WO2017107496A1

WO2017107496A1 - Method and apparatus for reporting event

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Publication number: WO2017107496A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/093097
Authority: WO
Inventors: 贺美芳; 黄河
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-12-22
Filing date: 2016-08-03
Publication date: 2017-06-29
Also published as: CN106912065A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for reporting an event. The method comprises: determining whether a current wireless local area network (WLAN) move set configured to a terminal has an access point (AP) supporting terminal access; and where a determination result is that there is no AP supporting terminal access, reporting an access event, wherein the access event is used for indicating that the current WLAN move set does not have the AP supporting terminal access.

Description

Method and device for reporting events

Technical field

The present application relates to, but is not limited to, the field of communications, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for reporting an event.

Background technique

A wireless access network (Radio Access Network, RAN for short) tiered wireless local area network (WLAN) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network integration, referred to as WLAN Tightly coupled to the 3GPP network, similar to carrier aggregation and dual connectivity, provides better control and utilization of resources on the dual connectivity for the overall system. Tight integration and aggregation at the radio layer allows more real-time joint scheduling of WLANs and radio resources of the 3GPP network, thus improving user quality of service (QoS) and overall system capacity. By better managing the wireless resources between users, it is possible to increase the collective throughput of all users and provide the entire system capacity. Based on real-time channel conditions and system usage, each link scheduling decision can be made to the level of each packet. The user plane is anchored to a reliable Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, which can improve performance by rolling back to the LTE network.

The WLAN and the 3GPP network are tightly coupled to each other. The RAN layer integration operation is performed between the Node B (eNode B, eNB for short) and the Access Point (AP). The same-ground collaboration scenario (the RAN layer integration operation is completed between the eNB and the AP through the external interface), which is essentially similar to 3GPP carrier aggregation and dual connectivity, respectively.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of performing RAN layer integration operation between an eNB and a WLAN through an external interface Xw in a non-synchronous cooperation scenario in the related art. As shown in FIG. 1 , a wireless LAN port (Wireless LAN Termination, WT for short) is first defined herein. As the termination point of the LTE-WLAN interface Xw on the WLAN system side. The WT can be considered as a logical entity. It can be an independent network element or an AP/Access Controller (AC). Multiple WLAN access NEs can be connected to the WT. The APs can be divided into multiple AP groups. Each AP group is also called a WLAN mobility set. The user equipment can move within the same AP group without notifying 3GPP. The network, that is, the movement of the user equipment in the same AP group, is transparent to the network element of the LTE network. However, the mobility of user equipment between different AP groups may require network elements of the 3GPP network to participate in control to achieve better balanced load and improve transmission efficiency or quality or system capacity. The configuration information of the AP group is configured by the network side to the terminal.

Summary of the invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this document. This Summary is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

It can be seen from the above description that although the terminal receives the configuration information of an AP group, there is only one AP that the terminal actually associates with, which is called a service AP. If the quality of the service AP signal is not good in some cases, The terminal needs to reselect an AP in the WLAN mobile set. The related behavior of reselecting to another AP is transparent to the network side. However, if an abnormality occurs, such as it has been selected, this will cause the following problems. The network side cannot know that the terminal cannot access any AP in the WLAN mobility set. Therefore, it is impossible to configure other WLAN mobility sets for the terminal. As a result, the terminal cannot access the AP, affecting normal networking services and reducing users. The degree of experience.

A solution to the problem that the terminal cannot be processed when the reselection AP of the AP is transparent to the network side in the same AP group is unresolved, and no solution has been proposed.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for reporting an event, so as to solve at least the problem that the terminal in the related art cannot rectify when the reselection AP in the same AP group is transparent to the network side and the reselection AP is abnormal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reporting an event is provided, including: determining whether an access point AP supporting the terminal access exists in a current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to a terminal; In the case that the AP that supports the access of the terminal exists, the access event is reported, wherein the access event is used to indicate that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the current WLAN mobility set.

Optionally, determining whether the AP that supports the terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set configured to the terminal includes: determining whether the access is successfully accessed within a predetermined time. The AP in the WLAN mobile set; if the determination result is yes, determining that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobile set; and/or, if the determination result is no, determining the WLAN There is no AP in the mobile set that supports access by the terminal.

Optionally, determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobility set is successfully accessed in the predetermined time includes: starting a timer when determining that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails; after the timer is started And sequentially attempting to access the second AP in the WLAN mobility set; determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobility set is successfully accessed within the predetermined time determined by the timer.

Optionally, determining whether the AP that supports the access of the terminal in the current WLAN mobility set configured to the terminal includes: determining whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set fails a predetermined number of times; If the determination result is yes, determining that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, if the determination result is no, determining that the WLAN mobile concentration exists in the support center The AP accessed by the terminal.

Optionally, determining whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set fails to reach a predetermined number of times comprises: starting a counter and counting to 1 when determining that the third AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails, wherein the The counter is configured to count the number of failures of accessing the AP in the WLAN mobility set; after the counter is started, sequentially try to access the fourth AP in the WLAN mobility set; and determine to attempt to access the WLAN mobility set. Whether the number of AP failures reaches the predetermined number of times determined by the counter.

Optionally, the AP that supports the terminal access meets the following conditions: the wireless signal strength is higher than a first predetermined threshold, the buffer has a to-be-filled margin, and the number of access terminals is lower than a second predetermined threshold.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for event reporting is provided, including: a determining module, configured to: determine whether an access point supporting the terminal access exists in a current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to a terminal The AP; the reporting module is configured to report an access event when the judgment result of the determining module is that the AP that supports the terminal access is not present, where the access event is used to indicate the There is no AP in the current WLAN mobility set that supports access by the terminal.

Optionally, the determining module includes: a first determining unit, configured to: determine whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time; and the first processing unit is configured to: If the result of the determination by the first determining unit is YES, it is determined that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobile set; and/or the determination result of the first determining unit is No. And determining that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the WLAN mobility set.

Optionally, the determining unit includes: activating subunit, configured to: start a timer when determining that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobile set fails; the first access subunit is set to: at the timing After the device is started, the user accesses the second AP in the WLAN mobile set in sequence; the first determining sub-unit is configured to: determine whether the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within the predetermined time determined by the timer AP.

Optionally, the determining module includes: a second determining unit, configured to: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails to reach a predetermined number of times; and the second processing unit is configured to: in the second If the determination result of the determination unit is YES, it is determined that the AP in the WLAN mobility set does not exist to support the terminal access; and/or, in a case that the determination result of the second determination unit is NO, Determining that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobility set.

Optionally, the second determining unit includes: a counting subunit, configured to: start a counter and count to 1 when determining that the third AP accessing the WLAN mobile set fails, wherein the counter is used for docking The number of failed APs entering the WLAN mobility set is counted; the second access subunit is configured to: after the counter is started, sequentially try to access the fourth AP in the WLAN mobility set; the second determining subunit And being configured to: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set fails to reach the predetermined number of times determined by the counter.

In accordance with still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, implement the above method.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is determined whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal; and the result of the determination is that the AP supporting the terminal access does not exist. The access event is reported, where the access event is used to indicate that there is no method for supporting the AP accessed by the terminal in the current WLAN mobility set, and there is no support terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set. When the AP is on, the event is carried out. The problem is solved when the reselection AP of the terminal in the same AP group is abnormal, and the reselection AP in the same AP group cannot be processed. It can report to the network side in time, so that the network side can make the processing effect.

Other aspects will be apparent upon reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description.

BRIEF abstract

1 is a schematic diagram of performing RAN layer integration operations between an eNB and a WLAN through an external interface Xw in a non-synchronous cooperation scenario in the related art;

2 is a flowchart of a method for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram 1 of a structure of a determining module 32 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a structural block diagram of a first determining unit 42 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a block diagram 2 of a structure of a determining module 32 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a structural block diagram of a second determining unit 62 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an interaction flowchart of a method for reporting a criterion by a WLAN serving cell according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

9 is an interaction flowchart 1 of a method for reporting an event according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

10 is an interaction flowchart 2 of a method for reporting an event according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

11 is an interaction flowchart 3 of a method for event reporting according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

12 is an interaction flow diagram 4 of a method for event reporting in accordance with an alternate embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. Need to say It is to be understood that the embodiments of the present application and the features of the embodiments can be combined with each other without conflict.

It should be noted that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present specification and the above drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or order.

In this embodiment, an event reporting method is provided. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the process includes the following steps:

Step S202, determining whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal;

In step S204, if the result of the determination is that there is no AP supporting the access of the terminal, the access event is reported, where the access event is used to indicate that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the current WLAN mobility set.

Through the above steps, when there is no AP supporting the access of the terminal in the current WLAN mobility set, the terminal needs to send the access event, that is, the WLAN measurement result, to the 3GPP network side, and the network side can determine when to start according to the information. Or stopping the tight coupling or the loose coupling enhancement, and maintaining the WLAN AP group of the terminal according to the event information, that is, the WLAN mobility set, which solves the problem that the terminal reselects the AP in the same AP group to be transparent to the network side in the related art. When the AP is re-selected, the problem that cannot be handled when the AP is abnormal can be reported to the network side when the AP reselects the AP in the same AP group.

In an optional embodiment, determining whether there is an AP supporting the terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set configured to the terminal in step S202 may include: determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time; In the case of YES, it is determined that there is an AP that supports terminal access in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, in the case that the determination result is no, it is determined that there is no AP supporting the terminal access in the WLAN mobility set. In the optional embodiment, it is determined whether there is an AP supporting the terminal access within a predetermined time, and the terminal does not wait for the terminal to perform the attempted access of the current WLAN mobile centralized AP, thereby improving the efficiency of the abnormal processing.

In an optional embodiment, determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobility set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time may include: starting when determining that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails After the timer is started, the second AP in the WLAN mobile set is sequentially tried; and it is determined whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time determined by the timer. In this optional embodiment, the timer may be started when it is determined that any one of the APs in the WLAN mobile set fails to be activated, or may be started when the quality of the wireless environment of the original serving AP of the terminal is deteriorated. After the timer is started, the terminal attempts to access the second AP in the WLAN mobility set. Here, the second AP may include the first AP, and may also try to access the same AP multiple times. The terminal may sequentially follow the number of the AP. If you try to access, you can also try to access according to the measured parameters such as the wireless signal quality of the AP.

In an optional embodiment, determining whether there is an AP supporting the terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set configured to the terminal in step S202 may further include: determining whether the number of failed attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set reaches a predetermined number of times; If the result of the determination is yes, it is determined that there is no AP supporting the terminal access in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, if the determination result is no, it is determined that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobility set. In this optional embodiment, it is determined whether there is an AP supporting the terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set by determining whether the number of attempts to access the access reaches a predetermined number of times. The optional embodiment is mainly for the case that the parameters of the wireless signal quality of the WLAN mobile centralized AP are good, bad, hopping, unstable, etc., and it is determined whether the number of access failures reaches a predetermined number of times within a specified time. Whether there is an AP that the terminal can access in the WLAN mobile set.

In an optional embodiment, determining whether the number of failed attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set reaches a predetermined number of times may include: starting a counter and counting to 1 when determining that the third AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails; The counter is used to count the number of failed APs accessing the WLAN mobile set; after the counter is started, it tries to access the fourth AP in the WLAN mobile set in sequence; and determines whether the number of failed attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set reaches the counter. The predetermined number of times determined. In this optional embodiment, the fourth AP may include the third AP, and the terminal may attempt to access the same AP multiple times, and the terminal may sequentially try to access according to the number of the AP in the WLAN mobile set, or may be measured according to the measurement. In the WLAN mobile set, the strength of the wireless signal quality of each AP is sequentially attempted to access.

In the method embodiment and the optional embodiment, the AP that supports the terminal meets the following conditions: the wireless signal strength is higher than the first predetermined threshold, and the buffer has a remaining amount to be filled. The number of incoming terminals is below a second predetermined threshold.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is A better implementation. Based on the understanding, the technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk), and includes a plurality of instructions for making A terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) performs the method described in the embodiments of the present invention.

In the embodiment, an apparatus for reporting an event is provided, and the apparatus is used to implement the foregoing embodiments and optional implementation manners, and details are not described herein. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the devices described in the following embodiments may be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the apparatus includes a judging module 32 and a reporting module 34, which will be described below.

The determining module 32 is configured to: determine whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal; the reporting module 34 is connected to the determining module 32, and is set as: the judgment result of the determining module 32 In the case that there is no AP supporting the access of the terminal, the access event is reported, wherein the access event is used to indicate that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the current WLAN mobility set.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the structure of the determining module 32 in the apparatus for reporting events according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the determining module 32 includes a first determining unit 42 and a first processing unit 44. Module 32 is described.

The first determining unit 42 is configured to: determine whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time; the first processing unit 44 is connected to the first determining unit 42 and is set as: the judgment result in the first determining unit 42 In the case of YES, it is determined that there is an AP that supports terminal access in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, in a case where the determination result of the first determining unit 42 is NO, it is determined that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the WLAN mobility set.

FIG. 5 is a structural block diagram of a first determining unit 42 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the first determining unit 42 includes activating subunit 52, a first access subunit 54, and a first A judging subunit 56, the first judging unit 42 will be described below.

The activation sub-unit 52 is configured to: start a timer when determining that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails; the first access sub-unit 54 is connected to the startup sub-unit 52, and is configured to: after the timer is started, Attempting to access the second AP in the WLAN mobile set; the first determining sub-unit 56 is connected to the first access sub-unit 54 and configured to: determine whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time determined by the timer .

FIG. 6 is a block diagram 2 of the structure of the determining module 32 in the apparatus for reporting events according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the determining module 32 includes a second determining unit 62 and a second processing unit 64. Module 32 is described.

The second determining unit 62 is configured to: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails to reach a predetermined number of times; the second processing unit 64 is connected to the second determining unit 62, and is configured to: in the second determining unit 62 If the result of the determination is yes, it is determined that there is no AP supporting the terminal access in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, if the determination result of the second determining unit 62 is negative, determining that the WLAN mobile set exists to support the terminal access AP.

FIG. 7 is a structural block diagram of a second determining unit 62 in an apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the second determining unit 62 includes a counting subunit 72, a second access subunit 74, and a The second judging unit 76 will be described below for the second judging unit 62.

The counting sub-unit 72 is configured to: start a counter and count 1 when it is determined that the third AP accessing the WLAN mobile set fails, wherein the counter is used to count the number of failed APs accessing the WLAN mobile set; The input sub-unit 74 is connected to the counting sub-unit 72, and is configured to: after the counter is started, sequentially try to access the fourth AP in the WLAN mobile set; the second determining sub-unit 76 is connected to the second access sub-unit 74, and is set. To: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails to reach the predetermined number of times determined by the counter.

In the device embodiment and the optional embodiment, the AP that supports the terminal meets the following conditions: the wireless signal strength is higher than the first predetermined threshold, the buffer has a remaining capacity, and the number of access terminals is lower than the second. The threshold is predetermined.

The method and apparatus for reporting an event according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below in conjunction with an implementation environment.

The method and device (the system) for providing a WLAN serving cell reporting criterion (ie, the foregoing implementation) is provided in order to overcome the problem that the terminal existing in the related art cannot find the corresponding serving WLAN cell in a WLAN mobile set for a long time. The method and device for reporting the event in the example).

FIG. 8 is an interaction flowchart of a method for reporting criteria of a WLAN serving cell according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the process includes the following steps:

In step S802, the network side sends a set of WLAN mobility sets, such as AP1, AP2, and AP3, to the connected terminal (UE, User Equipment);

Step S804, the terminal returns a response message to the network side, and the terminal selects an AP, such as AP1 for association;

Step S806, the terminal determines, according to a certain rule, that the AP access cannot be found in the WLAN mobility set.

The certain rules in step S806 include the following calculation methods:

Calculation method 1: The time calculation method is as follows, including S1-S3:

S1: Set a timer to start timing from the discovery of the deterioration of the AP1 wireless environment, set a threshold, and then the terminal starts to try to access other APs in the mobile set, and finds that it cannot be accessed. The reasons include: the wireless environment is degraded. , or the AP's buffer is full, or the number of AP users reaches a limit, etc.;

S2: If the terminal finds an appropriate AP access within a certain time, the timer is cleared;

S3: If the terminal finds that the newly accessed AP radio environment is also poor, the timer counts up until a suitable timer is found within a certain time.

Calculation method 2: through the counter mode, including S4:

S4: Design a counter. When the terminal finds that the associated AP wireless environment is degraded every time, the terminal increments by one. When the counter value reaches a certain threshold, the report is triggered.

Step S808, the terminal reports that the event of the AP access is not found in the mobile set. Collateral side.

Compared with the related technologies, the method and the device (system) according to the embodiment of the present invention achieve the progress of the network side in acquiring the suitable tightly coupled AP of the terminal, and achieve the effect of rationally configuring the AP resource, saving The terminal moves and reselects between APs, which improves the tight coupling resource usage rate and the data rate of the terminal.

For convenience of description, in the following embodiments, the network element of the access network side of the 3GPP system uses the eNB as an example, and the WLAN system network element takes the WT as an example.

FIG. 9 is an interaction flowchart 1 of a method for reporting an event according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, the process includes:

Step S902, the network side sends a set of WLAN mobility sets, such as AP1, AP2, and AP3, to the connected terminal.

Step S904, the terminal returns an acknowledgement message (ie, "response" in FIG. 9) to the network side, and then selects an AP, such as AP1, to associate;

Step S906, the terminal determines, according to the time calculation manner, that the AP access is not found in the WLAN mobility set.

The time calculation method is: setting a timer, starting from the discovery of the deterioration of the AP1 wireless environment, setting a threshold, and then the terminal starts to try to access other APs in the mobile set, and the time limit is found when the time limit is reached. Unable to access, where AP1 is the wireless environment, AP2 is full of buffers, and AP3 is the limit for the number of users.

The method for determining that the AP1 wireless environment is degraded may be determined by determining whether a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) is lower than a certain threshold, or by using other related indicators such as channel usage. Wait for judgment.

In step S908, the terminal reports that the event of the AP access is not found in the mobile set to the network side or reports the WLAN radio link failure message to the network side.

FIG. 10 is an interaction flowchart 2 of a method for reporting an event according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 10, the process includes:

In step S1002, the network side sends a set of WLAN mobility sets, such as AP1, AP2, and AP3, to the connected terminal.

Step S1004: The terminal returns a response message to the network side, and the terminal selects an AP, for example, AP1 to perform association;

Step S1006, the terminal determines that the associated AP1 wireless environment is degraded, starts the timer T, and sets the threshold to a certain value, such as 2 ms;

In step S1002, it is determined that the associated AP1 wireless environment is degraded, and reference may be made to the embodiment shown in FIG.

Step S1008: If the terminal finds an appropriate AP access within a certain period of time, for example, AP2 can access, the timer is turned off and cleared.

11 is an interaction flowchart 3 of a method for reporting an event according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 11, the process includes:

Step S1102: The network side sends a set of WLAN mobility sets, such as AP1, AP2, and AP3, to the connected terminal.

Step S1104: The terminal returns a response message to the network side, and the terminal selects an AP, for example, AP1 to perform association.

Step S1106, the terminal determines that the associated AP1 wireless environment is degraded, starts the timer T, and sets the threshold to a certain value, such as 2 ms;

The determining that the associated AP1 wireless environment is degraded may refer to the embodiment shown in FIG.

In step S1108, the terminal re-associates to the AP2, and the terminal finds that the AP2 is also in poor radio environment, and the timer T continues to accumulate time;

Step S1110: The terminal re-associates to the AP3, and the wireless environment of the AP3 is available, then the timer T is stopped and cleared.

In step S1112, the terminal reports the measurement report to the network side, and the AP1, AP2, and AP3 wireless environment conditions are sent to the network side.

FIG. 12 is an interaction flowchart 4 of a method for event reporting according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 12, the process includes:

In step S1202, the network side sends a set of WLAN mobility sets, such as AP1, AP2, and AP3, to the connected terminal.

Step S1204: The terminal returns a response message to the network side, and the terminal selects an AP, for example, AP1 to perform association;

Step S1206, the terminal determines that the associated AP1 wireless environment is degraded, starts the counter and the timer, and counts to 1, the counter setting threshold is 3, and the timer setting threshold is a certain value, such as 2 ms;

In the method of determining the deterioration of the associated AP1 wireless environment in step S1206, reference may be made to the embodiment shown in FIG.

In step S1208, the terminal re-associates to the AP2, and the terminal finds that the AP2 can access, but after a period of time, the AP2 is found to have the same wireless environment, and the counter is incremented by 1, and the count is 2;

In step S1210, the terminal re-associates to the AP3, and finds that the wireless environment of the AP3 is unavailable, the counter is accumulated to 3, reaches a predetermined threshold, and the timer does not exceed the threshold;

In step S1212, the terminal reports the measurement report to the network side, and the AP1, AP2, and AP3 radio environment conditions are sent to the network side, or the WLAN radio link is reported to the network side.

In the foregoing embodiment, the connection situation of the terminal in the current WLAN mobility set can be reported in time, so that the current system side network element can better deliver the tight coupling configuration with the target system side network element, and implement resource configuration self-optimization.

It should be noted that the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; or, the modules are respectively located in multiple processes. In the device.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium. Optionally, in the embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may be configured to store program code for performing the following steps:

S11, determining whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal;

S12. If the result of the judgment is that there is no AP supporting the access of the terminal, the access event is reported, where the access event is used to indicate that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the current WLAN mobility set.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may include, but is not limited to, a USB flash drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), and a random access memory (Random). Access Memory (referred to as RAM), mobile hard disk, disk or optical disk, and other media that can store program code.

Optionally, in the embodiment, the processor executes the above S11-S12 according to the stored program code in the storage medium.

For example, the examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the foregoing embodiments and the optional embodiments, and details are not described herein again.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described modules or steps of the embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device and, in some cases, may be different from the order herein. The steps shown or described are performed either separately as an integrated circuit module, or a plurality of modules or steps thereof are fabricated as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only an alternative embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present application, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of this application are intended to be included within the scope of the present application.

Industrial applicability

According to the embodiment of the present invention, when there is no AP supporting the terminal access in the current WLAN mobility set, the event is reported, which solves the problem that the terminal re-selects the AP in the same AP group to be transparent to the network side in the related art. If the AP fails to re-select the AP in the same AP group, the AP can report the problem to the network side in time, so that the network can process the problem.

Claims

A method of reporting an event, including:

Determining whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal;

If the result of the determination is that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist, the access event is reported, where the access event is used to indicate that the current WLAN mobility set does not exist to support the terminal access. The AP.
The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the current WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal includes:

Determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time;

If the result of the determination is yes, determining that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, if the determination result is no, determining that the WLAN mobile set does not exist in the support center The AP accessed by the terminal.
The method of claim 2, wherein determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within the predetermined time comprises:

Starting a timer when it is determined that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails;

After the timer is started, try to access the second AP in the WLAN mobile set in sequence;

Determining whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within the predetermined time determined by the timer.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein determining whether the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the current WLAN mobility set configured to the terminal includes:

Determining whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set fails a predetermined number of times;

If the determination result is yes, determining that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, if the determination result is no, determining that the WLAN mobile concentration exists in the support center The AP accessed by the terminal.
The method according to claim 4, wherein determining whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails has reached a predetermined number of times comprises:

The counter is started and counted as 1 when it is determined that the access to the third AP in the WLAN mobility set fails, wherein the counter is used to count the number of failures of accessing the AP in the WLAN mobility set;

After the counter is started, sequentially attempting to access the fourth AP in the WLAN mobile set;

Determining whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobility set fails to reach the predetermined number of times determined by the counter.
The method of claim 1, wherein the AP supporting the terminal access satisfies the following conditions:

The wireless signal strength is higher than the first predetermined threshold, the buffer has a remaining amount to be filled, and the number of access terminals is lower than the second predetermined threshold.
An apparatus for reporting an event, comprising:

The determining module is configured to: determine whether there is an access point AP supporting the terminal access in the current wireless local area network WLAN mobile set configured to the terminal;

The reporting module is configured to report an access event, where the access event is used to indicate the current WLAN, if the judgment result of the determining module is that the AP that supports the terminal is not present. There is no AP in the mobile set that supports access by the terminal.
The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the determining module comprises:

The first determining unit is configured to: determine whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within a predetermined time;

a first processing unit, configured to: if the determination result of the first determining unit is yes, determining that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobility set; and/or, in the If the judgment result of the determining unit is no, it is determined that the AP that supports the terminal access does not exist in the WLAN mobile set.
The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said first determining unit comprises:

Activating a subunit, configured to: start a timer when it is determined that the first AP accessing the WLAN mobility set fails;

The first access subunit is configured to: after the timer is started, sequentially try to access the second AP in the WLAN mobile set;

The first determining subunit is configured to: determine whether the AP in the WLAN mobile set is successfully accessed within the predetermined time determined by the timer.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein the determining module comprises:

The second determining unit is configured to: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails to reach a predetermined number of times;

a second processing unit, configured to: if the determination result of the second determining unit is yes, determining that the AP in the WLAN mobility set does not exist to support the terminal access; and/or, in the If the determination result of the second determining unit is no, it is determined that the AP that supports the terminal access exists in the WLAN mobile set.
The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said second determining unit comprises:

a counting subunit, configured to: start a counter and count 1 when it is determined that the third AP accessing the WLAN mobile set fails, wherein the counter is used to perform the number of failures of accessing the AP in the WLAN mobile set count;

a second access sub-unit, configured to: after the counter is started, sequentially try to access a fourth AP in the WLAN mobile set;

The second determining subunit is configured to: determine whether the number of attempts to access the AP in the WLAN mobile set fails to reach the predetermined number of times determined by the counter.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the AP supporting the terminal access satisfies the following conditions:

The wireless signal strength is higher than the first predetermined threshold, the buffer has a remaining amount to be filled, and the number of access terminals is lower than the second predetermined threshold.