METHOD FOR TERMINAL MEASUREMENT AND CONFIGURATION, TERMINAL AND BASE STATION

• US 20200137604A1
• Filed: 06/11/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHEN, Li, QIN, Fei
• Granted Patent: US 11,323,906 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for terminal measurement and configuration, a terminal and a base station are provided. The method for terminal measurement and configuration includes: detecting a state parameter of the terminal; and obtaining measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter.

Claims

1. A method for terminal measurement and configuration, applied to a terminal, comprising:

detecting a state parameter of the terminal; and

obtaining measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter.

2. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 1, wherein the state parameter comprises at least one of:

a type of the terminal, an environment where the terminal is located, mobile state information of the terminal, service state information of the terminal, information about a signal coverage at a location where the terminal is located, or mode information of the terminal, and

wherein the mode information comprises a measurement mode of the terminal or a power saving mode of the terminal.

3. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 2, wherein before obtaining the measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter, the method further comprises:

obtaining a measurement configuration parameter, and

wherein the obtaining the measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter comprises;

obtaining the measurement configuration information based on the measurement configuration parameter and the state parameter.

5. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 3, wherein the measurement configuration parameter comprises at least one of:

measurement requirement information, periodicity information of a measurement, event configuration information of the measurement, or mode information of the terminal; and

wherein the measurement requirement information and the event configuration information of the measurement are determined in accordance with a predetermined rule, or are configured by a base station and transmitted to the terminal.

6. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 5, wherein when the measurement configuration parameter comprises the mode information of the terminal, the method for terminal measurement and configuration further comprises:

obtaining a correspondence between the mode information and at least one of the measurement configuration information, the measurement requirement information, the periodicity information of the measurement, and the event configuration information of the measurement; and

wherein the correspondence is determined in accordance with a preset rule;

or the correspondence is configured by the base station for the terminal, and is transmitted to the terminal through one of;

a dedicated radio resource control RRC message, an RRC configuration message, an RRC reconfiguration message, a system broadcast message, or a system message

wherein when the measurement configuration parameter comprises the mode information of the terminal, a manner of obtaining the mode information comprises;

obtaining the mode information configured by the base station;

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determining the mode information of the terminal according to a mode switching command transmitted by the base station;

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determining the mode information of the terminal based on the state parameter.

8. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 3, wherein after obtaining the measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter, the method further comprises:

performing a measurement on a target parameter based on the measurement configuration information

wherein the measurement comprises at least one of;

a radio resource management RRM measurement, a radio link monitoring RLM measurement, or an idle mode measurement.

10. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 8, wherein when the measurement configuration parameter comprises periodicity information of the measurement, the performing the measurement on the target parameter comprises:

performing a periodic measurement according to the periodicity information, and wherein a period of the periodic measurement is determined by at least one manner of;

determining the period by a base station based on the state parameter of the terminal, and configuring the period for the terminal by the base station;

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determining the period by the terminal based on the state parameter of the terminal;

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determining the period in accordance with a predetermined rule, or

wherein when the measurement configuration parameter comprises event configuration information of the measurement, the performing the measurement on the target parameter comprises;

performing an event trigger measurement on the target parameter based on the event configuration information, and

wherein event information in the event configuration information comprises at least one of;

an access event of the terminal, a state parameter change event of the terminal, or an event triggered by the terminal based on a state parameter change, and wherein the event information is configured by a base station and transmitted to the terminal, or is determined by the terminal based on the state parameter.

14. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 8, wherein the performing the measurement on the target parameter comprises:

determining, based on the state parameter of the terminal, whether the measurement is performed based on the measurement configuration information, or

wherein after performing the measurement on the target parameter based on the measurement configuration information, the method further comprises;

reporting a measurement result obtained by the performed measurement to a base station.

16. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining the measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter comprises:

transmitting the state parameter to a base station; and

receiving the measurement configuration information fed back by the base station based on the state parameter.

17. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 16, wherein the transmitting the state parameter to the base station comprises:

transmitting the state parameter to the base station in a predetermined message,

wherein the predetermined message comprises a radio resource control RRC message or a user assistance message, or

wherein the transmitting the state parameter to the base station comprises;

receiving parameter reporting configuration information transmitted by the base station, wherein the parameter reporting configuration information is used to indicate whether reporting of the state parameter is allowed; and

transmitting the state parameter of the terminal to the base station, in a case that the parameter reporting configuration information indicates that the reporting of the state parameter is allowed.

19. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 16, further comprising:

starting a state parameter reporting timer; and

stopping transmitting the state parameter to the base station within a timing time of the state parameter reporting timer, or

wherein when transmitting the state parameter to the base station, the method further comprises;

transmitting configuration assistance information to the base station,

wherein the configuration assistance information comprises at least one of;

a measurement period expected by the terminal, identification information of the measurement configuration information corresponding to the state parameter, or mode information of the terminal.

21. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving configuration indication information of a predetermined cell transmitted by a base station to which a target cell belongs, wherein the configuration indication information is used to indicate whether the predetermined cell supports a manner of determining configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or supports mode information of the terminal; and

performing cell selection and/or cell reselection according to the configuration indication information,

wherein the predetermined cell comprises the target cell and/or a neighbor cell of the target cell, and the target cell is a cell where the terminal camps or accesses, and wherein the method further comprises;

determining the predetermined cell to be an access barring cell, in a case that the configuration indication information indicates that the predetermined cell does not support the manner of determining the configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or does not support the mode information of the terminal.

23. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 21, wherein the performing cell selection and/or cell reselection comprises:

performing cell selection and/or cell reselection by increasing a value of a judging parameter of a first cell in the predetermined cell; and

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performing cell selection and/or cell reselection by decreasing a value of a judging parameter of a second cell in the predetermined cell,

wherein the first cell is a cell that supports the manner of determining the configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or supports the mode information of the terminal, and the second cell is a cell that does not support the manner of determining the configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or does not support the mode information of the terminal, or wherein the performing cell selection and/or cell reselection comprises;

performing cell selection and/or cell reselection by increasing a priority of a first cell in the predetermined cell; and

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performing cell selection and/or cell reselection by decreasing a priority of a second cell in the predetermined cell,

wherein the first cell is a cell that supports the manner of determining the configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or supports the mode information of the terminal, and the second cell is a cell that does not support the manner of determining the configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or does not support the mode information of the terminal.

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25. A method for terminal measurement and configuration, applied to a base station, comprising:

obtaining a state parameter of a terminal; and

feeding back measurement configuration information to the terminal based on the state parameter.

26. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 25, wherein the state parameter comprises at least one of:

a type of the terminal, an environment where the terminal is located, mobile state information of the terminal, service state information of the terminal, information about a signal coverage at a location where the terminal is located, or mode information of the terminal, and

wherein the mode information comprises a measurement mode of the terminal or a power saving mode of the terminal.

27. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 26, wherein the obtaining the state parameter of the terminal comprises:

receiving a predetermined message transmitted by the terminal; and

obtaining the state parameter of the terminal from the predetermined message,

wherein the predetermined message comprises a radio resource control RRC message or a user assistance message, and wherein before receiving the state parameter of the terminal from the predetermined message transmitted by the terminal, the method further comprises;

transmitting parameter reporting configuration information to the terminal, wherein the parameter reporting configuration information is used to indicate whether reporting of the state parameter is allowed.

29. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 26, wherein the obtaining the state parameter of the terminal comprises:

obtaining the state parameter of the terminal based on stored predetermined information of the terminal, wherein the predetermined information comprises information related to determining the state parameter or

wherein the feeding back the measurement configuration information to the terminal based on the state parameter comprises;

obtaining mode information of the terminal based on the state parameter;

obtaining the measurement configuration information corresponding to the mode information; and

feeding the measurement configuration information back to the terminal, or wherein the method further comprises receiving configuration assistance information transmitted by the terminal,

wherein the configuration assistance information comprises at least one of;

a measurement period expected by the terminal, identification information of the measurement configuration information corresponding to the state parameter, or mode information of the terminal.

32. The method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 25, further comprising:

transmitting a measurement configuration parameter to the terminal;

wherein the measurement configuration parameter comprises at least one of;

measurement requirement information, periodicity information of a measurement, event configuration information of the measurement, or mode information of the terminal, or

wherein the method further comprises transmitting, through a target cell, configuration indication information of a predetermined cell to the terminal, wherein the configuration indication information is configured for the terminal to perform cell selection and/or cell reselection according to the configuration indication information,

the configuration indication information is used to indicate whether the predetermined cell supports a manner of determining configuration information based on the state parameter of the terminal, or supports mode information of the terminal, and

the predetermined cell comprises the target cell and/or a neighbor cell of the target cell, and the target cell is a cell where the terminal camps or accesses.

69. A base station, comprising:

a memory, a processor, and a computer program that is stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to implement steps of the method for terminal measurement and configuration according to claim 25.

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58. A terminal, comprising:

a memory, a processor, and a computer program that is stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein when executing the computer program, the processor is configured to;

detect a state parameter of the terminal; and

obtain measurement configuration information configured based on the state parameter.

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