CN108401513B

CN108401513B - Measurement configuration method and device, user equipment and base station

Info

Publication number: CN108401513B
Application number: CN201780000773.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 江小威
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-07-12
Filing date: 2017-07-12
Publication date: 2021-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 2037-07-12
Also published as: WO2019010654A1; CN108401513A

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a measurement configuration method, a measurement configuration device, user equipment and a base station. The measurement configuration method comprises the following steps: generating a measurement configuration signaling, wherein the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information for indicating the user equipment to report the cell signal quality of a suitable cell; and sending the measurement configuration signaling. The technical scheme can solve the problem that the base station is difficult to execute cell switching or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE because the UE only reports the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality.

Description

Measurement configuration method and device, user equipment and base station

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a measurement configuration method and apparatus, a user equipment, and a base station.

Background

In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, each User Equipment (UE) may configure multiple measurement configurations, and each measurement configuration may include one measurement identity Information (ID), one measurement object, and one measurement report configuration. A measurement object comprises a measurement frequency point, and the measurement frequency point can be a service frequency point or a non-service frequency point.

In the related art, for a measurement configuration, if a measurement object is not a serving frequency point, the UE may report the signal quality of N cells (in LTE, the value of N is agreed by the system to be 8) with the strongest cell signal quality on the frequency point; meanwhile, if the adjacent cell reporting the service frequency point is configured in the measurement configuration, the UE can report the signal quality of the adjacent cell with the strongest signal of each service frequency point. In the related art, the UE reports the signal quality of the cell only according to the cell signal strength, which may cause that none of the reported cells is a suitable cell to which the UE can access, and further cause that it is difficult for the base station to perform cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement result reported by the UE, in a fifth Generation mobile communication technology (5th Generation, abbreviated as 5G), the cell density is higher, more cells that the UE can identify and measure are present, and the problem of reporting only the signal quality of a non-suitable cell is more easily caused by using the related technology, so that the cell handover of the UE is affected, and the mobility performance of the UE is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the problems in the related art, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a measurement configuration method and apparatus, a user equipment, and a base station, so as to solve the problem that when a UE reports cell signal quality, only cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell is reported, and therefore it is difficult for the base station to perform cell handover or cell addition based on a measurement report reported by the UE.

According to a first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a measurement configuration method applied to a base station, the method including:

generating a measurement configuration signaling, wherein the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information for indicating the user equipment to report the cell signal quality of a suitable cell;

and sending the measurement configuration signaling.

In an embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the ue only reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell and not reports the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell.

In an embodiment, the configuration information further indicates that the triggering event of the user equipment sending the measurement report is triggered only by the suitable cell.

In an embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of the serving cell and/or at least one suitable cell of the neighboring cells.

In an embodiment, the configuration information further indicates a maximum number of cell signal qualities of suitable cells to be reported by the user equipment.

In an embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a suitable cell of the serving cell and/or the neighboring cells of the ue is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell.

In an embodiment, when the configuration information indicates that the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cells of the ue is higher than the first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell.

In an embodiment, when the configuration information indicates that a difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal of the user equipment and the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell is smaller than the second strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell.

In an embodiment, the method further comprises:

and sending a judgment rule of a suitable cell to user equipment, wherein the judgment rule is used for the user equipment to determine the suitable cell.

According to a second aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a measurement configuration method applied to a user equipment, the method including:

when the measurement report condition is met, determining a reporting cell of the signal quality of the cell to be reported based on configuration information which indicates the user equipment to report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by a base station;

generating a measurement report based on the cell signal quality of the cell with the cell signal quality to be reported;

sending the measurement report to the base station.

In an embodiment, determining a reporting cell of a cell signal quality to be reported based on configuration information indicating that user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by a base station includes:

and if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, determining the suitable cell with the signal quality meeting the reporting condition from the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell as the reporting cell.

if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cells, determining the cells meeting the reporting conditions based on the signal quality of all the cells;

if the cells meeting the reporting condition do not contain the proper cells, selecting at least one cell with the best signal quality from the proper cells as a reporting cell, and selecting a plurality of cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as the reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

if the configuration information also indicates the maximum number of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell reported by the user equipment, determining the cell meeting the reporting condition based on the signal quality of all the cells;

and if the number of suitable cells in the cells meeting the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, selecting the maximum number of cells with the optimal signal quality from the suitable cells as reporting cells, and selecting a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as the reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

and if the configuration information indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cells of the user equipment is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell, preferentially selecting the suitable cell from the cells meeting the reporting condition as the reporting cell.

if the configuration information indicates that the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than a first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and then the suitable cell which is reported preferentially is determined based on the first strength threshold;

and if the number of the suitable cells which are reported preferentially does not reach the maximum reporting number, selecting the cells which meet the reporting conditions from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cells.

if the configuration information indicates that the difference value between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal of the user equipment and the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is smaller than a second strength threshold value, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell, and the suitable cell with the difference value between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal and the second strength threshold value is determined to be used as the suitable cell to be reported preferentially;

According to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a measurement configuration apparatus, which is applied to a base station, the apparatus including:

a first generating module, configured to generate a measurement configuration signaling, where the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information indicating that a user equipment reports cell signal quality of a suitable cell;

a first transmitting module configured to transmit the measurement configuration signaling generated by the first generating module.

In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprises:

and a second sending module configured to send a decision rule of a suitable cell to the user equipment, where the decision rule is used for the user equipment to determine the suitable cell.

According to a fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a measurement configuration apparatus, which is applied to a user equipment, the apparatus including:

a determining module configured to determine a reporting cell of the cell signal quality to be reported based on configuration information indicating that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by a base station when a measurement report condition is satisfied;

a second generating module configured to generate a measurement report based on the cell signal quality of the cell with the cell signal quality to be reported determined by the determining module;

a third transmitting module configured to transmit the measurement report generated by the second generating module to the base station.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

a first determining submodule configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, a suitable cell whose signal quality meets the reporting condition from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell as a reporting cell.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

a second determining submodule configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of the serving cell and/or at least one suitable cell in the adjacent cells, a cell that meets the reporting condition based on the signal quality of all the cells;

a first selection submodule configured to select at least one cell with the best signal quality from the suitable cells as a reporting cell if the cells meeting the reporting condition do not include the suitable cells, and select a plurality of cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as the reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

a third determining submodule configured to determine, if the configuration information further indicates that the user equipment reports the maximum number of cell signal qualities of suitable cells, cells that satisfy a reporting condition based on the signal qualities of all the cells;

and the second selection submodule is configured to select the maximum number of cells with the optimal signal quality from the suitable cells as the reporting cells and select a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells meeting the reporting conditions as the reporting cells if the number of the suitable cells in the cells meeting the reporting conditions exceeds the maximum number, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

and the third selection submodule is configured to preferentially select a suitable cell from the cells meeting the reporting condition as the reporting cell if the configuration information indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

a fourth determining submodule configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than a first strength threshold, a suitable cell to be reported with priority based on the first strength threshold, where the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell;

and the fourth selection submodule is configured to select a cell meeting the reporting condition from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cell if the number of the suitable cells which are preferentially reported does not reach the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module includes:

a fifth determining submodule configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that a difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal of the user equipment and the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is smaller than a second strength threshold, that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and determine, as a suitable cell to be preferentially reported, the suitable cell with the difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal and the cell signal quality of the suitable cell smaller than the second strength threshold;

and the fifth selection submodule is configured to select a cell meeting the reporting condition from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cell if the number of the suitable cells which are preferentially reported does not reach the maximum reporting number.

According to a fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a user equipment, including:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to:

sending the measurement report to the base station.

According to a sixth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a base station, including:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to:

and sending the measurement configuration signaling.

According to a seventh aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of:

sending the measurement report to the base station.

According to an eighth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of:

and sending the measurement configuration signaling.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can have the following beneficial effects:

the base station can carry configuration information indicating the cell signal quality of the suitable cell reported by the user in the measurement configuration signaling, so that the user equipment can be indicated to report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, and the problem that the base station is difficult to execute cell switching or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE due to the fact that the UE only reports the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality in the related technology is solved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

FIG. 1A is a flow chart illustrating a method of measurement configuration according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 1B is a diagram illustrating an application scenario of a measurement configuration method according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a method of measurement configuration according to an example embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a method of measurement configuration according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method according to an example embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating another measurement configuration apparatus according to an example embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating another measurement configuration apparatus according to an example embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a suitable measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a suitable measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the invention, as detailed in the appended claims.

In the technical scheme provided by the present disclosure, it may be determined whether the cell is a suitable cell based on a preset determination rule, where the determination rule includes one or more of the following rules: not a forbidden cell or an operator reserved cell; cells not belonging to forbidden area (forbidden to follow the network for any communication); not belonging to non-allowed area (no traffic is allowed to follow the network); a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) of a cell belongs to a registered PLMN or equivalent PLMN; a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) of a cell is a CSG member of the UE; the signal quality of the cell is greater than a certain threshold. The base station may send the decision rule of the suitable cells to the user equipment in order for the user equipment to determine which cells are suitable cells based on the decision rule.

FIG. 1A is a flow diagram illustrating a measurement configuration method according to an exemplary embodiment, and FIG. 1B is a diagram illustrating an application scenario of a measurement configuration method according to an exemplary embodiment; the measurement configuration method can be applied to a base station, as shown in fig. 1A, the measurement configuration method includes the following steps 101-102:

in step 101, a measurement configuration signaling is generated, where the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information indicating that the ue reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell of the serving cells; in an embodiment, the configuration information may instruct the ue to report only the cell signal quality of a suitable cell among the neighboring cells; in an embodiment, the configuration information may instruct the ue to report only cell signal qualities of suitable cells of the serving cell and the neighboring cells. In an embodiment, the configuration information may further indicate that the trigger event for the ue to send the measurement report is triggered only by the suitable cell, that is, the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell cannot trigger the ue to send the measurement report even if the reporting condition is met.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell in the serving cells; in an embodiment, the configuration information may instruct the ue to report the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell in the neighboring cells; in an embodiment, the configuration information may instruct the user equipment to report the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell of the serving cell and the neighboring cells. In an embodiment, the base station may further indicate, through the configuration information, the maximum number of cell signal qualities of the suitable cells that the user equipment reports, for example, the configuration information indicates that the user reports the cell signal qualities of at least one suitable cell and at most 5 suitable cells.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a suitable cell among the serving cells of the user equipment is higher than a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell; in an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a suitable cell among neighboring cells of the user equipment is higher than a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell; in an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a suitable cell of the serving cell and the neighboring cells of the ue is higher than a reporting priority of a cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell. In an embodiment, the reporting priority of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the unsuitable cell, which may be understood as indicating that the UE preferentially reports the signal quality of the suitable cell when performing measurement reporting on the frequency point corresponding to the measurement configuration, and if the detected number of the suitable cells does not reach the maximum reporting number, the UE may select from the unsuitable cells according to the signal quality from high to low until the maximum reporting number is reached.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may indicate that when the cell signal quality of a suitable cell of the serving cell and/or the neighboring cells of the ue is higher than the first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell, for example, if the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than-75 dB, reporting may be prioritized.

In an embodiment, when the configuration information indicating that the ue reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell indicates that a difference between the signal quality of the cell where the ue has the strongest signal and the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell is smaller than the second strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell.

In step 102, measurement configuration signaling is sent.

In an exemplary scenario, as shown in fig. 1B, the UE20 includes a base station 10 and a UE, where the base station may carry configuration information indicating that the UE20 reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent down, and when the UE20 receives the measurement configuration signaling sent by the base station 10, the UE may report a measurement report carrying the cell signal quality of the suitable cell when a measurement report reporting condition is met, so that the base station 10 can implement cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE.

In this embodiment, through the steps 101 to 102, the user equipment may be instructed to report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, so as to avoid a problem that in the related art, the UE may report only the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality, which may cause the base station to be difficult to perform cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the ue only reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, so that the ue can report only the suitable cell satisfying the reporting condition based on the measurement configuration signaling, and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, thereby reporting the cell signal quality of the suitable cell with the maximum number, and improving the success rate of the base station performing cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report of the ue.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the user equipment trigger event is triggered by the suitable cell, so that the problems that the number of suitable cells carried in a reported measurement report is small and the validity of information in the measurement report is poor when the unsuitable cell meets the trigger condition but the suitable cell does not meet the reporting condition can be avoided.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates the UE to report the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell, so as to avoid a problem in the related art that the base station is difficult to perform cell handover or cell addition based on a measurement report reported by the UE, because the UE only reports the cell signal quality of an unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality.

In this embodiment, the maximum number of suitable cells reported by the user equipment is indicated by the configuration information, and the number of suitable cells reported by the user equipment in the measurement report can be indicated, so that it is determined that the cell signal quality in the measurement report can have the highest reference value.

In this embodiment, it is disclosed that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and it can be ensured that the user equipment preferentially reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell when sending the measurement report.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates that, when the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so as to avoid that the suitable cell is preferentially reported when the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is not good, and the unsuitable cell with very strong cell signal quality is arranged behind, which is not beneficial for the base station to determine the signal quality of one frequency point.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates that, when the difference between the cell signal quality of the suitable cell and the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is smaller than the second strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so that the unsuitable cell is prevented from being reported preferentially when the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is not good, and the unsuitable cell with a very strong cell signal quality is arranged behind, which is not favorable for the base station to determine the signal quality of one frequency point.

In an embodiment, the measurement configuration method may further include:

and sending a judgment rule of a proper cell to the user equipment, wherein the judgment rule is used for the user equipment to determine the proper cell.

In this embodiment, the base station may determine whether the current measured cell is a suitable cell or a non-suitable cell by sending the determination rule of the suitable cell to the user equipment, so as to generate and report the measurement report.

Please refer to the following embodiments for details of how to perform measurement configuration.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are described below with specific embodiments.

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating another measurement configuration method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment; in this embodiment, by using the above method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, an example of a measurement configuration implemented by interaction between user equipment and UE is described, as shown in fig. 2, the method includes the following steps:

in step 201, the base station generates measurement configuration signaling.

In an embodiment, the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information indicating that the ue reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell.

In step 202, the base station sends measurement configuration signaling.

In an embodiment, the description of step 201 and step 202 can refer to the description of step 101 and step 102 of the embodiment shown in fig. 1A, and will not be described in detail here.

In step 203, when the ue determines that the measurement report condition is currently satisfied based on the measurement configuration signaling, it determines a reporting cell of the signal quality of the cell to be reported.

In an embodiment, the ue may determine whether reporting of the measurement report is periodic reporting or event reporting based on the measurement configuration signaling, and if the reporting is event reporting, may further analyze and determine a cell capable of triggering the reporting of the measurement report in the measurement configuration signaling, for example, if the triggering event indicated in the measurement configuration signaling is triggered only by a suitable cell, it may be determined that the measurement report condition is currently satisfied when the signal quality of a cell in the suitable cell meets a condition for triggering the reporting of the measurement report, and if the triggering event indicated in the measurement configuration signaling can be triggered by any cell, it may be determined that the measurement report condition is currently satisfied when the signal quality of a cell meets the condition for triggering the reporting of the measurement report.

In an embodiment, since the configuration information carried in the measurement configuration signaling indicates that the ue reports the configuration information of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, the ue may determine the reporting cell of the cell signal quality to be reported based on the number, priority, and the like of the suitable reporting cells indicated by the configuration information, and refer to the embodiments shown in fig. 4 to 6 for determining the reporting cell and sending the measurement report according to different configuration information, which is not described in detail herein.

In step 204, the ue generates a measurement report based on the cell signal quality of the cell with the cell signal quality to be reported.

In step 205, the user equipment transmits a measurement report to the base station.

In this embodiment, the base station may carry configuration information indicating that a user reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the measurement configuration signaling, so that the user equipment may determine the number and priority of the reported suitable cells based on the configuration information when receiving the measurement configuration signaling, thereby avoiding a problem that in the related art, the UE may report only the cell signal quality of an unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality, which may cause the base station to be difficult to perform cell switching or cell addition based on a measurement report reported by the UE.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a method of measurement configuration according to an exemplary embodiment; the measurement configuration method may be applied to a user equipment, as shown in fig. 3, the measurement configuration method includes the following steps 301 and 303:

in step 301, when the measurement report condition is satisfied, a reporting cell of the signal quality of the cell to be reported is determined based on configuration information indicating that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by the base station.

In an embodiment, the reporting cells of the to-be-reported cell signal quality may be determined based on the number, priority, and the like of the reporting suitable cells indicated by the configuration information, and the flows of determining the reporting cells and sending the measurement reports according to different configuration information may refer to the embodiments shown in fig. 4 to 6, which will not be described in detail herein.

In step 302, a measurement report is generated based on the cell signal quality of the cell signal quality to be reported.

In an embodiment, the cell signal quality of each reporting cell may be recorded in a measurement report.

In step 303, a measurement report is sent to the base station.

In this embodiment, through the steps 301 to 303, when receiving the measurement configuration signaling, the UE may determine the number and priority of the reported suitable cells based on the configuration information, so as to avoid a problem that in the related art, the UE only reports the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality, which may cause the base station to be difficult to perform cell switching or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, and the user equipment may determine, from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell, a suitable cell whose signal quality satisfies the reporting condition, for example, a suitable cell whose signal reception power is higher than-75 dB, and report the cell signal quality of the maximum number of suitable cells, so as to improve the success rate of the base station performing cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report of the user equipment.

if the cells meeting the reporting condition do not contain the proper cells, selecting at least one cell with the best signal quality from the proper cells as a reporting cell, and selecting a plurality of cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

In this embodiment, when the base station indicates, through the configuration information, the user equipment to report the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell, the user equipment may rank the cells according to the signal qualities of all the cells, and if all the cells meeting the reporting condition do not include suitable cells, select at least one cell with the best signal quality from the suitable cells as a reporting cell, for example, if the reporting condition is that the signal reception power is higher than-75 dB, and the cell with the strongest signal reception power is-80 dB among the suitable cells, the suitable cell with the signal reception power of-80 dB may be used as the reporting cell, and select a cell meeting the reporting condition according to the signal quality from other cells.

In this embodiment, when the base station indicates, through the configuration information, the user equipment to report the maximum number of suitable cells, the user equipment may rank the cells according to the signal qualities of all the cells, and if the number of suitable cells in all the cells that satisfy the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, select the maximum number of cells with the best signal quality from the suitable cells as the reporting cells, and select a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells that satisfy the reporting condition as the reporting cells, thereby ensuring that the cell signal quality in the measurement report can have the highest reference value.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so as to ensure that the user equipment preferentially reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell when sending the measurement report.

if the configuration information indicates that the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than a first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and the suitable cell which is reported preferentially is determined based on the first strength threshold;

In this embodiment, when the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the user equipment is higher than the first strength threshold in the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so as to avoid that the suitable cell is preferentially reported even when the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is not good, and the unsuitable cell with very strong cell signal quality is ranked behind, which is not favorable for the base station to determine the signal quality of one frequency point.

In this embodiment, when the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the difference between the cell signal quality of the suitable cell and the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is smaller than the second strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so as to avoid that the user equipment preferentially reports the suitable cell even when the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is not good, and arrange the unsuitable cell with a very strong cell signal quality behind the unsuitable cell, which is not favorable for the base station to determine the signal quality of one frequency point.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment; in this embodiment, by using the method provided in this disclosure, when the configuration information indicates that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell, and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, the user equipment determines to report the cell and sends the measurement report as an example, as shown in fig. 4, the method includes the following steps:

in step 401, when the measurement report condition is satisfied, a suitable cell with a signal quality satisfying the reporting condition is determined from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell as a reporting cell.

In an embodiment, when the ue indicates to report only the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell, and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, only a suitable cell with a signal quality meeting the reporting condition is determined from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell as a reporting cell, and the unsuitable cell is not selected.

In step 402, a measurement report is generated based on the cell signal quality of the cell signal quality to be reported.

In step 403, a measurement report is transmitted to the base station.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, and the user equipment may determine, from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell, a suitable cell whose signal quality satisfies the reporting condition, for example, a suitable cell whose signal receiving power is higher than-75 dB, and report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell with the maximum number, so as to improve the success rate of the base station performing cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report of the user equipment.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment; in this embodiment, by using the above method provided by the present disclosure, when the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell and also indicates that the user equipment reports the maximum number of cell signal qualities of the suitable cell, the user equipment determines to report the cell and sends the measurement report as an example, as shown in fig. 5, the method includes the following steps:

in step 501, when the measurement report condition is satisfied, the cells satisfying the reporting condition are determined based on the signal quality of all the cells, and step 502 or step 503 is executed.

In an embodiment, the reporting condition may be understood as that the signal quality exceeds a certain threshold, and the cells meeting the reporting condition are determined based on the signal received powers of all the cells at the measurement frequency point.

In step 502, if the cells satisfying the reporting condition do not include suitable cells, at least one cell with the best signal quality is selected from the suitable cells as a reporting cell, and a plurality of cells are selected from the cells satisfying the reporting condition as reporting cells, and step 504 is executed.

In an embodiment, since the configuration information indicates that the measurement report needs to include at least one suitable cell as a reporting cell, at least one cell with the best signal quality is selected from the suitable cells as the reporting cell, and then a plurality of cells are selected from the cells meeting the reporting condition determined in step 501 as the reporting cells, where the specific selection number may be determined by the maximum reporting number indicated in the measurement configuration signaling, for example, if the maximum reporting number indicated in the measurement configuration signaling is 10 cells, and only one suitable cell is selected, 9 cells may be selected from the cells meeting the reporting condition determined in step 501 as the reporting cells.

In step 503, if the number of suitable cells in the cells satisfying the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, the maximum number of cells with the best signal quality are selected from the suitable cells as reporting cells, and a plurality of non-suitable cells are selected from the cells satisfying the reporting condition as reporting cells, and step 504 is executed.

In an embodiment, the number of reporting cells does not exceed the maximum number of reports.

In an embodiment, since the configuration information indicates that the number of suitable cells reported in the measurement report does not exceed the maximum number, when the number of suitable cells in the cells satisfying the reporting condition determined in step 501 exceeds the maximum number, the maximum number of cells with the best signal quality may be selected from the suitable cells as reporting cells, and then a plurality of non-suitable cells may be selected from the cells satisfying the reporting condition as reporting cells, where the number of reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number, for example, if the maximum number of suitable cells indicated in the measurement configuration signaling is 3, the maximum reporting number is 10 cells, and the maximum number of suitable cells satisfying the reporting condition is 3, 7 non-suitable cells may be selected from the cells satisfying the reporting condition determined in step 501 as reporting cells.

In step 504, a measurement report is generated based on the cell signal quality of the cell signal quality to be reported.

In step 505, a measurement report is sent to the base station.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating yet another measurement configuration method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment; in this embodiment, by using the method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the configuration information indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell of the user equipment is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, the user equipment determines that the cell is reported and sends the measurement report as an example, as shown in fig. 6, the method includes the following steps:

in step 601, when the measurement report condition is satisfied, a suitable cell is preferentially selected as a reporting cell from the cells satisfying the reporting condition.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may further indicate that, when the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cells of the ue is higher than the first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and then the ue may determine, based on the first strength threshold, the suitable cell to be reported preferentially; and if the number of the suitable cells which are reported preferentially does not reach the maximum reporting number, selecting the cells which meet the reporting conditions from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cells.

In one embodiment, the first strength threshold may be a relatively small value, such as-80 dB, to avoid reporting the signal quality of the suitable cell preferentially when the signal quality of the suitable cell is very low.

In an embodiment, the configuration information may further indicate that, when the difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal of the ue and the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell is smaller than a second strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell, and then the suitable cell with the difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal and the cell signal quality of the suitable cell smaller than the second strength threshold is determined as the suitable cell to be preferentially reported; and if the number of the suitable cells which are reported preferentially does not reach the maximum reporting number, selecting the cells which meet the reporting conditions from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cells.

In an embodiment, the second strength threshold is used to limit that the signal quality of the suitable cell does not differ too much from the signal of the cell with the strongest signal, and if the difference is too much, the suitable cell is not taken as the suitable cell to be preferentially reported.

In step 602, a measurement report is generated based on the cell signal quality of the cell of which the cell signal quality is to be reported.

In step 603, a measurement report is sent to the base station.

In this embodiment, the base station indicates, through the configuration information, that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, so as to ensure that the user equipment preferentially reports the cell signal quality of the suitable cell when sending the measurement report; in addition, the first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold can avoid that the suitable cell is preferentially reported when the signal quality of the cell of the suitable cell is not good.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram of a measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, which is applied to a user equipment, and as shown in fig. 7, the measurement configuration apparatus includes:

a first generating module 71, configured to generate a measurement configuration signaling, where the measurement configuration signaling carries configuration information indicating that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell;

a first sending module 72 configured to send the measurement configuration signaling generated by the first generating module 71.

In this embodiment, the user equipment may be instructed to report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, so as to avoid a problem that it is difficult for the base station to perform cell switching or cell addition based on the measurement report reported by the UE, which may occur in the related art, because the UE only reports the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram of another measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 8, based on the embodiment shown in fig. 7, in an embodiment, the configuration information indicates that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell, and does not report the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell.

In this embodiment, the configuration information indicates the ue to report only the cell signal quality of the suitable cell, so that the ue can report only the suitable cell satisfying the reporting condition based on the measurement configuration signaling, and report the cell signal quality of the suitable cell with the maximum number, thereby improving the success rate of the base station performing cell handover or cell addition based on the measurement report of the ue.

In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprises:

a second sending module 73, configured to send, to the user equipment, a decision rule of a suitable cell, where the decision rule is used for the user equipment to determine the suitable cell.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram of a measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, which is applied to a base station, and as shown in fig. 9, the measurement configuration apparatus includes:

a determining module 91, configured to determine a reporting cell of the cell signal quality to be reported based on configuration information indicating that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by a base station when a measurement report condition is satisfied;

a second generating module 92, configured to generate a measurement report based on the cell signal quality of the cell with the cell signal quality to be reported, which is determined by the determining module 91;

a third sending module 93 configured to send the measurement report generated by the second generating module 92 to the base station.

In this embodiment, when receiving the measurement configuration signaling, the UE may determine the number and priority of reported suitable cells based on the configuration information, so as to avoid a problem that, in the related art, the UE may report only the cell signal quality of an unsuitable cell when reporting the cell signal quality, which may cause a base station to be difficult to perform cell switching or cell addition based on a measurement report reported by the UE.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram of another measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, and as shown in fig. 10, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 9, in an embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

the first determining submodule 911 is configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment only reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell and does not report the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, a suitable cell whose signal quality meets the reporting condition from the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell as a reporting cell.

In one embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

a second determining sub-module 912, configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the cell signal quality of the serving cell and/or at least one suitable cell in the neighboring cells, a cell that meets the reporting condition based on the signal qualities of all the cells;

a first selecting submodule 913 configured to select at least one cell with the best signal quality from the suitable cells as a reporting cell if the suitable cells are not included in the cells meeting the reporting condition, and select a plurality of cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as reporting cells, where the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

a third determining submodule 914, configured to determine, if the configuration information further indicates that the user equipment reports the maximum number of cell signal qualities of suitable cells, cells that meet the reporting condition based on the signal qualities of all the cells;

a second selecting submodule 915, configured to select the largest number of cells with the best signal quality from the suitable cells as reporting cells if the number of suitable cells in the cells meeting the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, and select a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as reporting cells, wherein the number of reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

a third selecting submodule 916 configured to preferentially select a suitable cell from the cells satisfying the reporting condition as the reporting cell if the configuration information indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the ue serving cell and/or the neighboring cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell.

In one embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

a fourth determining sub-module 917 configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the cell signal quality of the ue serving cell and/or a suitable cell in the neighboring cells is higher than the first strength threshold, a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and based on the first strength threshold, a suitable cell to be reported preferentially is determined;

a fourth selecting submodule 918, configured to select a cell meeting the reporting condition from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cell if the number of suitable cells that are preferentially reported does not reach the maximum reporting number.

In one embodiment, the determining module 91 includes:

a fifth determining submodule 919, configured to determine, if the configuration information indicates that the difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal of the user equipment and the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the neighboring cell is smaller than the second strength threshold, that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, and then determine, as a suitable cell to be reported with priority, the suitable cell whose difference between the signal quality of the cell with the strongest signal is smaller than the second strength threshold;

a fifth selecting submodule 920, configured to select a cell meeting the reporting condition from the non-suitable cells as the reporting cell if the number of suitable cells that are preferentially reported does not reach the maximum reporting number.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a suitable measurement configuration apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment. For example, the apparatus 1100 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a messaging device, a game console, a tablet device, a medical device, an exercise device, a personal digital assistant, or the like, user device.

Referring to fig. 11, apparatus 1100 may include one or more of the following components: processing component 1102, memory 1104, power component 1106, multimedia component 1108, audio component 1110, input/output (I/O) interface 1112, sensor component 1114, and communications component 1116.

The processing component 1102 generally controls the overall operation of the device 1100, such as operations associated with display, telephone calls, data communications, camera operations, and recording operations. The processing element 1102 may include one or more processors 1120 to execute instructions to perform all or a portion of the steps of the methods described above. Further, the processing component 1102 may include one or more modules that facilitate interaction between the processing component 1102 and other components. For example, the processing component 1102 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component 1108 and the processing component 1102.

The memory 1104 is configured to store various types of data to support operation at the device 1100. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on device 1100, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, and so forth. The memory 1104 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks.

Power components 1106 provide power to the various components of device 1100. The power components 1106 can include a power management system, one or more power sources, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for the apparatus 1100.

The multimedia component 1108 includes a screen that provides an output interface between the device 1100 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 1108 includes a front facing camera and/or a rear facing camera. The front-facing camera and/or the rear-facing camera may receive external multimedia data when the device 1100 is in an operating mode, such as a shooting mode or a video mode. Each front camera and rear camera may be a fixed optical lens system or have a focal length and optical zoom capability.

The audio component 1110 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 1110 includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive external audio signals when the apparatus 1100 is in operating modes, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signals may further be stored in the memory 1104 or transmitted via the communication component 1116. In some embodiments, the audio assembly 1110 further includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The I/O interface 1112 provides an interface between the processing component 1102 and peripheral interface modules, which may be keyboards, click wheels, buttons, etc. These buttons may include, but are not limited to: a home button, a volume button, a start button, and a lock button.

The sensor assembly 1114 includes one or more sensors for providing various aspects of state assessment for the apparatus 1100. For example, the sensor assembly 1114 may detect the open/closed state of the device 1100, the relative positioning of components, such as a display and keypad of the apparatus 1100, the sensor assembly 1114 may also detect a change in the position of the apparatus 1100 or a component of the apparatus 1100, the presence or absence of user contact with the apparatus 1100, an orientation or acceleration/deceleration of the apparatus 1100, and a change in the temperature of the apparatus 1100. The sensor assembly 1114 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of a nearby object without any physical contact. The sensor assembly 1114 may also include a light sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor assembly 1114 may also include an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.

The communication component 1116 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the apparatus 1100 and other devices. The apparatus 1100 may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1116 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast associated information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communications component 1116 also includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communications. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus 1100 may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors or other electronic components for performing the above-described methods.

In an exemplary embodiment, there is also provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, such as the memory 1104 comprising instructions, that when executed, may configure the processor 1120 of the apparatus 1100 to perform the method described in the second aspect above.

In one embodiment, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be a ROM, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like.

Fig. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a data transmission apparatus according to an example embodiment. Apparatus 1200 may be provided as a base station. Referring to fig. 12, apparatus 1200 includes a processing component 1222, a wireless transmit/receive component 1224, an antenna component 1226, and wireless interface-specific signal processing components, and processing component 1222 may further include one or more processors.

One of the processors in the processing component 1222 may be configured to perform the measurement configuration method described in the second aspect above.

In an exemplary embodiment, there is also provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the processing component 1222 of the apparatus 1200 to perform the method described in the first aspect above. For example, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be a ROM, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method of measurement configuration, performed by a base station, the method comprising:

sending the measurement configuration signaling;

the configuration information indicates the maximum number of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell reported by the user equipment; the configuration information also indicates that when the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than a first intensity threshold value, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell; the maximum number is less than the maximum reporting number of the cells which can be reported by the user equipment;

the suitable cell is determined by user equipment to meet a preset judgment rule; the preset decision rule includes one or more of:

not a forbidden cell or an operator reserved cell;

cells not belonging to the forbidden area;

not non-allowed area;

the public land mobile network of the cell belongs to a registered PLMN or equivalent PLMN;

the closed subscriber group of the cell is a CSG member of the UE.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information further indicates that a triggering event for the UE to send a measurement report is triggered only by a suitable cell.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information indicates that the UE reports the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell of the serving cell and/or the neighbor cells.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information indicates that when a difference between a signal quality of a cell with a strongest signal of the ue and a cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or a neighboring cell is smaller than a second strength threshold, a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

6. A measurement configuration method, performed by a user equipment, the method comprising:

transmitting the measurement report to the base station;

the determining a cell to be reported with the cell signal quality based on configuration information indicating that user equipment reports the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in a measurement configuration signaling sent by a base station includes:

if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the maximum number of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell and indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell of the user equipment is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, then: under the condition that the number of suitable cells in the cells meeting the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, preferentially selecting the maximum number of cells with the optimal signal quality from the suitable cells as reporting cells, and selecting a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number;

not a forbidden cell or an operator reserved cell;

cells not belonging to the forbidden area;

not non-allowed area;

the closed subscriber group of the cell is a CSG member of the UE.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining a reporting cell of the to-be-reported cell signal quality based on configuration information indicating cell signal quality of a suitable cell reported by the UE in the measurement configuration signaling sent by the base station comprises:

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining a reporting cell of the to-be-reported cell signal quality based on configuration information indicating cell signal quality of a suitable cell reported by the UE in the measurement configuration signaling sent by the base station comprises:

if the configuration information also indicates that the cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the user equipment serving cell and/or the adjacent cell is higher than a first strength threshold, the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the non-suitable cell, and the suitable cell which is reported preferentially is determined based on the first strength threshold;

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining a reporting cell of the to-be-reported cell signal quality based on configuration information indicating cell signal quality of a suitable cell reported by the UE in the measurement configuration signaling sent by the base station comprises:

10. A measurement configuration apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

a first transmitting module configured to transmit the measurement configuration signaling generated by the first generating module;

not a forbidden cell or an operator reserved cell;

cells not belonging to the forbidden area;

not non-allowed area;

the closed subscriber group of the cell is a CSG member of the UE.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the configuration information further indicates that a triggering event of the ue sending the measurement report is triggered only by a suitable cell.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the configuration information indicates that the UE reports the cell signal quality of at least one suitable cell of the serving cell and/or the neighbor cells.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the configuration information indicates that when a difference between a signal quality of a cell with a strongest signal of the ue and a cell signal quality of a suitable cell in the serving cell and/or a neighboring cell is smaller than a second strength threshold, a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell is higher than a reporting priority of the cell signal quality of a non-suitable cell.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first sending module is further configured to:

15. A measurement configuration apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

a third transmitting module configured to transmit the measurement report generated by the second generating module to the base station;

the determination module is further configured to: if the configuration information indicates that the user equipment reports the maximum number of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell and indicates that the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the suitable cell in the serving cell and/or the adjacent cell of the user equipment is higher than the reporting priority of the cell signal quality of the unsuitable cell, then: under the condition that the number of suitable cells in the cells meeting the reporting condition exceeds the maximum number, preferentially selecting the maximum number of cells with the optimal signal quality from the suitable cells as reporting cells, and selecting a plurality of non-suitable cells from the cells meeting the reporting condition as reporting cells, wherein the number of the reporting cells does not exceed the maximum reporting number;

not a forbidden cell or an operator reserved cell;

cells not belonging to the forbidden area;

not non-allowed area;

the closed subscriber group of the cell is a CSG member of the UE.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the determination module is further configured to:

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the determination module is further configured to:

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the determination module is further configured to:

19. A user device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 6-9.

20. A base station, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 1-5.

21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, implement the method of any of claims 1-5.

22. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, implement the method of any of claims 6-9.