MRO Criticality Scene Judgment Method, Apparatus and Equipment

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and device for determining an MRO-critical scene, the method including: when a connection problem is detected during a cell switching process and the cell switching is successful, or when the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, the user equipment acquires parameter information of the connection problem, and sends the parameter information to a network device, so that the network device determines a mobility robustness optimization MRO-critical scene based on the parameter information. Thus, the embodiments of the present disclosure realize the determination of an MRO-critical scene in a scene where the cell switching is successful.

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] (CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS) This disclosure claims priority to a Chinese patent application bearing application number 202011127079.6 and entitled "Method, Apparatus and Instrument for Determining MRO Criticality Scene," filed with the China Patent Office on October 20, 2020, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

[0002] This disclosure claims priority to a Chinese patent application bearing application number 202110033689.8 and entitled "Method, Apparatus and Instrument for Determining MRO Criticality Scene," filed with the China Patent Office on January 11, 2021, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

[0003] The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication technology, and in particular to a method, apparatus and device for determining an MRO critical scene. [Background technology]

[0004] Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) involves detecting Too Late Handover, Too Early Handover, and Handover to Wrong Cell scenarios, and adjusting parameters based on the detection results to reduce handover failures (HOF) or handover-related Radio Link Failures (RLF). Thus, one of the functions of the conventional MRO is to determine the connection failure that occurs due to the situation of switching too late, switching too early, switching to the wrong cell, etc. However, in the process of realizing the present application, it is found that a connection problem occurs in the process of successful switching but does not cause a connection failure, which may belong to one of the critical situations of switching too late, switching too early, or switching to the wrong cell, but the conventional MRO function does not regulate the method of determining the above critical situations. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and device for determining an MRO critical scene, in order to realize determination of an MRO critical scene in a scene where cell switching is successful. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a user equipment, the method including: When a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, obtaining parameter information of the connection problem; Sending the parameter information to a network device, thereby causing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0007] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0008] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information; Here, the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem.

[0009] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0010] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0011] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0012] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0013] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0014] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0015] In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a method for determining an MRO criticality scene applied to a network device, the method including: receiving parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; and determining a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information, and obtaining a determination result of the MRO critical scene.

[0016] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0017] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0018] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0019] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem; The method further comprises: The method includes determining, based on the first indication information, that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or indicating that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem.

[0020] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0021] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0022] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0023] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0024] Optionally, the network device is a cell in which the connectivity problem occurs; Or, If the network device is not a cell where the connectivity problem occurs, the method further comprises: transmitting said parameter information to a cell where said access problem occurs.

[0025] Optionally, the MRO critical scene comprises: At least one of: criticality of switching too late within the system, criticality of switching too early within the system, criticality of switching to an error cell within the system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems. Optionally, if the MRO criticality scene is one of an intra-system premature switchover criticality and an inter-system premature switchover criticality, the method further comprises: The method includes transmitting the MRO critical scene determination result and the parameter information to a cell that needs to adjust parameters. Optionally, if the MRO critical scene is critical to switching to an erroneous cell in the system, the method further comprises: Sending the determination result of the MRO criticality scene, the parameter information, and the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command to a cell that needs to adjust parameters; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0026] In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a user equipment including a memory, a transceiver, and a processor; The memory is used to store a computer program, and the transceiver is used to transmit and receive data under the control of the processor, and the processor reads the computer program in the memory and: When a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, obtaining parameter information of the connection problem; Controlling the transceiver to transmit the parameter information to a network device, thereby causing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0027] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0028] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0029] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0030] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0031] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0032] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0033] In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a network device including a memory, a transceiver, and a processor, The memory is used to store a computer program, and the transceiver is used to transmit and receive data under the control of the processor, and the processor reads the computer program in the memory and: Controlling the transceiver to receive parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; Based on the parameter information, determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene, and obtain a determination result of the MRO critical scene.

[0034] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0035] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0036] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0037] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0038] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0039] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0040] In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an MRO critical scene determination device applied to a user equipment, the device comprising: A parameter acquisition module is used for acquiring parameter information of a connection problem when a connection problem is detected in a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; A sending module is used to send the parameter information to a network device, thereby causing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0041] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0042] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0043] In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an MRO criticality scene determination device applied to a network device, the device comprising: a parameter receiving module used for receiving parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; A scene determination module is used for determining a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information, and obtaining a determination result of the MRO critical scene.

[0044] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0045] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0046] In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system for determining an MRO critical scene, including the user equipment according to the third aspect and the network equipment according to the fourth aspect.

[0047] In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a processor-readable storage medium having a computer program stored therein, the computer program being adapted to cause the processor to execute any one of the methods described above.

[0048] In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer program comprising computer readable code, which when executed on a processing device, is used to cause the processing device to perform a method according to the first aspect or to perform a method according to the second aspect.

[0049] In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program according to the ninth aspect.

[0050] In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, the user equipment can obtain parameter information of the connection problem and send the parameter information to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene according to the parameter information. That is, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the scene where the cell switching is successful, the parameter information of the connection problem is sent to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure realizes the determination of the MRO critical scene in the scene where the cell switching is successful.

[0051] The above description is only an outline of the technical solution of the present disclosure. In order to more clearly understand the technical solution of the present disclosure, the following provides a description of an embodiment of the present disclosure, which can be implemented based on the contents of the specification, and makes the above and other objectives, features and advantages of the present disclosure more obvious and understandable.

[0052] In order to more clearly describe the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the following is a list of the essential elements for the description of the embodiments of the present disclosure. The essential drawings are briefly introduced. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, and those skilled in the art can further obtain other drawings based on these drawings without any creative work. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0053] [Figure 1] 1 is a schematic diagram of a radio link failure due to a timeout of the T310 timer. [Diagram 2] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the CHO flow. [Diagram 3] FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a method for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; [Figure 4]1 is a flow diagram of a method for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a network device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. [Diagram 5] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram (part 1) of an MRO criticality scene in an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 6] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram (part 2) of an MRO criticality scene in an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 7] FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram (part 3) of an MRO criticality scene in an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 8] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram (part 4) of an MRO criticality scene in an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 9] FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram (part 5) of an MRO criticality scene in an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 10] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an MRO critical scene determination device applied to user equipment according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; [Figure 11] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a judgment extension of an MRO criticality scene applied to a network device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; [Figure 12] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 13] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 14] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic of a processing device for carrying out the methods of the present disclosure. [Figure 15] FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic representation of a storage unit for holding or carrying program code implementing the methods of the present disclosure; DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0054] In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor are all within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

[0055] The term "and / or" in the embodiments of the present disclosure describes the related relationship of related objects and indicates that there are three types of relationships, for example, A and / or B can indicate three situations: A exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. " / " generally indicates that the related objects before and after it have an "or" relationship.

[0056] In the embodiments of this application, the term "plurality" refers to two or more and other quantifiers similar thereto. The following clearly and completely describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, not all of the embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without creative labor are all within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0057] The embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for determining an MRO critical scene, in order to realize determination of an MRO critical scene in a scene where cell switching is successful.

[0058] Here, since the method and the apparatus are based on the same application concept and the principles by which the method and the apparatus solve the problems are similar, the implementations of the apparatus and the method may refer to each other and the overlapping parts will not be described.

[0059] In addition, the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present application may be applied to various systems, particularly 5G systems. For example, the applied systems may be global system of mobile coMunication (GSM) systems, code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) general packet radio service (GPRS) systems, long term evolution (LTE) systems, LTE frequency division duplex (FDD) systems, LTE time division duplex (TDD) systems, long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) systems, universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) systems, 5G New Radio (NR) (New Radio, NR) systems, etc. All of these systems include terminal equipment and network equipment. The system may further include a core network portion, such as an Evolved Packet System (EPS), a 5G system (5GS), etc.

[0060] The terminal device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a device that provides voice and / or data connectivity to a user, a handheld device with wireless connectivity, or other processing devices connected to a wireless modem, etc. In different systems, the name of the terminal device may also be different, for example, in a 5G system, the terminal device may be called User Equipment (UE). The wireless terminal device can communicate with one or more core networks (Core Networks, CN) through a Radio Access Network (RAN), and the wireless terminal device may be a mobile terminal device, such as a mobile phone (also called a "cellular" phone) and a computer with a mobile terminal device, such as a mobile, pocket, handheld, computer-embedded or vehicle-mounted mobile device, which exchanges language and / or data with the radio access network. For example, Personal Communication Service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) phones, Wireless Local Loop (WLL) stations, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), etc. The wireless terminal equipment may also be called a system, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote station, an access point, a remote terminal, an access terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, or a user device, and is not limited to the embodiments of the present application.

[0061] The network equipment according to the embodiment of the present application may be a base station, which may include multiple cells serving terminals. Depending on the specific application, the base station may be called an access point, or may be a device that communicates with wireless terminal equipment through one or more sectors over a radio interface in an access network, or may be called by other names. The network equipment is used to exchange received air frames and Internet Protocol (IP) packets, and may be a router between the wireless terminal equipment and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) communication network. The network equipment may further coordinate attribute management of the radio interface. For example, the network device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a network device (Base Transceiver Station, BTS) in a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a network device (Node B) in a Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), an evolved network device (evolutionary Node B, eNB or e-NodeB) in a long term evolution (LTE) system, a 5G base station (gNB) in a 5G network architecture (next generation system), a Home evolved Node B (HeNB), a relay node, a home base station (femto), a pico base station (pico), or the like, and is not limited to the embodiment of the present application.In some network structures, the network equipment may include centralized unit (CU) nodes and distributed unit (DU) nodes, and the centralized units and distributed units may be located geographically separately. Between the network device and the terminal device, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission can be performed using one or more antennas, and the MIMO transmission may be single user MIMO (SU-MIMO) or multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO). Based on the form and number of root antenna combinations, the MIMO transmission may be 2D-MIMO, 3D-MIMO, FD-MIMO or massive-MIMO, and may be diversity transmission, precoding transmission, beamforming transmission, etc.

[0062] In order to facilitate understanding of the method for determining MRO critical scenes according to the present invention, switching too late, switching too early and switching to an erroneous cell are first described as follows.

[0063] SON includes the contents of Mobility Load Balancing Optimization (MLB), Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO), etc. MRO includes detection for too late switching, too early switching, and switching to an incorrect cell.

[0064] In the first aspect, for the handover that is too late, generally, the UE will not be able to timely handover when the serving cell signal is unstable. There are mainly several circumstances as follows:

[0065] In situation 1, for a UE in the system, a radio link failure (RLF) occurs after the UE stays in a cell for a long time, and the UE attempts to re-establish a radio link connection to another cell.

[0066] In situation two, for inter-system, the UE experiences RLF after staying in a cell belonging to a Next Generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node for a long time, and the UE attempts to reconnect to a cell belonging to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN).

[0067] Here, the detection mechanism for switching too late is as follows. If the UE has not had a recent switch before the connection failure, e.g., the UE's reporting timer does not exist, or the UE's reporting timer is greater than a configured threshold (e.g., Tstore_UE_cntxt), a too-late switch in the system occurs.

[0068] A too late switch between systems occurs if the connection failure occurs when connecting to an NG-RAN node and there was no recent switch for the UE prior to the connection failure, i.e. the UE's reporting timer does not exist or is greater than a configured threshold (e.g. Tstore_UE_cntxt) and the first node the UE attempts to reconnect to is an E-UTRAN node.

[0069] In the second aspect, for premature handover, generally, the base station will initiate handover even when the signal of the neighboring cell is insufficient or unstable. There are mainly several circumstances as follows:

[0070] In situation 1, after the source cell sends a handover command in the system, the UE successfully switches to the target cell but an RLF occurs immediately, or a handover failure occurs during the handover process, and the cell that the UE attempts to reestablish is the source cell.

[0071] In situation two, the RLF occurs immediately after a successful inter-system handover from a cell belonging to an E-UTRAN node to a target cell belonging to an NG-RAN node, and the cell to which the UE attempts to reconnect is the source cell or another cell belonging to the E-UTRAN node.

[0072] Here, the premature switch detection mechanism is as follows. A premature switch in the system occurs when the UE has had a recent switch prior to the connection failure, for example, the UE's reporting timer is less than a configured threshold (e.g., Tstore_UE_cntxt) and the first cell to be reestablished or the cell to which the UE is attempting to reconnect is the cell serving the UE at the time of the last switch initialization (i.e., the source cell).

[0073] A premature intersystem switchover occurs if the connection failure occurs when connecting to an NG-RAN node and there was a recent intersystem switchover for the UE prior to the connection failure, for example, if the UE's reporting timer is less than a configured threshold (e.g., Tstore_UE_cntxt) and the first cell to which the UE attempts to reconnect and the node serving the UE at the time of the last switchover initialization are both E-UTRAN nodes.

[0074] In the third aspect, for a handover to an incorrect cell, it is defined as follows: in the system, a UE experiences an RLF immediately after handover from a source cell to a target cell, or a handover failure occurs during the handover process, and then selects a cell which is neither a source cell nor a target cell to re-establish a connection.

[0075] The detection mechanism is as follows: A switch to an error cell will occur if the UE has had a recent switch prior to the connection failure, e.g., the UE's reporting timer is less than a configured threshold (e.g., Tstore_UE_cntxt) and the first cell to be reestablished or the cell to which the UE is attempting to reconnect is neither the cell serving the UE at the time of the previous switch initialization nor the cell serving the UE where the RLF occurred or the cell to which it is being initially switched.

[0076] Here, the UE reporting timer is the time from the previous switching initialization to the connection failure.

[0077] Also, radio link failure in an NR system can be due to several causes: The first type is a timeout of the T310 timer. The second type is a timeout of the T312 timer. The third type is that under certain conditions the Media Access Control (MAC) reports a random access problem (including beam failure recovery failure and random access problem). The fourth type is for the RLC to report that under certain conditions the maximum number of retransmissions for a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) or Data Radio Bearer (DRB) has been reached. The fifth type is continuous failure of LBT (Listen Before Talk) under certain conditions. The sixth type is a backhaul radio link failure (BH RLF) indication received from a parent node for a 5G integrated access backhaul mobile terminal (IAB-MT).

[0078] Also, as shown in FIG. 1, if the Radio Resource Control (RRC) of the UE receives N (e.g., the value of N310) consecutive out-of-sync indications from the lowest layer upon timeout of T310, then the RLF timer T310 is started. Here, in the operation process of T310, if the RRC layer continuously receives M (for example, the value of N311) synchronization indications (in-sync), it is considered that the asynchronous problem has been solved, and the T310 timer is stopped. In the operation process of T310, if the RRC layer cannot continuously receive M (for example, the value of N311) in-sync, it will eventually cause the T310 timer to time out, and the radio link cannot be maintained, and it is considered that a radio link failure has occurred. Then, according to specific conditions, the UE may select a new cell to start the reestablishment process, or enter an idle state.

[0079] The timeout of T312 is a countermeasure for radio link failure in heterogeneous networks. If T310 has already been started and the UE evaluates to organize one measurement report (i.e., a measurement report for a target cell) at this time, the UE starts timer T312 at the same time as sending the measurement report. The total length of T312 is the maximum allowable time set by the network for the UE to receive a switching command after sending the measurement report. If T312 times out, the UE can directly generate an RLF before the timeout of T310. If T310 is aborted due to a condition being satisfied, T312 is also stopped accordingly.

[0080] Moreover, the conditional switching (CHO) process includes the following steps 201 to 217, as shown in FIG. In step 201, the UE performs measurements and reports measurement reports. In step 202, the source gNB decides to adopt CHO, i.e., executes the CHO strategy. In step 203, the source gNB sends a switch request to the target gNB. In step 204, the source gNB sends a switch request to other candidate gNBs. In step 205, the target gNB performs access control. In step 206, the other candidate gNBs perform access control. In step 207, the target gNB sends a switch request confirmation to the source gNB. In step 208, the other candidate gNB sends a switch request confirmation to the source gNB.

[0081] Through the above steps 203 to 208, the source gNB requests a CHO from one or more candidate gNBs, and the candidate gNBs perform access control and return a CHO request.

[0082] In step 209, the source gNB sends an RRC Reconfiguration message to the UE, where the RRC Reconfiguration message includes the configuration of CHO candidate cells and CHO execution conditions.

[0083] In step 210, the UE sends an RRC Reconfiguration Complete message to the source gNB.

[0084] Here, after receiving the CHO configuration, the UE maintains a connection with the source gNB, and starts evaluating the candidate cells against the CHO execution condition. If at least one candidate cell meets the corresponding CHO execution condition, the UE: Synchronize with a target gNB that is selected away from the source gNB.

[0085] In step 211, if early data early transition is applied, the source gNB transmits an early state transition. In step 212, the CHO switch is completed. In step 213, the target gNB sends a success of the switch to the source gNB. In step 214, the source gNB sends a sequence number state transition to the target gNB. In step 215, a cancellation of the switch is performed. In step 216, the route is switched.

[0086] In step 217, the target gNB sends a UE context release to the source gNB. For a Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS HO) process, the UE maintains connection with the source gNB after receiving an RRC message for switching, and releases the source cell after successful random access to the target gNB.

[0087] FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a method for determining an MRO critical scene according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a user equipment.

[0088] As shown in FIG. 3, the method may include the following steps 301-302.

[0089] In step 301, if a connection problem is detected during the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or if a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, parameter information of the connection problem is obtained.

[0090] Here, if a connection problem is detected in the above-mentioned cell switching process and the cell switching is successful, and if the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, these belong to a situation in which a connection problem is detected in a scene where the switching is successful.

[0091] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0092] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0093] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; Retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol (RLC) and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The method includes at least one of: a media access control layer receiving a lowest layer (LBT) failure indication; and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0094] Here, the first preset value is a preset maximum number of times to transmit MSGA, the second preset value is a preset maximum number of times to transmit a random access preamble sequence (Preamble), the third preset value is a preset maximum number of times to retransmit RLC, and the fourth preset value is a preset maximum number of times to continuously receive LBT.

[0095] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul (IAB) node, the parameter information includes first indication information; Here, the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul (BH) connection problem. In other words, when a connection problem occurs for a UE, if the cell serving the UE belongs to a cell of an IAB node, first indication information for indicating that the connection problem occurs in the IAB node or for indicating that the connection problem is a BH connection problem can be carried in the parameter information, so that a network device receiving the parameter information can determine, based on the first indication information, whether the cell serving the UE belongs to an IAB node or whether the connection problem is a BH connection problem when a connection problem occurs for the UE.

[0096] In step 302, the parameter information is sent to a network device, thereby allowing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0097] In an embodiment of the present disclosure, upon receiving the parameter information, the network device can determine a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0098] Here, the critical scene of MRO is At least one of: criticality of switching too late within the system, criticality of switching too early within the system, criticality of switching to an error cell within the system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems.

[0099] In the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, there is a possibility that the above-mentioned MRO critical scene exists.

[0100] As can be seen from the above, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, the user equipment can obtain parameter information of the connection problem, and send the parameter information to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene according to the parameter information. That is, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the scene where the cell switching is successful, the parameter information of the connection problem is sent to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure realizes the determination of the MRO critical scene in the scene where the cell switching is successful.

[0101] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0102] Here, the time of switching initialization is the time when the UE receives a cell switching command, so when the UE receives the cell switching command, it records the time and starts the connection problem timer to count, and stops counting the connection problem timer until the connection problem is detected or the connection problem is ended.

[0103] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0104] Here, in the process of cell switching in normal scenarios (i.e., the process of cell switching other than CHO and DAPS HO scenarios), after receiving a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE disconnects from the source cell, so for cell switching in normal scenarios, after receiving a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE will no longer detect a connection problem between the UE and the source cell, so for cell switching in normal scenarios, only one connection problem timer needs to be set for one UE.

[0105] On the other hand, in the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, after the UE receives a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE further maintains a connection with the source cell for a certain period of time, so in the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, after the UE receives a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, a connection problem between the UE and the source cell may still occur.

[0106] Therefore, in the CHO scenario and the DAPS HO scenario, it is necessary to set a connection problem timer for each cell, that is, one connection problem timer is necessary to set for each source cell and target cell in the cell switching process, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is defined as the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell to the end time of the connection problem, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is defined as the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command to instruct it to switch to the target cell) to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0107] Therefore, in a scene where switching is successful, when a connection problem between the UE and the source cell is detected, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell needs to be sent to the network equipment as connection problem parameter information, and when a connection problem between the UE and the target cell is detected, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell needs to be sent to the network equipment as connection problem parameter information.

[0108] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0109] Here, the content information of the connection problem is information about which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to.

[0110] Also, the cell identifier information may be a Public Land Mobile Network ID (PLMN ID) where the cell is located, a cell ID, and a Tracking Area Code, or the cell identifier information may be a physical cell identifier (phyCellID) and a carrier frequency (carrierFreq). Here, a cell can be uniquely identified by combining the PLMN ID, cell ID, and Tracking Area Code, and a cell can be uniquely identified by combining the phyCellID and carrierFreq.

[0111] In addition, in the scene where the switching is successful, the timing at which the connection problem is detected differs, and the specific contents included in the parameter information of the connection problem timer differ. The specific situations are as follows.

[0112] In situation 1, when a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching, and a second switching command is received from the source cell after the connection problem occurs or ends, the parameter information includes the duration of the connection problem timer, the identifier information of the source cell, and the identifier information of the target cell.

[0113] Wherein, after receiving the parameter information, the network device determines that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system according to the source cell identifier information and the target cell identifier information, and if the access problem timer does not exist, determines that the criticality of MRO is a too late switch criticality in the system; Or, A network device determines, according to the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if the duration of the connection problem timer is greater than a first preset threshold, determines that a critical scenario of MRO is a too late switch critical scenario in a system; Or, The network device determines that the source cell and the target cell belong to different systems according to the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, for example, if the source cell is an NG-RAN node, the target cell is an E-UTRAN node, and the access problem timer does not exist, determines that the critical scenario of MRO is a too late inter-system handover critical scenario; Or, The network equipment determines, based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to different systems, for example, if the source cell is an NG-RAN node, the target cell is an E-UTRAN node, and the connection problem timer duration is greater than a first preset threshold, and determines that the MRO critical scene is inter-system too late handover critical.

[0114] Here, the absence of an access problem timer indicates that there is no cell switch within a certain period of time before an access problem occurs.

[0115] In situation two, when a connection problem is detected after a cell switch is completed, and a first switch command sent from the target cell is not received after the period during which the connection problem occurs or after the connection problem ends, the parameter information of the connection problem includes the duration of a connection problem timer, identifier information of the source cell, and identifier information of the target cell.

[0116] Here, after receiving the parameter information, the network equipment determines based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that the critical scene of MRO is premature switching criticality in the system.

[0117] In situation three, when a connection problem is detected after a cell switch is completed, and a first switch command is received sent from a target cell after the connection problem occurrence period or the connection problem ends, the connection problem parameter information includes the duration of a connection problem timer, identifier information of a source cell, identifier information of the target cell, and identifier information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch as indicated by the first switch command.

[0118] Wherein, after the network equipment receives the parameter information, the network equipment determines, based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command is identical to the identifier information of the source cell, and the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that an MRO criticality scenario is an in-system premature switching criticality; Or, The network equipment determines, based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command is different from the identifier information of the source cell, and the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that an MRO critical scene is critical to switching to an erroneous cell in the system.

[0119] In situation four, if a connection problem is detected after a cell switch is completed, the parameter information of the connection problem includes: a duration of a connection problem timer, identifier information of a source cell, and identifier information of a target cell.

[0120] Here, after the network equipment receives the parameter information, the network equipment determines, based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to different systems, for example, if the source cell is an E-UTRAN node, the target cell is an NG-RAN node, and the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that the MRO critical scene is premature handover critical between systems.

[0121] In situation 5, when the cell switching is a cell switching in a target scene and a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching, the parameter information includes the duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell, identifier information of the source cell, and identifier information of the target cell.

[0122] Wherein, after the network device receives the parameter information, the network device determines according to the source cell's identifier information and the target cell's identifier information that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if there is no connection problem timer configured for the source cell, determines that the criticality of MRO is too late switching criticality in the system at the target scene; Or, A network device determines, based on the identifier information of the source cell and the identifier information of the target cell, that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and if a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell is greater than a first preset threshold, determines that a critical scenario of MRO is a too late switch critical in the system at the target scenario; Here, the target scene is a CHO scene or a DAPS HO scene.

[0123] Here, if there is no switch from another cell to the source cell before a connectivity problem occurs, there is no connectivity problem timer set for the source cell.

[0124] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0125] That is, in a DAPS HO scenario, if the user equipment detects that a radio link failure has occurred between the user equipment and the source cell after receiving a second switching command transmitted from the source cell to instruct the user equipment to switch to the target cell, second indication information to indicate the previous radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell may be carried in the parameter information and transmitted to the network equipment.

[0126] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of a method for determining an MRO critical scene according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a network device.

[0127] As shown in FIG. 4, the method may include the following steps 401-402.

[0128] In step 401, parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment is received. Here, the parameter information is obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a cell switching process and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful.

[0129] In addition, if a connection problem is detected in the above-mentioned cell switching process and the cell switching is successful, and if a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, these belong to the situation in which a connection problem is detected in the scene where the switching is successful. Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0130] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0131] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; Retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol (RLC) and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The method includes at least one of: a media access control layer receiving a lowest layer (LBT) failure indication; and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0132] Here, the first preset value is a preset maximum number of times to transmit MSGA, the second preset value is a preset maximum number of times to transmit a random access preamble sequence (Preamble), the third preset value is a preset maximum number of times to retransmit RLC, and the fourth preset value is a preset maximum number of times to continuously receive LBT.

[0133] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul (IAB) node, the parameter information includes first indication information; Here, the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul (BH) connection problem.

[0134] In other words, when a connection problem occurs for a UE, if the cell serving the UE belongs to a cell of an IAB node, first indication information for indicating that the connection problem occurs in the IAB node or for indicating that the connection problem is a BH connection problem can be carried in the parameter information, so that a network device receiving the parameter information can determine, based on the first indication information, whether the cell serving the UE belongs to an IAB node or whether the connection problem is a BH connection problem when a connection problem occurs for the UE.

[0135] In step 402, a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene is determined based on the parameter information, and a determination result of the MRO critical scene is obtained. Here, the critical scene of MRO is At least one of: criticality of switching too late within the system, criticality of switching too early within the system, criticality of switching to an error cell within the system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems.

[0136] In the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, there is a possibility that the above-mentioned MRO critical scene exists.

[0137] As can be seen from the above, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, the user equipment can obtain parameter information of the connection problem, and send the parameter information to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene according to the parameter information. That is, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when a connection problem is detected in the scene where the cell switching is successful, the parameter information of the connection problem is sent to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the MRO critical scene. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure realizes the determination of the MRO critical scene in the scene where the cell switching is successful.

[0138] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0139] Here, the time of switching initialization is the time when the UE receives a cell switching command, so when the UE receives the cell switching command, it records the time and starts the connection problem timer to count, and stops counting the connection problem timer until the connection problem is detected or the connection problem is ended.

[0140] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0141] Here, in the process of cell switching in normal scenarios (i.e., the process of cell switching other than CHO and DAPS HO scenarios), after receiving a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE disconnects from the source cell, so for cell switching in normal scenarios, after receiving a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE will no longer detect a connection problem between the UE and the source cell, so for cell switching in normal scenarios, only one connection problem timer needs to be set for one UE.

[0142] On the other hand, in the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, after the UE receives a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE further maintains a connection with the source cell for a certain period of time, so in the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene, after the UE receives a switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, a connection problem between the UE and the source cell may still occur.

[0143] Therefore, in the CHO scenario and the DAPS HO scenario, it is necessary to set a connection problem timer for each cell, that is, one connection problem timer is necessary to set for each source cell and target cell in the cell switching process, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is defined as the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell to the end time of the connection problem, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is defined as the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command to instruct it to switch to the target cell) to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0144] Therefore, in a scene where switching is successful, when a connection problem between the UE and the source cell is detected, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell needs to be sent to the network equipment as connection problem parameter information, and when a connection problem between the UE and the target cell is detected, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell needs to be sent to the network equipment as connection problem parameter information.

[0145] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0146] Here, the content information of the connection problem is information about which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to.

[0147] Also, the cell identifier information may be a Public Land Mobile Network ID (PLMN ID) where the cell is located, a cell ID, and a Tracking Area Code, or the cell identifier information may be a physical cell identifier (phyCellID) and a carrier frequency (carrierFreq). Here, a cell can be uniquely identified by combining the PLMN ID, cell ID, and Tracking Area Code, and a cell can be uniquely identified by combining the phyCellID and carrierFreq.

[0148] Furthermore, in a scene where switching is successful, the timing at which a connection problem is detected differs, and the specific contents included in the parameter information of the connection problem timer differ.

[0149] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0150] That is, in a DAPS HO scenario, if the user equipment detects that a radio link failure has occurred between the user equipment and the source cell after receiving a second switching command transmitted from the source cell to instruct the user equipment to switch to the target cell, second indication information to indicate the previous radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell may be carried in the parameter information and transmitted to the network equipment.

[0151] Optionally, the network device is a cell in which the connectivity problem occurs; Or, If the network device is not a cell where the connectivity problem occurs, the method further comprises: transmitting said parameter information to a cell where said access problem occurs. In addition, in the scenarios where the switching is successful, the timing at which the connection problem is detected is different, the cell in which the connection problem occurs is different, and the network device that receives the parameter information transmitted from the UE is also different. The specific situations are as follows: In the first situation, when a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching, and a second switching command is received from the source cell after the connection problem occurs or ends, the UE transmits parameter information to the target cell, and then the target cell forwards the parameter information to the source cell. That is, in this case, the network device that receives the parameter information transmitted from the UE is the target cell, but the target cell is not the cell where the connection problem occurs, so the target cell needs to transmit the parameter information to the source cell where the connection problem occurs.

[0152] In the second situation, when a connection problem is detected after the cell switching is completed, and the UE does not receive the first switching command sent from the target cell after the connection problem occurs or the connection problem ends, the UE directly transmits parameter information to the target cell where the connection problem occurs. That is, in this case, the network device that receives the parameter information sent from the UE is the target cell. Here, the connection problem occurs in the target cell, but the connection problem occurs immediately after the switching is completed, so the connection problem still occurs due to the unreasonable switching parameter configuration, that is, the source cell switching parameter configuration is unreasonable, so the target cell needs to further transmit the parameter information and the judgment result of the MRO criticality scene to the source cell.

[0153] In the third situation, when a connection problem is detected after the cell switching is completed, and a first switching command is received from the target cell after the connection problem occurs or the connection problem ends, the UE transmits the parameter information to the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command, and then the cell transmits the parameter information to the target cell to which the connection problem occurs. That is, in this case, the network device receiving the parameter information transmitted from the UE is the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command, but the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command is not the cell to which the connection problem occurs, so the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command needs to transmit the parameter information to the target cell to which the connection problem occurs. Similarly, a connection problem occurs in the target cell, but the connection problem occurs immediately after the switching is completed, so the connection problem still occurs due to the unreasonableness of the switching parameter configuration, that is, the source cell switching parameter configuration is unreasonable, so the target cell needs to further transmit the parameter information and the judgment result of the MRO criticality scene to the source cell.

[0154] Optionally, if the MRO criticality scene is one of an intra-system premature switchover criticality and an inter-system premature switchover criticality, the method further comprises: The method includes transmitting the MRO critical scene determination result and the parameter information to a cell that needs to adjust parameters.

[0155] Here, in the scene of intrasystem premature switching criticality and intersystem premature switching criticality, the cell in which the connection problem occurs is the target cell, but the root cause of the connection problem is that the switching parameters of the source cell are not appropriate. Therefore, in the scene of intrasystem premature switching criticality and intersystem premature switching criticality, the cell that needs to adjust parameters is the source cell.

[0156] Specifically, when a connection problem is detected after a cell switch is completed, and a first switch command sent from the target cell is not received after the connection problem occurs or ends, the network device that receives the parameter information sent from the UE is the target cell, where the target cell determines that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system according to the parameter information, and when the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that the critical scene of the MRO is premature switching critical in the system, and the target cell can further send the determination result that the critical scene of the MRO is premature switching critical in the system and the parameter information to the source cell that needs to perform parameter adjustment.

[0157] Or, when a connection problem is detected after the cell switching is completed, and a first switching command is received from the target cell after the connection problem occurs or the connection problem ends, the network device that receives the parameter information sent from the UE is the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command. Here, the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command transmits the parameter information to the target cell after receiving the parameter information. If the target cell determines that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system based on the parameter information, and the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command is the source cell, and the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, it determines that the critical scene of the MRO is premature switching critical in the system, and the target cell can further send the determination result that the critical scene of the MRO is premature switching critical in the system and the parameter information to the source cell that needs to perform parameter adjustment.

[0158] Or, when a connection problem is detected after the cell handover is completed, the network device that receives the parameter information sent from the UE is the target cell, where the target cell determines according to the parameter information that the source cell and the target cell belong to different systems, and when the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, determines that the critical scene of MRO is premature inter-system handover critical, and the target cell can further send the determination result that the critical scene of MRO is premature inter-system handover critical and the parameter information to the source cell that needs to perform parameter adjustment.

[0159] Optionally, if the MRO critical scene is critical to switching to an erroneous cell in the system, the method further comprises: Sending the determination result of the MRO criticality scene, the parameter information, and the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command to a cell that needs to adjust parameters; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0160] In addition, in the scene where the switching to the faulty cell in the system is critical, the cell where the connection problem occurs is the target cell, but the root cause of the connection problem is that the switching parameters of the source cell are not appropriate, so in the scene where the switching to the faulty cell in the system is critical, the cell whose parameters need to be adjusted is the source cell.

[0161] Specifically, when a connection problem is detected after a cell switch is completed, and a first switching command is received from a target cell after the connection problem occurs or the connection problem ends, the network device that receives the parameter information sent from the UE is the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command. Here, the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command transmits the parameter information to the target cell after receiving the parameter information. If the target cell determines that the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system based on the parameter information, and the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command is not the source cell, and the duration of the connection problem timer is less than or equal to a first preset threshold, it determines that the critical scene of MRO is critical to switch to an incorrect cell in the system, and the target cell can further transmit the determination result that the critical scene of MRO is critical to switch to an incorrect cell in the system, the parameter information, and the identifier information of the cell to which the UE is to switch indicated by the first switching command to the source cell that needs to undergo parameter adjustment.

[0162] The above is the relevant description of the method for determining MRO critical scenes at the UE side and the network equipment side in the embodiment of the present disclosure. Below, take an example where the connection problem is that T310 starts but does not time out, to further describe a specific embodiment of the method for determining MRO critical scenes in the embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0163] Embodiment 1 If the connectivity problem is that T310 starts but has not timed out, the UE's connectivity problem timer is set to be the time from the last switch initialization to the stopping of T310.

[0164] Here, according to the activation time of T310 and the duration of the UE's access problem timer, there are two scenarios:

[0165] In scene 1 shown in Figure 5, during the switching process, the UE activates T310 in the source cell, and when T310 operates, if it receives a second switching command sent from the source cell to instruct switching to the target cell (i.e., switching initialization is detected during the operation of T310), T310 stops, and at this time, the UE can collect the activation time of T310, the UE's access problem timer, the UE's identifier in the source cell, related measurement information, the identifier information of the source cell, the identifier information of the target cell, and the identifier information of the cell where the access problem occurs, etc. The UE reports the collected information to the target cell, and the target cell will judge the MRO criticality scene according to the collected information. Here, if the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and the UE's access problem timer does not exist or its duration is greater than the preset target threshold, it is too late to switch criticality in the system.

[0166] In scene 2 shown in Figure 5, immediately after the handover is completed, the UE starts T310 in the target cell, and the T310 timer stops after the UE receives continuous synchronization indication from the lowest layer, at this time the UE collects the start time of T310, the UE's access problem timer, the UE's identifier in the source cell, related measurement information, the identifier information of the source cell, the identifier information of the target cell, and the identifier information of the cell where the access problem occurs, etc. The UE reports the collected information to the target cell, and the target cell judges the MRO criticality scene according to the collected information. Here, if the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system and the duration of the UE's access problem timer is less than or equal to the preset target threshold, it is premature handover criticality in the system.

[0167] Here, the above-mentioned scene 1 and scene 2 can exist simultaneously in the same switching.

[0168] In addition, after receiving the information collected by the UE, the target cell further compares whether the identifier information of the cell where the connection problem occurs included in the information collected by the UE is identical to the identifier information of the cell. If the two are identical, when the target cell determines that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system, the target cell transmits the determination result that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system and the information collected by the UE to the source cell; if the two are different, the target cell transmits the information collected by the UE to the source cell.

[0169] It should be mentioned here that in the scene of premature switching criticality in the system, the cell where the connection problem occurs is the target cell, and the root cause of the connection problem is that the parameters of the source cell are not suitable. Therefore, in such a scene, the target cell sends the determination result that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system and the information collected by the UE to the source cell (i.e., the cell that needs to perform parameter adjustment), so that the source cell can easily perform parameter adjustment and solve the connection problem.

[0170] On the other hand, in the scene of too late switching criticality in the system, the cell where the connection problem occurs is the source cell, that is, the root cause of the connection problem is also caused by the source cell, that is, the source cell is not only the cell where the connection problem occurs, but also the cell where the parameter adjustment needs to be performed. Therefore, in such a scene, the target cell sends the information collected by the UE to the source cell, so that the source cell can easily adjust the parameters and solve the connection problem.

[0171] Embodiment 2 If the connectivity problem is that T310 starts but has not timed out, the UE's connectivity problem timer is set to be the time from the last switch initialization to the stopping of T310.

[0172] As shown in scene 3 of Figure 6 and scene 4 of Figure 7, if the UE activates T310 in the target cell immediately after the switching is completed, and the UE receives a first switching command sent from the target cell during the activation period of T310 or T312, T310 is stopped or T312 is stopped, and at this time, the UE can collect the activation time of T310, the UE's connection problem timer, the UE's identifier in the source cell, related measurement information, the identifier information of the source cell, the identifier information of the target cell, the identifier information of the cell to which the UE is to switch as instructed by the first switching command, and the identifier information of the cell where the connection problem occurs, etc., and the UE reports the collected information to the cell to which the UE is to switch (i.e., the cell to which the UE is to switch as instructed by the first switching command), and the cell to which the UE is to switch makes a judgment of an MRO critical scene based on the collected information.

[0173] Here, if the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and the cell to be switched to indicated by the first switching command is the source cell, and the duration of the UE's connection problem timer is less than or equal to the preset target threshold, then it is a premature switching criticality in the system.

[0174] If the source cell and the target cell belong to the same system, and the cell to be switched to indicated by the first switching command is a cell other than the source cell, and the duration of the UE's connection problem timer is less than or equal to the preset target threshold, it is critical to switch to an erroneous cell in the system.

[0175] In addition, after receiving the information collected by the UE, the cell to which the UE is to switch compares whether the cell in which the connection problem occurred is the main cell, and if it determines that the cell in which the connection problem occurred is the target cell, it transmits the information collected by the UE to the target cell. Here, after receiving the information collected by the UE, the target cell further compares whether the identifier information of the cell where the connection problem occurs, included in the information collected by the UE, is identical to the identifier information of the cell. If the two are identical, it judges the MRO criticality scene. If the cell to which the UE is to switch is the source cell, when the target cell judges that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system, the target cell transmits the judgment result that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system and the information collected by the UE to the source cell. If the cell to which the UE is to switch is another cell other than the source cell, when the target cell judges that the MRO criticality scene is switching criticality to an erroneous cell in the system, the target cell transmits the judgment result that the MRO criticality scene is switching criticality to an erroneous cell in the system, the identifier information of the cell to which the UE is to switch, and the information collected by the UE to the source cell.

[0176] It should be explained here that in the scene of premature switching criticality in the system, the cell where the connection problem occurs is the target cell, and the root cause of the connection problem is that the switching parameters of the source cell are not appropriate. Therefore, in such a scene, the target cell needs to send the determination result that the MRO criticality scene is premature switching criticality in the system and the information collected by the UE to the source cell (i.e., the cell that needs to perform parameter adjustment), so that the source cell can easily perform parameter adjustment and solve the connection problem.

[0177] Similarly, in the scene where the MRO criticality is reached to the wrong cell in the system, the cell where the connection problem occurs is the target cell, but the root cause of the connection problem is that the switching parameters of the source cell are not appropriate. Therefore, in such a scene, the target cell needs to transmit the determination result that the MRO criticality scene is the switching criticality to the wrong cell in the system, the identifier information of the cell that the UE is going to switch to, and the information collected by the UE to the source cell, so that the source cell can easily adjust parameters and solve the connection problem.

[0178] Embodiment 3 If the connectivity problem is that T310 starts but has not timed out, the UE's connectivity problem timer is set to be the time from the last switch initialization to the stopping of T310.

[0179] As shown in scene 1 of Figure 5, the information collected by the UE and the transmission process of the information collected by the UE are as described in the above embodiment 1. Here, if the source cell is an NG-RAN node, the target cell to be switched to is an E-UTRAN node, and the connection problem timer of the UE does not exist or the duration is greater than the preset target threshold, it is a too late inter-system switchover critical.

[0180] As shown in scene 2 of Figure 5, the information collected by the UE and the transmission process of the information collected by the UE are as described in the above embodiment 1. Here, if the source cell is an E-UTRAN node, the target cell that has been successfully switched to is an NG-RAN node, and the duration of the access problem timer of the UE is less than or equal to the preset target threshold, it is a premature inter-system switchover.

[0181] Embodiment 4 In a CHO scenario, in a situation where the UE sets one connection problem timer for each of the source cell and the target cell, where the connection problem is that T310 is started but not timed out, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command sent from another cell to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the stop time of T310, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command sent from another cell to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the stop time of T310.

[0182] As shown in scene 5 of FIG. 8, after the switch initialization (i.e., after the UE receives a second switch command for instructing the UE to switch to the target cell sent from the source cell), the UE still maintains a connection with the source cell, so the UE may start T310 in the source cell and stop T310 when the switch is performed. At this time, the UE may collect the start time of T310, the duration of the access problem timer set for the source cell, the UE's identifier in the source cell, related measurement information, the identifier information of the source cell, the identifier information of the target cell, and the identifier information of the cell where the access problem occurs, etc. The UE transmits the collected information to the target cell, and the target cell judges the MRO criticality scene based on the collected information. Here, if there is no access problem timer set for the source cell or the duration is greater than the preset target threshold, it is too late CHO criticality in the system.

[0183] Here, after receiving the information collected by the UE, the target cell further compares whether the identifier information of the cell where the connection problem occurs contained in the information collected by the UE is identical to the identifier information of the cell. If the two are different, the target cell transmits the information collected by the UE to the source cell, so that the source cell where the connection problem occurs can determine an MRO critical scene based on the information collected by the UE.

[0184] Here, it should be further explained that in this embodiment, T310 is initiated in the source cell, i.e., when the connection problem is a connection problem between the UE and the source cell, the information collected by the UE includes the duration of the connection problem timer set in the source cell.

[0185] Fifth embodiment In a DAPS HO scenario, in a situation where the UE sets one connection problem timer for each of the source cell and the target cell, in this case, if the connection problem occurs when T310 is activated but not timed out in the source cell, or when T310 is activated but timed out in the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the source cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command sent from another cell to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the time when T310 stops or times out, and the duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the UE in the target cell (i.e., the time when the UE last receives a switching command sent from another cell to instruct it to switch to the source cell) to the time when T310 stops or times out.

[0186] As shown in scene 6 of FIG. 9, after the switch initialization (i.e., after the UE receives the second switch command to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell sent from the source cell), the UE still maintains a connection with the source cell, so the UE starts T310 in the source cell, and stops T310 when the switch is completed. At this time, the UE can collect the start time of T310, the duration of the access problem timer set for the source cell, the UE's identifier in the source cell, related measurement information, the identifier information of the source cell, the identifier information of the target cell, and the identifier information of the cell where the access problem occurs, etc., and then transmit the collected information to the target cell, so that the target cell judges the MRO criticality scene based on the collected information. Here, if there is no access problem timer set for the source cell or the duration is greater than the preset target threshold, it is too late DAPS HO criticality in the system.

[0187] Here, after receiving the information collected by the UE, the target cell further compares whether the identifier information of the cell where the connection problem occurs contained in the information collected by the UE is identical to the identifier information of the cell. If the two are different, the target cell transmits the information collected by the UE to the source cell, so that the source cell where the connection problem occurs can determine an MRO critical scene based on the information collected by the UE.

[0188] Here, it should be further explained that in this embodiment, T310 is initiated in the source cell, that is, the connection problem is a connection problem between the UE and the source cell, so the information collected by the UE includes the duration of the connection problem timer set in the source cell.

[0189] In addition, it should be further explained that in the CHO and DAPS HO scenarios, after the UE receives the second switching command sent from the source cell to instruct the UE to switch to the target cell, the UE still maintains a connection with the source cell for a certain period of time, so that in the CHO and DAPS HO scenarios, after the UE receives the second switching command, the UE may still detect a connection problem with the source cell, and therefore, when the duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is less than a preset target threshold, a too-late CHO criticality in the system or a too-late DAPS HO criticality in the system occurs. Therefore, the too-late CHO criticality in the system is a criticality situation specific to the CHO scenario, and the too-late DAPS HO criticality in the system is a criticality situation specific to the DAPS HO scenario.

[0190] Moreover, the various critical scenes described above in the first to third embodiments may occur in the CHO scene and the DAPS HO scene.

[0191] As can be seen from the above, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, in a scene where switching is successful, the UE collects relevant information of the connection problem that occurs and reports it to the network side, so that the network side judges the critical scene of MRO, and further adjusts the switching parameters according to the judgment result, thereby further enhancing mobility robustness.

[0192] The above describes the method for determining an MRO critical scene according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Below, the device for determining an MRO critical scene according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0193] Referring to FIG. 10 , an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an MRO critical scene determination device applied to a user equipment, the device comprising: A parameter acquisition module 1001 is used for acquiring parameter information of a connection problem when a connection problem is detected in a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; A sending module 1002 is used to send the parameter information to a network device, thereby allowing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0194] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0195] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0196] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0197] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information; Here, the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem. Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0198] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0199] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0200] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0201] Referring to FIG. 11 , an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an MRO criticality scene determination device applied to a network device, the device comprising: A parameter receiving module 1101, used for receiving parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; and a scene determination module 1102 used for determining a mobility robustness optimized MRO-critical scene based on the parameter information and obtaining a determination result of the MRO-critical scene.

[0202] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0203] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0204] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0205] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem; The apparatus further comprises: A problem confirmation module is included which is used to determine that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node based on the first indication information, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem.

[0206] Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0207] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0208] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0209] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0210] Optionally, the network device is a cell in which the connectivity problem occurs; Or, If the network device is not a cell in which the connection problem occurs, the device further comprises: A first information transmission module is used for transmitting the parameter information to the cell where the connection problem occurs.

[0211] Optionally, the MRO critical scene comprises: At least one of: criticality of switching too late within the system, criticality of switching too early within the system, criticality of switching to an error cell within the system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems. Optionally, if the MRO criticality scene is one of an intra-system premature switchover criticality and an inter-system premature switchover criticality, the apparatus further comprises: A second information transmission module is used for transmitting the MRO critical scene determination result and the parameter information to a cell that needs to adjust parameters.

[0212] Optionally, if the MRO criticality scenario is critical to switching to an erroneous cell in the system, the apparatus further comprises: a third information transmission module for transmitting the determination result of the MRO criticality scene, the parameter information, and the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command to a cell that needs to adjust parameters; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0213] It should be noted that the division into units in the embodiments of the present application is only schematic and merely a logical functional division, and other division methods may be used in actual implementation. In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, each unit may exist physically alone, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The integrated units may be realized in the form of hardware or software functional units.

[0214] When the integrated unit is realized in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, it can be stored in one processor-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application can be essentially or in part of the prior art, or the whole or part of the technical solution can be expressed in the form of a software product, and the computer software product is stored in a storage medium and includes some commands to make a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) or a processor execute all or part of the steps of the method described in each embodiment of the present application. The storage medium includes various media that can store program codes, such as a U disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

[0215] It should be noted that the above-mentioned apparatus according to the embodiment of the present disclosure can realize all the method steps realized in the above-mentioned method embodiment and can achieve similar technical effects, and the similar parts and beneficial effects of the method embodiment in this embodiment will not be specifically described here.

[0216] An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a system for determining an MRO critical scene, the system including the above-mentioned user equipment and network equipment.

[0217] An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a user equipment, which includes a memory 1201, a transceiver 1202, and a processor 1203, as shown in FIG.

[0218] The memory 1201 is used to store computer programs. The transceiver 1202 is used to transmit and receive data under the control of the processor 1203. The processor 1203 reads the computer program in the memory 1201 and executes the When a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, obtaining parameter information of the connection problem; and controlling the transceiver 1202 to transmit the parameter information to a network device, thereby causing the network device to determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information.

[0219] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0220] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0221] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0222] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information; Here, the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem. Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0223] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0224] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0225] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0226] Here, in FIG. 12, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, specifically connecting various circuits of one or more processors, represented by processor 1203, and memory, represented by memory 1201. The bus architecture may further connect various other circuits, such as peripheral devices, regulators, and power management circuits, all of which are well known to those skilled in the art and therefore will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1202 is comprised of multiple components, such as transmitters and receivers, that provide a means for communicating with various other devices via transmission media, such as wireless lines, wired lines, optical cables, etc. For different user devices, the user interface 1204 may further be an interface that can be internally and externally connected to the required devices, and the connected devices include, but are not limited to, keypads, displays, speakers, microphones, joysticks, etc.

[0227] The processor 1203 is responsible for managing and generally processing the bus architecture, and the memory 1201 may store data used by the processor 1203 when performing operations.

[0228] Optionally, the processor 1203 may be a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) or a CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device), and the processor may employ a multi-core architecture.

[0229] The processor is used to execute any one of the methods according to the embodiments of the present application according to the executable instructions obtained by calling the computer program stored in the memory. The processor and the memory may be physically located separately.

[0230] The embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a network device, which, as shown in FIG. 13, includes a memory 1301, a transceiver 1302, and a processor 1303.

[0231] The memory 1301 is used to store computer programs. The transceiver 1302 is used to transmit and receive data under the control of the processor 1303. The processor 1303 reads the computer program in the memory 1301 and executes the following: Controlling the transceiver 1303 to receive parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; Based on the parameter information, determine a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene, and obtain a determination result of the MRO critical scene.

[0232] Optionally, the parameter information includes: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0233] Optionally, the connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0234] Optionally, the connection problem is The T310 timer is running and has not timed out, The T312 timer is running and has not timed out, The number of times of sending the MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where the MSGA is a message sent by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission of the radio link layer control protocol and the number of retransmissions is less than a third preset value; The media access control layer includes at least one of receiving an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer, and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

[0235] Optionally, when the connection problem occurs in the user equipment, if a cell serving the user equipment belongs to a cell of a 5G integrated access backhaul node, the parameter information includes first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem, and the processor further comprises: Based on the first indication information, it is used to determine that the connection problem occurs in a 5G integrated access backhaul node, or to indicate that the connection problem is a backhaul connection problem. Optionally, the parameter information includes a duration of a connectivity problem timer, where the duration of the connectivity problem timer is a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to a time of detecting the connectivity problem, or a duration from a time of a previous switching initialization of the user equipment to an end time of the connectivity problem.

[0236] Optionally, the parameter information further comprises: Content information of the connection problem; location information of the user equipment when the user equipment detects the connection problem; Identifier information of a source cell and an identifier information of a target cell; Identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by a first switching command; and identification information of a cell in which the connection problem occurs; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0237] Optionally, in a conditional switching scenario or a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, set a connection problem timer for each cell, the each cell being a source cell or a target cell in a cell switching process; Wherein, if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the source cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the source cell; if the connection problem is a connection problem between the user equipment and the target cell, the duration of the connection problem timer included in the parameter information is a duration of a connection problem timer set for the target cell; The duration of the connection problem timer set for the source cell is a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to a time of detecting the connection problem, or a duration from a time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the source cell to an end time of the connection problem, The duration of the connection problem timer set for the target cell is the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the time of detecting the connection problem, or the duration from the time of the last switching initialization of the user equipment in the target cell to the end time of the connection problem.

[0238] Optionally, the connection problem may further include: In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information further includes second instruction information, Here, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a failure of connection between the user equipment and the source cell.

[0239] Optionally, the network device is a cell in which the connectivity problem occurs; Or, If the network device is not a cell in which the connection problem occurs, the processor further The parameter information is used to transmit to the cell where the connection problem occurs. Optionally, the MRO critical scene comprises: At least one of: criticality of switching too late within the system, criticality of switching too early within the system, criticality of switching to an error cell within the system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems.

[0240] Optionally, if the MRO criticality scene is one of an intra-system premature switchover criticality and an inter-system premature switchover criticality, the processor further comprises: It is used to transmit the MRO critical scene judgment result and the parameter information to a cell that needs to adjust its parameter.

[0241] Optionally, if the MRO criticality scene is critical to switching to an erroneous cell in the system, the processor further comprises: For transmitting the determination result of the MRO criticality scene, the parameter information, and the identifier information of the cell to which the user equipment is to switch indicated by the first switching command to a cell that needs to adjust parameters; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

[0242] Here, in FIG. 13, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, specifically to which various circuits, such as one or more processors, represented by processor 1303, and memory, represented by memory 1301, are connected. The bus architecture may further couple various other circuits, such as peripherals, regulators, and power management circuits, all of which are well known to those skilled in the art and therefore will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1302 comprises a number of components, such as a transmitter and a receiver, that provide a means for communicating with various other devices, for example, via a transmission medium such as a wireless line, a wired line, an optical cable, etc. The processor 1303 is responsible for managing and generally processing the bus architecture, and the memory 1301 may store data that the processor 1303 uses when performing operations.

[0243] The processor 1303 may be a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) or a CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device), and the processor may employ a multi-core architecture.

[0244] It should be noted that the above-mentioned apparatus according to the embodiment of the present disclosure can realize all the method steps realized in the above-mentioned method embodiment, and can achieve similar technical effects, and the similar parts and beneficial effects of the method embodiment in this embodiment will not be specifically described here.

[0245] An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a processor-readable storage medium, the processor-readable storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program being used to cause the processor to execute the MRO critical scene determination method.

[0246] The processor-readable storage medium may be any available medium or data storage device accessible by a processor, including, but not limited to, magnetic memory (e.g., flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, magneto-optical disk (MO), etc.), optical memory (e.g., CD, DVD, BD, HVD, etc.), and semiconductor memory (e.g., ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, non-volatile memory (NANDFLASH), solid-state drive (SSD), etc.).

[0247] Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, a system, or a computer program product. Thus, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware. The present application may also take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk memory, optical memory, etc.) that contain computer usable program code.

[0248] The present application will be described with reference to flowcharts and / or block diagrams of methods, devices (systems), and computer program products according to the embodiments of the present application. It should be understood that each flow and / or block in the flowcharts and / or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and / or blocks in the flowcharts and / or block diagrams, can be realized by computer-executable instructions. These computer-executable instructions can be provided to a processor of a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, an embedded processor, or other programmable data processing device to generate an apparatus, and the instructions executed by the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device generate an apparatus for implementing the functions specified in one or more flows of the flowcharts and / or one or more blocks of the block diagrams.

[0249] These processor-executable instructions may also be stored in a processor-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing device to operate in a particular manner, and the instructions stored in the processor-readable memory may generate an article of manufacture that includes an instruction apparatus, which implements the functions specified in one or more flows of the flowcharts and / or one or more blocks of the block diagrams.

[0250] These processor-executable instructions may also be loaded into a computer or other programmable data processing device and cause the computer or other programmable device to perform a series of operational steps to produce a computer-implemented process, whereby the commands executed on the computer or other programmable device provide steps for implementing the functions specified in one or more flows of the flowcharts and / or one or more blocks of the block diagrams.

[0251] The above-described device embodiment is merely illustrative, in which the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in one place or distributed among multiple network units. According to actual needs, some or all of the modules can be selected to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment. Those skilled in the art can understand and implement it without creative labor.

[0252] Each component of the present disclosure may be realized by hardware, by a software module running on one or more processors, or by a combination thereof. As will be understood by those skilled in the art, in practice, a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) may be used to realize some or all of the functions of some or all of the components of the computing device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure. The present application may also be realized as an apparatus or an apparatus program (e.g., a computer program and a computer program product) for performing some or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for implementing the present disclosure may be stored on a computer-readable medium or may have the form of one or more signals. Such signals may be obtained by downloading from an Internet site, provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

[0253] For example, FIG. 14 shows a processing device capable of implementing the method of the present disclosure. The processing device conventionally comprises a processor 1410 and a computer program product or computer readable medium as memory 1420. The memory 1420 may be an electronic memory such as a flash memory, an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), an EPROM, a hard disk, a ROM, etc. The memory 1420 has a memory space 1430 for a program code 1431 for performing the steps of any of the above methods. For example, the memory space 1430 for the program code may include program codes 1431 for implementing the various steps of the above methods, respectively. The program code is read from or written to one or more computer program products. The program code carrier may be, for example, a hard disk, a CD (Compact Disc), a memory card, a floppy disk, etc. Such a computer program product is generally a portable or fixed storage unit as shown in FIG. 15. The storage unit may have storage units, memory spaces, etc. arranged similarly to the memory 1420 in the processing device of FIG. 14. The program code may, for example, be compressed. Typically, the storage unit contains computer readable code 1431, i.e. code readable by a processor, such as 1410, which, when executed by a processing device, causes the processing device to perform the steps of the method.

[0254] As used herein, "one embodiment," "an embodiment," or "one or more embodiments" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in an embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the disclosure. Also, instances of the phrase "in one embodiment" herein do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment.

[0255] Although many specific details are described in the specification provided herein, embodiments of the present disclosure may be practiced without these specific details. In some embodiments, well-known methods, structures and techniques are not shown in detail so as not to obscure an understanding of this specification.

[0256] In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be constructed as a limitation on the scope of the claim. The word "comprise" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not recited in the claim, and the word "1" or "one" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The disclosure can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several different elements and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In claims reciting a plurality of apparatuses, a plurality of these apparatuses may be embodied by the same hardware item. The use of the words first, second, third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

[0257] Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and its equivalent technology, the present application also intends to include these modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A method for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a user equipment, comprising: The method comprises: When a connection problem is detected in the process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful, obtaining parameter information of the connection problem; transmitting the parameter information to a network device; The connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Wherein, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell; The parameter information is content information of the connection problem for indicating which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to; and identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by the first switching command; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

2. The connection problem may further include, in addition to a radio link failure occurring between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command in a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, The T310 timer is running and has not timed out; and The T312 timer is running and has not timed out; and The number of transmissions of MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where MSGA is a message transmitted by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission and retransmission count of the radio link layer control protocol is less than a third preset value; The method for determining an MRO critical scene as described in claim 1, including at least one of: a media access control layer receives an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer and the number of times the LBT failure indication is continuously received is less than a fourth preset value.

3. A method for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a network device, comprising: The method comprises: receiving parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; Determining a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information, and obtaining a determination result of the MRO critical scene; The connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Wherein, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell; The parameter information is content information of the connection problem for indicating which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to; and identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by the first switching command; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

4. The connection problem may further include, in addition to a radio link failure occurring between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command in a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, The T310 timer is running and has not timed out; and The T312 timer is running and has not timed out; and The number of transmissions of MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where MSGA is a message transmitted by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission and retransmission count of the radio link layer control protocol is less than a third preset value; The method for determining an MRO critical scene as described in claim 3, including at least one of: the media access control layer receives an LBT failure indication from the lowest layer and the number of times the LBT failure indication is continuously received is less than a fourth preset value.

5. The MRO criticality scene is The method for determining an MRO critical scene according to claim 3, which is at least one of: criticality of switching too late in a system, criticality of switching too early in a system, criticality of switching to an error cell in a system, criticality of switching too late between systems, and criticality of switching too early between systems.

6. A device for determining an MRO critical scene applied to a user equipment, comprising: The apparatus comprises: A parameter acquisition module is used for acquiring parameter information of a connection problem when a connection problem is detected in a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when a connection problem is detected within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; a transmission module adapted to transmit the parameter information to a network device; The connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Wherein, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell; The parameter information is content information of the connection problem for indicating which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to; and identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by the first switching command; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

7. The connection problem may further include, in addition to a radio link failure occurring between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command in a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, The T310 timer is running and has not timed out; and The T312 timer is running and has not timed out; and The number of transmissions of MSGA in the random access process is greater than 1 and less than a first preset value, where MSGA is a message transmitted by the user equipment in a two-step random access process; In the random access process, the number of times of transmitting the random access preamble sequence is greater than 1 and less than a second preset value; a successful random access process triggered by a beam failure recovery process; The retransmission and retransmission count of the radio link layer control protocol is less than a third preset value; The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the media access control layer includes at least one of: receiving an LBT failure indication from a lowest layer; and a number of consecutively receiving the LBT failure indication is less than a fourth preset value.

8. A device for determining an MRO criticality scene applied to a network device, comprising: The apparatus comprises: a parameter receiving module used for receiving parameter information of a connection problem sent by a user equipment, the parameter information being obtained when the user equipment detects the connection problem during a process of cell switching and the cell switching is successful, or when the user equipment detects the connection problem within a preset time after the cell switching is successful; A scene determination module is used for determining a mobility robustness optimized MRO critical scene based on the parameter information, and obtaining a determination result of the MRO critical scene; The connection problem is In a dual-active protocol stack switching scenario, a radio link failure occurs between the user equipment and a source cell after the user equipment receives a second switching command; The parameter information includes second instruction information, Wherein, the second switching command is a switching command sent by the source cell and used to instruct the user equipment to switch to a target cell, and the second indication information is used to indicate a radio link failure between the user equipment and the source cell; The parameter information is content information of the connection problem for indicating which connection problem the detected connection problem belongs to; and identification information of a cell to which the user equipment is to switch, as indicated by the first switching command; Here, the first switching command is a switching command sent by the target cell to the user equipment.

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