices that interact with the communication device in the solution provided in the embodiment of the present application.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a computer program product, the computer program product comprising: a computer program (also referred to as code, or instructions), which when executed, causes a computer to perform the method of any of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects described above.

In a tenth aspect, a computer-readable medium is provided, which stores a computer program (which may also be referred to as code or instructions) that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects.

In an eleventh aspect, a chip or chip system is provided, which includes a processor for coupling with a memory and reading instructions or programs stored in the memory. Optionally, the chip or chip system may further include the memory for storing the instructions or programs. The processor is configured to call and execute the instruction or the program from the memory, so that the communication device or the communication apparatus on which the chip or the chip system is installed performs the method in any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect to the third aspect.

The system-on-chip may include, among other things, input circuitry or interfaces for transmitting information or data, and output circuitry or interfaces for receiving information or data.

In a twelfth aspect, a communication system is provided, comprising a terminal device in any of the previous possible implementations and a network device in any of the previous possible implementations.

Drawings

Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a network architecture for dual connectivity.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a system to which the measurement method according to the embodiment of the present application can be applied.

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of an example of a measurement method according to the present application.

Fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another example of a measurement method according to the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of an example of a communication apparatus of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of an example of a terminal device of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of an example of a network device according to the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, an LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, an LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD) system, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a fifth generation (5G) system, a New Radio (NR) system, or other evolved communication systems.

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may also be referred to as: user Equipment (UE), Mobile Station (MS), Mobile Terminal (MT), access terminal, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, or user device, etc.

The terminal device may be a device providing voice/data connectivity to a user, e.g. a handheld device, a vehicle mounted device, etc. with wireless connection capability. Currently, some examples of terminals are: a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a wearable device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in self driving (self driving), a wireless terminal in remote operation (remote medical supply), a wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal in city (smart city), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local) phone, a personal digital assistant (WLL) station, a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a wearable device, a wireless terminal in Virtual Reality (VR) device, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in transportation safety, a wireless terminal in city (smart home), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local communication system, a personal digital assistant (wireless assistant), a wireless communication device with wireless communication function, a wireless communication system, a communication, The present invention also provides a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a 5G network, or a terminal device in a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for future evolution, which is not limited in this embodiment.

By way of example and not limitation, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. Wearable equipment can also be called wearable intelligent equipment, is the general term of applying wearable technique to carry out intelligent design, develop the equipment that can wear to daily wearing, like glasses, gloves, wrist-watch, dress and shoes etc.. A wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also realizes powerful functions through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable smart device includes full functionality, large size, and can implement full or partial functionality without relying on a smart phone, such as: smart watches or smart glasses and the like, and only focus on a certain type of application functions, and need to be used in cooperation with other devices such as smart phones, such as various smart bracelets for physical sign monitoring, smart jewelry and the like.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an internet of things (IoT) system, where IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and a main technical feature of the present application is to connect an article with a network through a communication technology, so as to implement an intelligent network with interconnected human-computer and interconnected objects.

In addition, the network device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device for communicating with a terminal device, and the network device may also be referred to as an access network device or a radio access network device, and may be a Transmission Reception Point (TRP), a base station (BTS) in a global system for mobile communications (GSM) system or a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, a base station (Node, NB) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system, an evolved base station (eNB, or eNodeB) in an LTE system, a base station controller (base station controller, BSC), a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a home base station (e.g., a home or a home B, a base station unit (HNB), BBU), or may be a wireless controller in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) scenario, or the network device may be a relay station, an access point, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a network device in a 5G network, or a network device in a PLMN network that evolves in the future, may be an Access Point (AP) in a WLAN, may be a gNB in a new radio system (NR) system, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.

In one network configuration, a network device may include a Centralized Unit (CU) node, or a Distributed Unit (DU) node, or a RAN device including a CU node and a DU node, or a control plane CU node (CU-CP node) and a user plane CU node (CU-UP node) and a RAN device of a DU node.

The network device provides a service for the terminal device through a cell or a transceiver in the cell, the terminal device communicates with the cell or a transceiver in the cell through a transmission resource (e.g., a frequency domain resource, or a spectrum resource, or a video resource) allocated by the network device, the cell may be a cell corresponding to the transceiver, the cell may belong to a macro base station (e.g., macro eNB or macro gNB), or may belong to a base station corresponding to a small cell (small cell), and the small cell herein may include: urban cell (metro cell), micro cell (microcell), pico cell (pico cell), femto cell (femtocell), etc., which have the characteristics of small coverage and low transmission power, and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission service.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a network architecture of dual connectivity, and as shown in fig. 1, a terminal device may simultaneously have a communication connection with two network devices and may transmit and receive data, which may be referred to as dual connectivity. One of the two network devices (e.g., base stations) may be mainly responsible for exchanging radio resource control messages with the terminal device and for interacting with a core network control plane entity, and thus, the base station may be referred to as a master base station (master gbb, MgNB), and the other base station may be referred to as a secondary base station (secondary gbb, SgNB). The main base station is a control plane anchor point, that is, the terminal device establishes RRC connection with the main node, and the main base station establishes control plane connection with the core network. In the subsequent enhanced technology, part of RRC messages (e.g., measurement configuration information, measurement report, etc.) may also be sent between the secondary base station and the terminal device. In DC, a plurality of serving cells in a primary base station constitute a Master Cell Group (MCG), including one primary cell (PCell) and optionally one or more secondary cells (PCell). A plurality of serving cells in the secondary base station form a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), which includes a primary secondary cell (PSCell, or may also be referred to as a special cell) and optionally one or more scells. The serving cell is a cell configured by the network to the terminal device for uplink and downlink transmission.

Similarly, a terminal device may also have a communication connection with multiple network devices (e.g., base stations) at the same time and may receive and transmit data, which may be referred to as a multi-connection or multi-connection (MC), and one of the multiple base stations may be responsible for exchanging radio resource control messages with the terminal device and for interacting with a core network control plane entity, so that the base station may be referred to as a primary base station, and the remaining base stations may be referred to as secondary base stations. It is understood that DC is a scenario for MC.

It should be understood that fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of one network architecture for DC. For the sake of understanding the present application, the following description continues with the architecture of carrier aggregation.

Carrier aggregation: to efficiently utilize the fragmented spectrum, the system supports aggregation between different carrier units. A technique of aggregating 2 or more than 2 carriers together to support a larger transmission bandwidth may be referred to as carrier aggregation.

In the carrier aggregation technology, a terminal device may configure a plurality of carrier elements (CCs, or referred to as component carriers, and the like), and each CC may correspond to an independent cell. One CC may be identical to one cell. For example, the primary cell corresponds to a primary CC (or referred to as a primary carrier), and may be a cell for performing initial connection establishment for a terminal, a cell for performing RRC connection reestablishment, or a primary cell designated in a handover (handover) process. The secondary cell corresponds to a secondary CC (or referred to as a secondary carrier), which may be a cell added during RRC reconfiguration to provide additional radio resources.

For a terminal device in a connected state, if carrier aggregation is configured, the terminal device may have multiple serving cells (serving cells), which may be referred to as a serving cell set. For example, the primary cell and the secondary cell described above constitute a serving cell (serving cell) set of the terminal device. In other words, in the scenario of configuring carrier aggregation, the serving cell set includes at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell. In other words, a terminal device configured with carrier aggregation may perform data transmission with 1 PCell and multiple scells.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a system 100 to which the measurement method of the embodiment of the present application can be applied. As shown in fig. 2, the communication system 100 may include at least one terminal device, such as terminal device 101 shown in the figure; the communication system 100 may also include at least three network devices, such as

base stations

102, 103, 104 as shown.

In fig. 2, terminal apparatus 101 may be in communication connection (i.e., DC) with both

base stations

102 and 103 and may transmit and receive data, where terminal apparatus 101 may be in communication connection with base station 102 via multiple serving cells, and similarly, terminal apparatus 101 may be in communication connection with base station 103 via multiple serving cells. As a possibility, the base station 102 may serve as a main base station of the terminal apparatus 101, and a plurality of serving cells of the base station 102 constitute an MCG. The base station 103 may be a secondary base station of the terminal device 101, and a plurality of serving cells of the base station 103 constitute an SCG.

As terminal apparatus 101 moves toward base station 103 and gradually moves away from base station 102, terminal apparatus 101 faces the problem of reconfiguring serving cells (MCG and/or SCG) and serving base stations (primary base station and/or secondary base station).

For example, when the handover condition is satisfied, the terminal apparatus 101 may disconnect from the base station 102 and establish a communication connection with the base station 104. At this time, the base station 103 may be configured as a new master base station of the terminal apparatus 101, and a plurality of serving cells under the base station 103 may be configured as a new MCG, and further, the base station 104 may be configured as a new secondary base station, and a plurality of serving cells under the base station 104 may be configured as a new SCG.

In addition, with respect to fig. 2, there may be another case where the terminal device 101 resides in a serving cell of the base station 102 and is in a non-connected state (e.g., an idle state, a deactivated state RRC _ INACTIVE, an enhanced idle state, or other non-connected states). As one possibility, the terminal apparatus 102 is switched to the connected state within the base station 102, or, as another possibility, the terminal apparatus 101 moves into the base station 103 and is switched to the connected state within the base station 103. After the terminal device 101 changes from the non-connected state to the connected state, the base station 102 and/or the base station 103 may send measurement configuration for the terminal device 101, and may configure carrier aggregation configuration or dual connectivity configuration for the terminal device 101 according to the measurement result reported by the terminal device 101.

The application provides a measurement method, which can reasonably perform measurement configuration, and a terminal device can perform measurement efficiently and report a measurement report quickly, so that when the terminal device is switched from a non-connection state to a connection state, or after the terminal device is switched to a new service base station, carrier aggregation configuration or dual-connection configuration can be configured for the terminal device in time.

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow diagram of a measurement method 200 according to the present application. The measurement method 200 of the present application is described in detail below with reference to fig. 3.

It is understood that, in the embodiments of the present application, a terminal device and/or a network device may perform some or all of the steps in the embodiments of the present application, and these steps or operations are merely examples, and the embodiments of the present application may also perform other operations or various modifications of the operations. Further, the various steps may be performed in a different order presented in the embodiments of the application, and not all of the operations in the embodiments of the application may be performed.

In step 210, the base station # a generates measurement configuration information indicating at least one frequency-domain resource group including at least one frequency-domain resource.

Specifically, the frequency-domain resource group may include frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation, or the frequency-domain resource group includes frequency-domain resources for multi-connection, or the frequency-domain resource group may include frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation and multi-connection.

The frequency domain resource may be at least one of a frequency point and a frequency band. The frequency resource group may be a frequency point combination composed of at least one frequency point, or the frequency resource group may be a frequency band combination composed of at least one frequency band, or the frequency resource group may be a frequency point frequency band combination composed of at least one frequency point and at least one frequency band.

In step 220, the base station # a transmits the measurement configuration information to the terminal apparatus.

Specifically, the measurement configuration information may be generated by the base station # a and transmitted to the terminal device.

Here, the base station # a may be a serving base station of the terminal device. Base station # a may be one serving base station unique to terminal apparatus # a, or may be one of a plurality of serving base stations.

For example, in a multi-connection scenario, base station # a may be the primary serving base station of the terminal device or may be the secondary base station of the terminal device.

For example, in a dual connectivity scenario, base station # a may be a primary base station of the terminal device, or base station # a may be a base station where a primary cell is located.

Alternatively, the base station # a may be a secondary base station of the terminal device, or the base station # a may be a base station where the primary and secondary cells are located.

Base station # a may generate the measurement configuration information from base station configuration information acquired from other base stations (e.g., base station # B). Base station # a may also transmit base station configuration information of base station # a to other base stations.

The base station configuration information may indicate frequency domain resource combinations supported by the base station for carrier aggregation, or include frequency domain resource combinations supported by the base station for multiple connections, or include frequency domain resource combinations supported by the base station for carrier aggregation and multiple connections.

Or, the base station configuration information may also be used to indicate frequency domain resource combination capability information supported by the base station for carrier aggregation, and/or frequency domain resource combination capability information supported by the base station for multiple connections, where the frequency domain resource combination capability information may be frequency point combination capability information or frequency band combination capability information.

Here, the base station # B may be a neighbor base station of the serving base station of the base station # a or the terminal apparatus. Alternatively, base station # B may be another serving base station for the terminal device.

Base station # a and other base stations (e.g., base station # B) may exchange corresponding base station configuration information through an X2/Xn interface setup request message (X2/Xn setrequest), an X2/Xn interface setup response message, radio access network node configuration update (ng-node configuration update or eNB configuration update) information, radio access network configuration acknowledgement (ng-node configuration acknowledgement or eNB configuration acknowledgement) information, secondary node addition request (s-node addition request or seNB addition request) message or secondary node addition request acknowledgement (s-node addition acknowledgement or seNB addition request acknowledgement) message, and the like. For example, when the base station # a sends an Xn interface establishment request message to another base station, the Xn interface establishment request message carries the base station configuration information of the base station # a; other base stations can send Xn interface establishment response messages, and the Xn interface establishment response messages carry the base station configuration information of the base stations.

Specifically, the base station # a may determine at least one frequency-domain resource group in the measurement configuration information according to the base station configuration information of itself and/or other base stations.

For example, the base station may determine the at least one frequency resource group according to the frequency point combining capability or the frequency band combining capability of the carrier aggregation supported by itself and/or other base stations.

For example, in step 201, the base station # B may transmit its own base station configuration information to the base station # a, and the base station # a may determine at least one frequency-domain resource group according to its own base station configuration information and the base station # B configuration information.

The base station configuration information includes a frequency domain resource combination, and the frequency domain resource combination is exemplified as the frequency point combination. It can be understood that the embodiment of the present application is also applicable to a scenario in which frequency domain resources are combined into a frequency band combination, and also applicable to a scenario in which the base station configuration information includes a frequency domain resource combination capability, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The frequency point combination of carrier aggregation supported by the base station # A comprises { F1, F2}, { F1, F3}, the base station configuration information of the base station # B comprises frequency point combinations supported by the base station # B for carrier aggregation comprising { F2, F3}, { F2, F4}, the frequency point combination supported by the base station # A for multi-connection comprises { F1, F5}, { F1, F6}, and the base station configuration information of the base station # B comprises frequency point combinations supported by the base station # B for multi-connection comprising { F2, F5}, { F2, F7 }.

Therefore, in step 210, the base station # a may generate at least one frequency-domain resource group by at least one of:

(1) determining a frequency domain resource group #1-1 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation supported by the base station # A, { F1, F2, F3 };

(2) determining a frequency domain resource group #1-2 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation supported by the base station # B: { F2, F3, F4 };

(3) determining a frequency domain resource group #1-3 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation supported by the base station # A and the base station # B: { F1, F2, F3, F4 };

(4) determining a frequency domain resource group #2-1 according to the frequency point combination for multi-connection supported by the base station # A: { F1, F5, F6 };

(5) determining a frequency domain resource group #2-2 according to the frequency point combination for multi-connection supported by the base station # B: { F2, F5, F7 };

(6) determining a frequency domain resource group #2-3 according to the frequency point combination for multi-connection supported by the base station # A and the base station # B: { F1, F2, F5, F6, F7 };

(7) determining a frequency domain resource group #3-1 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation and the frequency point combination for multi-connection of the base station # A: { F1, F2, F3, F5, F6 };

(8) determining a frequency domain resource group #3-2 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation and the frequency point combination for multi-connection of the base station # B: { F2, F3, F4, F5, F7 };

(9) determining a frequency domain resource group #4-1 according to the frequency point combination for carrier aggregation and the frequency point combination for multi-connection of the base station # A and the base station # B: { F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7 };

it should be understood that the above manners are only examples, and a corresponding frequency resource group may also be generated according to a part of combinations in corresponding types of frequency point combinations, which is not limited in this application.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the above various ways are only one example of determining the measurement configuration information according to the base station configuration information of the base station # a and the other base stations (base station # B), and the present application is not limited thereto. The above various methods are described by taking the frequency domain resources supported by the base station as the base station configuration information as the frequency points, and the types of the frequency domain resources supported by the base station are not limited in the present application.

The at least one frequency-domain resource group includes a first frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation or multi-connection with the first frequency-domain resources. As a possible implementation, the first set of frequency-domain resources may correspond to the first frequency-domain resources. Alternatively, the first set of frequency-domain resources includes the first frequency-domain resource.

In particular, the first set of frequency-domain resources may correspond to a first set of frequency-domain resources, wherein the first set of frequency-domain resources may be contained within the first set of frequency-domain resources. Any frequency-domain resource within the first set of frequency-domain resources may be referred to as a first frequency-domain resource, or a first-ordered frequency-domain resource within the first set of frequency-domain resources is referred to as a first frequency-domain resource. Other frequency-domain resources within the first set of frequency-domain resources (i.e., some or all of the frequency-domain resources within the set other than the first frequency-domain resource) may be carrier aggregated or multi-connected with the first frequency-domain resource.

For example, taking frequency resource group #1-1 as an example, the frequency resource group #1-1 corresponds to frequency point F1, and the frequency resource group #1-1 includes frequency points F2 and F3 for carrier aggregation with the frequency point F1. That is, the frequency resource group #1-1 is a first frequency resource group in at least one frequency resource group, frequency point F1 is a first frequency resource corresponding to the first frequency resource group, and frequency points F2 and F3 are frequency resources used for carrier aggregation with the first frequency resource group.

For another example, taking frequency resource group #1-2 as an example, frequency resource group #1-2 may correspond to frequency point F1, and frequency resource group #1-1 includes frequency points F2 and F3 for carrier aggregation with frequency point F1. That is, the frequency resource group #1-1 is a first frequency resource group in at least one frequency resource group, frequency point F1 is a first frequency resource corresponding to the first frequency resource group, and frequency points F2 and F3 are frequency resources used for carrier aggregation with the first frequency resource group. The frequency domain resource group #1-2 may also correspond to frequency point F2, and the frequency domain resource group #1-2 includes frequency points F3 and F4 for carrier aggregation with the frequency point F2.

Optionally, the frequency domain resource may comprise a frequency domain resource used by a serving cell of the terminal device.

For example, the frequency domain resources may include frequency domain resources used by a primary cell of the terminal device, or the frequency domain resources may include frequency domain resources used by a secondary cell of the terminal device, or the frequency domain resources may include frequency domain resources used by a primary and secondary cell of the terminal device.

Or, the frequency domain resource may include a frequency domain resource used by a serving cell in an MCG or an SCG of the terminal device.

Alternatively, the frequency domain resources may comprise frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the set of serving cells for the terminal device.

In addition, the frequency domain resource may not include a frequency domain resource used by a serving cell of the terminal device.

In step 230, the terminal device receives the measurement configuration information and performs measurement according to the measurement configuration information.

Specifically, the terminal device measures frequency domain resources in the frequency domain resource group according to the at least one frequency domain resource group indicated by the measurement configuration information.

Alternatively, the terminal device may make measurements for each frequency-domain resource within each group of frequency-domain resources.

For example, the terminal device may measure each frequency-domain resource in each frequency-domain resource group, and obtain a measurement result of one or more cells under the frequency-domain resource. Specifically, the measurement result may be any one or more parameters of Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP), Signal Noise Ratio (SNR), Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), Reference Signal Receiving Quality (RSRQ), and the like of the cell.

Alternatively, the terminal device may not measure all frequency-domain resources within each frequency-domain resource group.

For example, for a first frequency-domain resource group, a first frequency-domain resource corresponding to the first frequency-domain resource group may be measured first, and whether to measure other frequency-domain resources in the first frequency-domain resource group may be determined according to a measurement result of the first frequency-domain resource. Or, the first frequency-domain resource corresponding to the first frequency-domain resource group may be measured first, and whether to measure the frequency-domain resource that is subjected to carrier aggregation or multi-connection with the first frequency-domain resource may be determined according to the measurement result of the first frequency-domain resource.

Specifically, the other frequency domain resources in the first frequency domain resource group may be measured only when the measurement result of the cell corresponding to the first frequency domain resource meets a certain condition. For example, when the terminal device measures the first frequency domain resource, if the measurement result of the at least one cell corresponding to the first frequency domain resource measured by the terminal device is greater than or equal to the preset first threshold, the other frequency domain resources in the first frequency domain resource group are measured.

Or, when the terminal device measures the first frequency-domain resource, if the terminal device cannot search for or measure the cell corresponding to the first frequency-domain resource, or if the terminal device measures that the quality of all the cells corresponding to the first frequency-domain resource is lower than the second threshold, the terminal device may not measure other frequency-domain resources in the first frequency-domain resource group. It is understood that the first threshold and the second threshold may be the same or different, or the second threshold and the first threshold may be the same threshold.

The first threshold and the second threshold may be arbitrarily determined by the terminal device, may be defined by the communication system or the communication protocol, or may be configured by the network device, and the present application is not particularly limited.

Taking the terminal device to obtain the first threshold as an example, the first threshold may be configured by the serving base station of the terminal device, for example, the first threshold may be included in the measurement configuration information.

The terminal device may determine at least one target frequency domain resource from a second frequency domain resource group, where the target frequency domain resource is a frequency domain resource that the terminal device can support, and the second frequency domain resource group is any one of the at least one frequency domain resource group; and the terminal equipment measures the target frequency domain resource.

For example, the at least one target frequency domain resource may be determined according to the support capability information of the terminal device.

Optionally, the terminal device may determine whether to measure the frequency-domain resource group or determine whether to measure the frequency-domain resources in the frequency-domain resource group according to its own support capability information. The support capability information of the terminal device may indicate frequency-domain resource combinations (e.g., frequency point combinations or frequency band combinations) that the terminal device can support for carrier aggregation and/or multi-connectivity. The terminal device may select a corresponding frequency-domain resource group or select a corresponding frequency-domain resource in the frequency-domain resource group for measurement according to frequency point combination capability information or frequency band combination capability information for carrier aggregation and/or multi-connection supported by the terminal device.

For example, taking the above-mentioned frequency resource group #1-1 as an example, if the terminal device supports frequency points F1 and F2 in the group, for example, the terminal supports configuration F1 and F2 for carrier aggregation configuration of the terminal device, but does not support frequency point F3 in the group, then the measurement on frequency point F3 may not be performed. For frequency resource group #2-1, if the terminal device supports frequency points F1 and F5 in the group, for example, the terminal supports configuration F1 and F5 for multi-connection configuration of the terminal device, but does not support frequency point F6 in the group, then frequency point F6 may not be measured. Further, if the measurement result of any cell corresponding to F1 measured by the terminal device does not satisfy the first threshold, the terminal device may not measure F2 and F5.

Alternatively, when there are multiple frequency-domain resource groups (i.e., there are at least two frequency-domain resource groups), the terminal device may measure the multiple frequency-domain resource groups in a certain order. As one implementation, the terminal device may determine a priority of each frequency-domain resource group, and measure the frequency-domain resources in the frequency-domain resource group in order of the priority. Specifically, the priority may be determined by the support capability information of the terminal device. For example, the terminal device may determine a priority of each frequency-domain resource group according to the support capability information of the terminal device, and measure the frequency-domain resources in the frequency-domain resource group in order of the priority. As another implementation, the priority may be configured by the base station. For example, the base station may be determined based on base station configuration information of the base station. The base station may determine a priority of each frequency-domain resource group according to the frequency-domain resource combination for carrier aggregation and/or multi-connectivity supported by the base station, and send the priority indication information to instruct the terminal device to measure the frequency-domain resources in the frequency-domain resource groups in the measurement configuration information in an order according to the priority. Taking the frequency-domain resource group #1-1 and the frequency-domain resource group #1-2 as examples, the base station # a may send priority indication information to the terminal device, where the priority indication information is used to indicate that the frequency-domain resource group 1-1 has a high priority and the frequency-domain resource group 1-2 has a low priority; and/or, taking the frequency-domain resource group #2-1 and the frequency-domain resource group #2-2 as an example, the priority indication information is used to indicate that the frequency-domain resource group #2-1 has a high priority and the frequency-domain resource group #2-2 has a low priority. The priority indication information may be carried in measurement configuration information. After receiving the measurement configuration information, the terminal device can determine the priority of each frequency-domain resource group, and measure the frequency-domain resources in the frequency-domain resource group according to the order of the priority.

The measurement configuration information may further include measurement reporting configuration, for example, at least one of the following information: the number of frequencies reported at most, the number of cells reported at most, the number of beams (beam) reported at most by each cell, whether to report a Cell Global Identifier (CGI), and the like.

In step 240, the terminal apparatus transmits a measurement report to base station # a.

Alternatively, the terminal device transmits the measurement report to other base stations (such as base station # B). Such as a terminal device reselecting from a cell under base station # a to a cell under base station # B, the terminal device may send a measurement report to base station # B when the terminal device initiates access in a new cell.

The measurement report includes measurement results of measuring the frequency domain resources. The measurements may be cell-level or, stated otherwise, measurements for different cells at various frequency domain resources. Optionally, the measurement result may further include a measurement result of at least one beam under the cell.

Optionally, the terminal device may report the measurement results of different frequency-domain resource groups according to the priority of the frequency-domain resource group.

Optionally, in step 250, the base station # a receives the measurement report and makes a decision according to the measurement report.

Alternatively, base station # B receives the measurement report and makes a decision based on the measurement report.

For example, base station # a (or base station # B) may determine whether to configure carrier aggregation or multi-connection for the terminal device according to the measurement result in the measurement report, or determine whether to configure a new serving cell and/or serving base station for the terminal device.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

in step 260, base station # a transmits the measurement result of the terminal apparatus to base station # B.

The base station # a may also forward the partial or all measurement results to other serving base stations (e.g., base station # B) of the terminal device, and the base station # B determines whether to configure carrier aggregation or multi-connection for the terminal device, which is not limited in this application. For example, the base station # a determines to perform handover according to the measurement result, and the base station # a may transmit the measurement result or a part of the measurement result (for example, the base station # a selects a suitable measurement result according to the base station configuration information of the base station # B) to the target base station (i.e., the base station # B) corresponding to the target cell. The base station # B may determine whether to configure carrier aggregation or multi-connection for the terminal device based on the measurement result.

According to the measurement method, the base station can reasonably configure the measurement target for the terminal equipment, the measurement efficiency of the terminal equipment can be improved, the terminal equipment can report the measurement report in time, when the terminal equipment is switched from a non-connection state to a connection state or when the terminal equipment switches the service base station, carrier aggregation or multi-connection can be configured in time, and the data transmission experience of the terminal equipment is improved.

Fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a measurement method 300 according to the present application. The measurement method 300 of the present application is described in detail below with reference to fig. 4.

In step 310, the terminal device determines a plurality of measurement GAPs GAP, where the lengths of any two measurement GAPs in the plurality of measurement GAPs are not the same. The length of the measurement GAP may be understood as the length of time the terminal is used to perform the measurement. For example, the GAP may be 3ms or 6ms long every 40ms, i.e. 3ms or 6ms for every 40ms is used to perform the measurement. It may be said at this time that the lengths of the two measurement GAPs are not the same.

Specifically, a plurality of measurement GAPs GAP may be determined according to previous measurement experience, and the plurality of measurement GAPs may be determined according to the number of frequency points (or carrier frequencies) to be measured, where different frequency points correspond to different measurement GAPs, and the longer the measurement GAP is, the more the number of frequency points may be. A plurality of measurement GAPs with different lengths can be determined according to the corresponding relation between the measurement GAP and the frequency point number in the previous measurement.

It should be understood that the plurality of measurement GAPs may be determined by the terminal device, may be defined by the communication system or the communication protocol, or may be configured by the network device, and the present application is not particularly limited.

It should be understood that the number of frequency points to be measured may also be equivalent to the number of frequency bands to be measured or the number of cells.

In step 320, the terminal device determines a second measurement GAP from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the number of frequency points of the second frequency point group to be measured.

The frequency domain resources are taken as the frequency points as an example in the embodiment of the present application, and it can be understood that the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto, for example, the embodiment of the present application can also be applied to a scenario in which the frequency domain resources are frequency bands.

In step 330, the terminal device measures the frequency points in the second frequency point group according to the second measurement GAP.

Specifically, the second measurement GAP may be determined from the plurality of measurement GAPs according to the number of frequency bin groups to be measured, according to previous measurement experience. The basic principle of the determination is to ensure that all frequency points of the second frequency point group can be exactly measured within the GAP length. The terminal device may measure each frequency point in the second frequency point group according to the second measurement GAP.

The mechanism for determining the number of frequency points to be measured by the terminal device may refer to the relevant mechanism in step 230, which is not described herein again.

Optionally, in step 320, the method may further include:

in step 321, the terminal device determines a second measurement GAP from the multiple measurement GAPs according to a relationship between the number of the second frequency point groups and the number of the first frequency point groups and a first measurement GAP, where the first frequency point group is a frequency point group measured before the second frequency point group, and the first measurement GAP is a measurement GAP used when the terminal device measures the first frequency point group. The first measurement GAP is the measurement GAP used by the terminal device before determining the second measurement GAP.

Specifically, referring to the foregoing method 200, the number of frequency points measured by the terminal device at each time may be different (e.g., increased or decreased), or may be the same. The terminal equipment can determine the GAP length used in the measurement according to the change condition of the frequency point number on the basis of the previous measurement.

The terminal device measures the frequency points in the first frequency point group according to the first measurement GAP, and then the terminal device needs to measure the frequency points in the second frequency point group, and can determine the second measurement GAP according to the size relationship of the number of the frequency points measured twice and the first measurement GAP.

For example, if the number of bins in the second bin group is greater than the number of bins in the first bin group (for example, the difference between the two is a certain threshold), a second measurement GAP may be determined from the plurality of measurement GAPs, and the length of the second measurement GAP is greater than that of the first measurement GAP.

For another example, if the number of bins in the second bin group is equal to the number of the first bin group, the length of the second measurement GAP may be equal to the length of the first measurement GAP. In other words, the terminal device continues to use the first measurement GAP.

For another example, if the number of bins in the first bin group is greater than the number of bins in the second bin group (for example, the difference between the two numbers reaches a certain threshold), a second measurement GAP may be determined from the multiple measurement GAPs, and the length of the second measurement GAP is smaller than that of the first measurement GAP.

Optionally, when the length of the second measurement GAP is not equal to the length of the first measurement GAP, the method 300 further includes:

in step 340, the terminal device sends notification information to the base station, where the notification information is used to notify that the measurement GAP currently used by the terminal device is the second measurement GAP.

For example, the terminal device may send a special random access preamble to the network device. The random access preamble corresponds to the second measurement GAP, and the correspondence between the random access preamble and the second measurement GAP may be received by the terminal device from the network device. The network device receives the random access preamble, and may determine that the measurement GAP of the terminal device is updated to the second measurement GAP.

When the measurement GAP is changed, the base station side can be timely notified, and the base station can timely adjust data scheduling of the terminal equipment according to the notification information, so that the problem that the terminal equipment cannot receive data when the short measurement GAP is updated to the long measurement GAP to cause network resource waste is solved, or the problem that the network equipment does not schedule data when the terminal equipment is updated to the short measurement GAP from the long measurement GAP is solved, and the utilization rate of network resources is improved.

Optionally, the method 300 further comprises:

in step 350, the terminal device determines a third measurement GAP from the multiple measurement GAPs according to the completion condition of the second measurement GAP for measuring the frequency points in the second frequency point group;

and the terminal equipment measures the frequency points in the second frequency point group according to the third measurement GAP.

Specifically, the terminal device determines a second measurement GAP according to the number of frequency points in a second frequency point group, and performs measurement according to the second measurement GAP, and if the configuration of the second measurement GAP is not reasonable (for example, all frequency points in the group are not measured completely in the GAP), fine adjustment should be performed according to the completion condition of measurement in the next measurement, or a new and reasonable measurement GAP is reselected.

For example, the terminal device performs measurement according to the second measurement GAP, but the measurement of all the frequency points in the second frequency point group is not completed in the GAP, and then a GAP with a longer length may be reselected from the multiple GAPs according to a completion condition (for example, a completed percentage).

For another example, the terminal device performs measurement according to the second measurement GAP, and completes measurement of all frequency points in the second frequency point group earlier in the GAP, for example, the measurement time corresponding to the GAP is 6ms, and the terminal device completes measurement of all frequency points within 3ms, and then may reselect a GAP with a shorter length from among the multiple GAPs according to a completion condition (for example, the measurement time occupies a percentage of the second measurement GAP).

The method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described above with reference to fig. 3 and 4. Hereinafter, the communication device according to the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail with reference to fig. 5 to 7.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown, the communication device 1000 may include a communication unit 1100 and a processing unit 1200. In one possible design, the communication apparatus 1000 may implement the steps or processes executed by the terminal device corresponding to the above method embodiment, for example, the steps or processes may be executed by the terminal device, or a chip or a circuit configured in the terminal device.

In particular, the communication apparatus 1000 may implement steps or flows corresponding to those executed by the terminal device in the methods 200 and 300 according to the embodiments of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1000 may include units for executing the method executed by the terminal device in the method 200 in fig. 3 or the method 300 in fig. 4. Also, the units and other operations and/or functions described above in the communication apparatus 1000 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows of the method 200 in fig. 3 and the method 300 in fig. 4.

Wherein, when the communication device 1000 is used to execute the method 200 in fig. 3, the communication unit 1100 may be used to execute the steps 220, 240 in the method 200, and the processing unit 1200 may be used to execute the step 230 in the method 200.

It should be understood that the specific processes of the units for executing the corresponding steps are already described in detail in the above method embodiments, and for brevity, detailed descriptions thereof are omitted here.

It is further understood that when the communication apparatus 1000 is a terminal device, the communication unit 1100 in the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the transceiver 2020 in the terminal device 2000 illustrated in fig. 6, and the processing unit 1200 in the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the processor 2010 in the terminal device 2000 illustrated in fig. 4.

It should also be understood that when the communication apparatus 1000 is a chip or a circuit configured in a terminal device, the communication unit 1100 in the communication apparatus 1000 may be an input/output interface.

In another possible design, the communication apparatus 1000 may implement the steps or processes executed by the network device corresponding to the above method embodiment, for example, the steps or processes may be implemented by the network device, or a chip or a circuit configured in the network device.

Further, the communication device 1000 may implement the base station # a corresponding to the above method embodiment, or a chip or a circuit configured in the base station # a.

In particular, the communication device 1000 may implement steps or flows corresponding to those performed by the base station # a in the method 200 according to the embodiment of the present application, and the communication device 1000 may include means for performing the method performed by the base station # a in the method 200 in fig. 3. Also, the units in the communication device 1000 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows of the method 200 in fig. 3.

Wherein, when the communication device 1000 is used to execute the method 200 in fig. 3, the communication unit 1100 may be used to execute the steps 220, 240 in the method 200, and the processing unit 1200 may be used to execute the steps 210 and 250 in the method 200.

It should also be understood that when the communication apparatus 1000 is a network device, the communication unit in the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the transceiver 3200 in the network device 3000 shown in fig. 7, and the processing unit 1200 in the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the processor 3100 in the network device 3000 shown in fig. 7.

It should also be understood that when the communication device 1000 is a chip or a circuit configured in a network device, the communication unit 1100 in the communication device 1000 may be an input/output interface.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device 2000 according to an embodiment of the present application. The terminal device 2000 may be applied to the system shown in fig. 1 to fig. 2, and perform the functions of the terminal device in the above method embodiment, or implement the steps or processes performed by the terminal device in the above method embodiment.

As shown, the terminal device 2000 includes a processor 2010 and a transceiver 2020. Optionally, the terminal device 2000 further comprises a memory 2030. The processor 2010, the transceiver 2002 and the memory 2030 may be in communication with each other via the interconnection path to transfer control and/or data signals, the memory 2030 may be used for storing a computer program, and the processor 2010 may be used for retrieving and executing the computer program from the memory 2030 to control the transceiver 2020 to transmit and receive signals. Optionally, the terminal device 2000 may further include an antenna 2040, configured to transmit the uplink data or the uplink control signaling output by the transceiver 2020 by using a wireless signal.

The processor 2010 and the memory 2030 may be combined into a processing device, and the processor 2010 is configured to execute the program codes stored in the memory 2030 to achieve the above functions. In particular, the memory 2030 may also be integrated with the processor 2010 or may be separate from the processor 2010. The processor 2010 may correspond to the processing unit in fig. 5.

The transceiver 2020 may correspond to the communication unit in fig. 5, and may also be referred to as a transceiver unit. The transceiver 2020 may include a receiver (or receiver, receiving circuit) and a transmitter (or transmitter, transmitting circuit). Wherein the receiver is used for receiving signals, and the transmitter is used for transmitting signals.

It should be understood that terminal device 2000 shown in fig. 6 is capable of implementing various processes involving the terminal device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3. The operations and/or functions of the modules in the terminal device 2000 are respectively to implement the corresponding flows in the above-described method embodiments. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the above method embodiments, and the detailed description is appropriately omitted herein to avoid redundancy.

The processor 2010 may be configured to perform the actions described in the foregoing method embodiments that are implemented inside the terminal device, and the transceiver 2020 may be configured to perform the actions described in the foregoing method embodiments that the terminal device transmits to or receives from the network device. Please refer to the description of the previous embodiment of the method, which is not repeated herein.

Optionally, the terminal device 2000 may further include a power supply 2050 for supplying power to various devices or circuits in the terminal device.

In addition, in order to further improve the functions of the terminal device, the terminal device 2000 may further include one or more of an input unit 2060, a display unit 2070, an audio circuit 2080, a camera 2090, a sensor 2100, and the like, and the audio circuit may further include a speaker 2082, a microphone 2084, and the like.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device provided in the embodiment of the present application, which may be a schematic structural diagram of a base station, for example. The base station 3000 may be applied in the systems shown in fig. 1 to fig. 2, and perform the functions of the network device in the above method embodiments, or implement the steps or processes performed by the network device in the above method embodiments.

As shown, the base station 3000 may include one or more radio frequency units, such as a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) 3100 and one or more baseband units (BBUs) (also referred to as digital units, DUs) 3200. The RRU 3100 may be referred to as a transceiver unit and corresponds to the communication unit 1100 in fig. 5. Alternatively, the transceiving unit 3100 may also be referred to as a transceiver, transceiving circuit, or transceiver, etc., which may comprise at least one antenna 3101 and a radio frequency unit 3102. Alternatively, the transceiving unit 3100 may include a receiving unit and a transmitting unit, the receiving unit may correspond to a receiver (or receiver, receiving circuit), and the transmitting unit may correspond to a transmitter (or transmitter, transmitting circuit). The RRU 3100 part is mainly used for transceiving radio frequency signals and converting radio frequency signals to baseband signals, for example, for sending indication information to a terminal device. The BBU 3200 section is mainly used for performing baseband processing, controlling a base station, and the like. The RRU 3100 and the BBU 3200 may be physically disposed together or may be physically disposed separately, i.e. distributed base stations.

The BBU 3200 is a control center of the base station, and may also be referred to as a processing unit, and may correspond to the processing unit 1200 in fig. 5, and is mainly used for completing baseband processing functions, such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulating, spreading, and the like. For example, the BBU (processing unit) may be configured to control the base station to perform an operation procedure related to the network device in the above method embodiment, for example, to generate the above indication information, or to configure a serving cell.

In an example, the BBU 3200 may be formed by one or more boards, and the boards may collectively support a radio access network of a single access system (e.g., an LTE network), or may respectively support radio access networks of different access systems (e.g., an LTE network, a 5G network, or other networks). The BBU 3200 also includes a memory 3201 and a processor 3202. The memory 3201 is used to store necessary instructions and data. The processor 3202 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform the operation procedures related to the network device in the above method embodiments. The memory 3201 and processor 3202 may serve one or more boards. That is, the memory and processor may be provided separately on each board. Multiple boards may share the same memory and processor. In addition, each single board can be provided with necessary circuits.

It should be appreciated that base station 3000 shown in fig. 7 is capable of implementing various processes involving network devices in the method embodiment of fig. 3. The operations and/or functions of the respective modules in the base station 3000 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows in the above-described method embodiments. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the above method embodiments, and the detailed description is appropriately omitted herein to avoid redundancy.

BBU 3200 as described above may be used to perform actions described in previous method embodiments as being implemented internally by a network device, while RRU 3100 may be used to perform actions described in previous method embodiments as being sent by or received from a terminal device by a network device. Please refer to the description of the previous embodiment of the method, which is not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a processing device which comprises a processor and an interface. The processor may be adapted to perform the method of the above method embodiments.

It should be understood that the processing means may be a chip. For example, the processing device may be a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), a digital signal processing circuit (DSP), a Micro Controller Unit (MCU), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD) or other integrated chips.

In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware processor, or may be implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in a processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor. To avoid repetition, it is not described in detail here.

It should be noted that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capability. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by instructions in the form of integrated logic circuits of hardware or software in a processor. The processor described above may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components. The methods, steps and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.

It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct rambus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a computer program product, which includes: computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any of the embodiments shown in fig. 3 or 4.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, a computer-readable medium is further provided, and the computer-readable medium stores program code, which when executed on a computer causes the computer to execute the method of any one of the embodiments shown in fig. 3 or 4.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a system, which includes the foregoing one or more terminal devices and one or more network devices.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a system, which includes the foregoing network device, for example, the base station # a.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may 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 loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., 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, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a Digital Video Disk (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

The network device in the foregoing various apparatus embodiments completely corresponds to the terminal device and the network device or the terminal device in the method embodiments, and the corresponding steps are executed by corresponding modules or units, for example, a communication unit (transceiver) executes the steps of receiving or transmitting in the method embodiments, and other steps besides transmitting and receiving may be executed by a processing unit (processor). The functions of the specific elements may be referred to in the respective method embodiments. The number of the processors may be one or more.

As used in this specification, the terms "component," "module," "system," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. In addition, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from two components interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the internet with other systems by way of the signal).

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks and steps (step) described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

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

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method of measurement, comprising:

the terminal equipment receives measurement configuration information, wherein the measurement configuration information indicates at least one frequency domain resource group, and the at least one frequency domain resource group comprises frequency domain resources used for carrier aggregation, or the at least one frequency domain resource group comprises frequency domain resources used for multi-connection;

and the terminal equipment measures the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group.

2. The measurement method of claim 1, wherein the at least one set of frequency-domain resources comprises a first set of frequency-domain resources comprising frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with first frequency-domain resources or comprises frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with first frequency-domain resources.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the terminal device measures the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group, and comprises:

and the terminal equipment measures the first frequency domain resource and determines whether to measure other frequency domain resources in the first frequency domain resource group according to the measurement result.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first frequency domain resource is used by a plurality of cells, and wherein the terminal device measures the first frequency domain resource and determines whether to measure other frequency domain resources according to the measurement result, comprising:

the terminal equipment respectively measures the first frequency domain resources used by the cells;

measuring other frequency-domain resources within the first set of frequency-domain resources if a measurement result of at least one of the plurality of cells is greater than or equal to a first threshold.

5. The measurement method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the terminal device measures the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group, and comprises:

the terminal equipment determines at least one target frequency domain resource from a second frequency domain resource group, wherein the target frequency domain resource is a frequency domain resource which can be supported by the terminal equipment, and the second frequency domain resource group is any one of the at least one frequency domain resource group;

and the terminal equipment measures the target frequency domain resource.

6. The measurement method of claim 5, wherein the terminal device determines at least one target frequency-domain resource from the second set of frequency-domain resources, including the terminal device determining the at least one target frequency-domain resource from the second set of frequency-domain resources based on the support capability information, wherein,

the supporting capability information indicates frequency domain resource combinations for carrier aggregation that the terminal device can support; or the supporting capability information indicates a frequency domain resource combination for multiple connections that the terminal device can support.

7. The measurement method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,

the frequency domain resources comprise frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or

The frequency domain resources do not include frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein when there are a plurality of the at least one frequency-domain resource group, the terminal device measures the frequency-domain resources according to the at least one frequency-domain resource group, and includes:

the terminal equipment determines the priority of each frequency domain resource group;

and the terminal equipment measures the frequency domain resources in the at least one frequency domain resource group according to the priority.

9. A method of measurement, comprising:

generating measurement configuration information indicating at least one frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation or frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity;

and sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal equipment.

10. The measurement method of claim 9, wherein the at least one set of frequency-domain resources comprises a first set of frequency-domain resources comprising frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with first frequency-domain resources or comprises frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with first frequency-domain resources.

11. The measurement method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the frequency domain resources comprise frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or

12. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive measurement configuration information indicating at least one frequency-domain resource group, the at least one frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation, or the at least one frequency-domain resource group including frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity;

and the processing unit is used for measuring the frequency domain resources according to the at least one frequency domain resource group.

13. The terminal device of claim 12, wherein the at least one set of frequency-domain resources comprises a first set of frequency-domain resources comprising frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with first frequency-domain resources, or wherein the first set of frequency-domain resources comprises frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with first frequency-domain resources.

14. The terminal device of claim 13, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine whether to measure other frequency-domain resources in the first set of frequency-domain resources according to the measurement result.

15. The terminal device of claim 14, wherein the first frequency domain resource is used by a plurality of cells, and wherein the processing unit is further configured to measure the first frequency domain resource used by the plurality of cells respectively;

the processing unit is further configured to measure other frequency-domain resources within the first set of frequency-domain resources if a measurement result of at least one of the plurality of cells is greater than or equal to a first threshold.

16. The terminal device of any one of claims 12 to 15, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine at least one target frequency-domain resource from a second set of frequency-domain resources, the target frequency-domain resource being a frequency-domain resource that can be supported by the terminal device, the second set of frequency-domain resources being any one of the at least one set of frequency-domain resources;

the processing unit is further configured to measure the target frequency domain resource.

17. The terminal device of claim 16, the processing unit further configured to determine at least one target frequency-domain resource from a second set of frequency-domain resources according to support capability information of the terminal device, wherein the support capability information indicates a combination of frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation that the terminal device can support; or

The supporting capability information indicates frequency domain resource combinations for multiple connections that the terminal device can support.

18. The terminal device of any of claims 12-17, wherein the frequency domain resources comprise frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or

19. The terminal device of any one of claims 12 to 18, wherein the at least one frequency-domain resource group is plural, and the processing unit is further configured to determine a priority for each frequency-domain resource group;

and the processing unit measures the frequency domain resources in the at least one frequency domain resource group according to the priority.

20. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to generate measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information indicates at least one frequency-domain resource group, where the at least one frequency-domain resource group includes frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation, or the at least one frequency-domain resource group includes frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity;

and the communication unit is used for sending the measurement configuration information to the terminal equipment.

21. The network device of claim 20, wherein the at least one set of frequency-domain resources comprises a first set of frequency-domain resources comprising frequency-domain resources for carrier aggregation with first frequency-domain resources or comprises frequency-domain resources for multi-connectivity with first frequency-domain resources.

22. The network device of claim 20 or 21, wherein the frequency domain resources comprise frequency domain resources used by a serving cell of the terminal device; or

23. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program which, when run on a computer,

cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or

Causing the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 9 to 11.

24. A chip system, comprising: a processor for calling and running the computer program from the memory,

causing a communication device on which the chip system is mounted to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 8; or

Causing a communication device on which the chip system is mounted to perform the method of any of claims 9 to 11.

25. A communications apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to couple to a memory, read and execute instructions in the memory, and to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 8.

26. The communications apparatus of claim 25, further comprising the memory.

27. A communications apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to couple to a memory, read and execute instructions in the memory, and to implement the method of any one of claims 9 to 11.

28. The communications apparatus of claim 25, further comprising the memory.

29. A communication system comprising a communication device according to claim 25 or 26 and a communication device according to claim 27 or 28.