INTER-FREQUENCY/INTER-SYSTEM MEASUREMENT METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE

• US 20200137605A1
• Filed: 07/18/2017
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Heytap Technology Corp., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: LIU, Jianhua, YANG, Ning
• Granted Patent: US 11,212,690 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 36/00 Hand-off or reselection arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0085 Hand-off measurements

Abstract

Disclosed in embodiments of the application are an inter-frequency/inter-system measurement method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sends, to a network device, auxiliary information for determining a target measurement gap mode; the terminal device receives indication information sent by the network device, the indication information being used for indicating the target measurement gap mode; and the terminal device performs inter-frequency/inter-system measurement according to the target measurement gap mode. In the method, terminal device and network device in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device sends some auxiliary information to the network device, so that the network device can better understand the performance of the terminal device and then configures a proper measurement gap mode, which facilitates to improve the accuracy of a measurement report, thereby improving the performance of a system.

Claims

1. An inter-frequency/inter-system measurement method, comprising:

sending, by a terminal device to a network device, auxiliary information used for determining a target measurement gap mode;

receiving, by the terminal device, indication information sent by the network device, the indication information being used for indicating the target measurement gap mode; and

performing, by the terminal device, inter-frequency/inter-system measurement according to the target measurement gap mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the auxiliary information is a desired measurement gap mode of the terminal device or an increment value of a gap period of the desired measurement gap mode of the terminal device with respect to a gap period of a measurement gap mode previously configured by the network device, and the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in multiple measurement gap modes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to at least one of the following;

movement speed information of the terminal device, Quality of Service (QoS) information of a present service of the terminal device, QoS information of a detected service of the terminal device or present channel quality information of the terminal device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to the QoS information of the present service of the terminal device comprises:

when a service delay requirement in the QoS information of the present service is greater than or equal to a second threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a third measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the service delay requirement in the QoS information of the present service is less than the second threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a fourth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the third measurement gap mode being greater than a gap period of the fourth measurement gap mode.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to the QoS information of the present service of the terminal device comprises:

when a data rate requirement in the QoS information of the present service is greater than or equal to a third threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a fifth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the data rate requirement in the QoS information of the present service is less than the third threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a sixth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the fifth measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the sixth measurement gap mode.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to the QoS information of the detected service comprises:

when a service delay in the QoS information of the detected service is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a seventh measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the service delay in the QoS information of the detected service is less than the fourth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, an eighth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the seventh measurement gap mode being greater than a gap period of the eighth measurement gap mode.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to the QoS information of the detected service comprises:

when a data rate in the QoS information of the detected service is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a ninth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the data rate in the QoS information of the detected service is less than the fifth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a tenth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the ninth measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the tenth measurement gap mode.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the terminal device, the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to the present channel quality information of the terminal device comprises:

when a present channel quality of the terminal device is less than a sixth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, an eleventh measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the present channel quality of the terminal device is greater than or equal to the sixth threshold, determining, by the terminal device, a twelfth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the eleventh measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the twelfth measurement gap mode.

4. (canceled)

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32. A terminal device, comprising:

a processor, an input interface and an output interface, wherein the processor, the input interface and the output interface are connected through a system bus,

the output interface is configured to send to a network device auxiliary information used for determining a target measurement gap mode;

the input interface is configured to receive indication information sent by the network device, the indication information being used for indicating the target measurement gap mode; and

the processor is configured to perform inter-frequency/inter-system measurement according to the target measurement gap mode.

33. The terminal device of claim 32, wherein the auxiliary information is a desired measurement gap mode of the terminal device or an increment value of a gap period of the desired measurement gap mode of the terminal device with respect to a gap period of a measurement gap mode previously configured by the network device, and

the processor is configured to determine the desired measurement gap mode in multiple measurement gap modes.

34. The terminal device of claim 33, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine the desired measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes according to at least one of the following information;

movement speed information of the terminal device, Quality of Service (QoS) information of a present service of the terminal device, QoS information of a detected service of the terminal device or present channel quality information of the terminal device.

36. The terminal device of claim 34, wherein the processor is configured to:

when a service delay requirement in the QoS information of the present service is greater than or equal to a second threshold, determine a third measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the service delay requirement in the QoS information of the present service is less than the second threshold, determine a fourth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the third measurement gap mode being greater than a gap period of the fourth measurement gap mode.

37. The terminal device of claim 34, wherein the processor is configured to:

when a data rate requirement in the QoS information of the present service is greater than or equal to a third threshold, determine a fifth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the data rate requirement in the QoS information of the present service is less than the third threshold, determine a sixth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the fifth measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the sixth measurement gap mode.

38. The terminal device of claim 34, wherein the processor is configured to:

when a service delay in the QoS information of the detected service is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, determine a seventh measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the service delay in the QoS information of the detected service is less than the fourth threshold, determine an eighth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the seventh measurement gap mode being greater than a gap period of the eighth measurement gap mode.

39. The terminal device of claim 34, wherein the processor is configured to:

when a data rate in the QoS information of the detected service is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold, determine a ninth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the target measurement gap mode; and

when the data rate in the QoS information of the detected service is less than the fifth threshold, determine a tenth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the target measurement gap mode, a gap period of the ninth measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the tenth measurement gap mode.

40. The terminal device of claim 34, wherein the processor is configured to:

when a present channel quality of the terminal device is less than a sixth threshold, determine an eleventh measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode; and

when the present channel quality of the terminal device is greater than or equal to the sixth threshold, determine a twelfth measurement gap mode in the multiple measurement gap modes as the desired measurement gap mode, a gap period of the eleventh measurement gap mode being less than a gap period of the twelfth measurement gap mode.

41. The terminal device of claim 33, wherein the multiple measurement gap modes are pre-configured by the network device or predetermined.

42. The terminal device of claim 32, wherein the auxiliary information comprises at least one of the following information:

movement speed information of the terminal device, QoS information of a present service of the terminal device, QoS information of a detected service of the terminal device or present channel quality information of the terminal device.

43. The terminal device of claim 32, wherein the input interface is configured to:

receive the indication information through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.

35. (canceled)

44. A network device, comprising:

a processor, an input interface and an output interface, wherein the processor, the input interface and the output interface are connected through a system bus,

the input interface is configured to receive auxiliary information for a measurement gap from a terminal device;

the processor is configured to determine a target measurement gap mode for inter-frequency/inter-system measurement according to the auxiliary information; and

the output interface is configured to send to the terminal device indication information used for indicating the target measurement gap mode.

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