Adaptive Location Reporting Triggers for UE-Aware 5G Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional location reporting configurations in wireless communication systems fail to consider the specific conditions and capabilities of user equipment (UE), leading to inefficient resource utilization and inaccurate location data, which degrades user experience and service efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting location reporting triggers based on real-time analysis of UE conditions, including mobility patterns, capabilities, and required accuracy, ensuring timely and accurate location reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional location reporting configurations are used, then the system structure is simple, but the location data accuracy and resource utilization efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of location reporting triggers based on real-time UE conditions. The system transitions from static configurations to dynamic ones where reporting parameters (frequency, accuracy level, trigger conditions) are automatically adjusted according to UE mobility patterns, battery status, and network conditions, thereby improving location data accuracy without requiring complex manual configuration systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes key parameters of location reporting configurations based on analyzed UE conditions. By modifying parameters such as reporting frequency, required accuracy level, and trigger conditions according to real-time UE state analysis, the system achieves higher measurement precision while maintaining configuration simplicity through automated parameter adaptation.
2Measurement precision
If location reporting frequency is increased, then location data accuracy is improved, but energy consumption and resource utilization efficiency worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where location reports and UE condition changes are continuously monitored and analyzed. Based on this feedback, the system dynamically adjusts reporting frequency and accuracy requirements, reducing unnecessary reports when UE conditions indicate stability while maintaining high accuracy when movement is detected, thus optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing location data accuracy when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The location reporting frequency is made dynamic rather than fixed. The system automatically adjusts the reporting rate based on real-time analysis of UE mobility patterns, battery status, and network conditions, ensuring that high accuracy is maintained only when and where necessary, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while preserving measurement precision when required.
3Adaptability or versatility
If static location reporting configuration is used, then system complexity is reduced, but adaptability to UE conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service configuration adjustment where the network automatically analyzes UE conditions and adjusts location reporting parameters without manual intervention. The system monitors UE mobility patterns, battery status, and network conditions, then autonomously optimizes reporting configurations, achieving high adaptability to UE conditions while avoiding the complexity of manual configuration management.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration system transitions from static to dynamic, automatically adapting to changing UE conditions in real-time. By implementing dynamic parameter adjustment based on analyzed UE state, the system achieves versatile adaptability to different scenarios (high mobility, low battery, network congestion) without requiring complex manual configuration processes, as the adaptation is automated through algorithms that process UE condition data.
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Disclosed is a method performed by a service enabler architecture layer (SEAL) location management (LM) server in a wireless communication system, the method comprising, receiving, from a vertical application layer (VAL) server, a first message for triggering a location reporting, the first message including an identity of a user equipment (UE) and an indicator for requesting a suggestion for an adaptive location reporting configuration, identifying the adaptive location reporting configuration based on a dynamic adjustment of a location reporting configuration by analysing location information of a client for the UE, and transmitting, to the VAL server, a second message for suggesting the adaptive location reporting configuration.