Communication method, communication device, communication system, storage medium and program product

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a communication method, a communication device, a communication system, a storage medium and a program product. In the present disclosure, a terminal receives first information sent by a network device, wherein the first information is used for configuring, for the terminal, a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions, and the first configuration may be used for the terminal to execute a corresponding operation when the spatial region where the terminal is located changes, so as to implement mobility management based on spatial regions, thereby achieving the effect of implementing mobility management on the basis of multi-dimensional location information of the terminal, and improving the accuracy of mobility management of the terminal.

Description

Communication methods, communication equipment, communication systems, storage media and software products Technical Field

[0001] This disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and in particular to a communication method, communication device, communication system and program product. Background Technology

[0002] Currently, research on airborne user equipment (UE) has entered a phase of rapid development, especially with the support of technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), low-Earth orbit satellites, and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS). Airborne communication has become an important research direction. Among these, mobility management of airborne UEs is one of the key technologies to ensure that airborne UEs can maintain continuous and efficient communication during movement. Summary of the Invention

[0003] This disclosure provides a communication method, communication device, communication system, storage medium, and program product to more accurately achieve mobility management of over-the-air UEs.

[0004] According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication method is proposed, executed by a terminal, the method comprising: receiving first information sent by a network device, the first information being configured to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being configured to allow the terminal to perform corresponding operations when its spatial region changes.

[0005] According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a communication method is provided, executed by a network device, the method comprising: sending first information to a terminal, the first information being configured to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being configured to allow the terminal to perform corresponding operations when its spatial region changes.

[0006] According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided for performing the communication method as described in the first or second aspect above.

[0007] According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, a communication system is provided, including a terminal and a network device, wherein the terminal is configured to implement the communication method as described in the first aspect above, and the network device is configured to implement the communication method as described in the second aspect above.

[0008] According to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, a storage medium is provided that stores instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform the communication method as described in the first or second aspect above.

[0009] According to a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, a program product is provided, including at least one of a program and instructions, wherein the program and instructions, when executed by a communication device, implement the communication method as described in the first or second aspect above.

[0010] This embodiment of the disclosure transmits first information from a network device to a terminal. The terminal can receive the first information transmitted by the network device. The first information is used to configure one or more spatial regions for the terminal. The first configuration can be used to perform corresponding operations when the terminal's spatial region changes, so as to realize mobility management based on spatial region. This achieves the effect of mobility management based on the multi-dimensional location information of the terminal and improves the accuracy of mobility management of the terminal. Attached Figure Description

[0011] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of this disclosure, the accompanying drawings required for the description of the embodiments are introduced below. The following drawings are only some embodiments of this disclosure and do not impose specific limitations on the protection scope of this disclosure.

[0012] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0013] Figure 2A is a schematic diagram illustrating a spherical array according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0014] Figure 2B is a radiation pattern of a spherical array according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0015] Figure 3A is a schematic diagram illustrating an MSG1 retransmission process according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0016] Figure 3B is a schematic diagram illustrating a TA calculation based on terminal measurement according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0017] Figure 3C is a schematic diagram illustrating another TA calculation based on terminal measurement according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0018] Figure 4 is an interactive schematic diagram of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0019] Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of a spatial region according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0020] Figure 6A is a schematic flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0021] Figure 6B is a schematic flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0022] Figure 7A is a schematic diagram of the structure of the terminal proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure.

[0023] Figure 7B is a schematic diagram of the structure of the network device proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure.

[0024] Figure 8A is a schematic diagram of the structure of the communication device 8100 proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure.

[0025] Figure 8B is a schematic diagram of the structure of chip 8200 proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure. Detailed Implementation

[0026] Exemplary embodiments will now be described in detail, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description relates to the drawings, unless otherwise indicated, the same numerals in different drawings denote the same or similar elements. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with this disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatuses and methods consistent with some aspects of this disclosure as detailed in the appended claims.

[0027] The terminology used in this disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure. The singular forms “a,” “the,” and “the” as used in this disclosure and the appended claims are also intended to include the plural forms unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term “and / or” as used herein refers to and includes any or all possible combinations of at least one associated listed item.

[0028] It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc., may be used in this disclosure to describe various messages, these messages should not be limited to these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish messages of the same type from one another. For example, without departing from the scope of this disclosure, a first message may also be referred to as a second message, and similarly, a second message may also be referred to as a first message. Depending on the context, the word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "when," "when," or "in response to determination."

[0029] This disclosure provides a communication method, communication device, communication system, storage medium, and program product.

[0030] In a first aspect, embodiments of this disclosure propose a communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising: receiving first information sent by a network device, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0031] In the above embodiments, the terminal receives first information sent by the network device, wherein the first information is used to configure one or more spatial regions for the terminal. The first configuration can be used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region changes, so as to realize mobility management based on spatial region, thereby achieving the effect of mobility management based on the multi-dimensional location information of the terminal and improving the accuracy of mobility management of the terminal.

[0032] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the association between measurement resource configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement event configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement reporting configuration and spatial region; the association between transmission configuration indicator (TCI) status and spatial region; the association between candidate cell and spatial region; and the association between beam and spatial region.

[0033] In the above embodiments, multiple information contents indicated by the first information are provided so that the contents indicated by the first information can be flexibly configured as needed, thereby improving the flexibility and diversity of the first information.

[0034] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, for at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement reporting configuration, the first information is used to indicate the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and the spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate the relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and the spatial region.

[0035] In the above embodiments, for any of the measurement resource configuration, measurement event configuration, and measurement reporting configuration, the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and the spatial region is indicated by the first information, or the relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and the spatial region is indicated by the first information, so that the configuration of the first information can be implemented as needed, thereby improving the flexibility of the first information configuration process.

[0036] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the spatial region is determined by a first parameter, the first parameter including at least one of the following: a reference position and / or distance threshold; a reference direction and / or angle threshold; a reference height range and / or a reference distance range.

[0037] In the above embodiments, an optional implementation for determining a spatial region is provided, so that the spatial region can be indicated to the terminal by configuring a first parameter. Furthermore, multiple optional first parameters are provided, so that the parameter type of the configured first parameter can be selected as needed, improving the flexibility and diversity of the spatial region indication method.

[0038] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold; wherein the distance threshold is used to measure the distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position, and the angle threshold is used to measure the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction.

[0039] In the above embodiments, an exemplary combination of parameters is provided for determining the first parameter of the spatial region, and the meaning of the distance threshold and angle threshold is clarified when the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold, so as to ensure that the spatial region can be determined according to the implementation of each parameter in the first parameter when the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold.

[0040] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes at least one of the following: determining the spatial region where the terminal is located based on the spatial location information of the terminal and a first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions; determining whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the spatial location information of the terminal and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, wherein the first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0041] In the above embodiments, multiple optional implementation methods are provided for the terminal to make spatial region determination based on the first parameter, so that the terminal can not only determine the specific spatial region where it is located based on the first parameter and its own spatial location information, but also make a judgment on whether it is in a certain spatial region based on the first parameter and its own spatial location information, thereby improving the flexibility of the communication process.

[0042] In some embodiments of the first aspect, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. Determining whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the spatial position information of the terminal and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region includes any one of the following: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position satisfies the distance threshold, and the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction satisfies the angle threshold; the terminal is determined to be in the first spatial region if the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position does not satisfy the distance threshold or the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction does not satisfy the angle threshold.

[0043] In the above embodiments, an optional implementation method is provided to determine whether the terminal is in a spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information and the first parameter corresponding to a certain spatial region when the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. This ensures that the terminal can determine whether it is in a certain spatial region based on the first parameter, thereby ensuring the smooth progress of the terminal mobility management process based on spatial regions.

[0044] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes: determining whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the spatial location information of the terminal and a first parameter and a second parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, wherein the second parameter includes at least one of hysteresis, offset, and trigger time, and the first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0045] In the above embodiments, another optional implementation method for the terminal to make a decision about the spatial region is provided, that is, the terminal makes a decision about the spatial region based on its own spatial location information, the first parameter and the second parameter, thereby improving the flexibility and diversity of the terminal's decision-making process about the spatial region.

[0046] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one beam; or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement resource configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement event configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement reporting configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a TCI state, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a candidate cell, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a beam.

[0047] In the above embodiments, by configuring multiple possible correspondences between spatial regions and measurement resources, measurement events, TCI status, candidate cells, and beams, the association between spatial regions and measurement resources, measurement events, TCI status, candidate cells, and beams can be configured as needed, thereby improving the flexibility and diversity of the first information configuration process.

[0048] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes: the terminal entering a first spatial region and performing a first operation based on a first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information; the terminal leaving the first spatial region and performing a second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information; wherein, the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial region.

[0049] In the above embodiments, multiple optional implementation methods are provided for the terminal to perform corresponding operations based on the first information, so as to ensure that the terminal can perform corresponding operations based on the first information when entering or leaving a certain spatial area, thereby realizing terminal mobility management based on spatial area.

[0050] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, performing the first operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information includes at least one of the following: activating the candidate cell, beam, or TCI status corresponding to the first spatial region; synchronizing the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; obtaining the timing advance TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; initiating measurement of the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or executing measurement based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or executing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; sending the device status of the terminal to the network device, the device status including at least one of location, altitude, and speed; and performing mobility management operations on the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0051] In the above embodiments, a variety of optional first operation types are provided so that the terminal can select the operation to be performed as needed when entering a certain spatial area, thereby improving the flexibility and diversity of the terminal's mobility management process.

[0052] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, when performing mobility management operations on candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region, the method further includes: performing mobility management operations on candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region based on measurement results of candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0053] In the above embodiments, an optional implementation method is provided when the terminal performs mobility management operations on the candidate cell or the beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. That is, based on the measurement results of the candidate cell or the beam corresponding to the first spatial region, the mobility management operation on the candidate cell or the beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region is realized, thereby improving the accuracy of the mobility management operation.

[0054] In conjunction with some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, performing the second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information includes at least one of the following: deactivating the candidate cell or beam or TCI status corresponding to the first spatial region; deleting the TA value maintained for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping the measurement of the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping the triggering and / or execution of measurement based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; and stopping the triggering and / or execution of measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0055] In the above embodiments, a variety of optional second operation types are provided so that the terminal can select the operation to be performed as needed when leaving a certain spatial area, thereby improving the flexibility and diversity of the terminal's mobility management process.

[0056] Secondly, this disclosure provides a communication method executed by a network device, the method comprising: sending first information to a terminal, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0057] In the above embodiments, the network device sends first information to the terminal, wherein the first information is used to configure one or more spatial regions corresponding to the first configuration for the terminal. The first configuration can be used to perform corresponding operations when the terminal's spatial region changes, so as to assist the terminal in realizing mobility management based on spatial region, thereby achieving the effect of mobility management based on the terminal's multi-dimensional location information and improving the accuracy of mobility management for the terminal.

[0058] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the association between measurement resource configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement event configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement reporting configuration and spatial region; the association between TCI status and spatial region; the association between candidate cell and spatial region; and the association between beam and spatial region.

[0059] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, for at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement reporting configuration, the first information is used to indicate the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and the spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate the relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and the spatial region.

[0060] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the spatial region is determined by a first parameter, the first parameter including at least one of the following: a reference position and / or distance threshold; a reference direction and / or angle threshold; a reference height range and / or a reference distance range.

[0061] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold; wherein, the distance threshold is used to measure the distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position, and the angle threshold is used to measure the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction.

[0062] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine the spatial region where the terminal is located based on the terminal's spatial location information; and / or, the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information, wherein the first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0063] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial position information, including any one of the following: the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used to determine that the terminal is in the first spatial region when the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position meets the distance threshold and the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction meets the angle threshold; the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used to determine that the terminal is not in the first spatial region when the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position does not meet the distance threshold or the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction does not meet the angle threshold.

[0064] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the method further includes: configuring a second parameter for the terminal, the second parameter including at least one of hysteresis, offset, and trigger time, the second parameter being used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the spatial location information of the terminal and a first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, the first spatial region being any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0065] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one beam; or...

[0066] Multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement resource configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement event configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement reporting configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a TCI state, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a candidate cell, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a beam.

[0067] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal enters a first spatial region, and the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information is used by the terminal to perform a first operation; the terminal leaves the first spatial region, and the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information is used by the terminal to perform a second operation; wherein, the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial region.

[0068] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first operation includes at least one of the following: activating the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; synchronizing the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; obtaining the timing advance (TA) value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; initiating measurement of the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or executing measurement based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or executing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; sending the device status of the terminal to the network device, the device status including at least one of location, altitude, and speed; and performing mobility management operations on the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0069] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first operation further includes: performing mobility management operations on the candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region based on the measurement results of the candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0070] In conjunction with some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the second operation includes at least one of the following: deactivating the candidate cell or beam or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; deleting the TA value maintained for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping the measurement of the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping the triggering and / or execution of measurement based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping the triggering and / or execution of measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0071] Thirdly, this disclosure provides a terminal, including: a transceiver module configured to receive first information sent by a network device, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0072] Fourthly, this disclosure provides a network device, including: a transceiver module configured to send first information to a terminal, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0073] Fifthly, embodiments of this disclosure provide a terminal, comprising: one or more processors; wherein the terminal is configured to perform the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment thereof.

[0074] In a sixth aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a network device comprising: one or more processors; wherein the network device is configured to perform the communication method as described in the second aspect and any embodiment thereof.

[0075] In a seventh aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a communication device for performing the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment of the first aspect, the second aspect and any embodiment of the second aspect.

[0076] Eighthly, embodiments of this disclosure provide a communication system including a terminal and a network device, wherein the terminal is configured to implement the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment of the first aspect, and the network device is configured to implement the communication method as described in the second aspect and any embodiment of the second aspect.

[0077] In a ninth aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment of the first aspect, the second aspect and any embodiment of the second aspect.

[0078] In a tenth aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a program product comprising at least one of a program and instructions, wherein the program and instructions, when executed by a communication device, implement the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment of the first aspect, the second aspect and any embodiment of the second aspect.

[0079] In one aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a computer program that, when run on a communication device, causes the communication device to perform the communication method as described in the first aspect and any embodiment of the first aspect, the second aspect and any embodiment of the second aspect.

[0080] In a twelfth aspect, embodiments of this disclosure provide a chip or chip system. The chip or chip system includes processing circuitry configured to perform the communication methods described in the first aspect and any embodiment thereof, the second aspect and any embodiment thereof.

[0081] It is understood that the aforementioned terminals, network devices, communication devices, communication systems, storage media, program products, computer programs, chips, or chip systems are all used to execute the methods proposed in the embodiments of this disclosure. Therefore, the beneficial effects they can achieve can be referred to the beneficial effects in the corresponding methods, and will not be repeated here.

[0082] This disclosure provides a communication method, a communication device, a communication system, a storage medium, and a program product. In some embodiments, the terms communication method, information processing method, terminal mobility management method, and spatial region-based mobility management method can be used interchangeably.

[0083] This disclosure is not exhaustive, but merely illustrative of some embodiments, and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of this disclosure. Unless otherwise specified, each step in a particular embodiment can be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the steps can be arbitrarily combined. For example, a solution after removing some steps in a particular embodiment can also be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the order of the steps in a particular embodiment can be arbitrarily interchanged. Furthermore, the optional implementation methods in a particular embodiment can be arbitrarily combined; moreover, the embodiments can be arbitrarily combined, for example, some or all steps of different embodiments can be arbitrarily combined, and a particular embodiment can be arbitrarily combined with the optional implementation methods of other embodiments. In all embodiments of this disclosure, unless otherwise specified or logically conflicting, the terminology and / or descriptions between the embodiments are consistent and can be mutually referenced. Technical features in different embodiments can be combined to form new embodiments based on their inherent logical relationships.

[0084] The terminology used in the embodiments of this disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of this disclosure.

[0085] In this embodiment of the disclosure, unless otherwise stated, elements expressed in the singular form, such as "a," "an," "the," "the," "the," "the," "the," "the," "this," etc., can mean "one and only one," or "one or more," "at least one," etc. For example, when using articles such as "a," "an," "the," etc. in translation, the noun following the article can be understood as either a singular expression or a plural expression.

[0086] In the embodiments disclosed herein, "multiple" refers to two or more.

[0087] In some embodiments, the terms “at least one of A or B, at least one of A and B”, “one or more”, “a plurality of”, “multiple”, etc., may be used interchangeably.

[0088] In some embodiments, the notation "at least one of A and B", "A and / or B", "A in one case, B in another", "in response to one case A, in response to another case B", etc., may include the following technical solutions depending on the situation: in some embodiments, A (execute A regardless of whether there is a branch B); in some embodiments, B (execute B regardless of whether there is a branch A); in some embodiments, execution is selected from A and B (A and B are selectively executed); in some embodiments, both A and B are executed. The same applies when there are more branches such as A, B, C, etc.

[0089] In some embodiments, the notation "A or B" may include the following technical solutions, depending on the situation: in some embodiments, A (execute A regardless of whether a branch B exists); in some embodiments, B (execute B regardless of whether a branch A exists); in some embodiments, execution is selected from A and B (A and B are selectively executed). The same applies when there are more branches such as A, B, and C.

[0090] The prefixes "first," "second," etc., used in the embodiments of this disclosure are merely for distinguishing different descriptive objects and do not impose restrictions on the position, order, priority, quantity, or content of the descriptive objects. The description of the descriptive objects is found in the claims or the context of the embodiments, and the use of prefixes should not constitute unnecessary restrictions. For example, if the descriptive object is a "field," the ordinal numbers preceding "field" in "first field" and "second field" do not restrict the position or order of the "fields." "First" and "second" do not restrict whether the "fields" they modify are in the same message, nor do they restrict the order of "first field" and "second field." Similarly, if the descriptive object is a "level," the ordinal numbers preceding "level" in "first level" and "second level" do not restrict the priority between "levels." Furthermore, the number of descriptive objects is not limited by ordinal numbers and can be one or more. For example, in "first device," the number of "devices" can be one or more. Furthermore, the objects modified by different prefixes can be the same or different. For example, if the object being described is "device", then "first device" and "second device" can be the same device or different devices, and their types can be the same or different. Similarly, if the object being described is "information", then "first information" and "second information" can be the same information or different information, and their content can be the same or different.

[0091] In some embodiments, “including A,” “containing A,” “for indicating A,” and “carrying A” can be interpreted as directly carrying A or indirectly indicating A.

[0092] In some embodiments, terms such as "time / frequency" and "time-frequency domain" refer to the time domain and / or frequency domain.

[0093] In some embodiments, terms such as “in response to…”, “in response to determining…”, “in the case of…”, “when…”, “when…”, “if…”, etc. can be used interchangeably. These descriptions all refer to the device making a corresponding action under certain objective circumstances. They do not necessarily limit the time, nor do they require the device to make a judgment action when implementing it, nor do they mean that there must be other limitations.

[0094] In some embodiments, the terms “greater than,” “greater than or equal to,” “not less than,” “more than,” “more than or equal to,” “not less than,” “higher than,” “higher than or equal to,” “not lower than,” and “above” can be used interchangeably, as can the terms “less than,” “less than or equal to,” “not greater than,” “less than,” “less than or equal to,” “not more than,” “lower than,” “lower than or equal to,” “not higher than,” and “below”.

[0095] In some embodiments, devices, etc., may be interpreted as physical or virtual, and their names are not limited to those described in the embodiments. Terms such as “device,” “equipment,” “circuit,” “network element,” “network function,” “network device,” “function,” “node,” “unit,” “section,” “system,” “network,” “chip,” “chip system,” “entity,” and “subject” are interchangeable.

[0096] In some embodiments, "network" can be interpreted as devices included in a network (e.g., access network devices, core network devices, etc.).

[0097] In some embodiments, the terms "access network device (AN device)," "radio access network device (RAN device)," "base station (BS)," "radio base station," "fixed station," "node," "access point," "transmission point (TP)," "reception point (RP)," "transmission / reception point (TRP)," "panel," "antenna panel," "antenna array," "cell," "macro cell," "small cell," "femto cell," "pico cell," "sector," "cell group," "serving cell," "carrier," "component carrier," and "bandwidth part (BWP)" can be used interchangeably.

[0098] In some embodiments, the terms "terminal", "terminal device", "user equipment (UE)", "user terminal", "mobile station (MS)", "mobile terminal (MT)", "subscriber station", "mobile unit", "subscriber unit", "wireless unit", "remote unit", "mobile device", "wireless device", "wireless communication device", "remote device", "mobile subscriber station", "access terminal", "mobile terminal", "wireless terminal", "remote terminal", "handset", "user agent", "mobile client", and "client" can be used interchangeably.

[0099] In some embodiments, access network devices, core network devices, or network devices can be replaced by terminals. For example, embodiments of this disclosure can also be applied to structures where communication between access network devices, core network devices, or network devices and terminals is replaced by communication between multiple terminals (e.g., device-to-device (D2D), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), etc.). In this case, the structure can also be configured such that the terminal has all or part of the functions of the access network device. Furthermore, terms such as "uplink" and "downlink" can be replaced with terms corresponding to communication between terminals (e.g., "sidelink"). For example, uplink channel, downlink channel, etc., can be replaced with sidelink channel, and uplink link, downlink, etc., can be replaced with sidelink link.

[0100] In some embodiments, the terminal may be replaced by an access network device, a core network device, or a network device. In this case, the access network device, core network device, or network device may also be configured to have all or some of the functions of the terminal.

[0101] In some embodiments, the acquisition of data, information, etc., may comply with the laws and regulations of the country where the location is situated.

[0102] In some embodiments, data, information, etc., may be obtained with the user's consent.

[0103] Furthermore, each element, each row, or each column in the table of this disclosure can be implemented as an independent embodiment, and any combination of any element, any row, or any column can also be implemented as an independent embodiment.

[0104] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 1, the communication system 100 includes a terminal 101 and a network device 102.

[0105] In some embodiments, terminal 101 includes, for example, at least one of the following: mobile phone, wearable device, Internet of Things device, car with communication function, smart car, tablet computer, computer with wireless transceiver function, virtual reality (VR) terminal device, augmented reality (AR) terminal device, wireless terminal device in industrial control, wireless terminal device in self-driving, wireless terminal device in remote medical surgery, wireless terminal device in smart grid, wireless terminal device in transportation safety, wireless terminal device in smart city, and wireless terminal device in smart home, but is not limited thereto.

[0106] In some embodiments, network device 102 includes at least one of access network device and core network device.

[0107] In some embodiments, the access network device 102 may be a node or device that connects a terminal to a wireless network. The access network device may include at least one of the following in a 5G communication system: an evolved Node B (eNB), a next-generation eNB (ng-eNB), a next-generation Node B (gNB), a node B (NB), a home node B (HNB), a home evolved node B (HeNB), a wireless backhaul device, a radio network controller (RNC), a base station controller (BSC), a base transceiver station (BTS), a base band unit (BBU), a mobile switching center, a base station in a 6G communication system, an open RAN, a cloud RAN, a base station in other communication systems, and an access node in a Wi-Fi system, but is not limited thereto.

[0108] In some embodiments, the technical solutions of this disclosure can be applied to the Open RAN architecture. In this case, the interfaces between or within access network devices involved in the embodiments of this disclosure can be transformed into internal interfaces of Open RAN. The processes and information interactions between these internal interfaces can be implemented by software or programs.

[0109] In some embodiments, the access network device may be composed of a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU). The CU may also be called a control unit. The CU-DU structure can separate the protocol layer of the access network device. Some of the protocol layer functions are centrally controlled by the CU, while the remaining part or all of the protocol layer functions are distributed in the DU and centrally controlled by the CU. However, this is not the only possibility.

[0110] In some embodiments, the core network equipment may be a single device comprising multiple network elements, or it may be multiple devices or a group of devices, each comprising all or part of the multiple network elements. Network elements may be virtual or physical. The core network may include, for example, at least one of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC), 5G Core Network (5GCN), and Next Generation Core (NGC).

[0111] In some embodiments, the core network equipment may include a first network element, such as an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF).

[0112] In some embodiments, the first network element is used for user access management and mobility management, but is not limited thereto.

[0113] In some embodiments, the core network device may include a second network element, such as a Session Management Function (SMF).

[0114] In some embodiments, the second network element is used for session management of the control plane and user plane, but is not limited thereto.

[0115] In some embodiments, the core network device may include a third network element, such as a User Plane Function (UPF).

[0116] In some embodiments, the third network element is used for user plane data forwarding, traffic statistics, Quality of Service (QoS) management, etc., but is not limited to these.

[0117] In some embodiments, the core network device may include a fourth network element, such as a Policy Control Function (PCF).

[0118] In some embodiments, the fourth network element is used to implement user control policy management, including but not limited to QoS control, service access control, etc.

[0119] In some embodiments, the core network equipment may include a fifth network element, such as a unified data management function (UDM).

[0120] In some embodiments, the fifth network element is used to implement user subscription data management, roaming control, etc., but is not limited to these.

[0121] In some embodiments, the core network device may include a sixth network element, such as an Authentication Server Function (AUSF).

[0122] In some embodiments, the sixth network element is used to implement user authentication, but is not limited thereto.

[0123] In some embodiments, each of the above network elements can be independent of the core network equipment.

[0124] In some embodiments, each of the above network elements may be part of the core network equipment.

[0125] It is understood that the communication system described in this disclosure is for the purpose of more clearly illustrating the technical solutions of this disclosure, and does not constitute a limitation on the technical solutions proposed in this disclosure. As those skilled in the art will know, with the evolution of system architecture and the emergence of new business scenarios, the technical solutions proposed in this disclosure are also applicable to similar technical problems.

[0126] The following embodiments of this disclosure can be applied to the communication system 100 shown in FIG1, or to some of the main bodies, but are not limited thereto. The main bodies shown in FIG1 are illustrative. The communication system may include all or some of the main bodies in FIG1, or may include other main bodies outside of FIG1. ​​The number and form of each main body are arbitrary. Each main body may be physical or virtual. The connection relationship between the main bodies is illustrative. The main bodies may not be connected or may be connected. The connection can be in any way, it can be a direct connection or an indirect connection, it can be a wired connection or a wireless connection.

[0127] The embodiments disclosed herein can be applied to Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LTE-Beyond (LTE-B), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4th generation mobile communication system (4G), 5th generation mobile communication system (5G), 6th generation mobile communication system (6G), 5G New Radio (NR), Future Radio Access (FRA), New-Radio Access Technology (RAT), New Radio (NR), New Radio Access (NX), Future Generation Radio Access (FX), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), CDMA2000, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), and IEEE 802.20, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Bluetooth (a registered trademark), Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) networks, Device-to-Device (D2D) systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems, systems utilizing other communication methods, and next-generation systems built upon them, etc. Furthermore, multiple systems can be combined (e.g., a combination of LTE or LTE-A with 5G).

[0128] In recent years, global interest in services based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aerial user equipment (UEs) has increased dramatically. These services encompass various aspects such as UAV operation, personal entertainment through flight experiences, and cargo delivery. Furthermore, with the deepening research into 6G technology's seamless, three-dimensional hyper-connectivity and ubiquitous coverage, the use of services based on UAVs and other aerial UEs will become even more widespread in the future. As the foundation of these services, remote control and data transmission capabilities are key aspects ensuring service performance.

[0129] In related technologies, the feasibility of airborne UEs connecting via terrestrial cellular systems has been verified. In implementation, some base stations may deploy dedicated resources (such as upward beams) to provide better coverage for airborne UEs.

[0130] In some embodiments, the spherical conformal phased array, as one of the array forms of conformal arrays, has the ability to scan beams in half-space or even full-space, and can provide upward beams in different directions, which can achieve good coverage of spatial areas, thereby providing better coverage for airborne UEs.

[0131] For example, an array of four spherical layers distributed in [3,6,8,12] can be seen in Figure 2A, which is a schematic diagram of a spherical array according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Optionally, when the scanning angle of the four spherical layers distributed in [3,6,8,12] is (polar angle th = 0°, azimuth angle ph = 0°), the radiation pattern can be seen in Figure 2B, which is a radiation pattern of a spherical array according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0132] In some embodiments, considering that Layer 1 / L2 Triggered Mobility (LTM) can achieve fast and low-latency handover and can be used to reduce mobility latency, applying LTM to UAV UEs can effectively improve the mobility performance of airborne UEs, reduce handover interruptions, reduce handover latency, reduce handover signaling overhead, and achieve fast and efficient handover.

[0133] In some embodiments, LTM refers to a process in which a primary cell (PCell) or primary secondary cell (PSCell) is switched based on the measurement results of a layer 1 (L1) network through a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), which may be accompanied by a change in the master cell group (MCG) or secondary cell group (SCG).

[0134] In some embodiments of a 5G system, the network side can provide the terminal with one or more candidate configurations, where a candidate configuration may include one or more cells (or cell groups). The network side can subsequently control the terminal to change between multiple candidate configurations (e.g., changing the working cell (or cell group) from cell (or cell group)-1 to cell (or cell group)-2) via L1 signaling (such as Downlink Control Information (DCI)) or L2 signaling (such as MAC CE). This control signaling can be referred to as cell change control signaling. Furthermore, this process can also be called a network-triggered LTM process.

[0135] In some embodiments, the base station can receive L1 measurement reports from the terminal. Based on these reports, the terminal can change its serving cell via a cell switch command issued by the MAC CE. The cell switch command may indicate an LTM candidate cell configuration pre-provided to the terminal by a base station via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling. The terminal can then access the target cell indicated in the received cell switch command.

[0136] For example, the base station pre-sends multiple LTM candidate configurations to the terminal via RRC signaling. When LTM is triggered, the base station indicates the LTM candidate configuration corresponding to the target cell to be accessed by sending a Cell Switch Command MAC CE. The terminal can then apply the corresponding LTM target configuration to complete the serving cell change. The network side's sending of a MAC CE based on L1 measurement results to trigger the Cell Switch enables a rapid response to channel changes and timely handover.

[0137] Among them, the LTM candidate cell configuration can be added, modified, and released by the network side via RRC signaling.

[0138] In some embodiments, L1 measurement reporting may include network (NW) triggered L1 measurement reporting and event triggered L1 measurement reporting.

[0139] In some embodiments, for L1 measurement reporting triggered by NW, the Serving Distributed Unit (S-DU) can generate the LTM Cell Switch Command. In the LTM between CUs (Intra-CU), the Source gNodeB Distributed Unit (Source gNB-DU) can make the Cell switch decision. The S-gNB-DU makes the Cell Switch decision based on the L1 measurement results reported by the terminal to determine the candidate target cell for triggering LTM access. Then, the S-gNB-DU sends the Cell switch command to the terminal.

[0140] In some embodiments, to reduce measurement reporting and improve mobility robustness, event-triggered L1 measurement reporting can be considered. Event-triggered measurement reporting can assist the network side in selecting the target beam and / or cell to trigger advance synchronization, or assist the network side in selecting the target cell and / or the corresponding beam when triggering LTM Cell Switch.

[0141] Event LTM2: The serving cell’s beam performance is worse than the threshold (i.e., the absolute threshold).

[0142] Event LTM3: The candidate cell's beam offset is better than the serving cell's beam;

[0143] Event LTM4: The candidate cell's beam performance is better than the threshold;

[0144] Event LTM5: The serving cell’s beam performance is worse than the first threshold, and the candidate cell’s beam performance is better than the second threshold.

[0145] The serving cell's beam is the current beam, which is the beam indicated by the indicated TCI state. The candidate cell's beam is any one or more beams configured in the candidate reference signal configuration (or measurement resource configuration).

[0146] Among them, event-based L1 measurement reporting is sent to the network via MAC CE messages.

[0147] The configuration of measurement events is in the serving cell configuration, and the configuration of measurement events is associated with the configuration of measurement resources.

[0148] In some embodiments, subsequent LTM can be supported. Subsequent LTM refers to the Subsequent LTM cell handover procedure between candidate cells in the absence of RRC reconfiguration between networks. In other words, after performing mobility operations, the terminal does not delete the LTM configuration information on its own. The LTM configuration information can continue to be used to trigger subsequent LTM even if RRC reconfiguration and updates are not performed.

[0149] It should be noted that when LTM supports Subsequent LTM, the terminal does not need to release the LTM candidate configuration after each LTM Cell Switch. This allows the terminal to continue performing subsequent Cell Switches after mobility is achieved, without RRC reconfiguration or reset. Supporting Subsequent LTM can effectively reduce signaling overhead.

[0150] In some embodiments, LTM can support multiple scenarios. For example, LTM can support intra-gNB-DU and inter-gNB-DU mobility within gNB-DU and gNB-CU. Specifically, LTM supports intra-frequency and inter-frequency mobility, including mobility to inter-frequency cells that are not the current serving cell, and can support the following scenarios:

[0151] PCell variations in non-carrier aggregation (CA) and non-dual connectivity (DC) scenarios;

[0152] PCell changes in CA scenarios;

[0153] In dual-connectivity scenarios, changes to MCG PCell and SCGPSCell occur without the participation of a Mobile Node (MN) (i.e., changes to PSCell within the Serving Node (SN)). LTMs do not support simultaneous PCell and PSCell changes.

[0154] In some embodiments, LTM can be configured using LTM configuration information (LTM-Config). This LTM configuration information may include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following: LTM reference configuration, one or more candidate cell configurations (added, modified, or deleted via ltm-CandidateToReleaseList and ltm-CandidateToAddModList), and LTM Channel State Information (CSI) resource configuration.

[0155] The candidate cell configuration can be configured through LTM candidate cells (LTM-Candidate). The candidate cell configuration may include one or more of the following: configuration identifier, candidate cell identifier, and candidate configuration (represented by RRCReconfiguration), but is not limited to these.

[0156] The LTM candidate configuration is a configuration section in the RRC reconfiguration message, associated with a candidate cell, for example, for LTM or subsequent Cell Paging Channel Activation (CPAC). Optionally, the candidate configuration can be a complete candidate configuration or an incremental configuration relative to a reference configuration.

[0157] In some embodiments, during the LTM process, early uplink and downlink synchronization for candidate cells can be supported, thereby enabling RACH-less LTM Cell Switching during the LTM process. Currently, two schemes are supported for obtaining the TA values ​​of LTM candidate cells in advance: early TA acquisition and UE-based TA measurement, to support RACH-less LTM Cell Switching. Performing early uplink and downlink synchronization for candidate cells to achieve RACH-less LTM Cell Switching can effectively reduce data interruptions during handover.

[0158] In some embodiments, when the network is configured, one or more uplink latency (UL TA) acquisition processes (referred to as early TA) different from those of the current serving cell can be initiated.

[0159] In some embodiments, if the cell has the same Network Timing Advance (NTA) value as the current serving cell or NTA = 0, then an early TA acquisition process is not required.

[0160] In some embodiments, prior to cell handover, the network may require the terminal to perform an early TA acquisition procedure for a candidate cell. The early TA acquisition procedure can be triggered by a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) command, or implemented by the terminal performing TA measurements according to its RRC configuration.

[0161] In some embodiments, when the early TA acquisition process is triggered by a PDCCH command, the gNB where the candidate cell is located calculates the TA value and sends it to the gNB where the current serving cell is located. When the serving cell triggers an LTM cell handover, it sends the TA value out via the LTM cell handover command MAC CE.

[0162] In some embodiments, where the early TA acquisition process is implemented by the terminal performing TA measurements according to the RRC configuration, the terminal performs TA measurements on candidate cells according to the RRC configuration, but the specific time at which the terminal performs TA measurements is determined by the terminal implementation. The terminal uses its own measured TA value and performs LTM without a Random Access Channel (RACH) after receiving a cell handover command.

[0163] In some embodiments, the network may also send the TA value in the LTM cell handover command MAC CE without performing early TA acquisition.

[0164] In some embodiments, the RACH process for obtaining early uplink time synchronization (UL TA) for LTM candidate cells uses contention-free random access (CFRA) triggered by PDCCH commands. When the UE sends Message 1 (MSG1), it does not need to monitor the response from the cell. Referring to Figure 3A, which is a schematic diagram of an MSG1 retransmission process according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in Figure 3A, in order to support the gradual increase of terminal power, the terminal can perform MSG1 retransmission according to the network's instructions.

[0165] In some embodiments, if an arrow in the interaction diagram representing the sending of information, signaling, etc. from one subject to another passes through other subjects, it can be interpreted as the information being forwarded from one subject to another via other subjects, or it can be interpreted as the information being sent from one subject to another without passing through other subjects.

[0166] In some embodiments, for TA calculation based on terminal measurements, the terminal can calculate and obtain the uplink timing of the terminal in cell 2 based on the downlink reception timing deviation between cell 1 and cell 2, and the uplink timing of the terminal in cell 1. Referring to Figure 3B, which is a schematic diagram of TA calculation based on terminal measurements according to an embodiment of this disclosure, as shown in Figure 3B, the TA value can be calculated according to the following calculation method:

[0167] (TA_Cell_2) / 2=(TA_Cell_1) / 2+Rx_Diff

[0168] Where TA_Cell_1 is the TA value of cell 1, TA_Cell_2 is the TA value of cell 2, and Rx_Diff is the downlink reception timing deviation between cell 1 and cell 2.

[0169] In some embodiments, for TA calculation based on terminal measurements, the terminal can calculate and obtain the uplink timing in cell 2 based on the downlink receive timing deviation between cell 1 and cell 2, the uplink timing of the terminal in cell 1, and the downlink transmit time difference between cell 1 and cell 2. Referring to Figure 3C, which is a schematic diagram of another TA calculation based on terminal measurements according to an embodiment of this disclosure, as shown in Figure 3C, the TA value can be calculated according to the following calculation method:

[0170] (TA_Cell_2) / 2=(TA_Cell_1) / 2+Rx_Diff-Tx_Diff

[0171] Where TA_Cell_1 is the TA value of cell 1, TA_Cell_2 is the TA value of cell 2, Rx_Diff is the downlink reception timing deviation between cell 1 and cell 2, and Tx_Diff is the downlink transmission time difference between cell 1 and cell 2.

[0172] In some embodiments, after obtaining the TA value indicated by the network, the terminal may start a time alignment timer (TAT). During the operation of this timer, the terminal considers the TA value to be valid and uses the TA value for uplink transmission.

[0173] In some embodiments, during the LTM process, early downlink synchronization for candidate cells is supported.

[0174] In some embodiments, the terminal can activate the TCI state of one or more cells that are different from the current serving cell based on network configuration or other schemes. For example, the TCI state of these cells can be activated in advance before any LTM candidate cell becomes the serving cell. This allows the UE to perform downlink synchronization with these candidate cells in advance, thereby enabling a faster handover to one of the candidate cells when a Cell Switch is triggered.

[0175] In some embodiments, supporting early uplink synchronization can effectively reduce handover interruption time.

[0176] In 5G, altitude-based mobility management has been studied for airborne UEs, supporting altitude-triggered measurements and measurement reporting. However, for broader coverage, future technologies may support 360-degree spherical antenna arrays to achieve seamless deployment and full coverage in the air. In this deployment scenario, multiple beams cover the same altitude plane, and different locations may correspond to different beam coverage areas. In this case, relying solely on the altitude of the airborne UE to assist in mobility management is not accurate enough.

[0177] Figure 4 is an interactive schematic diagram of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 4, the embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a communication method, which includes:

[0178] Step S4101: The network device sends the first information to the terminal.

[0179] In some embodiments, the terminal receives first information sent by a network device, but is not limited thereto. The terminal may also receive first information sent by other entities, in which case step S4101 may be omitted.

[0180] In some embodiments, the terminal obtains the first information specified by the protocol, in which case step S4101 can be omitted.

[0181] In some embodiments, the terminal obtains the first information from the upper layer(s), in which case step S4101 can be omitted.

[0182] In some embodiments, the terminal processes the information to obtain the first information, in which case step S4101 can be omitted.

[0183] In some embodiments, the terminal autonomously implements the function indicated by the first information, or the above function is a default or default value, in which case step S4101 can be omitted.

[0184] In some embodiments, the first information is used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal. The first configuration can be used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region changes. For example, for any one of the one or more spatial regions, the terminal can perform corresponding operations based on the first configuration corresponding to the spatial region when entering or leaving the spatial region.

[0185] In some embodiments, the name of the first information is not limited, and it may be, for example, "configuration information", "first configuration information", etc.

[0186] In some embodiments, the names of information, etc., are not limited to the names described in the embodiments. Terms such as "information", "message", "signal", "signaling", "report", "configuration", "indication", "instruction", "command", "channel", "parameter", "domain", "field", "symbol", "symbol", "codebook", "codeword", "codepoint", "bit", "data", "program", and "chip" can be used interchangeably.

[0187] In some embodiments, the name of the first configuration is not limited, and it may be, for example, "mobility configuration".

[0188] In some embodiments, the first configuration can be a measurement resource configuration, used to configure the measurement resources when the terminal triggers and / or performs measurements in a spatial area. Alternatively, the first configuration can be a measurement event configuration, used to configure relevant parameters when the terminal triggers and / or performs measurement reporting in a spatial area. Alternatively, the first configuration can be a measurement reporting configuration, used to configure relevant parameters when the terminal reports measurement results in a spatial area. Alternatively, the first configuration can be used to indicate the Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state of the terminal in a spatial area, to indicate the current transmission configuration of the terminal in the spatial area through the TCI state. Alternatively, the first configuration can be used to configure candidate cells, to indicate the candidate cells that the terminal can access in the spatial area. Alternatively, the first configuration can be used to configure beams, to indicate which beam's coverage area the terminal belongs to in the spatial area.

[0189] That is, in some embodiments, the first information can be used to indicate at least one of the following: the association between measurement resource configuration and spatial region, the association between measurement event configuration and spatial region, the association between measurement reporting configuration and spatial region, the association between TCI status and spatial region, the association between candidate cell and spatial region, and the association between beam and spatial region.

[0190] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between measurement resource configurations and spatial regions; that is, the first information can be used to indicate measurement resource configurations corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region can correspond to at least one measurement resource configuration, or multiple spatial regions can correspond to one measurement resource configuration. In other words, the measurement resource configurations corresponding to different spatial regions can be the same or different. For example, different spatial resources can correspond to different synchronization signal blocks (SSBs).

[0191] In some embodiments, the terms "synchronization signal block (SSB)," "synchronization signal (SS)," "reference signal (RS)," "pilot," and "pilot signal" can be used interchangeably.

[0192] In some embodiments, measurement resource configuration may include measurement object configuration, channel state information (CSI) measurement, etc., but is not limited thereto.

[0193] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between measurement event configurations and spatial regions; that is, the first information can be used to indicate measurement event configurations corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region can correspond to at least one measurement event configuration, or multiple spatial regions can correspond to a single measurement event configuration; that is, the measurement event configurations corresponding to different spatial regions can be the same or different.

[0194] In some embodiments, the measurement event configuration may be at least one of measurement events such as L1 measurement, LTM measurement, Layer 2 (L2) measurement, Layer 3 (L3) measurement, Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement, beam measurement, cell measurement, etc., but is not limited thereto.

[0195] For example, a measurement event may include at least one of the following:

[0196] Event LTM2: The serving cell’s beam performance is worse than the threshold (i.e., the absolute threshold).

[0197] Event LTM3: The candidate cell's beam offset is better than the serving cell's beam;

[0198] Event LTM4: The candidate cell's beam performance is better than the threshold;

[0199] Event LTM5: The serving cell's beam performance is worse than the first threshold, and the candidate cell's beam performance is better than the second threshold;

[0200] Event A1: Service performance is better than the threshold;

[0201] Event A2: Service performance is worse than the threshold value;

[0202] Event A3: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of the primary cell (PCell) or primary secondary cell (PSCell);

[0203] Event A4: The neighboring cell's performance is better than the threshold value;

[0204] Event A5: The performance of PCell or PSCell is worse than the first threshold, while the performance of neighboring cells or secondary cells (SCell) is better than the second threshold;

[0205] Event A6: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of SCell;

[0206] Event D1: The distance between the terminal and the reference location (Location) 1 is greater than the configured first distance threshold (i.e., ThreshFromReference1), and the distance between the terminal and the reference location (Location) 2 is less than the configured second distance threshold (i.e., ThreshFromReference2).

[0207] Event D2: The distance between the terminal and the serving cell's moving reference location determined by the movingReferenceLocation in System Information Block 19 (SIB19) and its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time broadcast is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and the neighboring cell's reference location determined by its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time based on the MeasObjectNR is less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0208] Conditional event A3: The candidate offset for conditional reconfiguration is better than PCell or PSCell;

[0209] Conditional event A4: The performance of the candidate for conditional reconfiguration is better than the threshold value, wherein conditional event A4 can also be applied to the current PSCell of the conditional handover (CHO) with a candidate secondary cell group (SCG) (i.e., when it is configured as a candidate PSCell for evaluation by conditional event A4).

[0210] Conditional event A5: The performance of PCell or PSCell is worse than the first threshold, and the performance of the conditional reconfiguration candidate is better than the second threshold.

[0211] Conditional event D1: The distance between the terminal and reference location 1 is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and reference location 2, a candidate for conditional reconfiguration, is less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0212] Conditional event D2: The distance between the terminal and the serving cell moving reference location determined by the movingReferenceLocation in SIB19 and its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time broadcast is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and the reference location of the conditional reconfiguration candidate provided by MeasObjectNR and its corresponding moving reference location determined by its satellite ephemeris and epoch time becomes less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0213] Conditional event T1: The measurement time at the terminal is greater than the configured threshold T1, but less than the sum of the threshold T1 and the duration.

[0214] Event X1: The performance of L2 U2N (User to Network) trunk user equipment is worse than the first threshold, and the performance of New Radio (NR) cells is better than the second threshold;

[0215] Event X2: The performance of the L2 U2N trunk user equipment is worse than the threshold value;

[0216] Event I1: Interference exceeds the absolute threshold (For Event I1, the measurement report event is based on Channel Quality Indicator (CLI) measurements, which can be derived from Sounding Reference Signal-Reference Signal Received Power (SRS-RSRP) or Received Signal Strength Indicator (CLI-RSSI)).

[0217] In addition, reporting events related to the airborne UE altitude can be labeled HN, where N equals 1 and 2. Reporting events simultaneously related to the airborne UE altitude and neighboring cell measurements are labeled AMHN, where M equals 3, 4, and 5, and N equals 1 and 2.

[0218] Measurement events may also include at least one of the following:

[0219] Event H1: The altitude of the UE in the air becomes higher than the threshold value;

[0220] Event H2: The altitude of the UE in the air falls below the threshold.

[0221] Event A3H1: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of the serving cell (SpCell), and the air UE altitude is higher than the threshold value;

[0222] Event A3H2: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than SpCell, and the air UE altitude is below the threshold.

[0223] Event A4H1: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than the first threshold, and the air UE altitude is higher than the second threshold;

[0224] Event A4H2: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than the first threshold, and the air UE altitude is lower than the second threshold;

[0225] Event A5H1: SpCell's performance is worse than the first threshold, neighboring cells' performance is better than the second threshold, and the air UE's altitude is higher than the third threshold;

[0226] Event A5H2: SpCell performance is worse than the first threshold, neighboring cell performance is better than the second threshold, and the air UE altitude is lower than the third threshold.

[0227] It should be noted that although the threshold values ​​involved in different measurement events are referred to by the same name, the content measured by the threshold values ​​with the same name in different measurement events may be the same or different. Furthermore, the values ​​of the threshold values ​​with the same name in different measurement events may be the same or different.

[0228] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between measurement reporting configurations and spatial regions; that is, the first information can be used to indicate measurement reporting configurations corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region can correspond to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or multiple spatial regions can correspond to a measurement reporting configuration; that is, the measurement reporting configurations corresponding to different spatial regions can be the same or different.

[0229] In some embodiments, the measurement reporting configuration may be a reporting configuration, a CSI reporting configuration, etc., but is not limited to these.

[0230] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between TCI states and spatial regions; that is, the first information can be used to indicate the TCI states corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region can correspond to at least one TCI state, or multiple spatial regions can correspond to one TCI state; that is, the TCI states corresponding to different spatial regions can be the same or different.

[0231] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between candidate cells and spatial regions; that is, the first information can be used to indicate candidate cells corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region can correspond to at least one candidate cell (i.e., a spatial region may include at least one candidate cell), or multiple spatial regions can correspond to one candidate cell (i.e., a candidate cell may span multiple spatial regions); that is, candidate cells corresponding to different spatial regions can be the same or different.

[0232] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate the association between a beam and a spatial region; that is, the first information can be used to indicate beams corresponding to different spatial regions. Optionally, a spatial region may correspond to at least one beam (i.e., a spatial region may include the coverage area corresponding to at least one beam), or multiple spatial regions may correspond to one beam (i.e., the coverage area of ​​one beam may span multiple spatial regions). In other words, the beams corresponding to different spatial regions may be the same or different.

[0233] In some embodiments, for any of the measurement resource configuration, measurement event configuration, and measurement reporting configuration, the first information can be used to indicate the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and spatial regions, or the first information can be used to indicate the association between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and spatial regions. For example, for a configuration including parameter 1, parameter 2, and parameter 3, the first information can be used to indicate that all three parameters in the configuration correspond to a certain spatial region, or the first information can be used to indicate that a specific parameter 1 in the configuration corresponds to a certain spatial region.

[0234] For example, regarding the parameters in the measurement resource configuration, taking the measurement resource configuration of the SSB used for measurement as an example, multiple SSB configurations can be provided. Each SSB configuration can include a variety of parameters, and the parameter values ​​included in different SSB configurations are different. For example, SSB configuration 1 can correspond to spatial region 1, SSB configuration 2 can correspond to spatial region 2, SSB configuration 3 can correspond to spatial region 3, and so on.

[0235] The SSB configuration can be either a configuration of the SSB index used to indicate the SSB under test, or a configuration of the SSB pattern used to indicate the SSB under test.

[0236] For example, regarding the parameters in the measurement resource configuration, taking the configuration of the Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) used for measurement as an example, multiple CSI-RS configurations can be provided. Each CSI-RS configuration can include a variety of parameters, and the parameter values ​​included in different CSI-RS configurations are different. For example, CSI-RS configuration 1 can correspond to spatial region 1, CSI-RS configuration 2 can correspond to spatial region 2, CSI-RS configuration 3 can correspond to spatial region 3, and so on.

[0237] For example, regarding the parameters in the measurement event configuration, taking the measurement event as event A5 mentioned above, the measurement event configuration can be used to configure the value of the second threshold value used in event A5. For example, the second threshold value 1 can correspond to spatial region 1, the second threshold value 2 can correspond to spatial region 2, the second threshold value 3 can correspond to spatial region 3, and so on.

[0238] In some embodiments, the spatial region can be determined by a first parameter. Optionally, when the network device indicates first information to the terminal, it can indicate the spatial region to the terminal by indicating the first parameter, and the terminal can then determine the corresponding spatial region based on the first parameter indicated by the network device.

[0239] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include at least one of a reference position and / or distance threshold, a reference direction and / or angle threshold, a reference height range and / or a reference distance range.

[0240] The reference position can be any location. The reference direction can be determined by two sequentially ordered reference points. The reference direction can be represented by a ray. Optionally, the reference direction can be determined by configuring the starting point of the ray and the corresponding direction reference point, or it can be determined by a spherical coordinate system with the reference point as the origin. For example, the reference position can be used as one reference point, and another reference point can be indicated. The reference direction can then be determined based on the reference position and the indicated reference point. In this case, the reference direction can be represented by a ray originating from the reference position and containing the indicated reference point. The distance threshold can be used to measure the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position; that is, the distance threshold can be the threshold value corresponding to the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position. The angle threshold can be used to measure the angle between the direction of the terminal relative to the reference position (or the ray direction where the UE's position is located) and the reference direction; that is, the angle threshold can be the threshold value corresponding to the angle difference between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction.

[0241] Optionally, the spatial region can be a cone, sphere, cube, or irregular shape, etc., and the embodiments disclosed herein are not limited in this respect.

[0242] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include multiple reference positions, and the terminal can determine a closed spatial region based on these multiple reference positions. The closed spatial region determined based on these multiple reference positions is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0243] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include multiple distance thresholds. In this case, there may be a default reference position, which may be agreed upon by the protocol or indicated by the network device. The terminal can determine a closed spatial area based on this default reference position and multiple distance thresholds. The closed spatial area determined based on the default reference position and multiple distance thresholds is a spatial area configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0244] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference position and a distance threshold. Both the reference position and the distance threshold can be one or more. The terminal can determine a closed spatial region based on one or more reference positions and one or more distance thresholds. The closed spatial region determined based on one or more reference positions and one or more distance thresholds is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0245] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include multiple reference directions. The terminal can determine a closed spatial region based on these multiple reference directions. The closed spatial region determined based on these multiple reference directions is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0246] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include multiple angle thresholds. In this case, there may be a default reference position, which may be agreed upon by the protocol or indicated by the network device. The terminal can determine a closed spatial region based on this default reference position and multiple angle thresholds. The closed spatial region determined based on the default reference position and multiple angle thresholds is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0247] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference direction and an angle threshold. Both the reference direction and the angle threshold can be one or more. The terminal can determine a closed spatial region based on one or more reference directions and one or more angle thresholds. The closed spatial region determined based on one or more reference directions and one or more angle thresholds is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0248] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference height range, which may consist of an upper height limit and a lower height limit. Both the upper and lower height limits can be infinitely large, so as to determine a closed spatial region through the reference height range. The closed spatial region determined according to the reference height range is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal. The height can be altitude or ground level, and this disclosure does not limit it.

[0249] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference distance range, which may consist of an upper distance limit and a lower distance limit. Both the upper and lower distance limits may be infinite. In this case, there may be a default reference position, which may be agreed upon by the protocol or indicated by the network device, so as to determine a closed spatial area through the reference distance range and the default reference position. The closed spatial area determined according to the reference distance range and the default reference position is a spatial area configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0250] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference height range and a reference distance range, so as to determine a closed spatial region through the reference height range and the reference distance range. The closed spatial region determined according to the reference height range and the reference distance range is a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal.

[0251] In some embodiments, the first parameter may include a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. Based on these four parameters, a conical-like spatial region can be determined as a spatial region configured by the network device for the terminal. Referring to Figure 5, which is a schematic diagram of a spatial region according to an embodiment of this disclosure, position 501 is the reference position. The direction of the ray determined by two sequentially linked reference points (i.e., reference position 501 and position 502) is the reference direction. The distance threshold is the threshold value corresponding to the distance between the terminal's position and reference position 501. The angle threshold is the threshold value corresponding to the angle difference between the ray direction (i.e., the direction of the terminal's position relative to reference position 501) and the reference direction. These four parameters can be used to determine a conical-like spatial region.

[0252] It should be noted that the above are only some exemplary introductions of parameter combinations for determining spatial regions, and do not constitute a limitation on the embodiments of this disclosure. In more possible implementations, the parameters for determining spatial regions can have more possible combinations, and the embodiments of this disclosure do not limit this.

[0253] In some embodiments, spatial regions can be configured via events. For example, a first parameter for determining the spatial region can be indicated in a first event configuration, so that the terminal can determine different spatial regions based on the first parameter indicated in the first event configuration. The first event can be a measurement event, or it can be a specific event, but is not limited thereto. Taking a specific event as an example, a dedicated event can be set to indicate the first parameter for determining the spatial region, so that the terminal can determine different spatial regions based on the first parameter indicated by the specific event.

[0254] For example, spatial region parameters can be configured through a first event corresponding to position and angle. The first event can correspond to parameters {reference position, distance threshold, reference direction, angle threshold}. Optionally, the first event can also include information such as distance hysteresis, distance offset, angle hysteresis, and angle offset, as well as information such as trigger time, but is not limited to these.

[0255] Taking the parameters {reference position, distance threshold, reference direction, angle threshold} corresponding to the first event as an example, if the first event is used to determine the location of the terminal within this spatial region, then the first event can be: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is less than or equal to the distance threshold value, and the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction is less than or equal to the angle threshold value.

[0256] In addition, the first event can be configured as an event used to determine that the terminal is not in this spatial area. The first event can be: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is greater than or equal to a distance threshold, or the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction is greater than or equal to an angle threshold.

[0257] In some embodiments, the terminal can determine the spatial region where it is located based on its spatial location information and a first parameter corresponding to one or more spatial regions. Alternatively, for a first spatial region that is any one of the one or more spatial regions, the terminal can determine whether it is within the first spatial region based on its spatial location information and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0258] Taking the first parameters corresponding to the first spatial region, including reference position, distance threshold, parameter direction, and angle threshold, as an example, the terminal can determine that it is within the first spatial region if the distance between its position and the reference position meets the distance threshold and the angle between the terminal's position and the reference direction meets the angle threshold. Conversely, the terminal can determine that it is not within the first spatial region if the distance between its position and the reference position does not meet the distance threshold or the angle between the terminal's position and the reference direction does not meet the angle threshold.

[0259] Optionally, satisfying the distance threshold can be less than or equal to (i.e., not greater than) the distance threshold, and correspondingly, not satisfying the distance threshold can be greater than the distance threshold; or, satisfying the distance threshold can be less than the distance threshold, and correspondingly, not satisfying the distance threshold can be greater than or equal to (i.e., not less than) the distance threshold. Similarly, satisfying the angle threshold can be less than or equal to (i.e., not greater than) the angle threshold, and correspondingly, not satisfying the angle threshold can be greater than the angle threshold; or, satisfying the angle threshold can be less than the angle threshold, and correspondingly, not satisfying the angle threshold can be greater than or equal to (i.e., not less than) the angle threshold. This disclosure does not limit the specifics of these embodiments.

[0260] In some embodiments, when determining whether a terminal is in a certain spatial region, the terminal may be allowed to relax the decision criteria. That is, a second parameter can be configured for the terminal, which may include at least one of hysteresis, offset, and trigger time (TTT). Hysteresis may include distance hysteresis and / or angle hysteresis, and offset may include distance offset and / or angle offset, but is not limited thereto.

[0261] In some embodiments, terms such as “time,” “moment,” “point in time,” and “time location” can be used interchangeably, as can terms such as “time,” “duration,” “segment,” “time window,” and “window.”

[0262] In some embodiments, the second parameter can be configured via an event. For example, it can be indicated in the measurement event configuration, or the configuration of the second parameter can be implemented through a specific event. For example, a dedicated event can be set to indicate the second parameter, which is not limited in this disclosure.

[0263] In some embodiments, for a first spatial region that is any one of one or more spatial regions, the terminal can determine whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the second parameter, the terminal's spatial location information, and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0264] In step S4102, when the terminal enters or leaves the first spatial area, it performs a corresponding operation based on the first information.

[0265] The first spatial region can be any one of one or more spatial regions. For example, the first spatial region can be a specific spatial region among one or more spatial regions. This disclosure does not limit this.

[0266] In some embodiments, the terminal can determine whether it has entered or left a certain spatial region based on whether its current spatial region has changed. For details regarding the terminal's spatial region determination based on its own spatial region and the parameters used to determine the spatial region (including the first parameter and the second parameter), please refer to the preceding text; these details will not be repeated here.

[0267] In some embodiments, when a terminal enters a first spatial region, the terminal can perform a first operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information.

[0268] In some embodiments, the name of the first operation is not limited, and may be, for example, "first mobility operation", "first behavior", "first mobility behavior", "first process", "first mobility process", etc.

[0269] In some embodiments, the terminal may activate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, the terminal may perform early activation on the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0270] In some embodiments, the terms "cell", "component carrier (CC)", "frequency carrier", and "carrier frequency" can be used interchangeably.

[0271] In some embodiments, the terms “beam”, “beam width”, “beam angular degree”, “precoding”, “precoder”, “weight”, “precoding weight”, “quasi-co-location (QCL)”, “transmission configuration indication (TCI) status”, “spatial relation”, “spatial domain filter”, “transmission power”, “phase rotation”, “antenna port”, “antenna port group”, “layer”, “the number of layers”, “rank”, “resource”, “resource set”, “resource group”, “antenna”, “antenna element”, and “panel” can be used interchangeably.

[0272] In some embodiments, the terminal may synchronize candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, the terminal may perform early uplink synchronization on candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0273] In some embodiments, the terminal can obtain the Timing Advance (TA) value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. Furthermore, the terminal can also maintain the TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, the terminal can obtain and maintain the TA value when performing early uplink synchronization on the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0274] In some embodiments, the terminal can obtain the TCI status / beam TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. Furthermore, the terminal can also maintain the TCI status / beam TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, the terminal can obtain and maintain the TA value when performing early uplink synchronization on the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0275] In some embodiments, the terminal can obtain the TA value of the candidate cell or the TCI status / beam TA value of the candidate cell through the advance random access channel (RACH). For example, the TA value of the candidate cell or the TCI status / beam TA value of the candidate cell can be obtained when sending a preamble to the candidate cell.

[0276] In some embodiments, the terminal can obtain the TA value of the candidate cell or the TA value of the candidate cell's TCI status / beam by calculating the TA based on the UE measurement or obtaining the TA based on the UE.

[0277] In some embodiments, the terminal may initiate measurements of candidate cells or beams corresponding to a first spatial region.

[0278] In some embodiments, the terminal may trigger and / or execute measurements based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0279] Taking the configuration of measurement resources for SSB used for measurement as an example, the measurement resource configuration is an SSB configuration, and the SSB configuration is a configuration for indicating the SSB index or SSB pattern of the SSB to be measured. Then the terminal can trigger and / or execute the measurement based on the SSB index or SSB pattern indicated by the SSB configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0280] Taking the configuration of measurement resources for CSI-RS as an example, if the measurement resources are configured as CSI-RS, the terminal can trigger and / or execute measurements based on the CSI-RS configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0281] In some embodiments, the terminal may trigger and / or execute measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0282] In some embodiments, the terminal may configure to trigger and / or execute measurement reporting based on the measurement event corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, the terminal may evaluate event A5 based on the second threshold value corresponding to the first spatial region and trigger the corresponding measurement reporting.

[0283] In some embodiments, the measurement results reported by the terminal can be used to assist the network device in determining whether to perform cell handover, or the terminal can determine whether to perform cell handover based on the measurement results itself. This disclosure does not limit this aspect.

[0284] In some embodiments, the terminal may send its device status to the network device, wherein the device status may include at least one of location, altitude, and speed. That is, the terminal may trigger location reporting, altitude reporting, speed reporting, etc.

[0285] In some embodiments, the terminal can perform mobility management operations on candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region. Mobility management can include any one or more of the following: handover, conditional handover (CHO), conditional primary / secondary cell addition / change (CPAC, also known as CPA and CPC), condition-triggered mobility, L1 / L2-triggered mobility (LTM), and conditional LTM (C-LTM). For example, the terminal can implement spatial region-triggered mobility management operations based on first information configured in the network device. For instance, when the terminal's location meets the corresponding spatial region conditions, it can be considered that the terminal has entered the first spatial region. At this time, the terminal can perform cell handover (or cell switch) on candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region to access the corresponding candidate cell or beam.

[0286] In some embodiments, for any one or more of condition-triggered mobility, CHO, CPAC, and C-LTM, the terminal can implement a spatial region-based mobility management operation based on first information configured by the network device. The implementation of the spatial region-based mobility management operation based on the first information includes configuring a spatial region as a condition for mobility based on the first information.

[0287] For example, when the location of the terminal meets the conditions of the corresponding spatial area, the terminal can be considered to have entered the first spatial area. At this time, the terminal can perform corresponding mobility operations on the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial area, such as any one or more of CHO, CPAC, and C-LTM, to access the corresponding candidate cell or the corresponding beam.

[0288] For example, the network side can configure spatial area conditions to be used in conjunction with measurement result-based conditions. That is, when both spatial area conditions and measurement result-based conditions are met, the terminal will then perform the corresponding mobility operation, such as any one or more of CHO, CPAC, and C-LTM, to access the corresponding candidate cell or the corresponding beam.

[0289] For example, the conditions for determining whether a device is within a certain spatial region can be configured using a set of parameters: {reference position, distance threshold, reference direction, angle threshold}. The conditions for being within a spatial region are: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is less than or equal to the distance threshold, and the angle between the terminal's position's direction relative to the reference position and the reference direction is less than or equal to the angle threshold. Alternatively, the conditions for not being within a spatial region are: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is greater than or equal to the distance threshold, or the angle between the terminal's position's direction relative to the reference position and the reference direction is greater than or equal to the angle threshold.

[0290] For example, the conditions based on the measurement results may include any one or more of the following:

[0291] Event LTM2: The serving cell’s beam performance is worse than the threshold (i.e., the absolute threshold).

[0292] Event LTM3: The candidate cell's beam offset is better than the serving cell's beam;

[0293] Event LTM4: The candidate cell's beam performance is better than the threshold;

[0294] Event LTM5: The serving cell's beam performance is worse than the first threshold, and the candidate cell's beam performance is better than the second threshold;

[0295] Event A1: Service performance is better than the threshold;

[0296] Event A2: Service performance is worse than the threshold value;

[0297] Event A3: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of the primary cell (PCell) or primary secondary cell (PSCell);

[0298] Event A4: The neighboring cell's performance is better than the threshold value;

[0299] Event A5: The performance of PCell or PSCell is worse than the first threshold, while the performance of neighboring cells or secondary cells (SCell) is better than the second threshold;

[0300] Event A6: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of SCell;

[0301] Event D1: The distance between the terminal and the reference location (Location) 1 is greater than the configured first distance threshold (i.e., ThreshFromReference1), and the distance between the terminal and the reference location (Location) 2 is less than the configured second distance threshold (i.e., ThreshFromReference2).

[0302] Event D2: The distance between the terminal and the serving cell's moving reference location determined by the movingReferenceLocation in System Information Block 19 (SIB19) and its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time broadcast is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and the neighboring cell's reference location determined by its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time based on the MeasObjectNR is less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0303] Conditional event A3: The candidate offset for conditional reconfiguration is better than PCell or PSCell;

[0304] Conditional event A4: The performance of the candidate for conditional reconfiguration is better than the threshold value, wherein conditional event A4 can also be applied to the current PSCell of the conditional handover (CHO) with a candidate secondary cell group (SCG) (i.e., when it is configured as a candidate PSCell for evaluation by conditional event A4).

[0305] Conditional event A5: The performance of PCell or PSCell is worse than the first threshold, and the performance of the conditional reconfiguration candidate is better than the second threshold.

[0306] Conditional event D1: The distance between the terminal and reference location 1 is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and reference location 2, a candidate for conditional reconfiguration, is less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0307] Conditional event D2: The distance between the terminal and the serving cell moving reference location determined by the movingReferenceLocation in SIB19 and its corresponding satellite ephemeris and epoch time broadcast is greater than the configured ThreshFromReference1, and the distance between the terminal and the reference location of the conditional reconfiguration candidate provided by MeasObjectNR and its corresponding moving reference location determined by its satellite ephemeris and epoch time becomes less than the configured ThreshFromReference2;

[0308] Conditional event T1: The measurement time at the terminal is greater than the configured threshold T1, but less than the sum of the threshold T1 and the duration.

[0309] Event X1: The performance of L2 U2N (User to Network) trunk user equipment is worse than the first threshold, and the performance of New Radio (NR) cells is better than the second threshold;

[0310] Event X2: The performance of the L2 U2N trunk user equipment is worse than the threshold value;

[0311] Event I1: Interference exceeds the absolute threshold (For Event I1, the measurement report event is based on Channel Quality Indicator (CLI) measurements, which can be derived from Sounding Reference Signal-Reference Signal Received Power (SRS-RSRP) or Received Signal Strength Indicator (CLI-RSSI)).

[0312] Event H1: The altitude of the UE in the air becomes higher than the threshold value;

[0313] Event H2: The altitude of the UE in the air falls below the threshold.

[0314] Event A3H1: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than that of the serving cell (SpCell), and the air UE altitude is higher than the threshold value;

[0315] Event A3H2: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than SpCell, and the air UE altitude is below the threshold.

[0316] Event A4H1: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than the first threshold, and the air UE altitude is higher than the second threshold;

[0317] Event A4H2: The offset of the neighboring cell is better than the first threshold, and the air UE altitude is lower than the second threshold;

[0318] Event A5H1: SpCell's performance is worse than the first threshold, neighboring cells' performance is better than the second threshold, and the air UE's altitude is higher than the third threshold;

[0319] Event A5H2: SpCell performance is worse than the first threshold, neighboring cell performance is better than the second threshold, and the air UE altitude is lower than the third threshold.

[0320] In some embodiments, the name of cell-level beam management is not limited, and may include, for example, condition-triggered mobility management, condition-triggered L1 mobility management, condition-triggered beam-level mobility management, etc.

[0321] In some embodiments, the judgment condition for whether or not to switch spatial areas can be used in conjunction with the judgment condition based on measurement results. That is, when the terminal determines that it has entered the first spatial area, it can perform cell mobility management operation on the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial area based on the measurement results of the candidate cell or beam corresponding to the first spatial area. The corresponding cell mobility management operation will be triggered only when both the spatial area condition and the condition based on the measurement results meet the requirements.

[0322] In some embodiments, when the terminal leaves the first spatial region, the terminal may perform a second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information.

[0323] In some embodiments, the name of the second operation is not limited, and may be, for example, "second mobility operation", "second behavior", "second mobility behavior", "second process", "second mobility process", etc.

[0324] In some embodiments, the terminal may deactivate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, if the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region has been activated, the terminal may deactivate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0325] In some embodiments, the terminal may delete the TA value maintained for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, if the terminal has maintained a TA value for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region, the terminal may delete that TA value.

[0326] In some embodiments, the terminal may delete the TA value maintained by the TCI state / beam for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region. For example, if the terminal has maintained a TA value for the TCI state / beam for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region, the terminal may delete that TA value maintained by the TCI state / beam for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0327] In some embodiments, the terminal may stop measuring candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0328] In some embodiments, the terminal may stop triggering and / or executing measurements based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0329] Taking the measurement resource configuration as an example of SSB configuration, the SSB configuration is a configuration used to indicate the SSB index or SSB pattern of the SSB to be measured. The terminal can stop triggering and / or executing measurements based on the SSB index or SSB pattern indicated by the SSB configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0330] Taking the measurement resource configuration as CSI-RS as an example, the terminal can stop triggering and / or executing measurements based on the CSI-RS configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0331] In some embodiments, the terminal may stop triggering and / or executing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first space.

[0332] For example, the terminal can evaluate event A5 based on the second threshold value corresponding to the first spatial region and stop the corresponding measurement reporting process.

[0333] In some embodiments, the measurements mentioned above may include, but are not limited to, LTM measurements, RRM measurements, etc.

[0334] In some embodiments, LTM measurements may include L1 measurements, CSI measurements, L2 measurements, measurements that report measurement results via Uplink Control Information (UCI), measurements that report measurement results via Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), etc., but are not limited thereto.

[0335] In some embodiments, RRM measurements may also be referred to as L3 measurements, which may be measurements that report measurement results via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, but are not limited thereto.

[0336] In some embodiments, "acquire," "get," "obtain," "receive," "transmit," "bidirectional transmission," and "send and / or receive" can be used interchangeably and can be interpreted as receiving from other entities, acquiring from protocols, acquiring from higher layers, obtaining through self-processing, or autonomous implementation. Protocols include, for example, at least one of the 3GPP protocol, Wi-Fi protocol, and audio and / or video protocols.

[0337] In some embodiments, terms such as “send,” “transmit,” “report,” “distribute,” “transmit,” “bidirectional transmission,” “send and / or receive” can be used interchangeably.

[0338] In some embodiments, terms such as "certain," "preset," "default," "set," "indicated," "a certain," "any," and "first" can be used interchangeably. "Certain A," "preset A," "default A," "set A," "indicated A," "a certain A," "any A," and "first A" can be interpreted as A pre-defined in a protocol or the like, or as A obtained through setting, configuration, or instruction, or as specific A, a certain A, any A, or first A, but are not limited thereto.

[0339] In some embodiments, the determination or judgment can be made by a value represented by 1 bit (0 or 1), or by a true or false value (boolean), or by a comparison of numerical values ​​(e.g., a comparison with a predetermined value), but is not limited thereto.

[0340] In some embodiments, "not expecting to receive" can be interpreted as not receiving on time domain resources and / or frequency domain resources, or as not performing subsequent processing on the data and / or instructions received; "not expecting to send" can be interpreted as not sending, or as sending but not expecting the receiver to respond to the sent content.

[0341] The communication method involved in the embodiments of this disclosure may include at least one of steps S4101 to S4102. For example, step S4101 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, step S4102 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, and step S4101+S4102 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, but is not limited thereto.

[0342] In some embodiments, step S4101 is optional and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

[0343] In some embodiments, step S4102 is optional and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

[0344] In some embodiments, the steps and their optional implementations in other embodiments described before or after this embodiment, as well as other related parts in the specification, can be referred to, and will not be repeated here.

[0345] According to the solution provided in the embodiments of this disclosure, the terminal can determine its spatial area based on its spatial location information, thereby performing mobility-related operations. Different spatial areas correspond to different mobility configurations / cells / beams. When the terminal is in a specific spatial area, the terminal performs a corresponding first mobility operation for the mobility configuration / cell / beam corresponding to this spatial area. When the terminal leaves the corresponding spatial area, the terminal performs a corresponding second mobility operation for the mobility configuration / cell / beam corresponding to this spatial area.

[0346] In some embodiments, the network side configures different spatial regions (3D spatial regions) for different mobility configurations / cells / beams. The specific spatial region can be determined by parameters such as one or more reference positions, reference distances, and reference directions in space. For example, this spatial region can be a defined spatial region such as a cone, sphere, cube, or irregular shape.

[0347] In some embodiments, the network side configures first information for the terminal, wherein the first information includes configuration information required for the terminal to perform mobility operations (or mobility behaviors or mobility processes), and configuration information of mobility candidate cells (the network side may simultaneously configure multiple candidate cells and their corresponding configurations required for the first mobility operation for the terminal).

[0348] In some embodiments, the network side configures different spatial regions (3D spatial regions) for different mobility configurations / cells / beams, wherein the spatial region can be configured by any one or more of the following parameters: reference position (3D spatial position) and / or distance threshold; reference direction and / or angle threshold; reference height range and / or reference distance range.

[0349] The reference direction can be represented by a ray, which can be determined by setting the starting point of the ray and the corresponding direction reference point, or by using a spherical coordinate system with the reference point as the origin.

[0350] For example, a spatial region can be determined based on {reference position, distance threshold, reference direction, angle threshold}. Based on these four parameters, a spatial region resembling a cone can be defined.

[0351] In some embodiments, in addition to being represented by specific parameters, spatial regions can also be configured through specific events.

[0352] In some embodiments, the spatial region parameter may correspond to a position- and angle-based event, which may correspond to any one or more of the above parameters. Optionally, the event may also include information such as distance hysteresis, distance offset, angle hysteresis, and angle offset, as well as trigger time.

[0353] Taking this event corresponding to the parameters {reference position, distance threshold, reference direction, angle threshold} as an example, this event can be used to determine that the terminal is within a certain spatial region. This event can be defined as follows: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is less than / or less than or equal to the distance threshold, and the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position is less than / or less than or equal to the angle threshold. Alternatively, this event can be used to determine that the terminal is not within a certain spatial region. This event can be defined as follows: the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position is greater than / or greater than or equal to the distance threshold, or the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position is greater than / or greater than or equal to the angle threshold.

[0354] In some embodiments, different mobility configurations / cells / beams correspond to different spatial regions (3D spatial regions), including any one or more of the following:

[0355] The network side configures the association between measurement resources and spatial regions. Different spatial regions correspond to different measurement resources. For example, different spatial regions correspond to different SSBs.

[0356] The network side configures the association between measurement events and spatial regions. Different spatial regions correspond to different measurement event configurations. The different measurement event configurations may include configuration information related to spatial region parameters, or spatial region parameters may also be used as one or more specific measurement events, which can be configured together with measurement-based events.

[0357] The network is configured to associate different cell / beam / TCI states with spatial regions. Different spatial regions correspond to different cell / beam / TCI states. For example, different spatial regions correspond to different candidate cell beams.

[0358] In the above configuration, the same spatial region can correspond to multiple measurement resources, multiple measurement events, and multiple cells / beams / TCI states simultaneously; or, one measurement resource, one measurement event, and one cell / beam / TCI state can also correspond to multiple spatial regions simultaneously.

[0359] In some embodiments, the terminal can determine its spatial region based on its spatial location information. When the UE enters a specific spatial region, it performs mobility-related operations including any one or more of the following:

[0360] The terminal pre-activates the execution of candidate cells / beams / TCI states corresponding to the spatial region;

[0361] The terminal performs advance uplink synchronization with candidate cells corresponding to the spatial region, obtains TA, and maintains TA values;

[0362] The terminal initiates measurement of the candidate cells / beams corresponding to the spatial region;

[0363] The terminal performs measurements on the measurement resources corresponding to the spatial region and obtains the measurement results;

[0364] The terminal performs corresponding measurement reporting based on the spatial region;

[0365] The terminal triggers location reporting, altitude reporting, speed reporting, etc.

[0366] The network side can configure mobility triggered by spatial area conditions (e.g., CHO, C-LTM, etc.) for the terminal. For example, when the terminal's location meets the corresponding spatial area conditions, the UE performs a cell switch on the candidate cell / beam corresponding to the spatial area conditions, switching to the corresponding candidate cell / accessing the corresponding beam. Optionally, the spatial area conditions can also be used in conjunction with measurement result-based conditions. That is, the terminal will only trigger CHO, C-LTM, etc., when both the spatial area conditions and the measurement result-based conditions are met.

[0367] In some embodiments, the terminal determines its spatial region based on its spatial location information. When the terminal leaves the specific spatial region, it performs mobility-related operations including any one or more of the following:

[0368] The terminal deactivates the candidate cell / beam / TCI state corresponding to the spatial region (if it was previously activated);

[0369] The terminal deletes the TA value maintained for the candidate cells corresponding to the spatial region (if it existed before);

[0370] The terminal stops measuring the candidate cells / beams corresponding to the spatial region;

[0371] The terminal stops measuring the measurement resources corresponding to the spatial region.

[0372] In some embodiments, the above measurements may include LTM measurements, RRM measurements, etc.

[0373] In some embodiments, an LTM measurement can be any one or more of the following: an L1 measurement, a CSI measurement, an LTM measurement, an L2 measurement, a measurement with results reported via UCI, or a measurement with results reported via MAC CE.

[0374] In some embodiments, RRM measurements may also be referred to as L3 measurements, which may include measurements that report results via RRC.

[0375] C-LTM can be referred to as any one or more of the following: condition-triggered mobility, condition-triggered L1 mobility, and condition-triggered beam-level mobility.

[0376] Figure 6A is a flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 6A, this disclosure relates to a communication method, which includes:

[0377] Step S6101: Obtain the first information.

[0378] The optional implementation of step S6101 can be found in the optional implementation of step S4101 in Figure 4 and other related parts in the embodiments involved in Figure 4, which will not be repeated here.

[0379] In some embodiments, the terminal receives first information sent by a network device, but is not limited thereto; it may also receive first information sent by other entities.

[0380] In some embodiments, the terminal obtains first information as defined by the protocol.

[0381] In some embodiments, the terminal obtains first information from the upper layer(s).

[0382] In some embodiments, the terminal processes the information to obtain the first information.

[0383] In some embodiments, step S6101 is omitted, and the terminal autonomously implements the function indicated by the first information, or the above function is a default or default setting.

[0384] In some embodiments, the first information is used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, and the first configuration is used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0385] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the association between measurement resource configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement event configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement reporting configuration and spatial region; the association between Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) status and spatial region; the association between candidate cell and spatial region; and the association between beam and spatial region.

[0386] In some embodiments, for at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement reporting configuration, the first information is used to indicate the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and the spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate the relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and the spatial region.

[0387] In some embodiments, the spatial region is determined by a first parameter, which includes at least one of the following: a reference position and / or distance threshold; a reference direction and / or angle threshold; and a reference height range and / or reference distance range.

[0388] In some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold; wherein the distance threshold is used to measure the distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position, and the angle threshold is used to measure the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction.

[0389] In some embodiments, the terminal may determine the spatial region where the terminal is located based on the terminal's spatial location information and a first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions; or, the terminal may determine whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information and a first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, wherein the first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0390] In some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. If the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position satisfies the distance threshold and the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction satisfies the angle threshold, it is determined that the terminal is in the first spatial region. Alternatively, if the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position does not satisfy the distance threshold or the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction does not satisfy the angle threshold, it is determined that the terminal is not in the first spatial region.

[0391] In some embodiments, the terminal can determine whether it is in the first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information and a first parameter and a second parameter corresponding to the first spatial region. The second parameter includes at least one of hysteresis, offset, and trigger time. The first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0392] In some embodiments, a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one beam.

[0393] In some embodiments, multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement resource configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement event configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement reporting configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a TCI state, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a candidate cell, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a beam.

[0394] Step S6102: When entering or leaving the first space region, perform the corresponding operation based on the first information.

[0395] The optional implementation of step S6102 can be found in the optional implementation of step S4102 in Figure 4 and other related parts in the embodiments involved in Figure 4, which will not be repeated here.

[0396] Wherein, the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial regions.

[0397] In some embodiments, when the terminal enters a first spatial region, the terminal may perform a first operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information.

[0398] In some embodiments, performing the first operation may include at least one of the following:

[0399] Activate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0400] Synchronize the candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0401] Obtain the timing advance TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0402] Initiate measurement of candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0403] Measurements are triggered and / or executed based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0404] Based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region, trigger and / or execute measurement reporting;

[0405] Send the device status of the terminal to the network device, the device status including at least one of location, altitude, and speed;

[0406] Mobility management operations are performed on the candidate cells or the beams of the candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0407] In some embodiments, the terminal may perform mobility management operations on the candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region based on the measurement results of the candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0408] In some embodiments, when the terminal leaves the first spatial region, the terminal may perform a second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information.

[0409] In some embodiments, performing the second operation may include at least one of the following:

[0410] Deactivate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0411] Delete the TA value maintained by the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0412] Stop measuring the candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0413] Stop triggering and / or executing measurements based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0414] Stop triggering and / or executing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first space.

[0415] The communication method involved in the embodiments of this disclosure may include at least one of steps S6101 to S6102. For example, step S6101 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, step S6102 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, and step S6101+S6102 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, but is not limited thereto.

[0416] In some embodiments, step S6101 is optional and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

[0417] In some embodiments, step S6102 is optional and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

[0418] In some embodiments, the steps and their optional implementations in other embodiments described before or after this embodiment, as well as other related parts in the specification, can be referred to, and will not be repeated here.

[0419] Figure 6B is an interactive schematic diagram of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 6B, the embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a communication method, which includes:

[0420] Step S6201: Send the first message.

[0421] The optional implementations of step S6201 can be found in the optional implementations of steps S4101 and S4102 in Figure 4, as well as other related parts in the embodiments involved in Figure 4, which will not be repeated here.

[0422] In some embodiments, the network device sends first information to the terminal, but is not limited thereto; it may also send first information to other entities.

[0423] In some embodiments, the first information is used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, and the first configuration is used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when the spatial region it is in changes.

[0424] In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the association between measurement resource configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement event configuration and spatial region; the association between measurement reporting configuration and spatial region; the association between TCI status and spatial region; the association between candidate cell and spatial region; and the association between beam and spatial region.

[0425] In some embodiments, for at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement reporting configuration, the first information is used to indicate the relationship between all parameters in the configuration and the spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate the relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and the spatial region.

[0426] In some embodiments, the spatial region is determined by a first parameter, which includes at least one of the following: a reference position and / or distance threshold; a reference direction and / or angle threshold; and a reference height range and / or reference distance range.

[0427] In some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold; wherein the distance threshold is used to measure the distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position, and the angle threshold is used to measure the angle between the direction of the terminal's position relative to the reference position and the reference direction.

[0428] In some embodiments, the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine the spatial region where the terminal is located based on the terminal's spatial location information; and / or, the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information, wherein the first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0429] In some embodiments, the first parameter includes a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial position information, including any one of the following: the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used to determine that the terminal is in the first spatial region when the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position meets the distance threshold and the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction meets the angle threshold; the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used to determine that the terminal is not in the first spatial region when the distance between the terminal's position and the reference position does not meet the distance threshold or the angle between the terminal's position with respect to the reference position and the reference direction does not meet the angle threshold.

[0430] In some embodiments, the network device may also configure a second parameter for the terminal. The second parameter includes at least one of hysteresis, offset, and trigger time. The second parameter is used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the terminal's spatial location information and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region. The first spatial region is any one of the one or more spatial regions.

[0431] In some embodiments, a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or a spatial region corresponds to at least one beam.

[0432] In some embodiments, multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement resource configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement event configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a measurement reporting configuration, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a TCI state, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a candidate cell, or multiple spatial regions correspond to a beam.

[0433] In some embodiments, the terminal enters a first spatial region, and the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information is used by the terminal to perform a first operation; the terminal leaves the first spatial region, and the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information is used by the terminal to perform a second operation; wherein, the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial region.

[0434] In some embodiments, the first operation includes at least one of the following:

[0435] Activate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0436] Synchronize the candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0437] Obtain the timing advance TA value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0438] Initiate measurement of candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0439] Based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region, trigger and / or execute measurement reporting;

[0440] Based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region, trigger and / or execute measurement reporting;

[0441] Send the device status of the terminal to the network device, the device status including at least one of location, altitude, and speed;

[0442] Mobility management operations are performed on the candidate cells or the beams of the candidate cells corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0443] In some embodiments, the first operation further includes: performing mobility management operations on the candidate cells or candidate cell beams corresponding to the first spatial region based on the measurement results of the candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region.

[0444] In some embodiments, the second operation includes at least one of the following:

[0445] Deactivate the candidate cell, beam, or TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0446] Delete the TA value maintained by the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0447] Stop measuring the candidate cells or beams corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0448] Stop triggering and / or executing measurements based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region;

[0449] Stop triggering and / or executing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first space.

[0450] The communication method involved in the embodiments of this disclosure may include at least step S6201, and step S6201 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment, but is not limited thereto.

[0451] In some embodiments, the steps and their optional implementations in other embodiments described before or after this embodiment, as well as other related parts in the specification, can be referred to, and will not be repeated here.

[0452] This disclosure also proposes an apparatus (also referred to as a communication device, etc.) for implementing any of the above methods. For example, an apparatus is proposed that includes units or modules for implementing the steps performed by the terminal in any of the above methods. Furthermore, another apparatus is proposed that includes units or modules for implementing the steps performed by a network device (e.g., an access network device, a core network functional node, a core network device, etc.) in any of the above methods.

[0453] It should be understood that the division of units or modules in the above device is only a logical functional division. In actual implementation, they can be fully or partially integrated into a single physical entity, or they can be physically separated. Furthermore, the units or modules in the device can be implemented by a processor calling software: for example, the device includes a processor connected to a memory containing instructions. The processor calls the instructions stored in the memory to implement any of the above methods or to implement the functions of the units or modules in the above device. The processor can be, for example, a general-purpose processor, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU) or a microprocessor, and the memory can be internal or external to the device. Alternatively, the units or modules in the device can be implemented in the form of hardware circuits. The functionality of some or all of the units or modules can be achieved through the design of these hardware circuits, which can be understood as one or more processors. For example, in one implementation, the hardware circuit is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The functionality of some or all of the units or modules is achieved through the design of the logical relationships between the components within the circuit. In another implementation, the hardware circuit can be implemented using a programmable logic device (PLD). Taking a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) as an example, it can include a large number of logic gates. The connection relationships between the logic gates are configured through configuration files, thereby achieving the functionality of some or all of the units or modules. All units or modules of the above device can be implemented entirely through processor-called software, entirely through hardware circuits, or partially through processor-called software with the remaining parts implemented through hardware circuits.

[0454] In this embodiment, the processor is a circuit with signal processing capabilities. In one implementation, the processor can be a circuit with instruction read and execute capabilities, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU) (which can be understood as a microprocessor), or a digital signal processor (DSP). In another implementation, the processor can implement certain functions through the logical relationships of hardware circuits. The logical relationships of the aforementioned hardware circuits are fixed or reconfigurable. For example, the processor is a hardware circuit implemented using an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a programmable logic device (PLD), such as an FPGA. In a reconfigurable hardware circuit, the process of the processor loading a configuration document and configuring the hardware circuit can be understood as the process of the processor loading instructions to implement the functions of some or all of the above units or modules. Furthermore, it can also be a hardware circuit designed for artificial intelligence, which can be understood as an ASIC, such as a Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU), a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), or a Deep Learning Processing Unit (DPU).

[0455] Figure 7A is a schematic diagram of the structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of this disclosure. Terminal 7100 is used to execute any of the above methods. In some embodiments, as shown in Figure 7A, terminal 7100 may include at least a transceiver module 7101. In some embodiments, the transceiver module 7101 is configured to receive first information sent by a network device, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used by the terminal to perform corresponding operations based on the first configuration when entering or leaving a spatial region. Optionally, the transceiver module 7101 is used to execute at least one of the communication steps (e.g., step S2101, but not limited thereto) performed by the terminal in any of the above methods, which will not be elaborated further here. In some embodiments, terminal 7100 may further include a processing module. Optionally, the processing module is used to execute at least one of other steps (e.g., step S2102, but not limited thereto) performed by the terminal in any of the above methods, which will not be elaborated further here.

[0456] Figure 7B is a schematic diagram of the structure of a network device proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure. The network device 7200 is used to perform any of the above methods. In some embodiments, as shown in Figure 7B, the network device 7200 may include at least a transceiver module 7201. In some embodiments, the transceiver module 7201 is configured to send first information to a terminal, the first information being used to configure a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions for the terminal, the first configuration being used by the terminal to perform corresponding operations based on the first configuration when entering or leaving the spatial region. Optionally, the transceiver module 7201 is used to perform at least one of the communication steps (e.g., step S2101, but not limited thereto) performed by the network device in any of the above methods, which will not be elaborated here. In some embodiments, the network device 7200 may further include a processing module. Optionally, the processing module is used to perform at least one of the other steps performed by the network device in any of the above methods, which will not be elaborated here.

[0457] In some embodiments, the transceiver module may include a transmitting module and / or a receiving module, which may be separate or integrated. Optionally, the transceiver module may be interchangeable with a transceiver.

[0458] In some embodiments, the processing module may be a single module or may include multiple sub-modules. Optionally, the multiple sub-modules may each perform all or part of the steps required by the processing module.

[0459] In some embodiments, the processing module can be replaced by the processor, and the transceiver module can be replaced by the transceiver.

[0460] Figure 8A is a schematic diagram of the structure of the communication device 8100 proposed in an embodiment of this disclosure. The communication device 8100 can be a network device (e.g., access network device, core network device, etc.), a terminal (e.g., user equipment, etc.), a chip, chip system, or processor that supports the network device in implementing any of the above methods, or a chip, chip system, or processor that supports the terminal in implementing any of the above methods. The communication device 8100 can be used to implement the methods described in the above method embodiments; for details, please refer to the descriptions in the above method embodiments.

[0461] As shown in Figure 8A, the communication device 8100 is used to execute any of the above methods. In some embodiments, the communication device 8100 includes one or more processors 8101. The processor 8101 may be a general-purpose processor or a special-purpose processor, such as a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processing unit may be used to control communication devices (e.g., base stations, baseband chips, terminal devices, terminal device chips, DUs or CUs, etc.), execute programs, and process program data. Optionally, the communication device 8100 is used to execute any of the above methods. Optionally, one or more processors 8101 are used to invoke instructions to cause the communication device 8100 to execute any of the above methods.

[0462] In some embodiments, the communication device 8100 further includes one or more transceivers 8102. When the communication device 8100 includes one or more transceivers 8102, the transceiver 8102 performs at least one of the communication steps (e.g., step S4101, but not limited thereto) in the above method, such as sending and / or receiving, and the processor 8101 performs at least one of other steps (e.g., step S4102, but not limited thereto). In optional embodiments, the transceiver may include a receiver and / or a transmitter, which may be separate or integrated together. Optionally, the terms transceiver, transceiver unit, transceiver, transceiver circuit, interface circuit, interface, etc., can be used interchangeably; the terms transmitter, sending unit, transmitter, sending circuit, etc., can be used interchangeably; the terms receiver, receiving unit, receiver, receiving circuit, etc., can be used interchangeably.

[0463] In some embodiments, the communication device 8100 further includes one or more memories 8103 for storing data and / or instructions. Optionally, one or more processors 8101 are used to invoke instructions stored in the memory 8103 to cause the communication device 8100 to perform any of the above methods. Optionally, all or part of the memory 8103 may also be located outside the communication device 8100. In an optional embodiment, the communication device 8100 may include one or more interface circuits 8104. Optionally, the interface circuit 8104 is connected to the memory 8102 and can be used to receive data and / or instructions from the memory 8102 or other devices, and can be used to send data and / or instructions to the memory 8102 or other devices. For example, the interface circuit 8104 can read data and / or instructions stored in the memory 8102 and send the data and / or instructions to the processor 8101.

[0464] The communication device 8100 described in the above embodiments may be a network device or a terminal, but the scope of the communication device 8100 described in this disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device 8100 may not be limited by FIG8A. The communication device may be a standalone device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be: (1) a standalone integrated circuit IC, or chip, or chip system or subsystem; (2) a collection of one or more ICs, optionally, the IC collection may also include storage components for storing data, programs and / or instructions; (3) an ASIC, such as a modem; (4) a module that can be embedded in other devices; (5) a receiver, terminal device, smart terminal device, cellular phone, wireless device, handheld device, mobile unit, vehicle device, network device, cloud device, artificial intelligence device, etc.; (8) others, etc.

[0465] Figure 8B is a schematic diagram of the structure of chip 8200 according to an embodiment of this disclosure. For cases where the communication device 8100 can be a chip or a chip system, please refer to the schematic diagram of chip 8200 shown in Figure 8B, but it is not limited thereto.

[0466] Chip 8200 includes one or more processors 8201. Chip 8200 is used to perform any of the methods described above.

[0467] In some embodiments, chip 8200 further includes one or more interface circuits 8202. Optionally, terms such as interface circuit, interface, and transceiver pin can be used interchangeably. In some embodiments, chip 8200 further includes one or more memories 8203 for storing data and / or instructions. Optionally, all or part of the memories 8203 may be located outside of chip 8200. Optionally, the interface circuit 8202 is connected to the memories 8203, and the interface circuit 8202 can be used to receive data and / or instructions from the memories 8203 or other devices, and the interface circuit 8202 can be used to send data and / or instructions to the memories 8203 or other devices. For example, the interface circuit 8202 can read data and / or instructions stored in the memories 8203 and send the data and / or instructions to the processor 8201.

[0468] In some embodiments, the interface circuit 8202 performs at least one of the communication steps (e.g., step S4101, but not limited thereto) in the above-described method, such as sending and / or receiving. For example, the interface circuit 8202 performing the communication steps (e.g., sending and / or receiving) in the above-described method means that the interface circuit 8202 performs data and / or instruction interaction between the processor 8201, the chip 8200, the memory 8203, or the transceiver device. In some embodiments, the processor 8201 performs at least one of other steps (e.g., step S4102, but not limited thereto).

[0469] The modules and / or devices described in the various embodiments, such as virtual devices, physical devices, and chips, can be combined or separated arbitrarily as needed. Optionally, some or all steps can also be performed collaboratively by multiple modules and / or devices, which is not limited here.

[0470] This disclosure also proposes a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform any of the above methods. Optionally, the storage medium is an electronic storage medium. Optionally, the storage medium is a computer-readable storage medium, but not limited thereto; it may also be a storage medium readable by other devices. Optionally, the storage medium may be a non-transitory storage medium, but not limited thereto; it may also be a temporary storage medium.

[0471] This disclosure also proposes a program product, including a program and / or instructions, which, when executed by a communication device, cause the communication device to perform any of the above methods. Optionally, the program product is a computer program product. Optionally, the program product is stored on the storage medium.

[0472] This disclosure also proposes a computer program that, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform any of the above methods.

[0473] Other embodiments of this disclosure will readily occur to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of this disclosure that follow the general principles of this disclosure and include common knowledge or customary techniques in the art not disclosed herein. The specification and examples are to be considered exemplary only, and the true scope and spirit of this disclosure are indicated by the following claims.

[0474] It should be understood that this disclosure is not limited to the precise structures described above and shown in the accompanying drawings, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from its scope. The scope of this disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A communication method performed by a terminal, the method comprising: The method comprises: receiving first information sent by a network device, the first information being used for configuring a terminal with a first configuration corresponding to one or more spatial regions, the first configuration being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when a spatial region where the terminal is located changes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: an association relationship between a measurement resource configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a measurement event configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a measurement report configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state and a spatial region; an association relationship between a candidate cell and a spatial region; an association relationship between a beam and a spatial region.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, For at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement report configuration, the first information is used to indicate a relationship between all parameters in the configuration and a spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate a relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and a spatial region.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that, The spatial region is determined by a first parameter, and the first parameter comprises at least one of the following: a reference position and / or a distance threshold; a reference direction and / or an angle threshold; a reference height range and / or a reference distance range.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, The first parameter comprises a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold. The distance threshold is used to measure a distance between a position of the terminal and the reference position, and the angle threshold is used to measure an included angle between a direction of the position of the terminal with respect to the reference position and the reference direction.

6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that, The method further comprises at least one of the following: determining a spatial region where the terminal is located based on spatial position information of the terminal and the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions; determining whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on spatial position information of the terminal and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, the first spatial region being any spatial region of the one or more spatial regions.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, The first parameter comprises a reference position, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold, and the determination of whether the terminal is in the first spatial region based on the spatial position information of the terminal and the first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region comprises any of the following: if a distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position satisfies the distance threshold and an included angle between a direction of the position of the terminal with respect to the reference position and the reference direction satisfies the angle threshold, it is determined that the terminal is in the first spatial region; if the distance between the position of the terminal and the reference position does not satisfy the distance threshold or the included angle between the direction of the position of the terminal with respect to the reference position and the reference direction does not satisfy the angle threshold, it is determined that the terminal is not in the first spatial region.

8. The method according to any one of claims 4 to 7, characterized in that, The method further comprises: determining whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on spatial position information of the terminal, a first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, and a second parameter, the second parameter comprising at least one of hysteresis, an offset, and a trigger time, the first spatial region being any spatial region of the one or more spatial regions.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that, one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one beam; or, a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one measurement resource configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one measurement event configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one measurement reporting configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one TCI state, or a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one candidate cell, or a plurality of spatial regions correspond to one beam.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that, The method further comprises: the terminal enters a first spatial region, and performs a first operation based on a first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information; the terminal leaves the first spatial region, and performs a second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information; wherein the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial region.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, The performing of the first operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information comprises at least one of: activating a candidate cell or a beam or a TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; synchronizing the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; obtaining a timing advance (TA) value of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; starting measurement on the candidate cell or the beam corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or performing measurement based on a measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or performing measurement reporting based on a measurement event configuration or a measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; sending a device state of the terminal to the network device, the device state comprising at least one of a position, an altitude, and a speed; performing a mobility management operation on the candidate cell or a beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, When performing the mobility management operation on the candidate cell or the beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region, the method further comprises: performing the mobility management operation on the candidate cell or the beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region based on a measurement result of the candidate cell or the beam of the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein, The performing of the second operation based on the first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information comprises at least one of: deactivating the candidate cell or the beam or the TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; deleting a TA value maintained for the candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping measurement on the candidate cell or the beam corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping triggering and / or performing measurement based on the measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping triggering and / or performing measurement reporting based on the measurement event configuration or the measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region.

14. A communication method, performed by a network device, the method comprising: The method comprises: sending, to a terminal, first information, the first information being used for configuring the terminal with first configurations corresponding to one or more spatial regions, the first configurations being used for the terminal to perform corresponding operations when a spatial region where the terminal is located changes.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, The first information is used to indicate at least one of the following: an association relationship between a measurement resource configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a measurement event configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a measurement report configuration and a spatial region; an association relationship between a TCI state and a spatial region; an association relationship between a candidate cell and a spatial region; an association relationship between a beam and a spatial region.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, For at least one of the measurement resource configuration, the measurement event configuration, and the measurement report configuration, the first information is used to indicate a relationship between all parameters in the configuration and a spatial region, or the first information is used to indicate a relationship between one or more specific parameters in the configuration and a spatial region.

17. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 16, characterized in that, The spatial region is determined by a first parameter, the first parameter including at least one of the following: a reference location and / or a distance threshold; a reference direction and / or an angle threshold; a reference height range and / or a reference distance range.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein, The first parameter includes a reference location, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold; wherein the distance threshold is used to measure a distance between a location of the terminal and the reference location, and the angle threshold is used to measure an included angle between a direction of the location of the terminal with respect to the reference location and the reference direction.

19. The method of claim 17 or 18, wherein, The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used for the terminal to determine a spatial region where the terminal is located based on spatial location information of the terminal. And / or, The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used for the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on spatial location information of the terminal, the first spatial region being any spatial region of the one or more spatial regions.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein, The first parameter includes a reference location, a distance threshold, a reference direction, and an angle threshold, and the first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used for the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on spatial location information of the terminal, including any of the following: The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used for the terminal to determine that the terminal is in the first spatial region in a case that a distance between a location of the terminal and the reference location satisfies the distance threshold and an included angle between a direction of the location of the terminal with respect to the reference location and the reference direction satisfies the angle threshold; The first parameter corresponding to the one or more spatial regions is used for the terminal to determine that the terminal is not in the first spatial region in a case that the distance between the location of the terminal and the reference location does not satisfy the distance threshold or the included angle between the direction of the location of the terminal with respect to the reference location and the reference direction does not satisfy the angle threshold.

21. The method according to any one of claims 17 to 20, characterized in that, The method further includes: The terminal is configured with a second parameter, the second parameter comprising at least one of a hysteresis, an offset, a trigger time, the second parameter being used by the terminal to determine whether the terminal is in a first spatial region based on spatial location information of the terminal and a first parameter corresponding to the first spatial region, the first spatial region being any one of the one or more spatial regions.

22. The method of any one of claims 14-21, wherein, one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement resource configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement event configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one measurement reporting configuration, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one TCI state, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one candidate cell, or one spatial region corresponds to at least one beam; or, a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one measurement resource configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one measurement event configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one measurement reporting configuration, or a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one TCI state, or a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one candidate cell, or a plurality of spatial regions corresponds to one beam.

23. The method of any one of claims 14 to 22, wherein, The terminal enters a first spatial region, a first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information being used by the terminal to perform a first operation; The terminal leaves a first spatial region, a first configuration corresponding to the first spatial region in the first information being used by the terminal to perform a second operation; wherein the first spatial region is any one of the at least one spatial region.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, The first operation comprises at least one of: activating a candidate cell or a beam or a TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; synchronizing a candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; obtaining a timing advance (TA) value of a candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; starting measurement on a candidate cell or a beam corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or performing measurement based on a measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; triggering and / or performing measurement reporting based on a measurement event configuration or a measurement reporting configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; sending a device state of the terminal to the network device, the device state comprising at least one of a location, an altitude, a speed; performing a mobility management operation on a candidate cell or a beam of a candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein, The first operation further comprises: performing a mobility management operation on a candidate cell or a beam of a candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region based on a measurement result of the candidate cell or the beam.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein, The second operation comprises at least one of: deactivating a candidate cell or a beam or a TCI state corresponding to the first spatial region; deleting a TA value maintained for a candidate cell corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping measurement on a candidate cell or a beam corresponding to the first spatial region; stopping triggering and / or performing measurement based on a measurement resource configuration corresponding to the first spatial region; stop triggering and / or performing measurement reporting based on the first space corresponding measurement event configuration or measurement reporting configuration.

27. A communications device, characterized by The communication device is configured to perform the communication method of any one of claims 1-13 or 14-26.

28. A communication system, characterized by A system comprising a terminal configured to implement the communication method of any one of claims 1-13 and a network device configured to implement the communication method of any one of claims 14-26.

29. A storage medium, the storage medium storing instructions, wherein, The instructions, when executed on the communication device, cause the communication device to perform the communication method of any one of claims 1-13 or 14-26.

30. A program product comprising at least one of a program, instructions, characterized in that The program, instructions, at least one of which, when executed on the communication device, implement the communication method of any one of claims 1-13 or 14-26.

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