L1 measurement result processing method and device and related equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses an L1 measurement result processing method and device and related equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication, and the L1 measurement result processing method comprises the following steps: when the number of effective L1 measurement results of a reference signal of a cell corresponding to L1 resource configuration information associated with a reporting time is smaller than or equal to a preset reporting number, reporting the effective L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time; the terminal comprises a first content in a first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting opportunity, and the first content is used for indicating an invalid L1 measurement result in the first L1 measurement report.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This application belongs to the field of communication technologies, and particularly relates to a method and apparatus for processing L1 measurement results and related devices. Background Art

[0002] Currently, the L1 measurement results reported by a User Equipment (UE) are the L1 measurement results corresponding to the serving cell. In related technologies, Layer 1 / Layer 2-Triggered Mobility (LTM) is introduced. For the LTM process, the UE can perform L1 measurements on the neighboring cells associated with the LTM reporting configuration. However, in some scenarios, some or all of the neighboring cells associated with the LTM reporting configuration may not be able to perform L1 measurements. As a result, the terminal cannot obtain valid L1 measurement results for these neighboring cells, that is, there are no valid L1 measurement results for these neighboring cells. However, the size of the current L1 measurement report is pre-configured by the network-side device. If the number of valid L1 measurement results of the terminal is less than the number configured by the network, then a method needs to be determined such that the terminal reports the L1 measurement report in this case and the network-side device can learn the valid L1 measurement results of the cells in the L1 measurement report. Summary of the Invention

[0003] Embodiments of this application provide a method and apparatus for processing L1 measurement results and related devices, which can solve the problem of how the terminal should report so that the network-side device can learn the valid L1 measurement results in the L1 measurement report when the terminal cannot obtain valid L1 measurement results of the neighboring cells associated with the reporting configuration.

[0004] In a first aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0005] When the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0006] In a second aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0007] The network-side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0008] In a third aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0009] The terminal sends a second L1 measurement report;

[0010] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0011] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0012] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0013] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0014] In a fourth aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0015] When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement, the terminal performs an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell.

[0016] Optionally, the terminal performing the L3 measurement on the neighboring cell includes at least one of the following:

[0017] Performing an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0018] Measuring the L3 measurement frequency point where the neighboring cell is located;

[0019] Ignoring the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0020] Optionally, after the terminal performs the L3 measurement on the neighboring cell, it further includes:

[0021] Not reporting or not triggering the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0022] In a fifth aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0023] The terminal performs an L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation;

[0024] Alternatively, perform L3 measurement according to first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to L1 resource configuration information associated with L1 reporting configuration information included in a serving cell of the terminal.

[0025] Optionally, the performing L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information includes:

[0026] In a case where a frequency point included in the first L3 measurement configuration information overlaps with a frequency point included in second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to a frequency point in the first L3 measurement configuration information that does not overlap with the frequency point of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0027] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0028] A candidate cell identifier;

[0029] Frequency domain information of a reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0030] Time domain information of a reference signal or an L3 measurement period;

[0031] A measurement quantity, where the measurement quantity is used to indicate a measurement quantity of a reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0032] Optionally, a candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as a cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0033] In a sixth aspect, a method for processing an L1 measurement result is provided, including:

[0034] In a case where a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point is configured in second L3 measurement configuration information, the terminal performs L3 measurement according to a first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and a second measurement period, where the second measurement period is an original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period configured by a network or agreed upon by a protocol or determined based on UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is a frequency point corresponding to L1 measurement configuration information associated with a serving cell.

[0035] Optionally, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, including at least one of the following:

[0036] In the case of receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period;

[0037] Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period within the first part duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period within the second part duration of the third measurement period.

[0038] Optionally, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period, including at least one of the following:

[0039] Perform L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0040] Perform L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology (intra-RAT) according to the first measurement period.

[0041] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message containing the third measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0042] Optionally, after performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, further include:

[0043] Do not report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0044] In a seventh aspect, a method for processing L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0045] The network side device obtains a second L1 measurement report;

[0046] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0047] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0048] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0049] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or the indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0050] In an eighth aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0051] A first processing module, configured to include first content in a first L1 measurement report associated with a reporting time instance when the number of valid L1 measurement results of a reference signal of a cell corresponding to L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, where the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0052] In a ninth aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0053] A first obtaining module, configured to obtain a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0054] In a tenth aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0055] A sixth sending module, configured to send a second L1 measurement report;

[0056] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0057] An indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results in a cell associated with an L1 reporting configuration;

[0058] L1 measurement results of a reference signal included in a cell having valid L1 measurement results;

[0059] The number of valid L1 measurement results of a reference signal of a cell associated with an L1 reporting configuration or an indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results of a reference signal associated with the cell.

[0060] In an eleventh aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0061] A fourth measurement module, configured to perform an L3 measurement on a neighboring cell when an L3 measurement result of a serving cell is not lower than a threshold value associated with a serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with an L1 measurement.

[0062] Optionally, the fourth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0063] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period being the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period being a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information including a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0064] Measure the L3 measurement frequency points where the neighboring cells are located;

[0065] Ignore the threshold values included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0066] Optionally, the device according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0067] A sixth processing module, configured to not report or not trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0068] In a twelfth aspect, a processing device for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0069] A fifth measurement module, configured to perform L3 measurements on cells or frequency points associated with L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation;

[0070] Or, perform L3 measurements according to first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0071] Optionally, the fifth measurement module is used for:

[0072] In a case where there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurements according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurements according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0073] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0074] Candidate cell identifier;

[0075] Frequency domain information of a reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0076] Time domain information of a reference signal or an L3 measurement period;

[0077] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0078] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0079] In a thirteenth aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0080] A sixth measurement module, configured to perform L3 measurement according to a first measurement period or based on a first measurement period and a second measurement period when a measurement object associated with a target frequency point or a reporting configuration is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0081] Optionally, the sixth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0082] When receiving a first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period;

[0083] Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period during the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period during the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0084] Optionally, the sixth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0085] Perform L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0086] Perform L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology (intra-RAT) according to the first measurement period.

[0087] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0088] Optionally, the apparatus according to the embodiments of the present application further includes:

[0089] A seventh processing module, configured to not report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement after the sixth measurement module performs the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period.

[0090] In a fourteenth aspect, a processing apparatus for L1 measurement results is provided, including:

[0091] A fourth acquisition module, configured to acquire a second L1 measurement report;

[0092] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0093] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for a cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0094] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0095] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0096] In a fifteenth aspect, a terminal is provided, which includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores a program or instruction that can run on the processor. When the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the method described in the first aspect, the second aspect, the third aspect, the fourth aspect, the fifth aspect, or the sixth aspect are implemented.

[0097] In a sixteenth aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface. Wherein, the processor is configured to include a first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report;

[0098] Alternatively, the communication interface is configured to send a second L1 measurement report; wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following: indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for a cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration; the L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result; the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell;

[0099] Alternatively, the processor is configured to perform L3 measurement on the neighbor cell when the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighbor cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement;

[0100] Alternatively, the processor is configured to perform L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation; or perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal;

[0101] Alternatively, when the measurement object or reporting configuration associated with the target frequency point is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, the processor is configured to perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period determined by network configuration, protocol agreement or based on UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0102] In a seventeenth aspect, a network-side device is provided. The network-side device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores a program or instruction that can run on the processor. When the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the method described in the second aspect or the seventh aspect are implemented.

[0103] In an eighteenth aspect, a network-side device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is configured to obtain a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report; or the communication interface is configured to obtain a second L1 measurement report; where the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following: indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration; the L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result; the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0104] In a nineteenth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided. A program or instruction is stored on the readable storage medium. When the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the method described in any one of the first aspect to the seventh aspect are implemented.

[0105] In a twentieth aspect, a processing system for L1 measurement results is provided, including: a terminal and a network-side device, where the terminal can be used to execute the steps of the method described in any one of the first aspect to the seventh aspect.

[0106] In a twenty-first aspect, a chip is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the method described in any one of the first aspect to the seventh aspect.

[0107] In a twenty-second aspect, a computer program / program product is provided. The computer program / program product is stored in a storage medium and is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the method described in any one of the first aspect to the seventh aspect.

[0108] In an embodiment of the present application, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time. The first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal. Description of the Drawings

[0109] Figure 1 It represents a structural diagram of a communication system to which the embodiments of the present application can be applied;

[0110] Figure 2 It represents one of the flow diagrams of the method for processing L1 measurement results in the embodiments of the present application;

[0111] Figure 3 It represents another flow diagram of the method for processing L1 measurement results in the embodiments of the present application;

[0112] Figure 4 It represents a third flow diagram of the method for processing L1 measurement results in the embodiments of the present application;

[0113] Figure 5 It represents a fourth flow diagram of the method for processing L1 measurement results in the embodiments of the present application;

[0114] Figure 6 It represents a fifth flow diagram of the method for processing L1 measurement results in the embodiments of the present application;

[0115] Figure 7 The sixth flowchart showing the method for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0116] Figure 8 The seventh flowchart showing the method for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0117] Figure 9 The first block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0118] Figure 10 The second block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0119] Figure 11 The third block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0120] Figure 12 The fourth block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0121] Figure 13 The fifth block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0122] Figure 14 The sixth block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0123] Figure 15 The seventh block diagram showing the apparatus for processing the L1 measurement result according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0124] Figure 16 The block diagram showing the structure of the communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0125] Figure 17 The block diagram showing the structure of the terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0126] Figure 18 The block diagram showing the structure of the network-side device according to an embodiment of the present application. Detailed implementation manners

[0127] Next, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application belong to the scope of protection of the present application.

[0128] The terms "first", "second", etc. in this application are used to distinguish similar objects, rather than to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that such terms can be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, so that the embodiments of this application can be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein. The objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of the same category, and do not limit the number of objects. For example, the first object can be one or more. In addition, "or" in this application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, "A or B" covers three scenarios, namely, Scenario 1: including A and not including B; Scenario 2: including B and not including A; Scenario 3: including both A and B. The character " / " generally indicates that the associated objects before and after are in an "or" relationship.

[0129] The term "indication" in this application can be either a direct indication (or an explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or an implicit indication). Among them, a direct indication can be understood as that the sender clearly informs the receiver of specific information, operations to be performed, or request results, etc. in the sent indication; an indirect indication can be understood as that the receiver determines the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or makes a judgment and determines the operations to be performed or request results, etc. according to the judgment result.

[0130] It is worth pointing out that the technology described in the embodiments of this application is not limited to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system, and can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of this application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used not only in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, but also in other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes the New Radio (NR) system for example purposes, and uses NR terms in most of the following descriptions, but these technologies can also be applied to systems other than the NR system, such as the 6th Generation (6G) communication system.

[0131] Figure 1The block diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiments of the present application can be applied is shown. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. Among them, the terminal 11 can be a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile internet device (MID), an augmented reality (AR), a virtual reality (VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a flight vehicle, a vehicle user equipment (VUE), a shipborne device, a pedestrian user equipment (PUE), a smart home (home appliances with wireless communication functions, such as refrigerators, TVs, washing machines, or furniture, etc.), a game console, a personal computer (PC), a teller machine, or a self-service machine, etc. Wearable devices include: smart watches, smart bracelets, smart earphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart bracelets, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart anklets, smart ankle chains, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. Among them, the vehicle user equipment can also be referred to as a vehicle terminal, a vehicle controller, a vehicle module, a vehicle component, a vehicle chip, or a vehicle unit, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network-side device 12 can include an access network device or a core network device. Among them, the access network device can also be referred to as a radio access network (RAN) device, a radio access network function, or a radio access network unit. The access network device can include a base station, a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP), or a wireless fidelity (WiFi) node, etc.Among them, the base station can be referred to as Node B (NB), Evolved Node B (eNB), the next generation Node B (gNB), New Radio Node B (NR Node B), access point, Relay Base Station (RBS), Serving Base Station (SBS), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), radio base station, radio transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), home Node B (HNB), home evolved Node B, Transmission Reception Point (TRP), or some other suitable term in the art. As long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to specific technical terms. It should be noted that in the embodiments of this application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0132] To enable those skilled in the art to better understand the embodiments of this application, the following explanations are made first.

[0133] (1) Layer 1 / Layer 2-Triggered Mobility (LTM) L1 measurement configuration and reporting configuration;

[0134] In the related art, Layer 1 / Layer 2-Triggered Mobility (LTM) is introduced. Specifically, the serving base station determines the target cell based on the measurement results of the UE's Layer 1 (L1), and uses the Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) to trigger the UE to switch the primary cell or the primary / secondary cell (or the primary cell group or the secondary cell group) to the target cell (or the target cell group). During the LTM process, the network side will send a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message in advance, which contains multiple candidate configuration information and multiple LTM Channel State Information (CSI) resource configuration information. Each LTM CSI resource configuration information includes one or more Reference Signals (RS) resources of one or more LTM candidate cells, that is, it includes one or more candidate configuration IDs and the corresponding Synchronization Signal and PBCH block (SSB) index. The candidate configuration associated with the candidate configuration ID has detailed RS configuration information of the candidate cell, including the frequency point, subcarrier spacing, period, time domain position, and power-related information of the RS. The UE can find the specific RS configuration information in the candidate configuration through the candidate configuration ID and the SSB index, so as to measure the RS and obtain the Layer 1 measurement results of the RS of this candidate cell.

[0135] In addition, the service cell configuration of the UE also includes one or more LTM-related CSI reporting configurations, and each CSI reporting configuration contains the following information:

[0136] LTM CSI reporting configuration identifier;

[0137] LTM CSI resource configuration identifier;

[0138] LTM reporting configuration type, including periodic reporting / semi-persistent reporting based on PUCCH and its corresponding reporting resources;

[0139] LTM reporting content, including the number of candidate cells reported by LTM CSI and the number of RSs reported for each cell.

[0140] Each LTM CSI reporting configuration is associated with one LTM CSI resource configuration information. The UE uses the reporting type and reporting resources in this LTM CSI reporting configuration to report the L1 measurement results of N RSs of M candidate cells in the LTM CSI resource configuration information.

[0141] According to the current RAN4 standard process, the UE is not allowed to perform L1 measurements on unknown cells. A known cell is a neighbor cell or candidate cell that meets the following conditions:

[0142] The UE has performed L3 measurements on this cell (RAN4 is currently discussing how long the L3 measurements have been performed to meet the condition).

[0143] The SSB for L1 measurement of the target cell is detectable.

[0144] Candidate cells or neighbor cells that do not meet the above conditions are unknown cells.

[0145] (2) L3 measurement configuration and reporting configuration;

[0146] The network will configure the UE in the RRC_CONNECTED state to perform L3 measurements. The network configures the UE to perform reporting according to the measurement configuration or evaluate whether the handover conditions are met according to the measurement results. The measurement configuration information includes the following parameters:

[0147] The first item: Measurement Object (MO). One MO indicates the time-frequency position of the RS to be measured. The network side (NW) configures multiple cells associated with the MO and their cell-specific offset values. Each MO is associated with a measurement object identifier (measObjectId).

[0148] The second item: Reporting configuration. Each reporting configuration includes:

[0149] Reporting criterion, which is used to trigger the UE to send measurement reports and can be periodic reporting or event-triggered reporting;

[0150] RS type, which is used to indicate which RS the UE should use to derive the L3 measurement results;

[0151] Reporting format, that is, the parameters included in the UE's measurement report, such as Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP);

[0152] In addition, the reporting configuration may also include other relevant information, such as the maximum number of cells reported by the UE and the maximum number of beams reported for each cell.

[0153] Item 3: Measurement identifier. Each measurement identifier is associated with a measurement target and a reporting configuration. By configuring multiple measurement identifiers, multiple MOs can be associated with one reporting configuration, or multiple reporting configurations can be associated with 1 MO.

[0154] Item 4: Parameter configuration, which defines the filtering configuration parameters used for all event evaluations, related reporting, and periodic measurement reporting.

[0155] Item 5: Measurement interval, which is the period for the UE to perform measurements.

[0156] For the MOs associated with L3 periodic and event-triggered reporting, when the UE performs L3 measurements on the MO, the UE determines whether to perform measurements based on SSB or CSI-RS according to the reference signal type (RS-type) in the reporting configuration associated with this MO, and determines to perform measurements of reference signal received power (RSRP), reference signal received quality (RSRQ), or signal-to-noise and interference ratio (SINR), etc. according to the reporting format in the reporting configuration. If the measurement configuration includes the serving cell measurement configuration (S-Measure Config), when the quality of the serving cell is lower than the threshold associated with the S-Measure Config, the UE can calculate the L3 measurement based on the MO associated with the non-serving cell.

[0157] (3) Reporting requirements and invalid measurement values;

[0158] The reporting range of the synchronization signal-reference signal received power (SS-RSRP) for L3 reporting is defined as -156 dBm to -31 dBm, with a resolution of 1 dB. The reporting ranges of SS-RSRP and CSI-RSRP for L1 reporting are defined as -140 to -44 dBm, with a resolution of 1 dB.

[0159] Measurement reporting requirements:

[0160] The UE shall send L1-RSRP reports only for the reporting configurations configured for the active BWP.

[0161] If the number of reported reference signals (nrofReportedRS) is configured to 1, the UE shall report the L1-RSRP value as a 7-bit value in the range of [-140, -44] dBm, with a step size of 1 dB. If nrofReportedRS is configured to be greater than 1, or if group-based beam reporting is enabled, the UE shall use differential L1-RSRP-based reporting. The differential L1-RSRP is quantized as a 4-bit value with a step size of 2 dB, and the valid range of the differential L1-RSRP is [-30, 0]. In E-UTRAN New Radio Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) operation, when the UE is configured to perform carrier-based handover of the E-UTRA Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), additional delay can be expected, or, if the UE can handle the Frequency Range (FR) gap, additional delay can be expected.

[0162] The following will, with reference to the accompanying drawings, through some embodiments and their application scenarios, elaborate on the method for processing L1 measurement results provided by the embodiments of the present application.

[0163] As Figure 2 shown, the embodiments of the present application provide a method for processing L1 measurement results, including:

[0164] Step 201: When the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to the preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0165] Optionally, the above reporting time is the reporting time associated with the first L1 measurement report.

[0166] Optionally, the above L1 resource configuration information is LTM CSI resource configuration information.

[0167] Optionally, the invalid L1 measurement results can be understood as the absence of L1 measurement results for one or more cells or one or more reference signals of a cell included in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0168] Optionally, the inclusion of the LTM CSI resource configuration identifier in the CSI reporting configuration can be understood as the association of the L1 resource configuration information with the reporting time.

[0169] Optionally, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to the preset reporting number, if the L1 reporting type configured for the UE is periodic reporting, or semi-persistent reporting on the PUCCH, or semi-persistent reporting on the PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on the PUSCH, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance.

[0170] The above semi-persistent reporting can also be described as semi-static reporting.

[0171] It should be noted that the terminal determines the reporting number (i.e., the above preset reporting number) based on the parameters configured by the network side. The preset reporting number is determined by the network side. For example, the network side requires the terminal to report the measurement results of P reference signals of L cells, where both L and P are configured by the network side, and both L and P are positive integers.

[0172] In the embodiment of the present application, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to the preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance. The first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal.

[0173] Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, before performing the above step 201, it further includes:

[0174] Receiving a first RRC message sent by a network side device, where the first RRC message includes one or more L1 resource configuration information (such as LTM-CSI-Resource Configuration), and L1 reporting configuration information (LTM-CSI-ReportConfig).

[0175] Wherein, each L1 resource configuration information includes:

[0176] (1) L1 resource configuration identifier;

[0177] (2) One or more L1 RS indexes or one or more L1 RS configuration information, and the L1 RS configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0178] Frequency domain information of the RS, such as the frequency point of the RS and other frequency domain information;

[0179] Time domain information of the RS, such as the period of the RS;

[0180] Subcarrier spacing of the RS;

[0181] Power-related information of the RS;

[0182] The UE can be associated with the configuration information of the L1 RS through the L1 RS index.

[0183] (3) Cell identifiers corresponding to one or more L1 RSs;

[0184] Wherein each L1 reporting configuration information includes:

[0185] L1 reporting configuration identifier;

[0186] L1 resource configuration identifier;

[0187] L1 reporting configuration type, including periodic reporting / semi-persistent reporting based on PUCCH and their corresponding reporting resources;

[0188] L1 reporting content, including the number of candidate cells reported by L1 and the number of RSs reported by each cell.

[0189] Optionally, the first content includes any one of the following:

[0190] A1: Invalid measurement value, which is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0191] A2: Repeated measurement result;

[0192] Wherein, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells, and the repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results, N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively;

[0193] Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells. The repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T-Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results, where S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

[0194] For the repeated measurement results, the identification of the cell and the reference signal associated with the repeated measurement results included in the first L1 measurement report should be the same as that of the valid measurement results they repeat.

[0195] For example, if the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of 5 cells, and the first L1 measurement report includes L1 measurement results of two identical cell 1s, L1 measurement results of two identical cell 2s, and L1 measurement results of one cell 3, then the first L1 measurement report actually includes valid L1 measurement results of three cells, namely cell 1, cell 2, and cell 3. The repeated L1 measurement results of one cell 1 and the repeated L1 measurement results of one cell 2 are invalid L1 measurement results. That is, the L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of 3 cells and L1 measurement results of 2 invalid cells.

[0196] Another example, if the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of 4 reference signals of 3 cells, the first L1 measurement report includes L1 measurement results of 4 reference signals of cell 1 and L1 measurement results of 4 reference signals of cell 2, and also includes L1 measurement results of two RS1s, one RS2, and one RS3 of cell 3, and also includes L1 measurement results of two RS1s and two RS2s of cell 4. Then the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of RS1, RS2, and RS3 of cell 3, and the repeated L1 measurement result of one RS1 of cell 3 is an invalid L1 measurement result; and the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of RS1 and RS2 of cell 4, and one repeated measurement result of RS1 and one repeated measurement result of RS2 in the L1 measurement report are invalid L1 measurement results. That is, there is no valid L1 measurement result for one reference signal of cell 3 in the first L1 measurement report and there are no valid L1 measurement results for two reference signals of cell 4.

[0197] In an embodiment of the present application, when the UE performs L3 measurement, due to reasons such as a relatively low Signal-to-noise and Interference Ratio (SINR), the UE fails to successfully complete the L3 measurement on the cell / frequency point. If the frequency point also corresponds to L1 resource configuration information, since the cell is unknown, the UE cannot perform the associated L1 measurement. For the L1 reporting configuration information, when a reporting opportunity occurs, the UE must report the L1 measurement result. However, in the above scenario, some or all of the neighboring cells associated with the L1 reporting configuration may not have performed the L1 measurement, so there are not enough valid results to report. In this scenario, the above invalid measurement values or repeated measurement results can be used to indicate that there are no valid measurement results for the corresponding cell or the reference signal of the cell.

[0198] For the above item A1, the above first L1 measurement report includes the cell identifier corresponding to the invalid measurement value or the identifier of the reference signal of the cell. Since the first L1 measurement report needs to include the cell identifier and the identifier of the reference signal, the method for determining the cell identifier and the reference signal identifier corresponding to the invalid measurement value included in the above first L1 measurement report is as follows: If the first L1 measurement report needs to include the invalid first L1 measurement results of all the reference signals of a cell, and there are no valid L1 measurement results among the multiple cells associated with the first L1 measurement report, then when the UE fills in invalid values in the first L1 measurement report, it can arbitrarily select one or more cell identifiers from these multiple cells without valid L1 measurement results or select one or more cell identifiers according to the size order of the cell identifiers and include them in the first L1 measurement report, or the UE includes the invalid cell identifier agreed upon by the protocol in the first L1 measurement report. For the identifier of the reference signal associated with the invalid measurement value, the UE can arbitrarily select one or more from the reference signals included in the cells it selects, or select one or more according to the size order of the reference signal identifiers, or the UE includes the invalid reference signal identifier agreed upon by the protocol in the first L1 measurement report; If the first L1 measurement report needs to include the invalid first L1 measurement results of some of the reference signals of a cell, that is, the number of valid reference signals of the cell is less than the number of reference signals reported by each cell required by the network, then the cell identifier is included in the first L1 measurement report. For the identifier of the reference signal associated with the invalid measurement value, the UE can arbitrarily select one or more from the reference signals included in the cell, or select one or more according to the size order of the reference signal identifiers, or the UE includes the invalid reference signal identifier agreed upon by the protocol in the first L1 measurement report. The above invalid measurement value can be a value outside the allowable reporting value range, or a value within the allowable reporting value range. Optionally, a value is reserved as the invalid measurement value within the allowable reporting value range. For example, the invalid measurement value can be the lower limit value or the minimum value (i.e., the lowest reporting value) within the reporting value range, or the upper limit value or the maximum value within the reporting value range. Specifically, if the lower limit value of the current L3 SS-RSRP or CSI-RSRP is -156, then when the UE reports -156, it indicates that there are no valid L1 measurement results for the corresponding cell or the reference signal of the cell. The lower limit value of the current L1 SS-RSRP or CSI-RSRP is -141, and the upper limit value is -45. Then the above invalid measurement value can be -141 or -45, or a value less than -141, or a value greater than -45. Optionally, the above first L1 measurement report is a measurement report based on differential L1-RSRP, and the invalid measurement value can also be less than the value of DIFFRSRP_15, that is, the value where ΔRSRP is less than -30, or greater than the value of DIFFRSRP_0, that is, the value where ΔRSRP is greater than 0.

[0199] Based on the above invalid measurement values, it is possible to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the corresponding cell or the reference signal of the cell is invalid, so that the network-side device can know the validity of the L1 measurement results of each cell in the L1 measurement report.

[0200] For the above item A2, if the measurement results of N - M cells are repeated with the L1 measurement results of at least one cell among the M cells, the network-side device can know that in addition to the M cells having valid measurement results, the L1 measurement results of the other N - M cells are invalid or the UE does not obtain valid L1 measurement results of the other N - M cells. Or, in the case where the measurement results of T - Q reference signals of S2 cells are repeated with the L1 measurement results of at least one reference signal among the Q reference signals, the network side can obtain only Q valid measurement results of the S2 cells, and the measurement results of the other T - Q reference signals are invalid or the UE does not obtain valid L1 measurement results of the other T - Q reference signals.

[0201] It should be noted that if S2 is greater than 1, the Q values corresponding to different cells among the S2 cells may be the same or different.

[0202] Based on the above repeated measurement results, it implicitly indicates that there is no valid L1 measurement result for the corresponding cell or the reference signal of the cell, so that the network-side device can know the validity of the L1 measurement results of each cell in the L1 measurement report.

[0203] Optionally, the method of the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0204] When the reporting type corresponding to the first L1 measurement report is periodic reporting, semi-persistent reporting on the PUCCH, semi-persistent reporting on the PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on the PUSCH, send the first L1 measurement report.

[0205] Optionally, the method of the embodiment of the present application further includes at least one of the following:

[0206] The terminal does not expect the network-side device to send an activation command for the transmission configuration indication state TCI state of the relevant reference signal based on the invalid L1 measurement result; it can also be understood that: the network side does not send an activation command for the transmission configuration indication state TCI state of the relevant reference signal based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0207] The terminal does not expect the network-side device to include the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result; it can also be understood that: the network side does not include the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0208] The terminal does not expect the network side device to include the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) command for triggering the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on an invalid L1 measurement result. It can also be understood that the network side does not include the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the PDCCH command for triggering the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on an invalid L1 measurement result.

[0209] In the embodiments of the present application, according to the protocol convention or based on the implementation of the network side, only when the L1 measurement result of the RS reported by the UE is valid, the TCI state or cell associated with the RS is known. When the L1 measurement result of the RS reported by the UE is the first content, the processing behavior of the network side for the corresponding RS or the TCI state associated with the corresponding RS is agreed upon through the above operations.

[0210] Optionally, the method of the embodiments of the present application further includes at least one of the following:

[0211] The first item: when all valid L1 measurement results corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time are not obtained, send a first indication message;

[0212] The first indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0213] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the first reporting opportunity, and the first reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the first indication message, where the first moment is the moment when the network side device receives the first indication message;

[0214] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the second reporting opportunity, and the second reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment.

[0215] Optionally, the first indication message includes at least one of the following:

[0216] A deactivation indication or an ignore indication;

[0217] A reporting configuration identifier (report id).

[0218] Exemplarily, when the first indication information includes a reporting configuration identifier, it is indicated by this reporting configuration identifier that there are no valid L1 measurement results at at least one reporting occasion (such as L reporting occasions) associated with the reporting configuration identifier after the network-side device receives the first indication information, and there may be valid L1 measurement results at reporting occasions after these L reporting occasions. Alternatively, when the above first indication information includes a deactivation indication or an ignore indication, it is indicated that there are no valid L1 measurement results at reporting occasions after the network-side device receives the first indication information, or it is indicated that there are no valid L1 measurement results at at least one reporting occasion (such as L reporting occasions) after the network-side device receives the first indication information, and there may be valid L1 measurement results at reporting occasions after these L reporting occasions.

[0219] Item 2: When the obtained L1 measurement result is a valid L1 measurement result associated with a reporting occasion, and the reporting occasion is a reporting occasion ignored by the network-side device, send second indication information;

[0220] Wherein, the second indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0221] Monitor a third reporting occasion, where the third reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication information, and the second moment is the moment when the network-side device receives the second indication information;

[0222] Monitor a fourth reporting occasion, where the fourth reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment.

[0223] Optionally, the second indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0224] An activation indication or a stop ignore indication;

[0225] A reporting configuration identifier.

[0226] Here, when the obtained L1 measurement result is a valid L1 measurement result associated with a reporting occasion, and the reporting occasion is a reporting occasion ignored by the network-side device, through the above second indication information, the network-side device can re-monitor this reporting occasion, and thus obtain the valid L1 measurement result at this reporting occasion.

[0227] Optionally, the method of the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0228] Send a second L1 measurement report;

[0229] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0230] Item 1: An indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0231] Item 2: The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result, and the L1 measurement result may be RSRP;

[0232] Item 3: The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration, or the indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0233] For the first item above, for example, at a reporting time instance, the neighboring cells include neighboring cell #1, neighboring cell #2, neighboring cell #3, neighboring cell #4, neighboring cell #5, neighboring cell #6, neighboring cell #7, and neighboring cell #8. If the UE has L1 measurement results for neighboring cells #1, 3, and 6, the UE reports "10100100", where "1" indicates that the neighboring cell corresponding to its position has a valid L1 measurement result, and "0" indicates that the neighboring cell corresponding to its position does not have a valid L1 measurement result.

[0234] For the second item above: The number of RS measurement results of each cell reported by the UE is configured by NW or agreed upon by the protocol or reported by the UE, and is used to indicate the number of available RS measurement results of each cell, or the minimum number of valid RS measurement results of each cell to be reported by the UE; the UE reports the measurement results of the number of RS for each cell.

[0235] For the third item above, one implementation is that the number of valid L1 measurement results of the RS of each cell reported by the UE is the same. For example, neighboring cell #1 has 4 RS measurement results, neighboring cell #3 has 5 RS measurement results, and neighboring cell #4 has 6 RS measurement results, then the UE reports 4; another implementation is that the UE reports the number of valid measurement results of the RS of each cell. For example, neighboring cell #1 has 4 RS measurement results, neighboring cell #3 has 5 RS measurement results, and neighboring cell #4 has 6 RS measurement results, then the UE reports "4,5,6", or assuming that each cell includes 5 RSs, and assuming that RSs #1, 2, and 5 of cell #1 have valid L1 measurement results, while 3 and 4 do not have valid L1 measurement results, then for cell #1, the UE reports "11001", where "1" indicates that the RS corresponding to its position has a valid L1 measurement result, and "0" indicates that the RS corresponding to its position does not have a valid L1 measurement result.

[0236] Optionally, the terminal uses uplink control information (UCI) or MAC CE to send a second L1 measurement report at the L1 reporting time instance.

[0237] Optionally, before sending the above-mentioned second L1 measurement report, it further includes: receiving a second RRC message sent by a network-side device, where the content included in the second RRC message is different from the content included in the first RRC message in that the L1 reporting configuration does not include L1 reporting content. That is, the length of the L1 reporting content is a variable length, and the L1 reporting content may only include valid L1 measurement results, thereby effectively saving reporting overhead.

[0238] Since the above-mentioned second L1 measurement report may only include valid L1 measurement results, it can effectively save reporting overhead.

[0239] Optionally, the method according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0240] When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement, the terminal performs an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell.

[0241] Optionally, the above-mentioned cell is a pre-configured LTM candidate cell, such as the neighboring cell is a cell other than the serving cell or a cell other than a special cell (SpCell).

[0242] According to the current protocol, if the serving cell measurement configuration (S-MeasureConfig) is included in the measurement configuration, when the quality of the serving cell is lower than the threshold value associated with S-MeasureConfig, the UE can perform an L3 measurement based on the MO associated with the non-serving cell. However, when the quality of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with S-MeasureConfig, the terminal does not perform an L3 measurement on the non-serving cell.

[0243] Through the solution of the present application, when the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement, the terminal continues to perform an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell, which can ensure that the neighboring cell or candidate cell associated with L1 measurement is always in the known state, thereby ensuring that the L1 measurement related to the cell can be smoothly performed.

[0244] Optionally, as an implementation manner, the terminal performing an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell includes at least one of the following:

[0245] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period. The second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information. The first measurement period is a period configured by the network, agreed upon by the protocol, or determined based on UE implementation. The second L3 measurement configuration information includes measurement objects and reporting configurations associated with the measurement objects. That is, before meeting (not lower than) the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration, perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells at a lower frequency.

[0246] Measure the L3 measurement frequency points where the neighboring cells are located so that the neighboring cells do not meet the unknown cell condition, that is, keep the neighboring cells known cells to the UE.

[0247] Ignore the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration. That is, regardless of whether the threshold associated with S-MeasureConfig is met, the UE performs normal L3 measurements on the frequency points associated with the neighboring cells or the neighboring cells.

[0248] Optionally, the second L3 measurement configuration information in the embodiments of the present application further includes measurement interval configuration information.

[0249] Optionally, after the terminal performs L3 measurements on the neighboring cells, it further includes:

[0250] Do not report or trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement results corresponding to the L3 measurements of the neighboring cells.

[0251] Here, the purpose of performing L3 measurements is to make the neighboring cells known cells to the UE, which is convenient for subsequent L1 measurements. Therefore, the L3 measurement results corresponding to the L3 measurements of the neighboring cells are not reported or triggered to reduce signaling overhead.

[0252] Optionally, the method in the embodiments of the present application further includes:

[0253] Perform L3 measurements on the cells or frequency points associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation.

[0254] Alternatively, perform L3 measurements according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0255] If the L1 measurement of a neighboring cell (such as Cell1) is configured on the NW side, but the MO or report configuration related to the L1 measurement is not configured in the traditional legacy L3 measurement configuration information (i.e., the second L3 measurement configuration information described in this application), it will cause the UE not to perform L3 measurement on the cell associated with the L1 measurement (i.e., Cell1), making this neighboring cell always an unknown cell, so that the UE cannot perform the relevant L1 measurement. In the embodiment of this application, the above-mentioned first L3 measurement configuration information is additionally configured, and the first L3 measurement configuration information corresponds to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell, that is, the measurement object included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the frequency band where the neighboring cell associated with the L1 measurement is located, so that the UE can perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, that is, perform L3 measurement on the neighboring cells related to the L1 measurement, and further ensure that all neighboring cells associated with the L1 measurement are known cells.

[0256] In the embodiment of this application, before performing the L3 measurement, it further includes: receiving the above-mentioned first RRC message.

[0257] Optionally, as an implementation manner, in the case where the second L3 measurement configuration information does not include the frequency band in the L1 resource configuration information, obtain the first L3 measurement configuration information configured by the network side device.

[0258] Optionally, the terminal obtains the first L3 measurement configuration information through an RRC message, and the RRC message is the same as or different from the above-mentioned first RRC message.

[0259] In the embodiment of this application, if the terminal does not receive the above-mentioned first L3 measurement configuration information, it performs L3 measurement on the cell or frequency band associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on the UE implementation. If it receives the first L3 measurement configuration information, it performs L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information.

[0260] It should be noted that if the second L3 measurement configuration information includes the frequency band of the L1 resource configuration information, the network side does not need to configure the corresponding first L3 measurement configuration information for the frequency band.

[0261] As an implementation manner, the performing L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information includes:

[0262] When there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0263] The overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information can be understood as that the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information include at least one frequency point in the second L3 measurement configuration information.

[0264] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0265] Candidate cell identifier;

[0266] Frequency domain information of a reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information, and the frequency point information includes the frequency point information of the L1 resource configuration information in the first RRC message;

[0267] Time domain information of a reference signal or an L3 measurement period, for example, the period or measurement interval of a reference signal, used to indicate how often the terminal performs the L3 measurement;

[0268] Measurement quantity, where the measurement quantity is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal. For example, the measurement quantity is used to indicate the measurement quantity of RSRP.

[0269] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0270] In an embodiment of the present application, when the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information, determine that the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0271] Optionally, the method in the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0272] When a measurement object associated with a target frequency point or a reporting configuration is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, L3 measurement is performed according to a first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and a second measurement period. The second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period. The first measurement period is a period configured by the network, or agreed upon by a protocol, or determined based on UE implementation. The second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object. The target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0273] In an embodiment of the present application, if the network side configures a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point (i.e., the frequency point corresponding to all L1 measurement configuration information associated with the current serving cell) in the legacy L3 measurement configuration information (i.e., the above-mentioned second L3 measurement configuration information) to ensure that all L1 measurements of neighboring cells can be successfully performed, the terminal can perform a relaxed L3 measurement on the cell (i.e., based on the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period) to make the cell meet the requirements of a known cell, so that the terminal can perform cell handover based on the L1 measurement.

[0274] In an embodiment of the present application, first, the terminal receives the above-mentioned first RRC message and the RRC message containing the second L3 measurement configuration information, and then the terminal performs normal L3 measurement (L3 measurement based on the second measurement period) or relaxed L3 measurement according to the first RRC message and the second L3 measurement configuration information. Optionally, the terminal performs relaxed L3 measurement according to a period configured by the network side or a predefined period, or performs relaxed L3 measurement based on UE implementation.

[0275] Optionally, performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period includes at least one of the following:

[0276] B1: When receiving a first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period. The first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0277] After receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, and L3 measurement can be performed on a neighboring cell or a serving cell.

[0278] B2: Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period within the first part of the duration of a third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period within the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0279] The time length of the third measurement period is greater than the target time length, where the target time length is the sum of the time lengths corresponding to the first measurement period and the second measurement period. Optionally, the above-mentioned first part duration and second part duration are predefined by the protocol or configured by the network side.

[0280] Exemplarily, if the measurement time period of the measurement object includes a first time period within the above-mentioned first part duration and a second time period within the above-mentioned second part duration, then for the measurement object, the terminal performs L3 measurement according to the first measurement period within the first time period and performs L3 measurement based on the second measurement period within the second time period.

[0281] Optionally, performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period includes at least one of the following:

[0282] Performing L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0283] Performing L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology (intra-RAT) according to the first measurement period.

[0284] In the embodiments of the present application, the serving cell may also perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period. For neighboring cells using different radio access technologies (inter-RAT), L3 measurement is performed according to the first measurement period or the second measurement period.

[0285] Optionally, the starting moment of the third measurement period is the moment when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the moment when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the moment deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0286] Optionally, after performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, it further includes:

[0287] Not reporting the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0288] In the embodiments of the present application, performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period is to make the cell meet the requirements of the known cell of L1 measurement, rather than for mobility management based on the L3 measurement result. Therefore, the reporting of the L3 measurement result can be omitted here to save the reporting signaling overhead.

[0289] In an embodiment of the present application, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal.

[0290] As Figure 3 shown, an embodiment of the present application further provides a method for processing L1 measurement results, including:

[0291] Step 301: The network side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0292] Optionally, the above reporting time is the reporting time associated with the first L1 measurement report.

[0293] Optionally, the above L1 resource configuration information is LTM CSI resource configuration information.

[0294] Optionally, the invalid L1 measurement results can be understood as that there are no L1 measurement results for the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information or the reference signal of the cell.

[0295] Optionally, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, if the L1 reporting type configured for the UE is periodic reporting or semi-persistent reporting on the PUCCH or semi-persistent reporting on the PUSCH or aperiodic reporting on the PUSCH, the terminal includes the first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time.

[0296] The above semi-persistent reporting can also be described as semi-static reporting.

[0297] It should be noted that the terminal determines the reporting number (i.e., the above preset reporting number) based on the parameters configured by the network side. The preset reporting number is determined by the network side. For example, the network side requires the terminal to report the measurement results of P reference signals of L cells, where both L and P are configured by the network side, and both L and P are positive integers.

[0298] In an embodiment of the present application, a network - side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network - side can learn about the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of L1 measurement results between the network - side and the terminal.

[0299] Optionally, the first content includes any one of the following:

[0300] An invalid measurement value, which is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0301] A repeated measurement result;

[0302] Among them, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of N cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells. The repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results. N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively;

[0303] Or, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each second cell. The repeated measurement results of the K reference signals of each second cell are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results. Wherein, S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

[0304] This first content has been described in detail in the method embodiment on the terminal side, and will not be elaborated here.

[0305] Optionally, after obtaining the first L1 measurement report, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0306] Not sending a TCI state activation command for the relevant reference signal to the terminal based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0307] Do not include the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0308] Do not include the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the PDCCH command used to trigger the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on the invalid L1 measurement result.

[0309] Optionally, the method according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0310] Obtain the first indication information or the second indication information;

[0311] Wherein, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0312] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the first reporting opportunity, and the first reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the first indication information, and the first moment is the moment when the network side device receives the first indication information;

[0313] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the second reporting opportunity, and the second reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment;

[0314] The second indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0315] Monitor the third reporting opportunity, and the third reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication information, and the second moment is the moment when the network side device receives the second indication information;

[0316] Monitor the fourth reporting opportunity, and the fourth reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment.

[0317] Optionally, the first indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0318] Deactivation indication or ignore indication;

[0319] Reporting configuration identifier;

[0320] Alternatively, the second indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0321] Activation indication or stop ignore indication;

[0322] Reporting configuration identifier.

[0323] The first indication information and the second indication information have been described in detail in the method claims on the terminal side, and will not be elaborated here.

[0324] Optionally, the method according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0325] Obtaining a second L1 measurement report;

[0326] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0327] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for a cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0328] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0329] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0330] Optionally, the method according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0331] Sending first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0332] Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, when the second L3 measurement configuration information does not include the frequency point in the L1 resource configuration information, the first L3 measurement configuration information is sent.

[0333] Optionally, the method according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0334] Sending first control signaling, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on a first measurement period, the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0335] The method executed by the above network-side device is a method corresponding to the method executed by the terminal side. The specific interaction process between the two has been described in detail in the embodiment of the terminal side and will not be elaborated here.

[0336] In an embodiment of the present application, a network - side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, and the first L1 measurement report contains first content, where the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network - side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network - side and the terminal.

[0337] An embodiment of the present application also provides a method for processing L1 measurement results, which is executed by a terminal. As Figure 4 shown, it includes:

[0338] Step 401: Send a second L1 measurement report;

[0339] Among them, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0340] The first item: Indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results for the cells associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0341] The second item: The L1 measurement results of the reference signals included in the cells with valid L1 measurement results. This L1 measurement result can be RSRP;

[0342] The third item: The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals of the cells associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results for the reference signals associated with the cells.

[0343] For the above - mentioned first item, for example, at a reporting time, the associated neighboring cells are neighboring cell #1, neighboring cell #2, neighboring cell #3, neighboring cell #4, neighboring cell #5, neighboring cell #6, neighboring cell #7, neighboring cell #8. The UE has L1 measurement results for neighboring cells #1, 3, 6. Then the UE reports "10100100", where "1" indicates that the neighboring cell corresponding to its position has a valid L1 measurement result, and "0" indicates that the neighboring cell corresponding to its position does not have a valid L1 measurement result.

[0344] For the above - mentioned second item: The number of RS measurement results reported by the UE for each cell is configured by NW or agreed upon by the protocol or reported by the UE, which is used to indicate the number of available RS measurement results for each cell, or the minimum number of valid RS measurement results that the UE wants to report for each cell; The UE reports the measurement results of the number of RS for each cell.

[0345] For the third item above, one implementation is that the number of valid L1 measurement results of the RS of each cell reported by the UE is the same. For example, if there are 4 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #1, 5 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #3, and 6 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #4, then the UE reports 4. Another implementation is that the UE reports the number of valid measurement results of the RS of each cell. For example, if there are 4 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #1, 5 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #3, and 6 RS measurement results for neighbor cell #4, then the UE reports "4,5,6". Or assume that each cell contains 5 RSs, and assume that RSs #1, 2, and 5 of cell #1 have valid L1 measurement results, while 3 and 4 do not have valid L1 measurement results. Then for cell #1, the UE reports "11001", where "1" indicates that the RS corresponding to its location has a valid L1 measurement result, and "0" indicates that the RS corresponding to its location does not have a valid L1 measurement result.

[0346] Optionally, the terminal uses uplink control information (UCI) or MAC CE to send a second L1 measurement report at the L1 reporting opportunity.

[0347] Optionally, as an implementation, sending a second L1 measurement report includes: sending a second L1 measurement report when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting quantity.

[0348] Optionally, before sending the above second L1 measurement report, it further includes: receiving a second RRC message sent by the network side device, and the content included in the second RRC message is different from the content included in the first RRC message in that the L1 reporting configuration does not include the L1 reporting content. That is, the length of the L1 reporting content is a variable length, and the L1 reporting content can only include valid L1 measurement results, thereby effectively saving the reporting overhead.

[0349] In the embodiment of the present application, based on the above second L1 measurement report, only valid L1 measurement results can be included in the L1 reporting content, thereby effectively saving the reporting overhead.

[0350] The embodiment of the present application also provides a method for processing L1 measurement results, which is executed by a terminal, as Figure 5 shown, including:

[0351] Step 501: When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighbor cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement, perform an L3 measurement on the neighbor cell.

[0352] Optionally, the above cell is a pre-configured LTM candidate cell, such as the above neighbor cell being a cell other than the serving cell or a cell other than a special cell (SpCell).

[0353] According to the current protocol, if the measurement configuration includes serving cell measurement configuration (S-MeasureConfig), when the quality of the serving cell is lower than the threshold value associated with S-MeasureConfig, the UE can perform L3 measurement based on the MO associated with the non-serving cell. However, when the quality of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with S-MeasureConfig, the terminal does not perform L3 measurement on the non-serving cell.

[0354] Through the solution of this application, when the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighbor cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement, the terminal continues to perform L3 measurement on the neighbor cell, which can ensure that the neighbor cell or candidate cell associated with L1 measurement is always in the known state, so as to ensure that the L1 measurement related to this cell can be smoothly performed.

[0355] Optionally, as an implementation manner, the terminal performing L3 measurement on the neighbor cell includes at least one of the following:

[0356] Performing L3 measurement on the neighbor cell based on a first measurement period, the first measurement period being greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period being the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period being a period configured by the network or agreed by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information including a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object; that is, relative to before meeting (not lower than) the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration, performing L3 measurement on the neighbor cell at a lower frequency;

[0357] Measuring the L3 measurement frequency point where the neighbor cell is located so that the neighbor cell does not meet the unknown cell condition, that is, keeping the neighbor cell a known cell for the UE;

[0358] Ignoring the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration. That is, regardless of whether the threshold associated with S-MeasureConfig is met, the UE performs normal L3 measurement on the frequency point associated with the neighbor cell or the neighbor cell.

[0359] Optionally, the second L3 measurement configuration information in the embodiments of this application further includes measurement interval configuration information.

[0360] Optionally, after the terminal performs L3 measurement on the neighbor cell, it further includes:

[0361] Do not report or trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0362] Here, the purpose of performing the L3 measurement is to make the neighboring cell a known cell for the UE, so as to facilitate the subsequent execution of the L1 measurement. It is not for mobility management based on the L3 measurement result. Therefore, the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell is not reported or triggered to reduce signaling overhead.

[0363] The embodiment of the present application also provides a method for processing the L1 measurement result, which is executed by the terminal. As Figure 6 shown, it includes:

[0364] Step 601: Perform L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on the UE implementation;

[0365] Alternatively, perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0366] If the NW side configures the L1 measurement of a neighboring cell (such as Cell1), but does not configure the MO or reporting configuration (reportconfiguration) related to the L1 measurement in the traditional legacy L3 measurement configuration information (i.e., the second L3 measurement configuration information described in the present application), it will cause the UE not to perform L3 measurement on the cell (i.e., Cell1) associated with the L1 measurement configuration, making this neighboring cell always an unknown cell, so that the UE cannot perform the relevant L1 measurement. The embodiment of the present application additionally configures the above first L3 measurement configuration information, which corresponds to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell. That is, the measurement object included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the frequency point where the neighboring cell associated with the L1 measurement is located, so that the UE can perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information. That is to say, perform L3 measurement on the neighboring cell related to the L1 measurement, so as to ensure that all neighboring cells associated with the L1 measurement configuration are known cells.

[0367] In the embodiment of the present application, before performing the L3 measurement, it further includes: receiving the above first RRC message.

[0368] Optionally, as an implementation manner, in the case where the second L3 measurement configuration information does not include the frequency point in the L1 resource configuration information, obtain the first L3 measurement configuration information configured by the network side device.

[0369] Optionally, the terminal obtains the first L3 measurement configuration information through an RRC message, which may be the same as or different from the above-mentioned first RRC message.

[0370] In the embodiments of the present application, if the terminal does not receive the above-mentioned first L3 measurement configuration information, it performs L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation. If it receives the first L3 measurement configuration information, it performs L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information.

[0371] It should be noted that if the second L3 measurement configuration information includes the frequency points of the L1 resource configuration information, the network side does not need to configure the corresponding first L3 measurement configuration information for the frequency points.

[0372] As an implementation manner, the performing L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information includes:

[0373] When there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, L3 measurement is performed according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0374] The overlap between the frequency points included in the above-mentioned first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information can be understood as that the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information include at least one of the frequency points in the second L3 measurement configuration information.

[0375] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0376] Candidate cell identifier;

[0377] Frequency domain information of the reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information, and the frequency point information includes the frequency point information of the L1 resource configuration information in the first RRC message;

[0378] Time domain information of the reference signal or the L3 measurement period, for example, the period or measurement interval of the reference signal, used to indicate how often the terminal performs the L3 measurement;

[0379] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal. For example, the measurement quantity is used to indicate the measurement quantity of RSRP.

[0380] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0381] In the embodiment of the present application, when the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information, it is determined that the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0382] The embodiment of the present application further provides a method for processing L1 measurement results, which is executed by a terminal, as Figure 7 shown, and includes:

[0383] Step 701: When a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to a first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and a second measurement period. The second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period. The first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation. The second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0384] In the embodiment of the present application, if the network side configures a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point (i.e., the frequency point corresponding to all L1 measurement configuration information associated with the current serving cell) in the legacy L3 measurement configuration information (i.e., the above-mentioned second L3 measurement configuration information) to ensure that all L1 measurements of neighboring cells can be successfully performed, the terminal can perform a relaxed L3 measurement (i.e., based on the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period) on the cell, so that the cell meets the requirements of a known cell, and further enables the terminal to perform cell handover based on the L1 measurement.

[0385] In the embodiment of the present application, first, the terminal receives the above-mentioned first RRC message and the RRC message including the second L3 measurement configuration information, and then the terminal performs normal L3 (L3 measurement based on the second measurement period) or relaxed L3 measurement according to the first RRC message and the second L3 measurement configuration information. Optionally, the terminal performs relaxed L3 measurement according to the period configured by the network side or a predefined period or performs relaxed L3 measurement based on UE implementation.

[0386] Optionally, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, including at least one of the following:

[0387] B1: When receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0388] After receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, and L3 measurement can be performed on a neighboring cell or a serving cell.

[0389] B2: Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period during the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period during the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0390] The time length of the third measurement period is greater than the target time length, where the target time length is the sum of the time length corresponding to the first measurement period and the time length corresponding to the second measurement period. Optionally, the above first part of the duration and the second part of the duration are predefined by the protocol or configured by the network side.

[0391] Exemplarily, if the measurement time period of the measurement object includes a first time period within the above first part of the duration and a second time period within the above second part of the duration, then for the measurement object, the terminal performs L3 measurement according to the first measurement period during the first time period and performs L3 measurement based on the second measurement period during the second time period.

[0392] Optionally, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period, including at least one of the following:

[0393] Perform L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0394] Perform L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology (intra-RAT) according to the first measurement period.

[0395] In the embodiments of the present application, the serving cell can also perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period. For neighboring cells using different radio access technologies (inter-RAT), perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or the second measurement period.

[0396] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period. The first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0397] Optionally, after performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, it further includes:

[0398] Not reporting the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0399] In the embodiments of the present application, performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period is to make the cell meet the requirements of the known cell of L1 measurement, rather than for mobility management based on the L3 measurement result. Therefore, the reporting of the L3 measurement result can be omitted here to save the reporting signaling overhead.

[0400] The embodiments of the present application also provide a method for processing L1 measurement results, which is executed by a network-side device, as Figure 8 shown, including:

[0401] Step 801: Obtain a second L1 measurement report;

[0402] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0403] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0404] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0405] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or the indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0406] Optionally, as an implementation manner, the second L1 measurement report is obtained when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to a preset reporting number.

[0407] The method executed by the above network-side device is the corresponding method to the method executed by the terminal side. The specific interaction process between the two has been described in detail in the embodiments of the terminal side and will not be elaborated here.

[0408] The processing method for L1 measurement results provided by the embodiments of the present application may be executed by a processing device for L1 measurement results. In the embodiments of the present application, taking the processing device for L1 measurement results executing the processing method for L1 measurement results as an example, the processing device for L1 measurement results provided by the embodiments of the present application is described.

[0409] As Figure 9 shown, the embodiments of the present application provide a processing device 900 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0410] A first processing module 901, configured to, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0411] Optionally, the first content includes any one of the following:

[0412] An invalid measurement value, which is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0413] A repeated measurement result;

[0414] Wherein, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells, and the repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results, N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively;

[0415] Or, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each second cell, and the repeated measurement results of the K reference signals of each second cell are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results, where S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q and S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

[0416] Optionally, the device of the embodiments of the present application further includes:

[0417] A first sending module, configured to send the first L1 measurement report when the reporting type corresponding to the first L1 measurement report is periodic reporting, semi-persistent reporting on a PUCCH, semi-persistent reporting on a PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on a PUSCH.

[0418] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes a second processing module, configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0419] Do not expect the network side device to activate a Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state activation command for the terminal to send a relevant reference signal based on an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0420] Do not expect the network side device to include the TCI state of a relevant reference signal in a handover command based on an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0421] Do not expect the network side device to include a reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) command for triggering the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on an invalid L1 measurement result.

[0422] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes: a second sending module, configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0423] Send a first indication message when all valid L1 measurement results corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time are not obtained;

[0424] Send a second indication message when the obtained L1 measurement result is a valid L1 measurement result associated with the reporting time, and the reporting time is a reporting time ignored by the network side device;

[0425] Wherein, the first indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0426] There is no valid L1 measurement result on a first reporting time, the first reporting time includes at least one reporting time after a first moment and associated with a reporting configuration identifier in the first indication message, and the first moment is the moment when the network side device receives the first indication message;

[0427] There is no valid L1 measurement result on a second reporting time, the second reporting time includes at least one reporting time after the first moment;

[0428] The second indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0429] Monitor the third reporting opportunity, where the third reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication information, and the second moment is the moment when the network-side device receives the second indication information;

[0430] Monitor the fourth reporting opportunity, where the fourth reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment.

[0431] Optionally, the first indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0432] Deactivation indication or ignore indication;

[0433] Reporting configuration identifier;

[0434] Alternatively, the second indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0435] Activation indication or stop ignore indication;

[0436] Reporting configuration identifier.

[0437] Optionally, the device in the embodiment of the present application further includes: a third sending module for sending a second L1 measurement report;

[0438] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0439] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0440] L1 measurement results of the reference signals included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0441] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signals associated with the cell.

[0442] Optionally, the device in the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0443] A first measurement module, configured to perform an L3 measurement on the neighbor cell when the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighbor cell is a candidate cell associated with the L1 measurement.

[0444] Optionally, the first measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0445] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period being the original measurement period corresponding to second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period being a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information including a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0446] Measure the L3 measurement frequency points where the neighboring cells are located;

[0447] Ignore the threshold values included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0448] Optionally, the apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0449] A third processing module, configured to, after the first measurement module performs L3 measurements on the neighboring cells, not report or not trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement results corresponding to the L3 measurements of the neighboring cells.

[0450] Optionally, the apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0451] A second measurement module, configured to perform L3 measurements on cells or frequency points associated with L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation;

[0452] Or perform L3 measurements according to first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0453] Optionally, the second measurement module is configured to:

[0454] In the case where there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurements according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurements according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0455] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0456] Candidate cell identifier;

[0457] Frequency domain information of the reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0458] Time domain information of the reference signal or the L3 measurement period;

[0459] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0460] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0461] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0462] A third measurement module, configured to perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period when the measurement object associated with the target frequency point or the reporting configuration is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0463] Optionally, the third measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0464] When receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period;

[0465] Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period within the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period within the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0466] Optionally, the third measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0467] Perform L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0468] Perform L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology intra-RAT according to the first measurement period.

[0469] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

[0470] Optionally, the apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0471] A fourth processing module, configured to not report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement after the third measurement module performs L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period.

[0472] In the embodiment of the present application, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to the preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal.

[0473] As Figure 10 shown, the embodiment of the present application provides a processing apparatus 1000 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0474] A first acquisition module 1001, configured to acquire a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0475] Optionally, the first content includes any one of the following:

[0476] An invalid measurement value, where the invalid measurement value is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0477] A repeated measurement result;

[0478] Wherein, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells, and the repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results, N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively;

[0479] Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells. The repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T-Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results, where S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

[0480] Optionally, the apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0481] A fifth processing module, configured to perform at least one of the following after the first acquisition module acquires the first L1 measurement report:

[0482] Not sending a TCI state activation command for a related reference signal to the terminal based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0483] Not including the TCI state of the related reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0484] Not including the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the PDCCH command for triggering the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on the invalid L1 measurement result.

[0485] Optionally, the apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0486] A second acquisition module, configured to acquire first indication information or second indication information;

[0487] Wherein, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0488] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the first reporting opportunity, and the first reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the first indication information, and the first moment is the moment when the network-side device receives the first indication information;

[0489] There is no valid L1 measurement result at the second reporting opportunity, and the second reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the first moment;

[0490] The second indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0491] Monitor the third reporting opportunity, where the third reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication information, and the second moment is the moment when the network device receives the second indication information;

[0492] Monitor the fourth reporting opportunity, where the fourth reporting opportunity includes at least one reporting opportunity after the second moment.

[0493] Optionally, the first indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0494] Deactivation indication or ignore indication;

[0495] Reporting configuration identifier;

[0496] Alternatively, the second indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0497] Activation indication or stop ignore indication;

[0498] Reporting configuration identifier.

[0499] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0500] A third acquisition module, configured to acquire a second L1 measurement report;

[0501] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0502] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0503] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0504] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0505] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0506] A fourth sending module, configured to send first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0507] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0508] A fifth sending module, configured to send a first control signaling, where the first control signaling is used to instruct a terminal to perform L3 measurements based on a first measurement period, the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is an original measurement period corresponding to second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by a network, or agreed upon by a protocol, or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0509] In an embodiment of the present application, a network-side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can learn about the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal.

[0510] The processing device for L1 measurement results in an embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component in an electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal or other devices other than the terminal. Exemplarily, the terminal may include, but is not limited to, the types of the above-listed terminal 11, and other devices may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), etc., which are not specifically limited in the embodiments of the present application.

[0511] As Figure 11 shown, an embodiment of the present application provides a processing device 1100 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0512] A sixth sending module 1101, configured to send a second L1 measurement report;

[0513] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0514] An indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results in a cell associated with an L1 reporting configuration;

[0515] The L1 measurement results of the reference signals included in the cell with valid L1 measurement results;

[0516] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals in the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or an indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results for the reference signals associated with the cell.

[0517] As Figure 12 shown, an embodiment of the present application provides a processing device 1200 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0518] The fourth measurement module 1201 is configured to perform L3 measurement on the neighboring cell when the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with L1 measurement.

[0519] Optionally, the fourth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0520] Perform L3 measurement on a neighboring cell based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0521] Measure the L3 measurement frequency band where the neighboring cell is located;

[0522] Ignore the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0523] Optionally, the apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0524] The sixth processing module is configured to not report or not trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0525] As Figure 13 shown, an apparatus 1300 for processing L1 measurement results according to an embodiment of the present application includes:

[0526] The fifth measurement module 1301 is configured to perform L3 measurement on a cell or frequency band associated with L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on UE implementation;

[0527] Or perform L3 measurement according to first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0528] Optionally, the fifth measurement module is configured to:

[0529] When there is an overlap between the frequency band included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency band included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to the frequency band in the first L3 measurement configuration information that does not overlap with the frequency band of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0530] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0531] Candidate cell identifier;

[0532] Frequency domain information of the reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0533] Time domain information of the reference signal or L3 measurement period;

[0534] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0535] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0536] As Figure 14 shown, an embodiment of the present application provides a processing device 1400 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0537] A sixth measurement module 1401, configured to perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period when a measurement object associated with a target frequency point or a reporting configuration is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0538] Optionally, the sixth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0539] When receiving a first control signaling, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period;

[0540] Perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period within the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurement according to the second measurement period within the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0541] Optionally, the sixth measurement module is configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0542] Perform L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0543] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology intra-RAT according to the first measurement period.

[0544] Optionally, the starting moment of the third measurement period is the moment when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the moment when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the moment deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period. The first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurements based on the first measurement period.

[0545] Optionally, the device according to the embodiment of the present application further includes:

[0546] The seventh processing module is configured to, after the sixth measurement module performs L3 measurements according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, not report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0547] As Figure 15 shown, the embodiment of the present application provides a processing device 1500 for L1 measurement results, including:

[0548] The fourth acquisition module 1501 is configured to acquire a second L1 measurement report;

[0549] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0550] An indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result in the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0551] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0552] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal in the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or an indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0553] The processing device for L1 measurement results provided by the embodiment of the present application can implement Figures 2 to 8 each process implemented by the method embodiment, and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0554] Optionally, as Figure 16As shown in the figure, an embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 1600, including a processor 1601 and a memory 1602. A program or instruction that can run on the processor 1601 is stored on the memory 1602. For example, when the communication device 1600 is a terminal, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 1601, each step of the method embodiment for processing the L1 measurement result executed by the above terminal is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 1600 is a network-side device, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 1601, each step of the method embodiment executed by the above network-side device is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0555] An embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface. When the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the processor is used to include a first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. This terminal embodiment corresponds to the above terminal-side method embodiment. Each implementation process and implementation manner of the above method embodiment can be applied to this terminal embodiment, and the same technical effect can be achieved. Specifically, Figure 17 Schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

[0556] The terminal 1700 includes, but is not limited to, at least some components such as a radio frequency unit 1701, a network module 1702, an audio output unit 1703, an input unit 1704, a sensor 1705, a display unit 1706, a user input unit 1707, an interface unit 1708, a memory 1709, and a processor 1710.

[0557] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 1700 may further include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component. The power supply can be logically connected to the processor 1710 through a power management system, so as to implement functions such as management of charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. Figure 17 The terminal structure shown in the figure does not limit the terminal. The terminal may include more or fewer components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or have different component arrangements, which will not be elaborated here.

[0558] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the input unit 1704 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 17041 and a microphone 17042. The graphics processor 17041 processes the image data of static pictures or videos obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in the video capture mode or the image capture mode. The display unit 1706 may include a display panel 17061, and the display panel 17061 may be configured in the form of, for example, a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 1707 includes at least one of a touch panel 17071 and other input devices 17072. The touch panel 17071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 17071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 17072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, which will not be elaborated here.

[0559] In the embodiments of the present application, after receiving downlink data from a network side device, the radio frequency unit 1701 may transmit it to the processor 1710 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 1701 may send uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 1701 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0560] The memory 1709 can be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1709 may mainly include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data. Among them, the first storage area may store an operating system, application programs or instructions required for at least one function (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.). In addition, the memory 1709 may include volatile memory or non-volatile memory. Among them, the non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable ROM (PROM), an erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be a random access memory (RAM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), a double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), an enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), a synch link DRAM (SLDRAM), and a direct rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1709 in the embodiments of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0561] The processor 1710 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1710 integrates an application processor and a modem processor. Among them, the application processor mainly processes operations related to the operating system, user interface, and application programs, etc., and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the above modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 1710.

[0562] Among them, the processor 1710 is used to include a first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time instance when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

[0563] Optionally, the first content includes any one of the following:

[0564] Invalid measurement value, which is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result;

[0565] Repeated measurement result;

[0566] Wherein, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes the L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes the valid L1 measurement results of M cells and the repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells, and the repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results, N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively;

[0567] Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes the L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells, the first L1 measurement report includes the valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes the valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and the repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells. The repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results, wherein S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q and S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

[0568] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 1701 is further configured to:

[0569] When the reporting type corresponding to the first L1 measurement report is periodic reporting, semi - persistent reporting on PUCCH, semi - persistent reporting on PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on PUSCH, send the first L1 measurement report.

[0570] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0571] Do not expect the network - side device to activate a command for the transmission configuration indication state TCI state of the relevant reference signal for the terminal based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0572] Do not expect the network - side device to include the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result;

[0573] It is not expected that the network-side device includes, in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) command for triggering the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance, a reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report based on an invalid L1 measurement result.

[0574] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 1701 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0575] Send a first indication message when all valid L1 measurement results corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting occasion are not obtained;

[0576] Send a second indication message when the obtained L1 measurement result is a valid L1 measurement result associated with the reporting occasion and the reporting occasion is a reporting occasion ignored by the network-side device;

[0577] Wherein, the first indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0578] There is no valid L1 measurement result on a first reporting occasion, where the first reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after a first moment and associated with a reporting configuration identifier in the first indication message, and the first moment is the moment when the network-side device receives the first indication message;

[0579] There is no valid L1 measurement result on a second reporting occasion, where the second reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the first moment;

[0580] The second indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0581] Monitor a third reporting occasion, where the third reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after a second moment and associated with a reporting configuration identifier in the second indication message, and the second moment is the moment when the network-side device receives the second indication message;

[0582] Monitor a fourth reporting occasion, where the fourth reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment.

[0583] Optionally, the first indication message includes at least one of the following:

[0584] A deactivation indication or an ignore indication;

[0585] A reporting configuration identifier;

[0586] Alternatively, the second indication message includes at least one of the following:

[0587] An activation indication or a stop ignore indication;

[0588] A reporting configuration identifier.

[0589] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 1701 is further configured to:

[0590] Transmit a second L1 measurement report;

[0591] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0592] Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0593] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0594] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0595] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0596] When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with the L1 measurement, the terminal performs an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell.

[0597] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0598] Perform an L3 measurement on a neighboring cell based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0599] Measure the L3 measurement frequency point where the neighboring cell is located;

[0600] Ignore the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0601] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0602] Not report or not trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0603] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0604] Perform an L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on the UE implementation;

[0605] Alternatively, perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0606] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0607] In the case where the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information overlap with the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0608] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0609] Candidate cell identifier;

[0610] Frequency domain information of the reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0611] Time domain information of the reference signal or L3 measurement period;

[0612] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0613] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0614] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0615] In the case where a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0616] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0617] Upon receiving the first control signaling, perform L3 measurements according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurements based on the first measurement period;

[0618] Perform L3 measurements according to the first measurement period during the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurements according to the second measurement period during the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0619] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0620] Perform L3 measurements on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0621] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology intra-RAT according to the first measurement period.

[0622] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurements based on the first measurement period.

[0623] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0624] Not report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0625] In an embodiment of the present application, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting time is less than or equal to the preset reporting number, the terminal includes a first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting time, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report. Through this first content, the network side can know the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report, and then can determine the L1 measurement results other than the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report as valid L1 measurement results, ensuring the consistency of the understanding of the L1 measurement results between the network side and the terminal.

[0626] In an embodiment of the present application, the processor 1710 is configured to:

[0627] Send a second L1 measurement report;

[0628] Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following:

[0629] Indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results in the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration;

[0630] The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result;

[0631] The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or the indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

[0632] In the embodiments of the present application, the processor 1710 is configured to:

[0633] When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with the L1 measurement, perform an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell.

[0634] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0635] Perform an L3 measurement on a neighboring cell based on a first measurement period, where the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object;

[0636] Measure the L3 measurement frequency band where the neighboring cell is located;

[0637] Ignore the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

[0638] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0639] Not report or not trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

[0640] In the embodiments of the present application, the processor 1710 is configured to:

[0641] Perform an L3 measurement on the cell or frequency band associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on the UE implementation;

[0642] Alternatively, perform an L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

[0643] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to:

[0644] When there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, L3 measurement is performed according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information. Wherein, the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

[0645] Optionally, the first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0646] Candidate cell identifier;

[0647] Frequency domain information of the reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information;

[0648] Time domain information of the reference signal or the L3 measurement period;

[0649] Measurement quantity, which is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

[0650] Optionally, the candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

[0651] In an embodiment of the present application, the processor 1710 is configured to:

[0652] When a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, L3 measurement is performed according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period. The second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period. The first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation. The second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

[0653] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0654] When receiving the first control signaling, L3 measurement is performed according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period. The first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period;

[0655] Perform L3 measurements according to the first measurement period during the first part of the duration of the third measurement period, and perform L3 measurements according to the second measurement period during the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

[0656] Optionally, performing L3 measurements according to the first measurement period includes at least one of the following:

[0657] Perform L3 measurements on the serving cell according to the first measurement period;

[0658] Perform L3 measurements on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology intra-RAT according to the first measurement period.

[0659] Optionally, the start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period, and the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurements based on the first measurement period.

[0660] Optionally, the processor 1710 is further configured not to report the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

[0661] The embodiment of the present application further provides a network-side device, including a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is configured to obtain a first L1 measurement report, and the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report; or, the communication interface is configured to obtain a second L1 measurement report; wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following: indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results in the cells associated with the L1 reporting configuration; L1 measurement results of the reference signals included in the cells with valid L1 measurement results; the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals of the cells associated with the L1 reporting configuration, or indication information on whether there are valid L1 measurement results for the reference signals associated with the cells. This embodiment of the network-side device corresponds to the above method embodiment of the network-side device. Each implementation process and implementation manner of the above method embodiment can be applied to this embodiment of the network-side device and can achieve the same technical effect.

[0662] Specifically, the embodiment of the present application further provides a network-side device. As Figure 18As shown in the figure, the network-side device 1800 includes: an antenna 181, a radio frequency device 182, a baseband device 183, a processor 184, and a memory 185. The antenna 181 is connected to the radio frequency device 182. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 182 receives information through the antenna 181 and sends the received information to the baseband device 183 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 183 processes the information to be sent and sends it to the radio frequency device 182. After processing the received information, the radio frequency device 182 sends it out through the antenna 181.

[0663] In the above embodiments, the method executed by the network-side device can be implemented in the baseband device 183, and the baseband device 183 includes a baseband processor.

[0664] The baseband device 183 may include, for example, at least one baseband board, and a plurality of chips are arranged on the baseband board, such as Figure 18 As shown in the figure, one of the chips is, for example, a baseband processor, which is connected to the memory 185 through a bus interface to call the program in the memory 185 and execute the operations of the network device shown in the above method embodiments.

[0665] The network-side device may further include a network interface 186, and the interface is, for example, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

[0666] Specifically, the network-side device 1800 in the embodiments of the present application further includes: instructions or programs stored on the memory 185 and executable on the processor 184. The processor 184 calls the instructions or programs in the memory 185 to execute Figure 10 or Figure 15 the methods executed by the modules shown in the figure, and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0667] The embodiments of the present application further provide a readable storage medium. Programs or instructions are stored on the readable storage medium. When the programs or instructions are executed by a processor, the various processes of the above method embodiments for processing L1 measurement results are implemented, and the same technical effects can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0668] Wherein, the processor is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes computer-readable storage media, such as computer read-only memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic disks, or optical discs, etc. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

[0669] Another embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to run programs or instructions to implement each process of the above-described embodiment of the method for processing L1 measurement results, and can achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again.

[0670] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as a system-on-chip, system chip, chip system, or system-on-chip.

[0671] Another embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product, which is stored in a storage medium. The computer program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each process of the above-described embodiment of the method for processing L1 measurement results, and can achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again.

[0672] The embodiments of the present application further provide a system for processing L1 measurement results, including: a terminal and a network-side device. The terminal can be used to execute the steps of the method for processing L1 measurement results executed by the terminal as described above, and the network-side device can be used to execute the steps of the method for processing L1 measurement results executed by the network-side device as described above.

[0673] It should be noted that in this document, the terms "include", "comprise" or any other variation thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not explicitly listed, or further includes elements inherent to such process, method, article or device. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "including a..." does not exclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article or device including the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the methods and devices in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, and may also include performing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order according to the functions involved. For example, the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

[0674] Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-described embodiment methods can be implemented by means of a computer software product plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, can also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) and includes several instructions for causing a terminal or a network-side device to execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.

[0675] The embodiments of the present application have been described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments. The above specific embodiments are merely illustrative rather than restrictive. Under the inspiration of the present application, those of ordinary skill in the art can also make many forms of embodiments without departing from the purpose of the present application and the scope protected by the claims. All these embodiments fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for processing layer 1 L1 measurement results, characterized in that, Including: When the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated at the reporting time instance is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, the terminal includes first content in the first L1 measurement report associated at the reporting time instance, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein The first content includes any one of the following: An invalid measurement value, where the invalid measurement value is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result; A repeated measurement result; Wherein, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells, and the repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results, N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively; Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report is required to include L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells, the first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells, and the repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results, where S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q and S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that, Also including: When the reporting type corresponding to the first L1 measurement report is periodic reporting, semi - persistent reporting on PUCCH, semi - persistent reporting on PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on PUSCH, send the first L1 measurement report.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that, Also including at least one of the following: The terminal does not expect the network - side device to send an activation command for the transmission configuration indication state (TCI state) of the relevant reference signal based on the invalid L1 measurement results for the terminal; The terminal does not expect the network - side device to include the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement results; The terminal does not expect the network - side device to include the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) command used to trigger the UE to execute early acquisition of the timing advance based on the invalid L1 measurement results.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein Also including at least one of the following: When not obtaining all valid L1 measurement results corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated at the reporting time instance, send first indication information; When the obtained L1 measurement result is a valid L1 measurement result associated with the reporting occasion, and the reporting occasion is a reporting occasion ignored by the network device, send a second indication message; Wherein, the first indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following: There is no valid L1 measurement result on the first reporting occasion, the first reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the first moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the first indication message, and the first moment is the moment when the network device receives the first indication message; There is no valid L1 measurement result on the second reporting occasion, the second reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the first moment; The second indication message is used to indicate at least one of the following: Monitor the third reporting occasion, the third reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication message, and the second moment is the moment when the network device receives the second indication message; Monitor the fourth reporting occasion, the fourth reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein The first indication message includes at least one of the following: Deactivation indication or ignore indication; Reporting configuration identifier; Alternatively, the second indication message includes at least one of the following: Activation indication or stop ignore indication; Reporting configuration identifier.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Further includes: Send a second L1 measurement report; Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following: Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration; The L1 measurement result of the reference signal included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result; The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signal of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signal associated with the cell.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Further includes: When the L3 measurement result of the serving cell is not lower than the threshold value associated with the serving cell measurement configuration, and the neighboring cell is a candidate cell associated with the L1 measurement, the terminal performs an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell.

9. The method according to claim 8, characterized in that, The terminal performing an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell includes at least one of the following: Perform an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell based on the first measurement period, the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object; Measure the L3 measurement frequency point where the neighboring cell is located; Ignore the threshold value included in the serving cell measurement configuration.

10. The method according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that After the terminal performs an L3 measurement on the neighboring cell, further includes: Do not report or trigger the reporting of the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement of the neighboring cell.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein Further includes: Perform an L3 measurement on the cell or frequency point associated with the L1 measurement configuration information according to a pre-configured or protocol-agreed period or based on the UE implementation; Alternatively, perform L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein Performing the L3 measurement according to the first L3 measurement configuration information includes: When there is an overlap between the frequency points included in the first L3 measurement configuration information and the frequency points included in the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the terminal has performed the L3 measurement according to the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform the L3 measurement according to the frequency points in the first L3 measurement configuration information that do not overlap with the frequency points of the second L3 measurement configuration information, where the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

13. The method according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that, The first L3 measurement configuration information includes at least one of the following: Candidate cell identifier; Frequency domain information of a reference signal, where the frequency domain information includes frequency point information; Time domain information of a reference signal or an L3 measurement period; Measurement quantity, where the measurement quantity is used to indicate the measurement quantity of the reference signal measured by the terminal.

14. The method according to any one of claims 11 to 13, characterized in that, The candidate cell identifier included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the cell identifier in the L1 resource configuration information, or the frequency point information included in the first L3 measurement configuration information is the same as the frequency point information in the L1 resource configuration information.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein It further includes: When a measurement object or a reporting configuration associated with a target frequency point is configured in the second L3 measurement configuration information, perform the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, and the first measurement period is greater than the second measurement period. The first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on the UE implementation. The second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object, and the target frequency point is the frequency point corresponding to the L1 measurement configuration information associated with the serving cell.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein Performing the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period includes at least one of the following: When receiving a first control signaling, perform the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or according to the first measurement period and the second measurement period, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform the L3 measurement based on the first measurement period; Perform the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period during the first part of the duration of a third measurement period, and perform the L3 measurement according to the second measurement period during the second part of the duration of the third measurement period.

17. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that, Performing the L3 measurement according to the first measurement period includes at least one of the following: Perform the L3 measurement on the serving cell according to the first measurement period; Perform the L3 measurement on neighboring cells using the same radio access technology intra-RAT according to the first measurement period.

18. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that, The start time of the third measurement period is the time when the terminal receives the L1 measurement configuration information or the L1 reporting configuration information, or the time when the terminal receives the first control signaling, or the time deduced by the terminal according to the message including the third measurement period. The first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on the first measurement period.

19. The method according to any one of claims 15 to 18, characterized in that After performing L3 measurement according to the first measurement period or based on the first measurement period and the second measurement period, it further includes: Not reporting the L3 measurement result corresponding to the L3 measurement.

20. A method for processing L1 measurement results, characterized in that, It includes: The network side device obtains a first L1 measurement report, and the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein The first content includes any one of the following: Invalid measurement value, and the invalid measurement value is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result; Repeated measurement result; Wherein, the first L1 measurement report is required to include the L1 measurement results of N cells, the first L1 measurement report includes the valid L1 measurement results of M cells and the repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells. The repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results. N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, P are positive integers respectively; Or, the first L1 measurement report is required to include the L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes the valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes the valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and the repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each second cell. The repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each second cell are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results. Wherein, S, S1, S2, T, Q, K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein After obtaining the first L1 measurement report, the method further includes at least one of the following: Not sending a TCI state activation command for the relevant reference signal for the terminal based on the invalid L1 measurement result; Not including the TCI state of the relevant reference signal in the handover command based on the invalid L1 measurement result; Not including the reference signal index associated with the first L1 measurement report in the PDCCH command used to trigger the UE to perform early acquisition of timing advance based on the invalid L1 measurement result.

23. The method according to claim 20, wherein It further includes: Obtaining first indication information or second indication information; Wherein, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: There is no valid L1 measurement result at the first reporting occasion, where the first reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the first moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the first indication information, and the first moment is the moment when the network device receives the first indication information; There is no valid L1 measurement result at the second reporting occasion, where the second reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the first moment; The second indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: Monitoring the third reporting occasion, where the third reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment and associated with the reporting configuration identifier in the second indication information, and the second moment is the moment when the network device receives the second indication information; Monitoring the fourth reporting occasion, where the fourth reporting occasion includes at least one reporting occasion after the second moment.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein The first indication information includes at least one of the following: Deactivation indication or ignore indication; Reporting configuration identifier; Alternatively, the second indication information includes at least one of the following: Activation indication or stop ignore indication; Reporting configuration identifier.

25. The method according to claim 20, wherein It further includes: Obtaining a second L1 measurement report; Wherein, the second L1 measurement report includes at least one of the following: Indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration; L1 measurement results of the reference signals included in the cell with a valid L1 measurement result; The number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals of the cell associated with the L1 reporting configuration or indication information on whether there is a valid L1 measurement result for the reference signals associated with the cell.

26. The method according to claim 20, wherein It further includes: Sending first L3 measurement configuration information, where the first L3 measurement configuration information is the L3 measurement configuration information corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the L1 reporting configuration information included in the serving cell of the terminal.

27. The method according to claim 20, wherein It further includes: Sending first control signaling, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the terminal to perform L3 measurement based on a first measurement period, the first measurement period is greater than a second measurement period, the second measurement period is the original measurement period corresponding to the second L3 measurement configuration information, the first measurement period is a period configured by the network or agreed upon by the protocol or determined based on UE implementation, and the second L3 measurement configuration information includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration associated with the measurement object.

28. A processing device for L1 measurement results, characterized in that, It includes: A first processing module, configured to, when the number of valid L1 measurement results of the reference signals of the cell corresponding to the L1 resource configuration information associated with the reporting occasion is less than or equal to a preset reporting number, include first content in the first L1 measurement report associated with the reporting occasion, where the first content is used to indicate the invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

29. The device according to claim 28, wherein The first content includes any one of the following: Invalid measurement value, where the invalid measurement value is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of the cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result; Repeated measurement result; Among them, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of N cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells. The repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results. N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively; Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells. The repeated measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of T - Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results. Among them, S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

30. The device according to claim 28 or 29, characterized in that, It further includes: A first sending module, configured to send the first L1 measurement report when the reporting type corresponding to the first L1 measurement report is periodic reporting, semi-persistent reporting on PUCCH, semi-persistent reporting on PUSCH, or aperiodic reporting on PUSCH.

31. A processing device for L1 measurement results, characterized in that, It includes: A first obtaining module, configured to obtain a first L1 measurement report, where the first L1 measurement report includes first content, and the first content is used to indicate invalid L1 measurement results in the first L1 measurement report.

32. The device according to claim 31, characterized in that, The first content includes any one of the following: An invalid measurement value, which is used to indicate that the L1 measurement result of a cell or the reference signal of the cell is an invalid L1 measurement result; Repeated measurement results; Among them, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of N cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of M cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of P cells among the M cells. The repeated measurement results of the P cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of N - M cells or the reference signals of N - M cells are invalid L1 measurement results. N is greater than M, M is greater than or equal to P, and M, N, and P are positive integers respectively; Alternatively, the first L1 measurement report requirement includes L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S cells. The first L1 measurement report includes valid L1 measurement results of T reference signals of S1 first cells, and includes valid L1 measurement results of Q reference signals of S2 second cells and repeated measurement results of valid L1 measurement results of K reference signals among the Q reference signals of each of the second cells. The repeated measurement results of the valid L1 measurement results of the K reference signals of each of the second cells are used to indicate that the L1 measurement results of the T-Q reference signals of the second cell are invalid L1 measurement results. Herein, S, S1, S2, T, Q, and K are all positive integers, T is greater than Q, S is greater than S1, and S is greater than S2, and K is less than or equal to Q.

33. A terminal, characterized in that, It includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor. When the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the L1 measurement result processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 19 are implemented.

34. A network-side device, characterized in that, It includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor. When the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the L1 measurement result processing method according to any one of claims 20 to 27 are implemented.

35. A readable storage medium, characterized in that, Programs or instructions are stored on the readable storage medium. When the programs or instructions are executed by a processor, the steps of the L1 measurement result processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 19 are implemented, or the steps of the L1 measurement result processing method according to any one of claims 20 to 27 are implemented.

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