Server Positioning Method Using Multi-Parameter Measurement Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current cellular mobile communication positioning methods, such as CID, suffer from low precision due to reliance on base station IDs alone, lacking comprehensive measurement parameters for accurate UE positioning.

Innovation Solution

A positioning method involving a server that determines and sends measurement configuration information to a terminal, including parameters like PMI/RI, handover failure rate, and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, for the terminal to measure and respond with positioning response parameters, enabling improved positioning accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If CID positioning method is used with base station ID only, then positioning simplicity is maintained, but positioning precision deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning simplicityVSAvoidpositioning precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The positioning measurement parameter is segmented into multiple independent components including PMI/RI characteristics, handover failure rate, radio link failure rate, signal to interference plus noise ratio, and number of interfering cells. Each component is measured and reported separately to enable comprehensive positioning analysis while maintaining systematic organization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple previously separate measurement parameters (PMI, RI, handover failure rate, radio link failure rate, signal quality metrics) are merged into a unified positioning measurement parameter framework. This combination enables the server to perform integrated analysis for improved positioning precision while maintaining ease of operation through standardized reporting procedures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If multiple measurement parameters are collected for positioning, then positioning precision is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The positioning measurement parameter framework is designed with multi-functionality to serve various positioning scenarios. The same set of measurement parameters (PMI, RI, handover failure rate, radio link failure rate, signal quality) can be universally applied across different network conditions and terminal types, reducing the need for scenario-specific parameter sets and thereby managing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The terminal autonomously measures and reports all necessary positioning parameters (PMI, RI, handover failure rate, radio link failure rate, signal quality metrics) without requiring complex external coordination. The server simply receives and processes these self-reported measurements, significantly reducing system complexity while maintaining high positioning precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP2928242B1Positioning method, apparatus and system
Publication Date: 2019.12.04 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications, and provide a positioning method, apparatus, and system, so as to improve positioning precision. The method includes: determining, by a server, a positioning measurement parameter, and generating measurement configuration information carrying the positioning measurement parameter, where the positioning measurement parameter is a parameter that the server requests a terminal to measure and is used to position the terminal; sending, by the server, the measurement configuration information to the terminal through a base station; receiving, by the server through the base station, configuration response information returned by the terminal, where the configuration response information carries a positioning response parameter, and the positioning response parameter is a measurement result generated after the terminal measures the positioning measurement parameter; and positioning, by the server, the terminal according to the positioning response parameter carried in the configuration response information. The present invention is applicable to a scenario in which a terminal is positioned.