Measurement configuration method and device, related equipment, storage medium and computer program product

Abstract

The invention discloses a measurement configuration method and device, a terminal, network equipment, a storage medium and a computer program product. The method comprises: a terminal receiving measurement configuration information, the measurement configuration information comprising one or more of the following items: measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal; measurement of beams highly associated with the terminal reports the configuration information.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present application relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular to a measurement configuration method, apparatus, related equipment, storage medium, and computer program product. Background Art

[0002] In the existing fifth-generation mobile communication (5G) network, the base station can send measurement configuration information to the terminal so that the terminal can perform synchronization signal block (SSB, Synchronization Signal / PBCHBlock) beam measurement based on the received measurement configuration information and report the measurement results to the base station; after receiving the measurement results reported by the terminal, the base station can use the measurement results to determine whether to perform actions such as cell switching on the terminal.

[0003] There is currently no effective solution for how to perform measurement configuration when the terminal is in a low-altitude environment (specifically, within a range of 100 to 1000 meters above the ground) to avoid frequent cell switching of the terminal. Summary of the Invention

[0004] To solve related technical problems, embodiments of the present application provide a measurement configuration method, apparatus, terminal, network device, storage medium, and computer program product.

[0005] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present application is implemented as follows:

[0006] An embodiment of the present application provides a measurement configuration method, applied to a terminal, including:

[0007] Receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0008] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0009] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0010] In the above solution, the method further includes:

[0011] Measurement is performed using the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0012] In the above solution, the measurement configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following:

[0013] Frequency information;

[0014] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height;

[0015] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height.

[0016] In the above solution, the method further includes:

[0017] The measurement result is reported using the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0018] In the above solution, the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following:

[0019] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height;

[0020] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height.

[0021] The present application also provides a measurement configuration method, which is applied to a network device and includes:

[0022] Send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0023] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0024] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0025] In the above solution, the method further includes:

[0026] The measurement configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal is determined using the first information, where the first information represents the coverage of the neighboring beam.

[0027] In the above solution, the first information is pre-configured, or obtained from other network devices.

[0028] In the above solution, the measurement configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following:

[0029] Frequency information;

[0030] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height;

[0031] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height.

[0032] In the above solution, the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following:

[0033] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height;

[0034] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height.

[0035] The present application also provides a measurement configuration device, including:

[0036] A receiving unit, configured to receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0037] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0038] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0039] The present application also provides a measurement configuration device, including:

[0040] A sending unit, configured to send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0041] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0042] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0043] The embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, comprising: a first processor and a first communication interface; wherein,

[0044] The first communication interface is configured to receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0045] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0046] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0047] The embodiment of the present application further provides a network device, comprising: a second processor and a second communication interface; wherein,

[0048] The second communication interface is configured to send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0049] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0050] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0051] An embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, comprising: a first processor and a first memory for storing a computer program that can be run on the processor,

[0052] Wherein, the first processor is used to execute the steps of any of the above-mentioned terminal-side methods when running the computer program.

[0053] An embodiment of the present application further provides a network device, comprising: a second processor and a second memory for storing a computer program that can be run on the processor,

[0054] Wherein, the second processor is used to execute the steps of any of the above-mentioned methods on the network device side when running the computer program.

[0055] An embodiment of the present application also provides a storage medium on which a computer program is stored. When the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of any of the above-mentioned methods on the terminal side, or implements the steps of any of the above-mentioned methods on the network device side.

[0056] An embodiment of the present application also provides a computer program product, including a computer program, which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of any of the above-mentioned methods on the terminal side, or implements the steps of any of the above-mentioned methods on the network device side.

[0057] The measurement configuration method, apparatus, related equipment, storage medium and computer program product provided by the embodiments of the present application, the network device sends measurement configuration information to the terminal, and the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: measurement configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal; measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal. In the solution provided by the embodiments of the present application, the measurement configuration information sent by the network device to the terminal is associated with the height of the terminal, so that the terminal can measure the beam covering its own height range according to its own height and the measurement configuration information and report the corresponding measurement results to the network device. In the scenario where the network device uses the measurement results reported by the terminal to switch cells, the network device determines that the terminal switching cell can transmit a beam covering the terminal height range, which can ensure that the signal quality received by the terminal will not deteriorate rapidly. Therefore, it can effectively avoid the terminal from frequently switching cells (which can also be understood as avoiding ping-pong switching). BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0058] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of a measurement time window structure in related technology;

[0059] Figure 2 Schematic diagram of cell distribution at different heights in related art;

[0060] Figure 3 This is a flow chart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0061] Figure 4 This is a flow chart of another measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0062] Figure 5 This is a flow chart of the third measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0063] Figure 6 This is a flow chart of a terminal SSB measurement and reporting process for an example application of this application;

[0064] FIG7( a ) is a schematic diagram of SSB coverage when the SSB beam configuration of the example cells of this application is the same;

[0065] FIG7( b ) is a schematic diagram of SSB coverage when the SSB beam configurations of the example cells of this application are different;

[0066] Figure 8 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of a measurement configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0067] Figure 9 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of another measurement configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0068] Figure 10 This is a schematic diagram of the terminal structure of an embodiment of the present application;

[0069] Figure 11 This is a schematic diagram of the network device structure according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0070] Figure 12 This is a schematic diagram of the measurement configuration system structure of an embodiment of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0071] The present application will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

[0072] In related technologies, the network sends measurement configuration information to the terminal. The measurement configuration information is used to notify the terminal to perform SSB beam measurement (also understood as measuring the SSB beam signal). The terminal performs beam measurement according to the received measurement configuration information and reports the measurement results to the network. The network understands the terminal status based on the reported measurement results and determines whether to perform actions such as cell handover on the terminal. The measurement configuration information may include parameters such as the measurement window, SSB frequency, measurement interval, measurement reporting criteria, and event triggers.

[0073] In actual applications, measurement configuration information is typically carried in the measurement configuration field of radio resource control (RRC) signaling. This field may include: a measurement object information element (also known as a measurement entity information element, MeasObjectNR IE), a reporting configuration information element (also known as ReportConfigNR IE), a measurement gap information element (also known as Measurement gaps IE), etc. The configuration parameters (also known as measurement configuration protocol fields) that each information element (IE) may contain and the corresponding descriptions of the configuration parameters can be understood according to Table 1.

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[0076] Table 1

[0077] For example, Figure 1 As shown, assuming that the MeasGapConfig parameter in the Measurement gaps IE is configured to 6ms, which can also be understood as the measurement gap length (MGL) is 6ms, and assuming that the SSB_ToMeasure parameter in the MeasObjectNR IE is configured to measure 8 SSB beams numbered #0, #1..., #7. At this time, the terminal can perform 8 SSB beam measurements within a time range of 6ms based on the received measurement configuration information. Here, the length of the time window in which the terminal actually performs measurement (which can also be understood as the actual measurement window (Actual measurement window)) may be 5ms, and the length of the SSB measurement time configuration window (SMTC window, SSB Measurement Time Configuration window) may be 4ms. The terminal can measure the 8 SSB beams with SSB index (index) (which can also be understood as SSB beam ID or SSB beam index or SSB beam subset) #0, #1..., #7 within the range of the SMTC window to obtain measurement results.

[0078] Here, the measurement results may include beam-level measurement results and / or cell-level measurement results. In actual application, the terminal may use the measurement result of the beam with the best measurement value, the measurement result of the beam exceeding the absolute threshold of the SSB measurement result (i.e., absThreshSS-BlocksConsolidation), or the measurement results of all beams as the beam-level measurement result; the terminal may use the measurement results of the average number of SSBs (i.e., nrofSS-BlocksToAverage) of beams exceeding the absolute threshold of the SSB measurement result to determine the cell-level measurement result.

[0079] In actual application, when the terminal is located on the ground and the main lobes of all SSB beams on the network side are emitted toward the ground (can also be understood as hitting the ground), due to the distribution pattern of cells in the ground network, the surrounding neighboring cells of each ground cell are relatively fixed, and the number of surrounding neighboring cells is relatively small; at the same time, due to obstacles such as buildings on the ground, the sidelobe beams of the surrounding neighboring cells can be properly shielded. Therefore, when the terminal performs SSB beam measurement, it can be considered that all SSB beams that can be measured are mainlobe beams (also called mainlobe signals or mainlobe beam signals). In this way, the terminal only measures and reports the mainlobe beam. When the network side uses the SSB beam measurement results reported by the terminal to switch the terminal's cell, it will only switch the terminal to the cell corresponding to the mainlobe beam. Since the mainlobe beam has high signal strength, large coverage, and stable signal quality, ping-pong switching can be avoided.

[0080] However, when the terminal is located in a low-altitude environment, in order to ensure the network coverage of the terminal, the main lobe of the SSB beam on the network side can cover different heights in layers to form a three-dimensional low-altitude network (also known as a ground-to-air network). Specifically, the network side can set a part of the main lobe of the SSB beam to be emitted toward the ground to serve ground terminals (which can also be understood as covering terminals located on the ground), and set another part of the main lobe of the SSB beam to be emitted toward the air to serve low-altitude terminals (which can also be understood as covering terminals located in a low-altitude environment). At this time, since there are almost no obstructions in the air that can shield the sidelobe beam, the sidelobe of the SSB beam used to serve the ground terminal may interfere with the mainlobe of the SSB beam used to serve the low-altitude terminal. In other words, the SSB beam received by the terminal in the low-altitude environment may contain both the mainlobe beam and the sidelobe beam. Since the terminal may receive the sidelobe of the SSB beam sent from the network side at a longer distance, such as Figure 2As shown, this may result in a cluttered distribution of low-altitude cells and a large number of surrounding neighboring cells. In this case, if the terminal performs measurements and reports according to the existing measurement configuration, the cell-level measurement results reported by the terminal include the average value of the SSB beam measurement results that meet the SSB measurement result absolute threshold. At this time, if the sidelobe beam measured by the terminal in the low-altitude environment meets the SSB measurement result absolute threshold, the terminal will also report the sidelobe beam measurement results. This may cause the terminal to report a large number of measurement reports, which may occupy a large air interface transmission load and increase the complexity of processing measurement results on the network side (which can also be understood as the complexity of making handover decisions). On the other hand, when the network side selects a handover cell based on the cell signal strength in the measurement report, it may select the cell corresponding to the sidelobe beam. Due to the small coverage range of the sidelobe beam, the signal of the cell corresponding to the sidelobe beam is often unstable. The signal quality of the cell may deteriorate rapidly after handover, which may easily lead to frequent handovers.

[0081] Based on this, in various embodiments of the present application, the measurement configuration information sent by the network device to the terminal is associated with the height of the terminal, so that the terminal can measure the beam covering its own height range according to its own height and the measurement configuration information and report the corresponding measurement results to the network device. In the scenario where the network device uses the measurement results reported by the terminal to switch cells, the network device determines that the terminal switching cell can transmit a beam covering the terminal height range, which can ensure that the signal quality received by the terminal will not deteriorate rapidly. Therefore, frequent cell switching of the terminal can be effectively avoided (which can also be understood as avoiding ping-pong switching).

[0082] The embodiment of the present application provides a measurement configuration method, which is applied to a terminal, such as Figure 3 As shown, the method includes:

[0083] Step 301: Receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0084] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0085] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0086] Here, in actual application, the terminal can be called UE, terminal equipment, equipment, or user, etc., and the embodiments of the present application do not limit this.

[0087] In actual application, in step 301, the network side may send the measurement configuration information to the terminal via RRC signaling, etc. That is, the network side sends RRC signaling, etc. to the terminal, and the RRC signaling, etc. includes the measurement configuration information.

[0088] The beam may specifically include a beam associated with SSB, in which case the beam may also be referred to as an SSB beam. The beam may be transmitted by the cell corresponding to the terminal (specifically, it may include transmission by the network-side device corresponding to the cell), or it may be transmitted by a neighboring cell of the cell corresponding to the terminal (which may also be understood as an adjacent cell). Here, each cell may transmit one or more beams simultaneously, and the number of beams transmitted by each cell may be set according to actual needs, for example, 8, corresponding to the 8 directions of east, south, west, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest, respectively. This embodiment of the present application is not limited to this.

[0089] In actual application, the measurement configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal can be used to instruct the terminal to measure the beam associated with the height of the terminal. The beam associated with the height of the terminal can also be understood as a beam whose main lobe coverage height is consistent with the height of the terminal.

[0090] Based on this, in one embodiment, the measurement configuration information of the beam may include one or more of the following:

[0091] Frequency information;

[0092] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height;

[0093] Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height.

[0094] Here, the frequency information is used to indicate the beam frequency corresponding to the measurement configuration information of the beam. When the beam is an SSB beam, the frequency information can also be understood as the SSB frequency.

[0095] The beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height is used to indicate which beams need to be measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height; the beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height is used to indicate which beams need to be measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height. The first height can be set according to actual needs and is not limited in this embodiment of the present application; the beam information can specifically include a beam identifier (which can also be expressed as a beam ID).

[0096] For example, assuming that the beam is an SSB beam and each cell transmits 8 SSB beams, three IEs can be added to the measurement configuration information of the beam, and the added three IEs are used to indicate the measurement configuration information of the beam. Specifically, as shown in Table 2, the three IEs may include SSB frequency, SSB uptilt beam measurement (Up_SSB_ToMeasure), and SSB downtilt beam measurement (Down_SSB_ToMeasure). Among them, the Up_SSB_ToMeasure IE is used to set the SSB index measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height, and 8 bits (expressed as bit in English) of information can be used in the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam to represent the SSB index measured by the terminal when the height is greater than or equal to the first height; wherein, each bit corresponds to an SSB index, which is used to identify an SSB beam; exemplarily, for a bit, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height, the SSB beam needs to be measured, and it can also be used to indicate that the SSB beam is an uptilt beam or the height range covered by the main lobe of the SSB beam includes a height greater than or equal to the first height; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height, the SSB beam does not need to be measured, and it can also be used to indicate that the SSB beam is a downtilt beam or the height range covered by the main lobe of the SSB beam does not include a height greater than or equal to the first height. Of course, the bit can also be set to 1, indicating that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height, the SSB beam does not need to be measured; when the bit is set to 0, it means that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height, the SSB beam needs to be measured. The Down_SSB_ToMeasure IE is used to set the SSBindex measured by the terminal when the height of the terminal is less than the first height. 8 bits of information can be used in the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam to represent the SSB index measured when the height is less than the first height; wherein, each bit corresponds to an SSB index, which is used to identify an SSB beam; exemplarily, for a bit, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is less than the first height, the SSB beam needs to be measured, and it can also be used to indicate that the SSB beam is a downtilt beam or that the height range covered by the main lobe of the SSB beam includes less than the first height; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is less than the first height, the SSB beam does not need to be measured, and it can also be used to indicate that the SSB beam is an uptilt beam or that the height range covered by the main lobe of the SSB beam does not include less than the first height.Of course, the bit can also be set to 1, indicating that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is less than the first height, the SSB beam does not need to be measured; when the bit is set to 0, it means that at the corresponding SSB frequency point, when the height of the terminal is less than the first height, the SSB beam needs to be measured.

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[0098] Table 2

[0099] In actual application, after the terminal receives the measurement configuration information, if the measurement configuration information includes the measurement configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal, the terminal can perform measurement based on the measurement configuration information and the height of the terminal itself. That is, in one embodiment, if Figure 3 As shown, the method may further include:

[0100] Step 302: Perform measurement using the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0101] Here, the terminal can use the height sensor integrated on the terminal to obtain the height of the terminal, or the height of the terminal can be measured by other devices and sent to the terminal, and the terminal receives the height of the terminal sent by other devices. The embodiment of this application does not limit the specific implementation method of the terminal obtaining the height of the terminal.

[0102] In actual application, the terminal can use the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal to determine the beam associated with the terminal's height (which can also be understood as the beam that the terminal needs to measure at its own height), and measure the beam associated with the terminal's height. The specific implementation process of the measurement can be understood in accordance with relevant technologies and is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

[0103] Exemplarily, based on the above example, assuming that in the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam, the Up_SSB_ToMeasure is configured as "11110000", and the terminal is a drone flying above the first altitude, after the terminal receives the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam, it can determine the need to measure the SSB beams with SSB index of 0, 1, 2, and 3 (which can also be understood as SSB beam IDs of 0 to 3) (corresponding to the first four bits of Up_SSB_ToMeasure) according to the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam and the corresponding altitude of the drone, and there is no need to measure the SSB beams with SSB index of 4, 5, 6, and 7 (corresponding to the last four bits of Up_SSB_ToMeasure). In this way, the terminal can determine which SSB beams' main lobes can be measured at a height higher than the first height (which can also be understood as which SSB beams are uptilt beams) based on its own height and Up_SSB_ToMeasure, and measure the SSB beams that can measure the main lobes, thereby avoiding measuring the side lobes of the SSB beams (which can also be understood as avoiding measuring the downtilt beams). The terminal can report the measurement results of the measured main lobes of the SSB beams to the network side, so that when the network side uses the measurement results to switch the terminal to a cell, it will not switch to the cell corresponding to the sidelobe beam, thereby effectively avoiding ping-pong switching.

[0104] As can be seen from the above description, in step 302, the terminal only measures the beams that are highly correlated with the terminal to obtain measurement results. In this way, in the scenario where the network device uses the measurement results reported by the terminal to perform cell switching, the measurement results reported by the terminal only come from the beams that are highly correlated with the terminal. Therefore, the network device will not switch the terminal to a cell corresponding to a beam that is not highly correlated with the terminal based on the measurement results reported by the terminal. Since the beams that are highly correlated with the terminal usually have a large coverage area and a stable signal, repeated cell switching of the terminal can be effectively avoided. At the same time, since the terminal only measures the beams that are highly correlated with the terminal, the number of measured beams is small, which can effectively achieve terminal energy saving; accordingly, the terminal also reports fewer measurement results to the network side, which can reduce the air interface transmission load occupied by the reporting and reduce the complexity of the network side in processing the measurement results.

[0105] In actual application, the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam that is highly associated with the terminal can be used to instruct the terminal to report the measurement result of the beam that is highly associated with the terminal.

[0106] Specifically, in one embodiment, the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following:

[0107] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height;

[0108] Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height.

[0109] Here, the beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height is used to indicate which beams' measurement information needs to be reported when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height; the beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height is used to indicate which beams' measurement information needs to be reported when the height of the terminal is less than the second height. The second height can be set according to actual needs, and this embodiment of the present application does not limit this; the beam information can specifically include a beam identifier (which can also be expressed as a beam ID).

[0110] Exemplarily, assuming that the beam is an SSB beam and each cell transmits 8 SSB beams, as shown in Table 3, three IEs can be added to the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam, and the added three IEs are used to represent the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam. Specifically, the three IEs may include a cell name (such as a physical cell identifier (PCI, Physical Cell Identifier)), an SSB uptilt beam report (Height_SSB_ToReport1), an SSB downtilt beam report (Height_SSB_ToReport2), etc. Among them, the Height_SSB_ToReport1 IE sets the SSB index corresponding to the measurement result reported when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height. Specifically, 8 bits of information can be used in the measurement reporting configuration information of the SSB beam to represent the SSB index corresponding to the measurement result reported by the terminal when the height is greater than or equal to the second height; wherein each bit corresponds to an SSB index, which is used to identify an SSB beam; exemplarily, for a bit, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height, it is necessary to report the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height, it is not necessary to report the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI. Of course, the bit can also be set to 1, indicating that when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height, it is not necessary to report the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height, it is necessary to report the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI. The SSB index corresponding to the measurement result reported when the height of the terminal is less than the second height is set in the Height_SSB_ToReport2 IE. Specifically, 8 bits of information can be used in the measurement reporting configuration information of the SSB beam to represent the SSB index corresponding to the measurement result reported by the terminal when the height is less than the second height; wherein each bit corresponds to an SSB index, which is used to identify an SSB beam; exemplarily, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is less than the second height, the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI needs to be reported; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is less than the second height, the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI does not need to be reported. Of course, the bit can also be set to 1, indicating that when the height of the terminal is less than the second height, the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI does not need to be reported; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that when the height of the terminal is less than the second height, the measurement result of the SSB beam corresponding to the corresponding PCI needs to be reported.

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[0112] Table 3

[0113] Among them, the SSB index set in the Height_SSB_ToReport1 IE and the SSB index set in the Height_SSB_ToReport2 IE corresponding to multiple cells may be the same. Therefore, in the measurement reporting configuration information, the cells with the same SSB index set in the Height_SSB_ToReport1 IE and the SSB index set in the Height_SSB_ToReport2 IE can be merged and represented to shorten the length of the measurement reporting configuration information, thereby reducing the transmission load required for the measurement reporting configuration information.

[0114] Exemplarily, assuming that multiple cells can be divided according to the rules of having the same Height_SSB_ToReport1 IE and Height_SSB_ToReport2 IE configuration, two groups of cells can be obtained, each group of cells containing one or more cells. At this time, as shown in Table 4, two IEs can be added for the height threshold (Height, i.e., the second height) in the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam, and the two added IEs are used to represent the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam. Specifically, the two IEs may include the SSB uptilt beam report (SSB_ToReport1) corresponding to the first group of cells in the two groups of cells, and the SSB uptilt beam report (SSB_ToReport2) corresponding to the second group of cells in the two groups of cells. The first group of cells may include n cells, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The cell identifiers of the n cells may be expressed as PCI 1, PCI 2, ..., PCI n; the second group of cells may include mn cells, where mn is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The cell identifiers of the mn cells can be expressed as PCI n+1, PCI n+2, ..., PCI m. The SSB index corresponding to the measurement results of the first group of cells reported when the SSB_ToReport1 IE is set to be greater than or equal to the second height; the SSB index corresponding to the measurement results of the second group of cells reported when the SSB_ToReport2 IE is set to be greater than or equal to the second height.

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[0116] Table 4

[0117] In actual application, after the terminal receives the measurement configuration information, if the measurement configuration information includes measurement reporting configuration information of a beam associated with the terminal's altitude, the terminal may report the measurement result based on the measurement configuration reporting information and the terminal's own altitude. That is, in one embodiment, the method may further include:

[0118] The measurement result is reported using the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0119] In actual application, the terminal can use the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal to determine the beam associated with the terminal's height, and report the measurement result of the beam associated with the terminal's height to the network side. The specific implementation process of reporting the measurement result can be understood in accordance with relevant technologies and is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

[0120] Exemplarily, based on the above example, assuming that the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second threshold, in the measurement configuration information of the SSB beam, the absolute threshold of the SSB measurement result (which can also be understood as the reporting threshold requirement) is -90dB, and for PCI is neighboring cell 1, the corresponding Height_SSB_ToReport1 is configured as "00001100", that is, in the SSB beams corresponding to neighboring cell 1, the SSB beams with SSB index 4 and 5 (corresponding to the fifth and sixth bits in Height_SSB_ToReport1) are uptilt beams, and the remaining SSB beams are downtilt beams. At this time, the SSB measurement results obtained by the terminal for neighboring cell 1 include: the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0 is -90dB, the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 4 is -100dB, and the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 5 is -105dB. The terminal can determine based on the measurement results that only the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0 in the measurement results meets the absolute threshold of the SSB measurement result. However, the terminal can determine that the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0 is a downtilt beam based on Height_SSB_ToReport1. Therefore, the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0 includes the measurement result corresponding to the sidelobe of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0, and the terminal does not report the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0 to the network side. In this way, the network side will not receive the measurement result of the SSB beam with an SSB index of 0, which can avoid switching the terminal to neighboring cell 1 and effectively avoid ping-pong switching.

[0121] Accordingly, the embodiment of the present application also provides a measurement configuration method, which is applied to a network device, such as Figure 4As shown, the method includes:

[0122] Step 401: Send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0123] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0124] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0125] Here, in actual application, the network device can specifically be a base station, such as a gNB. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the name of the network device, as long as its function is realized.

[0126] In actual application, the network device can determine the measurement configuration information based on the beam coverage (also understood as beam configuration or beam layered coverage) of the cell corresponding to the network device and the neighboring cell of the network device (also understood as an adjacent cell). In this way, after receiving the measurement configuration information, the terminal can use the measurement configuration information to accurately determine the beams of the cell corresponding to the network device and the neighboring cell that are highly correlated with the terminal, thereby being able to perform corresponding measurements and / or report measurement results.

[0127] Based on this, in one embodiment, if Figure 4 As shown, the method may further include:

[0128] Step 400: Determine measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal using first information, where the first information represents coverage of a neighboring beam.

[0129] Here, the first information may specifically include a correspondence between a neighboring cell beam and the height of a terminal covered by the beam, which may also be understood as the height at which each beam in the neighboring cell beam can cover the terminal. The neighboring cell includes one or more cells adjacent to the cell corresponding to the network device, which may also be understood as cells surrounding the cell corresponding to the network device.

[0130] Exemplarily, assuming that the beam is an SSB beam, the first information may specifically include the SSB beam configuration. The network device can use the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell to determine which SSB beams in the neighboring cell are uptilt beams, used to cover terminals located in low altitudes, and which SSB beams are downtilt beams (which can also be understood as non-uptilt beams), used to cover terminals located on the ground.

[0131] In actual application, before step 400, the network device may obtain the first information in advance.

[0132] Specifically, in one embodiment, the first information may be pre-configured, or may be obtained from other network devices.

[0133] Among them, in the case of pre-configured first information, if all neighboring areas use the same beam coverage according to actual business needs (it can also be understood that the beam coverage of all neighboring areas is unified), the pre-configured first information may include a beam coverage, and the beam coverage is associated with all neighboring areas; if different neighboring areas use different beam coverage, the pre-configured first information may include multiple beam coverage, and each beam coverage in the multiple beam coverage is associated with one or more neighboring areas. Among them, the pre-configured beam coverage can be associated with the frequency of the beam, that is, the corresponding beam coverage can be pre-configured for the beam of each frequency.

[0134] Exemplarily, assuming that the beam is SSB, each cell transmits 8 SSB beams. The coverage of the SSB beams of all cells can be configured in advance for one SSB frequency point to be the same. Specifically, the pre-configured beam coverage (i.e., the first information) may include: SSB beams with SSB index of 0, 1, 2, and 3 are used to cover low altitude (can also be understood as covering terminals located at low altitude), and SSB beams with SSB index of 4, 5, 6, and 7 are used to cover the ground.

[0135] In the case where the network device obtains the first information from other network devices, the other network devices may specifically include network devices in neighboring areas (such as base stations in neighboring areas). Specifically, the network device may establish a neighbor relationship with the network devices in the neighboring areas through an automatic neighbor relationship (ANR) function, and obtain the first information sent by the network devices in the neighboring areas through an Xn link or an Ng link.

[0136] Exemplarily, assuming that the beam is an SSB beam, the network device can receive the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell (i.e., the beam coverage situation) sent by the network device of the neighboring cell through the Xn link or the Ng link. Specifically, as shown in Table 5, an IE (which can also be understood as an interactive information field) can be added to the ANR function-related information, and the added IE includes an uptilt SSB (up_SSB). The up_SSB IE is used to set the SSB index corresponding to the uptilt beam transmitted by the cell (i.e., the SSB beam used to cover the low altitude). 8 bits of information can be used in the ANR function-related information to represent the SSB index corresponding to the uptilt beam transmitted by the cell; wherein each bit corresponds to an SSB index, which is used to identify an SSB beam; exemplarily, for a bit, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that the SSB beam is an uptilt beam; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that the SSB beam is a downtilt beam (i.e., the SSB beam used to cover the ground). Of course, when the bit is set to 1, it indicates that the SSB beam is a downtilt beam; when the bit is set to 0, it indicates that the SSB beam is an uptilt beam.

[0137] IE illustrate up_SSB SSB beam configuration

[0138] Table 5

[0139] After determining the first information, in step 400, the network device can use the first information to determine the beam coverage of the neighboring area and the beam coverage of the cell corresponding to the network device, and then use the above beam coverage to determine the correlation between the beam and the height of the terminal, so that the measurement configuration information can be determined based on the determined correlation.

[0140] In actual application, in step 401, the network device may send the measurement configuration information to the terminal via RRC signaling, etc. That is, the network device sends RRC signaling, etc. to the terminal, and the RRC signaling, etc. includes the measurement configuration information. The network device sends the measurement configuration information to the terminal so that the terminal can perform corresponding measurements based on the measurement configuration information and report the measurement results.

[0141] The present application also provides a measurement configuration method, such as Figure 5 As shown, the method includes:

[0142] Step 501: The network device sends measurement configuration information to the terminal. The measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0143] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0144] Measurement reporting configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0145] Step 502: The terminal receives the measurement configuration information.

[0146] Here, it should be noted that the specific processing procedures of the terminal and the network device have been described in detail above and will not be repeated here.

[0147] In the measurement configuration method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the network device sends measurement configuration information to the terminal, and the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: measurement configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal; measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal. In the solution provided by the embodiment of the present application, the measurement configuration information sent by the network device to the terminal is associated with the height of the terminal, so that the terminal can measure the beam covering its own height range according to its own height and the measurement configuration information and report the corresponding measurement results to the network device. In the scenario where the network device uses the measurement results reported by the terminal to switch cells, the network device determines that the terminal switching cell can transmit a beam covering the terminal height range, which can ensure that the signal quality received by the terminal will not deteriorate rapidly. Therefore, it can effectively avoid the terminal from frequently switching cells (which can also be understood as avoiding ping-pong switching).

[0148] The present application is described in further detail below with reference to application examples.

[0149] The process of SSB measurement and reporting of the terminal in this application example is as follows: Figure 6 As shown, the following steps are included:

[0150] Step 601: The base station determines the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell;

[0151] In actual application, when the base station instructs the terminal to perform SSB beam measurement, it can send corresponding measurement configuration information to the terminal for each SSB frequency point. Since the neighboring cells may use the same SSB frequency point, the base station needs to consider the SSB beam distribution of all neighboring cells (i.e., the above-mentioned beam coverage) when determining the measurement configuration information. Based on this, the base station can determine the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cells before step 601. The specific implementation methods may include two cases:

[0152] In the first case, the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cells is pre-configured. Specifically, when planning a network (which may include a ground-to-air network), it can be stipulated that all cells under one frequency point use the same SSB index for air coverage. For example, SSB beams with fixed SSB indices of 0, 1, 2, and 3 can be used to cover low altitudes. In this way, in subsequent steps, the base station can send measurement configuration information of the SSB beam to the terminal, and use the measurement configuration information to instruct the terminal at low altitude to only measure the SSB beam fixed for covering low altitudes, thereby ensuring that the measured SSB beams are all main lobe beams.

[0153] In the second case, the base station can determine the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell by interacting with the neighboring cell base station. Specifically, after establishing a neighboring cell relationship with the neighboring cell base station through the ANR function, the base station can obtain the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell through the Xn link or Ng link.

[0154] Step 602: The base station determines whether the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are the same based on the SSB beam configurations of the neighboring cells.

[0155] In actual application, the network area may specifically include the cell corresponding to the base station and the neighboring cells of the base station. After the base station obtains the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell, it can use the SSB beam configuration of the neighboring cell and the SSB beam configuration of the cell corresponding to the base station to determine whether the SSB beam configuration of all cells in the network area is the same. This can also be understood as determining whether the SSB beams in the network area have fixed layered coverage.

[0156] Specifically, if all cells in the network area use the same SSB index to represent the uptilt beam and use the same SSB index to represent the downtilt beam, the base station can determine that the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are the same; if different cells in the network area use different SSB indices to represent the uptilt beam and use different SSB indices to represent the downtilt beam, the base station can determine that the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are different.

[0157] Step 603: The base station determines measurement configuration information and sends the measurement configuration information to the terminal; wherein,

[0158] When the SSB beam configuration of all cells in the network area is the same, the measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to perform specified beam measurement;

[0159] When the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are different, the measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to report the specified beam;

[0160] In actual application, if the SSB beam configuration of all cells in the network area is the same, the base station can use measurement configuration information to indicate which beams at the frequency point are downtilt to cover the ground and need to be measured by the ground terminal, and which beams are uptilt to cover the low altitude and need to be measured by the low-altitude terminal.

[0161] Exemplarily, in the 4.9G ground-to-air network area, the measurement configuration information sent by the base station may include the Up_SSB_ToMeasure field, and the Up_SSB_ToMeasure field value is configured to 11110000. In this way, as shown in Figure 7(a), the base station can instruct the terminal through the measurement configuration information to select the SSB beams with SSB index of 0, 1, 2, and 3 or the SSB beams with SSB index of 4, 5, 6, and 7 according to its own height, thereby ensuring that the terminal only measures the main lobe beam and does not measure the side lobe beam. Accordingly, the measurement results reported by the terminal received by the base station must also come from the main lobe beam.

[0162] In actual application, if the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are different, in order to ensure that all main lobe beams within the coverage area corresponding to the height of the measurement terminal are measured to avoid missed measurements (which can also be understood as no measurement), the base station can send measurement configuration information to the terminal to instruct the terminal to measure all SSB beams associated with the height of the terminal. For example, assuming that in the beam configuration of the 4.9G service cell corresponding to the base station, the up_SSB field is configured to 11110000, in the beam configuration of the 4.9G neighboring cell 1, the up_SSB field is configured to 00001100, and in the beam configuration of the 4.9G neighboring cell 2, the up_SSB field is configured to 00000011. At this time, as shown in Figure 7(b), the base station cannot determine a fixed SSB index to represent the uptilted SSB beam covering low altitude. The base station can configure the Up_SSB_ToMeasure field to 11111111 in the measurement configuration information to indicate that the terminal at low altitude needs to measure all 8 SSB beams, thereby avoiding cell missed measurements.

[0163] When the SSB beam configurations of all cells in the network area are different, since the base station needs to instruct the terminal to measure all SSB beams that are highly associated with the terminal, when the terminal measures the SSB beam according to the SSB index corresponding to the SSB beam that is highly associated with the terminal, the same SSB index may correspond to the uptilt beam of some cells and the downtilt beam of another part of the cells at the same time. Therefore, the measurement results obtained may include both the measurement results of the mainlobe beam and the measurement results of the sidelobe beam. At this time, the base station can use the measurement configuration information to instruct the terminal to report only the measurement results of the mainlobe beam.

[0164] Exemplarily, based on the above example, since the Up_SSB_ToMeasure field is configured to 11111111, when a terminal located at low altitude performs SSB beam measurement, it may measure the sidelobe beam of neighboring cell 1 (that is, the SSB index of neighboring cell 1 is 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 SSB beams). At this time, the base station can configure the SSB_ToReport1 field corresponding to neighboring cell 1 in the measurement configuration information to 00001100, thereby ensuring that the measurement results reported by the terminal to the base station only come from the mainlobe beam of neighboring cell 1 (that is, the SSB index of neighboring cell 1 is 4 and 5 SSB beams), which can prevent the base station from switching the terminal to an unstable sidelobe beam cell, avoid ping-pong switching, and reduce the number of switching times.

[0165] Step 604: The terminal performs beam measurement according to the measurement configuration information and reports the measurement result to the base station;

[0166] When the measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to perform specified beam measurement, the terminal performs measurement of the specified beam and reports the measurement result of the specified beam;

[0167] The measurement configuration information is used to instruct the terminal to perform measurement of all beams and report the measurement result of the specified beam when reporting the specified beam;

[0168] Here, in actual application, when the terminal reports the measurement results, it can use the SSB measurement result absolute threshold (which can also be understood as the threshold event requirement) to determine the measurement results that need to be reported. That is to say, if the measurement result of the specified beam of a cell does not meet the SSB measurement result absolute threshold, there is no need to report the measurement result of the specified beam. At this time, the terminal may not report the measurement result of the cell, thereby reducing the reporting of invalid measurement results, reducing the air interface transmission load and the complexity of the base station processing the measurement results.

[0169] Step 605: The base station performs cell switching according to the measurement result reported by the terminal.

[0170] The solution provided by the application example of this application allows the terminal to measure the beam highly associated with the terminal based on the measurement configuration information, and / or report the measurement results corresponding to the beam highly associated with the terminal. In this way, the measurement results reported by the terminal are only related to the main lobe beam, which can ensure that when the base station performs cell switching based on the measurement results, it will only switch the terminal to the cell corresponding to the main lobe beam, which can effectively avoid ping-pong switching and reduce the number of switching times. It can also solve the problem of frequent switching caused by low-altitude terminals switching to unstable sidelobe beam cells.

[0171] At the same time, when the terminal is at low altitude, it can only measure the signal of the SSB uptilt beam (which can also be understood as the SSB uptilt beam subset signal), and will not measure the signal of the downtilt beam. On the one hand, it can reduce the impact of the downtilt beam on the base station's cell switching, prevent the base station from switching the terminal to the cell corresponding to the sidelobe beam, and reduce frequent switching; on the other hand, it can reduce the terminal measurement of invalid beams, which is beneficial to terminal energy saving.

[0172] At the same time, when the terminal is unable to measure only the uptilt mainlobe beam signal, it can choose to only determine whether the specified uptilt beam (mainlobe beam) meets the absolute threshold requirement of the SSB measurement result when reporting the measurement result, and can exclude the influence of other beams. On the one hand, it can prevent the base station from switching the terminal to the cell corresponding to the sidelobe beam, reducing the number of switching times; on the other hand, it can reduce the size and number of reported measurement reports, thereby reducing the air interface transmission load and the complexity of the base station processing the measurement results.

[0173] In order to implement the method provided by the terminal side of the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application also provides a measurement configuration device, which is set on the terminal, such as Figure 8 As shown, the device includes:

[0174] The receiving unit 801 is configured to receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0175] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0176] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0177] In one embodiment, Figure 8 As shown, the device may also include:

[0178] The measuring unit 802 is configured to perform measurement using the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0179] In one embodiment, the apparatus may further include:

[0180] A reporting unit is used to report the measurement result using the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0181] In actual application, the receiving unit 801 and the reporting unit may be implemented by a communication interface in the measurement configuration device, and the measuring unit 802 may be implemented by a processor in the measurement configuration device in combination with the communication interface.

[0182] In order to implement the method on the network device side of the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application also provides a measurement configuration device, which is set on the network device, such as Figure 9 As shown, the device includes:

[0183] The sending unit 901 sends measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0184] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0185] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0186] In one embodiment, Figure 9 As shown, the device may also include:

[0187] The determination unit 902 is used to use the first information to determine the measurement configuration information of the beam that is highly associated with the terminal, where the first information represents the coverage of the neighboring area beam.

[0188] In actual application, the sending unit 901 can be implemented by a communication interface in the measurement configuration device in combination with a processor, and the determining unit 902 can be implemented by a processor in the measurement configuration device.

[0189] It should be noted that the measurement configuration device provided in the above embodiment is merely illustrated by the division of the aforementioned program units when performing measurement configuration. In actual applications, the aforementioned processing can be assigned to different program units as needed, i.e., the internal structure of the device can be divided into different program units to complete all or part of the aforementioned processing. Furthermore, the measurement configuration device provided in the above embodiment and the measurement configuration method embodiment are based on the same concept. The specific implementation process is detailed in the method embodiment and will not be repeated here.

[0190] Based on the hardware implementation of the above program modules, and in order to implement the method of the terminal side of the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application also provides a terminal, such as Figure 10 As shown, the terminal 1000 includes:

[0191] The first communication interface 1001 is capable of exchanging information with network devices;

[0192] A first processor 1002 is connected to the first communication interface 1001 to implement information interaction with the network device, and is configured to execute the methods provided by one or more technical solutions on the terminal side when running a computer program;

[0193] The first memory 1003 , on which the computer program is stored.

[0194] Specifically, the first communication interface 1001 is used to:

[0195] Receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0196] Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal;

[0197] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

[0198] In one embodiment, the first processor 1002 is configured to:

[0199] The measurement is performed through the communication interface 1001 using the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0200] In one embodiment, the first communication interface 1001 is used to:

[0201] The measurement result is reported using the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

[0202] It should be noted that the specific processing process of the first processor 1002 and the first communication interface 1001 can be understood by referring to the above method.

[0203] Of course, in actual application, the various components in the terminal 1000 are coupled together through the bus system 1004. It is understood that the bus system 1004 is used to realize the connection and communication between these components. In addition to the data bus, the bus system 1004 also includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus. However, for the sake of clarity, Figure 10 Various buses are labeled as bus system 1004.

[0204] The first memory 1003 in the embodiment of the present application is used to store various types of data to support the operation of the terminal 1000. Examples of such data include: any computer program used to operate on the terminal 1000.

[0205] The methods disclosed in the above embodiments of the present application can be applied to the first processor 1002 or implemented by the first processor 1002. The first processor 1002 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capabilities. During implementation, each step of the above method can be completed by hardware integrated logic circuits in the first processor 1002 or instructions in software form. The above first processor 1002 may be a general-purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc. The first processor 1002 can implement or execute the various methods, steps, and logic block diagrams disclosed in the embodiments of the present application. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor, etc. The steps of the methods disclosed in the embodiments of the present application can be directly embodied as being executed by a hardware decoding processor, or by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module can be located in a storage medium located in the first memory 1003. The first processor 1002 reads the information in the first memory 1003 and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware.

[0206] In an exemplary embodiment, the terminal 1000 may be implemented by one or more application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), DSPs, programmable logic devices (PLDs), complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), general-purpose processors, controllers, microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors, or other electronic components to execute the aforementioned method.

[0207] Based on the hardware implementation of the above program modules, and in order to implement the method of the network device side of the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application also provides a network device, such as Figure 11 As shown, the network device 1100 includes:

[0208] The second communication interface 1101 is capable of exchanging information with the terminal;

[0209] A second processor 1102 is connected to the second communication interface 1101 to implement information interaction with the terminal, and is used to execute the methods provided by one or more technical solutions on the network device side when running a computer program;

[0210] The second memory 1103 , on which the computer program is stored.

[0211] Specifically, the second communication interface 1101 is used to:

[0212] Send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following:

[0213] measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal;

[0214] Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

[0215] In one embodiment, the second processor 1102 is configured to:

[0216] The measurement configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal is determined using the first information, where the first information represents the coverage of the neighboring beam.

[0217] It should be noted that the specific processing process of the second processor 1102 and the second communication interface 1101 can be understood by referring to the above method.

[0218] Of course, in actual application, the various components in the network device 1100 are coupled together through the bus system 1104. It is understood that the bus system 1104 is used to realize the connection and communication between these components. In addition to the data bus, the bus system 1104 also includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus. However, for the sake of clarity, Figure 11 Various buses are labeled as bus system 1104.

[0219] The second memory 1103 in the embodiment of the present application is used to store various types of data to support the operation of the network device 1100. Examples of such data include: any computer program used to operate on the network device 1100.

[0220] The methods disclosed in the above embodiments of the present application can be applied to or implemented by the second processor 1102. The second processor 1102 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capabilities. During implementation, each step of the above method can be completed by hardware integrated logic circuits or software instructions in the second processor 1102. The above second processor 1102 may be a general-purpose processor, a DSP, or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic device, a discrete hardware component, etc. The second processor 1102 can implement or execute the various methods, steps, and logic block diagrams disclosed in the embodiments of the present application. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor. The steps of the methods disclosed in the embodiments of the present application can be directly implemented and executed by a hardware decoding processor, or by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in a storage medium located in the second memory 1103. The second processor 1102 reads the information in the second memory 1103 and, in conjunction with its hardware, completes the steps of the above method.

[0221] In an exemplary embodiment, the network device 1100 may be implemented by one or more ASICs, DSPs, PLDs, CPLDs, FPGAs, general-purpose processors, controllers, MCUs, Microprocessors, or other electronic components to perform the aforementioned methods.

[0222] It can be understood that the memory (first memory 1003, second memory 1103) of the embodiment of the present application can be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, and can also include both volatile and non-volatile memories. Among them, the non-volatile memory can be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a magnetic random access memory (FRAM), a flash memory, a magnetic surface memory, an optical disc, or a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM); the magnetic surface memory can be a magnetic disk memory or a tape memory. The volatile memory can be a random access memory (RAM), which is used as an external cache. By way of example and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as static random access memory (SRAM), synchronous static random access memory (SSRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRSDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SLDRAM), and direct rambus random access memory (DRRAM).The memories described in the embodiments of this application are intended to include, but are not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memories.

[0223] In an exemplary embodiment, the present application also provides a storage medium, namely a computer storage medium, specifically a computer-readable storage medium, which includes, for example, a first memory 1003 storing a computer program, which can be executed by the first processor 1002 of the terminal 1000 to complete the steps of the aforementioned terminal-side method. Another example includes a second memory 1103 storing a computer program, which can be executed by the second processor 1102 of the network device 1100 to complete the steps of the aforementioned network device-side method. The computer-readable storage medium can be a memory such as FRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash Memory, magnetic surface storage, optical disk, or CD-ROM.

[0224] In an exemplary embodiment, the embodiment of the present application also provides a computer program product, including a computer program, which can be executed by the first processor 1002 of the terminal 1000 to complete the steps described in the aforementioned terminal-side method, or the computer program can be executed by the second processor 1102 of the network device 1100 to complete the steps described in the aforementioned network device-side method.

[0225] In order to implement the method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the embodiment of the present application also provides a measurement configuration system, such as Figure 12 As shown, the system includes: a terminal 1201 and a network device 1202.

[0226] Here, it should be noted that the specific processing procedures of the terminal 1201 and the network device 1202 have been described in detail above and will not be repeated here.

[0227] It should be noted that: "first", "second", etc. are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or sequence.

[0228] In addition, the technical solutions described in the embodiments of the present application can be arbitrarily combined without conflict.

[0229] The above description is merely a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A measurement configuration method, characterized in that: Applied to terminals, including: Receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The method further comprises: Measurement is performed using the measurement configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that The measurement configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following: Frequency information; Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height; Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein The method further comprises: The measurement result is reported using the measurement reporting configuration information of the beam and the height of the terminal.

5. The method according to claim 1 or 4, characterized in that The measurement reporting configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following: Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height; Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height.

6. A measurement configuration method, characterized in that: Applicable to network equipment, including: Send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that The method further comprises: The measurement configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal is determined using the first information, where the first information represents the coverage of the neighboring beam.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that The first information is preconfigured, or obtained from other network devices.

9. The method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, characterized in that The measurement configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following: Frequency information; Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the first height; Beam information measured when the height of the terminal is less than the first height.

10. The method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, characterized in that The measurement reporting configuration information of the beam includes one or more of the following: Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is greater than or equal to the second height; Beam information corresponding to the cell measurement result when the height of the terminal is less than the second height.

11. A measurement configuration device, characterized in that: include: A receiving unit, configured to receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

12. A measurement configuration device, characterized in that: include: A sending unit, configured to send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

13. A terminal, characterized in that: include: A first processor and a first communication interface; wherein, The first communication interface is configured to receive measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: Measurement configuration information of beams highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam associated with the height of the terminal.

14. A network device, characterized in that: include: A second processor and a second communication interface; wherein, The second communication interface is configured to send measurement configuration information to the terminal, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more of the following: measurement configuration information of a beam highly associated with the terminal; Measurement reporting configuration information of the beam highly associated with the terminal.

15. A terminal, characterized in that: include: a first processor and a first memory for storing a computer program capable of being executed on the processor, Wherein, when the first processor is used to run the computer program, it executes the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

16. A network device, characterized in that: include: a second processor and a second memory for storing a computer program capable of being executed on the processor, Wherein, when the second processor is used to run the computer program, it executes the steps of the method according to any one of claims 6 to 10.

17. A storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, characterized in that: When the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, or implements the steps of the method according to any one of claims 6 to 10.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer program, characterized in that When the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, or implements the steps of the method according to any one of claims 6 to 10.

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