Measurement, measurement configuration method, terminal and network side device

Abstract

The present application discloses a measurement, a measurement configuration method, an apparatus, a terminal and a network side equipment, and belongs to the field of communication technology. A measurement method of an embodiment of the present application includes: a terminal receiving control information transmitted by a network side equipment; and the terminal performing pre-measurement and obtaining pre-measurement results based on the control information and the measurement configuration information, wherein the control information is used to indicate at least one of: a first cell provides a first service through an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, and the first service includes a voice service; the first cell requires pre-measurement information related to load control; the first cell supports the terminal to perform pre-measurement in the first cell; and the first cell supports the terminal to report the availability of pre-measurement results after the first cell enters a connected state.

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] (CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS) This application claims priority from Chinese Patent Application No. 202111087579.6 filed in China on September 16, 2021, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

[0002] The present application belongs to the field of communications, and in particular to measurements, measurement configuration methods, devices, terminals and network side equipment. [Background technology]

[0003] When an NR node (gNB) receives a Quality of Service (QoS) flow establishing an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice service, it triggers an Evolved Packet System (EPS) fallback (also called backoff) or Radio Access Technology (RAT) fallback. The gNB then sends Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) measurement information to the network. The measurement may result in a certain call establishment delay, and a relatively poor call experience may occur due to a long EPS fallback or RAT fallback delay.

[0004] In addition, the UE performs load-balanced measurements in a connected state, and measurement results are not available in a timely manner, which may result in a poor user experience due to the UE operating in a constantly congested frequency band. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The embodiments of the present application provide a measurement, measurement configuration method, device, terminal, and network side equipment that can solve the problem in the related art that the measurement method and load balancing measurement method when performing EPS Fallback or RAT Fallback have relatively long delays, resulting in a relatively poor user experience. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] A first aspect provides a method of measurement, the method comprising: The terminal receives control information transmitted by the network side device; The terminal performs a pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information to obtain a pre-measurement result; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; A first cell supports a terminal with EPS fallback capability to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; the first cell supports the terminal to report availability of advance measurement results including results related to EPS fallback after the first cell enters a connected state; After the terminal performs pre-measurement based on the control information and measurement configuration information and obtains pre-measurement results, The method further includes the terminal sending a first instruction to a network side device; wherein the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has the prior measurement results, and the prior measurement results include measurement results related to EPS fallback; The measurement configuration information includes: Some configuration information in system information block 5; All configuration information in the system information block 5 is included. fruit, The terminal has a first capability, and the first capability includes supporting advance measurement result reporting for EPS fallback. .

[0008] A third aspect provides a measurement configuration method, the method comprising: The network side device transmits control information to the terminal; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; the first cell requires information of advance measurement related to load control; The control information is A first cell supports a terminal with EPS fallback capability to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; the first cell supporting the terminal to report availability of advance measurement results including results related to EPS fallback after the first cell enters a connected state; After the network side device transmits control information to the terminal, The method further includes receiving, by the network side device, a first instruction sent by the terminal; Here, the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has the prior measurement results, and the prior measurement results include measurement results related to EPS fallback. fruit, The terminal supports advance measurement result reporting for EPS fallback. .

[0010] A fifth aspect provides a terminal including a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable to run on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method of the first aspect.

[0012] A seventh aspect provides a network side device, the network side device including a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable to run on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method of the third aspect. [Effects of the Invention]

[0018] In the embodiments of the present application, pre-measurement is performed based on the control information of the network side device, and the pre-measurement results are obtained, thereby solving the problem in the related art that the measurement method causes relatively large delays. Such a pre-measurement method according to the present application can reduce communication delays and improve user experience. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0019] [Figure 1] 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application can be applied. [Figure 2] 1 is a flowchart of a measurement method in an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 3] 1 is a schematic diagram of a module of a measurement device according to an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 4] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 5] 1 is a flowchart of a measurement configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 6] 1 is a module schematic diagram of a measurement configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 7] FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a network-side device according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 8] FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application; DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0020] The following clearly describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some 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 fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0021] The terms "first," "second," etc. in the specification and claims of this application are intended to distinguish between similar objects and are not intended to describe a particular order or sequence. It should be understood that terms used in this manner are interchangeable where appropriate, so that embodiments of this application may be performed in orders other than those illustrated or described herein, and that objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of the same type and do not limit the number of objects; for example, a first object may be one or more. Furthermore, "and / or" in the specification and claims indicates at least one of the connected objects, and the character " / " generally indicates an "or" relationship between the related objects.

[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 applied to 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 always used interchangeably, and the described techniques may be used in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies as well as other systems and radio technologies. Although the following description describes New Radio (NR) systems for illustrative purposes and uses NR terminology in most of the following description, these technologies may also be used in applications other than NR system applications, such as sixth generation (6G) systems. th This may be applied to 6G (6th Generation) communication systems.

[0023] 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiment of the present application can be applied. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12. Here, the terminal 11 may be a terminal-side device such as a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer (also called a notebook computer), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a palmtop computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile internet device (MID), an augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a vehicle user equipment (VUE), a pedestrian user equipment (PUE), a smart home (home equipment with wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or furniture), and the wearable device includes a smart watch, a smart bracelet, a smart earphone, a smart glasses, a smart accessory (smart bracelet, a smart hand chain, a smart ring, a smart necklace, a smart ankle bracelet, a smart anklet, etc.), a smart band, a smart clothing, a game console, etc. It should be noted that the embodiments of the present application are not limited to a specific type of terminal 11 .The network side equipment 12 may be a base station or a core network, where 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 Node B (eNB), a home B node, a home Evolved B node, a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access point, a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) node, a Transmitting Receiving Point (TRP), or any other suitable term in the art, and as long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical term. For illustrative purposes, the embodiments of this application only take base stations in an NR system as examples, but do not limit the specific type of base station.

[0024] First, the related art of the present application will be introduced below.

[0025] 1. EPS Fallback Mechanism 5th generation (5 th One of the key methods for enabling voice on 4th Generation (5G) networks is EPS Fallback, the main idea of ​​which is to th The idea is to switch / redirect to 4G, use 4G Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) to complete the call, and then fast return to 5G after the call ends.

[0026] EPS Fallback based on switchover When a terminal with EPS Fallback capability starts a voice service request, NR issues an LTE B1 measurement, and the terminal reports after meeting the B1 threshold. The New Radio (NR) side initiates a command to switch to the LTE network, and the terminal performs VOICE voice service after switching to the LTE network.

[0027] The main steps are as follows:

[0028] Step S11: The gNB issues a B1 measurement to the UE, and the measurement carries the 4G carrier frequency (frequency point) to be measured and the B1 threshold; Step S12: The user equipment (UE), also referred to as a terminal, reports the B1 level of the measured LTE cell, the physical cell identifier (PCI) of the cell, and the measurement identifier (measid) to the gNB; Step S13: The gNB sends a switching command to the UE, carrying the target cell frequency point and PCI; Step S14: Establish a dedicated bearer for voice service with Quality of Service Class Identifier (QCI)=1; Step S15: After 4G voice ends, FastReturn is performed to the 5G cell (blind redirection).

[0029] EPS Fallback based on measurement redirect: The flow of the measurement redirection-based EPS fallback is basically similar to that of the handover-based EPS fallback, with the only difference being the backoff method. The redirection-based EPS fallback backs off to the LTE network via the target frequency point carried in the radio resource control release (RRCRelease) after the NR B1 measurement.

[0030] The main steps are as follows:

[0031] Step S21: The gNB issues B1 measurements to the UE; Step S22: The UE reports B1 measurement, and the measurement report includes the PCI of the target cell, the measured cell level, and the measured measid; Step S23: After meeting the B1 threshold, the gNB redirects to the LTE network via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Release message, which must include the frequency point of the target cell.

[0032] EPS Fallback based on blind redirects: The biggest difference between the blind redirection-based EPS Fallback and the handover-based and measurement redirection-based EPS Fallback is that it redirects directly to the LTE network as long as voice service is being performed without any measurement.

[0033] 2.Event B1(Inter RAT neighbor becomes better than threshold) Event B1 may be used for inter-RAT switching processes that are independent of the coverage of the serving cell. For example, load balancing features may determine whether a UE should be removed from NR based on load conditions rather than radio conditions. In such cases, the UE only needs to verify that a target cell in another RAT (e.g., LTE) is better than a certain signal level threshold and can provide sufficient coverage.

[0034] The trigger condition is Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys>Thresh, Cancellation conditions are Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Hys <Threshである。

[0035] 3. Load balancing Load balancing is a measure to prevent degradation of user experience due to congestion in a particular frequency band, and by measuring cell quality, the network can select cells with better measurement results as the balancing direction, thereby improving the UE's throughput rate.

[0036] Since the UE performs load balancing measurement in the connected state and the measurement result is not obtained in a timely manner, the UE may operate in a congested frequency band for a long time, which may cause a poor user experience. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a solution to ensure that the UE load balancing measurement result is obtained as soon as possible.

[0037] 4. Idle / inactive measurement Idle / inactive measurement is introduced in R16 to establish dual connectivity (DC) / carrier aggregation (CA). A network that supports DC / CA sends indication information to a UE and carries related measurement configuration information in an RRC release and / or a system information block (SIB) 11. A UE that supports DC / CA can perform idle / inactive state measurements after receiving the indication information and measurement configuration information.

[0038] The following describes in detail the measurement, measurement configuration method, device, terminal and network side equipment according to the embodiments of the present application through several embodiments and their application scenarios in conjunction with the drawings.

[0039] As shown in FIG. 2, an embodiment of the present application provides a measurement method, which includes: Step 201: the terminal receives control information transmitted by the network side device; Step 202: the terminal performs pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information to obtain pre-measurement results; It should be noted that this control information A11. A first cell supports providing a first service through an Evolved Packet System (EPS) fallback and / or a Radio Access Technology (RAT) fallback, and the first service includes a voice service; A12, the first cell requires pre-measurement information related to load control; A13. A first cell supports a terminal to perform pre-measurement in the first cell; A14, the first cell is used to indicate at least one of: that the first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of advance measurement results after the first cell enters a connected state.

[0040] It should be noted that the first cell refers to any one or more cells under the control of the network side equipment, that is, when some cells under the control of the network side equipment have a demand for at least one of A11-A14, the network side equipment needs to notify the terminal of this situation.

[0041] It should be noted that the selective implementation of step 201 is as follows: a terminal receiving a first message including the control information, the first message being transmitted by a network side device; wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Release (RRCRelease) message.

[0042] It should be noted that the network side device may add a new field to the first message to carry the control information, or the network side device may reuse a field of a related technology in the first message and add a new meaning to it to indicate the control information.

[0043] It should be noted that measurement in this application refers to measuring a cell corresponding to a frequency point to obtain a measurement result of the cell.

[0044] Optionally, the pre-measurement in the examples of the present application may be: The measurement includes at least one of measurements performed in an idle state, measurements performed in an inactive state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from an idle state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from an inactive state, measurements performed when a network side device requests measurement results, and measurements performed when control information transmitted by the network side device is received.

[0045] It should be noted that in one optional situation, the terminal needs to perform measurement when it receives the above control information, while in another optional situation, the terminal performs measurement when it receives the above measurement information and the measurement conditions are met, for example, the pre-measurement includes a measurement performed in an idle state, and if the terminal obtains the control information from an RRC Release message, the terminal releases the RRC connection and performs measurement after entering the idle state.

[0046] It should be noted that, since the terminal in the embodiment of the present application needs to perform pre-measurement, the terminal needs to have a first capability: Here, the first ability is: The method includes at least one of supporting EPS fallback, supporting obtaining voice services via an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), supporting obtaining voice services via a 5G Core Network (5G Core Network (5GC)), supporting load control, and supporting pre-measurement and pre-measurement result reporting.

[0047] Pre-measurement can be performed only when a terminal with the relevant capability receives control information transmitted by the network side equipment. For example, if the network side equipment indicates that a first cell supports performing voice services via EPS fallback and / or RAT fallback, a terminal accessing the network side equipment and capable of supporting EPS fallback can perform pre-measurement in the first cell. If a terminal accessing the network side equipment does not have the capability to support EPS fallback, such a terminal cannot perform pre-measurement in the first cell.

[0048] It should be noted that the measurement configuration information referred to in the embodiments of the present application is configured by the network side equipment for the terminal, and optionally, the measurement configuration information may include frequency point information, where the frequency point information includes a frequency point identifier and a maximum measurement bandwidth corresponding to each frequency point identifier.

[0049] Optionally, this measurement configuration information is: B11, some configuration information in System Information Block 4 (SIB4), All configuration information in B12 and SIB4, B13, some configuration information in System Information Block 3 (SIB3), All configuration information in B14 and SIB3, B15, some configuration information in System Information Block 5 (SIB5), All configuration information in B16 and SIB5, B17, some configuration information in System Information Block 11 (SIB11), All configuration information in B18 and SIB11, B19, and configuration information in the RRC release message.

[0050] It should be noted that B11-B19 refer to where the measurement configuration information is obtained from, specifically, the part of the configuration information mentioned above includes the configuration information corresponding to the frequency points included in the first list; The first list is used to indicate the validity range of the configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

[0051] Optionally, the terminal The terminal obtains the first list by receiving measurement configuration related information including the first list, which is sent by the network side device.

[0052] Optionally, this measurement configuration related information is typically included in a fifth message, said fifth message comprising: The message includes at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

[0053] It should be further mentioned that after obtaining the measurement configuration information, the terminal needs to store the measurement configuration information for easy use when making measurements, but due to the movement of the terminal, the measurement configuration information previously stored by the terminal may no longer be applicable to the current area, so in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal needs to update the stored measurement configuration information.

[0054] Optionally, the UE updates the stored measurement configuration information when a first condition is met, where the first condition includes at least one of the following:

[0055] B21, performs cell selection when the UE enters RRC_IDLE or RRC_INACTIVE from RRC_CONNECTED or RRC_INACTIVE state.

[0056] B22, an update occurs in the first system information (e.g., SIB4, SIB5, SIB11), The first system information includes configuration information related to a first measurement, and the first measurement includes a measurement for the purpose of at least one of EPS Fallback, RAT Fallback, and load control, and the determination of the first system information may be based on UE implementation, protocol agreement, pre-definition, etc.

[0057] B23, the first timer expired, Illustratively, the first timer satisfies at least one of the following: configuration by a broadcast message, configuration by an RRC_Release message, agreement by a protocol, pre-definition, and implementation by a UE.

[0058] B24: The UE moves out of a first range, and the first range satisfies at least one of the following: a protocol agreement, a broadcast message configuration, an RRC_Release message configuration, a pre-definition, and an implementation by the UE.

[0059] The measurement configuration information of the UE is valid within the first range, that is, the UE does not update the measurement configuration information when moving within the first range.

[0060] It should be noted that when the UE meets the preset conditions and receives first system information in the cell in which the UE is currently located, if the first system information includes first measurement configuration information, the UE will store or replace the first measurement configuration information; otherwise, if the UE has stored the first measurement configuration information, the UE will delete the first measurement configuration information.

[0061] It should be further explained that, in order to facilitate the use of the measurement results by the terminal, the terminal also needs to optionally store the measurement results. Generally, the terminal does not store all the measurement results, but only the measurement results that meet certain conditions are stored in the terminal. Optionally, the specific implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application is as follows: The terminal stores a pre-measurement result of the second cell; Here, the pre-measurement result corresponding to the second cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold.

[0062] That is, the terminal stores only the pre-measurement results of cells that are equal to or greater than a first threshold, and optionally, this first threshold is C11, the reporting threshold for measurement results at frequency points corresponding to EPS fallback; C12, the reporting threshold of measurement results for frequency points corresponding to RAT fallback; C13, the reporting threshold of the measurement results of the frequency points corresponding to the load control; C14, and a reporting threshold corresponding to the prior measurement result.

[0063] It should be noted that the above mentions that the terminal needs to store pre-measurement results, and optionally, if the terminal stores too many measurement results, a large amount of storage space of the terminal will be occupied, and optionally, the terminal should delete the stored measurement results.

[0064] Optionally, if a second condition is met and the UE has stored measurement results, the UE deletes the stored measurement results, and the second condition includes at least one of the following:

[0065] C21 and UE reported the measurement results.

[0066] C22, the second timer expires, Illustratively, the second timer satisfies at least one of the following: configuration by a broadcast message, configuration by an RRC_Release message, agreement by a protocol, pre-definition, and implementation by the UE.

[0067] C23, UE moves out of the first range, Explainably, the first range satisfies at least one of: a protocol agreement; a broadcast message configuration; a RRC_Release message configuration; a pre-definition; and a UE implementation.

[0068] This refers to a situation where the measurement configuration information of the UE is valid within a first range, i.e., when the UE moves within the first range, the measurement configuration information is not updated, and after the terminal moves out of the first range, the measurement configuration information needs to be updated and the corresponding previously stored measurement results can no longer be applied and therefore need to be deleted.

[0069] C24, a change has occurred in the measurement configuration information of the UE.

[0070] It should be noted that, generally, measurement results are reported based on the request of the network side equipment. However, in order to avoid the occurrence of a situation where the network does not know the situation of the terminal side and mistakenly sends measurement result request information, resulting in resource waste, the terminal needs to perform pre-measurement to obtain pre-measurement results, store the pre-measurement results, and then send a first instruction to the network side equipment, where the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal has the pre-measurement results.

[0071] Specifically, the preliminary measurement results are: D11, Measurement results related to EPS fallback and D12,Measurements related to RAT fallback and D13, Measurement results related to load control and D14, and available prior measurement results.

[0072] Optionally, the specific implementation manner of the terminal sending the first instruction to the network side device is: the terminal transmits a second message including the first instruction to the network side device; The second message is The message includes at least one of an RRC establishment request message, an RRC establishment complete message, an RRC recovery request message, and an RRC recovery complete message.

[0073] It should be noted that the terminal may add a new field to the second message to carry the first instruction (for example, add a new 1-bit information domain), or the terminal may reuse a field of related technology in the second message and give it a new meaning to realize the indication of the first instruction.

[0074] It should be noted that the RRC Establishment Request message, the RRC Establishment Complete message, the RRC Recovery Request message and the RRC Recovery Complete message are messages transmitted during connection establishment, that is, the terminal may transmit the measurement results stored during connection establishment to the network side equipment.

[0075] Optionally, the network side equipment may send measurement result request information to the terminal when it needs measurement results, and when the terminal receives the measurement result request information sent by the network side equipment, it sends a measurement report to the network side equipment based on the measurement result request information, and the measurement report includes the advance measurement results stored in the terminal.

[0076] It should be noted here that the measurement result request information must clearly indicate to the terminal what measurement results are requested in order to facilitate the terminal to transmit the measurement results. Optionally, the measurement result request information may include: E11, measurement results related to EPS fallback, and E12,measurements related to RAT fallback, and E13, measurements related to load control and E14, idle state measurement results and E15, and a measurement result of the deactivation state.

[0077] Optionally, the measurement result request information is generally included in a third message sent by the network side device, and specifically, the third message includes: The message includes at least one of an RRC Resume message, a UE Information Request message, and an RRC Reconfiguration message.

[0078] It should be noted that the network side device may add a new field to the third message to carry the measurement result request information (for example, add a new 1-bit information domain), or the network side device may reuse a field of related technology in the third message and add a new meaning to it to realize the indication of the measurement result request information.

[0079] Optionally, the measurement report is generally included in a fourth message sent by the terminal, and specifically, the fourth message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

[0080] In the following, a specific implementation of the present application will be described in detail using an example in which a terminal (UE) completes early measurement in an idle / inactive state to reduce the delay of EPS Fallback and / or RAT Fallback.

[0081] Step S101: the base station sends control information to the UE; Wherein the control information indicates that a UE located in a specific cell with certain capabilities can perform pre-measurement of idle / inactive states for EPS Fallback and / or RAT Fallback; and / or Used to indicate whether this measurement result is available or not to report when the UE establishes or reestablishes a connection in this cell.

[0082] It should be explained that a certain cell has the capability to support switching or redirecting to E-UTRAN / 5GC to provide voice services, where E-UTRAN / 5GC means that the radio access network of one network is E-UTRAN and the core network is 5GC, i.e., E-UTRAN is connected to 5GC; and / or Ability to support switching to or redirecting to EPS.

[0083] Step S102: The UE receives control information; The control information is configured by a broadcast message by the network and / or configured by an RRCRelease message.

[0084] Step S103: The UE performs idle / inactive measurement according to the control information; It should be noted that optionally, the UE should be capable of supporting EPS Fallback, and optionally, the UE should support obtaining IMS voice via E-UTRAN / 5GC and have the capability to support idle / inactive measurement result reporting.

[0085] It should be noted that the terminal should perform idle / inactive measurements based on the measurement configuration information sent by the network side equipment.

[0086] Step S104: The UE determines cell information required for the frequency point; It should be noted that this frequency point is the determined frequency point information in the measurement configuration information, and the cell information is used for storing and reporting the measurement results.

[0087] Optionally, determining cell information required for a frequency point by the UE includes: The UE selects cell information included in at least one of SIB5 (eutra-FreqNeighCellList), SIB11 (measCellListEUTRA), and RRCRelease (measCellListEUTRA) to use for reporting measurement results; The UE selects N cells with the strongest measurement results from cell information present in at least one of SIB5, SIB11, and RRCRelease and uses the N cells for reporting the measurement results; The UE may select the N cells with the strongest measurements to use for reporting the measurements.

[0088] It should be noted here that N is the maximum number of cells allowed to report, which may be carried by a broadcast message, carried by an RRCRelease message, or agreed upon by a protocol.

[0089] Step S105, the UE determines the storage / report format (measurement quantities); Optionally, the method of determining the storage / reporting format comprises: If the UE receives a broadcast message, which includes a low-priority cell-to-serving cell threshold Q (threshServingLowQ), the UE stores / reports Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), otherwise stores / reports Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP); The UE receives an SIB11 message, which includes a reporting amount and is set to RSRQ, and if so, the UE takes RSRQ as a storage format, otherwise takes RSRP as a storage format; The UE receives an RRCRelease message, which includes a reporting quantity and is set to RSRQ, and if so, the UE uses RSRQ as the storage format; otherwise, the UE uses RSRP as the storage format, but this is not limited to this.

[0090] Step S106: The UE acquires and stores the measurement results.

[0091] The measurement results include measurement results of one or more frequency points, and the measurement results of the frequency points include measurement results of one or more cells, that is, what ultimately corresponds to this measurement result is the measurement result of at least one cell, and the terminal obtains and stores the measurement results according to steps 103 to 105.

[0092] Step S107: the UE executes the RRC connection establishment / RRC connection recovery flow.

[0093] Step S108: optionally, the UE indicates to the base station that the UE has available measurement results for E-UTRAN frequency points related to EPS_Fallback and / or RAT Fallback.

[0094] The terminal may indicate in an RRC Establishment Request message, an RRC Establishment Complete message, an RRC Connection Recovery Request message, or an RRC Connection Recovery Complete message that it has available measurement results for E-UTRAN frequency points related to EPS_Fallback and / or RAT Fallback.

[0095] Step S109: the base station sends measurement result request information to the UE; It should be noted that the measurement result request information includes a request for EPS Fallback measurement results, RAT Fallback measurement results, or idle / inactive measurement results.

[0096] Step S110, the UE sends a measurement report to the network; It should be noted that the measurement report includes the measurement results stored in step S106.

[0097] Step S111: the base station selects an appropriate E-UTRAN frequency point to perform switching or redirection according to the measurement report of the UE, and sends related configuration information to the UE.

[0098] It should be noted that the embodiments of the present application propose a pre-measurement method, in which the network side device instructs the network side device via a broadcast message or RRCRelease that it can perform measurements for EPS Fallback and / or RAT Fallback and / or load balancing in the idle / inactive state, ensuring that the UE already has available measurement results before entering the connected state, thereby minimizing the delay of EPS Fallback and / or RAT Fallback and / or load balancing.

[0099] It should be noted that in the measurement method according to the embodiment of the present application, the execution body may be a measurement device or a control module for executing the measurement method in the measurement device. In the embodiment of the present application, the measurement device according to the embodiment of the present application will be described by taking the measurement device executing the measurement method as an example.

[0100] As shown in FIG. 3, an embodiment of the present application provides a measurement device 300 for use in a terminal, which includes: a first receiving module 301 for receiving control information transmitted by a network side device; a measurement module 302 for performing pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information and obtaining pre-measurement results; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell is used to indicate at least one of: that the first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of advance measurement results after the first cell enters a connected state.

[0101] Optionally, the pre-measurement comprises: The measurement includes at least one of measurements performed in an idle state, measurements performed in a deactivated state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from an idle state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from a deactivated state, measurements performed when a network side device requests measurement results, and measurements performed when control information transmitted by the network side device is received.

[0102] Optionally, the first receiving module 301: is used to receive a first message including the control information, the first message being transmitted by a network side device; wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a radio resource control (RRC) release message.

[0103] Optionally, after the measurement module 302 performs a pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information and obtains a pre-measurement result, further comprising a first sending module for sending a first instruction to the network side device; Here, the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal has the preliminary measurement result.

[0104] Optionally, the pre-measurement results include: Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; and available prior measurements.

[0105] Optionally, the first transmitting module: a second message including the first instruction is sent to the network side device; The second message is The message includes at least one of an RRC establishment request message, an RRC establishment complete message, an RRC recovery request message, and an RRC recovery complete message.

[0106] Optionally, the device comprises: further comprising a second receiving module for receiving measurement result request information transmitted by the network side device; Here, the measurement result request information is Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; Measurement results in idle state and and a measurement result in a deactivated state.

[0107] Optionally, the second receiving module: The third message is used to receive a third message including measurement result request information transmitted by the network side device; Here, the third message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery message, a terminal information request message, and an RRC reconfiguration message.

[0108] Optionally, after the second receiving module receives measurement result request information sent by the network side device, The device further includes a second sending module for sending a measurement report including the preliminary measurement result to a network side device based on the measurement result request information.

[0109] Optionally, the second transmitting module: a fourth message including the measurement report to a network side device; wherein the fourth message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

[0110] Optionally, after the measurement module 302 performs a pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information and obtains a pre-measurement result, further comprising a storage module for storing the pre-measurement results of the second cell; Here, the pre-measurement result corresponding to the second cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold.

[0111] Optionally, the first threshold is: reporting thresholds for measurement results for frequency points corresponding to EPS fallback; A reporting threshold for measurement results of frequency points corresponding to RAT fallback; a reporting threshold for measurement results at frequency points corresponding to load control; and a reporting threshold corresponding to the pre-measurement result.

[0112] Optionally, the terminal has a first capability; Here, the first ability is: The method includes at least one of supporting EPS fallback, supporting obtaining voice services via an evolved universal mobile system terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), supporting obtaining voice services via a 5G core network, supporting load control, and supporting advance measurement result reporting.

[0113] Optionally, the measurement configuration information comprises: Some configuration information in system information block 4; All configuration information in System Information Block 4; Some configuration information in system information block 3; All configuration information in System Information Block 3; Some configuration information in system information block 5; All configuration information in System Information Block 5; Some configuration information in system information block eleven; all configuration information in system information block eleven; and configuration information in the RRC release message.

[0114] Optionally, the portion of configuration information includes configuration information corresponding to frequency points included in a first list; The first list is used to indicate the validity range of the configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

[0115] Optionally, the device comprises: The network side device further includes a fifth receiving module for receiving measurement configuration related information including the first list, the measurement configuration related information being sent by the network side device.

[0116] Optionally, the fifth receiving module: a fifth message including the measurement configuration related information, the fifth message being sent by the network side device; Here, the fifth message is The message includes at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

[0117] Optionally, the measurement configuration information includes frequency point information, and the frequency point information includes a frequency point identifier and a maximum measurement bandwidth corresponding to each frequency point identifier.

[0118] It should be noted that this device embodiment is a one-to-one corresponding device to the above method embodiment, and all the implementation methods in the above method embodiment can be applied to this device embodiment and can achieve the same technical effects, and will not be further described here.

[0119] The measuring device in the embodiments of the present application may be a device, a device with an operating system, or electronic equipment, or may be a component, integrated circuit, or chip in a terminal. The device or electronic equipment may be a mobile terminal or a non-mobile terminal. Exemplarily, the mobile terminal may include, but is not limited to, the types of terminals 11 listed above. The non-mobile terminal may be, for example, a server, a network-attached storage (NAS), a personal computer (PC), a television (TV), a teller machine, a self-service machine, etc., and the embodiments of the present application are not specifically limited thereto.

[0120] The measuring device according to the embodiment of the present application can realize each process realized by the embodiment of the method of FIG. 2 and achieve the same technical effect, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition of the description.

[0121] An embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, the terminal including: a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being used for receiving control information sent by a network side device; the processor being used for performing pre-measurement according to the control information and measurement configuration information, and obtaining pre-measurement results; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell is used to indicate at least one of: that the first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of advance measurement results after the first cell enters a connected state.

[0122] This terminal embodiment corresponds to the above terminal-side method embodiment, and the implementation processes and realization modes of the above method embodiments can be applied to this terminal embodiment and can achieve the same technical effects. Specifically, Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure realizing the terminal of the embodiment of this application.

[0123] The terminal 400 includes at least some components such as, but not limited to, a radio frequency unit 401, a network module 402, an audio output unit 403, an input unit 404, a sensor 405, a display unit 406, a user input unit 407, an interface unit 408, a memory 409, and a processor 410.

[0124] As will be understood by those skilled in the art, the terminal 400 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 410 by a power management system, thereby enabling the power management system to realize functions such as charge / discharge management and power consumption management. The terminal structure shown in Figure 4 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal, and the terminal may include more or fewer components than those shown, or a combination of some components, or a different arrangement of components, which will not be further described here.

[0125] It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 404 may include a graphics processing unit (GPU) 4041 and a microphone 4042, and the graphics processor 4041 processes image data of still or video images captured by an image capture device (e.g., a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 406 may include a display panel 4061, which may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), or the like. The user input unit 407 includes a touch panel 4071 and other input devices 4072. The touch panel 4071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 4071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 4072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a control lever, which will not be further described herein.

[0126] In the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 401 receives downlink data from the network side device, and then processes the data in the processor 410, and transmits uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 401 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low-noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0127] The memory 409 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 409 may primarily include a program or instruction storage area and a data storage area, where the program or instruction storage area can store an operating system, an application program or instructions required for at least one function (e.g., audio playback function, image playback function, etc.), etc. The memory 409 may include high-speed random access memory or nonvolatile memory, where the nonvolatile memory may be read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or flash memory. For example, the memory 409 may be at least one magnetic disk memory device, flash memory device, or other nonvolatile solid-state memory device.

[0128] The processor 410 may include one or more processing units. Optionally, the processor 410 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor. Here, the application processor mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, and application programs or instructions, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication, such as a baseband processor. As can be appreciated, the modem processor does not have to be integrated into the processor 410.

[0129] Here, the radio frequency unit 401 is It is used to realize receiving control information transmitted by a network side device, The processor 410 The pre-measurement is performed based on the control information and the measurement configuration information, and the pre-measurement result is obtained; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell is used to indicate at least one of: that the first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of advance measurement results after the first cell enters a connected state.

[0130] Optionally, the pre-measurement comprises: The measurement includes at least one of measurements performed in an idle state, measurements performed in a deactivated state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from an idle state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from a deactivated state, measurements performed when a network side device requests measurement results, and measurements performed when control information transmitted by the network side device is received.

[0131] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 is The control information is transmitted by a network-side device, and a first message including the control information is received. wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a radio resource control (RRC) release message.

[0132] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 further comprises: is used to realize sending a first instruction to a network side device; Here, the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal has the preliminary measurement result.

[0133] Optionally, the pre-measurement results include: Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; and available prior measurements.

[0134] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 is a second message including the first instruction is transmitted to the network side device; The second message is The message includes at least one of an RRC establishment request message, an RRC establishment complete message, an RRC recovery request message, and an RRC recovery complete message.

[0135] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 further comprises: The method is used to realize receiving measurement result request information transmitted by a network side device, Here, the measurement result request information is Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; Measurement results in idle state and and a measurement result in a deactivated state.

[0136] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 is receiving a third message including measurement result request information, the third message being sent by the network side device; Here, the third message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery message, a terminal information request message, and an RRC reconfiguration message.

[0137] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 further comprises: This is used to realize transmitting a measurement report including the preliminary measurement results to a network side device based on the measurement result request information.

[0138] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 is a fourth message including the measurement report is sent to a network side device; wherein the fourth message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

[0139] Optionally, the processor 410 further The method is used to realize that the terminal stores a pre-measurement result of the second cell; Here, the pre-measurement result corresponding to the second cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold.

[0140] Optionally, the first threshold is: reporting thresholds for measurement results for frequency points corresponding to EPS fallback; A reporting threshold for measurement results of frequency points corresponding to RAT fallback; a reporting threshold for measurement results at frequency points corresponding to load control; and a reporting threshold corresponding to the pre-measurement result.

[0141] Optionally, the terminal has a first capability; Here, the first ability is: The method includes at least one of supporting EPS fallback, supporting obtaining voice services via an evolved universal mobile system terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), supporting obtaining voice services via a 5G core network, supporting load control, and supporting advance measurement result reporting.

[0142] Optionally, the measurement configuration information comprises: Some configuration information in system information block 4; All configuration information in System Information Block 4; Some configuration information in system information block 3; All configuration information in System Information Block 3; Some configuration information in system information block 5; All configuration information in System Information Block 5; Some configuration information in system information block eleven; all configuration information in system information block eleven; and configuration information in the RRC release message.

[0143] Optionally, the portion of configuration information includes configuration information corresponding to frequency points included in a first list; The first list is used to indicate the validity range of the configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

[0144] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 further comprises: It is used to realize receiving measurement configuration related information including the first list sent by the network side device.

[0145] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 401 is receiving a fifth message sent by a network side device, the fifth message including the measurement configuration related information; Here, the fifth message is The message includes at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

[0146] Optionally, the measurement configuration information includes frequency point information, and the frequency point information includes a frequency point identifier and a maximum measurement bandwidth corresponding to each frequency point identifier.

[0147] Preferably, the embodiments of the present application further provide a terminal, including a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored on the memory and operable on the processor, which, when executed by the processor, can realize each process of the embodiments of the measurement method and achieve the same technical effect, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition of description.

[0148] The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer-readable storage medium, which may be non-volatile or volatile, and stores a program or instruction, which, when executed by a processor, realizes each process of the embodiments of the measurement method and achieves the same technical effect, and will not be described further herein to avoid repetition. Here, the computer-readable storage medium may be, for example, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

[0149] As shown in FIG. 5 , an embodiment of the present application further provides a measurement configuration method, Step 501: a network side device sends control information to a terminal; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of the advance measurement result after the first cell enters the connected state.

[0150] Optionally, the network side device transmitting control information to the terminal includes: transmitting a first message including the control information from a network side device to a terminal; wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a radio resource control (RRC) release message.

[0151] Optionally, after the network side device sends control information to the terminal, The network side device further includes receiving a first instruction sent by the terminal; Here, the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal has the preliminary measurement result.

[0152] Optionally, the pre-measurement results include: Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; and available prior measurements.

[0153] Optionally, the network side device receiving the first instruction sent by the terminal includes: receiving, by the network side device, a second message sent by the terminal, the second message including the first instruction; The second message is The message includes at least one of an RRC establishment request message, an RRC establishment complete message, an RRC recovery request message, and an RRC recovery complete message.

[0154] Optionally, after the network side device sends control information to the terminal, The network side device further includes transmitting measurement result request information to the terminal; Here, the measurement result request information is Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; Measurement results in idle state and and a measurement result in a deactivated state.

[0155] Optionally, the network side device transmitting measurement result request information to the terminal includes: The network side device transmits a third message including measurement result request information to the terminal; Here, the third message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery message, a terminal information request message, and an RRC reconfiguration message.

[0156] Optionally, after the network side device sends measurement result request information to the terminal, The method further includes receiving, by a network side device, a measurement report fed back by the terminal, the measurement report including a preliminary measurement result.

[0157] Optionally, the network side device receiving a measurement report fed back by the terminal includes: receiving, by a network side device, a fourth message fed back by the terminal, the fourth message including the measurement report; wherein the fourth message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

[0158] Optionally, the method further comprises: The method further includes the network side device transmitting, to the terminal, measurement configuration related information including the first list; Here, the first list is used to indicate the validity area range of the configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

[0159] Optionally, the network side device sending measurement configuration related information to the terminal includes: The network side device transmits a fifth message to the terminal, the fifth message including the measurement configuration related information; Here, the fifth message is The message includes at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

[0160] It should be noted that all the descriptions regarding the network side equipment in the above embodiments can also be applied to the embodiment of this measurement configuration method used in the network side equipment, and the same technical effects can also be achieved.

[0161] As shown in FIG. 6 , an embodiment of the present application further provides a measurement configuration device 600 for use in a network side device, a third sending module 601 for sending control information to a terminal; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of the advance measurement result after the first cell enters the connected state.

[0162] Optionally, the third transmitting module 601: used to transmit a first message including the control information to a terminal; wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a radio resource control (RRC) release message.

[0163] Optionally, after the third sending module 601 sends the control information to the terminal, further comprising a third receiving module for receiving the first instruction sent by the terminal; Here, the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal has the preliminary measurement result.

[0164] Optionally, the pre-measurement results include: Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; and available prior measurements.

[0165] Optionally, the third receiving module: a second message including the first instruction, the second message being sent by the terminal; The second message is The message includes at least one of an RRC establishment request message, an RRC establishment complete message, an RRC recovery request message, and an RRC recovery complete message.

[0166] Optionally, after the third sending module 601 sends the control information to the terminal, further comprising a third sending module for sending measurement result request information to the terminal; Here, the measurement result request information is Measurement results related to EPS fallbacks and Measurement results related to RAT fallback and Measurement results related to load control; Measurement results in idle state and and a measurement result in a deactivated state.

[0167] Optionally, the third transmitting module: used to transmit a third message including measurement result request information to the terminal; Here, the third message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery message, a terminal information request message, and an RRC reconfiguration message.

[0168] Optionally, after the third sending module sends measurement result request information to the terminal, The terminal further includes a fourth receiving module for receiving a measurement report including a preliminary measurement result fed back by the terminal.

[0169] Optionally, the fourth receiving module: a network side device is used to receive a fourth message fed back by the terminal, the fourth message including the measurement report; wherein the fourth message is The message includes at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

[0170] Optionally, the device comprises: a fourth sending module for sending, to the terminal, measurement configuration related information including the first list; Here, the first list is used to indicate the validity area range of the configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

[0171] Optionally, the fourth transmitting module: for transmitting to a terminal a fifth message including the measurement configuration related information; Here, the fifth message is The message includes at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

[0172] It should be noted that the embodiment of this device corresponds to the embodiment of the method on the network side device side, and the implementation processes and realization methods of the embodiment of the method can all be applied to the embodiment of this device, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

[0173] Preferably, the embodiments of the present application further provide a network side device, including a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored in the memory and operable on the processor, which, when executed by the processor, can realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement configuration method used on the network side device side and achieve the same technical effect, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition.

[0174] The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer-readable storage medium, which may be non-volatile or volatile, and which stores a program or instruction, which, when executed by a processor, can realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement configuration method used on the network side device side and achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, will not be described further here.

[0175] Here, the computer-readable storage medium is, for example, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

[0176] An embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device, including: a processor; and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to send control information to a terminal; Here, the control information is The first cell provides a first service with an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of pre-measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; The first cell supports the terminal reporting the availability of the advance measurement result after the first cell enters the connected state.

[0177] This embodiment of the network-side equipment corresponds to the above-mentioned embodiment of the network-side equipment method, and the implementation processes and realization methods of the above-mentioned embodiment of the method can all be applied to this embodiment of the network-side equipment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

[0178] Specifically, an embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device. As shown in Fig. 7, the network side device 700 includes an antenna 701, a radio frequency device 702, and a baseband device 703. The antenna 701 and the radio frequency device 702 are connected to each other. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 702 receives information through the antenna 701 and transmits the received information to the baseband device 703 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 703 processes the information to be transmitted and transmits it to the radio frequency device 702, and the radio frequency device 702 processes the received information and then transmits it through the antenna 701.

[0179] The above frequency band processing device may be located in a baseband device 703, and the method performed by the network side equipment in the above embodiments may be implemented in the baseband device 703, which includes a processor 704 and a memory 705.

[0180] The baseband device 703 may include, for example, at least one baseband board, on which multiple chips are installed, and as shown in FIG. 7, one of the chips is, for example, a processor 704, which is connected to a memory 705, and calls the program in the memory 705 to perform the operations of the network side equipment shown in the above embodiment of the method.

[0181] The baseband device 703 may further include a network interface 706, which is used to exchange information with the radio frequency device 702, and this interface may be, for example, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

[0182] Specifically, the network side device of the embodiment of the present disclosure further includes instructions or programs stored in memory 705 and run on processor 704, and processor 704 can call the instructions or programs in memory 705 to execute the methods performed by each module shown in FIG. 6 and achieve the same technical effects, which will not be further described here to avoid repetition.

[0183] Optionally, as shown in Fig. 8, an embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 800, including a processor 801, a memory 802, and a program or instruction stored in the memory 802 and operable on the processor 801. For example, if the communication device 800 is a terminal, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 801, it can realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement method and achieve the same technical effect. If the communication device 800 is a network-side device, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 801, it can realize each process of the embodiment of the measurement configuration method and achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, it will not be further described here.

[0184] A terminal in the embodiments of the present application may refer to a device that provides voice and / or data communication to a user, a handheld device with wireless connectivity, or another processing device connected to a wireless modem. In different systems, the term terminal device may be called differently. For example, in a 5G system, the terminal device may be called User Equipment (UE). A wireless terminal device can communicate with one or more core networks (CNs) via a Radio Access Network (RAN). The wireless terminal device may be a mobile terminal device, such as a mobile phone (also called a "cellular" phone) and a computer with a mobile terminal device, such as a portable, pocket-sized, handheld, computer-integrated, or vehicle-mounted mobile device, which exchanges voice and / or data with the radio access network. For example, the wireless terminal device may be a Personal Communication Service (PCS) phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. The wireless terminal device may also be called a system, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a mobile, a remote station, an access point, a remote terminal, an access terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, or a user device, and is not limited to this in the embodiments of the present application.

[0185] The network side equipment according to the embodiments of the present application may be a base transceiver station (BTS) in Global System of Mobile communication (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a base station (Node B, NB) in Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), an evolved base station (Evolutional Node B, eNB or eNodeB) in LTE, a relay station or access point, or a base station in a future 5G network, and is not limited thereto.

[0186] Between the network side device and the terminal, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission can be performed using one or more antennas, and the MIMO transmission may be single user MIMO (SU-MIMO) or multiple user MIMO (MU-MIMO). Depending on the type and number of antenna combinations, the MIMO transmission may be two-dimensional MIMO (2D-MIMO), three-dimensional MIMO (3D-MIMO), full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), or massive-MIMO (M-MIMO), and may also be diversity transmission, precoding transmission, beamforming transmission, etc.

[0187] The embodiments of the present application further provide a chip, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface coupled to the processor, the processor running a program or instruction to realize each process of the embodiments of the above measurement method or measurement configuration method, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition of description, no further description will be given here.

[0188] 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, or system-on-chips.

[0189] The embodiments of the present application further provide a readable storage medium, which may be non-volatile or volatile, and stores a program or instruction, which, when executed by a processor, realizes each process of the above-mentioned measurement method or measurement configuration method embodiment and achieves the same technical effect, and will not be described further here to avoid repetition. It should be noted that the readable storage medium may be volatile or non-volatile, and the readable storage medium may be non-transitory.

[0190] The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program / program product, which is stored in a non-transitory storage medium, and which can be executed by at least one processor to realize each process of the embodiments of the above measurement method or measurement configuration method and achieve the same technical effects, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition.

[0191] The embodiments of the present application further provide a communication device, which is configured to perform each process of the embodiments of the measurement method or measurement configuration method as described above, and can achieve the same technical effects, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition of description.

[0192] It should be noted that, in this specification, the terms "comprise," "include," "includes," or any other variations thereof are intended to cover the non-exclusive "comprise," whereby a process, method, article, or apparatus comprising a set of elements not only includes those elements, but also other elements not expressly listed or inherent in such process, method, article, or apparatus. Absent further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprises one of" does not preclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus comprising that element. It should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatuses in the embodiments of this application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but may include performing functions in an essentially simultaneous manner or in the reverse order based on the functions involved. For example, the described method may be performed in a different order than described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Furthermore, features described with reference to some examples may be combined in other examples.

[0193] As will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the above description of the embodiments, the methods of the above embodiments can be realized in the form of software and a necessary general-purpose hardware platform. Of course, they can also be realized in hardware, but in many cases the former is a more preferred embodiment. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application, in substance or in part contributing to the related art, may be embodied in the form of a software product. This computer software product is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes some instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, computer, server, air conditioner, network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0194] Although the embodiments of the present application have been described above in conjunction with the drawings, the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments. The above specific embodiments are merely illustrative and not limiting. Those skilled in the art can take the teachings of the present application into account and implement many forms without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims, all of which fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A measurement method comprising: The terminal receives control information transmitted by the network side device; The terminal performs a pre-measurement based on the control information and the measurement configuration information to obtain a pre-measurement result; Here, the control information is the first cell provides a first service over an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; The first cell requires information of a prior measurement related to load control; a first cell supporting a terminal with EPS fallback capability to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; the first cell supports the terminal to report availability of advance measurement results including results related to EPS fallback after the first cell enters a connected state; After the terminal performs pre-measurement based on the control information and measurement configuration information and obtains pre-measurement results, The method further includes the terminal sending a first instruction to a network side device; wherein the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has the prior measurement results, and the prior measurement results include measurement results related to EPS fallback; The measurement configuration information includes: Some configuration information in system information block 5; and all configuration information in the system information block V; The terminal has a first capability, and the first capability includes supporting advance measurement result reporting for EPS fallback.

2. The preliminary measurement 2. The method of claim 1, comprising at least one of measurements performed in an idle state, measurements performed in a deactivated state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from an idle state, measurements performed when entering a connected state from a deactivated state, measurements performed when a network side device requests measurement results, and measurements performed when receiving control information transmitted by the network side device.

3. The terminal receiving control information transmitted by a network side device receiving, by a terminal, a first message transmitted by a network side device, the first message including the control information; wherein the first message is Broadcast messages and and a radio resource control (RRC) release message.

4. The preliminary measurement results are Measurement results related to RAT fallback; Measurement results related to load control; The method of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of: and available prior measurements.

5. The method further includes receiving, by the terminal, measurement result request information transmitted by the network side device; Here, the measurement result request information is Measurement results related to EPS fallback; Measurement results related to RAT fallback; Measurement results related to load control; Measurement results in idle state and The method of claim 1 , wherein the method is used to request at least one of: a measurement result of a deactivation state;

6. After the terminal receives measurement result request information transmitted by the network side device, The method further includes transmitting a measurement report including the preliminary measurement result to a network side device based on the measurement result request information, The sending of the measurement report to the network side device includes: The terminal transmits a fourth message including the measurement report to a network side device; wherein the fourth message is 6. The method of claim 5, comprising at least one of an RRC recovery complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an uplink information transmission message, a terminal information response message, and uplink dedicated control channel information.

7. After the terminal performs pre-measurement based on the control information and measurement configuration information and obtains pre-measurement results, The method further includes the terminal storing a pre-measurement result of the second cell; wherein the pre-measurement result corresponding to the second cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold; The first threshold value is a reporting threshold for measurement results for frequency points corresponding to EPS fallback; A reporting threshold for measurement results of frequency points corresponding to RAT fallback; a reporting threshold for measurement results at frequency points corresponding to load control; and a reporting threshold corresponding to a pre-measurement result.

8. The first ability is:

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of supporting EPS fallback, supporting obtaining voice services via an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terrestrial radio access network E-UTRAN, supporting obtaining voice services via a 5G core network, and supporting load control.

9. The measurement configuration information includes: Some configuration information in system information block 4; All configuration information in System Information Block 4; Some configuration information in system information block 3; All configuration information in System Information Block 3; Some configuration information in system information block eleven; all configuration information in system information block eleven; and configuration information in an RRC release message. the portion of configuration information includes configuration information corresponding to frequency points included in a first list; 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first list is used to indicate a validity area range of configuration information, and the first list includes at least one frequency point and at least one cell corresponding to each frequency point.

10. The method further includes receiving, by the terminal, information including the first list, which is sent by a network side device; The terminal receiving information including the first list transmitted by a network side device includes: receiving, by the terminal, a fifth message sent by a network side device, the fifth message including information including the first list; Here, the fifth message is 10. The method of claim 9, comprising at least one of a broadcast message and an RRC release message.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measurement configuration information includes frequency point information, the frequency point information including frequency point identifiers and maximum measurement bandwidths corresponding to each frequency point identifier.

12. 1. A measurement configuration method, comprising: The network side device transmits control information to the terminal; Here, the control information is the first cell provides a first service over an evolved packet system (EPS) fallback and / or a radio access technology (RAT) fallback, the first service including a voice service; the first cell requires information of advance measurement related to load control; The control information is a first cell supporting a terminal with EPS fallback capability to perform pre-measurements in the first cell; the first cell supporting the terminal to report availability of advance measurement results including results related to EPS fallback after the first cell enters a connected state; After the network side device transmits control information to the terminal, The method further includes receiving, by the network side device, a first instruction sent by the terminal; wherein the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has the prior measurement results, and the prior measurement results include measurement results related to EPS fallback; A measurement configuration method, in which the terminal supports advance measurement result reporting for EPS fallback.

13. A terminal comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in said memory and operable to run on said processor, said program or instructions, when executed by said processor, implementing the steps of the measurement method of claim 1.

14. 13. A network side device comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable to run on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the measurement configuration method of claim 12.

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