METHOD FOR DETERMINING MEASUREMENT GAP, TERMINAL AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE

Abstract

The present application discloses a method for determining a measurement gap, a method and an apparatus for indicating a measurement gap, which belong to the technical field of wireless communication, and includes the steps of: a terminal obtaining indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set for the terminal by a network side device; and when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively. The indication information includes priority setting information for indicating the priority of the measurement gap pattern.

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS The present invention claims priority to a Chinese patent application filed with the China Patent Office on May 18, 2021, bearing application number 202110541092.4 and titled "Method for determining measurement gap, terminal and network side equipment", the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

[0002] The present application relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and in particular to a method for determining a measurement gap, a terminal and a network side device. [Background technology]

[0003] In radio resource management (RRM) measurements, inter-frequency and inter-RAT measurements cannot simultaneously complete the signal transmission / reception of the serving cell and the measurement between frequency points in the same radio frequency chain, unlike the serving cell frequency point. Therefore, when the radio frequency chain is limited, the UE needs to introduce a measurement gap for measurement.

[0004] In the related art, one measurement gap pattern is generally configured for one terminal, but in the New Radio (NR), the complexity of the measurement object is high, and may include, for example, positioning information, Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS), etc. In the time domain, the increase in complexity is reflected in the increase in non-periodic measurement objects or the variation in the period and offset of multiple Measurement Objects (MOs), and in the frequency domain, the increase in complexity is reflected in a significant increase in the possible positions of the center frequency points of the measurement objects. Currently, to make the measurement based on the measurement gap more efficient, it is desirable to have as much alignment as possible in the time domain between multiple MOs (e.g., between multiple synchronization signals / physical broadcast channel signal blocks (or synchronization signal blocks) (Synchronization Signal and PBCH blocks, SSBs)), but this reduces the flexibility of the network configuration.

[0005] In order to reduce the overhead of measurement gaps while making network configuration more flexible, multiple measurement gap patterns may be configured in one terminal, but there is currently no effective solution for how a terminal determines a measurement gap when measurement gaps corresponding to multiple measurement gap patterns configured in one terminal collide. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0006] The embodiments of the present application provide a measurement gap determination method, a terminal, and a network side equipment that can solve the problem of how a terminal determines a measurement gap when measurement gaps corresponding to multiple measurement gap patterns configured in one terminal collide. [Means for solving the problem]

[0007] In a first aspect, a method for determining a measurement gap is provided, the method including: a step in which a terminal acquires instruction information for a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set for the terminal by a network side device; and a step in which, when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the instruction information, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively.

[0008] In a second aspect, a measurement gap determination device is provided, the measurement gap determination device including: an acquisition module for acquiring instruction information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set by a network side device for the terminal; and a determination module for determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the instruction information when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively.

[0009] In a third aspect, a method for instructing a measurement gap is provided, the method including a step of a network side device transmitting instruction information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns to a terminal, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set by the network side device for the terminal, the instruction information being for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps.

[0010] In a fourth aspect, a measurement gap indication device is provided, the measurement gap indication device including: a setting module for setting a plurality of measurement gap patterns for a terminal; and a transmission module for transmitting indication information of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to the terminal, the indication information being for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively.

[0011] In a fifth aspect, there is provided a terminal including a processor, a memory, and a program or command stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the program or command causing, when executed by the processor, to realize steps of the method according to the first aspect.

[0012] In a sixth aspect, there is provided a terminal including a processor and a communication interface, the processor for implementing the steps of the method according to the first aspect, and the communication interface for communicating with a network side device.

[0013] In a seventh aspect, there is provided a network side device comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or command stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the program or command realizing the steps of the method according to the third aspect when executed by the processor.

[0014] In an eighth aspect, there is provided a network side device comprising a processor and a communication interface, the processor for implementing the steps of the method according to the third aspect, and the communication interface for communicating with a terminal.

[0015] In a ninth aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or commands which, when executed by a processor, realise the steps of the method according to the first aspect or the steps of the method according to the third aspect.

[0016] In a tenth aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communications interface, the communications interface and the processor being coupled, the processor executing programs or commands to effectuate steps of the method of the first aspect or steps of the method of the third aspect.

[0017] In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a computer program / program product stored on a non-transitory storage medium and adapted to implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect or the steps of the method according to the third aspect when executed by at least one processor. Effect of the Invention

[0018] In an embodiment of the present application, a terminal obtains indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, where the plurality of measurement gap patterns are measurement gap patterns configured for the terminal by a network side device, and when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information, where the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are respectively one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps, so that when measurement gaps corresponding to a plurality of measurement gap patterns configured for a terminal collide, a measurement gap to be used or discarded can be determined. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0019] [Figure 1] 1 shows a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied; [Figure 2a]1 shows a schematic diagram of measurement gaps set in a multiple measurement gap pattern in an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 2b] 13 shows a schematic diagram of another measurement gap set in a multiple measurement gap pattern in an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 2c] 13 shows a schematic diagram of yet another measurement gap set in a multiple measurement gap pattern in an embodiment of the present application; [Diagram 3] 1 shows a flowchart of a measurement gap determination method provided in an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 4] 1 shows a flowchart of a measurement gap indication method provided in an embodiment of the present application. [Diagram 5] 1 shows a structural schematic diagram of a measurement gap determining device provided in an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 6] 1 shows a structural schematic diagram of a measurement gap indicating device provided in an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 7] 1 shows a structural schematic diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 8] 1 shows a hardware structure schematic diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 9] 1 illustrates a hardware structure schematic diagram of a network side device provided in an embodiment of the present application; DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0020] Hereinafter, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present application are within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0021] The terms "first", "second", etc. in the specification and claims of the present application are not intended to describe a particular order or sequence, but are intended to distinguish between similar objects. It should be understood that the terms used in this manner may be substituted for each other where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the present application may be performed in an order other than that shown or described herein, and that the objects distinguished by "first", "second", etc. are generally of one type, and the number of objects is not limited, for example, the first object may be one or more. In the specification and claims, "and / or" indicates at least one of the connected objects, and the symbol " / " generally indicates that the related objects before and after are in an "or" relationship.

[0022] It should be noted that the techniques described in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, but can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the techniques described can be used in other systems and wireless technologies in addition to those mentioned above. Although the following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for illustrative purposes, and NR terminology is used in much of the following description, these technologies may be used in other systems and wireless technologies, such as 6th Generation (6G) and 7th Generation (7G) systems. thThe present invention can also be applied to applications other than NR system applications, such as 6G (Generation, 6G) communication systems.

[0023] FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiments of the present application are applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. Among them, the terminal 11 may also be referred to as a terminal device or a user equipment (UE). The terminal 11 may be a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer (also called a notebook computer), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable information terminal, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile internet device (MID), a wearable device or an in-vehicle device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), etc. The wearable device includes a smart watch, a wristband, earphones, glasses, etc. It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, the specific type of the terminal is not limited. The network-side device 12 may be a base station or a core network. Among them, the base station may be called a Node B, an evolved Node B, an access point, a base transceiver station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), a B node, an evolved B node (eNB), a home Node B, a home evolved B node, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, a transmission reception point (TRP), or any other suitable term in the field. As long as the same technical effect can be achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical term. It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0024] Since a single measurement gap pattern restricts terminal measurements, a mechanism that supports simultaneous configuration of multiple measurement gap patterns is introduced. When multiple measurement gap patterns are configured, logically, all MOs that need to use measurement gaps for measurement may be grouped. For example, when two measurement gap patterns are configured, most MOs are measured using gap pattern1, and the remaining MOs (which generally have attributes that are clearly different from most MOs) are measured using gap pattern2, thereby further ensuring the benefits of introducing multiple measurement gap patterns.

[0025] When multiple measurement gap patterns are used, there may be three cases as shown in Figures 2a to 2c. The first case is when the gaps of various gap patterns do not overlap at all as shown in Figure 2a. The second case is when they completely overlap as shown in Figure 2b (the periods of the gap patterns may not be the same). The third case is when they partially overlap as shown in Figure 2c. Among them, the third case may be considered as the normal state of the second case, that is, the offsets of each gap pattern are different. Since the terminal can measure only one MO within the measurement gap time period, in the cases shown in Figures 2b and 2c, only one of all the gaps that completely or partially overlap can be enabled. The terminal may consider the remaining measurement gaps as invalid and ignore them.

[0026] As mentioned above, a terminal may ignore some or even all of overlapping (including partial overlapping) measurement gaps (which may also be called conflicting measurement gaps), and it is up to the terminal to decide which measurement gaps to ignore and how to do so, provided that the performance index is met.

[0027] One of the purposes of setting multiple gap patterns is to improve system performance (throughput, etc.). As shown in FIG. 2b, gap pattern 2 and gap pattern 1 completely overlap. In this case, the purpose of setting gap pattern 2 is to use gap pattern 2 to measure an MO with some characteristics, which can be measured with a relatively short gap. For example, the measurement gap available in frequency range (FR) 1 specified in NR has a maximum time length of 6 ms and a minimum time length of 3 ms. For MOs that allow shorter measurement time lengths, the use of shorter measurement time lengths can improve system throughput. To achieve this design objective while ensuring related performance, how a terminal discards overlapping measurement gaps (i.e., colliding measurement gaps) is currently an issue to be solved.

[0028] In one possible embodiment of the embodiment of the present application, the network side device may design a measurement gap dropping rule when measurement gaps overlap (collide) according to the characteristics of multiple gap patterns in order to ensure improved system performance when multiple gap patterns are set. The network side device may notify the terminal of the set gap dropping rule by associated (RRC) signaling.

[0029] In the following, the measurement gap determination method provided in the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail with reference to the drawings according to several embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

[0030] 3 shows a flow chart of a method for determining a measurement gap in an embodiment of the present application, where the method 300 can be performed by a terminal. In other words, the method can be performed by software or hardware installed in the terminal. As shown in FIG. 3, the method may include the following steps S310 and S312.

[0031] At S310, the terminal obtains indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, where the plurality of measurement gap patterns are measurement gap patterns configured for the terminal by a network side device.

[0032] In an embodiment of the present application, the network side equipment configures multiple measurement gap patterns for one terminal. For example, in Figures 2a to 2c, two measurement gap patterns, gap pattern 1 and gap pattern 2, are configured for one terminal.

[0033] In the embodiment of the present application, the periods of the multiple measurement gap patterns may be the same or different, and the embodiment of the present application is not specifically limited thereto.

[0034] At S312, when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the instruction information, where the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively.

[0035] In an embodiment of the present application, when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide in multiple measurement gap patterns configured for a terminal, i.e., when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns partially or completely overlap, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information of each measurement gap pattern, thereby realizing a mechanism for configuring multiple measurement gap patterns for one terminal and meeting the requirements of the communication system.

[0036] In one possible embodiment of the embodiment of the present application, when multiple measurement gap patterns are configured for one terminal, all measurement objects that need to use measurement gaps for measurement may be grouped, and one set of measurement objects may be assigned to one measurement gap pattern. Optionally, some measurement objects having a specific attribute may be grouped into one set. When specifically applied, the configuration information of each measurement gap pattern may indicate the measurement objects corresponding to the measurement gap pattern. When a measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern (a measurement object having a specific attribute) and a measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern (a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among multiple measurement gap patterns) collide, the terminal may consider using the measurement gap corresponding to the first measurement gap pattern for measurement and discarding the measurement gap corresponding to the second measurement gap pattern (which may be multiple). In this case, the indication information may include the configuration information of the measurement gap pattern, and the terminal may determine a collision resolution means based on the configuration information of the measurement gap pattern without requiring the network side device to send extra indication information. For example, in Figures 2b and 2c, assuming that gap pattern 1 is used to measure multiple MOs and gap pattern 2 is used to measure one or more MOs with special attributes, if the gaps of gap pattern 1 and gap pattern 2 collide (i.e., collide), the UE will preferentially consider using the measurement gaps of gap pattern 2 for measurement.

[0037] In one possible embodiment of the present application, the instruction information includes at least one of the following (1) to (4).

[0038] (1) Priority setting information for indicating the priority of the measurement gap pattern.

[0039] In the possible embodiment, the system (e.g., network side equipment) may set priorities of different measurement gap patterns. For example, the system may define two or more priorities and assign priorities to different gap patterns. For example, the network side equipment may assign a high priority to a measurement gap pattern for measuring one or more MOs having a special attribute, and assign a low priority to a measurement gap pattern for measuring other MOs.

[0040] In this possible embodiment, in S312, the terminal may determine to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern based on the priority indicated by the priority setting information, where the first measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern with the highest priority among the different measurement gap patterns, and the second measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns. By adopting this possible embodiment, the network side device and the terminal have the same judgment on the measurement gap to be discarded and the measurement gap to be used in the event of collision, thereby further improving system throughput and improving system performance.

[0041] In one possible embodiment, the network side device may inform the terminal of gap pattern priority information through configuration information, so that the terminal solves the gap collision problem based on the priority information. For example, the network side device may add new configuration information with a length of n bits to the measurement gap configuration information (e.g., IE Gap Config or IE Meas Gap Config) to represent 2^n different priorities, and the priority of the gap pattern is specified by these n bits.

[0042] Alternatively, the network side device may notify the terminal of the measurement gap pattern priority information by dedicated signaling.

[0043] (2) Proportion setting information for indicating the proportion of a common time period that each of the measurement gap patterns occupies.

[0044] In this possible embodiment, the system (e.g., network side device) may directly specify the percentage of different gap patterns, for example, the system directly defines the percentage of each gap pattern in a common time period in multiple measurement gap patterns, and the sum of the percentages of all gap patterns is 1. When measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns overlap, the terminal can determine by itself which of the overlapping measurement gaps to ignore, on the premise that the percentage of each gap pattern is ensured.

[0045] In this possible embodiment, in S312, if the ratio of each of the measurement gap patterns indicated by the ratio setting information is ensured, the terminal decides to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or to discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern.

[0046] For example, the network side device may allocate a low percentage to measurement gap patterns for measuring one or more MOs having a special attribute, and allocate a high percentage to measurement gap patterns for measuring other MOs.

[0047] In one possible embodiment, the network side device may notify the terminal of the ratio information of each independent measurement gap pattern through the configuration information, so that the terminal solves the gap collision problem based on the ratio information. For example, the network side device may set the ratio information of each independent measurement gap pattern as one sequence in the configuration information (e.g., MeasGapConfig).

[0048] Alternatively, the network-side device may notify the terminal of the ratio information of the measurement gap pattern by dedicated signaling.

[0049] (3) Control sequence setting information for indicating the measurement gaps to be discarded and / or the measurement gaps to be used during a collision.

[0050] In this possible embodiment, the system (e.g., the network-side device) may define a dropping pattern of the measurement gap pattern so as to control which measurement gap is discarded and which measurement gap is used each time there is a collision. By adopting this possible embodiment, the network-side device and the terminal will be able to make the same determination regarding the measurement gaps to be discarded and the measurement gaps to be used during a collision, thereby further improving the system throughput and the system performance.

[0051] In this possible embodiment, in S312, the terminal may determine a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded according to the indication of the control sequence setting information.

[0052] Optionally, the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each of the conflicting measurement gaps in n first periods, where the first period is a least common multiple of periods of the plurality of measurement gap patterns, and n is an integer equal to or greater than 1. When determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard, the terminal determines the first target measurement gap to use and / or the second target measurement gap to discard in a manner that is repeated in n first periods according to the indication of the control sequence configuration information. For example, assuming that there is only one collisional measurement gap between measurement gap pattern 1 and measurement gap pattern 2 in one first period, the control sequence configuration information may instruct the use manner of each collisional measurement gap in the first period to use measurement gap pattern 1, use measurement gap pattern 2, and use measurement gap pattern 1, respectively, so that for the two collisional measurement gaps in the first first period, the UE determines the first target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 1 and the second target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 2; and for the two collisional measurement gaps in the second first period, the UE determines the first target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 2 and the second target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 3. The UE determines the first target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 2 and the second target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 1; within the third first period, for two colliding measurement gaps, the UE determines the first target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 1 and the second target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 2; and within the fourth first period, for two colliding measurement gaps, the UE determines the first target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 1 and the second target measurement gap as the measurement gap corresponding to measurement gap pattern 2, and so on.

[0053] Alternatively, the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, where m is an integer and 1≦m≦M, M is the number of collisions in one of the first periods, k is an integer and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

[0054] In the above possible embodiment, if the collision count of measurement gaps in a first period is more than one, the bit group may indicate that a measurement gap corresponding to the same measurement gap pattern is used and / or a measurement gap corresponding to the same measurement gap pattern is discarded after each collision, i.e. m=1. Alternatively, the bit group may indicate a measurement gap usage mode for each collision, i.e. m=M. Alternatively, the bit group may indicate a measurement gap usage mode in units of two or other times. For example, assuming that the collision count of measurement gaps in one first period is two, the bit group is two bits indicating a usage mode of a measurement gap that collides for the first time and a usage mode of a measurement gap that collides for the next time in one first period, respectively.

[0055] In the above possible embodiments, one bit group may be used for each measurement gap pattern, or each measurement gap pattern may be indicated by one bit group, and the embodiments of the present application are not specifically limited thereto.

[0056] In a specific application, when K measurement gap patterns are configured in the terminal, the network side device first defines the measurement gaps of the measurement gap patterns as a set of two to be used or discarded when the measurement gaps in two measurement gap patterns collide, and then defines the measurement gaps of the measurement gap patterns as a set of three to be used or discarded when the measurement gaps in three measurement gap patterns collide, and in this manner calculates the least common multiple of the K measurement gap patterns as a set of K measurement gap patterns, and defines the measurement gaps of the measurement gap patterns to be used or discarded when they collide by the control sequence.

[0057] For example, in Figures 2b and 2c, for each of the two measurement gap patterns, the system may calculate the least common multiple of the two measurement gap patterns. Then, depending on the desired dropping rate, bits of different lengths are adopted, with each bit representing the take or drop when gaps in the two measurement gap patterns collide. For example, if there is only one collision (i.e., a collision) of the measurement gap in the first period (i.e., the length is the least common multiple of the periods of the two measurement gap patterns), any two measurement gap patterns can be expressed as follows, with 1 being used and 0 being discarded: GP1 [1] GP2[0]. That is, one bit is used, and in this case, if a collision occurs, the gap of measurement gap pattern 1 (i.e., GP1) is used.

[0058] Or, it can be expressed as follows: GP1

[0010] GP2

[0001] . That is, two bits are used, so that the collision at time 0 uses the gap of GP1, the next collision (or the first period of the next period (i.e. the least common multiple of the periods of GP1 and GP2)) uses the gap of GP2, and so on for subsequent collisions. In this case, it can be indicated that the gap of gap pattern 1 (or 2) is used in half of the collisions.

[0059] Or, it can be expressed as follows: GP1

[0110] GP2

[0001] . That is, three bits are used, and the collision at time 0 uses the gap of GP1, the next collision (i.e. the collision in the next first period) uses the gap of GP1, the third collision uses the gap of GP2, and so on for subsequent collisions. In this case, it can be shown that gaps of gap pattern 1 (or 2) are used in 67% of collisions.

[0060] Or, it can be expressed as follows: GP1 [1 1 1 0] GP2 [0 0 0 1]. That is, 4 bits are used, and in this case, it can be indicated that gaps of gap pattern 1 (or 2) are used in 75% of collisions.

[0061] In concrete application, if it is determined that two measurement gap patterns are configured in the terminal, it is only necessary to transmit a control sequence corresponding to one measurement gap pattern.

[0062] In specific application, when three measurement gap patterns are set for one terminal, first, it is determined which gap of which gap pattern to use or discard when two gap patterns collide as a set, and then the least common multiple is calculated for the three gap patterns as a set, and it is determined which gap of which gap pattern to use when they collide through a control sequence. For example, the sequences when 1, 2, and 3 bits are used can be expressed as follows, respectively. GP1 [1], GP2 [0], GP3 [0], GP1

[0010] , GP2

[0001] , GP3

[0000] , GP1

[0100] , GP2

[0010] , GP3

[0001] .

[0063] When three or more measurement gap patterns are set in one terminal, the processing principles and methods are similar to the case where three measurement gap patterns are set, and are not specifically described in the embodiments of this application.

[0064] Alternatively, the control sequence configuration information indicating use and / or discard in the event of a collision corresponding to each independent measurement gap pattern may be set in the configuration information (eg, MeasGapConfig) of that measurement gap pattern.

[0065] Alternatively, the control sequence configuration information for each measurement gap pattern may be indicated by dedicated target signaling.

[0066] (4) An indication of one or more target measurements, i.e., the indication can indicate one or more target measurements.

[0067] In the possible embodiment, in S312, the step of the terminal determining the first target measurement gap to be used and / or the second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information includes a step of the terminal determining the use of a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or the discarding of a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern according to one or more target measurement objects indicated by the indication information, where the one or more target measurement objects are one or more of the measurement objects of the first measurement gap pattern, and the second measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns. That is, in the possible embodiment, the network side device can indicate one or more target measurement objects, so that the terminal uses the measurement gap of the first measurement gap pattern corresponding to the one or more target measurement objects for measurement when the measurement gaps collide. Here, the one or more target measurement objects may be one or more of the measurement objects set in the first measurement gap pattern.

[0068] In one possible embodiment, the indication information may be included in configuration information of the measurement gap pattern.

[0069] Or, in another possible embodiment, the indication information may be carried by target signaling. In S310, the terminal obtaining the indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns includes the terminal receiving target signaling sent from a network side device, where the target signaling includes the indication information.

[0070] It should be noted that, although the above description describes how the terminal determines the first target measurement gap to use and / or the second target measurement gap to discard according to the form including one of the indication information, in a specific application, the indication information may include the above two or three indication information, and the terminal may determine the first target measurement gap to use and / or the second target measurement gap to discard based on the above two or three indication information. For example, when three measurement gap patterns are configured in the terminal, and the priorities of two measurement gap patterns are the same and higher than the priority of another measurement gap pattern, and measurement gaps of the two measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal can determine the first target measurement gap to use and / or the second target measurement gap to discard in combination with ratio information of the two measurement gap patterns.

[0071] 4 shows a flow chart of a method for indicating a measurement gap provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method 400 can be performed by a network side device. In other words, the method can be performed by software or hardware installed in the network side device. As shown in FIG. 4, the method may include the following step S410:

[0072] At S410, the network side equipment sends instruction information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns to the terminal, where the plurality of measurement gap patterns are measurement gap patterns set by the network side equipment for the terminal, and the instruction information is for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, and the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps.

[0073] In the embodiments of the present application, the network side equipment may send the instruction information when setting multiple measurement gap patterns for the terminal, or may send the instruction information after setting multiple measurement gap patterns for the terminal, and there is no specific limitation in the embodiments of the present application.

[0074] Here, the instruction information is the same as the instruction information in method 300. This embodiment mainly describes the relevant operations of the network side device. For the parts that are not described in detail, please refer to the description in method 300, and detailed descriptions will be omitted here.

[0075] In an embodiment of the present application, when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the network side equipment may determine a first target measurement gap to be used by the terminal and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded in a manner corresponding to the terminal, where the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are respectively one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, specifically, reference may be made to the relevant description in method 300, and detailed description is omitted here.

[0076] Optionally, the instruction information includes at least one of the following (1) to (4):

[0077] (1) Priority setting information for indicating the priority of the measurement gap pattern.

[0078] In this possible embodiment, the network side equipment may directly define priorities of different gap patterns, for example, define two or more priorities and assign priorities to different measurement gap patterns, and the network side equipment may notify the terminal of the priority information of the measurement gap patterns through configuration information, and the terminal solves the gap collision problem based on the priority information.

[0079] For example, the network side device may add new configuration information to the measurement gap configuration information (e.g., IE GapConfig or IE MeasGapConfig) with a length of n bits to represent 2^n different priorities, and the priority of the measurement gap pattern is specified by these n bits.

[0080] (2) Proportion setting information for indicating the proportion of a common time period that each of the measurement gap patterns occupies.

[0081] In this possible embodiment, the network side equipment directly specifies the percentages of different measurement gap patterns, for example, the network side equipment directly defines the proportion of each measurement gap pattern in a common time period in multiple measurement gap patterns, and the sum of the proportions of all measurement gap patterns is 1. The terminal can decide by itself which of the overlapping measurement gaps to ignore, on the premise that the proportions of each measurement gap pattern are ensured.

[0082] Alternatively, the ratio information of each independent measurement gap pattern may be set as one sequence in the configuration information (eg, MeasGapConfig).

[0083] (3) Control sequence configuration information to indicate which measurement gaps are discarded and / or which are used in the event of a collision.

[0084] The network side device defines a dropping pattern of the measurement gap pattern so as to control which measurement gaps are discarded and which measurement gaps are used each time a collision occurs.

[0085] Optionally, the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each of the conflicting measurement gaps within n first periods, where the first period is a least common multiple of periods of the plurality of measurement gap patterns, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0086] Furthermore, the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, where m is an integer and 1≦m≦M, M is the number of collisions in one of the first periods, k is an integer and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

[0087] As shown in Fig. 2b and Fig. 2c, for each of two measurement gap patterns, the network side device may calculate the least common multiple of the two measurement gap patterns. Then, according to the desired dropping rate, bits of different lengths are adopted, and each bit indicates the dropping or picking when gaps in the two gap patterns collide. For details, please refer to the related description in the method 300.

[0088] (4) Indication information of one or more target measurement objects, i.e., the network side device instructs that in the event of a collision, the one or more target measurement objects use the measurement gaps corresponding to the configured measurement gap pattern and discard other clashing measurement gaps.

[0089] In one possible embodiment, the network side device may include the indication information in configuration information of the measurement gap pattern.

[0090] In another possible embodiment, the network side equipment may transmit the indication information to the terminal by one dedicated signaling, and thus in this possible embodiment, the step of the network side equipment transmitting indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns to the terminal includes a step of the network side equipment transmitting target signaling to the terminal, where the target signaling includes the indication information.

[0091] If the method provided in the embodiments of the present application is adopted, an important part of the performance of the setting method of multiple measurement gap patterns can be ensured, the setting method of such multiple measurement gap patterns can be realized, and if such a setting method of multiple measurement gap patterns is adopted, the system throughput can be further improved and the system performance can be improved.

[0092] It should be noted that the method for determining the measurement gap provided in the embodiments of the present application may be an execution entity that is a measurement gap determination device or a control module for executing the method for determining the measurement gap in the measurement gap determination device. In the embodiments of the present application, taking the measurement gap determination device executing the method for determining the measurement gap as an example, the measurement gap determination device provided in the embodiments of the present application will be described.

[0093] FIG. 5 shows a structural schematic diagram of a measurement gap determination device provided in the embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 5, the device 500 mainly includes an acquisition module 501 and a determination module 502.

[0094] In the embodiments of the present application, the acquisition module 501 is for acquiring indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns. Here, the plurality of measurement gap patterns are measurement gap patterns set by network-side devices for the terminal. The determination module 502 is for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information when the measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide. Here, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are each one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps.

[0095] In a possible embodiment, the indication information is priority setting information for indicating the priority of the measurement gap pattern, and ratio setting information for indicating the ratio occupied by each measurement gap pattern in a common time period, and control sequence configuration information for indicating measurement gaps to be discarded and / or measurement gaps to be used in the event of a collision; and an indication of one or more target measurements.

[0096] In one possible embodiment, the step of the determination module 502 determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the indication information includes: The method includes a step of determining, based on the priority indicated by the priority setting information, to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or to discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern, wherein the first measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern having the highest priority among the different measurement gap patterns, and the second measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns.

[0097] In one possible embodiment, the step of the determination module 502 determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the indication information includes: The method includes a step of deciding to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or to discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern when the ratio of each of the measurement gap patterns indicated by the ratio setting information is ensured.

[0098] In one possible embodiment, the step of the determination module 502 determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the indication information includes: The method includes a step of determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded according to an instruction of the control sequence setting information.

[0099] In one possible embodiment, the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each conflicting measurement gap within n first periods, where the first period is the least common multiple of periods of the multiple measurement gap patterns, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0100] In one possible embodiment, the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, where m is an integer and 1≦m≦M, M is the number of collisions in one of the first periods, k is an integer and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

[0101] In one possible embodiment, the step of the determination module 502 determining a first target measurement gap to use and / or a second target measurement gap to discard based on the indication information includes: The method includes a step of determining use of a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or discarding a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern according to one or more target measurement objects indicated by the indication information, wherein the one or more target measurement objects are one or more of the multiple measurement objects of the first measurement gap pattern, and the second measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns.

[0102] In one possible embodiment, said indication information is included in configuration information of said measurement gap pattern.

[0103] In one possible embodiment, the step of the acquiring module 501 acquiring an indication of a plurality of measurement gap patterns comprises: The method includes the step of receiving target signaling sent from a network side device, where the target signaling includes the indication information.

[0104] In one possible embodiment, the instruction information includes configuration information of the measurement gap pattern, and the step of the determination module 502 determining the first target measurement gap to use and / or the second target measurement gap to discard based on the instruction information includes a step of determining to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and / or discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern based on the configuration information of the different measurement gap patterns, where the first measurement gap pattern is the measurement gap pattern with the fewest measurement targets set among the different measurement gap patterns, and the second measurement gap pattern is a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns.

[0105] The measurement gap determining device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, integrated circuit, or chip in a terminal. The device may be a portable terminal or a non-portable terminal. Exemplarily, the portable terminal may include, but is not limited to, the types of terminal 11 listed above. The non-portable terminal may be a server, a network attached storage (NAS), a personal computer (PC), a television (TV), an automated teller machine or a kiosk, etc., and is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application.

[0106] The measurement gap determining device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system, which may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application.

[0107] The measurement gap determination apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application can realize each process realized in the method embodiment of FIG. 3 and achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid duplication, detailed description will be omitted here.

[0108] FIG. 6 shows a structural schematic diagram of a measurement gap indicating device provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 6, the device 600 mainly includes: a setting module 601 and a sending module 602 .

[0109] In an embodiment of the present application, the setting module 601 is for setting a plurality of measurement gap patterns for a terminal. The sending module 602 is for sending indication information of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to the terminal, where the indication information is for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, and the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are one or more of the colliding measurement gaps respectively.

[0110] In one possible embodiment, the instruction information comprises: Priority setting information for indicating a priority of the measurement gap pattern; proportion setting information for indicating a proportion of a common time period that each of the measurement gap patterns occupies; control sequence configuration information for indicating measurement gaps to be discarded and / or measurement gaps to be used in the event of a collision; and an indication of one or more target measurements.

[0111] In one possible embodiment, the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each conflicting measurement gap within n first periods, where the first period is the least common multiple of periods of the multiple measurement gap patterns, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0112] In one possible embodiment, the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, where m is an integer and 1≦m≦M, M is the number of collisions in one of the first periods, k is an integer and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

[0113] In one possible embodiment, said indication information is included in configuration information of said measurement gap pattern.

[0114] In one possible embodiment, the step of the transmitting module 602 transmitting to the terminal an indication of the plurality of measurement gap patterns includes: Transmitting target signaling to the terminal, where the target signaling includes the indication information.

[0115] The measurement gap indication device provided in the embodiment of the present application can realize each process realized in the method embodiment of FIG. 4 and achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid duplication, detailed descriptions will be omitted here.

[0116] Optionally, as shown in Fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 700, which includes a processor 701, a memory 702, and a program or command stored in the memory 702 and executable on the processor 701, for example, when the communication device 700 is a terminal, the program or command is executed by the processor 701 to realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap determination method, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 700 is a network side device, the program or command is executed by the processor 701 to realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap indication method, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and detailed description thereof will be omitted here to avoid duplication.

[0117] The embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, which includes a processor and a communication interface, and the processor is used for: obtaining indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set by a network side device for the terminal; and determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded according to the indication information when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively, and the communication interface is for communicating with a network side device. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the above terminal side method embodiment, and each implementation process and embodiment of the above method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. Specifically, FIG. 8 is a hardware structure schematic diagram of a terminal realizing the embodiment of the present application.

[0118] The terminal 800 includes components such as, but not limited to, a radio frequency unit 801, a network module 802, an audio output unit 803, an input unit 804, a sensor 805, a display unit 806, a user input unit 807, an interface unit 808, a memory 809, and a processor 810.

[0119] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 800 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering each component, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 810 through a power management system, and the power management system may further realize functions such as charge / discharge management and power consumption management. The structure of the terminal shown in FIG. 8 is not intended to limit the terminal, and the terminal may include more or fewer components than those shown in the figure, or a combination of some components, or a different component arrangement, and detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted here.

[0120] It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 804 may include a graphics processing unit (GPU) 8041 for processing image data of still or video captured by an image capture device (e.g., a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode, and a microphone 8042. The display unit 806 may include a display panel 8061, which may be arranged in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 807 includes a touch panel 8071 and other input devices 8072. The touch panel 8071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 8071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 8072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, a function button (e.g., a volume control button, a switch button, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and an operation lever, and detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

[0121] In the embodiment of the present application, the high frequency unit 801 receives downlink data from the network side device, processes it in the processor 810, and transmits uplink data to the network side device. Typically, the high frequency unit 801 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a receiver-transmitter, a coupler, a low-noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0122] The memory 809 can be used to store software programs or commands and various data. The memory 809 may mainly include a program or command storage area capable of storing an operating system, an application or command required for at least one function (e.g., a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.), and a data storage area. The memory 809 may also include a high-speed random access memory, and may further include a non-transitory memory. Among them, the non-transitory memory may be a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a programmable read-only memory (Programmable ROM, PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (Erasable PROM, EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM), or a flash memory. For example, at least one magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other non-transitory solid-state storage device may be included.

[0123] The processor 810 may include one or more processing units. Optionally, the processor 810 may be integrated with an application processor that mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, and applications or commands, and a modem processor that mainly processes wireless communication, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the modem processor may not be integrated with the processor 810.

[0124] Among them, the processor 810 is obtaining indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns configured by a network side device for the terminal; This is used for a step of determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the instruction information when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, wherein the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are each one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps.

[0125] In an embodiment of the present application, a terminal obtains indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, where the plurality of measurement gap patterns are measurement gap patterns configured for the terminal by a network side device, and when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information, where the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are respectively one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps, so that when measurement gaps corresponding to a plurality of measurement gap patterns configured for a terminal collide, a measurement gap to be used or discarded can be determined.

[0126] An embodiment of the present application further provides a network side equipment, the network side equipment including a processor and a communication interface, the processor is for setting a plurality of measurement gap patterns for a terminal, and the communication interface is for sending indication information of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to the terminal, where the indication information is for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and / or a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, and the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are respectively one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps. The network side equipment embodiment corresponds to the above-mentioned measurement gap indication method embodiment, and each implementation process and embodiment of the above-mentioned method embodiment can be applied to the network side equipment embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

[0127] Specifically, the embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device. As shown in Fig. 9, the network device 900 includes an antenna 901, a radio frequency device 902, and a baseband device 903. The antenna 901 is connected to the radio frequency device 902. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 902 receives information through the antenna 901, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 903 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 903 processes the information to be transmitted and transmits it to the radio frequency device 902, and the radio frequency device 902 processes the received information before transmitting it through the antenna 901.

[0128] The above frequency band processing device may be in a baseband device 903 , and the method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment may be realized in the baseband device 903 , which includes a processor 904 and a memory 905 .

[0129] The baseband device 903 may, for example, include at least one baseband board having multiple chips installed thereon, and as shown in FIG. 9, one of the chips may, for example, be a processor 904 connected to a memory 905 to call a program in the memory 905 to perform the operations of the network device as shown in the above method embodiments.

[0130] The baseband device 903 may further include a network interface 906 for communicating with the radio frequency device 902, the interface being, for example, a common public radio interface (CPRI).

[0131] Specifically, the network side device of the embodiment of the present invention further includes a command or program stored in memory 905 and executable on processor 904, and processor 904 can call the command or program in memory 905 to execute the method performed by each module shown in Figure 6 to achieve the same technical effect, and detailed description is omitted here to avoid duplication.

[0132] An embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, in which a program or command is stored, and when the program or command is executed by a processor, each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap determination method or each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap indication method is realized, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and detailed description will be omitted here to avoid duplication.

[0133] Wherein, the processor is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium such as a computer read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, etc.

[0134] An embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor are coupled to each other, and the processor executes a program or command to realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap determination method or each process of the embodiment of the measurement gap indication method, which can achieve the same technical effects, and detailed descriptions are omitted here to avoid duplication.

[0135] It should be understood that the chips referred to in the embodiments of this application may be referred to as system level chips, system chips, chip systems, system on chips, or the like.

[0136] An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product, which is stored in a non-transitory storage medium and executed by at least one processor to realize each process of the embodiment of the method for determining a measurement gap or each process of the embodiment of the method for indicating a measurement gap, so as to achieve the same technical effects, and detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted here to avoid duplication.

[0137] It should be noted that in this specification, the terms "comprise", "consist of" or any other variants are intended to include a non-exclusive inclusion, whereby a process, method, article or apparatus that includes a set of elements includes not only those elements, but also other elements not expressly stated or inherent to such process, method, article or apparatus. Unless otherwise specified, an element limited by the phrase "comprises a" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article or apparatus that includes the element. It should also be noted that the scope of the method and apparatus in the embodiments of this application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but may include performing functions substantially simultaneously or in the reverse order depending on such functions, for example, the described method may be performed in a different order than described, and various steps may be added, omitted or combined. Also, features described with reference to any example may be combined in other examples.

[0138] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be realized in the form of a combination of software and a necessary common hardware platform, and of course, they can be realized by hardware, but in many cases the former is a more preferred embodiment. Based on this view, the technical solution of the present application can be substantially or the part that contributes to the prior art can be implemented in the form of a computer software product, which is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes a number of commands that cause a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in each embodiment of the present application. Although the embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the drawings, the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments, and the above specific embodiments are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms that a person skilled in the art can make based on the suggestions of the present application without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of protection of the claims are all within the scope of protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A step of a terminal obtaining indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns configured for the terminal by a network side device; and when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the terminal determines a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively; A method for determining a measurement gap, wherein the instruction information includes priority setting information for indicating a priority of the measurement gap pattern, the instruction information is included in setting information of the measurement gap pattern, and the setting information of the measurement gap pattern includes IE GapConfig.

2. The instruction information further includes: proportion setting information for indicating a proportion of a common time period that each of the measurement gap patterns occupies; control sequence configuration information for indicating which measurement gaps are to be discarded and which are to be used in the event of a collision; and an indication of one or more target measurements.

3. The step of determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the instruction information by the terminal includes:

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: determining by the terminal to use a first target measurement gap corresponding to a first measurement gap pattern and to discard a second target measurement gap corresponding to a second measurement gap pattern based on a priority indicated by the priority setting information, the first measurement gap pattern being a measurement gap pattern with a highest priority among the different measurement gap patterns, and the second measurement gap pattern being a measurement gap pattern other than the first measurement gap pattern among the different measurement gap patterns.

4. The step of determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the instruction information by the terminal includes: The method according to claim 2 , further comprising the step of: the terminal determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded according to an instruction of the control sequence configuration information.

5. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each of conflicting measurement gaps within n first periods, the first period being a least common multiple of periods of the plurality of measurement gap patterns, and n being an integer greater than or equal to 1.

6. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, k is an integer, and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

7. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein a measurement object used to measure one of the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap includes a physical broadcast channel signal block, and the measurement objects used to measure the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are different.

8. a step of transmitting, from a network side device to a terminal, indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns set by the network side device for the terminal, the indication information being for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of the plurality of colliding measurement gaps; A method for instructing a measurement gap, wherein the instruction information includes priority setting information for instructing a priority of the measurement gap pattern, the instruction information is included in setting information of the measurement gap pattern, and the setting information of the measurement gap pattern includes IE GapConfig.

9. The instruction information further includes: proportion setting information for indicating a proportion of a common time period that each of the measurement gap patterns occupies; control sequence configuration information for indicating which measurement gaps are to be discarded and which are to be used in the event of a collision; and an indication of one or more target measurements.

10. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the control sequence configuration information indicates a usage manner of each of conflicting measurement gaps within n first periods, the first period being a least common multiple of periods of the plurality of measurement gap patterns, and n being an integer greater than or equal to 1.

11. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the control sequence configuration information includes k bit groups, each bit group indicating a usage manner of each colliding measurement gap in one of the first periods, k is an integer, and 1≦k≦K, and K is the number of measurement gap patterns configured in the terminal.

12. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein a measurement object used to measure one of the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap includes a physical broadcast channel signal block, and the measurement objects used to measure the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap are different.

13. an acquisition module for acquiring indication information of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, the plurality of measurement gap patterns being measurement gap patterns configured by a network side device for a terminal; a determination module for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded based on the indication information when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, respectively; A measurement gap determination device, wherein the instruction information includes priority setting information for indicating a priority of the measurement gap pattern, the instruction information is included in setting information of the measurement gap pattern, and the setting information of the measurement gap pattern includes IE GapConfig.

14. a configuration module for configuring a plurality of measurement gap patterns for a terminal; a transmitting module for transmitting indication information of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to a terminal, the indication information being for determining a first target measurement gap to be used and a second target measurement gap to be discarded when measurement gaps corresponding to different measurement gap patterns collide, the first target measurement gap and the second target measurement gap being one or more of a plurality of colliding measurement gaps, A measurement gap indication device, wherein the indication information includes priority setting information for indicating a priority of the measurement gap pattern, the indication information is included in setting information of the measurement gap pattern, and the setting information of the measurement gap pattern includes IE GapConfig.

15. A processor and a communication interface, A chip, the communication interface and the processor being coupled to each other, the processor executing a program or command to implement the method for determining a measurement gap as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7 or the method for indicating a measurement gap as claimed in any one of claims 8 to 12.

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