Network power consumption determination method, terminal, and network side device

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and discloses a network energy consumption determination method, a terminal, and a network side device. The network energy consumption determination method of embodiments of the present application comprises: an access network device sends second information to a first network element or a third network element, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of a wireless network resource used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

Description

Network energy consumption determination method, terminal and network side device

[0001] Cross-reference

[0002] The present application claims priority to the Chinese patent application No. 2024109460451, filed on July 15, 2024, with the title of “Network energy consumption determination method, terminal and network side device”, the whole content of which is incorporated herein by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0003] The present application belongs to the field of communication technology, and specifically relates to a network energy consumption determination method, a terminal and a network side device. BACKGROUND

[0004] In the related art, it is considered to determine the network energy consumption of a terminal, but there is a technical problem, one of the main reasons is that it is not determined which information is used to determine the network energy consumption of the terminal. SUMMARY

[0005] The embodiments of the present application provide a network energy consumption determination method, a terminal and a network side device, which can solve the problem that it is not determined which information is used to determine the network energy consumption of the terminal.

[0006] In a first aspect, a network energy consumption determination method is provided, comprising: an access network device sending second information to a first network element or a third network element; wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

[0007] In a second aspect, a network energy consumption determination method is provided, comprising: a first network element obtaining second information; wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of an access network device within a first time.

[0008] In a third aspect, a network energy consumption determination method is provided, comprising: a second network element receiving third information from a first network element or a third network element, the third information being used to calculate or carry network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, and the third information comprising at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a wireless access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0009] In a fourth aspect, a network energy consumption determination method is provided, comprising: receiving, by a third network element, second information from an access network device; wherein the second information comprises at least one of: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0010] In a fifth aspect, a network energy consumption determination method is provided, comprising: sending, by a terminal, first information to an access network device or a first network element, wherein the first information is used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0011] In a sixth aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, applied to an access network device, comprising: a sending module, configured to send second information to a first network element or a third network element; wherein the second information comprises at least one of: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0012] In a seventh aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, applied to a first network element, comprising: a receiving module, configured to receive second information; wherein the second information comprises at least one of: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of an access network device in a first time.

[0013] In an eighth aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, applied to a second network element, comprising: a receiving module, configured to receive third information from a first network element or a third network element, wherein the third information is used to calculate or carry network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, and the third information comprises at least one of: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a wireless access network; second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0014] In a ninth aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, applied to a third network element, comprising: a receiving module, configured to receive second information from an access network device; wherein the second information comprises at least one of: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0015] In a tenth aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, which is applied to a terminal and includes a sending module configured to send first information to an access network device or a first network element, the first information being used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0016] In an eleventh aspect, a network energy consumption determination apparatus is provided, which is configured to perform steps of the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fifth aspect.

[0017] In a twelfth aspect, a terminal is provided, which includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, the programs or instructions being executed by the processor to implement steps of the method according to the fifth aspect.

[0018] In a thirteenth aspect, a terminal is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being configured to send first information to an access network device or a first network element, the first information being used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0019] In a fourteenth aspect, a network side device is provided, which includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, the programs or instructions being executed by the processor to implement steps of the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fourth aspect.

[0020] In a fifteenth aspect, a network side device is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being configured to perform steps of the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fourth aspect.

[0021] In a sixteenth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, the readable storage medium storing programs or instructions, the programs or instructions being executed by a processor to implement steps of the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fifth aspect.

[0022] In a seventeenth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, which includes a terminal and a network side device, the terminal being configured to perform steps of the method according to the fifth aspect, and the network side device being configured to perform steps of the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fourth aspect.

[0023] In an eighteenth aspect, a chip is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to run programs or instructions to implement the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fifth aspect or the method according to the second aspect.

[0024] In a nineteenth aspect, a computer program / program product is provided, which is stored in a storage medium, and is executed by at least one processor to implement the method according to any one of the first aspect to the fifth aspect.

[0025] In the embodiments of the present application, the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, and the second information includes at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time. The second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption, fully utilize the information collected by the network side device, increase the data value, and help to improve the rationality of the determined network energy consumption. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0026] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0027] FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0028] FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0029] FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0030] FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0031] FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0032] FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0033] FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0034] FIG. 9 is a schematic flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0035] FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a network energy consumption determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0036] FIG. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a network energy consumption determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0037] FIG. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a network energy consumption determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0038] Fig. 13 is a structural schematic diagram of a network energy consumption determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0039] Fig. 14 is a structural schematic diagram of a network energy consumption determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0040] Fig. 15 is a structural schematic diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0041] Fig. 16 is a structural schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0042] Fig. 17 is a structural schematic diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0043] Fig. 18 is a structural schematic diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0044] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments of the present application. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all the other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art belong to the scope of protection of the present application.

[0045] The terms "first", "second", and the like in the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the terms used in this way can be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, so that the embodiments of the present application can be implemented in an order other than that illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first", "second" are generally of a kind and are not limited in number, for example, the first object can be one or more. In addition, "or" in the present application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, the protection scope of "A or B" at least covers three schemes, namely, scheme one: including A and not including B; scheme two: including B and not including A; scheme three: including A and B. In addition, the terms "A and / or B", "at least one of A and B", "at least one of A or B" also at least cover the above three schemes respectively. The character " / " generally represents that the objects before and after are in an "or" relationship.

[0046] The term "indication" in the present application can be a direct indication (or explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or implicit indication). The direct indication can be understood as that the sender explicitly informs the receiver of the specific information, the operation to be performed or the requested result, etc. in the sent indication. The indirect indication can be understood as that the receiver determines the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or judges and determines the operation to be performed or the requested result according to the judgment result.

[0047] It is worth noting that the technology described in the embodiments of the present application is 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) or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as in other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for example purposes, and NR terminology is used in most of the following description, but these technologies can also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as 6th Generation (6G) communication systems. th

[0048] ​FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. The terminal 11 can be a terminal-side device such as a mobile phone, a Tablet Personal Computer, a Laptop Computer, 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) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a flight vehicle, a Vehicle User Equipment (VUE), a shipboard device, a Pedestrian User Equipment (PUE), a smart home (a home device with a wireless communication function such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or furniture), a game console, a Personal Computer (PC), a kiosk, or a self-service machine. The wearable device includes a smart watch, a smart bracelet, a smart earphone, smart glasses, smart jewelry (a smart bracelet, a smart necklace, a smart ring, a smart necklace, a smart anklet, a smart necklace, etc.), a smart wristband, smart clothes, etc. The vehicle-mounted device can also be referred to as a vehicle-mounted terminal, a vehicle-mounted controller, a vehicle-mounted module, a vehicle-mounted component, a vehicle-mounted chip, or a vehicle-mounted unit, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network-side device 12 can include an access network device or a core network device. The access network device can also be referred to as a Radio Access Network (RAN) device, a radio access network function, or a radio access network unit. The access network device can include a base station, a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Point (AP), or a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) node, etc.The base station can be referred to as a Node B (NB), an evolved Node B (eNB), a next generation Node B (gNB), a New Radio Node B (NR Node B), an access point, a relay station (RBS), a serving base station (SBS), a base transceiver station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), a home Node B (HNB), a home evolved Node B, a transmit / receive point (TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the art, and is not limited to a particular technical terminology, provided that the same technical effect is achieved. 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 for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0049] The core network device can also be referred to as a core network node, a core network function, or a core network network element, etc., which includes but is not limited to at least one of the following: a mobility management entity (MME), an access and mobility management function (AMF), a session management function (SMF), a user plane function (UPF), a policy control function (PCF), a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), an edge application server discovery function (EASDF), a unified data management (UDM), a unified data repository (UDR), a home subscriber server (HSS), a centralized network configuration (CNC), a network repository function (NRF), a network exposure function (NEF), a local NEF (L-NEF), a binding support function (BSF), an application function (AF), a location management function (LMF), a gateway mobile location center (GMLC), a network data analytics function (NWDAF), etc. It should be noted that only the core network device in the NR system is taken as an example for introduction in the embodiments of the present application, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited. If the name of the core network device mentioned in the embodiments of the present application changes in the subsequent protocol version (for example, 6G), it is also within the protection scope of the present application.

[0050] Optionally, the core network device can be implemented by one or more function modules in one device, or can be implemented by multiple devices together, and the embodiments of the present application do not make a specific limitation thereon. It can be understood that the above function modules can be network elements in a hardware device, can be software function modules running on a special hardware, or can be virtualized function modules instantiated on a platform (for example, a cloud platform).

[0051] The network energy consumption determination method provided by the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below in combination with the accompanying drawings, some embodiments and application scenarios.

[0052] The statistical information held by the access network device or the information that can be acquired by the terminal, such as the information of the wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission, the wireless signal quality information of the terminal, etc., can reflect the terminal position, network deployment density, wireless link quality, distance between the terminal and the access network device, etc. (for example, the more wireless network resources used by the terminal, the more network resources consumed, and a low RSRP can reflect that the terminal is in a weak coverage area). However, the above information is not provided to the network as an input of per UE network energy consumption statistics, which can cause that the per UE network energy consumption statistics cannot reflect the difference of different terminals, and the basis for judging the network energy consumption is unfair and unreasonable.

[0053] To solve the above problem, as shown in FIG. 2, the embodiments of the present application provide a network energy consumption determination method 200, which can be executed by an access network device, in other words, the method can be executed by software or hardware installed in the access network device, and the method includes the following steps.

[0054] S202: The access network device sends second information to a first network element or a third network element; wherein the second information includes at least one of the following: 1) information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; 2) wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; 3) network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and 4) total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

[0055] The access network device mentioned in each embodiment of the present application can be a base station, such as NG-RAN, etc.; the first network element and the third network element can be a core network device, such as an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) for the first network element, and a Date Plane Function (DPF) or a User Plane Function (UPF) for the third network element, etc.

[0056] In various embodiments of the present application, the second information can be used to indicate information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless signal quality information of the terminal, which is related to the network energy consumption of the terminal. For example, the network energy consumption of the terminal can be determined by taking the second information as input, i.e., the second information is used to determine the network energy consumption of the terminal.

[0057] In one embodiment, the information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission can be used to indicate the wireless network resource usage of the terminal, for example, can include at least one of the following used by the terminal for data transmission: 1) the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs), 2) a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) corresponding to an index value, which can be specifically mapped to a transmission rate.

[0058] It can be understood that the more wireless network resources (such as PRBs) used by the terminal, the more network resources consumed by the terminal, and the value of the network energy consumption of the terminal obtained ultimately is generally larger, therefore, the network energy consumption obtained based on the wireless network resources used by the terminal can accurately reflect the difference between terminals. This embodiment takes the wireless network resources of the terminal as the basis for judging the level of network energy consumption, which is reasonable and is conducive to accurately obtaining the network energy consumption of the terminal.

[0059] In one embodiment, the wireless signal quality information or the wireless signal quality level of the terminal can be used to indicate the wireless link quality of the terminal. The wireless signal quality information of the terminal can include at least one of the following: the value of reference signal receiving power (RSRP), the value of reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ), the value of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), the value of channel quality indicator (CQI), etc.

[0060] In this embodiment, there is a mapping relationship between the wireless signal quality information of the terminal and the wireless signal quality level, for example, the wireless signal quality information of the first interval is the wireless signal quality level 1; the wireless signal quality information of the second interval is the wireless signal quality level 2, and so on. Specifically, the terminal can be classified according to the wireless signal quality information such as RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, CQI, for example, into multiple different wireless signal quality levels, such as Q1 (indicating RSRP <-65dBm), Q2 (indicating -65dBm <= RSRP <-85dBm), Q3 (indicating -85dBm <= RSRP <-105dBm), and so on.

[0061] It can be understood that the wireless signal quality information or the wireless signal quality level of the terminal can reflect the position of the terminal, the network deployment density, the wireless link quality, the distance between the terminal and the access network device, and the like to a certain extent, for example, low RSRP can reflect that the terminal is in a weak coverage area or the terminal is far away from the access network device. Generally, the terminal at the coverage edge consumes higher network energy consumption for transmitting the same data amount. If the wireless signal quality information or the wireless signal quality level of the terminal is not considered, the determined network energy consumption is unfair to the terminal, for example, the network energy consumption of the terminal at the coverage edge is always higher than that of the terminal at the coverage center. This embodiment takes the wireless signal quality information or the wireless signal quality level of the terminal as an input for determining the network energy consumption of the terminal, which is beneficial to reflecting the fairness of the network energy consumption and determining more reasonable network energy consumption.

[0062] In one embodiment, the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal can be the network energy consumption of the terminal directly determined by the access network device; or the network energy consumption statistical information can be an intermediate quantity, and the network energy consumption of the terminal can be determined based on the network energy consumption statistical information and other information.

[0063] In one embodiment, the wireless signal quality level of the terminal can also be referred to as the energy consumption level (UE EE level) of the terminal, the energy consumption coefficient of the terminal, the network energy efficiency level, and the like. The higher the energy consumption level of the terminal is, the greater the value of the network energy consumption of the terminal is generally obtained.

[0064] In one embodiment, the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time can be used to determine the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal. The total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time can also be the total energy consumption of the access network device under the first cell in the first time, and the statistical granularity can be the first cell, the first area, the first radio access technology (RAT), and the like.

[0065] In the above embodiments, the second information can include information of wireless network resources of one or more terminals, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level, network energy consumption statistical information. For example, the second information can include information of wireless network resources of each terminal in the plurality of terminals, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level, network energy consumption statistical information; or the access network device can also process the above information of the plurality of terminals, for example, sum processing of wireless network resources of the plurality of terminals, obtaining aggregated wireless network resources, and the like.

[0066] In various embodiments of the present application, the granularity of the second information can be at least one of the following: the terminal, the first cell, the first time, the first area, and the first radio access technology (RAT). In this way, the access network device can obtain or process the second information according to the granularity of the second information, for example, obtaining the second information according to the granularity of the terminal, obtaining the second information according to the granularity of the first cell, obtaining the second information according to the granularity of the first time within the first cell, and the like.

[0067] For a specific example, the access network device can count the number of PRBs used by one or more terminals for data transmission, and the access network device can count the second information according to each cell and each time period (per UE per time stamp), such as every second or every minute, corresponding to the above-mentioned first time.

[0068] Optionally, the above-mentioned second information further includes at least one of the following: a terminal identifier of the terminal, a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier (RAN UE NGAP ID), a global radio access network node identifier (Global RAN node ID), a time stamp (Time stamp), a time interval (time interval), and the like, which is beneficial for the core network to associate these information with the terminal.

[0069] The network energy consumption determination method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, the second information includes at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time, the second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, and ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption; and make full use of the information collected by the network side device (access network device), increase the data value, and be beneficial to improving the rationality of the determined network energy consumption.

[0070] The network energy consumption determination method provided in the embodiments of the present application can enable the core network element to acquire information about wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission, and information about wireless signal quality of the terminal or a wireless signal quality level, which can reflect the terminal location or the wireless link quality, thereby improving the fairness and rationality of the determined network energy consumption.

[0071] In one embodiment, the method further includes: the access network device acquiring first information, wherein the second information is the first information; or, the access network device obtaining the second information based on the first information.

[0072] In this embodiment, the access network device can acquire the first information from the measurement report of the terminal; or, the access network device acquires the first information from a local measurement result (for example, a layer 2 measurement result).

[0073] In this embodiment, the access network device obtains the second information based on the first information, for example, includes: the access network device processes the first information sent by multiple terminals to obtain the second information. For example, the wireless network resources used by multiple terminals for data transmission are summed to obtain aggregated wireless network resources, and the second information can include the aggregated wireless network resources.

[0074] In one embodiment, the first information includes at least one of the following:

[0075] 1) Information about wireless network resources, used to indicate the wireless network resource usage of the terminal, including at least one of the following used by the terminal for data transmission: the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs), a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), which corresponds to an index value and can be specifically mapped to a transmission rate.

[0076] 2) Wireless signal quality information, used to indicate the wireless link quality of the terminal, including at least one of the following: the value of reference signal receiving power (RSRP), the value of reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ), the value of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), the value of channel quality indicator (CQI), etc.

[0077] In one embodiment, the method provided by any one of the above embodiments, before the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, the method further comprises at least one of the following:

[0078] 1) The access network device sums up the wireless network resources used by the plurality of terminals for data transmission to obtain aggregated wireless network resources, wherein the information of the wireless network resources used by the terminals for data transmission comprises the information of the aggregated wireless network resources. At this time, the information of the wireless network resources used by the terminals for data transmission in the second information can also comprise the information of the aggregated wireless network resources.

[0079] 2) The access network device maps the terminal wireless signal quality information into a wireless signal quality level, wherein the second information comprises the wireless signal quality level, for example, using a table or mapping depending on implementation.

[0080] 3) The access network device statistics the network energy consumption statistics information.

[0081] In one embodiment, the access network device statistics the network energy consumption statistics information comprises that the access network device determines the network energy consumption statistics information based on at least one of the following: 1) the wireless network resources (quantity) used by the terminal within a first time; 2) the wireless network resources (quantity) used by the plurality of terminals within a first time; 3) the total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time; 4) the wireless signal quality level of the terminal; 5) the data amount used by the terminal within a first time; 6) the data amount used by the plurality of terminals within a first time.

[0082] In one embodiment, the access network device statistics the network energy consumption statistics information comprises that the access network device determines the network energy consumption statistics information of the first terminal based on at least one of the following three formulas:

[0083] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistics information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resources (such as the quantity of PRBs) used by the first terminal within a first time, P(T) is the information of the wireless network resources (such as the quantity of PRBs) used by the plurality of terminals within a first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time, the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal, and the above wireless network resources can comprise PRBs, etc.

[0084] The plurality of terminals in this embodiment can be the terminals served by the access network device within a first time, or the terminals sending measurement configuration or requesting to perform measurement, and the subsequent formulas are similar.

[0085] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource (such as the number of PRBs) used by the first terminal in the first time, S(T) is the information of the wireless network resource (such as the number of PRBs) used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal.

[0086] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the amount of data used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, DV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is the sum of the product of the amount of data and the wireless signal quality level used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal.

[0087] The above formulas can be used to determine the network energy consumption statistical information of a single terminal, wherein the access network device serves a plurality of terminals, the NGAP connection between the access network device and the first network element (such as AMF) is per UE, for example, the access network device serves UE1, UE2, UE3, the access network device establishes NGAP1 for UE1, NGAP2 for UE2, and NGAP3 for UE3, therefore, the access network device reports the second information of a single terminal to the first network element through the NGAP connection, the first network element can associate the NGAP identification (ID) and the 5G globally unique temporary terminal identification (GUTI), and further associate the 5G GUTI and the network energy consumption statistical information, wherein the first network element can obtain the 5G GUTI of the terminal through the registration process.

[0088] In an embodiment, before the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, the method further comprises: the access network device establishing a data connection with the first network element, the data connection being a control plane-based connection, or a user plane-based connection; or the access network device establishing a data connection with the third network element, the data connection being a user plane-based connection, or a control plane-based connection.

[0089] In an embodiment, the access network device sending the second information to the first network element or the third network element comprises, in the case that at least one of the following conditions is met, the access network device sending the second information to the first network element or the third network element:

[0090] 1) the terminal performs cell switching.

[0091] 2) the terminal performs Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection release.

[0092] 3) the reporting time, the reporting event, or the reporting area information related to the second information is met.

[0093] In this embodiment, the access network device judges whether the above conditions are met, and sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element in the case that the conditions are met.

[0094] The reporting time information can indicate that the access network device immediately reports the second information, or reports the second information within a certain time or time period, or periodically reports the second information.

[0095] The reporting event information can be used to indicate that the access network device reports the second information when a first event is triggered, the first event including at least one of: the terminal position moves, the signal quality changes greatly, the terminal is in an active state for more than a first threshold, or the terminal is in a silent state for more than a first threshold.

[0096] The reporting area information is used to indicate that the access network device reports the second information when the terminal is in a target position.

[0097] The reporting time, the reporting event, or the reporting area information can be obtained through a first procedure, the first procedure being an existing NGAP procedure or a newly added first procedure, the newly added first procedure being used to request the access network device to perform terminal data reporting in a connected state, where the data includes but is not limited to information of wireless network resources of the terminal.

[0098] Specifically, the first network element sends a first message to the access network device, to request the access network device to report terminal data, including at least one of the following: a first network element side terminal next generation application protocol identifier (AMF UE NGAP ID); a RAN UE NGAP ID; a data reporting request type, used to indicate an action to be performed by the access network device for data reporting, including at least one of the following:

[0099] 1) reporting time information, which can indicate immediate reporting of second information, or reporting of second information within a certain time or time period.

[0100] 2) reporting event information, used to indicate reporting of second information when a first event is triggered, the first event including at least one of the following: terminal position moving, signal quality changing greatly, terminal being in an active state for more than a first threshold, and terminal being in a silent state for more than a first threshold.

[0101] 3) reporting area information, used to indicate reporting of second information when the terminal is in a target position.

[0102] 4) canceling reporting.

[0103] The access network device can send a first message response to the first network element, to report second information, including at least one of the following: 1) information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; 2) wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; 3) network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; 4) total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time; 5) terminal identifier of the terminal; 6) wireless access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier (RAN UE NGAP ID); 7) wireless access network global node identifier (Global RAN node ID); 8) timestamp (Timestamp); 9) time interval (time interval); 10) AMF UE NGAP ID; 12) terminal position information, etc.

[0104] To provide a detailed description of the network energy consumption determination method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the following will be described in conjunction with several specific embodiments.

[0105] Layer 2 measurement:

[0106] For different use cases, such as Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) performance observation, the access network device can perform a variety of measurements, one of which is to measure the total usage (in percentage) of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in the downlink of each cell. The purpose of the measurement is to measure the usage of time and frequency resources.

[0107] It can be seen that the above measurement is for the physical resource usage of each cell and is not terminal-differentiated, but the access network device can be enhanced to count the usage of wireless network resources for each terminal.

[0108] Terminal measurement:

[0109] The base station performs operations such as mobility management and carrier management based on a radio resource management (RRM) measurement mechanism. Specifically, the base station configures a measurement object list, a report configuration list, and a measurement identity list. One measurement object corresponds to one measurement frequency point, and the terminal measures the reference signal of the cell corresponding to the frequency point, such as an SSB, a cell reference signal, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and the like, to obtain the measurement value of the cell on the frequency point. One measurement report configuration (ReportConfig) is used to configure trigger-related parameters and reporting-related parameters of a measurement report (that is, under what circumstances to report a measurement report and what content to report in the measurement report), which includes a report type, such as periodic reporting and event-triggered reporting.

[0110] After receiving the measurement configuration, the terminal performs measurement on the frequency point specified by each measurement object (MO) in the measurement object list to obtain the measurement value of the cell(s) on the frequency point. If the MO is associated with event-triggered reporting (i.e., there is a MeasId corresponding to the MO, and the report type of the ReportConfig corresponding to the MeasId is event-triggered reporting), the terminal determines whether the cell signal of the frequency point meets the entering condition of the event. If the entering condition is met, the terminal starts a TTT (Time To Trigger) timer. Since the cell signal may fluctuate up and down, the TTT timer is running during the observation period, and it is observed whether the cell meeting the entering condition of the event continuously meets the entering condition for a period of time. If the cell continuously meets the entering condition of the event during the TTT, after the TTT timer expires, the terminal triggers the measurement report of the MeasId, and the measurement report carries the ID of the cell and the measurement value of the cell. It should be noted that the terminal can also perform measurement reporting during data transmission. It can be seen that the access network device can count the radio signal quality of each terminal.

[0111] Therefore, the access network device can count the radio network resource information and the radio signal quality information of the terminal during data transmission in a period of time.

[0112] Embodiment I

[0113] In this embodiment, the access network device (base station) reports the second information to the core network through the control plane. For example, the base station reports the terminal-related information capable of reflecting the terminal position / radio link quality to the first network element through the control plane message (such as an NGAP message), and the first network element associates the received second information with a specific terminal by using the N2 interface unique terminal identifier and the core network unique terminal identifier, thereby solving the problem that the core network cannot obtain the terminal network energy consumption related information capable of reflecting the terminal position / radio link quality. This embodiment has less changes to the RAN-CN interface using the existing control plane transmission mode, and the operation of the base station and the core network is simple, and the existing signaling resources are fully utilized.

[0114] As shown in FIG. 3, the corresponding signaling flow is as follows:

[0115] Step 1: The base station obtains the first information, and the first information is used to indicate the radio network resource usage or the radio link quality of the terminal, including at least one of the following:

[0116] 1) information of wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, including at least one of the following: number of physical resource blocks (PRB), modulation and coding scheme (MCS) corresponding to an index value, which can be mapped to a transmission rate.

[0117] 2) wireless signal quality information of the terminal, including at least one of the following: value of reference signal receiving power (RSRP), value of reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ), value of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).

[0118] The granularity of the first information is at least one of the following: first cell, first time, first area, first radio access technology (RAT). In this way, the base station can obtain the first information according to the granularity of the first information.

[0119] The base station obtains the first information, including at least one of the following: the base station obtains the first information from the measurement report of the terminal; the base station obtains the first information from local measurement results.

[0120] The base station processes the first information to obtain the second information, and the second information includes at least one of the following:

[0121] 1) information of wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission.

[0122] 2) wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal.

[0123] Optionally, the base station maps the wireless signal quality information of the terminal to the wireless signal quality level, for example, using the following table or depending on the implementation.

[0124] 3) network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

[0125] The base station can determine the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal by using at least one of the following three formulas:

[0126] wherein, EC UE.RANM is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, P(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device (i.e. base station, the same hereinafter) in the first time, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal, and the wireless network resource can include PRB, etc.

[0127] The plurality of terminals in this embodiment can be the terminals served by the access network device (i.e. base station) in the first time, which send the measurement configuration or request to perform the measurement, and the subsequent formula is similar.

[0128] wherein, EC UE.RAN M is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, S(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal.

[0129] wherein, EC UE.RAN M is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is the data amount used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ΣDV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is the sum of the product of the data amount and the wireless signal quality level of the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal.

[0130] 4) The total energy consumption of the base station in the first time.

[0131] Step 2: The base station reports the second information to the first network element, and the second information includes at least one of the following in addition to the information listed above: terminal identifier of the terminal, wireless access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier (RAN UE NGAP ID), global wireless access network node identifier (Global RAN node ID), time stamp (Time stamp), time interval (time interval).

[0132] Further, the trigger condition for the base station to report the second information comprises at least one of:

[0133] 1) cell handover of the terminal.

[0134] 2) Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection release of the terminal.

[0135] 3) reporting time, reporting event or reporting area information related to the second information is satisfied.

[0136] The reporting time information can indicate that the base station reports the second information immediately, or reports the second information within a certain time or time period, or periodically reports the second information.

[0137] The reporting event information can be used to indicate that the base station reports the second information when a first event is triggered, and the first event comprises at least one of: the terminal position moves, the signal quality changes greatly, the terminal is in an active state for more than a first threshold, and the terminal is in a silent state for more than a first threshold.

[0138] The reporting area information is used to indicate that the base station reports the second information when the terminal is in a target position.

[0139] Optionally, the base station can report the second information using an existing NGAP message, such as a RAN data usage report message.

[0140] Optionally, the base station can report the second information using a newly added NGAP message, which is used to request the base station to perform the second information reporting in a connected state; the second information comprises but is not limited to: information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal, and network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

[0141] Step 3: the first network element performs a first operation, and the first operation comprises at least one of:

[0142] 1) associating the second information with the terminal.

[0143] 2) determining the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

[0144] The associating the second information with the terminal comprises at least one of the following: associating a terminal identity at a core network with a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identity; associating a terminal identity at a core network with the second information; wherein the terminal identity at the core network comprises at least one of the following: global unique temporary terminal identity (GUTI), subscription permanent identifier (SUPI), permanent equipment identifier (PEI).

[0145] Optionally, the first network element associates a timestamp with the second information.

[0146] Optionally, if the second information does not contain network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, the first network element determines the network energy consumption information of the terminal, comprising at least one of the following:

[0147] 1) The first network element determines the network energy consumption information consumed by the terminal at the base station.

[0148] 2) The first network element determines the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal in a first area, a first time or a first radio access technology, and at this time the first network element needs to obtain the second information from all base stations serving the terminal.

[0149] The determining the network energy consumption information consumed by the terminal at the base station comprises determining the network energy consumption information consumed by the first terminal at the base station based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0150] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is information of radio network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of radio network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device (i.e. base station, similar hereinafter) in the first time, the plurality of terminals comprising the first terminal, and the radio network resources can comprise PRB, etc.

[0151] The plurality of terminals in this embodiment can be terminals served by the access network device (i.e. base station) in the first time and sending measurement configuration or requesting to perform measurement, and the subsequent formulas are similar.

[0152] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE(T) is information of wireless network resource used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal.

[0153] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is a data volume used by the first terminal in a first time, Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ΣDV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is a sum of products of data volumes and wireless signal quality levels used by a plurality of terminals in a first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal. Before determining the network energy consumption statistical information, the first network element can further determine an energy consumption level, specifically, the first network element maps wireless signal quality information of the terminal to the wireless signal quality level, and the first network element can use a stored table or mapping depending on an implementation manner.

[0154] Optionally, before the first network element associates the second information with the terminal, the first network element determines to support the terminal and accept use of the second information, including at least one of:

[0155] 1) The first network element learns terminal subscription information from a unified data management (UDM), determines that the terminal supports reporting of information of wireless network resource, supports network energy consumption statistics or supports energy efficiency service.

[0156] 2) The first network element learns the first information from the terminal, determines that the terminal supports reporting of information of wireless network resource, supports network energy consumption statistics or supports energy efficiency service.

[0157] Step 4: The first network element sends third information to the second network element, the third information is used for calculating or carrying the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information includes at least one of:

[0158] 1) A terminal identifier at a core network.

[0159] 2) A radio access network global node identifier.

[0160] 3) The second information.

[0161] 4) the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0162] Step 5: The second network element stores the third information.

[0163] Optionally, if the third information does not contain the network energy consumption statistical information, the second network element determines the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the determination manner is the operation performed on the first network element side.

[0164] It is worth noting that the second network element herein includes but is not limited to at least one of the following: SMF, EECF, NWDAF, PCF, network management, etc.

[0165] Optionally, the first network element can also send an acknowledgement message to the base station, indicating that the first network element successfully receives the second information.

[0166] Embodiment Two

[0167] In this embodiment, the base station reports the second information to the core network through the data plane. For example, the base station reports the terminal-related information capable of reflecting the terminal position / wireless link quality to the third network element through the data plane connection, and the third network element can obtain customized terminal-related information according to the requirements of the data consumer, thereby solving the problem that the core network cannot obtain terminal network energy consumption-related information capable of reflecting the terminal position / wireless link quality. Using the data plane transmission mode can improve the data transmission amount and efficiency.

[0168] As shown in FIG. 4, the corresponding signaling flow is as follows:

[0169] Step 1: Please refer to step 1 of Embodiment One.

[0170] Step 2: Optionally, the second network element sends a data acquisition request to the third network element, the data acquisition request is used to request to acquire the third information, the third network element is a data plane network element, and the data acquisition request contains at least one of the following:

[0171] 1) data granularity, including at least one of the following: specific terminal granularity, network element granularity, area granularity, time granularity, and RAT granularity.

[0172] 2) data type, including at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources, wireless signal quality information, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the base station.

[0173] Step 3: The third network element determines to establish a data connection.

[0174] Step 4: The third network element sends a data connection establishment request to the base station, wherein the data connection establishment request contains at least one of the data granularity and the data type.

[0175] Step 5: The base station sends a data connection setup response to the third network element, containing at least one of: whether to accept the data connection setup; type information of the established data connection.

[0176] It is worth mentioning that the base station can perform step 1 again after step 5.

[0177] Step 6: The base station reports the second information on the established data connection, which can be a control plane connection or a user plane connection.

[0178] Step 7: The third network element sends a data acquisition response to the second network element, which contains the third information, which can be referred to in other embodiments.

[0179] Embodiment Three

[0180] In this embodiment, the terminal reports the first information to the core network through a non-access layer (Non-Access Stratum, NAS) process. For example, the terminal reports terminal-related information that can reflect the terminal position / wireless link quality to the first network element through a NAS message, and the first network element does not need to perform information association, which is simple to operate. This embodiment directly obtains the first information from the terminal, which is more timely.

[0181] As shown in FIG. 5, the corresponding signaling process is as follows:

[0182] Step 1: The terminal obtains the first information, including at least one of:

[0183] 1) Information of wireless network resources, including at least one of: the number of PRBs, MCS.

[0184] The base station will inform the terminal of the information of the wireless network resources allocated to the terminal.

[0185] 2) Wireless signal quality information, including at least one of: the value of RSRP, the value of RSRQ, the value of SINR, and the value of CQI.

[0186] The terminal can perform measurement on the serving cell of the base station to obtain the wireless signal quality information

[0187] The first information in this embodiment is different from that in Embodiment One in that the first information corresponds to at least one of: a first cell, a first time. Because here the terminal can only count the first information per UE, per cell, and per time period.

[0188] Step 2: The terminal includes at least one of the following in the NAS message: a terminal identifier at the core network, and the first information.

[0189] The NAS message can be an existing NAS message (including but not limited to a registration request, a service request, an uplink non-access layer transmission message, etc.) or a newly added NAS message.

[0190] Step 3: The first network element learns, from the base station based on the NGAP message, the RAN UE NGAP ID and the Global RAN node ID of the base station, the energy consumption of the base station, the first information, etc.

[0191] Step 4: The first network element associates the first information with the specific base station, including at least one of the following: the first network element associates the terminal identifier at the core network with the RAN UE NGAP ID and the Global RAN node ID; and the first network element associates the first information with the Global RAN node ID.

[0192] The first network element can also determine the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the base station, and the statistical method can refer to the description of other embodiments.

[0193] The first network element can also send the network energy consumption statistical information of each terminal to the second network element, and the second network element stores the network energy consumption statistical information of each terminal.

[0194] The first network element can also send an NGAP response message to the base station, which indicates that the first network element successfully receives the NGAP message in step 3.

[0195] The base station can also send an NAS response message to the terminal, which indicates that the base station successfully receives the NAS message in step 2.

[0196] The network energy consumption determination method according to the embodiments of the present application is described in detail above in combination with FIGS. 2 to 5. The network energy consumption determination method according to another embodiment of the present application will be described in detail below in combination with FIGS. 6 to 9. It can be understood that the description of the first network element, the second network element, the third network element, and the terminal side is the same as or corresponds to the description of the method shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, and the relevant description is appropriately omitted to avoid repetition.

[0197] FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application, which can be applied to a first network element. As shown in FIG. 6, the method 600 includes the following steps.

[0198] S602: The first network element obtains second information; wherein the second information includes at least one of the following: information of a wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

[0199] The first network element can be an AMF or the like.

[0200] The network energy consumption determination method provided by the embodiments of the present application can be used to ensure the diversity of input information for determining network energy consumption, and can be used to fully utilize information collected by network side devices, increase data value, and improve the rationality of determined network energy consumption.

[0201] In one embodiment, after the first network element obtains the second information, the method further includes: the first network element performing a first operation, the first operation including at least one of the following: associating the second information with the terminal; determining network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

[0202] In one embodiment, the associating the second information with the terminal includes at least one of the following: associating a terminal identifier at a core network with a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier; associating a terminal identifier at a core network with the second information; wherein the terminal identifier at the core network includes, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: a globally unique temporary terminal identifier (GUTI), a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI), and a permanent equipment identifier (PEI).

[0203] In one embodiment, the method further includes: the first network element obtaining at least one of the following from an access network device: the radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier association; a radio access network global node identifier; a timestamp.

[0204] In one embodiment, the determining the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal includes: determining network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device; determining network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal in a first area, a first time, or a first radio access technology.

[0205] In one embodiment, the determining the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device includes determining the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device based on at least one of the following: wireless network resources used by the terminal in a first time; wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in a first time; total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time; a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; an amount of data used by the terminal in a first time; an amount of data used by a plurality of terminals in a first time.

[0206] In one embodiment, the determining the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal consumed by the access network device comprises determining the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal consumed by the access network device based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0207] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is information of wireless network resource used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or,

[0208] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is information of wireless network resource used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or,

[0209] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is data volume used by the first terminal in a first time, Q UE (T) is wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is sum of product of data volume and wireless signal quality level used by a plurality of terminals in a first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal.

[0210] In one embodiment, the method further comprises: the first network element mapping wireless signal quality information of the terminal into the wireless signal quality level.

[0211] In one embodiment, the method further comprises: the first network element sending third information to a second network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, the third information comprising at least one of the following: terminal identifier at a core network; global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0212] In an embodiment, the granularity of the second information is at least one of: the terminal, a first cell, a first time, a first area, a first radio access technology.

[0213] In an embodiment, the first network element obtaining the second information comprises: the first network element receiving the second information from an access network device; or, the first network element receiving first information from a terminal, and processing the first information to obtain the second information.

[0214] In an embodiment, the first information comprises at least one of: information of the wireless network resource, including at least one of: a number of PRBs, an MCS used by the terminal for data transmission; the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of: a value of RSRP, a value of RSRQ, a value of SINR, a value of CQI.

[0215] FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for determining network energy consumption according to an embodiment of the present application, which can be applied to a second network element. As shown in FIG. 7, the method 700 comprises the following steps.

[0216] S702: The second network element receives third information from the first network element or the third network element, wherein the third information is used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information comprises at least one of: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0217] The second network element comprises, but is not limited to, at least one of: an SMF, an EECF, an NWDAF, a PCF, a network management device, and the like.

[0218] The method for determining network energy consumption provided by the embodiment of the present application, the second network element receives third information from the first network element or the third network element, wherein the third information is used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information comprises at least one of: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information, which is beneficial to guarantee the diversity of input information for determining network energy consumption, and fully utilize information collected by network side devices to increase data value, which is beneficial to improve the rationality of determined network energy consumption.

[0219] In an embodiment, the second information comprises at least one of: information of wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time.

[0220] In an embodiment, before the second network element receives the third information from the third network element, the method further comprises: the second network element sending a data acquisition request to the third network element, the data acquisition request being used to request acquisition of the third information.

[0221] In an embodiment, the method further comprises: the second network element counting the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of the following: the wireless network resource used by the terminal in the first time; the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time; the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; the wireless signal quality level of the terminal; the data volume used by the terminal in the first time; the data volume used by the plurality of terminals in the first time.

[0222] In an embodiment, the method further comprises: the second network element counting the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0223] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, P(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal; or,

[0224] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, S(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal; or,

[0225] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the data volume used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is the sum of the product of the data volume and the wireless signal quality level of the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RANThe plurality of terminals includes the first terminal for total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0226] Fig. 8 is a flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application, which can be applied to a third network element. As shown in Fig. 8, the method 800 includes the following steps.

[0227] S802: The third network element receives second information from the access network device, wherein the second information includes at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0228] The third network element can be a DPF or a UPF, etc.

[0229] The network energy consumption determination method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the third network element receives second information from the access network device, the second information includes at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time, the second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, to ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption; and make full use of the information collected by the network side device, increase the data value, and be beneficial to improving the rationality of the determined network energy consumption.

[0230] In one embodiment, the method further includes: the third network element sends third information to a second network element, the third information is used to calculate or carry the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information includes at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0231] Fig. 9 is a flowchart of a network energy consumption determination method according to an embodiment of the present application, which can be applied to a third network element. As shown in Fig. 9, the method 900 includes the following steps.

[0232] S902: The terminal sends first information to an access network device or a first network element, wherein the first information is used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0233] The network energy consumption determination method provided in the embodiments of the present application is that a terminal sends first information to an access network device or a first network element, and the first information is used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal. The first information can be used to determine network energy consumption of each terminal, to ensure diversity of input information for determining network energy consumption, and to fully utilize information collected by the terminal, increase data value, and be beneficial to improving rationality of determined network energy consumption.

[0234] In one embodiment, the first information includes at least one of the following: 1) information of the wireless network resources, including at least one of the following used by the terminal for data transmission: a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs), a modulation and coding strategy (MCS); and 2) the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of the following: a value of reference signal received power (RSRP), a value of reference signal received quality (RSRQ), a value of signal to interference noise ratio (SINR), and a value of CQI.

[0235] The network energy consumption determination method provided in the embodiments of the present application is that a network energy consumption determination device can be an execution subject. In the embodiments of the present application, the network energy consumption determination device is taken as an example to execute the network energy consumption determination method, and the network energy consumption determination device provided in the embodiments of the present application is described.

[0236] The embodiments of the present application provide a network energy consumption determination device. As an example, the network energy consumption determination device can be a communication device or a component in the communication device, for example, a chip. The communication device can be a terminal, a network side device, a server, or the like. For example, the terminal can include, but is not limited to, the types of the terminal 11 listed above, the network side device can include, but is not limited to, the types of the network side device 12 listed above, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited specifically.

[0237] The network energy consumption determination apparatus comprises a receiving module, a sending module and a processing module. The receiving module, the sending module and the processing module can be implemented by software or by hardware. When implemented by hardware, the processing module can be implemented by a processor, which can include a general-purpose processor, a special-purpose processor, etc., such as a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an artificial intelligent (AI) processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a network processor (NP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, a gate circuit, a transistor, a discrete hardware component, etc. The receiving module and the sending module can be implemented by a communication interface, which can include a transceiver, a pin, a circuit, a bus, a radio frequency unit, etc.

[0238] Specifically, referring to FIG. 10, when the network energy consumption determination apparatus is an access network device or a component in the access network device, the network energy consumption determination apparatus 1000 comprises a sending module 1002 configured to send second information to a first network element or a third network element, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

[0239] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present application can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption, make full use of information collected by the network side device, increase the data value, and help improve the rationality of the determined network energy consumption.

[0240] In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a receiving module configured to obtain first information, wherein the second information is the first information, or the second information is obtained based on the first information.

[0241] In an embodiment, the first information comprises at least one of: 1) information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, comprising at least one of: number of physical resource blocks (PRB), modulation and coding strategy (MCS); 2) the wireless signal quality information, comprising at least one of: value of reference signal received power (RSRP), value of reference signal received quality (RSRQ), value of signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR), value of channel quality indicator (CQI).

[0242] In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a processing module configured to perform at least one of: 1) summing up the wireless network resource used by the terminals for data transmission to obtain aggregated wireless network resource, wherein the information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission comprises the information of the aggregated wireless network resource; 2) mapping the wireless signal quality information of the terminal to the wireless signal quality level, wherein the second information comprises the wireless signal quality level; 3) counting the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0243] In an embodiment, the processing module is configured to determine the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of: the wireless network resource used by the terminal in the first time; the wireless network resource used by the terminals in the first time; the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; the wireless signal quality level of the terminal; the data amount used by the terminal in the first time; the data amount used by the terminals in the first time.

[0244] In an embodiment, the processing module is configured to determine the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0245] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, P(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the terminals comprise the first terminal; or,

[0246] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, S(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the terminals in the first time, EC RANa total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal; or,

[0247] wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is a data volume used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ΣDV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is a sum of products of data volumes and wireless signal quality levels used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is a total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal.

[0248] In one embodiment, granularity of the second information is at least one of the following: the terminal, the first cell, the first time, the first area, and the first radio access technology.

[0249] In one embodiment, the second information further comprises at least one of the following: a terminal identifier of the terminal, a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier, a radio access network global node identifier, a time stamp, and a time period.

[0250] In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a processing module configured to establish a data connection with the first network element, the data connection being a control plane based connection; or, establish a data connection with the third network element, the data connection being a user plane based connection.

[0251] In one embodiment, the sending module 1002 is configured to send the second information to the first network element or the third network element in the case that at least one of the following conditions is met: a cell handover of the terminal occurs; a radio resource control (RRC) connection release of the terminal occurs; a reporting time, a reporting event, or a reporting area information related to the second information is met.

[0252] Referring to FIG. 11, when the network energy consumption determining apparatus is a first network element or a component in the first network element, the network energy consumption determining apparatus 1100 comprises a receiving module 1102 configured to acquire second information; wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of a wireless network resource used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and a total energy consumption of an access network device in a first time.

[0253] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application, a first network element acquires second information, the second information includes at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of an access network device within a first time, the second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, and ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption; and the information collected by the network side device is fully utilized, the data value is increased, and the rationality of the determined network energy consumption is improved.

[0254] In one embodiment, the apparatus further includes a processing module configured to perform a first operation, the first operation including at least one of: associating the second information with the terminal; and determining network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

[0255] In one embodiment, the processing module is configured to at least one of: associate a terminal identifier at a core network with the radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier; and associate the terminal identifier at the core network with the second information, wherein the terminal identifier at the core network includes at least one of: a globally unique temporary terminal identity (GUTI), a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI), and a permanent equipment identity (PEI).

[0256] In one embodiment, the receiving module 1102 is further configured to acquire at least one of the following from an access network device: the radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier association; a radio access network global node identifier; and a timestamp.

[0257] In one embodiment, the processing module is configured to: determine network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal consumed at the access network device; and determine network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal consumed within a first area, a first time, or a first radio access technology.

[0258] In one embodiment, the processing module is configured to determine the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal consumed at the access network device based on at least one of: wireless network resources used by the terminal within a first time; wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals within the first time; total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time; a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; an amount of data used by the terminal within the first time; and an amount of data used by a plurality of terminals within the first time.

[0259] In one embodiment, the processing module is configured to determine the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal consumed at the access network device based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0260] wherein EC UE.RANM is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is information of wireless network resource used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, the plurality of terminals including the first terminal; or,

[0261] wherein, EC UE.RAN M is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is information of wireless network resource used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, the plurality of terminals including the first terminal; or,

[0262] wherein, EC UE.RAN M is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, UE (T) is a data volume used by the first terminal in a first time, Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ΣDV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is a sum of product of data volume and wireless signal quality level used by a plurality of terminals in a first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, the plurality of terminals including the first terminal.

[0263] In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a processing module for mapping the wireless signal quality information of the terminal into the wireless signal quality level.

[0264] In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a sending module for sending third information to a second network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, the third information comprising at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0265] In one embodiment, granularity of the second information is at least one of the following: the terminal, a first cell, a first time, a first area, a first radio access technology.

[0266] In an embodiment, the receiving module 1102 is configured to receive the second information from the access network device; or the first network element receives the first information from the terminal, and the first network element processes the first information to obtain the second information.

[0267] In an embodiment, the first information includes at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, including at least one of the following: a number of PRBs, an MCS; the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of the following: a value of RSRP, a value of RSRQ, a value of SINR, a value of CQI.

[0268] Referring to FIG. 12, when the network energy consumption determination apparatus is a second network element or a component in the second network element, the network energy consumption determination apparatus 1200 includes a receiving module 1202 configured to receive third information from a first network element or a third network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, and the third information including at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a wireless access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0269] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present application is configured to receive third information from a first network element or a third network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, and the third information including at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a wireless access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information, which is beneficial to guarantee the diversity of input information for determining network energy consumption, and to fully utilize information collected by network side devices, increase data value, and improve the rationality of determined network energy consumption.

[0270] In an embodiment, the second information includes at least one of the following: information of wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

[0271] In an embodiment, the apparatus further includes a sending module configured to send a data acquisition request to the third network element, the data acquisition request being used for requesting to acquire the third information.

[0272] In an embodiment, the apparatus further includes a processing module configured to statistically determine the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of the following: wireless network resource used by the terminal within a first time; wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals within the first time; total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time; a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; an amount of data used by the terminal within the first time; and an amount of data used by a plurality of terminals within the first time.

[0273] In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a processing module configured to calculate the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal based on at least one of the following formulas:

[0274] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, P(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal; or,

[0275] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the first terminal in the first time, S(T) is the information of the wireless network resource used by the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal; or,

[0276] wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the amount of data used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UE i(T) is the sum of the product of the amount of data and the wireless signal quality level of the plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals comprises the first terminal.

[0277] Referring to FIG. 13, when the network energy consumption determining apparatus is a third network element or a component in the third network element, the network energy consumption determining apparatus 1300 comprises a receiving module 1302 configured to receive second information from an access network device; wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

[0278] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application can receive second information from an access network device, the second information including at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time period. The second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, ensuring the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption. In addition, the information collected by the network side device is fully utilized, the data value is increased, and the rationality of the determined network energy consumption is improved.

[0279] In one embodiment, the apparatus further includes a sending module configured to send third information to the second network element, the third information being used to calculate or carry the network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information including at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

[0280] Referring to FIG. 14, when the network energy consumption determination apparatus is a terminal or a component in the terminal, the network energy consumption determination apparatus 1400 includes a sending module 1402 configured to send first information to an access network device or a first network element, the first information being used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0281] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application can receive second information from an access network device, the second information including at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission, wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal, network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time period. The second information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, ensuring the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption. In addition, the information collected by the network side device is fully utilized, the data value is increased, and the rationality of the determined network energy consumption is improved.

[0282] In one embodiment, the first information includes at least one of the following: 1) information of the wireless network resources, including at least one of the following used by the terminal for data transmission: a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a modulation and coding strategy (MCS); and 2) the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of the following: a value of a reference signal received power (RSRP), a value of a reference signal received quality (RSRQ), a value of a signal-to-interference noise ratio (SINR), and a value of a channel quality indicator (CQI).

[0283] The network energy consumption determination apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of FIGS. 2 to 9 and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0284] As shown in FIG. 15, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 1500, comprising a processor 1501 and a memory 1502, wherein the memory 1502 stores programs or instructions executable by the processor 1501, for example, when the communication device 1500 is a terminal, the programs or instructions are executed by the processor 1501 to implement each step of the network energy consumption determination method embodiment described above, and achieve the same technical effects. When the communication device 1500 is a network side device, the programs or instructions are executed by the processor 1501 to implement each step of the network energy consumption determination method embodiment described above, and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0285] The embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, comprising a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run programs or instructions to implement the steps in the method embodiment shown in FIG. 9. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the terminal side method embodiment described above, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and achieve the same technical effects. The terminal can be the network energy consumption determination apparatus shown in FIG. 14. Specifically, FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing the embodiment of the present application.

[0286] The terminal 1600 includes, but is not limited to, at least part of the components such as a radio frequency unit 1601, a network module 1602, an audio output unit 1603, an input unit 1604, a sensor 1605, a display unit 1606, a user input unit 1607, an interface unit 1608, a memory 1609, and a processor 1610.

[0287] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 1600 can further include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component, and the power supply can be logically connected to the processor 1610 through a power management system, so as to realize functions such as power management, discharge management, and power consumption management through the power management system. The terminal structure shown in FIG. 16 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal, and the terminal can include more or fewer components than those shown, or combine certain components, or different component arrangements, which are not described herein.

[0288] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the input unit 1604 can include a graphics processor 16041 and a microphone 16042, and the graphics processor 16041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 1606 can include a display panel 16061, which can be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 1607 includes at least one of a touch panel 16071 and other input devices 16072. The touch panel 16071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 16071 can include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 16072 can include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, on-off keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, which will not be described here.

[0289] In the embodiments of the present application, after the radio frequency unit 1601 receives the downlink data from the network side device, it can be transmitted to the processor 1610 for processing. In addition, the radio frequency unit 1601 can send uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 1601 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0290] The memory 1609 can be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1609 can mainly include a first storage area storing programs or instructions and a second storage area storing data, wherein the first storage area can store an operating system, at least one application program required by a function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like. In addition, the memory 1609 can include a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory can be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory can be a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static RAM (SRAM), a Dynamic RAM (DRAM), a Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), a Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), an Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), a Synch link DRAM (SLDRAM), and a Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1609 in the embodiments of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable type of memory.

[0291] The processor 1610 can include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1610 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes operations related to an operating system, a user interface, and an application program, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the above-mentioned modem processor can also not be integrated into the processor 1610.

[0292] The radio frequency unit 1601 is configured to send first information, wherein the first information is used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

[0293] In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal sends first information to the access network device or the first network element, and the first information is used to indicate the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission or the wireless link quality of the terminal. The first information can be used to determine the network energy consumption of each terminal, ensure the diversity of input information for determining the network energy consumption, fully utilize the information collected by the terminal, increase the data value, and help improve the rationality of the determined network energy consumption.

[0294] It can be understood that the implementation processes of the implementation manners mentioned in the embodiments can refer to the related descriptions of the network energy consumption determination method embodiments, and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, they will not be described here again.

[0295] The embodiments of the present application also provide a network side device, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled with the processor. The processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the steps of the method embodiments shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 6, FIG. 7 or FIG. 8. The network side device embodiments correspond to the network side device method embodiments described above. The implementation processes and implementation manners of the method embodiments described above can be applied to the network side device embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effects.

[0296] Specifically, the embodiments of the present application also provide a network side device, which can be the network energy consumption determination apparatus shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 11, FIG. 12 or FIG. 13. As shown in FIG. 17, the network side device 1700 includes an antenna 171, a radio frequency device 172, a baseband device 173, a processor 174 and a memory 175. The antenna 171 is connected with the radio frequency device 172. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 172 receives information through the antenna 171, and sends the received information to the baseband device 173 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 173 processes the information to be sent, and sends it to the radio frequency device 172. The radio frequency device 172 processes the received information and sends it out through the antenna 171.

[0297] The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiments can be implemented in the baseband device 173, which includes a baseband processor.

[0298] The baseband device 173 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, and a plurality of chips are arranged on the baseband board. As shown in FIG. 17, one of the chips is, for example, a baseband processor, which is connected with the memory 175 through a bus interface to call programs in the memory 175 and perform the network device operations shown in the above method embodiments.

[0299] The network side device can also include a network interface 176, which is, for example, a common public radio interface (Common Public Radio Interface, CPRI).

[0300] Specifically, the network side device 1700 of the embodiment of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored on the storage 175 and executable on the processor 174, the processor 174 invokes the instructions or programs in the storage 175 to execute the method performed by each module shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 11, FIG. 12 or FIG. 13, and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0301] Specifically, the embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device. As shown in FIG. 18, the network side device 1800 includes a processor 1801, a network interface 1802 and a storage 1803. The network side device can be the network energy consumption determination apparatus shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 11, FIG. 12 or FIG. 13. The network interface 1802 is, for example, a common public radio interface (CPRI).

[0302] Specifically, the network side device 1800 of the embodiment of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored on the storage 1803 and executable on the processor 1801, the processor 1801 invokes the instructions or programs in the storage 1803 to execute the method performed by each module shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 11, FIG. 12 or FIG. 13, and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0303] The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, the readable storage medium stores programs or instructions, the programs or instructions are executed by a processor to implement each process of the network energy consumption determination method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0304] The processor is the processor in the terminal in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer readable only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc. In some examples, the readable storage medium can be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

[0305] The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor are coupled, the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement each process of the network energy consumption determination method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0306] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiment of the present application can also be referred to as a system level chip, a system chip, a chip system or a system on chip, etc.

[0307] The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product stored in a storage medium, which is executed by at least one processor to implement the processes of the network energy consumption determination method embodiment, and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0308] The embodiment of the present application further provides a network energy consumption determination system, which comprises a terminal and a network side device. The terminal can be used to execute the steps of the network energy consumption determination method described above, and the network side device can be used to execute the steps of the network energy consumption determination method described above.

[0309] It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprising", "including", or any other variant thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, so that processes, methods, articles, or devices that include a series of elements not only include those elements, but also include other elements not explicitly listed, or further include elements inherent to such processes, methods, articles, or devices. Without more limitations, the element defined by the statement "comprising a" does not exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or device that includes the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the methods and devices in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but can also include performing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in reverse order, for example, the described method can be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps can also be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples can be combined in other examples.

[0310] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-mentioned embodiment method can be realized by means of computer software product and general hardware platform, of course, it can also be realized by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disc, optical disc, etc.), which includes a plurality of instructions for making the terminal or network side device execute the method described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0311] The embodiments of the present application are described above in combination with the drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments, which are only illustrative and not restrictive. Those skilled in the art can make many forms of embodiments under the inspiration of the present application without departing from the scope of the present application and the protection scope of the claims, and these embodiments all belong to the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for determining network energy consumption, comprising: sending, by an access network device, second information to a first network element or a third network element, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The method further comprises: obtaining, by the access network device, first information, wherein the second information is the first information; or obtaining, by the access network device, the second information based on the first information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The first information comprises at least one of the following: the information of the wireless network resources, comprising at least one of the following used by the terminal for data transmission: a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs), a modulation and coding strategy (MCS) ; the wireless signal quality information, comprising at least one of the following: a value of reference signal received power (RSRP), a value of reference signal received quality (RSRQ), a value of signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR), a value of channel quality indicator (CQI).

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, Before the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, the method further comprises at least one of the following: summing, by the access network device, a plurality of wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission to obtain aggregated wireless network resources, wherein the information of the wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission comprises information of the aggregated wireless network resources; mapping, by the access network device, the wireless signal quality information of the terminal to the wireless signal quality level, wherein the second information comprises the wireless signal quality level; statistically obtaining, by the access network device, the network energy consumption statistical information.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, The access network device statistically obtains the network energy consumption statistical information by determining the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of the following: wireless network resources used by the terminal in the first time; wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time; total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; the wireless signal quality level of the terminal; an amount of data used by the terminal in the first time; an amount of data used by a plurality of terminals in the first time.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, The access network device determines the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal based on at least one of the following formulas: wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the data volume used by the first terminal in the first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UEi (T) is the sum of the data volume and the wireless signal quality level product of the multiple terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the multiple terminals include the first terminal.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein, The granularity of the second information is at least one of the following: the terminal, a first cell, a first time, a first area, a first radio access technology.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein, The second information further comprises at least one of the following: a terminal identifier of the terminal, a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier, a radio access network global node identifier, a time stamp, a time period.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein, Before the access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element, the method further comprises: establishing, by the access network device, a data connection with the first network element, wherein the data connection is a control plane based connection; or establishing, by the access network device, a data connection with the third network element, wherein the data connection is a user plane based connection.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein, The access network device sends the second information to the first network element or the third network element when at least one of the following conditions is met: a cell handover of the terminal occurs; A terminal appears a radio resource control (RRC) connection release; A reporting time, a reporting event or a reporting area information related to the second information is satisfied. 11.A network energy consumption determination method, comprising: A first network element obtaining second information, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: Information of wireless network resources used by a terminal for data transmission; Wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; Network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; Total energy consumption of an access network device within a first time.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, After the first network element obtaining the second information, the method further comprises the first network element performing a first operation, wherein the first operation comprises at least one of the following: Associating the second information with the terminal; Determining network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, The associating the second information with the terminal comprises at least one of the following: Associating a terminal identifier at a core network with a radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier; Associating the terminal identifier at the core network with the second information; Wherein the terminal identifier at the core network comprises at least one of the following: global unique temporary terminal identifier (GUTI), subscription permanent identifier (SUPI), permanent equipment identifier (PEI).

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, The method further comprises the first network element obtaining at least one of the following from an access network device: The radio access network terminal next generation application protocol identifier association; Radio access network global node identifier; Timestamp.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein, The determining network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal comprises: Determining network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device; Determining network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal within a first area, a first time or a first radio access technology.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, The determining network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device comprises determining the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device based on at least one of the following: Wireless network resources used by the terminal within the first time; Wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals within the first time; Total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time; The wireless signal quality level of the terminal; Data amount used by the terminal within the first time; Data amount used by a plurality of terminals within the first time.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein, The determining the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the terminal at the access network device comprises determining the network energy consumption statistical information consumed by the first terminal at the access network device based on at least one of the following formulas: wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the data volume used by the first terminal in a first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UEi (T) is the sum of the data volume and the wireless signal quality level product of the multiple terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the multiple terminals include the first terminal.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein, The method further comprises: The first network element mapping the wireless signal quality information of the terminal into the wireless signal quality level.

19. The method of any one of claims 11 to 18, wherein, The method further comprises the first network element sending third information to a second network element, wherein the third information is used for calculating or bearing network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, and the third information comprises at least one of the following: Terminal identifier at a core network; Radio access network global node identifier; The second information; The network energy consumption statistical information.

20. The method of any one of claims 11 to 19, wherein, The granularity of the second information is at least one of the following: The terminal, a first cell, a first time, a first area, a first radio access technology.

21. The method of any one of claims 11 to 20, wherein, The first network element obtaining the second information comprises: The first network element receiving the second information from an access network device; or The first network element receiving first information from a terminal, and processing the first information to obtain the second information.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein, The first information comprises at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, including at least one of the following: a number of PRBs, an MCS; the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of the following: a value of RSRP, a value of RSRQ, a value of SINR, a value of CQI.

23. A network energy consumption determination method, comprising: a second network element receiving third information from a first network element or a third network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, the third information including at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a radio access network global node identifier; second information; the network energy consumption statistical information.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, the second information including at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; total energy consumption of an access network device within a first time.

25. The method of claim 23 or 24, wherein, Before the second network element receives the third information from the third network element, the method further comprises: the second network element sending a data acquisition request to the third network element, the data acquisition request being used for requesting to acquire the third information.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein, The method further comprises that the second network element, based on at least one of the following, calculates the network energy consumption statistical information: wireless network resource used by the terminal within the first time; wireless network resource used by a plurality of terminals within the first time; total energy consumption of the access network device within the first time; a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; an amount of data used by the terminal within the first time; an amount of data used by a plurality of terminals within the first time.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein, The second network element counts the network energy consumption statistical information based on at least one of the following formulas: wherein, EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, M UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, P(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the plurality of terminals include the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, N UE (T) is information of wireless network resources used by the first terminal in a first time, S(T) is information of wireless network resources used by a plurality of terminals in the first time, EC RAN is total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time; Q UE (T) is a wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, and the plurality of terminals includes the first terminal; or, wherein EC UE.RAN is the network energy consumption statistical information of the first terminal, DV UE (T) is the data volume used by the first terminal in a first time, Q UE (T) is the wireless signal quality level of the first terminal, ∑DV UEi (T)·Q UEi (T) is the sum of the data volume and the wireless signal quality level product of the multiple terminals in the first time, EC RAN is the total energy consumption of the access network device in the first time, and the multiple terminals include the first terminal.

28. A network energy consumption determination method, comprising: a third network element receiving second information from an access network device; wherein the second information includes at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; total energy consumption of the access network device within a first time.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein, The method further comprises that the third network element sends third information to a second network element, the third information being used for calculating or carrying network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal, the third information including at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a radio access network global node identifier; the second information; the network energy consumption statistical information.

30. A network energy consumption determination method, comprising: a terminal sending first information to an access network device or a first network element, the first information being used for indicating wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission or wireless link quality of the terminal.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein, the first information including at least one of the following: information of the wireless network resource used by the terminal for data transmission, including at least one of the following: a number of PRBs, an MCS; the wireless signal quality information, including at least one of the following: a value of RSRP, a value of RSRQ, a value of SINR, a value of CQI.

32. A network energy consumption determination apparatus applied to an access network device, comprising: a sending module configured to send second information to the first network element or the third network element, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information about wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time period.

33. A network energy consumption determination apparatus applied to a first network element, comprising: a receiving module configured to receive second information, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information about wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time period.

34. A network energy consumption determination apparatus applied to a second network element, comprising: a receiving module configured to receive third information from a first network element or a third network element, wherein the third information is used to calculate or carry network energy consumption statistical information of a terminal, and the third information comprises at least one of the following: a terminal identifier at a core network; a global node identifier of a radio access network; and the second information; and the network energy consumption statistical information.

35. A network energy consumption determination apparatus applied to a third network element, comprising: a receiving module configured to receive second information from an access network device, wherein the second information comprises at least one of the following: information about wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission; wireless signal quality information or a wireless signal quality level of the terminal; network energy consumption statistical information of the terminal; and total energy consumption of the access network device in a first time period.

36. A network energy consumption determination apparatus applied to a terminal, comprising: a sending module configured to send first information to an access network device or a first network element, wherein the first information is used to indicate wireless network resources used by the terminal for data transmission or a wireless link quality of the terminal.

37. A terminal comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores programs or instructions executable on the processor, and the programs or instructions are executed by the processor to implement steps of the method according to any one of claims 30 to 31.

38. A network-side device comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores programs or instructions executable on the processor, and the programs or instructions are executed by the processor to implement steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 29.

39. A readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium stores programs or instructions, and the programs or instructions are executed by a processor to implement steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 31.

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