Method and device for determining beam measurement reporting mode

Abstract

The present disclosure proposes a method and device for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, which relates to the field of communications. The technical solution of the present application is mainly that a network device sends a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, and the terminal device determines a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication technology, and in particular to a method and device for determining a beam measurement reporting mode. Background Art

[0002] In the 5G NR system, L1 / L2-centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP framework based on L1 / L2 signaling are proposed. In L1 / L2-centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP, in order to provide services to the terminal by using the beam of the neighboring cell adjacent to the service cell of the terminal, it is expected that the terminal can perform beam measurement on the reference signal of the neighboring cell and report it. There may be multiple different reporting methods for beam measurement reporting of multiple cells. Currently, there is a lack of a suitable mechanism to determine the reporting method of beam measurement reporting of multiple cells. Summary of the invention

[0003] The present disclosure proposes a method and apparatus for determining a beam measurement reporting method, and provides a mechanism for determining a beam measurement reporting method.

[0004] A first aspect embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, which is applied to a terminal device, and the method includes: in response to a control message about beam measurement reporting received from a network device, determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting; the reporting mode includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell separately to the network device based on the control message.

[0005] Optionally, before determining the reporting method for beam measurement reporting, the method also includes: receiving a configuration message sent by a network device to configure beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the service cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-service cell.

[0006] Optionally, the control message includes reporting mode information, and the reporting mode information is used to indicate a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting; the determining of the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting includes: determining the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the reporting mode information.

[0007] Optionally, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell; the reporting method for determining the beam measurement report includes: determining the reporting method for the beam measurement report based on the activation message to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0008] Optionally, the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell; determining the reporting method for beam measurement reporting includes: determining the reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0009] Optionally, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting determined based on the first message and the second message includes: when the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-type trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more indicated first-type trigger states, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first-type trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0010] Optionally, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting determined based on the first message and the second message includes: when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method.

[0011] Optionally, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting determined based on the first message and the second message includes: when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0012] Optionally, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting determined based on the first message and the second message includes: when the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0013] Optionally, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting; the reporting method determined for beam measurement reporting includes: for multiple beam measurement reports having the same reporting resource configuration information, determining the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is to send the multiple beam measurement results to the network device in the combined reporting method; and for beam measurement reports having unique reporting resource configuration information, determining the method for beam measurement reporting is to send the beam measurement results to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0014] An embodiment of the second aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, which is applied to a network device, and the method includes: sending a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, wherein the control message indicates that the terminal device determines a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the control message; the reporting mode includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a plurality of beam measurement results of a serving cell and a beam measurement result of a non-serving cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell; and a separate reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a beam measurement result of the serving cell and at least one of the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0015] Optionally, before sending a control message about beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, the method also includes: sending a configuration message to the terminal device to configure the beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the service cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-service cell.

[0016] Optionally, the control message includes reporting mode information for indicating a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting, so as to instruct the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the reporting mode information.

[0017] Optionally, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message is used to instruct the terminal device to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0018] Optionally, the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and one second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0019] Optionally, when the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-class trigger states and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0020] Optionally, when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner.

[0021] Optionally, when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0022] Optionally, when the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0023] Optionally, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting; wherein the same reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send multiple beam measurement results with the same resource configuration information to the network device in the combined reporting manner; and the unique reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send the beam measurement results with the unique resource configuration information to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0024] The third aspect embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, which is applied to a terminal device, and includes: a processing module, which is used to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting in response to a control message about beam measurement reporting received from a network device; the reporting mode includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0025] The fourth aspect embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, which is applied to a network device, including: a communication module, used to send a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, wherein the control message instructs the terminal device to determine the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the control message; the reporting mode includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0026] The fifth aspect embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, including: a transceiver; a memory; a processor, which is respectively connected to the transceiver and the memory, and is configured to control the wireless signal reception and transmission of the transceiver by executing computer-executable instructions on the memory, and can implement the method for determining the beam measurement reporting method of the above-mentioned first aspect embodiment or second aspect embodiment.

[0027] The sixth aspect embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions; after the computer executable instructions are executed by the processor, the method for determining the beam measurement reporting method of the above-mentioned first aspect embodiment or second aspect embodiment can be implemented.

[0028] The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining a beam measurement reporting mode, wherein a network device sends a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, and the terminal device determines a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0029] Additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will be given in part in the following description and in part will be obvious from the following description or learned through practice of the present disclosure. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0030] The above and / or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and easily understood from the following description of the embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

[0031] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0032] Figure 2 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0033] Figure 3 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0034] Figure 4 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0035] Figure 5A It is a schematic diagram of MAC CE signaling for beam measurement reporting activation in the related art;

[0036] Figure 5B is a schematic diagram of MAC CE signaling for beam measurement reporting activation according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0037] Figure 6 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0038] Figure 7 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0039] Figure 8 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0040] Fig. 9 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0041] Fig.10 A flowchart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0042] Fig.11 A schematic diagram of the structure of a device for determining a beam measurement reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0043] Fig.12 A schematic diagram of the structure of a device for determining a beam measurement reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0044] Fig.13 A schematic diagram of the structure of a device for determining a beam measurement reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0045] Fig.14 A schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0046] Fig.15 A schematic diagram of the structure of a chip provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0047] Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, examples of which are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals throughout represent the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary and are intended to be used to explain the present disclosure, and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

[0048] In order to better understand the method and device for determining the beam measurement reporting method disclosed in the embodiment of the present application, the communication system to which the embodiment of the present application is applicable is first described below.

[0049] See also Figure 1 , Figure 1 The present invention provides a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system. The communication system may include but is not limited to a network device and a terminal device. Figure 1 The number and form of devices shown are for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute a limitation on the embodiments of the present application. In actual applications, two or more network devices and two or more terminal devices may be included. Figure 1 The communication system shown includes a network device 101 and a terminal device 102 as an example.

[0050] It should be noted that the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application can be applied to various communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE) system, fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system, 5G new radio (NR) system, or other future new mobile communication systems.

[0051] The network device 101 in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for transmitting or receiving signals on the network side. For example, the network device 101 may be an evolved NodeB (eNB), a transmission point (TRP), a next generation NodeB (gNB) in an NR system, a base station in other future mobile communication systems, or an access node in a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system. The embodiments of the present application do not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the network device. The network device provided in the embodiment of the present application may be composed of a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), wherein the CU may also be referred to as a control unit. The CU-DU structure may be used to split the protocol layer of the network device, such as the base station, and the functions of some protocol layers are placed in the CU for centralized control, and the functions of the remaining part or all of the protocol layers are distributed in the DU, and the DU is centrally controlled by the CU.

[0052] The terminal device 102 in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for receiving or transmitting signals on the user side, such as a mobile phone. The terminal device (terminal) can also be called user equipment (UE), mobile station (MS), mobile terminal device (MT), etc. The terminal device can be a car with communication function, a smart car, a mobile phone, a wearable device, a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with wireless transceiver function, a virtual reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in self-driving, a wireless terminal device in remote medical surgery, a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal device in smart home (smart home), etc. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the terminal device.

[0053] It can be understood that the communication system described in the embodiment of the present application is for more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application, and does not constitute a limitation on the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application. Ordinary technicians in this field can know that with the evolution of the system architecture and the emergence of new business scenarios, the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is also applicable to similar technical problems.

[0054] In the 5G NR system, L1 / L2-centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP framework based on L1 / L2 signaling are proposed. In L1 / L2-centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP, in order to provide services to the terminal by using the beam of the neighboring cell adjacent to the service cell of the terminal, it is expected that the terminal can perform beam measurement on the reference signal of the neighboring cell and report it. There may be multiple different reporting methods for beam measurement reporting of multiple cells. Currently, there is a lack of a suitable mechanism to determine the reporting method of beam measurement reporting of multiple cells.

[0055] In the 5G NR system, beam measurement reporting includes three types: periodic reporting, semi-persistent reporting, and aperiodic reporting. In some related technologies, for periodic reporting, it takes effect after the radio resource control (RRC) configuration, and the reporting time is limited by parameters; for semi-persistent reporting, it needs to be activated by the media access control control element (MAC CE) signaling after RRC configuration to report, and the reporting time is limited by parameters; and for aperiodic reporting, it is reported after being triggered by downlink control information (DCI, Downlink Control Information). The present disclosure designs a mechanism for determining the beam measurement reporting method for these three reporting types.

[0056] The method and device for determining the beam measurement reporting method provided in the present application are described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

[0057] Figure 2 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 2 As shown, the method can be executed by a terminal device and includes the following steps.

[0058] Step S201: In response to a control message regarding beam measurement reporting received from a network device, a reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined.

[0059] The reporting methods include at least one of the following: a combined reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell separately to the network device based on the control message.

[0060] In this embodiment, the network device may send a control message about beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the terminal device determines how to perform beam measurement reporting in response to the control message. Specifically, the terminal device may perform beam measurement reporting in a combined reporting mode, a separate reporting mode, or a combination of the two.

[0061] In the combined reporting method, the terminal device reports the beam measurement results of the serving cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device together.

[0062] In the separate reporting mode, the terminal device reports at least one beam measurement result of the serving cell and the beam measurement result of the non-serving cell to the network device separately, that is, the terminal device reports one beam measurement result each time.

[0063] In the combination of the combined reporting method and the separate reporting method, the terminal device can report the beam measurement results of the service cell and some of the beam measurement results of the non-service cell to the network device together, and report at least one of the remaining beam measurement results to the network device separately.

[0064] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, a network device sends a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0065] Figure 3 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 3As shown, the method may be executed by a terminal device, and may include but is not limited to the following steps:

[0066] Step S301: Receive a configuration message sent by a network device to configure beam measurement reporting. The configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

[0067] In all embodiments of the present disclosure, the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement report of the service cell and the beam measurement report of each non-service cell; the configuration message may indicate the configuration of the beam measurement report of the service cell and the beam measurement report of each non-service cell through one signaling, or may indicate the configuration of the beam measurement report of the service cell and the beam measurement report of each non-service cell through different signaling; the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

[0068] In this embodiment, the network device sends a configuration message for configuring beam measurement reporting to the terminal device. In some embodiments, the configuration message may be RRC signaling, and the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and each non-serving cell. For example, the configuration message may include configuration information for the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell. In all embodiments of the present disclosure, the same signaling is used to indicate the configuration of the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell for example; of course, this is not a restrictive description of the technology involved in the embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0069] In some embodiments, the configuration information may include the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell. For example, the network device may notify the terminal device of the configuration information CSI reporting configuration (CSI-ReportConfig) for configuring beam measurement reporting of each cell (including the serving cell and the non-serving cell) through RRC signaling. Specifically, the network device includes the CSI reporting configuration of each cell in a CSI reporting configuration list (CSI-ReportConfig List) through RRC configuration, and allocates CSI reporting configuration IDs (CSI-ReportConfig ID) to the CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration list in sequence. For example, the current service cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-service cells are Cell 2-Cell 5. The CSI reporting configuration for the beam measurement reporting of cells Cell 1-Cell 5 is included in the CSI reporting configuration list and is assigned a corresponding ID. For example, the CSI reporting configuration list includes CSI-ReportConfig 1 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of service cell Cell 1, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 1), CSI-ReportConfig 2 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of non-service cell Cell 2, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 2)...CSI-ReportConfig 5 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of non-service cell Cell 5, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 5).

[0070] In addition, a cell ID may be introduced into a CSI resource set (CSI-SSB-ResourceSet) associated with the CSI reporting configuration to distinguish which cell the measurement reference signal comes from.

[0071] Step S302: In response to a control message regarding beam measurement reporting received from a network device, determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting.

[0072] The reporting methods include at least one of the following:

[0073] Combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a plurality of beam measurement results of a serving cell and a beam measurement result of a non-serving cell to a network device based on a control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell;

[0074] Separate reporting method: In the separate reporting method, the terminal device sends at least one beam measurement result of the serving cell and the beam measurement result of the non-serving cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0075] For a detailed description of the above step S302, please refer to the relevant description of step S201, which will not be repeated here.

[0076] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, the network device sends a configuration message for configuring the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell to the terminal device, and the terminal device can learn how to configure the beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and the non-serving cell, so that the terminal device can perform beam measurement reporting for the serving cell and the non-serving cell. In addition, when performing the beam measurement reporting, the terminal device adopts the reporting mode determined in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. Thus, a mechanism is provided for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0077] Figure 4 A flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. Figure 2 or Figure 3 In the embodiment shown in the example embodiment, the control message includes reporting mode information for indicating the reporting mode of the beam measurement report, such as Figure 4 As shown, Figure 2 Step S201 or Figure 3 The step S302 shown may include the following steps.

[0078] S401, determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on reporting method information.

[0079] In this embodiment, the control message includes reporting method information, which indicates the reporting method of the beam measurement report. After receiving the control message, the terminal device can directly perform the beam measurement report according to the reporting method indicated by the reporting method information.

[0080] For example, for semi-persistent reporting based on the physical uplink control channel, in the prior art, for example Figure 5A The MAC CE signaling shown in FIG. activates the beam measurement report, where R represents a reserved bit, Serving Cell ID represents the ID of the serving cell (i.e., the cell currently providing services to the terminal device) for which the measurement report is intended, BWP ID represents the ID of the bandwidth part (BWP, Bandwidth Part) for which the measurement report is intended, and S i (exist Figure 2In the field, i=0, 1, 2, 3) indicates the activation / deactivation status of the configured semi-continuous beam measurement report. When this field is set to "1", it indicates that the corresponding semi-continuous beam measurement report is activated, and when it is set to "0", it indicates that the corresponding semi-continuous beam measurement report is deactivated.

[0081] In this embodiment, the Figure 5A On the basis of the MAC CE signaling structure shown, several bits are added to indicate the reporting mode of the beam measurement report. In addition, in order to enable the activation of the beam measurement report for the non-serving cell, several bits can be added to indicate the activation state of the beam measurement report of each non-serving cell, where a bit value of 1 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is activated, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the corresponding beam measurement report is deactivated, such as Figure 5B As shown, for example, W represents the reporting method information, S 1i , S 2i Indicates the activation status of beam measurement reporting of non-service cells.

[0082] In any embodiment of the present disclosure, the control message for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting means that the control message is used to activate and / or deactivate beam measurement reporting. That is, the message may indicate activation of beam measurement reporting and deactivation of beam measurement reporting respectively through an identifier or a specific data format / coding format; it may also default to activating beam measurement reporting and indicate deactivation of beam measurement reporting through the message; it may also default to deactivating beam measurement reporting and indicate activation of beam measurement reporting through the message.

[0083] The indicated reporting method may include a combined reporting method, such as reporting the beam measurement results of the serving cell and the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell together, or reporting only the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell together, etc.; it may also include a separate reporting method, such as reporting the beam measurement results of each cell separately, etc.

[0084] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode in an embodiment of the present invention, for semi-persistent reporting based on the physical uplink control channel, the control message sent by the network device to the terminal device includes reporting mode information to indicate the reporting mode of the beam measurement report, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode for the beam measurement report based on the reporting mode information. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement report, which makes up for the shortcomings of the prior art.

[0085] Figure 6 A flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. Figure 2 or Figure 3In the embodiment shown, in this exemplary embodiment, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of pre-configured trigger states, wherein the plurality of pre-configured trigger states are pre-configured to be associated with one of the CSI reporting configurations of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configurations of the non-serving cell, such as Figure 6 As shown, Figure 2 Step S201 or Figure 3 The step S302 shown may include the following steps.

[0086] S601, based on the activation message, determine that the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0087] This embodiment can be applied to semi-persistent reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel. In this embodiment, the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell can be configured in advance through RRC signaling, and multiple semi-persistent trigger states are associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, respectively, wherein each semi-persistent trigger state is associated with a CSI reporting configuration, and the control message includes an activation message, and the activation message indicates one or more of the multiple pre-configured semi-persistent trigger states. After receiving the control message, the terminal device can determine based on the activation message to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more semi-persistent trigger states to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0088] For example, the current service cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-service cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For semi-continuous reporting based on the physical uplink shared channel, 10 semi-continuous trigger states T1-T10 are respectively associated with CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current service cell Cell 1 and CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of non-service cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. The control message includes downlink control information (DCI). The network device activates the semi-continuous trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired cell through the DCI. For example, multiple DCIs can indicate semi-continuous trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6. In response to the multiple DCIs, the terminal device can determine to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell 1 and the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 3, CSI reporting configuration 5, and CSI reporting configuration 6 of the non-serving cells Cell 3, Cell 5, and Cell 6 to the network device separately.

[0089] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, for semi-persistent reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel, the control message sent by the network device to the terminal device includes: Activation Message To indicate one or more of a plurality of pre-configured trigger states, the terminal device determines based on the activation message that the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with the indicated one or more trigger states are sent to the network device separately. Thus, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting method of the beam measurement report, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0090] Figure 7 A flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. Figure 2 or Figure 3In the embodiment shown, in this exemplary embodiment, the control message includes a first message and a second message, the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be associated with one CSI reporting configuration among the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations among the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, such as Figure 7 As shown, Figure 2 Step S201 or Figure 3 The step S302 shown may include the following steps.

[0091] S701, determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0092] In this embodiment, the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of each non-serving cell may be pre-configured through RRC signaling, and multiple trigger states may be associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, respectively, wherein each CSI reporting configuration is pre-configured to be associated with a trigger state, and in addition, an additional trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations. The control message includes a first message and a second message, the first message being used to select one or more of a plurality of pre-configured trigger states, and the second message being used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more pre-configured trigger states. After receiving the control message, the terminal device may determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0093] Specifically, based on the specific contents of the first message and the second message, the above step S701 can be implemented through different steps in the following steps S7011-S7014.

[0094] S7011, when the first message indicates one or more of multiple first-class trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0095] This embodiment can be applied to non-periodic reporting. In this embodiment, the first message indicates one or more of a plurality of first-type trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first-type trigger states indicated in the first message, and the terminal device determines to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the one or more first-type trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device separately in response to the control message including the first message and the second message.

[0096] For example, the current serving cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For aperiodic reporting, 10 aperiodic trigger states T1-T10 are configured, which are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving cell Cell 1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In addition, one aperiodic trigger state T11 is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations 1-CSI reporting configurations 10. The first message in the control message may be MAC CE signaling, and the second message may be DCI. The network device selects a non-periodic trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired cell from the non-periodic trigger states T1-T10 through MAC CE signaling, and the DCI triggers one or more of the selected non-periodic trigger states. For example, the MAC CE signaling may indicate T1, T2, T3, T5, T6, T8, and T10, and multiple DCIs may indicate the non-periodic trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6. In response to the MAC CE signaling and multiple DCIs, the terminal device may separately send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell 1, and the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 3, CSI reporting configuration 5, and CSI reporting configuration 6 of the non-serving cells Cell 3, Cell5, and Cell 6 to the network device.

[0097] S7012, when the first message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates a second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner.

[0098] This embodiment can be applied to non-periodic reporting and semi-continuous reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel. In this embodiment, the first message includes identification information and activation information, the identification information indicates the second type of trigger state, the activation information activates / deactivates the beam measurement report corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, and the terminal device responds to the control message including the first message and the second message, and determines to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device.

[0099] For example, the current serving cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For non-periodic reporting, 10 non-periodic trigger states T1-T10 are configured, which are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving cell Cell 1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In addition, one non-periodic trigger state T11 is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations 1-CSI reporting configurations 10. The first message in the control message may be MAC CE signaling, and the second message may be DCI, wherein the MAC CE signaling consists of two parts, wherein the first part indicates identification information of the non-periodic trigger state T11, and the second part is activation information S0-S9 for activating / deactivating the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 10 associated with T11, such as Figure 7 As shown, for example, S0=1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell Cell 1 is activated, S1=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving cell Cell 2 is deactivated... S9=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cell Cell 10 is deactivated. DCI triggers the non-periodic trigger state T11. In response to the MAC CE signaling and the DCI, the terminal device can determine to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the activated CSI reporting configuration in the activation information to the network device together, that is, to send the S in the activation information to the network device. i =1 and the corresponding beam measurement results are sent to the network device together.

[0100] For another example, the current serving cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For semi-continuous reporting based on the physical uplink shared channel, 10 semi-continuous trigger states T1-T10 are configured, which are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving cell Cell 1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In addition, one semi-continuous trigger state T11 is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations 1-CSI reporting configurations 10. The first message in the control message may be MAC CE signaling, and the second message may be DCI, wherein the MAC CE signaling consists of two parts, wherein the first part indicates identification information of the semi-continuous trigger state T11, and the second part is activation information S0-S9 for activating / deactivating the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 10 associated with T11, for example, S0=1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell Cell 1 is activated, S1=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving cell Cell 2 is deactivated... S9=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cell Cell10 is deactivated. DCI activates the semi-continuous trigger state T11. In response to the MAC CE signaling and DCI, the terminal device may determine to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the activated CSI reporting configuration in the activation information to the network device together, that is, to send the S0-S9 in the activation information to the network device. i =1 and the corresponding beam measurement results are sent to the network device together.

[0101] S7013, when the first message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type trigger states and the second type trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner and sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0102] This embodiment can be applied to semi-continuous reporting based on a physical uplink shared channel. In this embodiment, the first message includes identification information and activation information, the identification information indicates the second type of trigger state, the activation information activates / deactivates the beam measurement report corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, and the terminal device responds to the control message including the first message and the second message, determines to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device together and sends the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device separately.

[0103] For example, the current serving cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For the semi-continuous reporting based on the physical uplink shared channel, 10 semi-continuous trigger states T1-T10 are configured, which are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving cell Cell 1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In addition, one semi-continuous trigger state T11 is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations 1-CSI reporting configurations 10. The first message in the control message may be MAC CE signaling, and the second message may be DCI, wherein the MAC CE signaling consists of two parts, wherein the first part indicates identification information of the semi-persistent trigger state T11, and the second part is activation information S0-S9 for activating / deactivating the beam measurement report corresponding to CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 10 associated with T11, for example, S0=1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell Cell 1 is activated, S1=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving cell Cell 2 is deactivated... S9=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cell Cell10 is deactivated. Multiple DCIs activate the semi-persistent trigger state T11 and the semi-persistent trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6. The terminal device can determine to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in response to the MAC CE signaling and multiple DCIs, that is, i=1 are sent together to the network device, and the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the service cell 1, and the beam measurement reports corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 3, CSI reporting configuration 5, and CSI reporting configuration 6 of the non-service cells Cell 3, Cell 5, and Cell 6 are sent separately to the network device.

[0104] S7014, when the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0105] This embodiment can be applied to non-periodic reporting. In this embodiment, the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, the first sub-message includes identification information and activation information, the identification information indicates the second type of trigger state, the activation information activates / deactivates the beam measurement report corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, and the terminal device responds to the control message including the first message and the second message, determines to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device together and sends the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device separately.

[0106] For example, the current serving cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-serving cells are Cell 2-Cell10. For non-periodic reporting, 10 non-periodic trigger states T1-T10 are configured, which are respectively associated with the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the current serving cell Cell 1 and the CSI reporting configuration 2-CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cells Cell 2-Cell 10 (where CSI reporting configuration 2 corresponds to cell Cell 2, CSI reporting configuration 3 corresponds to cell Cell 3, and so on), where T1 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 1, T2 is associated with CSI reporting configuration 2, and so on. In addition, one non-periodic trigger state T11 is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations 1-CSI reporting configurations 10. The first message in the control message may be a first MAC CE signaling and a second MAC CE signaling, and the second message may be a DCI, wherein the first MAC CE signaling consists of two parts, wherein the first part indicates identification information of the non-periodic trigger state T11, and the second part is activation information S0-S9 for activating / deactivating the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1-CSI reporting configuration 10 associated with T11, such as Figure 7 As shown, for example, S0=1 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the serving cell Cell 1 is activated, S1=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 2 of the non-serving cell Cell 2 is deactivated... S9=0 indicates that the beam measurement report corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 10 of the non-serving cell Cell 10 is deactivated. The second MAC CE signaling selects the non-periodic trigger state associated with the CSI reporting configuration of the desired cell from the non-periodic trigger state T1-T10. For example, the second MAC CE signaling can indicate T1, T2, T3, T5, T6, T8, T10. Multiple DCIs can trigger the non-periodic trigger state T11 and the non-periodic trigger states T1, T3, T5, and T6. In response to the MAC CE signaling and multiple DCIs, the terminal device can determine to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device together, that is, to send the S in the activation information to the network device. i =1 are sent to the network device together, and the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 1 of the service cell 1, and the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration 3, CSI reporting configuration 5, and CSI reporting configuration 6 of the non-service cells Cell 3, Cell 5, and Cell 6 are sent to the network device separately.

[0107] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode in an embodiment of the present invention, for semi-continuous reporting and non-periodic reporting based on the physical uplink shared channel, the control message sent by the network device to the terminal device includes a first message and a second message, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode of the beam measurement report based on the first message and the second message. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement report, which makes up for the shortcomings of the prior art.

[0108] Figure 8 A flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting mode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. Figure 2 or Figure 3 In the embodiment shown in the example embodiment, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting, such as Figure 8 As shown, Figure 2 Step S201 or Figure 3 The step S302 shown may include at least one of the following steps.

[0109] S801: For multiple beam measurement reports having the same reporting resource configuration information, determine a reporting method for the beam measurement report to send multiple beam measurement results to a network device in a combined reporting manner.

[0110] S802: For a beam measurement report having unique reporting resource configuration information, determine that a method for the beam measurement report is to send the beam measurement result to a network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0111] In this embodiment, the reporting resource configuration information can be configured in advance for the beam measurement report of each cell through RRC signaling. If multiple beam measurement reports are configured with the same reporting resource configuration information, the corresponding multiple beam measurement results are sent to the network device together. If a beam measurement report is configured with reporting resource configuration information different from the reporting resource configuration information configured by other beam measurement reports, the corresponding beam measurement result will be sent to the network device separately.

[0112] For example, the current service cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-service cells are Cell 2-Cell 10. For periodic reporting, the reporting resources of Cell 1-Cell 3 are configured as the same PUCCH resources, and Cell 4-Cell 10 are configured with different PUCCH resources. Then, the beam measurement results of Cell 1-Cell 3 are sent to the network device together, and the beam measurement results of Cell 4-Cell 10 are sent to the network device separately.

[0113] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, for periodic reporting, the control message sent by the network device to the terminal device includes reporting resource configuration information, and the terminal device sends the beam measurement reports with the same reporting resource configuration information to the network device together and sends the beam measurement reports with unique reporting resource configuration information to the network device separately. Therefore, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement report, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0114] Fig. 9 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 9 As shown, the method can be executed by a network device and includes the following steps.

[0115] Step S901: Send a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device. The control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the control message.

[0116] The reporting methods include at least one of the following: a combined reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement results of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; a separate reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement results of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell separately to the network device based on the control message.

[0117] In this embodiment, the network device may send a control message about beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the terminal device determines how to perform beam measurement reporting in response to the control message. Specifically, the terminal device may perform beam measurement reporting in a combined reporting mode, a separate reporting mode, or a combination of the two.

[0118] In the combined reporting method, the terminal device reports the beam measurement results of the serving cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device together.

[0119] In the separate reporting mode, the terminal device reports at least one beam measurement result of the serving cell and the beam measurement result of the non-serving cell to the network device separately, that is, the terminal device reports one beam measurement result each time.

[0120] In the combination of the combined reporting method and the separate reporting method, the terminal device can report the beam measurement results of the service cell and some of the beam measurement results of the non-service cell to the network device together, and report at least one of the remaining beam measurement results to the network device separately.

[0121] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, a network device sends a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0122] Fig.10 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for determining a beam measurement reporting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig.10 As shown, the method may be performed by a network device and may include but is not limited to the following steps:

[0123] Step S1001: Send a configuration message to a terminal device to configure beam measurement reporting. The configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

[0124] In this embodiment, the network device sends a configuration message for configuring beam measurement reporting to the terminal device. In some embodiments, the configuration message may be RRC signaling, and the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and each non-serving cell. For example, the configuration message may include configuration information for the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

[0125] In some embodiments, the configuration information may include the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell. For example, the network device may notify the terminal device of the configuration information CSI reporting configuration (CSI-ReportConfig) for configuring beam measurement reporting of each cell (including the serving cell and the non-serving cell) through RRC signaling. Specifically, the network device includes the CSI reporting configuration of each cell in a CSI reporting configuration list (CSI-ReportConfig List) through RRC configuration, and allocates CSI reporting configuration IDs (CSI-ReportConfig ID) to the CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration list in sequence. For example, the current service cell of the terminal device is Cell 1, and several non-service cells are Cell 2-Cell 5. The CSI reporting configuration for the beam measurement reporting of cells Cell 1-Cell 5 is included in the CSI reporting configuration list and is assigned a corresponding ID. For example, the CSI reporting configuration list includes CSI-ReportConfig 1 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of service cell Cell 1, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 1), CSI-ReportConfig 2 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of non-service cell Cell 2, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 2)...CSI-ReportConfig 5 (configuration information of beam measurement reporting of non-service cell Cell 5, and its CSI reporting configuration ID is 5).

[0126] In addition, a cell ID may be introduced into a CSI resource set (CSI-SSB-ResourceSet) associated with the CSI reporting configuration to distinguish which cell the measurement reference signal comes from.

[0127] Step S1002: Send a control message about beam measurement reporting to the terminal device. The control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the control message.

[0128] The reporting methods include at least one of the following: a combined reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement results of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; a separate reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement results of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell separately to the network device based on the control message.

[0129] For a detailed description of the above step S1002, please refer to the relevant description of step S901, which will not be repeated here.

[0130] According to the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of an embodiment of the present invention, the network device sends the configuration information for configuring the beam measurement reporting of the service cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-service cell to the terminal device, and the terminal device can learn how to configure the beam measurement reporting for the service cell and the non-service cell, so that the terminal device can perform beam measurement reporting for the service cell and the non-service cell. In addition, when performing the beam measurement reporting, the terminal device adopts the reporting mode determined in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. Thus, a mechanism is provided for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0131] exist Fig. 9 or Fig.10 Based on the illustrated embodiment, the control message may have the following format.

[0132] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting mode information for indicating a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting, so as to instruct the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the reporting mode information.

[0133] In some embodiments, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration of a serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of a non-serving cell, and the activation message is used to instruct the terminal device to send beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to a network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0134] In some embodiments, the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and one second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0135] In some embodiments, when the first message indicates one or more of multiple first-class trigger states and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0136] In some embodiments, when the first message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates a second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner.

[0137] In some embodiments, when the first message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0138] In some embodiments, when a first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating a second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of multiple first type trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in a combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0139] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting; wherein the same reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send multiple beam measurement results with the same resource configuration information to the network device in a combined reporting manner; and the unique reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send beam measurement results with unique resource configuration information to the network device in a separate reporting manner.

[0140] For the specific description of the control message in the above embodiment, please refer to the relevant description in the corresponding embodiment of the method for determining the beam measurement reporting mode performed on the terminal device side above, and will not be repeated here.

[0141] In the above embodiments provided by the present application, the methods provided by the embodiments of the present application are introduced from the perspectives of network devices and user devices. In order to implement the functions of the methods provided by the above embodiments of the present application, the network devices and user devices may include hardware structures and software modules, and implement the above functions in the form of hardware structures, software modules, or hardware structures plus software modules. One of the above functions may be executed in the form of hardware structures, software modules, or hardware structures plus software modules.

[0142] Corresponding to the beam measurement reporting activation method provided in the above-mentioned embodiments, the present disclosure also provides a beam measurement reporting activation device. Since the beam measurement reporting activation device provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure corresponds to the beam measurement reporting activation method provided in the above-mentioned embodiments, the implementation method of the beam measurement reporting activation method is also applicable to the beam measurement reporting activation device provided in this embodiment, and will not be described in detail in this embodiment.

[0143] Fig.11 A schematic diagram of a structure of an apparatus 1100 for determining a beam measurement reporting mode provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatus 1100 for determining a beam measurement reporting mode can be applied to a terminal device.

[0144] like Fig.11As shown, the device 1100 for determining the beam measurement reporting method may include a processing module 1101, which is used to determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting in response to a control message about beam measurement reporting received from a network device; the reporting method includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting method, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0145] According to the apparatus for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network device sends a control message about the beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode for the beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0146] In some embodiments, Fig.12 As shown, the device 1100 also includes: a communication module 1102, configured to receive the control message.

[0147] In some embodiments, the communication module 1102 is further used to receive a configuration message sent by a network device to configure beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

[0148] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting mode information for indicating a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting; and the processing module 1101 is used to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the reporting mode information.

[0149] In some embodiments, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell; the processing module 1101 is used to determine, based on the activation message, a reporting method for beam measurement reporting to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0150] In some embodiments, the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell; the processing module 1101 is used to determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0151] In some embodiments, the processing module 1101 is used to: when the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-class trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0152] In some embodiments, the processing module 1101 is used to: when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method.

[0153] In some embodiments, the processing module 1101 is used to: when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0154] In some embodiments, the processing module 1001 is used to: when the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting to be to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0155] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting; the processing module 1101 is used to: for multiple beam measurement reports with the same reporting resource configuration information, determine the reporting method for beam measurement reporting to be sending the multiple beam measurement results to the network device in the combined reporting method; and for beam measurement reports with unique reporting resource configuration information, determine the method for beam measurement reporting to be sending the beam measurement results to the network device in the separate reporting method.

[0156] Fig.13 A schematic diagram of a structure of an apparatus 1300 for determining a beam measurement reporting mode provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatus 1300 for determining a beam measurement reporting mode can be applied to a network device.

[0157] like Fig.13As shown, the device 1300 for determining the beam measurement reporting mode may include a communication module 1301, which is used to send a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, wherein the control message indicates that the terminal device determines the reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the control message; the reporting mode includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and multiple beam measurement results of the non-service cell together to the network device based on the control message, wherein the service cell is a cell providing service to the terminal device and the non-service cell is one or more cells adjacent to the service cell; and a separate reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends the beam measurement result of the service cell and at least one beam measurement result of the non-service cell to the network device separately based on the control message.

[0158] According to the apparatus for determining the beam measurement reporting mode of the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network device sends a control message about the beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the terminal device determines the reporting mode for the beam measurement reporting in response to the control message, wherein the reporting mode may include at least one of a combined reporting mode and a separate reporting mode. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a mechanism for determining the reporting mode of the beam measurement reporting, which makes up for the deficiencies of the prior art.

[0159] In some embodiments, the communication module 1301 is further used to send a configuration message to the terminal device to configure beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

[0160] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting mode information for indicating a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting, so as to instruct the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the reporting mode information.

[0161] In some embodiments, the control message includes an activation message indicating one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with a CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and a CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message is used to instruct the terminal device to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the indicated one or more trigger states to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0162] In some embodiments, the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and one second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting method for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message.

[0163] In some embodiments, when the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-class trigger states and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0164] In some embodiments, when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner.

[0165] In some embodiments, when the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0166] In some embodiments, when the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0167] In some embodiments, the control message includes reporting resource configuration information for indicating beam measurement reporting; wherein the same reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send multiple beam measurement results with the same resource configuration information to the network device in the combined reporting manner; and the unique reporting resource configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to send the beam measurement results with the unique resource configuration information to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

[0168] See also Fig.14 , Fig.14 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device 1400 provided in an embodiment of the present application. The communication device 1400 may be a network device, or a user device, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the network device to implement the above method, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the terminal device to implement the above method. The device may be used to implement the method described in the above method embodiment, and the details may refer to the description in the above method embodiment.

[0169] The communication device 1400 may include one or more processors 1401. The processor 1401 may be a general-purpose processor or a dedicated processor, etc. For example, it may be a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor may be used to process the communication protocol and communication data, and the central processing unit may be used to control the communication device (such as a base station, a baseband chip, a terminal device, a terminal device chip, a DU or a CU, etc.), execute a computer program, and process the data of the computer program.

[0170] Optionally, the communication device 1400 may further include one or more memories 1402, on which a computer program 1404 may be stored, and the processor 1401 executes the computer program 1404 so that the communication device 1400 performs the method described in the above method embodiment. Optionally, data may also be stored in the memory 1402. The communication device 1400 and the memory 1402 may be provided separately or integrated together.

[0171] Optionally, the communication device 1400 may further include a transceiver 1405 and an antenna 1406. The transceiver 1405 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, or a transceiver circuit, etc., for implementing a transceiver function. The transceiver 1405 may include a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver may be referred to as a receiver or a receiving circuit, etc., for implementing a receiving function; the transmitter may be referred to as a transmitter or a transmitting circuit, etc., for implementing a transmitting function.

[0172] Optionally, the communication device 1400 may further include one or more interface circuits 1407. The interface circuit 1407 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor 1401. The processor 1401 executes the code instructions to enable the communication device 1400 to execute the method described in the above method embodiment.

[0173] In one implementation, the processor 1401 may include a transceiver for implementing receiving and sending functions. For example, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit, an interface, or an interface circuit. The transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit for implementing the receiving and sending functions may be separate or integrated. The above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for reading and writing code / data, or the above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for transmitting or delivering signals.

[0174] In one implementation, the processor 1401 may store a computer program 1403, which runs on the processor 1401 and enables the communication device 1400 to perform the method described in the above method embodiment. The computer program 1403 may be fixed in the processor 1401, in which case the processor 1401 may be implemented by hardware.

[0175] In one implementation, the communication device 1400 may include a circuit that can implement the functions of sending or receiving or communicating in the aforementioned method embodiments. The processor and transceiver described in the present application can be implemented in an integrated circuit (IC), an analog IC, a radio frequency integrated circuit RFIC, a mixed signal IC, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic device, etc. The processor and transceiver can also be manufactured using various IC process technologies, such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (nMetal-oxide-semiconductor, NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (positive channelmetal oxide semiconductor, PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (bipolar junction transistor, BJT), bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc.

[0176] The communication device described in the above embodiments may be a network device or a terminal device (such as the first terminal device in the above method embodiment), but the scope of the communication device described in this application is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device may not be limited thereto. Fig.14 The communication device may be an independent device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be:

[0177] (1) Independent integrated circuit IC, or chip, or chip system or subsystem;

[0178] (2) having a set of one or more ICs, and optionally, the IC set may also include a storage component for storing data and computer programs;

[0179] (3) ASIC, such as modem;

[0180] (4) Modules that can be embedded in other devices;

[0181] (5) Receivers, terminal devices, intelligent terminal devices, cellular phones, wireless devices, handheld devices, mobile units, vehicle-mounted devices, network devices, cloud devices, artificial intelligence devices, etc.;

[0182] (6)Others

[0183] For the case where the communication device may be a chip or a chip system, see Fig.15 Schematic diagram of the chip structure shown. Fig.15 The chip shown includes a processor 1501 and an interface 1502. The number of the processor 1501 can be one or more, and the number of the interface 1502 can be multiple.

[0184] Optionally, the chip further includes a memory 1503, and the memory 1503 is used to store necessary computer programs and data.

[0185] Those skilled in the art may also understand that the various illustrative logical blocks and steps listed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by electronic hardware, computer software, or a combination of the two. Whether such functions are implemented by hardware or software depends on the specific application and the design requirements of the entire system. Those skilled in the art may use various methods to implement the functions described for each specific application, but such implementation should not be understood as exceeding the scope of protection of the embodiments of the present application.

[0186] The embodiment of the present application also provides a system for implementing the beam measurement reporting activation method, the system comprising the aforementioned Fig.10 The communication device as the user equipment in the embodiment and the aforementioned Fig.15 In the embodiment, the communication device as a network device, or the system includes the aforementioned Fig.15 The embodiments include a communication device serving as a user device and a communication device serving as a network device.

[0187] The present application also provides a readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which implement the functions of any of the above method embodiments when executed by a computer.

[0188] The present application also provides a computer program product, which implements the functions of any of the above method embodiments when executed by a computer.

[0189] In the above embodiments, it can be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented using software, it can be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer programs. When the computer program is loaded and executed on a computer, the process or function described in the embodiment of the present application is generated in whole or in part. The computer may be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer program may be transmitted from a website site, computer, server or data center by wired (e.g., coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (digital subscriber line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) mode to another website site, computer, server or data center. The computer-readable storage medium may be any available medium that a computer can access or a data storage device such as a server or data center that includes one or more available media integrated. The available medium may be a magnetic medium (eg, a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (eg, a high-density digital video disc (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (eg, a solid state disk (SSD)).

[0190] A person skilled in the art may understand that the various numerical numbers such as first and second involved in the present application are only used for the convenience of description and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application, and also indicate the order of precedence.

[0191] At least one in the present application can also be described as one or more, and a plurality can be two, three, four or more, which is not limited in the present application. In the embodiments of the present application, for a technical feature, the technical features in the technical feature are distinguished by "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D", etc., and there is no order of precedence or size between the technical features described by the "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D".

[0192] As used herein, the terms "machine-readable medium" and "computer-readable medium" refer to any computer program product, apparatus, and / or device (e.g., disk, optical disk, memory, programmable logic device (PLD)) for providing machine instructions and / or data to a programmable processor, including a machine-readable medium that receives machine instructions as a machine-readable signal. The term "machine-readable signal" refers to any signal for providing machine instructions and / or data to a programmable processor.

[0193] The systems and techniques described herein may be implemented in a computing system that includes back-end components (e.g., as a data server), or a computing system that includes middleware components (e.g., an application server), or a computing system that includes front-end components (e.g., a user computer with a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with implementations of the systems and techniques described herein), or a computing system that includes any combination of such back-end components, middleware components, or front-end components. The components of the system may be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), and the Internet.

[0194] A computer system may include clients and servers. Clients and servers are generally remote from each other and usually interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server is generated by computer programs running on respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other.

[0195] It should be understood that the various forms of processes shown above can be used to reorder, add or delete steps. For example, the steps recorded in this disclosure can be executed in parallel, sequentially or in different orders, as long as the desired results of the technical solutions disclosed in this disclosure can be achieved, and this document does not limit this.

[0196] In addition, it should be understood that the various embodiments described in the present application may be implemented individually or in combination with other embodiments when the solution permits.

[0197] Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the units and algorithm steps of each example described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Professional and technical personnel can use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scope of this application.

[0198] Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the systems, devices and units described above can refer to the corresponding processes in the aforementioned method embodiments and will not be repeated here.

[0199] The above is only a specific implementation of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited thereto. Any person skilled in the art who is familiar with the present technical field can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope disclosed in the present application, which should be included in the protection scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application should be based on the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method for determining a beam measurement reporting method, characterized in that: Applied to a terminal device, the method comprises: In response to a first message and a second message about beam measurement reporting received from a network device, determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message; wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one of the CSI reporting configurations of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configurations of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all the CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configurations of the non-serving cell; The reporting method includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a beam measurement result of a serving cell and a plurality of beam measurement results of a non-serving cell to the network device together based on the control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell; and A separate reporting method, in which the terminal device separately sends at least one of the beam measurement results of the serving cell and the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device based on the control message.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Before determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message, the method further includes: Receive a configuration message sent by a network device to configure beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message includes: When the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-class trigger states and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message includes: When the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message includes: When the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and sending the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The determining a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message includes: When the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the reporting method for beam measurement reporting is determined to be to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting method and to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting method.

7. A method for determining a beam measurement reporting method, characterized in that: Applied to a network device, the method comprises: Sending a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, wherein the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, and the control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message; The reporting method includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a beam measurement result of a serving cell and a plurality of beam measurement results of a non-serving cell to the network device together based on the control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell; and A separate reporting method, in which the terminal device separately sends at least one of the beam measurement results of the serving cell and the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device based on the control message.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that Before sending a control message about beam measurement reporting to the terminal device, the method further includes: A configuration message is sent to the terminal device to configure beam measurement reporting, wherein the configuration message is used to configure the beam measurement reporting of the serving cell and the beam measurement reporting of each non-serving cell.

9. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that When the first message indicates one or more of the multiple first-class trigger states and the second message indicates one or more of the indicated one or more first-class trigger states, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with the one or more first-class trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

10. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that When the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner.

11. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that When the first message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reporting corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement result corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

12. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that When the first message includes a first sub-message and a second sub-message, wherein the first sub-message includes identification information for indicating the second type of trigger state and activation information for activating / deactivating beam measurement reports corresponding to multiple CSI reporting configurations associated with the second type of trigger state, and the second sub-message indicates one or more of the multiple first type of trigger states, and the second message indicates one or more of the one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second sub-message and the second type of trigger state, the control message instructs the terminal device to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configuration activated in the activation information to the network device in the combined reporting manner and to send the beam measurement results corresponding to the CSI reporting configurations associated with one or more first type of trigger states indicated in the second message to the network device in the separate reporting manner.

13. A device for determining a beam measurement reporting method, characterized in that: Applied to terminal equipment, including: A processing module, configured to determine, in response to a first message and a second message regarding beam measurement reporting received from a network device, a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message; wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-type trigger states and a second-type trigger state, the plurality of first-type trigger states are preconfigured to be associated with one CSI reporting configuration in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell, respectively, and the second-type trigger state is configured to be associated with all CSI reporting configurations in the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configuration of the non-serving cell; The reporting method includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a beam measurement result of a serving cell and a plurality of beam measurement results of a non-serving cell to the network device together based on the control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell; and A separate reporting method, in which the terminal device separately sends at least one of the beam measurement results of the serving cell and the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device based on the control message.

14. A device for indicating a beam measurement reporting mode, characterized in that: Applied to network equipment, including: A communication module, configured to send a control message about beam measurement reporting to a terminal device, wherein the control message includes a first message and a second message, wherein the first message is used to select one or more of a plurality of preconfigured trigger states and the second message is used to trigger one or more of the selected one or more preconfigured trigger states, wherein the plurality of preconfigured trigger states include a plurality of first-class trigger states and a second-class trigger state, the plurality of first-class trigger states are preconfigured to be respectively associated with one of the CSI reporting configurations of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configurations of the non-serving cell, and the second-class trigger state is configured to be associated with all the CSI reporting configurations of the CSI reporting configuration of the serving cell and the CSI reporting configurations of the non-serving cell, and the control message instructs the terminal device to determine a reporting mode for beam measurement reporting based on the first message and the second message; The reporting method includes at least one of the following: a combined reporting mode, in which the terminal device sends a beam measurement result of a serving cell and a plurality of beam measurement results of a non-serving cell to the network device together based on the control message, wherein the serving cell is a cell providing service for the terminal device and the non-serving cell is one or more cells adjacent to the serving cell; and A separate reporting method, in which the terminal device separately sends at least one of the beam measurement results of the serving cell and the beam measurement results of the non-serving cell to the network device based on the control message.

15. A communication device, wherein: include: Transceiver; Memory; A processor is connected to the transceiver and the memory, respectively, and is configured to control the wireless signal reception and transmission of the transceiver by executing computer executable instructions on the memory, and can implement the method described in any one of claims 1-6.

16. A communication device, wherein: include: Transceiver; Memory; A processor is connected to the transceiver and the memory, respectively, and is configured to control the wireless signal reception and transmission of the transceiver by executing computer executable instructions on the memory, and can implement the method described in any one of claims 7-12.

17. A computer storage medium, wherein: The computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions; after the computer executable instructions are executed by the processor, the method described in any one of claims 1 to 6 can be implemented.

18. A computer storage medium, wherein: The computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions; after the computer executable instructions are executed by the processor, the method described in any one of claims 7 to 12 can be implemented.

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