Determination method and device, communication equipment, communication system and storage medium

Abstract

The present disclosure proposes a determination method, apparatus and device, and a storage medium, the method comprising: determining a trigger event, the trigger event being used for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, the terminal being configured with at least one reference signal resource set, the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the accuracy and timeliness of the beam report are ensured on the premise of reducing the signaling overhead.

Description

Determination method and device, communication equipment, communication system, storage medium Technical Field

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and in particular to a determination method and apparatus, a communication device, a communication system, and a storage medium. Background Art

[0002] In a communication system, to ensure coverage, channels and / or signals are typically transmitted and received based on beams. Optionally, to ensure communication quality when transmitting and receiving channels and / or signals based on beams, a terminal typically performs beam measurement and submits a beam report to a network device based on the beam measurement results. The network device can then schedule a beam with higher beam quality for transmitting and receiving channels and / or signals based on the beam measurement results in the beam report.

[0003] Summary of the Invention

[0004] The present disclosure proposes a determination method and apparatus, a communication device, a communication system, and a storage medium.

[0005] According to a first aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a determination method is proposed, including:

[0006] Determine a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0007] According to a second aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a determination method is proposed, including:

[0008] A trigger event is configured, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the network device configures at least one reference signal resource set to the terminal, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0009] According to a third aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a determination method is provided for use in a communication system, the communication system including a terminal and a network device, the method including at least one of the following:

[0010] A network device configures a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set;

[0011] The terminal determines the triggering event;

[0012] When the triggering event is met, the terminal reports at least one beam report.

[0013] According to a fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a terminal is provided, including:

[0014] A processing module is used to determine a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0015] According to a fifth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a network device is provided, including:

[0016] A sending module is used to configure a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0017] According to a sixth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, including:

[0018] one or more processors;

[0019] The processor is used to call instructions to enable the communication device to execute the determination method described in the first aspect or the second aspect.

[0020] According to the seventh aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication system is proposed, characterized in that it includes a terminal and a network device, wherein the terminal is configured to implement the determination method described in the first aspect, and the network device is configured to implement the determination method described in the second aspect.

[0021] According to an eighth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a storage medium is proposed, which stores instructions, and is characterized in that when the instructions are executed on a communication device, the communication device executes the determination method described in the first aspect or the second aspect. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0022] The above and / or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and readily understood from the following description of the embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

[0023] FIG1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of some communication systems provided by embodiments of the present disclosure;

[0024] FIG2A is an interactive schematic diagram of a determination method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0025] 3A-3B are flowcharts of a determination method provided in yet another embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0026] 4A-4B are flowcharts of a determination method provided in yet another embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0027] FIG5A is a schematic flow chart of a determination method provided in yet another embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0028] FIG6A is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0029] FIG6B is a schematic diagram of the structure of a network device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0030] FIG7A is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0031] FIG7B is a schematic structural diagram of a chip provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0032] The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a determination method and apparatus, a communication device, a communication system, and a storage medium.

[0033] In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a determination method, which is performed by a terminal. The method includes:

[0034] Determine a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0035] In the above embodiment, the terminal will determine the triggering event for triggering the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. It can be seen that the present disclosure provides a determination method to determine the triggering event for triggering the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, so that the beam report can be performed in time based on the triggering event when the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set changes, thereby avoiding the situation where "the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too short, which may make the best beam reported twice the same and unchanged, thereby wasting signaling, and the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too long, which may cause the beam quality to change but the beam report is not performed due to the reporting opportunity not arriving, thereby affecting the communication quality". Therefore, the method of the present disclosure can reduce signaling overhead, and can also ensure that when the beam quality changes, it can be reported in time to ensure communication quality. On the premise of reducing signaling overhead, the accuracy and timeliness of the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set are also guaranteed.

[0036] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0037] In the above embodiment, by making different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or making different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points (Multi Transmission Reception Point, TRP), when beam reporting is performed based on the first reference signal resource set, beam reporting can be performed in units of TRP. It can be seen that the present disclosure provides a method for triggering beam reporting through events in units of TRP, which can be applied to beam reporting in a multi-transmission reception point (Multi Transmission Reception Point, MTRP) scenario, and determines that beam reporting in the MTRP scenario can be successfully performed. Moreover, in the present disclosure, when beam reporting is triggered through events in units of TRP, not only can the signaling overhead be reduced, but it can also ensure that when the beam quality of a certain TRP changes, it can be reported in a timely manner, thereby ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of beam reporting based on TRP.

[0038] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0039] In the above embodiment, the specific concept of the reference signal resource set is defined so that beam reporting can be successfully performed based on the reference signal resources subsequently.

[0040] With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, determining a triggering event includes:

[0041] First information is received, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0042] In the above embodiment, a method for a terminal to determine a triggering event is provided, so that the terminal can successfully determine the triggering event, so that the terminal can subsequently report a beam report in a timely and accurate manner based on the triggering event, and signaling overhead can be avoided.

[0043] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0044] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0045] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0046] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0047] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0048] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0049] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0050] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0051] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0052] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0053] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal last time and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0054] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0055] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0056] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0057] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0058] All beams from the last beam report;

[0059] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0060] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0061] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0062] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0063] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0064] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0065] In the above embodiment, the specific content of the triggering event is clarified, so that the terminal can subsequently report the beam report promptly and accurately based on the triggering event, and signaling overhead can be avoided.

[0066] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, determining a triggering event includes any one of the following:

[0067] receiving a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0068] A first signaling and a second signaling are received, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0069] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, receiving the first signaling and the second signaling includes:

[0070] receiving a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0071] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0072] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0073] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

[0074] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0075] The terminal determines a beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information, and reports the beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information to a network device.

[0076] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting type includes:

[0077] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0078] Non-periodic reporting.

[0079] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method includes:

[0080] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0081] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0082] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group-related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0083] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0084] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0085] In the above embodiment, a method for a terminal to determine a triggering event is provided, so that the terminal can successfully determine the triggering event. The terminal can then report a beam report promptly and accurately based on the triggering event, and signaling overhead can be avoided.

[0086] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0087] When the triggering event is met, at least one beam report is reported.

[0088] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0089] When reporting multiple beam reports, determine the time interval between two adjacent beam reports;

[0090] Multiple beam reports are reported based on the time interval.

[0091] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0092] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0093] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0094] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0095] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0096] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0097] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0098] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0099] With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0100] In the above embodiment, a method is provided for how a terminal reports a beam report based on a trigger event, so that the terminal can successfully perform a beam report based on the trigger event, thereby reducing signaling overhead and ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set.

[0101] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0102] receiving third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0103] The first request is sent.

[0104] In combination with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0105] In the above embodiment, the terminal will first send a first request based on the received third information to request the first resource that carries the beam report, so that the beam report can be successfully reported based on the requested first resource, thereby ensuring the successful implementation of the beam report. In addition, different first reference signal resources correspond to different first resources, wherein different first reference signal resources correspond to different TRPs, thereby making it possible to make the resources that carry beam reports corresponding to different TRPs different, thereby achieving independent reporting of beam reports corresponding to different TRPs, preventing mutual interference between beam reports corresponding to different TRPs, and ensuring the stability and independence of beam reports corresponding to different TRPs.

[0106] In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a determination method, which is performed by a network device. The method includes:

[0107] A trigger event is configured, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the network device configures at least one reference signal resource set to the terminal, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0108] In the above embodiment, the network device will configure a triggering event for triggering a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. It can be seen that the present disclosure provides a determination method to determine the triggering event for triggering a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, so that based on the triggering event, a beam report can be performed in time when the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set changes, thereby avoiding the situation where "the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too short, which may make the best beams reported twice the same and unchanged, thereby wasting signaling, and the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too long, which may cause the beam quality to change but the beam report is not performed due to the reporting opportunity not arriving, thereby affecting the communication quality". Therefore, the method of the present disclosure can reduce signaling overhead, and can also ensure that when the beam quality changes, it can be reported in time to ensure communication quality. On the premise of reducing signaling overhead, the accuracy and timeliness of the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set are also guaranteed.

[0109] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0110] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0111] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the configuration triggering event includes:

[0112] First information is sent, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0113] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0114] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0115] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0116] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0117] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0118] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0119] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0120] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0121] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0122] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0123] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal in the last beam and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0124] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0125] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0126] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0127] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0128] All beams from the last beam report;

[0129] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0130] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0131] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0132] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0133] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0134] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0135] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the configuration triggering event includes any one of the following:

[0136] Sending a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0137] A first signaling and a second signaling are sent, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0138] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, sending the first signaling and the second signaling includes:

[0139] Sending a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0140] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0141] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0142] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

[0143] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0144] Receive the beam reporting mode and / or the beam group related information reported by the terminal.

[0145] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting type includes:

[0146] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0147] Non-periodic reporting.

[0148] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method includes:

[0149] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0150] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0151] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group-related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0152] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0153] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0154] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0155] Receive at least one beam report reported by the terminal.

[0156] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0157] The time interval between two adjacent beam reports is configured for the terminal.

[0158] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0159] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0160] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0161] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0162] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0163] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0164] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0165] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0166] With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0167] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0168] Sending third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0169] The first request is received.

[0170] In combination with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0171] In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a determination method for a communication system, wherein the communication system includes a terminal and a network device, and the method includes at least one of the following:

[0172] A network device configures a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set;

[0173] The terminal determines the triggering event;

[0174] When the triggering event is met, the terminal reports at least one beam report.

[0175] In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a terminal, including:

[0176] A processing module is used to determine a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0177] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0178] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0179] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the processing module is further configured to:

[0180] First information is received, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0181] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0182] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0183] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0184] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0185] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0186] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0187] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0188] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0189] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0190] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0191] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal in the last beam and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0192] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0193] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0194] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0195] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0196] All beams from the last beam report;

[0197] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0198] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0199] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0200] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0201] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0202] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0203] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the processing module is further used for any of the following:

[0204] receiving a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0205] A first signaling and a second signaling are received, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0206] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the processing module is further configured to:

[0207] receiving a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0208] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0209] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0210] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

[0211] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal is further configured to:

[0212] The terminal determines a beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information, and reports the beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information to a network device.

[0213] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting type includes:

[0214] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0215] Non-periodic reporting.

[0216] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method includes:

[0217] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0218] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0219] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group-related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0220] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0221] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0222] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal is further configured to:

[0223] When the triggering event is met, at least one beam report is reported.

[0224] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal is further configured to:

[0225] When reporting multiple beam reports, determine the time interval between two adjacent beam reports;

[0226] Multiple beam reports are reported based on the time interval.

[0227] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0228] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0229] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0230] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0231] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0232] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0233] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0234] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0235] With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0236] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal is further configured to:

[0237] receiving third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0238] The first request is sent.

[0239] In combination with some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0240] In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a network device, including:

[0241] A sending module is used to configure a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0242] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0243] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0244] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the sending module is further configured to:

[0245] First information is sent, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0246] With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0247] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0248] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0249] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0250] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0251] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0252] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0253] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0254] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0255] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0256] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal last time and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0257] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0258] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0259] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0260] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0261] All beams from the last beam report;

[0262] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0263] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0264] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0265] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0266] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0267] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0268] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the sending module is further used for any of the following:

[0269] Sending a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0270] A first signaling and a second signaling are sent, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0271] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the sending module is further configured to:

[0272] Sending a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0273] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0274] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0275] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

[0276] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the network device is further configured to:

[0277] Receive the beam reporting mode and / or the beam group related information reported by the terminal.

[0278] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting type includes:

[0279] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0280] Non-periodic reporting.

[0281] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method includes:

[0282] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0283] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0284] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group-related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0285] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0286] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0287] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the network device is further configured to:

[0288] Receive at least one beam report reported by the terminal.

[0289] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the network device is further configured to:

[0290] The time interval between two adjacent beam reports is configured for the terminal.

[0291] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0292] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0293] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0294] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0295] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0296] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0297] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0298] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0299] With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0300] In conjunction with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the network device is further configured to:

[0301] Sending third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0302] The first request is received.

[0303] In combination with some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0304] In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a communication device, which includes: one or more processors; one or more memories for storing instructions; wherein the processor is used to call the instructions so that the communication device executes the determination method described in the first aspect, the optional implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect, and the optional implementation of the second aspect.

[0305] In the seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a communication system, which includes: a terminal and a network device; wherein the terminal is configured to execute the method described in the first aspect and the optional implementation of the first aspect, and the network device is configured to execute the method described in the second aspect and the optional implementation of the second aspect.

[0306] In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a storage medium, which stores instructions. When the instructions are executed on a communication device, the communication device executes the determination method described in the first aspect, the optional implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect, and the optional implementation of the second aspect.

[0307] In the ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a program product. When the program product is executed by a communication device, the communication device executes the determination method described in the first aspect, the optional implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect, and the optional implementation of the second aspect.

[0308] In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a computer program, which, when running on a computer, enables the computer to execute the determination method described in the first aspect, the optional implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect, and the optional implementation of the second aspect.

[0309] It is understandable that the above-mentioned terminals, network devices, communication devices, communication systems, storage media, program products, and computer programs are all used to execute the methods proposed in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Therefore, the beneficial effects that can be achieved can refer to the beneficial effects of the corresponding methods and will not be repeated here.

[0310] The present disclosure provides invention titles. In some embodiments, the terms "determining method" and "information processing method," "information sending method," and "information receiving method" are interchangeable; the terms "communication device" and "information processing device," "information sending device," and "information receiving device" are interchangeable; and the terms "information processing system," "communication system," "information sending system," and "information receiving system" are interchangeable.

[0311] The embodiments of the present disclosure are not exhaustive and are merely illustrative of some embodiments, and are not intended to be a specific limitation on the scope of protection of the present disclosure. In the absence of contradiction, each step in a certain embodiment can be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the steps can be arbitrarily combined. For example, a solution after removing some steps in a certain embodiment can also be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the order of the steps in a certain embodiment can be arbitrarily exchanged. In addition, the optional implementation methods in a certain embodiment can be arbitrarily combined; in addition, the embodiments can be arbitrarily combined. For example, some or all steps of different embodiments can be arbitrarily combined, and a certain embodiment can be arbitrarily combined with the optional implementation methods of other embodiments.

[0312] In each embodiment of the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified or provided for by logic, the terms and / or descriptions between the embodiments are consistent and can be referenced by each other. The technical features in different embodiments can be combined to form a new embodiment based on their inherent logical relationships.

[0313] The terms used in the embodiments of the present disclosure are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the present disclosure.

[0314] In the embodiments of the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified, elements expressed in the singular, such as "a", "an", "the", "above", "said", "the", "the", etc., may mean "one and only one", or "one or more", "at least one", etc. For example, when using articles such as "a", "an", "the" in English in translation, the noun following the article may be understood as a singular expression or a plural expression.

[0315] In the embodiments of the present disclosure, “plurality” refers to two or more.

[0316] In some embodiments, the terms "at least one of", "at least one of", "at least one of", "one or more", "a plurality of", "multiple", etc. can be used interchangeably.

[0317] In the embodiments of the present disclosure, descriptions such as “at least one of A, B, C…”, “A and / or B and / or C…”, etc. include the situation where any one of A, B, C… exists alone, and also include any combination of any multiple of A, B, C…, and each situation can exist alone; for example, “at least one of A, B, C” includes the situation where A exists alone, B exists alone, C exists alone, the combination of A and B, the combination of A and C, the combination of B and C, and the combination of A, B, and C; for example, A and / or B includes the situation where A exists alone, B exists alone, and the combination of A and B.

[0318] In some embodiments, descriptions such as "in one case A, in another case B," or "in response to one case A, in response to another case B," may include the following technical solutions depending on the situation: executing A independently of B (in some embodiments, A); executing B independently of A (in some embodiments, B); selectively executing A and B (in some embodiments, selecting between A and B); and executing both A and B (in some embodiments, A and B). The same applies when there are more branches, such as A, B, and C.

[0319] The prefixes such as "first" and "second" in the embodiments of the present disclosure are only used to distinguish different description objects and do not constitute any restriction on the position, order, priority, quantity or content of the description objects. For the statement of the description object, please refer to the description in the context of the claims or embodiments, and no unnecessary restriction should be constituted due to the use of prefixes. For example, if the description object is a "field", the ordinal number before the "field" in the "first field" and the "second field" does not limit the position or order between the "fields". "First" and "second" do not limit whether the "fields" they modify are in the same message, nor do they limit the order of the "first field" and the "second field". For another example, if the description object is a "level", the ordinal number before the "level" in the "first level" and the "second level" does not limit the priority between the "levels". For another example, the number of description objects is not limited by the ordinal number and can be one or more. Taking "first device" as an example, the number of "devices" can be one or more. In addition, the objects modified by different prefixes can be the same or different. For example, if the description object is "device", then the "first device" and the "second device" can be the same device or different devices, and their types can be the same or different. For another example, if the description object is "information", then the "first information" and the "second information" can be the same information or different information, and their contents can be the same or different.

[0320] In some embodiments, “including A,” “comprising A,” “used to indicate A,” and “carrying A” can be interpreted as directly carrying A or indirectly indicating A.

[0321] In some embodiments, terms such as "in response to...", "in response to determining...", "in the case of...", "at the time of...", "when...", "if...", "if...", etc. can be used interchangeably.

[0322] In some embodiments, terms such as "greater than", "greater than or equal to", "not less than", "more than", "more than or equal to", "not less than", "higher than", "higher than or equal to", "not less than", and "above" can be replaced with each other, and terms such as "less than", "less than or equal to", "not greater than", "less than", "less than or equal to", "not more than", "lower than", "lower than or equal to", "not higher than", and "below" can be replaced with each other.

[0323] In some embodiments, devices, etc. can be interpreted as physical or virtual, and their names are not limited to the names recorded in the embodiments. Terms such as "device", "equipment", "device", "circuit", "network element", "node", "function", "unit", "section", "system", "network", "chip", "chip system", "entity", and "subject" can be used interchangeably.

[0324] In some embodiments, "network" can be interpreted as devices included in the network (eg, access network equipment, core network equipment, etc.).

[0325] In some embodiments, the terms "access network device (AN device)", "radio access network device (RAN device)", "base station (BS)", "radio base station" "fixed station", "node", "access point", "transmission point (TP)", "reception point (RP)", "transmission / reception point (TRP)", "panel", "antenna panel", "antenna array", "cell", "macro cell", "small cell", "femto cell", "pico cell", "sector", "cell group", "carrier", "component carrier", "bandwidth part (BWP)" and the like may be used interchangeably.

[0326] In some embodiments, the terms "terminal", "terminal device", "user equipment (UE)", "user terminal", "mobile station (MS)", "mobile terminal (MT)", subscriber station, mobile unit, subscriber unit, wireless unit, remote unit, mobile device, wireless device, wireless communication device, remote device, mobile subscriber station, access terminal, mobile terminal, wireless terminal, remote terminal, handset, user agent, mobile client, client, etc. can be used interchangeably.

[0327] In some embodiments, the access network device, the core network device, or the network device can be replaced by a terminal. For example, the various embodiments of the present disclosure can also be applied to a structure in which the communication between the access network device, the core network device, or the network device and the terminal is replaced by communication between multiple terminals (for example, it can also be called device-to-device (D2D), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), etc.). In this case, it can also be set as a structure in which the terminal has all or part of the functions of the access network device. In addition, language such as "uplink" and "downlink" can also be replaced by language corresponding to communication between terminals (for example, "side"). For example, uplink channels, downlink channels, etc. can be replaced by side channels, and uplinks, downlinks, etc. can be replaced by side links.

[0328] In some embodiments, the terminal may be replaced by an access network device, a core network device, or a network device. In this case, the access network device, the core network device, or the network device may have a structure that has all or part of the functions of the terminal.

[0329] In some embodiments, obtaining data, information, etc. may comply with the laws and regulations of the country where the data is obtained.

[0330] In some embodiments, data, information, etc. may be obtained with the user's consent.

[0331] In addition, each element, each row, or each column in the table of the embodiment of the present disclosure can be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the combination of any elements, any rows, and any columns can also be implemented as an independent embodiment.

[0332] The correspondences shown in the tables of the present disclosure can be configured or predefined. The values ​​of the information in each table are merely examples and can be configured to other values, which are not limited by the present disclosure. When configuring the correspondences between information and parameters, it is not necessarily required to configure all the correspondences shown in each table. For example, in the tables of the present disclosure, the correspondences shown in certain rows may not be configured. For another example, appropriate deformation adjustments can be made based on the above tables, such as splitting, merging, etc. The names of the parameters shown in the titles of the above tables may also adopt other names that can be understood by the communication device, and the values ​​or representations of the parameters may also adopt other values ​​or representations that can be understood by the communication device. When implementing the above tables, other data structures may also be used, such as arrays, queues, containers, stacks, linear lists, pointers, linked lists, trees, graphs, structures, classes, heaps, hash tables or hash tables, etc.

[0333] The predefined in the present disclosure may be understood as defined, predefined, stored, pre-stored, pre-negotiated, pre-configured, solidified, or pre-burned.

[0334] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 1, the communication system 100 may include a terminal and a network device. Optionally, the network device may include at least one of an access network device and a core network device.

[0335] In some embodiments, the terminal includes, for example, a mobile phone, a wearable device, an Internet of Things device, a car with communication function, a smart car, a tablet computer, a computer with wireless transceiver function, a virtual reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control, a wireless terminal device in self-driving, a wireless terminal device in remote medical surgery, a wireless terminal device in a smart grid, a wireless terminal device in transportation safety, a wireless terminal device in a smart city, and at least one of a wireless terminal device in a smart home, but is not limited thereto.

[0336] In some embodiments, the access network device is, for example, a node or device that accesses a terminal to a wireless network. The access network device may include an evolved NodeB (eNB), a next generation evolved NodeB (ng-eNB), a next generation NodeB (gNB), a node B (NB), a home node B (HNB), a home evolved nodeB (HeNB), a wireless backhaul device, a radio network controller (RNC), a base station controller (BSC), a base transceiver station (BTS), a base band unit (BBU), a mobile switching center, a base station in a 6G communication system, an open base station (Open RAN), a cloud base station (Cloud RAN), a base station in other communication systems, and at least one of an access node in a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system, but is not limited thereto.

[0337] In some embodiments, the technical solution of the present disclosure can be applied to the Open RAN architecture. In this case, the interfaces between or within the access network devices involved in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be transformed into internal interfaces of the Open RAN, and the processes and information interactions between these internal interfaces can be implemented through software or programs.

[0338] In some embodiments, the access network device can be composed of a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), where the CU can also be called a control unit. The CU-DU structure can be used to split the protocol layer of the access network device, with the functions of some protocol layers centrally controlled by the CU, and the functions of the remaining part or all of the protocol layers distributed in the DU, which is centrally controlled by the CU, but is not limited to this.

[0339] In some embodiments, the core network device may be a device including one or more network elements, or may be multiple devices or a group of devices, each including all or part of one or more network elements. The network element may be virtual or physical. The core network, for example, includes at least one of an Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a 5G Core Network (5GCN), and a Next Generation Core (NGC). Alternatively, the core network device may also be a location management function network element. Exemplarily, the location management function network element includes a location server (location server), which may be implemented as any one of the following: Location Management Function (LMF), Enhanced Serving Mobile Location Centre (E-SMLC), Secure User Plane Location (SUPL), and Secure User Plane Location Platform (SUPLLP).

[0340] It can be understood that the communication system described in the embodiment of the present disclosure is for the purpose of more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present disclosure, and does not constitute a limitation on the technical solution proposed in the embodiment of the present disclosure. Ordinary technicians in this field can know that with the evolution of the system architecture and the emergence of new business scenarios, the technical solution proposed in the embodiment of the present disclosure is also applicable to similar technical problems.

[0341] The following embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to the communication system 100 shown in Figure 1, or a portion thereof, but are not limited thereto. The entities shown in Figure 1 are illustrative only. The communication system may include all or part of the entities shown in Figure 1, or may include other entities outside of Figure 1. The number and form of the entities may be arbitrary. The connection relationship between the entities is illustrative only. The entities may be connected or disconnected, and the connection may be in any manner, including direct or indirect, wired or wireless.

[0342] The embodiments of the present disclosure can be applied to Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LTE-Beyond (LTE-B), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4th generation mobile communication system (4G), 5th generation mobile communication system (5G), 5G new radio (NR), future radio access (FRA), new radio access technology (RAT), new radio (NR), new radio access (NX), future generation radio access (FX), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM (registered trademark)), CDMA2000, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.20, Ultra-WideBand (UWB), Bluetooth (registered trademark), Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) networks, Device-to-Device (D2D) systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), systems utilizing other determination methods, and next-generation systems based on and extending these systems. Furthermore, a combination of multiple systems (e.g., a combination of LTE or LTE-A with 5G) may also be employed.

[0343] Optionally, in a communication system, when a terminal reports a beam report to a network device, the network device usually first configures the reporting timing of the beam report to the terminal, and then the terminal reports the beam report based on the reporting timing configured by the network device. Optionally, the network device usually configures the terminal to report beam reports periodically, semi-persistently, or non-periodically. However, in fact, the change in beam quality is what the terminal can learn most promptly, and the reporting timing configured by the network device (such as the period length of periodic reporting or the non-periodic reporting timing) is not necessarily the most appropriate. For example, if the reporting interval is too short, the best beams reported twice may be the same without change, thereby wasting signaling; if the reporting interval is too long, there may be a situation where "when the beam quality changes, it is not reported because the reporting timing has not arrived", thereby affecting the communication quality. At present, it has been proposed to use event triggering to perform beam reporting to solve the above problems. However, the current beam reports are triggered on a cell basis and are not suitable for the Multi Transmission Reception Point (MTRP) scenario. In the MTRP scenario, how to use event triggering to perform beam reporting on a TRP basis is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently.

[0344] FIG2A is an interactive diagram illustrating a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG2A , the embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a communication system 100, the method comprising:

[0345] Step 2101: A network device configures at least one reference signal resource set.

[0346] Optionally, the reference signal resource set may include at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources may correspond to different beams. Optionally, the reference signal resources in the reference signal resource set may be used for beam measurement. For example, the reference signal resources may be channel measurement resources (CMR) and / or interference measurement resources (IMR), wherein the reference signal resources may be periodically transmitted, semi-persistently transmitted, or aperiodically transmitted.

[0347] Optionally, different reference signal resource sets may correspond to different control resource set pool indexes (CORESET Pool Index), or different reference signal resource sets may correspond to different transmission reception points (TRPs) (i.e., reference signal resources in different reference signal resource sets are transmitted by different TRPs). Optionally, different TRPs corresponding to different reference signal resource sets may all belong to the serving cell of the terminal, or the TRPs corresponding to some reference signal resource sets may belong to the serving cell, and the TRPs corresponding to another part of the reference signal resource sets may belong to a cell different from the serving cell, such as a neighboring cell.

[0348] Optionally, the network device may configure the at least one reference signal resource set for the terminal, and the terminal may receive the at least one reference signal resource set configured by the network device.

[0349] Step 2102: The network device configures a triggering event.

[0350] Optionally, in some embodiments, the trigger event can be used to trigger a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. Optionally, the first reference signal resource set can be any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set configured by the network device. Optionally, the above-mentioned "trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set" can be understood as: when the first reference signal resource set meets the trigger event, the terminal triggers the beam report (that is, the terminal reports the beam report to the network device), and the beam report may include the beam measurement result of the terminal for the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set, and the network device can schedule a beam with high beam quality for channel and / or signal transmission and reception based on the beam measurement result in the beam report. Optionally, the channel may include a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); the signal may include a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and a sounding reference signal (SRS).

[0351] Optionally, in some embodiments, the triggering event may refer to an event in which "the beam quality of a beam corresponding to a reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set changes." Optionally, the triggering event may include, for example, at least one of the following:

[0352] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold value; optionally, the first beam may be a beam in a last beam report of the terminal and / or a beam currently used by the terminal; optionally, the first beam may include at least one of the following: a best beam in a last beam report, a beam most recently indicated by a network device, a beam most recently activated by a network device, all beams in a last beam report, and a worst beam in a last beam report;

[0353] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than the second threshold value; optionally, the second beam can be a candidate beam, optionally, the second beam can include at least one of the following: a non-optimal beam in the last beam report, a beam other than the beam in the last beam report, a beam other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device, and a beam other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0354] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0355] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam report, where K is a positive integer;

[0356] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0357] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0358] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0359] The difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported by the last beam is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0360] A difference between the current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and the worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported by the last beam is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0361] Optionally, the above-mentioned beam quality may be, for example, Layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) and / or Layer 1 Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (L1-SINR).

[0362] Optionally, the above-mentioned "beam recently indicated by the network device" may, for example, be: the beam recently indicated by the network device using downlink control information (DCI) signaling; optionally, the above-mentioned "beam recently activated by the network device" may, for example, be: the beam recently activated by the network device using medium access control layer control element (MAC CE) signaling. Specifically, in some embodiments, the network device usually first activates at least one TCI state corresponding to at least one code point in the indication field of the DCI signaling (such as the Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) indication field) through MAC CE signaling. When MAC CE signaling activates at least one TCI state corresponding to a code point, the terminal can directly use the beam corresponding to the at least one TCI state corresponding to the activated code point to transmit and receive channels and / or signals; when MAC CE signaling activates at least one TCI state corresponding to multiple code points, the network device also needs to indicate one of the multiple activated code points through DCI signaling. After that, the terminal can transmit and receive channels and / or signals based on the beam corresponding to the at least one TCI state corresponding to the code point indicated by the DCI signaling. Based on this, in some embodiments, the above-mentioned "beam recently indicated by the network device" can be, for example, the beam corresponding to the TCI state corresponding to the code point recently indicated by the network device using DCI signaling, and the above-mentioned "beam recently activated by the network device" can be, for example, the beam corresponding to the TCI state corresponding to the code point recently activated by the network device using MAC CE signaling. Among them, the channel may include PDCCH, PDSCH, PUSCH, PUCCH; the signal may include CSI-RS, SRS. The TCI state may include at least one of joint TCI state, DL TCI state, UL TCI state, TCI state, and spatialrelationinfo.

[0363] Optionally, in some embodiments, the method for configuring a trigger event for a network device may be, for example: the network device sends first information, where the first information may indicate the trigger event.

[0364] In some other embodiments, the method for configuring a trigger event by a network device may include: the network device sends a first signaling, where the first signaling may be used to configure the trigger event. Optionally, the first signaling may be a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.

[0365] In some further embodiments, the method for configuring a trigger event by a network device may include, for example, sending a first signaling and a second signaling, wherein the first signaling may be used to configure at least one trigger event, and the second signaling may be used to activate or trigger a trigger event in the at least one trigger event configured by the first signaling. Optionally, the first signaling may be, for example, RRC signaling, and the second signaling may be, for example, DCI signaling and / or MAC CE signaling.

[0366] Optionally, the method for configuring at least one trigger event using the first signaling may include: the first signaling may configure at least one of the following: at least one association, an association sequence number (ID) corresponding to the association, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group-related information; wherein the association may include: an association between a first reference signal resource set, a trigger event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement quantity corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. Optionally, the beam measurement quantity may be, for example, L1-RSRP and / or L1-SINR. Optionally, when a first reference signal resource set is associated with a trigger event and a beam measurement quantity, the terminal may perform beam measurement on the beam corresponding to the reference signal resources in the first reference signal resource set based on the beam measurement quantity to obtain a beam measurement result. When the beam measurement result satisfies the trigger event associated with the first reference signal resource set, a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set is triggered (i.e., the terminal reports the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set to the network device), and the beam report may include the beam measurement result.

[0367] It should be noted that, in some embodiments, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets may be configured independently. For example, different first signaling may be used to configure the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0368] Optionally, the above-mentioned beam reporting type may include: semi-persistent reporting and aperiodic reporting. In addition, the terminal may subsequently perform beam reporting based on the beam reporting type configured by the network device.

[0369] Optionally, the above-mentioned beam reporting method may include: beam reporting based on beam groups and beam reporting not based on beam groups. Optionally, the "beam reporting based on beam groups" may be understood as, for example: beam reporting the beam quality of the beam group in units of beam groups. Optionally, the beam group may include at least two beams, wherein the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets. Optionally; the "beam reporting not based on beam groups" may be understood as, for example: beam reporting the beam quality of the beam in units of beams. And, the terminal may subsequently perform beam reporting based on the beam reporting method configured by the network device.

[0370] Optionally, the above-mentioned beam group related information can be used to indicate the purpose of at least two beams in the beam group, and the purpose may include at least one of the following: used for the terminal to perform uplink transmission simultaneously, and used for the terminal to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0371] It should also be noted that in some embodiments, the above-mentioned beam reporting method and beam group related information may not be configured by the network device to the terminal, but may be determined autonomously by the terminal and then reported to the network device.

[0372] Optionally, the method for using the second signaling to activate or trigger a trigger event in at least one trigger event configured by the first signaling may include: the second signaling is used to indicate the association ID corresponding to the above-mentioned association relationship to activate or trigger the trigger event configured by the first signaling. For example, assuming that the association relationships configured by the first signaling include: association relationship #1: the association relationship between the first reference signal resource set #1, trigger event #1, and beam measurement quantity #1, and the association ID corresponding to association relationship #1 is 1; association relationship #2: the association relationship between the first reference signal resource set #2, trigger event #2, and beam measurement quantity #2, and the association ID corresponding to association relationship #2 is 2. Assuming that the association ID indicated by the second signaling is 2, it means that the network device has activated or triggered association relationship #2. At this time, the terminal can measure the beam corresponding to the reference signal resources in the first reference signal resource set #2 based on the beam measurement amount #2 (that is, measure the L1-RSRP and / or L1-SINR of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resources in the first reference signal resource set #2 to obtain the beam measurement result), and when the beam measurement result of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resources in the first reference signal resource set #2 meets the trigger event #2, the terminal performs a beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set #2.

[0373] It should be noted that in some embodiments, when the second signaling is DCI signaling, the channel state information (CSI) request (request) field in the DCI signaling can be directly multiplexed or extended to activate or trigger at least one trigger event in the first signaling configuration. For example, the CSI request field in the DCI signaling can be directly multiplexed to indicate the association ID, or the CSI request field in the DCI signaling can be extended to indicate the association ID.

[0374] Step 2103: The terminal determines a triggering event.

[0375] For a detailed introduction to the triggering events, please refer to the above step description.

[0376] Optionally, the method for the terminal to determine the triggering event may include at least one of the following:

[0377] receiving first information, where the first information is used to indicate a triggering event;

[0378] receiving a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure a trigger event;

[0379] A first signaling and a second signaling are received, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger a triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0380] For a detailed introduction to this part, please refer to the previous step description.

[0381] Step 2104: The network device sends the third information.

[0382] Optionally, in some embodiments, the third information can be used to configure a first request, the first request can be used to request a first resource, and the first resource can be used to carry a beam report. Optionally, the first request can be, for example, a scheduling request (SR), and the first resource can be, for example, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource.

[0383] It should be noted that, in some embodiments, the third information can be used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be different or the same. Alternatively, the third information can configure the first request, and the first request can correspond to multiple first reference signal resource sets, that is, the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are the same, and the first resources requested by the first request can be used to carry beam reports of multiple first reference signal resource sets.

[0384] Optionally, the above-mentioned “the third information is used to configure the first request” can be understood as: the third information is used to configure the time-frequency resources, sequence, etc. of the first request.

[0385] Optionally, the network device may send the third information to the terminal, and the terminal may receive the third information.

[0386] Step 2105: The terminal sends a first request.

[0387] Optionally, the terminal may send the first request based on the third information mentioned above.

[0388] Optionally, when the terminal determines that the first reference signal resource set meets the triggering event, the terminal sends a first request corresponding to the first reference signal resource set that meets the triggering event.

[0389] Optionally, the terminal may send the first request to the network device, and the network device may receive the first request.

[0390] Step 2106: The network device configures the first resource.

[0391] Step 2107: The terminal determines that the triggering event is met and reports at least one beam report.

[0392] Optionally, when the terminal determines that the first reference signal resource set meets the triggering event, the terminal reports at least one beam report. Optionally, the terminal may carry the beam report through the first resource corresponding to the first reference signal resource set.

[0393] Optionally, in some embodiments, when a terminal reports multiple beam reports, the terminal may determine the time interval between two adjacent beam reports, and report the multiple beam reports based on the time interval. Optionally, the time interval may be configured by a network device to the terminal, such as by the network device through at least one of the above-mentioned first information, first signaling, and second signaling. Alternatively, the network device may also configure the time interval through signaling other than the above-mentioned first information, first signaling, and second signaling. Alternatively, the time interval may also be predefined by a protocol.

[0394] Optionally, in some embodiments, the beam report may include at least one of the following:

[0395] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the terminal's serving cell;

[0396] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal (for example, the neighboring cell).

[0397] Optionally, when the beam report includes the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the service cell of the terminal, the beam report may also include the physical cell identifier (PCI) of the cell other than the service cell of the terminal, wherein the PCI may be configured to the terminal by the network device, such as the network device configures it to the terminal through at least one of the above-mentioned first information, first signaling, and second signaling, or the network device may also configure the PCI through signaling other than the above-mentioned first information, first signaling, and second signaling.

[0398] Optionally, in some embodiments, when the beam reporting mode is beam reporting based on a beam group, the beam report may include at least one of the following:

[0399] Second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0400] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0401] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0402] Optionally, in some embodiments, when the beam reporting mode is beam reporting not based on a beam group, the beam report may include: beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0403] In the above embodiment, the terminal will determine the triggering event for triggering the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. It can be seen that the present disclosure provides a determination method to determine the triggering event for triggering the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, so that the beam report can be performed in time based on the triggering event when the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set changes, thereby avoiding the situation where "the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too short, which may make the best beam reported twice the same and unchanged, thereby wasting signaling, and the beam reporting interval configured by the network device is too long, which may cause the beam quality to change but the beam report is not performed due to the reporting opportunity not arriving, thereby affecting the communication quality". Therefore, the method of the present disclosure can reduce signaling overhead, and can also ensure that when the beam quality changes, it can be reported in time to ensure communication quality. On the premise of reducing signaling overhead, the accuracy and timeliness of the beam report corresponding to the first reference signal resource set are also guaranteed.

[0404] The determination method involved in the embodiments of the present disclosure may include at least one of steps S2101 to S2107. For example, step S2101 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, step S2102 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, step S2103 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, and steps S2101+S2102 may be implemented as independent embodiments, but are not limited thereto.

[0405] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0406] FIG3A is an interactive diagram of a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG3A , the embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a terminal, the method comprising:

[0407] Step 3101: The terminal receives at least one reference signal resource set configured by a network device.

[0408] Step 3102: The terminal receives a triggering event for network device configuration.

[0409] Step 3103: The terminal determines a triggering event.

[0410] Step 3104: The terminal receives the third information sent by the network device.

[0411] Step 3105: The terminal sends a first request.

[0412] Step 3106: The terminal receives the first resource configured by the network device.

[0413] Step 3107: The terminal determines that the triggering event is met and reports at least one beam report.

[0414] For a detailed description of steps 3101 - 3107 , please refer to the above embodiment description.

[0415] The determination method involved in the embodiments of the present disclosure may include at least one of steps S3101 to S3107. For example, step S3101 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, step S3102 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, and steps S3101+S3102 may be implemented as independent embodiments, but are not limited thereto.

[0416] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0417] FIG3B is an interactive diagram of a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG3B , the embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a terminal, the method comprising:

[0418] Step 3201: Determine a triggering event.

[0419] Optionally, the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any multiple of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0420] Optionally, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0421] Optionally, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0422] Optionally, determining a triggering event includes:

[0423] First information is received, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0424] Optionally, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0425] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0426] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0427] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0428] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0429] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0430] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0431] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0432] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0433] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0434] Optionally, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal last time and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0435] Optionally, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0436] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0437] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0438] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0439] All beams from the last beam report;

[0440] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0441] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0442] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0443] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0444] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0445] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0446] Optionally, the determining of the triggering event includes any one of the following:

[0447] receiving a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0448] A first signaling and a second signaling are received, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0449] Optionally, the receiving the first signaling and the second signaling includes:

[0450] receiving a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0451] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0452] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0453] Optionally, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets may be configured independently.

[0454] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0455] The terminal determines a beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information, and reports the beam reporting mode and / or beam group related information to a network device.

[0456] Optionally, the beam reporting type includes:

[0457] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0458] Non-periodic reporting.

[0459] Optionally, the beam reporting method includes:

[0460] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0461] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0462] Optionally, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0463] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0464] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0465] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0466] When the triggering event is met, at least one beam report is reported.

[0467] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0468] When reporting multiple beam reports, determine the time interval between two adjacent beam reports;

[0469] Multiple beam reports are reported based on the time interval.

[0470] Optionally, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0471] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0472] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0473] Optionally, the beam reporting mode is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0474] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0475] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0476] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0477] Optionally, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0478] Optionally, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0479] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0480] receiving third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0481] The first request is sent.

[0482] Optionally, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0483] For a detailed description of step 3201, please refer to the above embodiment description.

[0484] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0485] FIG4A is an interactive diagram illustrating a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG4A , an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a network device, the method comprising:

[0486] Step 4101: The network device configures at least one reference signal resource set.

[0487] Step 4102: Network device configuration trigger event.

[0488] Step 4104: The network device sends the third information.

[0489] Step 4105: The network device receives the first request sent by the terminal.

[0490] Step 4106: The network device configures the first resource.

[0491] Step 4106: The network device receives at least one beam report reported by the terminal.

[0492] For a detailed description of steps 4101 - 4106 , please refer to the above embodiment.

[0493] The determination method involved in the embodiment of the present disclosure may include at least one of steps S4101 to S4106. For example, step S4101 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, and step S4102 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

[0494] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0495] FIG4B is an interactive diagram illustrating a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG4B , the embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a network device, the method comprising:

[0496] Step 4201: Configure trigger events.

[0497] Optionally, the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the network device configures at least one reference signal resource set to the terminal, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0498] Optionally, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes CORESET Pool Index, or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission reception points TRP.

[0499] Optionally, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

[0500] Optionally, the configuration triggering event includes:

[0501] First information is sent, where the first information is used to indicate the triggering event.

[0502] Optionally, the triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0503] The beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold;

[0504] The beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold;

[0505] A difference between a beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set and a beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

[0506] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set are different from at least one of the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the last beam, where K is a positive integer;

[0507] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the last beam report;

[0508] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0509] The current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include a beam most recently activated by the network device;

[0510] a difference between the beam quality of the current best-ranked i-th beam of the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the best-ranked j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported in a previous beam report is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K;

[0511] A difference between a current worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set and a worst beam quality of the first reference signal resource set reported in a last beam report is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

[0512] Optionally, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal last time and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

[0513] Optionally, the first beam includes at least one of the following:

[0514] The best beam from the last beam report;

[0515] The beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0516] The most recently activated beam of the network device;

[0517] All beams from the last beam report;

[0518] The worst beam in the last beam report;

[0519] The second beam includes at least one of the following:

[0520] Non-optimal beams from the last beam report;

[0521] beams other than those in the last beam report;

[0522] beams other than the beam most recently indicated by the network device;

[0523] Beams other than at least one beam most recently activated by the network device.

[0524] Optionally, the configuration triggering event includes any of the following:

[0525] Sending a first signaling, where the first signaling is used to configure the trigger event;

[0526] A first signaling and a second signaling are sent, where the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in the at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

[0527] Optionally, the sending the first signaling and the second signaling includes:

[0528] Sending a first signaling and a second signaling;

[0529] The first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, an association sequence ID corresponding to the association relationship, a beam reporting type, a beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: an association relationship between a first reference signal resource set, a triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and a beam measurement value corresponding to the first reference signal resource set;

[0530] The second signaling is used to indicate an association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured in the first signaling.

[0531] Optionally, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets may be configured independently.

[0532] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0533] Receive the beam reporting mode and / or the beam group related information reported by the terminal.

[0534] Optionally, the beam reporting type includes:

[0535] Semi-persistent reporting;

[0536] Non-periodic reporting.

[0537] Optionally, the beam reporting method includes:

[0538] Beam reporting based on beam groups;

[0539] Beam reporting is not based on beam groups.

[0540] Optionally, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group related information is used to indicate usage of the at least two beams in the beam group, where the usage includes at least one of the following:

[0541] Used for the terminals to simultaneously perform uplink transmission;

[0542] Used for the terminals to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

[0543] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0544] Receive at least one beam report reported by the terminal.

[0545] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0546] The time interval between two adjacent beam reports is configured for the terminal.

[0547] Optionally, the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0548] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal;

[0549] The beam quality of the beam corresponding to the cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

[0550] Optionally, the beam reporting mode is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0551] second information, where the second information is used to indicate the number of reported beam groups;

[0552] The resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group;

[0553] The beam quality of the beams in each beam group.

[0554] Optionally, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

[0555] Optionally, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

[0556] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0557] Sending third information, where the third information is used to configure a first request, where the first request is used to request a first resource, where the first resource is used to carry a beam report;

[0558] The first request is received.

[0559] Optionally, the third information is also used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

[0560] For a detailed introduction to step 4201, please refer to the above embodiment description.

[0561] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0562] Figure 5A is an interactive diagram of a determination method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 5A, an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a determination method for a communication system including a terminal and a network device, wherein the method includes at least one of the following:

[0563] Step 5101: Network device configuration trigger event;

[0564] Step 5102: The terminal determines a triggering event.

[0565] Step 5103: When a trigger event is satisfied, the terminal reports at least one beam report.

[0566] Optional implementations of steps 5101 to 5103 may refer to the description of the above embodiment.

[0567] In some embodiments, the above method may include the method described in the above embodiments of the communication system side, terminal side, network device side, etc., which will not be repeated here.

[0568] The determination method involved in the embodiment of the present disclosure may include at least one of steps S5101 to S5103. For example, step S5101 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, and step S5102 may be implemented as an independent embodiment, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

[0569] In this embodiment or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined, and can be arbitrarily combined with any steps of other embodiments or other examples.

[0570] The following is an exemplary introduction to the above method.

[0571] 1. The terminal receives indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate a triggering event, and the triggering event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with two reference signal resource sets for beam measurement and reporting.

[0572] a) Different reference signal resource sets correspond to different CORESETPoolIndex or different TRPs. Different TRPs may all correspond to the serving cell, or some TRPs may belong to the serving cell and some to a cell different from the serving cell, such as a neighboring cell.

[0573] 2. The triggering event includes at least one of the following:

[0574] a) The beam quality of the current beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than the threshold

[0575] i. The current beam is defined as:

[0576] 1. The best beam in the last report, or the beam most recently indicated by the base station, or all beams activated by the base station MAC CE, or all beams in the last report, or the worst beam in the last report

[0577] b) The beam quality of the candidate beams in the first reference signal resource set is higher than the threshold

[0578] i. Candidate beams are defined as: non-optimal beams in the last report, beams other than the beams included in the last report, beams other than the beams most recently indicated by the base station, or at least one beam activated by the base station MAC CE

[0579] c) The beam quality of the candidate beam in the first reference signal resource set is one offset higher than the beam quality of the current beam

[0580] i. The definitions of the current beam and candidate beams are the same as above. That is, the beam qualities of the beams corresponding to the reference signal resources in the same reference signal resource set are compared.

[0581] d) The best K beams in the first reference signal resource set are at least one different from the best K beams in the last report or do not include the best beam reported last time, or the best K beams do not include the beam most recently indicated by the base station, or the best K beams do not include the beam most recently activated by the base station's MAC CE

[0582] i. Furthermore, the difference in beam quality between the two best beams reported is greater than offset

[0583] ii. Or the difference in beam quality between the worst beams in the two reports is greater than offset

[0584] e) Above, the beam quality of the beam includes L1-RSRP or L1-SINR.

[0585] 3. The instruction information includes at least one of the following:

[0586] a) RRC signaling configures the trigger event, as well as the threshold value, offset, etc. related to the trigger event. The terminal then reports when the trigger event is met;

[0587] b) or RRC signaling configuration trigger event, as well as related thresholds, offsets, etc., and further use MAC CE activation or DCI indication, the terminal will report when the trigger event is met.

[0588] i. Specifically, an association relationship can also be configured during RRC configuration, such as the trigger event and the related threshold or offset and the reference signal resource or resource set (including CMR and / or IMR, the reference signal resource can be a reference signal resource that is sent periodically, semi-persistently, or aperiodically), the association with the reported measurement quantity L1-RSRP or L1-SINR, the reporting type (semi-persistent, or aperiodic transmission report), the reporting method (whether it is a group-based beam report, is it used for simultaneous uplink transmission, and / or simultaneous downlink reception. This can be configured by the base station, or the terminal reports it by itself), and an associated ID. Then, the MAC CE or DCI can directly activate or indicate the ID. If it is indicated by DCI, the CSI request field can be directly reused or extended.

[0589] ii. As described above, for different reference signal resource sets, the RRC configuration parameters can be configured independently.

[0590] 4. After the trigger condition is met, you can report once or multiple times, and configure the time interval between each report

[0591] 5. The beam report may include the beam value of the serving cell, or cells other than the serving cell, such as neighboring cells, whose physical cell ID PCI will be configured for the terminal.

[0592] a) When the beam report includes the measurement results of neighboring cells, it can be non-group reporting or groupbasedbeamreporting

[0593] b) If the beam reporting is based on a group, then the two beams contained in a group are two beams that the terminal supports simultaneous transmission and / or simultaneous reception, and the two beams in a group come from different reference signal resource sets, that is, from different TRPs.

[0594] c) If the beam report is based on no-group, then the beam report triggered by the first reference signal resource set only includes the beam corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, that is, it only includes the beam from one TRP.

[0595] 6. A group-based beam report includes at least one of the following:

[0596] a) At least one group

[0597] b) Each group contains two reference signal resource identifiers,

[0598] c) L1-RSRP or L1-SINR corresponding to each reference signal identifier

[0599] The terminal receives another indication message that determines the configuration information for a scheduling request (SR) requesting PUSCH resources for beam reporting. The SR resource can be different for different reference signal resource sets, i.e., corresponding to different CORESETPoolIndex or different TRPs. This means that multiple SR resources are configured for beam reporting resource requests for different reference signal resource sets.

[0600] The present invention defines the triggering conditions for event-triggered TRP specific beam reporting to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of TRP-based beam reporting while reducing signaling overhead.

[0601] The embodiments of the present disclosure further provide an apparatus for implementing any of the above methods. For example, an apparatus is provided, comprising units or modules for implementing each step performed by a terminal in any of the above methods. For another example, another apparatus is provided, comprising units or modules for implementing each step performed by a network device (e.g., an access network device, a core network function node, a core network device, etc.) in any of the above methods.

[0602] It should be understood that the division of the various units or modules in the above device is merely a division of logical functions. In actual implementation, they may be fully or partially integrated into a physical entity, or they may be physically separated. In addition, the units or modules in the device may be implemented in the form of a processor calling software: for example, the device includes a processor, the processor is connected to a memory, and the memory stores instructions. The processor calls the instructions stored in the memory to implement any of the above methods or implement the functions of the various units or modules of the above device, wherein the processor is, for example, a general-purpose processor, such as a central processing unit (CPU) or a microprocessor, and the memory is a memory within the device or a memory outside the device. Alternatively, the units or modules in the device can be implemented in the form of hardware circuits, and the functions of some or all of the units or modules can be realized by designing the hardware circuits. The above-mentioned hardware circuits can be understood as one or more processors; for example, in one implementation, the above-mentioned hardware circuit is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which realizes the functions of some or all of the above units or modules by designing the logical relationship of the components in the circuit; for example, in another implementation, the above-mentioned hardware circuit can be realized by a programmable logic device (PLD). Taking a field programmable gate array (FPGA) as an example, it can include a large number of logic gate circuits, and the connection relationship between the logic gate circuits is configured by configuring the configuration file, thereby realizing the functions of some or all of the above units or modules. All units or modules of the above devices can be realized in the form of software called by the processor, or in the form of hardware circuits, or in part by the form of software called by the processor, and the rest by hardware circuits.

[0603] In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the processor is a circuit with signal processing capabilities. In one implementation, the processor can be a circuit with instruction reading and execution capabilities, such as a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU) (which can be understood as a microprocessor), or a digital signal processor (DSP). In another implementation, the processor can implement certain functions through the logical relationship of the hardware circuit. The logical relationship of the above-mentioned hardware circuit is fixed or reconfigurable. For example, the processor is a hardware circuit implemented by an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a programmable logic device (PLD), such as an FPGA. In a reconfigurable hardware circuit, the process of the processor loading a configuration document and implementing the hardware circuit configuration can be understood as the process of the processor loading instructions to implement the functions of some or all of the above units or modules. In addition, it can also be a hardware circuit designed for artificial intelligence, which can be understood as an ASIC, such as a neural network processing unit (NPU), a tensor processing unit (TPU), a deep learning processing unit (DPU), etc.

[0604] FIG6A is a schematic diagram of the structure of a terminal proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG6A , it includes:

[0605] A processing module is used to determine a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0606] Optionally, the processing module is configured to execute the steps related to "processing" performed by the terminal in any of the above methods. The terminal further includes at least one of a sending module and a receiving module. The sending module is configured to execute the steps related to "sending" performed by the terminal in any of the above methods. The receiving module is configured to execute the steps related to receiving performed by the terminal in any of the above methods, which are not further described here.

[0607] FIG6B is a schematic diagram of the structure of the network device proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG6B , it includes:

[0608] A sending module is used to configure a trigger event, where the trigger event is used to trigger a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or more of the at least one reference signal resource set.

[0609] Optionally, the sending module is configured to execute steps related to "sending" performed by the network device in any of the above methods. The network device may further include at least one of a receiving module and a processing module. The receiving module is configured to execute steps related to receiving performed by the network device in any of the above methods. The processing module is configured to execute steps related to "processing" performed by the network device in any of the above methods.

[0610] Figure 7A is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device 7100 proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Communication device 7100 can be a network device (e.g., an access network device, a core network device, etc.), a terminal (e.g., a user equipment, etc.), a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports a network device to implement any of the above methods, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports a terminal to implement any of the above methods. Communication device 7100 can be used to implement the methods described in the above method embodiments. For details, please refer to the description of the above method embodiments.

[0611] As shown in Figure 7A, the communication device 7100 includes one or more processors 7101. The processor 7101 can be a general-purpose processor or a dedicated processor, for example, a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor can be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processing unit can be used to control the communication device (such as a base station, a baseband chip, a terminal device, a terminal device chip, a DU or a CU, etc.), execute programs, and process program data. The processor 7101 is used to call instructions to enable the communication device 7100 to perform any of the above methods.

[0612] In some embodiments, the communication device 7100 further includes one or more memories 7102 for storing instructions. Optionally, all or part of the memories 7102 may be located outside the communication device 7100.

[0613] In some embodiments, the communication device 7100 further includes one or more transceivers 7103. When the communication device 7100 includes one or more transceivers 7103, the communication steps such as sending and receiving in the above method are performed by the transceiver 7103, and the other steps are performed by the processor 7101.

[0614] In some embodiments, a transceiver may include a receiver and a transmitter, which may be separate or integrated. Optionally, the terms transceiver, transceiver unit, transceiver, and transceiver circuit may be used interchangeably; the terms transmitter, transmitting unit, transmitter, and transmitting circuit may be used interchangeably; and the terms receiver, receiving unit, receiver, and receiving circuit may be used interchangeably.

[0615] Optionally, the communication device 7100 further includes one or more interface circuits 7104, which are connected to the memory 7102. The interface circuits 7104 may be configured to receive signals from the memory 7102 or other devices, and may be configured to send signals to the memory 7102 or other devices. For example, the interface circuits 7104 may read instructions stored in the memory 7102 and send the instructions to the processor 7101.

[0616] The communication device 7100 described in the above embodiment may be a network device or a terminal, but the scope of the communication device 7100 described in the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device 7100 may not be limited by FIG. 7a. The communication device may be an independent device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be: 1) an independent integrated circuit IC, or a chip, or a chip system or subsystem; (2) a collection of one or more ICs, optionally, the above IC collection may also include a storage component for storing data or programs; (3) an ASIC, such as a modem; (4) a module that can be embedded in other devices; (5) a receiver, a terminal device, an intelligent terminal device, a cellular phone, a wireless device, a handheld device, a mobile unit, an in-vehicle device, a network device, a cloud device, an artificial intelligence device, etc.; (6) others, etc.

[0617] 7B is a schematic diagram of the structure of a chip 7200 proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure. If the communication device 7100 can be a chip or a chip system, please refer to the schematic diagram of the structure of the chip 7200 shown in FIG7B , but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0618] The chip 7200 includes one or more processors 7201 , and the processor 7201 is used to call instructions so that the chip 7200 executes any of the above methods.

[0619] In some embodiments, chip 7200 further includes one or more interface circuits 7202, which are connected to memory 7203. Interface circuit 7202 can be used to receive signals from memory 7203 or other devices, and can be used to send signals to memory 7203 or other devices. For example, interface circuit 7202 can read instructions stored in memory 7203 and send the instructions to processor 7201. Optionally, the terms interface circuit, interface, transceiver pin, and transceiver are interchangeable.

[0620] In some embodiments, the chip 7200 further includes one or more memories 7203 for storing instructions. Alternatively, all or part of the memories 7203 may be located outside the chip 7200.

[0621] The present disclosure also proposes a storage medium having instructions stored thereon. When the instructions are executed on the communication device 7100, the communication device 7100 executes any of the above methods. Optionally, the storage medium is an electronic storage medium. Optionally, the storage medium is a computer-readable storage medium, but is not limited thereto and may also be a storage medium readable by other devices. Optionally, the storage medium may be a non-transitory storage medium, but is not limited thereto and may also be a temporary storage medium.

[0622] The present disclosure also provides a program product, which, when executed by the communication device 7100, enables the communication device 7100 to perform any of the above methods. Optionally, the program product is a computer program product.

[0623] The present disclosure also proposes a computer program, which, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform any one of the above methods.

[0624] In the above embodiments, all or part of the embodiments can be implemented by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented using software, all or part of the embodiments can be implemented in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer programs. When the computer program is loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present disclosure are generated. The computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium. For example, the computer program can be transmitted from one website, computer, server or data center to another website, computer, server or data center via a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) method. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server or data center that includes one or more available media integrated therein. The available medium may be a magnetic medium (eg, a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (eg, a high-density digital video disc (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (eg, a solid state disk (SSD)).

[0625] Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the units and algorithm steps of each example described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Professionals and technicians can use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be considered beyond the scope of this disclosure.

[0626] Those skilled in the art will clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the systems, devices and units described above can refer to the corresponding processes in the aforementioned method embodiments and will not be repeated here.

[0627] The above description is merely a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, but the scope of protection of the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by a person skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in this disclosure should be included in the scope of protection of the present disclosure. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present disclosure should be based on the scope of protection of the claims.

Claims

1. A determination method, characterized in that, executed by a terminal, the method comprising: determining a trigger event for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any plurality of the at least one reference signal resource set.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indices (CORESET Pool Index), or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission and reception points (TRP).

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that, the determining the trigger event includes: receiving first information for indicating the trigger event.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 - 4, characterized in that, the trigger event includes at least one of the following: the beam quality of a first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than a first threshold; the beam quality of a second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than a second threshold; the difference between the beam quality of the second beam and the beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to a third threshold; at least one of the current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set is different from the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal last time, where K is a positive integer; the current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the best K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported last time; the current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beams recently indicated by the network device; the current best K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beams recently activated by the network device; the difference between the beam quality of the currently ranked best i-th beam and the beam quality of the ranked best j-th beam of the first reference signal resource set reported last time is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K; the difference between the beam quality of the current worst beam and the beam quality of the worst beam of the first reference signal resource set reported last time is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold.

6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that, the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal last time and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that, the first beam includes at least one of the following: the best beam in the last beam report; the beam recently indicated by the network device; The most recently activated beam of the network device; All beams in the last beam report; The worst beam in the last beam report; The second beam includes at least one of the following: The non-optimal beam in the last beam report; Beams other than the beams in the last beam report; Beams other than the beams recently indicated by the network device; Beams other than at least one beam recently activated by the network device.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1-7, characterized in that the determining the trigger event includes any one of the following: Receiving a first signaling for configuring the trigger event; Receiving a first signaling and a second signaling, the first signaling being used to configure at least one trigger event, and the second signaling being used to activate or trigger the trigger event among the at least one trigger event configured by the first signaling.

9. The method according to claim 8, characterized in that the receiving the first signaling and the second signaling includes: Receiving a first signaling and a second signaling; wherein the first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, the association serial number ID corresponding to the association relationship, the beam reporting type, the beam reporting method, the beam group related information; wherein the association relationship includes: the association relationship between the first reference signal resource set, the trigger event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and the beam measurement quantity corresponding to the first reference signal resource set; the second signaling is used to indicate the association ID to activate or trigger the trigger event configured by the first signaling.

10. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

11. The method according to any one of claims 8-10, characterized in that the method further includes: the terminal determines the beam reporting method and / or the beam group related information, and reports the beam reporting method and / or the beam group related information to the network device.

12. The method according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that the beam reporting type includes: Semi-persistent reporting; Aperiodic reporting.

13. The method according to any one of claims 9-11, characterized in that the beam reporting method includes: Beam reporting based on a beam group; Beam reporting not based on a beam group.

14. The method according to any one of claims 9-11, characterized in that the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group related information is used to indicate the uses of at least two beams in the beam group, and the uses include at least one of the following: For the terminal to perform uplink transmission simultaneously; For the terminal to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

15. The method according to any one of claims 1-14, characterized in that the method further includes: When the trigger event is satisfied, at least one beam report is reported.

16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that the method further includes: When reporting multiple beam reports, determining the time interval between two adjacent beam reports; Reporting multiple beam reports based on the time interval.

17. The method according to claim 15 or 16, characterized in that, the beam report includes at least one of the following: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal; the beam quality of the beam corresponding to a cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

18. The method according to any one of claims 15-17, characterized in that, the beam reporting method is beam reporting based on beam groups, and the beam report includes at least one of the following: second information, which is used to indicate the number of beam groups to be reported; the resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group; the beam quality of the beam in each beam group.

19. The method according to any one of claims 15-17, characterized in that, the beam reporting method is beam reporting not based on beam groups, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

20. The method according to any one of claims 14-19, characterized in that, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

21. The method according to any one of claims 1-20, characterized in that, the method further includes: receiving third information, which is used to configure a first request for requesting a first resource for carrying a beam report; sending the first request.

22. The method according to claim 21, characterized in that, the third information is further used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, wherein the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

23. A determination method, characterized in that, executed by a network device, and the method includes: configuring a trigger event for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the network device configures at least one reference signal resource set for the terminal, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any plurality of the at least one reference signal resource set.

24. The method according to claim 23, characterized in that, different reference signal resource sets correspond to different control resource set pool indexes (CORESET Pool Index), or different reference signal resource sets correspond to different transmission and reception points (TRP).

25. The method according to claim 23 or 24, characterized in that, the reference signal resource set includes at least one reference signal resource, and different reference signal resources correspond to different beams.

26. The method according to any one of claims 23-25, characterized in that, configuring the trigger event includes: sending first information for indicating the trigger event.

27. The method according to any one of claims 23-26, It is characterized in that the triggering event includes at least one of the following: the beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is lower than the first threshold; the beam quality of the second beam in the first reference signal resource set is higher than the second threshold; the difference between the beam quality of the second beam and the beam quality of the first beam in the first reference signal resource set is greater than or equal to the third threshold; at least one of the current top K beams of the first reference signal resource set is different from the top K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported by the terminal in the previous beam report, where K is a positive integer; the current top K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the top K beams of the first reference signal resource set reported in the previous beam report; the current top K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam recently indicated by the network device; the current top K beams of the first reference signal resource set do not include the beam recently activated by the network device; the difference between the beam quality of the currently ranked i-th best beam in the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the ranked j-th best beam in the first reference signal resource set reported in the previous beam report is greater than or equal to the fourth threshold, where i and j are positive integers, i is less than or equal to K, and j is less than or equal to K; the difference between the beam quality of the currently worst beam in the first reference signal resource set and the beam quality of the worst beam in the first reference signal resource set reported in the previous beam report is greater than or equal to the fifth threshold.

28. The method according to claim 27, it is characterized in that the first beam is the beam reported by the terminal in the previous beam report and / or the beam used by the terminal; the second beam is a candidate beam.

29. The method according to claim 28, it is characterized in that the first beam includes at least one of the following: the best beam in the previous beam report; the beam recently indicated by the network device; the beam recently activated by the network device; all beams in the previous beam report; the worst beam in the previous beam report; the second beam includes at least one of the following: the non-best beam in the previous beam report; beams other than the beams in the previous beam report; beams other than the beam recently indicated by the network device; beams other than at least one beam recently activated by the network device.

30. The method according to any one of claims 23-29, it is characterized in that configuring the triggering event includes any one of the following: sending a first signaling for configuring the triggering event; sending a first signaling and a second signaling, the first signaling is used to configure at least one triggering event, and the second signaling is used to activate or trigger the triggering event in at least one triggering event configured by the first signaling.

31. The method according to claim 30, it is characterized in that the sending of the first signaling and the second signaling includes: sending a first signaling and a second signaling; Wherein, the first signaling is used to configure at least one of the following: at least one association relationship, the association sequence number ID corresponding to the association relationship, the beam reporting type, the beam reporting mode, and beam group related information; wherein, the association relationship includes: the association relationship between the first reference signal resource set, the triggering event corresponding to the first reference signal resource set, and the beam measurement quantity corresponding to the first reference signal resource set. The second signaling is used to indicate the association ID to activate or trigger the triggering event configured by the first signaling.

32. The method according to claim 31, wherein, the association relationships corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets can be configured independently.

33. The method according to any one of claims 30-32, wherein, the method further includes: receiving the beam reporting mode and / or the beam group related information reported by the terminal.

34. The method according to claim 31 or 32, wherein, the beam reporting type includes: semi-persistent reporting; aperiodic reporting.

35. The method according to any one of claims 31-33, wherein, the beam reporting mode includes: beam reporting based on a beam group; beam reporting not based on a beam group.

36. The method according to any one of claims 31-33, wherein, the beam group includes at least two beams, and the beam group related information is used to indicate the uses of at least two beams in the beam group, and the uses include at least one of the following: for the terminal to perform uplink transmission simultaneously; for the terminal to perform downlink reception simultaneously.

37. The method according to any one of claims 23-36, wherein, the method further includes: receiving at least one beam report reported by the terminal.

38. The method according to claim 37, wherein, the method further includes: configuring the time interval between two adjacent beam reports for the terminal.

39. The method according to claim 37 or 38, wherein, the beam report includes at least one of the following: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the serving cell of the terminal; the beam quality of the beam corresponding to a cell other than the serving cell of the terminal.

40. The method according to any one of claims 37-39, wherein, the beam reporting mode is beam reporting based on a beam group, and the beam report includes at least one of the following: second information, which is used to indicate the number of beam groups reported; the resource identifier of the reference signal resource corresponding to the beam in each reported beam group; the beam quality of the beam in each beam group.

41. The method according to any one of claims 37-39, wherein, the beam reporting mode is beam reporting not based on a beam group, and the beam report includes: the beam quality of the beam corresponding to the reference signal resource in the first reference signal resource set.

42. The method according to any one of claims 36-41, wherein, the reference signal resources corresponding to different beams in the beam group belong to different first reference signal resource sets.

43. The method according to any one of claims 23-42, characterized in that, the method further comprises: sending third information for configuring a first request for requesting a first resource for carrying beam reports; receiving the first request.

44. The method according to claim 43, characterized in that, the third information is further used to configure first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, where the first requests corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to request first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are used to carry beam reports of different first reference signal resource sets, and the first resources corresponding to different first reference signal resource sets are different or the same.

45. A determination method for a communication system, the communication system comprising a terminal and a network device, the method comprising at least one of the following: The network device configures a trigger event for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein, the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any combination of the at least one reference signal resource set; the terminal determines the trigger event; when the trigger event is satisfied, the terminal reports at least one beam report.

46. A terminal, characterized in that, comprising: a processing module for determining a trigger event for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any combination of the at least one reference signal resource set.

47. A network device, characterized in that, comprising: a sending module for configuring a trigger event for triggering a beam report corresponding to a first reference signal resource set, wherein the terminal is configured with at least one reference signal resource set, and the first reference signal resource set is any one or any combination of the at least one reference signal resource set.

48. A communication device, characterized in that, comprising: one or more processors; a memory coupled to the processor, where instructions are stored on the memory, and when the instructions are executed by the processor, the communication device is caused to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 22.

49. A communication device, characterized in that, comprising: one or more processors; a memory coupled to the processor, where instructions are stored on the memory, and when the instructions are executed by the processor, the communication device is caused to execute the method according to any one of claims 23 to 44.

50. A communication system, characterized in that, comprising a terminal and a network device, wherein the terminal is configured to implement the method according to any one of claims 1 to 22, and the network device is configured to implement the method according to any one of claims 23 to 44.

51. A storage medium storing instructions, characterized in that, When the instruction runs on a communication device, the communication device is caused to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 22.

52. A storage medium storing an instruction, wherein when the instruction runs on a communication device, the communication device is caused to execute the method according to any one of claims 23 to 44.

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