Method and apparatus for determining RRM measurement settings, communication device, and storage medium

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an RRM measurement configuration determination method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. The RRM measurement configuration determination method performed by a user equipment (UE) may include determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by a PTW in response to an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period of the UE having a PTW.

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology, but not limited to the field of wireless communication technology, and in particular to a method and apparatus for determining Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement settings, a communication device, and a storage medium. [Background technology]

[0002] Due to the mobility of a User Equipment (UE), the UE needs to perform RRM measurements so as to select an appropriate cell to camp on based on the measurement results, thereby obtaining wireless communication services.

[0003] When making RRM measurements, decisions are made based on the RRM measurement settings.

[0004] In some cases, the RRM measurement may be relaxed in consideration of the slower movement speed of the UE or the longer sleep time of the UE. When relaxing the RRM measurement, it is usually considered to lengthen the measurement period or reduce the number of sampling points for one measurement. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a terminal control method and apparatus, an information processing method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] A first aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: The method includes determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by a paging time window (PTW) in response to the UE's extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period having a paging time window (PTW).

[0007] A second aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for determining a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration, the apparatus comprising: The device further includes a first determination module configured to, in response to the UE's eDRX period having a paging time window (PTW), determine a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW.

[0008] A third aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communications device, the communications device including a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the processor, when executing the executable program, performs the RRM measurement configuration determination method provided by the first aspect described above.

[0009] A fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer storage medium having an executable program stored therein, the executable program, when executed by a processor, realizing the method for determining an RRM measurement configuration provided by the first aspect described above. Effect of the Invention

[0010] In the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the UE is configured with an eDRX cycle, if the UE needs to perform relaxation of RRM measurements after the eDRX cycle, the measurement configuration of the relaxed RRM measurements can be determined based on whether the eDRX cycle and the cycles associated with the various RRM measurements after relaxation are restricted by the Paging Time Window (PTW) of the eDRX cycle. The relaxed RRM measurement configuration determined based on the UE's eDRX cycle and the PTW of the eDRX cycle is adapted to the UE's current eDRX cycle, thereby realizing relaxation of RRM measurements on the one hand, reducing the power consumption of RRM measurements, and on the other hand, since the measurement configuration of the relaxed RRM measurements is adapted to the UE's eDRX cycle and PTW, unnecessary wake-ups due to RRM measurements, etc. are avoided, thereby further reducing the power consumption due to unnecessary wake-ups and extending the standby time of the UE.

[0011] It should be understood that the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0012] The drawings herein, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present invention and, together with the specification, serve to explain the principles of embodiments of the invention. [Figure 1] 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wireless communication system according to an exemplary embodiment; [Diagram 2] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the timing of e-DRX function execution according to an exemplary embodiment. [Diagram 3] FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of the interaction of e-DRX functions in a core network configured idle state as illustrated by an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 4] 1 is a schematic flowchart of an information processing method according to an exemplary embodiment. [Diagram 5] 4 is a schematic flowchart of a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 6]4 is a schematic flowchart of a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 7] 4 is a schematic flowchart of a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 8] FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 9] FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a UE according to an exemplary embodiment; [Figure 10] FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an exemplary embodiment; DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0013] DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Now, exemplary embodiments will be described in detail, examples of which are illustrated in the drawings. When the following description refers to the drawings, the same numerals in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with embodiments of the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with some aspects of embodiments of the present invention, as detailed in the appended claims.

[0014] The terms used in the embodiments of the present disclosure are for the purpose of describing particular embodiments, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present disclosure. Unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context, the singular forms "a" and "the" used in the embodiments of the present disclosure and the appended claims also include the plural forms. In addition, the term "and / or" as used herein refers to and includes any and all possible combinations of one or more associated and listed items.

[0015] It should be understood that, although various information may be described with terms such as first, second, and third in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish between the same types of information. For example, the first information may be referred to as the second information, and similarly, the second information may be referred to as the first information, without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Depending on the context, the term "when" as used herein may be interpreted as "when" or "when" or "in response to determining."

[0016] 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wireless communication system provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1, the wireless communication system is a communication system based on cellular mobile communication technology, and may include a plurality of UEs 11 and a plurality of access devices 12.

[0017] Here, UE 11 may refer to a device that provides voice and / or data connectivity to a user. UE 11 can communicate with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN), and UE 11 may be a UE such as a sensor device, a mobile phone (also called a "cellular" phone) and a computer Internet of Things with UE of Internet of Things, for example, a fixed, portable, pocket, handheld, computer-embedded or vehicle-mounted device. For example, a station (STA), subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, mobile, remote station, access point, remote UE (remote terminal), access terminal, user terminal, user agent, user device, or user equipment. Alternatively, UE 11 may be a vehicle-mounted device, for example, a mobile computer with wireless communication capability, or a wireless communication device with an external mobile computer. Or, the UE 11 may be a roadside device, such as a street lamp, a traffic light or other roadside device equipped with wireless communication capability.

[0018] The access device 12 may be a network side device in a wireless communication system. Here, the wireless communication system may be the 4th generation mobile communication (4G) system, also called Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, or the wireless communication system may be a 5G system, also called New Radio system or 5G NR system. Or the wireless communication system may be a next generation system of the 5G system. Here, the access network in the 5G system may be called New Generation-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN).

[0019] Here, the access device 12 may be an evolved base station (eNB) used in a 4G system. Or, the access device 12 may be a base station (gNB) using a centralized distributed architecture in a 5G system. When the access device 12 uses a centralized distributed architecture, it usually includes a central unit (CU) and at least two distributed units (DU). The centralized unit is configured with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and a media access control (MAC) layer protocol stack, and the distributed unit is configured with a physical (PHY) layer protocol stack, and the embodiment of the present disclosure does not limit the specific implementation form of the access device 12.

[0020] A wireless connection can be established between the access device 12 and the UE 11 through a wireless interface. In different embodiments, the wireless interface is a wireless interface based on a fourth generation mobile communication network technology (4G) standard, or the wireless interface is a wireless interface based on a fifth generation mobile communication network technology (5G) standard, for example, the wireless interface is a new wireless, or the wireless interface may be a wireless interface based on a next generation mobile communication network technology standard of 5G.

[0021] In some embodiments, an end-to-end (E2E) connection may be established between the UEs 11. For example, in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication, the like may be used in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication.

[0022] In some embodiments, the wireless communication system may further include a network management device 13 .

[0023] The multiple access devices 12 are respectively connected to a network management device 13. Here, the network management device 13 may be a core network device in a wireless communication system, for example, the network management device 13 may be a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network. Or, the network management device may be another core network device, for example, a Serving GateWay (SGW), a Public Data Network GateWay (PGW), a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), or a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), etc. The implementation form of the network management device 13 is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0024] When the UE enables the eDRX function, it is in eDRX mode. A UE in eDRX mode: Although the UE can be reached at any time, the arrival delay is large and the delay depends on the eDRX cycle setting.

[0025] In this way, a UE with the eDRX function enabled achieves the best balance between UE power consumption and data transmission immediacy.

[0026] The eDRX feature is the start time domain position of the PTW; The length of the PTW, T eDRX、H and one or more of the eDRX period that can be displayed in

[0027] Figure 2 shows a timing diagram after the UE enables the eDRX function.

[0028] As can be seen with reference to FIG. 2, within one eDRX cycle there is a PTW, and within the PTW there are one or more DRX cycles.

[0029] The duration of the DRX cycle may be much shorter than the duration of the eDRX cycle. Exemplarily, when the eDRX cycle is greater than 10.24 s, the eDRX cycle may include a PTW consisting of one or more DRX cycles, as shown in FIG. 2.

[0030] FIG. 3 shows one of the eDRX parameters of the eDRX function interacted between the UE (i.e., the UE) and the core network.

[0031] The method of interacting eDRX parameters between the UE and the core network shown in Figure 3 includes: the eNB sending an indication of the allowed eDRX capability, a cell-specific DRX indication and a Hyper system Frame Number (SFN) to the UE via a System Information Block (SIB); The UE sends UE-specific DRX parameters and / or preferred eDRX parameters in an attach request or a Tracking Area Update (TAU) request; After receiving the Attach request or the TAU request, the MME sends an eDRX configuration to the UE, where the eDRX configuration includes one or more eDRX parameters as described above; The MME performs paging based on the eDRX configuration; The method may include the eNB forwarding the CN paging message to the UE after receiving the CN paging message sent by the MME.

[0032] The eDRX parameters transmitted by the core network are transparently transmitted to the UE via a base station (e.g., an evolved base station (eNB) or a next-generation base station (gNB)). For example, a mobile management entity (MME) of the core network transmits the eDRX parameters of the eDRX function to the UE via the eNB.

[0033] The RRC idle state, or idle state for short, is a low power consumption state of the UE known to the core network.

[0034] The RRC inactive state is called the inactive state for short. The inactive state is a low power consumption state of the UE that is transparent to the core network. However, the inactive state is visible to the access network.

[0035] When the UE goes into an inactive state, the UE not only needs to receive paging messages sent by the CN (i.e., CN paging messages), but also needs to receive paging messages sent by the access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), i.e., RAN paging messages.

[0036] As shown in FIG. 4, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration performed by a UE, and the method includes the following step S110.

[0037] At S110, in response to the UE's eDRX cycle having a paging time window (PTW), a relaxed RRM measurement configuration is determined based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW.

[0038] The UE has different states, for example, the UE has a connected state (also referred to as an RRC connected state) or a non-connected state, including but not limited to an idle state (also referred to as an RRC idle state) and / or an inactive state (also referred to as an RRC inactive state).

[0039] In some cases, the UE has an idle state eDRX cycle, and in some other cases, the UE has an inactive state eDRX cycle, and in some cases, the UE has an idle state eDRX cycle and an inactive state eDRX cycle simultaneously.

[0040] The idle state eDRX cycle may be an eDRX cycle applied when the UE monitors a core network paging message, and the inactive state eDRX cycle may be an eDRX cycle for monitoring RAN paging applied when the UE is in an inactive state.

[0041] In some embodiments, the eDRX period of the UE according to S110 is a period for determining an RRM measurement configuration, and can be determined based on a current state and an eDRX period setting of the UE. Exemplarily, the eDRX period for determining an RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be as follows: When the UE is in an idle state and an idle state eDRX cycle is not configured for the UE, determine that the UE does not have an eDRX cycle for determining an RRM measurement, and determine an RRM measurement configuration based on the UE's DRX cycle, where the RRM measurement configuration includes a pre-relaxed RRM measurement configuration and / or a relaxed RRM measurement configuration; When the UE is in an idle state and an idle state eDRX cycle is configured on the UE, determine that the UE has an eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements, and the eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements of the UE may be equal to the idle state eDRX cycle; When the UE is in an inactive state and an idle state eDRX cycle and an inactive state eDRX cycle are not configured for the UE, determine that the UE does not have an eDRX cycle for determining an RRM measurement, and determine an RRM measurement configuration based on the DRX cycle of the UE, where the RRM measurement configuration includes a pre-relaxed RRM measurement configuration and / or a relaxed RRM measurement configuration; When the UE is in an inactive state, and an idle state eDRX cycle is configured for the UE but an inactive state eDRX cycle is not configured for the UE, determine that the UE does not have an eDRX cycle for determining an RRM measurement, and determine an RRM measurement configuration based on the UE's DRX cycle, where the RRM measurement configuration includes a pre-relaxed RRM measurement configuration and / or a relaxed RRM measurement configuration; When the UE is in an inactive state and an idle state eDRX cycle is configured for the UE and an inactive state eDRX cycle is not configured, determine that the UE has an eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements, and the eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements of the UE is equal to the idle state eDRX cycle; When the UE is in an inactive state and an idle state eDRX cycle and an inactive state eDRX cycle are configured for the UE, determine that the UE has an eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements, and the eDRX cycle for determining RRM measurements of the UE is equal to the inactive state eDRX cycle; When the UE is in an inactive state and an idle state eDRX period and an inactive state eDRX period are configured for the UE, determine that the UE has an eDRX period for determining RRM measurements, and the eDRX period for determining RRM measurements of the UE is equal to the smaller of the idle state eDRX period and the inactive state eDRX period.

[0042] If the eDRX period is greater than a predetermined period, then this eDRX period has a PTW, and if the eDRX period is less than or equal to the predetermined period, then such eDRX period may not have a PTW.

[0043] Exemplarily, an eDRX cycle greater than 10.24 s may have a PTW, and an eDRX cycle equal to or less than 10.24 s may not have a PTW. One or more DRX cycles are set to a PTW.

[0044] In one embodiment, the eDRX period of a UE having a PTW refers to the eDRX period of the UE for determining RRM measurements having a PTW, i.e., if the eDRX period of the UE for determining RRM measurements is greater than a predetermined period, it is determined that the eDRX period of the UE for determining RRM measurements has a PTW.

[0045] If the UE's eDRX period for determining RRM measurements is greater than a predetermined period, it is determined that the eDRX period has a PTW, and the time length of the PTW can be determined using at least one of the following manners. If the UE is in an idle state, and the eDRX period of the UE for determining an RRM measurement is an idle state eDRX period, and the idle state eDRX period has a PTW, the PTW of the eDRX period of the UE for determining an RRM measurement configuration is equal to the PTW of the idle state eDRX period; If the UE is in an inactive state, and the eDRX period for determining RRM measurements is an inactive state eDRX period, and the inactive state eDRX period has a PTW, the PTW of the eDRX period for determining RRM measurement configuration of the UE is equal to the PTW of the inactive state eDRX period; If the UE is in an inactive state, and the UE's eDRX period for determining RRM measurements is an idle state eDRX period, and the UE's idle state eDRX period has a PTW, the UE's eDRX period for determining RRM measurement configuration has a PTW, and the PTW of the UE's eDRX period for determining RRM measurement configuration is equal to the PTW of the idle state eDRX period, where the UE has an inactive state eDRX period or does not have an inactive state eDRX period; If the UE is in an inactive state, and the eDRX period of the UE for determining RRM measurement is an inactive state eDRX period, and the idle state eDRX period of the UE has a PTW and the inactive state eDRX period does not have a PTW, the eDRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE does not have a PTW; When a UE is in an inactive state, the UE has an idle state eDRX period and a non-idle state eDRX period, and the eDRX period of the UE for determining RRM measurements may be the larger or smaller of the idle state eDRX period and the non-idle state eDRX period, and further determine whether the eDRX period for the RRM policy has a PTW, and if the eDRX period for the RRM policy has a PTW, the PTW may be one of the PTW of the idle state eDRX period and the PTW of the non-idle state eDRX.

[0046] Exemplarily, when both the idle state eDRX cycle and the non-idle state eDRX cycle of the UE have a PTW, the PTW for determining the RRM measurement at this time may be the larger or smaller of the PTW of the idle state eDRX cycle and the PTW of the non-idle state eDRX cycle. Also, exemplarily, the eDRX cycle for determining the RRM measurement of the UE may be the smaller of the idle state eDRX cycle and the non-idle state eDRX cycle, and the PTW for determining the RRM measurement may be the larger PTW of the idle state eDRX cycle and the non-idle state eDRX cycle. When only one of the idle state eDRX cycle and the inactive state eDRX cycle has a PTW, the PTW may be the PTW for determining the RRM measurement.

[0047] When the pre-relaxation RRM measurement and / or the post-relaxation RRM measurement are specifically determined, they need to be determined based on the DRX cycle. The determination of the DRX cycle for determining the RRM measurement may adopt one of the following methods: When the eDRX period for determining the RRM measurement is an idle state eDRX period, and the idle state eDRX period has a PTW, the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be an idle state DRX period within the PTW of the idle state eDRX period; If the eDRX period for determining the RRM measurement is an inactive state eDRX period, and the inactive state eDRX period has a PTW, the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be a Radio Access Network (RAN) paging period within the PTW of the inactive state eDRX period; When the eDRX period for determining the RRM measurement is an inactive state eDRX period, and the inactive state eDRX period has a PTW, the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be a smaller one of a Radio Access Network (RAN) paging period and an idle state DRX period within the PTW of the inactive state eDRX period; If the eDRX period for determining the RRM measurement is an inactive state eDRX period, and the inactive state eDRX period has a PTW, the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be a smallest one of a Radio Access Network (RAN) paging period, an idle state DRX period, and a default paging period within the PTW of the inactive state eDRX period; If the eDRX period for determining RRM measurements is an inactive state eDRX period, and the inactive state eDRX period has a PTW, the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration of the UE may be the smaller of a radio access network (RAN) paging period and a default paging period within the PTW of the inactive state eDRX period.

[0048] If the UE is currently in an idle state and performs periodic sleep and wake-up according to an idle state eDRX period, then the RRM measurement configuration after RRM measurement relaxation can be determined according to the idle state eDRX period of the UE and the PTW within the idle state eDRX period.

[0049] Based on the state of the UE and different eDRX settings, the eDRX period, paging time window (PTW) and DRX period can be obtained in the following manner:

[0050] In one embodiment, the time length of the DRX cycle for determining the pre- and post-mitigation RRM measurement configuration is equal to min {idle state DRX cycle, default paging cycle}; If the UE is currently in an inactive state and only an idle state eDRX cycle is configured, in one embodiment, the RRM measurement configuration before and after mitigation is determined based on the UE's idle state eDRX cycle and the PTW within the idle state eDRX cycle (i.e., the idle state PTW).

[0051] In one embodiment, the time length of the DRX cycle for determining the RRM measurement configuration before and after relaxation is equal to min{idle state DRX cycle, default paging cycle} or min{idle state DRX cycle, default paging cycle, access network paging cycle (RAN paging cycle)}.

[0052] If the UE is currently in an inactive state and the idle state eDRX cycle and the inactive state eDRX cycle are configured simultaneously, then:

[0053] As one embodiment, when periodic sleep and wake-up are performed according to inactive state eDRX, the RRM measurement configuration after RRM measurement relaxation can be determined based on the UE's inactive state eDRX period and the PTW within the inactive state eDRX period (i.e., the inactive state PTW window length).

[0054] As an example, the time length of the DRX cycle for determining the RRM measurement configuration before and after relaxation is: min{idle state DRX cycle, default paging cycle, RAN paging cycle}, or min{default paging period, RAN paging period}, or equal to the RAN paging period.

[0055] As an example, when periodic sleep and wake-up are performed according to an idle state eDRX cycle, the RRM measurement settings before and after relaxation can be determined based on the UE's idle state eDRX cycle and the PTW within the idle state eDRX cycle (i.e., the idle state PTW window length).

[0056] In one embodiment, the time length of the DRX cycle for determining the RRM measurement configuration is equal to min{idle state DRX cycle, default paging time length} or min{idle state DRX cycle, default paging time length, RAN paging cycle}.

[0057] As one embodiment, when periodic sleep and wake-up are performed based on min{idle state eDRX period, inactive state eDRX period}, the RRM measurement settings before and after measurement relaxation can be determined based on the UE's min{idle state eDRX period, inactive state eDRX period} and max{idle state PTW window length, inactive state PTW window length} or min{idle state PTW window length, inactive state PTW window length}.

[0058] In one embodiment, the time length of the DRX period for determining the RRM measurement configuration is equal to min{idle state DRX period, default paging time length, RAN paging period}.

[0059] In one embodiment, the RRM measurement configuration includes an RRM measurement configuration for a serving cell and / or an RRM measurement configuration for a neighboring cell. Thus, the relaxed RRM measurement configuration may also include a relaxed RRM measurement configuration for a serving cell and / or a relaxed RRM measurement configuration for a neighboring cell.

[0060] When the UE state satisfies the measurement relaxation condition, the RRM measurement is relaxed. If it is decided to perform RRM measurement relaxation, the RRM measurement is performed based on the relaxed RRM measurement configuration.

[0061] In one embodiment, the UE's state satisfies a measurement relaxation condition, The UE is currently located in a central area of ​​the serving cell; and The variation of the reference signal value of the serving cell currently measured by the UE is less than a variation threshold; The current moving speed of the UE is less than a speed threshold, but is not limited to this.

[0062] Exemplarily, the state of the UE satisfies the measurement relaxation condition: The UE is in an unconnected state and is currently located in a central area of ​​a serving cell; The UE is in an unconnected state and the current moving speed of the UE is less than a speed threshold, but is not limited to this.

[0063] The geographical area corresponding to the cell may include a central area and an edge area, and the distance between the central area and the base station is smaller than the distance between the edge area and the base station. The edge area may be called a cell edge. Usually, the edge area of ​​a cell is an area adjacent to other cells, and the central area of ​​a cell is an area away from the cell edge and far from the adjacent cells.

[0064] Because the UE is located in the central area of ​​the serving cell, the probability that the UE will perform cell reselection based on the RRM measurements is low, and therefore the RRM measurements may be appropriately relaxed.

[0065] A UE's moving speed less than the speed threshold indicates that the UE is in a stationary or slow moving state, so the probability that the UE will move out of the current cell is low, and similarly, the RRM measurements may be appropriately relaxed.

[0066] The moving speed of the UE may be determined based on the speed detected by a speed sensor of the UE itself, or may be determined based on the amount of change in the reference signal value of the serving cell currently detected by the UE.

[0067] A small change in the signal measurement of the serving cell currently detected by the UE indicates that the UE may currently be stationary or in a slow moving state, so the probability of the UE moving out of the current cell is low, and similarly, the RRM measurements may be appropriately relaxed.

[0068] Exemplarily, the RRM measurement configuration includes: an RRM measurement configuration for a serving cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least a measurement period for measuring the serving cell; an RRM measurement configuration for the neighboring cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period; The detection period is used to recognize and evaluate neighboring cells. The measurement period is used to measure adjacent cells, The evaluation period is used to evaluate neighboring cells based on the measurement results obtained during the measurement period.

[0069] The serving cell may be the cell in which the UE is currently camped, or the UE may perform measurements directly on the serving cell.

[0070] For neighboring cells, the UE needs to detect the neighboring cells so as to realize the recognition of the neighboring cells, and then measure the recognized neighboring cells based on the measurement period, and evaluate the neighboring cells after completing the measurement of the neighboring cells.

[0071] Therefore, the measurement configuration for performing RRM measurements on neighboring cells includes at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period.

[0072] The neighboring cells include, but are not limited to, same-frequency neighboring cells, different-frequency neighboring cells, and / or different-system neighboring cells.

[0073] During the measurement period, the UE obtains a measurement result by measuring a reference signal (Synchronization Signal and PBCH block, SSB) for the serving cell and / or a reference signal of a neighboring cell. The reference signal includes: Synchronization Signal and PBCH block (SSB) (PBCH is an abbreviation for Physical Broadcast Channel), and a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS), but is not limited to these.

[0074] The measurement results are as follows: The measured signal value, and These include, but are not limited to, a comparison of the measured signal value with a corresponding threshold value.

[0075] The measurement signal value includes, but is not limited to, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) or Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ). When performing RRM measurement relaxation, measurements may be relaxed for the serving cell and / or at least one of detection, measurement and evaluation may be relaxed for neighboring cells.

[0076] The relaxation of the RRM measurement can extend the various periods of the RRM measurement and / or reduce the number of measurement points in one measurement, etc. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, in order to simplify processing, the measurement relaxation can be realized by one of the methods of extending the various periods of the RRM measurement.

[0077] Exemplarily, S110 may include at least one of the following: Based on the situation where the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, any period included in the RRM measurement setting before relaxation is expanded by a relaxation factor to obtain a relaxed period, where the relaxation factor is any positive integer greater than 1.

[0078] The situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW may include at least one of two situations: relaxation is limited by the PTW and / or RRM measurement relaxation is not limited by the PTW.

[0079] If the RRM measurement relaxation is not limited by a PTW, the periodicities included in the relaxed RRM measurement configuration may be arbitrarily extended based on the relaxation factor.

[0080] When the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, the relaxation factor must be adjusted so that the period included in the relaxed RRM measurement configuration does not exceed the time length of the PTW.

[0081] In embodiments of the present disclosure, the relaxation factor may be any positive integer greater than one.

[0082] In one embodiment, the post-relaxation period is: A measurement period after relaxation for a serving cell, the measurement period after relaxation is longer than the measurement period before relaxation, so that the measurement interval between two adjacent measurements for the serving cell is increased; A detection period after relaxation for adjacent cells is larger than the detection period before relaxation, so that the time interval between two adjacent detections increases, and thus the detection frequency decreases; A measurement period after relaxation for adjacent cells is larger than the measurement period before relaxation, so that the time interval between two adjacent measurements increases, and thus the measurement frequency decreases; a relaxed evaluation period for neighboring cells, where the relaxed evaluation period is greater than the pre-relaxed evaluation period, thereby increasing the time interval between two adjacent evaluations, and thus decreasing the evaluation frequency.

[0083] Exemplarily, the situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW includes that the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW and / or that the RRM measurement relaxation is not limited by the PTW, and the determination of various periodicities associated with the RRM measurement after relaxation in these two cases is In response to the RRM measurement relaxation not being limited by the PTW, an extended period associated with the RRM measurement may be greater than a PTW of the eDRX period, i.e. in response to the relaxation not being limited by the PTW, a time length corresponding to an extended period associated with the RRM measurement may be distributed within one or more PTWs; In response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW, the extended period associated with the RRM measurement may be less than or equal to the PTW of the eDRX period, i.e., in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW, the time length corresponding to the extended period associated with the RRM measurement is distributed only within one PTW.

[0084] In one embodiment, the step of determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a condition in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW comprises: In response to RRM measurement mitigation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement periodicity for the serving cell based on a relaxation factor; determining at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to an RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW; In response to relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW; In response to relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period and / or evaluation period for at least a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW; and determining a relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW.

[0085] In addition, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, regardless of whether the relaxation is limited by the PTW of the UE, the detection period for the neighboring cell can be determined based on the relaxation coefficient regardless of the PTW. In this way, regardless of whether the relaxation is limited by the PTW of the UE, the detection period for the neighboring cell is related to the relaxation coefficient and not related to the PTW, so that the detection periods for the neighboring cells at this time may be distributed within one PTW or multiple PTWs.

[0086] For the serving cell, if the relaxation is not limited by the PTW, the measurement period after relaxation can be determined based on the relaxation factor. If the relaxation is limited by the PTW, the measurement period of the serving cell needs to be determined in combination with the relaxation factor and the PTW.

[0087] For adjacent cells, if the relaxation is not limited by the PTW, the relaxed measurement period and / or evaluation period for the adjacent cell must be determined based on the relaxation coefficient, and if the relaxation is limited by the PTW, the measurement period and / or evaluation period for the adjacent cell must be determined in combination with the relaxation coefficient and the PTW.

[0088] Below, examples are given to explain each period before and after the RRM measurement setting relaxation for the cases where the RRM measurement relaxation is not limited by the PTW and where the relaxation is limited by the PTW, and when specifically implemented, it is not limited to the following examples.

[0089] For the detection period of the neighboring cell, regardless of whether the relaxation is limited by the PTW, the relaxed detection period can be determined directly based on the current relaxation factor. Thus, in response to determining the relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on the relaxation factor, the detection period before relaxation is

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[0090] Regardless of whether the relaxation is limited by the PTW or not, the detection period after relaxation is determined based on the relaxation coefficient. Therefore, the detection period before relaxation is

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[0091] In an embodiment of the present disclosure,

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[0092] In some embodiments, in response to determining a relaxed measurement period for the neighboring cell based on the relaxation factor, the pre-relaxation measurement period is determined to be:

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[0093] In some embodiments, in response to determining a relaxed evaluation period for the neighboring cell based on the relaxation factor, the pre-relaxed evaluation period is determined to be:

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[0094] In some embodiments, when relaxation is limited by a PTW, in response to determining a post-relaxation measurement period for a neighboring cell based on the relaxation factor and the length of time of the PTW, a pre-relaxation measurement period is:

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[0095] In some embodiments, when relaxation is limited by a PTW, in response to determining a post-relaxation evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on the relaxation factor and the length of time of the PTW, a pre-relaxation evaluation period is:

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[0096] In some embodiments, if the relaxation is not limited by a PTW, in response to determining a post-relaxation measurement period for the serving cell based on the relaxation factor, the pre-relaxation measurement period is:

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[0097] In some embodiments, if relaxation is limited by a PTW, in response to determining a post-relaxation measurement period for the serving cell based on a relaxation factor and a length of time of the PTW, the pre-relaxation measurement period is:

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[0098] In the above embodiment, when the relaxed detection period, evaluation period and / or measurement period are determined based on the relaxation coefficient and the PTW, if the period determined simply based on the relaxation coefficient exceeds the length of the PTW, the relaxation coefficient is reduced or reselected so that at least the time length of the relaxed detection period, evaluation period and / or measurement period determined based on the re-determined relaxation coefficient does not exceed the PTW.

[0099] Exemplarily, S110 includes: In response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in the relaxed detection period, measurement period, and evaluation period is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein the number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is equal to or less than the number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period and / or evaluation period for at least the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein the number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period and evaluation period is equal to or less than the number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in one of the PTWs; and determining a relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW.

[0100] In some embodiments, for RRM measurement relaxation for neighboring cells, when determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration, only one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period may be relaxed, and thus, in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a relaxed detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for neighboring cells based on a relaxation factor may include: determining a relaxed detection period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the detection period for the neighboring cell in response to RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW; determining a relaxed measurement period for a neighboring cell based on a factor of the measurement period for the neighboring cell in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW; in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed evaluation period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the evaluation period for the neighboring cell; Any two of the relaxation coefficient of the detection period for the neighboring cell, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period are independent of each other.

[0101] Here, being independent of each other means that the relaxation coefficient of the detection period, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period for adjacent cells can each be set independently, and therefore the relaxation coefficient of the detection period, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period for adjacent cells may be the same or different.

[0102] In some embodiments, a specific relaxation factor may be determined based on a corresponding eDRX cycle in a current state of the UE and a DRX cycle included in the PTW of the eDRX cycle.

[0103] Exemplarily, the relaxed RRM measurement configuration for the serving cell can be determined with reference to Table 1 or Table 2. [Table 1]

[0104] Any of the elements in Table 1 may be used alone or in combination with other elements.

[0105] where K4 is the relaxation factor for the serving cell. [Table 2]

[0106] Any of the elements in Table 2 may be used alone or in combination with other elements.

[0107] In Table 2, M9 to M12 are relaxation coefficients for the measurement period for the serving cell.

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[0108] As can be seen by comparing Table 1 and Table 2, a unified relaxation factor K4 may be used regardless of the time lengths of the eDRX cycle and the DRX cycle of the current UE in Table 1. Since the time lengths of the eDRX cycle and / or the DRX cycle of the UE in Table 1 are different, the relaxation factors used may be different.

[0109] Tables 1 and 2 are merely examples of relaxed RRM measurement configurations for serving cells, and specific implementations are not limited to these.

[0110] Or, for example, the relaxed RRC measurement configuration for the neighboring cell may be determined based on Table 3. [Table 3]

[0111] Any of the elements in Table 3 may be used alone or in combination with other elements.

[0112] T in Table 3 detect denotes the detection period for neighboring cells, and T measure refers to the measurement period for adjacent cells, and T evaluate refers to the evaluation period for the neighboring cells.

[0113] In the table, M1 to M9 are relaxation coefficients, and all of them

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[0114] In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the method further includes the following step S100.

[0115] In S100, it is determined whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has the eDRX cycle.

[0116] S110 may include S111, which may include a step of determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW in response to RRM measurement relaxation being permitted when having the eDRX cycle and the eDRX cycle of the UE having a PTW.

[0117] In some cases, when a UE is in a disconnected state and switches between a sleep state and a wake-up state according to an eDRX period, even if the relaxed conditions for RRM measurement are met, relaxation of RRM measurement is not allowed, so RRM measurement only needs to be performed based on the original measurement setting of the RRM measurement; if the relaxed conditions for RRM measurement are met and the setting allows the RRM measurement method, the measurement setting for the relaxed RRM measurement needs to be determined, and the RRM measurement setting needs to be performed based on the relaxed RRM measurement setting.

[0118] Whether or not the UE is allowed to use the RRM measurement method may be instructed by the network side, or may be determined by the UE itself.

[0119] For example, a network side device (e.g., a base station and / or a core network device) or the UE itself can determine whether to allow relaxation of RRM measurements of the UE according to circumstances such as the type of the UE, the service type of the UE, and / or the priority of the UE. If the service type of the UE is mostly a high-priority service type or the type of the UE indicates that the UE is a high-mobility UE, relaxing the RRM measurements may result in a large delay or low quality for the UE to camp on a cell and / or obtain a corresponding service, and this large delay or low quality may cause a poor user experience of the UE, which may result in the relaxation of the RRM measurements being prohibited; otherwise, the relaxation of the RRM measurements may be allowed.

[0120] In the embodiment of the present disclosure, only if it is determined that the UE allows the relaxed measurement, the UE executes S110 to obtain the relaxed RRM measurement configuration.

[0121] In some embodiments, the step S100 includes: determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on a protocol; and determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX period based on the received configuration signaling.

[0122] For example, the protocol specifies whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle, or the protocol specifies whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the corresponding UE has an eDRX cycle according to the type of UE or the type of service associated with the UE. If specified by the protocol, both the UE and the network device can know whether relaxation of the RRM measurements is currently allowed by a protocol query.

[0123] In some cases, a network device (eg, a base station and / or a core network device) may send configuration signaling to indicate whether the UE is permitted to send RRM measurements.

[0124] The configuration signaling may be RRC signaling, MAC layer signaling, or DCI.

[0125] For example, if the configuration signaling is RRC signaling, the configuration signaling may correspond to one or more bits transmitted along with measurement configuration signaling before relaxation of RRM measurements.

[0126] If the configuration signaling is a physical layer DCI, it has the characteristic of having strong dynamic characteristics, and the network side can dynamically instruct the UE with low latency whether to allow relaxation of RRM measurements based on the current network conditions and / or UE conditions.

[0127] Although an eDRX mechanism for an idle UE and an eDRX mechanism for an inactive user have been introduced, there are no relevant provisions for UE RRM measurement mitigation in the eDRX mechanism.

[0128] A new intra-frequency / inter-frequency / inter-system neighbor cell RRM measurement mitigation method is introduced for UEs with eDRX.

[0129] When the UE configures the eDRX period and the corresponding PTW, if the RRM measurement relaxation condition is met, the period may be relaxed in an extended manner for the following parameters: Tdetect: detection period, Tmeasure: measurement period, Tevaluate: Evaluation period.

[0130] At least one of Tdetect, Tmeasure, and Tevaluate is expanded, and the time lengths corresponding to the expanded Tdetect, Tmeasure, and Tevaluate can only be distributed within one PTW.

[0131] In one embodiment, at least one of Tdetect, Tmeasure, and Tevaluate is expanded, and the expanded Tdetect, Tmeasure, and Tevaluate may span a PTW, i.e., the time lengths corresponding to the expanded Tdetect, Tmeasure, and Tevaluate may be distributed within different PTWs.

[0132] As an example, Even if Tdetect is expanded, it still spans the PTW: When expanding Tdetect, we can multiply Tdetect before the expansion by K1,

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[0133] Tmeasure spans the PTW after expansion: When expanding Tmeasure, we can multiply Tmeasure before expansion by K2,

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[0134] Tevaluate spans the PTW after expansion: When expanding Tevaluate, we can multiply the Tevaluate before expansion by K3,

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[0135] The above-mentioned K1, K2 and K3 may be the same or different, but they are all relaxation coefficients.

[0136] At least one of Tmeasure and Tevaluate may be expanded by several times and not span the PTW. In other words, the possible values ​​of the expansion factor are limited so as not to exceed the number of DRXs within the set PTW, as shown in Table 3.

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[0137] As an example, Only Tmeasure is expanded, and Tmeasure does not straddle PTW after being expanded by a factor, and the relaxation factor (also called expansion factor) corresponding to the expansion factor may be specified by the protocol. That is, the possible values ​​of M5, M6, M7 and M8 in Table 3 above are 1 or more.

[0138] As an example, Only Tevaluate is scaled, and Tevaluate does not span a PTW after being scaled by a factor (the protocol specifies the scale factor, and the period after being scaled does not exceed a PTW), i.e., the possible values ​​of M1 / M2 / M3 / M4 in the above table are 1 or more.

[0139] As an example, Neither Tmeasure nor Tevaluate is scaled by a factor, and after scaling, it does not cross the PTW. The protocol specifies the scale factor, and after scaling, none of the periods exceeds the PTW. That is, the coefficients M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, and M8 in the above table can have values ​​greater than 1.

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[0140] Specifies whether measurement relaxation is possible in eDRX configuration when RRM measurements use PTW, either by network configuration or by a prior protocol.

[0141] As an example, the network is provided with one switch, which indicates whether or not relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when having an eDRX period.

[0142] A method for determining the serving cell measurement relaxation setting for a UE with an eDRX cycle is introduced. For example, Nserv may span the PTW after being multiplied by K4. At this time, the measurement cycle after relaxation for the serving cell is as shown in Table 1 above.

[0143] Nserv may not span the PTW after being expanded by several times, i.e., the possible values ​​of the expansion multiplier are limited so as not to exceed the number of DRXs within the set PTW. In this case, please refer to Table 2 for the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell.

[0144] Here, coefficients M9 to M12 are all

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[0145] As shown in FIG. 6, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method, which may include the following S210.

[0146] At S210, configuration signaling is received for the UE to determine whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when having an eDRX period.

[0147] Correspondingly, as shown in FIG. 7, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method, which may include the following S310.

[0148] At S310, configuration signaling is sent to allow the UE to determine whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when having an eDRX period.

[0149] The method is performed by a network device, which may be a base station or any other device located on the network side.

[0150] As shown in FIG. 8 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for determining an RRM measurement configuration, the apparatus comprising: The present invention includes a first determination module 110 configured to, in response to an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period of the UE having a paging time window (PTW), determine a relaxed RRM measurement setting based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW.

[0151] In one embodiment, the first determination module 110 may be a program module that, when executed by a processor, can determine a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW when the UE has an eDRX cycle and the PTW is within the eDRX cycle.

[0152] In another embodiment, the first determination module 110 may be a software-hardware combination module, which may include various programmable arrays, including but not limited to field programmable arrays and / or complex programmable arrays.

[0153] In some other embodiments, the first determination module 110 includes, but is not limited to, a pure hardware module, including, but not limited to, a dedicated integrated circuit.

[0154] In some embodiments, the RRM measurement configuration comprises: an RRM measurement configuration for a serving cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least a measurement period for measuring the serving cell; an RRM measurement configuration for the neighboring cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period; The detection period is used to recognize and evaluate neighboring cells. The measurement period is used to measure adjacent cells, The evaluation period is used to evaluate neighboring cells based on the measurement results obtained during the measurement period.

[0155] In some embodiments, the determination module is configured to extend any periodicity included in the RRM measurement configuration before relaxation by a relaxation factor to obtain a relaxed periodicity based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, the relaxation factor being any positive integer greater than 1.

[0156] In some embodiments, the first determination module 110 is: In response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to RRM measurement relaxation not being limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in the relaxed detection period, measurement period, and evaluation period is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is equal to or less than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period and / or evaluation period for at least the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period and evaluation period is equal to or less than a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in one of the PTWs; and in response to the mitigation being limited by the PTW, determining a mitigated detection period for the neighboring cell based on a mitigation factor.

[0157] In some embodiments, the first determination module 110 is: In response to RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the detection period for the neighboring cell; In response to an RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for the neighboring cell based on a factor of the measurement period for the neighboring cell; in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed evaluation period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the evaluation period for the neighboring cell; Any two of the relaxation coefficient of the detection period for the neighboring cell, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period are independent of each other.

[0158] In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises: and a second determination module configured to determine whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has the eDRX period; The first determination module 110 is configured to, in response to RRM measurement relaxation being allowed when having the eDRX period and the UE's eDRX period having a PTW, determine a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW.

[0159] In some embodiments, the second determination module: determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on a protocol; and determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX period based on the received configuration signaling.

[0160] An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, the communication device comprising: a memory for storing instructions executable by a processor; a processor coupled to the memory, Here, the processor is configured to execute an RRM measurement configuration determination method provided by any of the above mentioned technical solutions.

[0161] The processor may include various storage media, including non-transitory computer storage media, such that the information stored therein can continue to be stored even after a power outage occurs to the communications device.

[0162] Here, the communication device includes an access device or a UE or a core network device.

[0163] The processor can be connected to a memory via a bus or the like, and is used to read an executable program stored in the memory, for example, at least one of the methods shown in FIGS.

[0164] 9 is a block diagram of a UE 800 according to an exemplary embodiment. For example, the UE 800 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a messaging device, a game console, a tablet device, a medical device, a fitness device, a personal digital assistant, etc.

[0165] Referring to FIG. 9, the UE 800 may include one or more components: a processing component 802, a memory 804, a power component 806, a multimedia component 808, an audio component 810, an input / output (I / O) interface 812, a sensor component 814, and a communication component 816.

[0166] The processing component 802 typically controls the overall operation of the device 800, such as operations related to display, phone calls, data communication, camera operation, and recording operations. The processing component 802 may include at least one processor 820 to execute instructions to complete all or some steps of the above-described methods. The processing component 802 may also include one or more modules to facilitate interaction between the processing component 802 and other components. For example, the processing component 802 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the processing component 802 and the multimedia component 808.

[0167] The memory 804 is configured to store various types of data to support operation at the UE 800. Examples of such data include instructions for any application programs or methods operated at the UE 800, contact data, phone book data, messages, photos, videos, etc. The memory 804 may be implemented with any type of volatile or non-volatile storage device, or combination thereof, such as static random access memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic disk, or optical disk.

[0168] The power component 806 provides power to the various components of the UE 800. The power component 806 may include a power management system, one or more power sources, and other components associated with the generation, management, and distribution of power for the UE 800.

[0169] The multimedia component 808 includes a screen that provides an output interface between the UE 800 and a user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch panel (TP). When the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive input signals from a user. The touch panel may include one or more touch sensors to detect touches, slides, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensors may detect the boundaries of touch or slide operations as well as wake-up times and pressures associated with the touch or slide operations. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 808 includes a front camera and / or a rear camera. When the UE 800 is in an operation mode, such as a photo mode or a video mode, the front camera and / or the rear camera may receive external multimedia data. Each front camera and rear camera may have a fixed optical lens system or a focal length and an optical zoom function.

[0170] The audio component 810 is configured to output and / or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 810 includes one microphone (MIC) configured to receive an external audio signal when the UE 800 is in an operation mode such as a call mode, a record mode, or a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal can be further stored in the memory 804 or can be transmitted via the communication component 816. In some embodiments, the audio component 810 further includes one speaker for outputting the audio signal.

[0171] The I / O interface 812 provides an interface between the processing component 802 and a peripheral interface module, which may be a keyboard, a click wheel, buttons, etc. These buttons include, but are not limited to, a home page button, volume buttons, a start button, and a lock button.

[0172] The sensor component 814 includes one or more sensors to provide various status assessments for the UE 800. For example, the sensor component 814 can detect the on / off state of the UE 800, the relative positioning of a component, such as the display and keypad of the UE 800, and can further detect a change in the position of the UE 800 or one of the components of the UE 800, whether there is contact between the user and the UE 800, the orientation or acceleration / deceleration of the UE 800, and a change in temperature of the UE 800. The sensor component 814 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect whether an object is present nearby in the absence of any physical contact. The sensor component 814 may further include an optical sensor for use in imaging applications, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor. In some embodiments, the sensor component 814 may further include an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.

[0173] The communication component 816 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the UE 800 and other devices. The UE 800 can access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, 4G LTE, 5G NR, or a combination thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 further includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module can be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Infrared Data Association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

[0174] In an example embodiment, the UE 800 may be implemented by one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processors (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or other electronic elements to perform the above methods.

[0175] In an exemplary embodiment, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing instructions is further provided, such as a memory 804 containing instructions, which may be executed by the processor 820 of the UE 800 to complete the above method. For example, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be a ROM, a random access memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like.

[0176] 10, an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown in the structure of an access device. For example, a communication device 900 may be provided as a network device. The communication device may be an access device and / or a core network device as described above.

[0177] 10, the communications device 900 includes a processing component 922 including one or more processors, and memory resources represented by memory 932 for storing instructions executable by the processing component 922, such as application programs. The application programs stored in the memory 932 may include one or more modules, each for a set of instructions. The processing component 922 is also configured to execute instructions to perform any method of the application described above in the access device, such as the methods shown in FIGS. 3 to 7.

[0178] Communications device 900 may further include a power component 926 configured to perform power management of communications device 900, a wired or wireless network interface 950 configured to connect communications device 900 to a network, and an input / output (I / O) interface 958. Communications device 900 may operate an operating system stored in memory 932, such as Windows Server™, Mac OS X™, Unix™, Linux™, FreeBSD™, or the like.

[0179] Those skilled in the art can easily conceive of other implementations of the present disclosure after studying the specification and practicing the invention disclosed herein. The present disclosure is intended to cover any modifications, uses or adaptations of the present invention, which modifications, uses or adaptations follow the general principles of the present invention and include common general knowledge or commonly used technical means in the art that are not disclosed in the present disclosure. It is intended that the specification and examples are merely exemplary, with the true scope and spirit of the present invention being indicated by the following claims.

[0180] It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the exact structure described above and shown in the drawings, and various modifications and variations can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention, which is limited only by the appended claims.

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1. 1. A method for determining a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration, the method being performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: In response to an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period of the UE having a paging time window (PTW), determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW; The RRM measurement configuration includes an RRM measurement configuration for a neighboring cell, and the RRM measurement configuration for the neighboring cell includes at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period; determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a condition in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a relaxed detection period, a relaxed measurement period, and a relaxed evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to RRM measurement relaxation not being limited by the PTW, wherein a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in the relaxed detection period, the relaxed measurement period, or the relaxed evaluation period is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW, a step of determining a relaxed measurement period and / or a relaxed evaluation period for at least a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein the number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period and the relaxed evaluation period is equal to or less than the number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; At least one of: How to determine RRM measurement settings.

2. The RRM measurement setting includes: Further comprising an RRM measurement configuration for the serving cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least a measurement period for measuring the serving cell; the detection period for the neighboring cell is used to recognize and evaluate the neighboring cell; The measurement period for the neighboring cell is used to measure the neighboring cell; The evaluation period for the neighboring cell is used to evaluate the neighboring cell based on a measurement result obtained by measuring in the measurement period. The method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to claim 1 .

3. determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a condition in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, Based on a situation where the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, an arbitrary period included in the RRM measurement configuration before relaxation is expanded by a relaxation factor to obtain a relaxed period, the relaxation factor being any positive integer greater than 1. The method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to claim 2 .

4. determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a condition in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, In response to RRM measurement relaxation not being limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in the relaxed detection period, measurement period, and evaluation period is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period and / or evaluation period for at least a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period and evaluation period is equal to or less than a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in one of the PTWs; and in response to the RRM measurement mitigation being limited by the PTW, determining a mitigated detection period for the neighboring cell based on a mitigation factor. A method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

5. determining at least one of a relaxed detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed detection period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the detection period for the neighboring cell in response to RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW; determining a relaxed measurement period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the measurement period for the neighboring cell in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW; in response to RRM measurement mitigation not being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed evaluation period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the evaluation period for the neighboring cell; Any two of the relaxation coefficient of the detection period for the neighboring cell, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period are independent of each other. The method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to claim 4 .

6. The method comprises: determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is permitted when the UE has the eDRX cycle; determining a relaxed radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration based on a situation where the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by a paging time window (PTW) in response to an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period of the UE having the paging time window (PTW), the relaxed radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration being determined based on a situation where the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW, In response to RRM measurement relaxation being permitted when the eDRX cycle has the eDRX cycle and the UE's eDRX cycle has a PTW, determining a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW. A method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

7. The step of determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has the eDRX cycle includes: determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on a protocol; and determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on the received configuration signaling. The method for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to claim 6.

8. 1. An apparatus for determining a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration, the apparatus comprising: The method includes: providing a first determination module configured to determine a relaxed RRM measurement configuration in response to an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) period of a user equipment (UE) having a paging time window (PTW) based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW; The RRM measurement configuration includes an RRM measurement configuration for a neighboring cell, and the RRM measurement configuration for the neighboring cell includes at least one of a detection period, a measurement period, and an evaluation period; The first determination module: In response to RRM measurement relaxation not being limited by the PTW, determining at least one of a relaxed detection period, a relaxed measurement period, and a relaxed evaluation period for a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in the relaxed detection period, the relaxed measurement period, or the relaxed evaluation period is allowed to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period and / or a relaxed evaluation period for at least a neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period and the relaxed evaluation period is equal to or less than a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) periods included in one of the PTWs; configured to perform at least one of A device for determining RRM measurement settings.

9. The RRM measurement setting includes: Further comprising an RRM measurement configuration for the serving cell, the RRM measurement configuration including at least a measurement period for measuring the serving cell; the detection period for the neighboring cell is used to recognize and evaluate the neighboring cell; The measurement period for the neighboring cell is used to measure the neighboring cell; The evaluation period for the neighboring cell is used to evaluate the neighboring cell based on a measurement result obtained by measuring in the measurement period. The RRM measurement configuration determining apparatus according to claim 8 .

10. The first determination module is configured to expand any period included in the RRM measurement configuration before relaxation by a relaxation factor based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW to obtain a relaxed period, the relaxation factor being any positive integer greater than 1. The RRM measurement configuration determining apparatus according to claim 9 .

11. The first determination module further comprises: In response to RRM measurement mitigation not being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is permitted to be greater than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; In response to the RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for a serving cell based on a relaxation factor and a time length of the PTW, wherein a number of DRX periods included in the relaxed measurement period for the serving cell is equal to or less than a number of DRX periods included in one of the PTWs; and determining a relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being limited by the PTW. An apparatus for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to any one of claims 8 to 10.

12. The first determination module: In response to RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed detection period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the detection period for the neighboring cell; In response to RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed measurement period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the measurement period for the neighboring cell; in response to the RRM measurement relaxation being not limited by the PTW, determining a relaxed evaluation period for the neighboring cell based on a relaxation factor of the evaluation period for the neighboring cell; Any two of the relaxation coefficient of the detection period for the neighboring cell, the relaxation coefficient of the measurement period, and the relaxation coefficient of the evaluation period are independent of each other. The RRM measurement configuration determining apparatus according to claim 11.

13. The apparatus comprises: and a second determination module configured to determine whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has the eDRX cycle; The first determination module is configured to, in response to RRM measurement relaxation being permitted when having the eDRX cycle and the eDRX cycle of the UE having a PTW, determine a relaxed RRM measurement configuration based on a situation in which the RRM measurement relaxation is limited by the PTW. An apparatus for determining an RRM measurement configuration according to any one of claims 8 to 10.

14. The second determination module: determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on a protocol; and determining whether relaxation of RRM measurements is allowed when the UE has an eDRX cycle based on the received configuration signaling. The RRM measurement configuration determining apparatus according to claim 13.

15. A communications device comprising a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the processor, when executing the executable program, performs a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration provided by any of claims 1 to 3. Communication devices.

16. A computer storage medium having an executable program stored therein, the executable program, when executed by a processor, realizing a method for determining an RRM measurement configuration provided by any one of claims 1 to 3. Computer storage media.

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