CN114521012B

CN114521012B - Positioning method, positioning device, terminal equipment, base station and position management server

Info

Publication number: CN114521012B
Application number: CN202011296397.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 庄子荀; 王园园; 司晔; 邬华明
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-18
Filing date: 2020-11-18
Publication date: 2023-10-24
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-18
Also published as: CN114521012A; WO2022105756A1

Abstract

The application discloses a positioning method, a positioning device, terminal equipment, a base station and a position management server, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The positioning method executed by the terminal equipment comprises the following steps: transmitting first information to network side equipment, wherein the first information comprises at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; and/or receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information; wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information. According to the application, the related information identified by the LOS/NLOS is reported by the terminal equipment and/or the base station, and the LOS/NLOS is distinguished by various characteristics of the LOS and the NLOS simultaneously, so that higher accuracy and higher positioning precision can be achieved.

Description

Positioning method, positioning device, terminal equipment, base station and position management server

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a positioning method, a positioning device, a positioning terminal, a positioning base station and a positioning management server.

Background

In wireless communication networks, efficient positioning is typically achieved based on a base station's transceiver node (TRP). However, in the process of implementing the present application, the inventor finds that when there are more NLOS links in the network, the positioning performance is seriously affected, and the positioning accuracy is lower.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a positioning method, a positioning device, terminal equipment, a base station and a position management server, which can solve the problem of low positioning precision in the prior art.

In a first aspect, a positioning method is provided, which is executed by a terminal device and includes:

transmitting first information to network side equipment, wherein the first information comprises at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information;

wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information.

In a second aspect, there is provided a positioning device comprising:

the first sending module is configured to send first information to a network side device, where the first information includes at least two of the following information, and the following information includes: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

the first receiving module is used for receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information;

In a third aspect, there is provided a positioning method performed by a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting eighth information to the location management server LMF, the eighth information including at least two of the following information including: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving ninth information, wherein the ninth information comprises third threshold information;

wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a positioning device comprising:

a third sending module, configured to send eighth information to the location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information, where the following information includes: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

a third receiving module, configured to receive ninth information, where the ninth information includes third threshold information;

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a positioning method performed by a location management server, LMF, the method comprising at least one of the following steps:

receiving first information reported by terminal equipment, wherein the first information comprises at least two of the following information: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

issuing second information to the terminal equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information;

receiving eighth information reported by a base station, wherein the eighth information comprises at least two of the following information: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information;

transmitting ninth information to the base station, wherein the ninth information comprises third threshold information;

wherein the first information, the second information, the eighth information, and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

In a sixth aspect, there is provided a positioning device comprising at least one of the following modules:

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive first information reported by a terminal device, where the first information is determined by the terminal device, and the first information includes at least two of the following information, where the following information includes: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information;

A fifth sending module, configured to send second information to the terminal device, where the second information includes first threshold information;

a sixth receiving module, configured to receive eighth information reported by a base station, where the eighth information is determined by the base station, and the eighth information includes at least two of the following information, where the following information includes: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information;

a sixth sending module, configured to send ninth information to the base station, where the ninth information includes third threshold information;

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a terminal device comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program or instruction when executed by the processor implements the steps of the positioning method as described in the first aspect above.

In an eighth aspect, there is provided a base station comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instruction when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the positioning method as described in the third aspect above.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a location management server LMF comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on said memory and executable on said processor, said program or instructions, when executed by said processor, implementing the steps of the positioning method according to the fifth aspect described above.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method for transmitting user information according to the first aspect, the third aspect or the fifth aspect described above.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a chip, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor being coupled, the processor being configured to execute a program or instructions of a terminal, to implement the steps of the method for sending user information according to the first aspect, the third aspect or the fifth aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the related information of LOS/NLOS identification is reported by the terminal equipment and/or the base station, and the LOS/NLOS is distinguished by various characteristics of the LOS and the NLOS simultaneously, so that higher accuracy and higher positioning precision can be achieved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a second flow chart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 4 is a third flow chart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the application

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an entity structure of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal device for implementing an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic hardware structure of a network side device for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are some, but not all embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate, such that embodiments of the application may be practiced otherwise than as specifically illustrated and described herein, and that the "first" and "second" distinguishing between objects generally being of the same type, and not necessarily limited to the number of objects, such as the first object may be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means a relationship in which the associated object is an "or" before and after.

It should be noted that the techniques described in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/LTE evolution (LTE-Advanced, LTE-a) systems or New Radio, NR) systems, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single-carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in embodiments of the application are often used interchangeably, and the techniques described may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as other systems and radio technologies. However, the following description describes a New air interface (NR) system for purposes of example, and NR terminology is used in much of the description below, these techniques are also applicable to applications other than NR system applications, such as the 6th generation (6th Generation,6G) communication system.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal device 101 and a network device 102. The terminal device 101 may also be called a terminal, a receiving end, or a User Equipment (UE), and the terminal device 101 may be a mobile phone, a tablet (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer), or a terminal-side device called a notebook, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a palm Computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal Computer (ultra-mobile personal Computer, UMPC), a mobile internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), or a vehicle-mounted device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), or the like, where the wearable device includes: a bracelet, earphone, glasses, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal device 101 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The network side device 102 may be a base station 1021 or a location management server LMF1022, wherein the base station 1021 may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B, an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (Basic Service Set, BSS), an extended service set (Extended Service Set, ESS), a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, a transmission reception point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the field, and the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary as long as the same technical effect is achieved. The location management server LMF1022 may also be referred to as a location management function (Location Management Function, LMF), which is a network-side device used for positioning in the network, uses the LPP protocol between the LMF and the UE, and uses the NRPPa protocol between the LMF and the base station. In the embodiment of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

The method, the device and the terminal for sending the user information provided by the embodiment of the application are described in detail through specific embodiments and application scenes thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The application provides a positioning method, which can be applied to terminal equipment and comprises the following steps:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

Specifically, when positioning is performed by using the terminal device, the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by performing at least one of the above two steps, and specifically may perform any of the following processing manners:

first, as shown in fig. 2, one of the flow diagrams of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be that the terminal device sends first information to the network side device, so that the network side device may perform positioning calculation according to the first information to determine the location information.

Second, as shown in fig. 3, a second flow chart of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be shown, where the terminal device may receive second information from the network side device, so that the terminal device may identify LOS/NLOS status information and the like according to the second information in combination with own measurement information, and further perform location calculation by the terminal or the network side device according to the LOS/NLOS status information, and determine location information.

As shown in fig. 4, a third flowchart of the positioning method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be that the terminal device receives second information from the network side device, and according to the second information, combines with own measurement information, identifies LOS/NLOS status information, and meanwhile, the terminal device sends first information to the network side device, so that the network side device may identify LOS/NLOS status information according to the first information, and then, the network side device combines with the LOS/NLOS status information identified by the terminal device and the LOS/NLOS status information identified by the network side device, to perform location calculation, and determine location information.

Optionally, before sending the first information and/or receiving the second information, the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may further perform capability communication with the network side device, where the capability includes whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported.

The network side device may be a base station or a location management server LMF. When the terminal device reports the first information to the LMF, the LMF can directly perform identification operation according to the first information. When the terminal device reports the first information to the base station, the base station can perform identification operation according to the first information, or can forward the first information to the LMF, and the LMF performs identification operation.

Wherein the first information is measurement information determined by the terminal device, and any combination of at least two of the first frequency domain measurement information, the first time domain measurement information and the first spatial domain measurement information determined by the terminal device measurement needs to be included in the first information. That is, the first frequency domain measurement information and the first time domain measurement information, or the first frequency domain measurement information and the first spatial domain measurement information, or the first spatial domain measurement information and the first time domain measurement information, or the first frequency domain measurement information, the first time domain measurement information, and the first spatial domain measurement information need to be included. It should be understood that the "first" is used only for measurement information differing from the terminal device, and has no substantial limiting effect.

The second information is information determined by the network side equipment, and the information includes threshold information for LOS/NLOS state identification, which can be called first threshold information. When the terminal equipment receives the second information, the terminal equipment can perform data analysis to output first threshold information, and then the LOS/NLOS state information is determined by comparing the relation between the self-measurement information and the first threshold information.

It should be understood that, the first information and the second information are both key information for determining a position, and the first information is reported to the network side device through the terminal device or the second information issued by the network side device is received by the terminal device, so that the identification of the LOS/NLOS status information can be realized, and the determination of the position information can be further realized.

According to the embodiment of the application, the LOS/NLOS is distinguished through the related information identified by the LOS/NLOS reported by the terminal equipment and/or the base station and through various characteristics of the LOS and the NLOS, so that higher accuracy and higher positioning precision can be achieved.

Optionally, the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information, where the following frequency domain information includes:

frequency domain channel energy value or power value;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

the difference between the maximum and minimum of the frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Specifically, the first frequency domain measurement information of the first information transmitted by the terminal device to the network side device may include any combination of one or more of all of the frequency domain information listed above, which is information determined by the terminal device measurement. It will be appreciated that the above frequency domain information may also be referred to as first frequency domain information for ease of distinction. For example, the frequency domain channel energy value or power value may be referred to as a first energy value or first power value of the frequency domain channel. In addition, the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power represents the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the maximum value of the frequency domain channel power, the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power represents the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the minimum value of the frequency domain channel power, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. As another example, the energy value or power value of the frequency domain channel may be expressed as energy values and power values of all subcarriers of the frequency domain channel, or as a frequency domain channel subcarrier-power/energy spectrum, including but not limited to, in the form of a picture, a function, or quantization.

Optionally, the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, and the first time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information, where the following time domain information includes:

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

the ratio of the power value of the first diameter or the reference diameter to the power value of the median diameter, or the ratio of the energy value of the first diameter or the reference diameter to the energy value of the median diameter;

a difference between the power value of the median diameter and the power value of the first diameter or the reference diameter, or a difference between the energy value of the median diameter and the energy value of the first diameter or the reference diameter;

the ratio of the power value of the first or reference path to the power value of the additional path, or the ratio of the energy value of the first or reference path to the energy value of the additional path;

a difference between the power value of the additional path and the power value of the first path or the reference path, or a difference between the energy value of the additional path and the energy value of the first path or the reference path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

In particular, the first time domain measurement information of the first information sent by the terminal device to the network side device may include any combination of one or more of all the time domain information listed above, which is information determined by the terminal device measurement. It will be appreciated that the above time domain information may also be referred to as first time domain information for ease of distinction. For example, the indication information of the median path may be referred to as first indication information of the median path, where the indication information may be time domain information indicating whether other first time domain information is of the median path, or may be a relative value (such as a difference value or a ratio value) indicating other first time domain information of the median path and the reference path. In addition, the reference path is reported as a reference path, and may be the first path or another path. In addition, the power value or energy value of the median diameter represents the first power value or the first energy value of the median diameter, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. The additional path is an additional path other than the reference path or the first path.

Optionally, the first airspace measurement information is determined by the terminal device, where the first airspace measurement information includes at least one of the following airspace information:

polarization information of the antenna element;

power or energy information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

maximum value of power or energy of first path or reference path on antenna element in same polarization direction;

minimum value of power or energy of first path or reference path on antenna elements in same polarization direction;

reference values of first path or reference path power or energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power or the energy of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

the first path work or the reference path rate or the reference range value of the energy on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

maximum values of the first path or reference path phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

minimum values of the phases of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

reference values of the first path or reference path phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the phase of the first path or the reference path on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

Reference range values of the first path or reference path phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

maximum value of power or energy of additional path on antenna element in same polarization direction;

minimum value of power or energy of additional path on antenna element in same polarization direction;

a reference value of power or energy of an additional path on the antenna element of the same polarization direction;

the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power or energy of the additional paths on the antenna elements with the same polarization direction;

a reference range value of power or energy of an additional path on the antenna element in the same polarization direction;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

phase information of additional paths on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

maximum value of additional radial phase on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

minimum values of additional radial phases on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the reference value of the radial phase is added to the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the additional radial phase on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

the reference range values of the additional radial phases on the antenna elements in different polarization directions;

First characteristics of first path or reference path power or energy on antenna elements of the same polarization direction;

a second characteristic of a first path or reference path phase on the antenna elements of different polarization directions;

a first characteristic of power or energy for each additional path on the antenna element of the same polarization direction;

and a second characteristic of each additional radial phase on the antenna elements of different polarization directions.

Specifically, the first spatial measurement information of the first information sent by the terminal device to the network side device may include any combination of one or more of all the spatial information listed above, which is information determined by measurement of the terminal device. It will be appreciated that for ease of distinction, the above spatial information may also be referred to as first spatial information. For example, the polarization information of the antenna element may be referred to as first polarization information of the antenna element.

In addition, the power or energy information of the first path on the antenna element represents the first power information of the first path on the antenna element or the first energy information of the first path on the antenna element; the maximum value of the first path power or energy on the antenna element in the same polarization direction represents the first maximum value of the first path power on the antenna element in the same polarization direction or the second maximum value of the first path energy on the antenna element in the same polarization direction, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar.

In addition, the reference path is reported as a reference path, and may be the first path or another path. The additional path is another path additional path other than the reference path or the first path.

Optionally, the first information includes being transmitted in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

position information.

Specifically, when the terminal device transmits the first information to the network side, the first information may be included in the measurement information field or the location information field of the terminal device, or may be simultaneously included in the measurement information field and the location information field. It should be understood that, in the downlink positioning procedure, when the UE performs position measurement, the UE reports positioning information, which includes two fields, namely, measurement information (SignalMeasurementInformation) and location information (LocationInformation).

Optionally, the first information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting receiving point TRP information by a reference signal corresponding to the first information;

reference signal terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the first information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the first information;

Reference signal received quality, RSRQ, information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

reception-transmission time difference information Rx-Tx timing difference corresponding to the first information.

Specifically, the first information of the embodiment of the present application may be associated with other related measurement information, where the related measurement information includes reference signal time difference (Reference Signal Time Difference, RSTD) information, reference signal received power (Reference Signal Received Power, RSRP) information, reference signal received quality (Reference Signal Received Quality, RSRQ) information, beam information, and receive-transmit time difference (Rx-Tx timing difference) information. It should be appreciated that when the first information is associated with such relevant measurement information, it may be associated with any one or any plurality thereof.

The association may be a correspondence between the first information and the measurement information corresponding to the first information, for example, one RSTD and the first information corresponding to the first information are a set of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain, or indicated by the indication information.

Corresponding to the same measurement object, for example, RSTD and first information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, RSRP and the first information measured by the same set of downlink positioning reference signal resources.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps: transmitting second threshold information to the network side equipment, wherein the second threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information comprises:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

the relative power of the median diameter and the first diameter or the reference diameter refers to threshold information, or the relative energy of the median diameter and the first diameter or the reference diameter refers to threshold information;

the threshold value information of the relative power range of the median diameter and the first diameter or the reference diameter, or the threshold value information of the relative energy range of the median diameter and the first diameter or the reference diameter;

the relative power of the additional path and the first path or the reference path refers to threshold information, or the relative energy of the additional path and the first path or the reference path refers to threshold information;

the relative power range threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path, or the relative energy range threshold information of the additional path and the first path or the reference path;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power reference threshold information or energy reference threshold information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

Phase range threshold information.

Specifically, on the basis of reporting the first information to the network side device, the terminal device in the embodiment of the application may also send threshold information for information identification operation, which may be referred to as second threshold information, to the network side device, so that the network side device may perform operation in combination with the second threshold information when performing information identification according to the first information. That is, the network side device performs the recognition operation by combining the first information and the second threshold information to obtain LOS/NLOS status information, and further performs the position calculation according to the LOS/NLOS status information to determine the position information.

Wherein the second threshold information may comprise any combination of one or more of all of the threshold information listed above, which is information determined by the terminal device configuration. It will be appreciated that the above threshold information may also be referred to as second threshold information for ease of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information, which may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy second reference threshold information, represents frequency domain power second reference threshold information or frequency domain energy second reference threshold information; the relative power reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter or the relative energy reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter may be referred to as second relative power reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter or second relative energy reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter, and the other threshold information listed above are similar. Wherein the reference threshold information refers to maximum threshold information, or minimum threshold information, or reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative in the relative range information in embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, before the first information is sent to the network side device, the positioning method in the embodiment of the present application further includes: and receiving first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information.

Specifically, before the terminal device sends the first information to the network side device to perform positioning, the network side device may configure information that needs to be reported to the network side device by sending request information to the terminal device, where the request may be referred to as first request information, and the information that needs to be reported is corresponding to the first information. Wherein the first information includes at least two of first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information, and first spatial domain measurement information. The first frequency domain measurement information, the first time domain measurement information, and the first spatial domain measurement information are all information determined by the terminal device.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps:

receiving third information issued by the location management server (LMF), wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server (LMF), and the third information comprises at least one of the following:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

The first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fourth information issued by a base station, wherein the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information comprises at least one of the following components:

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, the embodiment of the present application may further receive an LOS/NLOS status recognition result sent by the network side on the basis of the above embodiments, that is, the base station and the LMF may perform an LOS/NLOS status recognition operation, to obtain an LOS/NLOS status recognition result. Wherein the LOS/NLOS status information indicates whether the TRP or measurement information corresponds to LOS or NLOS, and the LOS/NLOS recognition quality or reliability indicates the accuracy or correctness of the LOS/NLOS status information. The network side equipment comprises a base station and/or an LMF, namely, the identification information received by the terminal equipment can be issued by the LMF, or issued by the base station and the LMF respectively.

For convenience of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as third information, and the identification information from the base station is referred to as fourth information. Wherein the identification information contained in the third information and the fourth information each includes at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. It should be understood that the identification information from the LMF and the identification information from the base station are determined by the LMF and the base station, respectively, and thus may or may not be the same, and for ease of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as first LOS/NLOS status information and first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information from the base station is referred to as second LOS/NLOS status information and second LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

It can be understood that the third information sent by the management server LMF may be determined by the management server LMF, may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal, may be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station, may be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal, may be determined based on the eighth information and the fourth threshold information reported by the base station, may be determined based on the fifth information reported by the terminal, may be determined based on the fourth information reported by the base station, may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal in combination with the eighth information reported by the base station, may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal in combination with the fifth information reported by the terminal, may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal in combination with the fourth information reported by the base station, may be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal in combination with the eighth information reported by the base station, the method can also be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal and the fifth information reported by the terminal, can be determined based on the first information and the second threshold information reported by the terminal and the fourth information reported by the base station, can be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station and the fifth information reported by the terminal, can be determined based on the eighth information reported by the base station and the fourth threshold information and the eighth information reported by the base station, can be determined based on the eighth information and the fourth threshold information reported by the base station and the fifth information reported by the terminal, can be determined based on the eighth information and the fourth threshold information reported by the base station and the fourth information reported by the base station, can be determined based on the fifth information reported by the terminal and the fourth information reported by the base station, the present application is not limited to this, and may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the eighth information reported by the base station and the fifth information reported by the terminal, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the eighth information reported by the base station and the fourth information reported by the base station, or may be determined based on the first information reported by the terminal and the eighth information reported by the base station and the fifth information reported by the terminal and the fourth information reported by the base station.

It can be understood that the fourth information issued by the base station is determined by the base station, can be determined based on the combination of the self-measurement information and the pre-configured threshold information, can be determined based on the combination of the self-measurement information and the third threshold information, can be determined based on the combination of the self-energy information and the tenth information issued by the LMF, can be determined based on the third information issued by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal equipment, can be determined based on the self-measurement information and the pre-configured threshold information and the third information issued by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal equipment, can be determined based on the self-measurement information and the third threshold information and the third information issued by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal equipment, can be determined based on the combination of the self-energy information and the tenth information issued by the LMF and the third information issued by the LMF and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal equipment, the method can also be determined based on self-measurement information, preconfigured threshold information and tenth information issued by the LMF, can also be determined based on self-measurement information, third threshold information and tenth information issued by a network side, can also be determined based on self-measurement information, preconfigured threshold information and third threshold information and tenth information issued by the LMF, can also be determined based on self-measurement information, preconfigured threshold information, third threshold information and third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information issued by a terminal device, can also be determined based on self-measurement information, preconfigured threshold information, tenth information issued by the LMF and third information issued by the LMF and/or fifth information issued by the terminal device, the determination may also be based on the self measurement information, the third threshold information, the tenth information issued by the LMF, the third information issued by the LMF, and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, which is not particularly limited in the present application.

Optionally, the third information or the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reference signal received quality, RSRQ, information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information.

Specifically, similar to the case of the first information in the above-described embodiment, the third information or the fourth information may also be associated with the information listed above. It should be understood that the third information or the fourth information should have a correspondence with the above listed information.

The association may be a correspondence between the third information or the fourth information and the measurement information corresponding to the third information or the fourth information, for example, one RSTD and the third information or the fourth information corresponding to the RSTD and the fourth information are a set of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain or indicated by the indication information.

The corresponding refers to the same object, for example, RSTD and third information or fourth information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, the same transmission receives the third information or the fourth information of the point TRP.

Optionally, the first threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information, the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

Power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may receive the threshold information for information identification operation from the network side device, that is, the first threshold information, so that the terminal device may perform identification operation by combining the first threshold information and its measurement information, to obtain LOS/NLOS status information.

The first threshold information may include any combination of one or more of all the above listed threshold information, where the threshold information is information determined by a configuration of a network side device, and the network side device may be an LMF or a base station. It will be appreciated that the above threshold information may also be referred to as first threshold information for ease of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy first reference threshold information, representing frequency domain power first reference threshold information or frequency domain energy first reference threshold information. The other threshold information listed above is similar. Wherein the reference threshold information refers to maximum threshold information, or minimum threshold information, or reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative in the relative range information in embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by the location management server LMF or the base station.

It may be understood that the first threshold information is issued by the network side device to the terminal device so that the terminal device may perform the identification operation according to the first threshold information, and therefore the first threshold information may be configured or reconfigured by the network side device to obtain the first threshold information. The network side device may be an LMF or a base station, which is not particularly limited in the present application.

Optionally, the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by at least one of the following configurations:

unicast is carried out through the LPP protocol;

broadcast is performed through posSIBs carried in the RRC system information message.

Specifically, when the network side configures or reconfigures the first threshold information, any one of the above configuration modes may be adopted, or the configuration result may be optimized by combining the two configuration modes, so as to obtain final first threshold information, and the final first threshold information is issued to the terminal device.

Optionally, the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may further send second request information to a network side device, where the second request information is used to request the first threshold information to the network side device. That is, when the terminal device needs to perform the identification operation, the identification operation may be performed by itself according to the self-measurement information, or threshold information for the identification operation, that is, first threshold information may be requested to the network device, and then the identification operation may be performed by combining the self-measurement information according to the first threshold information.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps: receiving sixth information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the sixth information comprises at least one of the following components:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the network side device may be further configured to send, to the terminal device, operation model information for determining the operation of the location information, where the operation model information is included in the issued information, and the issued information is referred to as sixth information. The operation model information includes at least one of the model information listed above, that is, may be one of them, or may be any combination of any plurality of them.

Wherein, the error model information includes but is not limited to: at least one of position error compensation information, measurement error compensation information, device error compensation information, and parameter adjustment information. Therefore, based on the error model information, error compensation can be performed on the first information, the positioning result, the measurement result and errors brought by equipment or parameter errors, so that the reported first information or LOS/NLOS identification information is more accurate.

Wherein, the preprocessing model information comprises, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: filter parameters or models; convolution layer parameters or models; pooling layer parameters or models; discrete cosine transform (Discrete Cosine Transform, DCT) transform parameters or models; wavelet transform parameters or models; parameters or models of the impulse channel processing method; parameters or models of the waveform processing method; parameters or models of signal correlation sequence processing methods. The model here may refer to a function model, a network model, a downsampling model, an imaging model, etc.; parameters here may refer to weights, step sizes, means, variances, etc. Therefore, the first information, the positioning result or the measurement result can be processed based on the preprocessing model information, so that the occupied reporting resources are fewer.

Wherein the machine learning model information includes, but is not limited to: machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models are commonly used, as are parameters of machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models. Among these, the above-mentioned common machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models include, but are not limited to: convolutional neural networks (Convolutional Neural Networks, CNN), such as GoogLeNet, alexNet, etc.; a recurrent or recurrent neural network (Recurrent Neural Network, RNN) and a Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM); a recursive tensor neural network RNTN; generating an antagonism network (Generative Adversarial Networks, GAN); a deep belief network (Deep Belief Network, DBN); a limited boltzmann machine (Restricted Boltzmann Machine, RBM), and the like. Parameters of the machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model described above include, but are not limited to, weights, step sizes, means, variances, and the like. As such, based on the machine learning model information, at least one of the following information may be determined: LOS/NLOS identification information, first information, location information, measurement information, processed first information, and processed measurement information.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps: transmitting fifth information to the network side device, wherein the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information comprises at least one of the following components:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may report the identification result to the network device on the basis of the operation in each embodiment, and when reporting, may encapsulate the information to be reported, where the encapsulated result may be referred to as the fifth information. The fifth information includes at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS recognition quality or reliability, and the recognition information is determined by terminal equipment operation. For ease of distinction, this identification information is referred to as third LOS/NLOS status information, and third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. The fifth information may be reported through at least one of location information or measurement information.

It may be understood that when the terminal device determines the fifth information, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the first threshold information, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the sixth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the first threshold information and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the sixth information issued by the network side and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the sixth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the first threshold information and the sixth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the preconfigured threshold information and the third information and the fourth information issued by the network side, the determination may be based on the self-measurement information and the third information and the fourth information issued by the network side and the threshold information issued by the network side, the present application is not limited to this, and may also be determined based on the self measurement information and the first threshold information, and the sixth information issued by the network side, and the third information and/or the fourth information issued by the network side.

Optionally, the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the fifth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the fifth information;

reference signal received quality RSRQ information corresponding to the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

and reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the fifth information.

Specifically, similar to the case of the first information in the above-described embodiment, the fifth information may also be associated with the information listed above. It should be understood that the fifth information should have a correspondence to the information listed above.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps: receiving seventh information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the seventh information comprises at least one of the following components:

a set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

Specifically, on the basis of the above embodiments, the present application may also receive positioning assistance data sent by the network side, where the assistance data may be encapsulated into information, which may be referred to as seventh information. The seventh information includes any combination of one or any plurality of the above listed information, and the present application is not particularly limited. Wherein the TRP set and the resource set are sets related to LOS/NLOS identification, and the TRP priority and the resource set priority are priorities related to LOS/NLOS identification.

The seventh information may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the first information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the eighth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the first information and the eighth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the fifth information and/or the fourth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the first information and the fifth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the first information and the fourth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the eighth information and the fifth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the eighth information and the eighth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/NLOS status information based on the first information and the eighth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the first information and the fifth information, may be determined by the network side device after determining the LOS/fourth information and the third information based on the eighth information and the fifth information and may not particularly limited by the network.

It should be noted that, in the positioning method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the execution body may be a positioning device, or a control module in the positioning device for executing the positioning method. In the embodiment of the present application, a positioning method performed by a positioning device is taken as an example, and the positioning device provided by the embodiment of the present application is described.

The positioning device of the embodiment of the application can be used for realizing the positioning flow in the positioning method embodiments, and the device comprises: the first transmitting module and/or the first receiving module.

The first sending module is configured to send first information to a network side device, where the first information includes at least two of the following information, and the following information includes: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; the first receiving module is used for receiving second information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the second information comprises first threshold information; wherein the first information and the second information are used to determine location information.

frequency domain channel energy value or power value;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

the difference between the power value of the additional path and the power value of the first or reference path, or the difference between the energy value of the additional path and the energy value of the first or reference path;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

Polarization information of the antenna element;

reference range values of first path or reference path power or energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

first characteristics of first path power or energy on antenna elements of the same polarization direction;

a second characteristic of a first path phase on the antenna element in the different polarization direction;

measuring information;

position information.

transmitting receiving point TRP information by a reference corresponding to the first information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the first information.

Optionally, the first sending module is further configured to: transmitting second threshold information to the network side equipment, wherein the second threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information comprises:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

Frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Further, the positioning device of the embodiment of the application further comprises:

the second receiving module is used for receiving first request information, and the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information.

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

Phase range threshold information.

unicast is carried out through the LPP protocol;

Optionally, the first sending module is further configured to:

transmitting fifth information to the network side device, wherein the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal device, and the fifth information comprises at least one of the following components:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

Beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to:

receiving sixth information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the sixth information comprises at least one of the following components:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

and the second sending module is used for sending second request information, and the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold information from the network side equipment.

Optionally, the first receiving module is further configured to: receiving seventh information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the seventh information comprises at least one of the following components:

a set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

and the first communication module is used for carrying out capability communication with the network side equipment, and the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported or not.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the application can be a device, and also can be a component, an integrated circuit or a chip in the terminal equipment. The device may be a mobile device or a non-mobile device. By way of example, the mobile devices may include, but are not limited to, the types of terminal apparatus 101 listed above, and the non-mobile devices may be servers, network attached storage (Network Attached Storage, NAS), personal computers (personal computer, PCs), televisions (TVs), teller machines, self-service machines, etc., and embodiments of the present application are not limited in particular.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the application can be a device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system, an IOS operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited specifically.

The positioning device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize the processes of fig. 2-4 and the positioning method embodiments, and achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted.

The embodiment of the application also provides a positioning method, which is executed by the base station and comprises the following steps:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

Specifically, when positioning by using a base station, the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by performing at least one of the above two steps, and specifically may perform any of the following processing manners:

First, as shown in fig. 5, a fourth flow chart of the positioning method provided by the embodiment of the present application may send eighth information to the location management server LMF by the base station, so that the location management server LMF may perform positioning calculation according to the eighth information to determine the location information.

As shown in fig. 6, a fifth flowchart of a positioning method according to an embodiment of the present application may be shown, where the base station may receive ninth information from the location management server LMF, so that the base station may identify LOS/NLOS status information and the like according to the ninth information in combination with own measurement information, and further perform location calculation by the location management server LMF or the base station according to the LOS/NLOS status information, to determine location information.

As shown in fig. 7, a flowchart of a positioning method provided by an embodiment of the present application is shown, in which a base station receives ninth information from a network side device, and according to the ninth information, combines with own measurement information, identifies LOS/NLOS status information, and meanwhile, a base station sends eighth information to a location management server LMF, so that the location management server LMF can identify LOS/NLOS status information according to the eighth information, and at the same time, the location management server LMF combines with LOS/NLOS status information identified by the base station and LOS/NLOS status information identified by the location management server LMF, performs location calculation, and determines location information.

Wherein the eighth information is measurement information determined by the base station, and any combination of at least two of the second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information and the second spatial domain measurement information determined by the base station measurement needs to be included in the eighth information. That is, the second frequency domain measurement information and the second time domain measurement information, or the second frequency domain measurement information and the second spatial domain measurement information, or the second spatial domain measurement information and the second time domain measurement information, or the second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information, and the second spatial domain measurement information need to be included. It should be understood that the "second" is used only for distinguishing between measurement information of base stations, and has no substantial limiting effect.

The ninth information is information determined by the location management server LMF, and includes threshold information for LOS/NLOS status recognition, which may be referred to as third threshold information. When the base station receives the ninth information, the base station can perform data analysis to output third threshold information, and then determine LOS/NLOS state information by comparing the relation between the self-measurement information and the third threshold information.

Optionally, before the receiving the ninth information, the method of the embodiment of the present application further includes: and sending fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server (LMF).

It should be understood that, the eighth information and the ninth information are both key information for determining the location, and both the identification of the LOS/NLOS status information and the further determination of the location information can be achieved by the base station reporting the eighth information to the location management server LMF or receiving the ninth information issued by the location management server LMF.

Optionally, the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information, where the following frequency domain information includes:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Specifically, the second frequency domain measurement information of the eighth information transmitted by the base station to the location management server LMF may include any combination of one or more of all of the above listed frequency domain information, which is information determined by the base station measurement. It will be appreciated that the above frequency domain information may also be referred to as second frequency domain information for ease of distinction. For example, the energy value or power value of the frequency domain channel may be referred to as a second energy value or second power value of the frequency domain channel. In addition, the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or power, the maximum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the maximum value of the frequency domain channel power, the minimum value of the frequency domain channel energy or the minimum value of the frequency domain channel power, and for example, the energy value or the power value of the frequency domain channel may be represented as the energy value and the power value of all subcarriers of the frequency domain channel or as the subcarrier-power/energy spectrum of the frequency domain channel, wherein the subcarrier-power/energy spectrum includes but is not limited to a picture, a function or a quantized form. The other frequency domain information listed above is similar.

Optionally, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information, where the following time domain information includes:

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

In particular, the second time domain measurement information of the eighth information transmitted by the base station to the location management server LMF may comprise any combination of one or more of all of the time domain information listed above, which is information determined by the base station measurements. It will be appreciated that the above time domain information may also be referred to as second time domain information for ease of distinction. For example, the indication of the median diameter may be referred to as second indication of the median diameter. The indication information may be time domain information indicating whether the other first time domain information is the median path, or may be a relative value (such as a difference value or a ratio value) indicating the other first time domain information of the median path and the reference path. In addition, the reference path is reported as a reference path, and may be the first path or another path. In addition, the power value or energy value of the median diameter represents the second power value or the second energy value of the median diameter, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar. The additional path is an additional path other than the reference path or the first path.

Optionally, the second airspace measurement information is determined by the base station, and the second airspace measurement information includes at least one of the following airspace information including:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of the first path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

Specifically, the second spatial measurement information of the eighth information transmitted by the base station to the location management server LMF may include any combination of one or more of all the spatial information listed above, which is information determined by the base station measurement. It will be appreciated that the above spatial information may also be referred to as second spatial information for ease of distinction. For example, polarization information of an antenna element may be referred to as second polarization information of the antenna element.

In addition, the power or energy information of the first path on the antenna element represents the second power information of the first path on the antenna element or the second energy information of the first path on the antenna element; the maximum value of the first path power or energy on the antenna element in the same polarization direction represents the second maximum value of the first path power on the antenna element in the same polarization direction or the second maximum value of the first path energy on the antenna element in the same polarization direction, and the other frequency domain information listed above is similar.

Optionally, the eighth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting receiving point TRP information by a reference signal corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the eighth information;

reference signal received quality, RSRQ, information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

reception-transmission time difference (Rx-Tx timing difference) information corresponding to the eighth information.

Specifically, the eighth information of the embodiment of the present application may be further associated with other related measurement information, including reference signal time difference (Reference Signal Time Difference, RSTD) information, reference signal received power (Reference Signal Received Power, RSRP) information, reference signal received quality (Reference Signal Received Quality, RSRQ) information, beam information, and reception-transmission time difference (Rx-Tx timing difference) information. It should be appreciated that when the eighth information is associated with such relevant measurement information, it may be associated with any one or any plurality thereof.

Corresponding to the same measurement object, for example, RSTD and eighth information obtained by measuring the same uplink positioning reference signal; for another example, RSRP and eighth information measured by the same set of uplink positioning reference signal resources.

Further, the positioning method of the embodiment of the application further comprises the following steps: transmitting fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, the fourth threshold information including at least one of the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, on the basis of reporting the eighth information to the network side device, the base station in the embodiment of the present application may further send threshold information for information identification operation, which may be referred to as fourth threshold information, to the location management server LMF, so that the location management server LMF may perform operation in combination with the fourth threshold information when performing information identification according to the eighth information. That is, the location management server LMF performs the recognition operation by combining the eighth information and the fourth threshold information to obtain LOS/NLOS status information, and may perform further location calculation accordingly to determine the location information.

Wherein the fourth threshold information may comprise any combination of one or more of all of the threshold information listed above, which is information determined by the base station configuration. It will be appreciated that the above threshold information may also be referred to as fourth threshold information for ease of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information, which may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy fourth reference threshold information, represents frequency domain power fourth reference threshold information or frequency domain energy fourth reference threshold information; the relative power reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter or the relative energy reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter may be referred to as fourth relative power reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter or fourth relative energy reference threshold information of the median diameter and the first diameter, and the other threshold information listed above are similar. Wherein the reference threshold information refers to maximum threshold information, or minimum threshold information, or reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative in the relative range information in embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, before the sending the eighth information to the location management server LMF, the positioning method according to the embodiment of the present application further includes: and receiving third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information. Specifically, before the base station sends the eighth information to the location management server LMF for positioning, the location management server LMF may configure information that the base station needs to report to the location management server LMF by sending request information to the base station, where the request may be referred to as third request information, and the information that needs to report is corresponding to the eighth information.

Wherein the eighth information includes at least two of second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information. The second frequency domain measurement information, the second time domain measurement information, and the second spatial domain measurement information are all information determined by the base station.

first LOS/NLOS state information;

The first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fifth information reported by terminal equipment, wherein the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal equipment, and the fifth information comprises at least one of the following components:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, on the basis of the above embodiments, the embodiments of the present application may also receive an LOS/NLOS status recognition result sent by the location management server LMF or an LOS/NLOS status recognition result reported by the terminal device, that is, the terminal device and the LMF may perform LOS/NLOS status recognition operation respectively, to obtain an LOS/NLOS status recognition result.

For convenience of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as third information, and the identification information from the terminal device is referred to as fifth information. Wherein the identification information contained in the third information and the fifth information each includes at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability. It should be understood that the identification information from the LMF and the identification information from the terminal device are determined by the LMF and the terminal device, respectively, and thus may be the same or different, and for ease of distinction, the identification information from the LMF is referred to as first LOS/NLOS status information and first LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability, and the identification information from the terminal device is referred to as third LOS/NLOS status information and third LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

Optionally, the third information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reference signal received quality RSRQ information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information.

Specifically, similar to the case of the eighth information in the above-described embodiment, the third information or the fifth information may also be associated with the information listed above. It should be understood that the third information or the fifth information should have a correspondence relationship with the above listed information.

The association may be a correspondence between the third information or the fifth information and the measurement information corresponding to the third information or the fifth information, for example, one RSTD and the third information or the fifth information corresponding to the RSTD and the fifth information are a set of association relationships, and may be reported in the same domain or indicated by the indication information.

Wherein, the corresponding refers to the corresponding to the same object, for example, RSTD and third information or fifth information obtained by measuring the same downlink positioning reference signal; for another example, the same transmission receives the third information or the fifth information of the point TRP.

Optionally, the third threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information, the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

Power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Specifically, the base station in the embodiment of the present application may receive the threshold information for information identification operation from the LMF, that is, the third threshold information, so that the base station may perform identification operation by combining the third threshold information and its measurement information to obtain LOS/NLOS status information.

Wherein the third threshold information may comprise any combination of one or more of all of the threshold information listed above, which is information determined by the LMF configuration. It will be appreciated that the above threshold information may also be referred to as third threshold information for ease of distinction. For example, the frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information may be referred to as frequency domain power or energy third reference threshold information, representing frequency domain power third reference threshold information or frequency domain energy third reference threshold information. The other threshold information listed above is similar. Wherein the reference threshold information refers to maximum threshold information, or minimum threshold information, or reference threshold information; the reference range information refers to relative range information of the maximum value and the minimum value, or relative range information of the maximum value and the reference value, or relative range information of the minimum value and the reference value. It should also be understood that the relative power and relative energy and the relative in the relative range information in embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, ratios or differences.

Optionally, the third threshold information is configured by the location management server LMF via NRPPa protocol.

Optionally, the positioning method of the embodiment of the present application further includes: transmitting fourth information to the location management server LMF or terminal device, the fourth information comprising at least one of:

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the base station may report the identification result to the LMF based on the operation of the foregoing embodiments, and when reporting, may encapsulate the information to be reported, where the obtained encapsulated result may be referred to as fourth information. The fourth information includes at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS recognition quality or reliability, and the recognition information is determined by base station operation. For ease of distinction, this identification information is referred to as second LOS/NLOS status information, and second LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

It can be understood that when the base station determines the fourth information, the base station may determine the fourth information based on the self-measurement information in combination with the preset threshold information, may determine the fifth information based on the self-measurement information in combination with the third threshold information and/or the third information reported by the terminal device, may determine the fifth information based on the self-measurement information and the preset threshold information and/or the third information reported by the terminal device, may determine the fifth information based on the self-measurement information and the third threshold information and the third information reported by the terminal device, may determine the fifth information based on the self-measurement information in combination with the third information and the third information reported by the terminal device, may determine the fifth information based on the fifth information reported by the terminal device, or may determine the fifth information based on the third information and the threshold information, or the fifth information based on the threshold information and the threshold information, may determine the threshold information based on the third information and the threshold information, may determine the threshold information based on the threshold information and the threshold information, the determination may also be based on the self measurement information, the third threshold information, the tenth information issued by the LMF, the third information issued by the LMF, and/or the fifth information reported by the terminal device, which is not particularly limited in the present application.

Optionally, the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the fourth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the fourth information;

reference signal received quality RSRQ information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

and reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the fourth information.

Specifically, similar to the case of the eighth information in the above-described embodiment, the fourth information may also be associated with the information listed above. It should be understood that the fourth information should have a correspondence to the information listed above.

Optionally, the positioning method of the embodiment of the present application further includes: receiving tenth information issued by the location management server (LMF), wherein the tenth information comprises at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the LMF may further be configured to send, to the base station, operation model information for determining the operation of the location information, where the operation model information is included in the issued information, and the issued information is referred to as tenth information. The operation model information includes at least one of the model information listed above, that is, may be one of them, or may be any combination of any plurality of them.

Wherein, the error model information includes but is not limited to: at least one of position error compensation information, measurement error compensation information, device error compensation information, and parameter adjustment information. Therefore, based on the error model information, error compensation can be performed on the eighth information, the positioning result, the measurement result and errors brought by equipment or parameter errors, so that the reported eighth information or LOS/NLOS identification information is more accurate.

Wherein, the preprocessing model information comprises, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: filter parameters or models; convolution layer parameters or models; pooling layer parameters or models; discrete cosine transform (Discrete Cosine Transform, DCT) transform parameters or models; wavelet transform parameters or models; parameters or models of the impulse channel processing method; parameters or models of the waveform processing method; parameters or models of signal correlation sequence processing methods. The model here may refer to a function model, a network model, a downsampling model, an imaging model, etc.; parameters here may refer to weights, step sizes, means, variances, etc. Thus, the eighth information, the positioning result or the measurement result can be processed based on the preprocessing model information, so that fewer reporting resources are occupied.

Wherein the machine learning model information includes, but is not limited to: machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models are commonly used, as are parameters of machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models. Among these, the above-mentioned common machine learning or neural network or deep neural network models include, but are not limited to: convolutional neural networks (Convolutional Neural Networks, CNN), such as GoogLeNet, alexNet, etc.; a recurrent or recurrent neural network (Recurrent Neural Network, RNN) and a Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM); a recursive tensor neural network RNTN; generating an antagonism network (Generative Adversarial Networks, GAN); a deep belief network (Deep Belief Network, DBN); a limited boltzmann machine (Restricted Boltzmann Machine, RBM), and the like. Parameters of the machine learning or neural network or deep neural network model described above include, but are not limited to, weights, step sizes, means, variances, and the like. As such, based on the machine learning model information, at least one of the following information may be determined: LOS/NLOS identification information, eighth information, location information, measurement information, processed eighth information, and processed measurement information.

It is to be understood that the model information in the tenth information may be the same as or different from the model information in the sixth information in the above embodiment, and the present application is not particularly limited thereto.

The positioning device of the embodiment of the application can be used for realizing the positioning flow in the positioning method embodiments, and the device comprises: a third transmitting module and/or a third receiving module.

The third sending module is configured to send eighth information to the location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information, and the following information includes: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information; the third receiving module is used for receiving ninth information, and the ninth information comprises third threshold information; wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to determine location information.

energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

polarization information of the antenna element;

power or energy information of the head path on the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

transmitting reception point TRP information with reference to the eighth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

and reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the eighth information.

Optionally, the third sending module is further configured to: transmitting fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, the fourth threshold information including at least one of the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

Phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning device of the embodiment of the present application further includes:

and the fourth receiving module is used for receiving third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, the third receiving module is further configured to: receiving third information issued by the location management server (LMF), wherein the third information is identified and determined by the location management server (LMF), and the third information comprises at least one of the following:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the third sending module is further configured to:

transmitting fourth information to the location management server LMF or terminal device, the fourth information comprising at least one of:

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

Optionally, the third receiving module is further configured to:

receiving tenth information issued by the location management server (LMF), wherein the tenth information comprises at least one of the following:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

and the fourth sending module is used for sending fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server (LMF).

The embodiment of the application also provides a positioning method which is executed by the location management server LMF, wherein the method comprises at least one of the following steps:

Optionally, the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first frequency domain measurement information and/or the second frequency domain measurement information includes at least one of the following frequency domain information including:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

Optionally, the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first time domain measurement information and/or the second time domain measurement information includes at least one of the following time domain information including:

Indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

Optionally, the first airspace measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the second airspace measurement information is determined by the base station, and the first airspace measurement information and/or the second airspace measurement information includes at least one of the following airspace information including:

Polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

Optionally, the first information is received in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

position information.

Optionally, the first information is associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the first information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the first information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the eighth information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

the eighth information is associated with at least one of the following information, including:

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

the second threshold information and/or the fourth threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises:

receiving fifth information reported by the terminal equipment, wherein the fifth information is identified and determined by the terminal equipment, and the fifth information comprises at least one of the following components:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fourth information reported by the base station, wherein the fourth information is identified and determined by the base station, and the fourth information comprises at least one of the following components:

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the fourth information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

Terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reference signal received quality RSRQ information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information;

reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the fourth information or the fifth information.

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises: transmitting third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, the third information being determined by the location management server LMF, the third information comprising at least one of:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the third information is further associated with at least one of the following information, including:

transmitting reception point TRP information corresponding to the third information;

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

reference signal time difference RSTD information corresponding to the third information;

Reference signal received power RSRP information corresponding to the third information;

reference signal received quality, RSRQ, information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

and reception-transmission time difference information corresponding to the third information.

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises:

transmitting seventh information to the terminal device, the seventh information including at least one of:

a set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

Optionally, the first threshold information and/or the third threshold information include at least one of the following threshold information, the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises:

transmitting sixth information to the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Optionally, before the first information reported by the receiving terminal device, the positioning method further includes:

sending first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

before the eighth information reported by the receiving base station, the method further comprises:

and sending third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, before the second information is sent to the terminal device, the positioning method further includes:

Receiving second request information, wherein the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold information from the location management server (LMF);

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

before the step of issuing the ninth information to the base station, the method further comprises:

and receiving fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server (LMF).

Optionally, the positioning method further comprises:

and carrying out capability communication with the terminal equipment, wherein the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported or not.

It should be noted that, when the positioning method at the LMF side provided by the embodiment of the present application is executed by the LMF, the data, the relevant definitions and the processing manners of the data and the relevant definitions interacted with the terminal device side and the base station side are the same, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that the repetition is avoided.

The positioning device of the embodiment of the application comprises at least one of the following modules:

Energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

polarization information of the antenna element;

Phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

measuring information;

position information.

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

Frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the fifth receiving module is further configured to:

Third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to: transmitting third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, the third information being determined by the location management server LMF, the third information comprising at least one of:

First LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to:

a set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

Frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

Optionally, the fifth sending module is further configured to:

transmitting sixth information to the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

the sixth sending module is further configured to: transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

Error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

Optionally, the positioning device further comprises:

a seventh sending module, configured to send first request information, where the first request information is used to request the terminal device to report the first information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

and the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

Optionally, the positioning device further includes:

a seventh receiving module, configured to receive second request information, where the second request information is used to request the first threshold information to the location management server LMF;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

for receiving fourth request information for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server LMF.

Optionally, the positioning device further comprises:

and the second communication module is used for carrying out capability communication with the terminal equipment, and the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported or not.

The positioning device in the embodiment of the application can be a device, and also can be a component, an integrated circuit or a chip in the LMF. The device may be a device for positioning or the like, and embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The positioning device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize the processes of fig. 5-7 and the positioning method embodiments on the LMF side, and achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted.

For example, the following downlink positioning procedure may be performed:

the UE reports first information, for example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power of a median path and a first path; for another example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and spatial domain measurement information, specifically, reference values of frequency domain channel energy/power, minimum values of frequency domain channel energy/power, reference range values of first path power/energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and reference range values of first path phases on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

optionally, the UE reports the second threshold information to the LMF.

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to the first information (and the second threshold information) reported by the UE, or judges whether the TRP can be used for positioning, and then performs position calculation.

Optionally, the LMF issues seventh information to the UE, where the seventh information is a TRP set and/or a resource set, or a TRP priority and/or a resource set priority, which are determined according to the LOS/NLOS identification information and are available for positioning.

For another example, the following downlink positioning procedure may be performed:

the UE receives second information, wherein the second information includes first threshold information, and the first threshold information includes frequency domain power/energy threshold information, frequency domain power/energy range threshold information, and phase range threshold information.

The UE judges LOS/NLOS states of all TRPs according to the first threshold information, if the minimum value of the power/energy of the frequency domain channel of the TRP is larger than the frequency domain power/energy threshold information, the difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value of the power/energy of the frequency domain channel is smaller than the frequency domain power/energy range threshold information, the power/energy difference value of the TRP head path on antennas in the same polarization direction is smaller than the power/energy range threshold information, and the phase of the TRP head path on antennas in different polarization directions is smaller than the phase range threshold information, the TRP is judged to be LOS, otherwise the TRP is NLOS.

And the UE reports fifth information to the network side according to the identification condition, wherein the fifth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the LMF selects corresponding TRP to perform position calculation according to the fifth information reported by the UE.

and the UE receives the third information issued by the LMF.

And the UE combines the measurement information of the UE according to the third information to perform LOS/NLOS identification.

And the UE reports fifth information to the LMF according to the identification condition, wherein the fifth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the UE receives the third information and the second information issued by the LMF.

And the UE performs LOS/NLOS identification according to the third information and the second information by combining the measurement information of the UE.

For example, in the uplink positioning, the following positioning procedure may be performed:

the base station reports eighth information, for example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, the maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, the minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power and the relative power of a median path and a head path; for another example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and spatial domain measurement information, specifically, reference values of frequency domain channel energy/power, minimum values of frequency domain channel energy/power, reference range values of first path power/energy on antenna elements in the same polarization direction, and reference range values of first path phases on antenna elements in different polarization directions;

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to eighth information reported by the base station, or judges whether the TRP can be used for positioning, and then performs position calculation.

the base station receives the ninth information, and the base station carries out LOS/NLOS identification according to the ninth information and the measurement information of the base station;

and the base station reports fourth information to the network side according to the identification condition, wherein the fourth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability.

And the LMF selects corresponding TRP to perform position calculation according to fourth information reported by the base station.

For example, the following positioning procedure may be performed in Multi-RTT positioning:

the base station reports eighth information, for example, the eighth information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power of a median path and a first path.

The UE reports first information, for example, the first information includes frequency domain measurement information and time domain measurement information, specifically, a maximum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, a minimum value of frequency domain channel energy/power, and a relative power of a median path and a first path.

And the LMF combines the first information reported by the UE and the eighth information reported by the base station, performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP, and then performs position calculation.

Optionally, the LMF issues seventh information to the UE, where the seventh information is a TRP set and/or a resource set, or a TRP priority and/or a resource set priority, which are determined according to the LOS/NLOS identification information and can be used for positioning.

the base station reports fourth information to the LMF, wherein the fourth information comprises at least one of LOS/NLOS state information and LOS/NLOS recognition quality or reliability.

And the base station transmits fourth information and/or LMF transmits third information to the UE.

And the UE performs LOS/NLOS identification on each TRP according to the fourth information and/or the third information by combining the measurement information of the UE.

And the UE reports fifth information to the LMF.

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification according to fourth information reported by the base station and fifth information reported by the UE, and then performs position calculation.

For another example, the following positioning procedure may be performed: :

the base station issues fourth information and/or the LMF issues third information including at least one of LOS/NLOS status information and LOS/NLOS identification quality or reliability to the UE.

And the UE reports the first information and the fifth information to the LMF.

And the LMF performs LOS/NLOS identification according to the first information and the fifth information reported by the UE, and then performs position calculation.

Optionally, the LMF issues seventh information to the UE, where the seventh information is a TRP set and/or a resource set, or a TRP priority and/or a resource set priority, which are determined according to the LOS/NLOS identification information and can be used for positioning. As shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present application also provides a communication device 800 including a processor 801, a memory 802, and a program or instructions stored on the memory 802 and executable on the processor 801. The communication device may be a terminal device or a network side device, wherein the network side device may further be a base station or a location service manager LMF. For example, when the communication device 800 is a terminal device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 801, implements the respective procedures of the positioning method embodiment on any one of the terminal device sides described above; when the communication device 800 is a base station, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 801 to implement each process of the positioning method embodiment on any base station side, and when the communication device 800 is a location service manager LMF, the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 801 to implement each process of the positioning method embodiment on any location service manager LMF side, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided and no further description is given here.

Specifically, fig. 9 is a schematic hardware structure of a terminal device for implementing an embodiment of the present application. The terminal 900 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 901, network module 902, audio output unit 903, input unit 904, sensor 905, display unit 906, user input unit 907, interface unit 908, memory 909, and processor 910.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal 900 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and the power source may be logically coupled to the processor 910 by a power management system so as to perform functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption by the power management system. The structure of the terminal device shown in fig. 9 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal device of the present application, and the terminal device of the present application may include more or less components than those shown in the drawings, or may combine some components, or different component arrangements, which will not be described herein.

It should be appreciated that in an embodiment of the present application, the input unit 904 may include a graphics processor (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 9041 and a microphone 9042, and the graphics processor 9041 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 906 may include a display panel 9061, and the display panel 9061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 907 includes a touch panel 9071 and other input devices 9072. Touch panel 9071, also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 9071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 9072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and so forth, which are not described in detail herein.

The radio frequency unit 901 is configured to send first information to a network side device and/or receive second information sent by the network side device.

In the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 901 sends uplink data to the network side device, and can receive data sent by the network side device in the downlink direction. Typically, the radio frequency unit 901 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

The memory 909 may be used to store software programs or instructions as well as various data. The memory 909 may mainly include a storage program or instruction area that may store an operating system, application programs or instructions (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and a storage data area. In addition, the Memory 909 may include a high-speed random access Memory, and may also include a nonvolatile Memory, wherein the nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid-state storage device.

The processor 910 may include one or more processing units. Alternatively, the processor 910 may integrate an application processor that primarily processes operating systems, user interfaces, and applications or instructions, etc., with a modem processor that primarily processes wireless communications, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 910.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send second threshold information to the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive the first request information.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive third information sent by the location management server LMF and/or receive fourth information sent by the base station.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send fifth information to the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive sixth information sent by the network side device.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to send the second request information.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 901 is further configured to receive seventh information sent by the network side device.

Specifically, fig. 10 is a schematic hardware structure of a network side device for implementing an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 10, the network side device 1000 may be a base station, or may also be a location management server LMF, where the network side device 1000 includes, but is not limited to: an antenna 1001, a radio frequency device 1002, and a baseband device 1003. The antenna 1001 is connected to a radio frequency device 1002.

In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 1002 receives information via the antenna 1001, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 1003 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 1003 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 1002, and the radio frequency device 1002 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 1001.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the structure of the network side device shown in fig. 10 does not constitute a limitation of the network side device of the present application, and the network side device of the present application may include more or less components than those shown in the drawings, or may combine some components, or may be different component arrangements, which are not described herein.

The method performed by the network-side device in the above embodiment may be implemented in a baseband apparatus 1003, the baseband apparatus 1003 including a processor 1004 and a memory 1005.

The baseband apparatus 1003 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, where a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 10, where one chip, for example, a processor 1004, is connected to the memory 1005 to call a program in the memory 1005 to perform the network device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

The baseband apparatus 1003 may further include a network interface 1006 for interacting information with the radio frequency apparatus 1002, such as a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI for short).

Specifically, the network side device of the embodiment of the present application further includes: the instructions or programs stored in the memory 1005 and capable of being executed on the processor 1004, when the processor 1004 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 1005, execute the positioning method executed by the network side device side in the above embodiments, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and therefore, the description is omitted herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or an instruction is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements each process of any of the above positioning method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is provided herein.

Wherein the processor is a processor in the terminal device or the base station or the LMF described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, the chip comprises a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled with the processor, the processor is used for running a program or instructions of the terminal, each process of any positioning method embodiment can be realized, the same technical effect can be achieved, and the repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

It should be understood that the chips referred to in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip chips, chip systems, or system-on-chip chips, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in an opposite order depending on the functions involved, e.g., the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (e.g. ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) comprising instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present application.

Claims

1. A positioning method performed by a terminal device, the method comprising:

transmitting first information to the network side equipment, wherein the first information comprises at least two of the following information associated with measurement of one downlink positioning reference signal, and the following information comprises: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; the first time domain measurement information and the first airspace measurement information are obtained according to measurement related to at least two paths of a first path, a median path, an additional path and a reference path of the downlink positioning reference signal;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

The first information is used for identifying LOS/NLOS state information and determining position information, the second information is used for identifying LOS/NLOS state information and determining position information by combining the first information, and the LOS/NLOS state information indicates whether the TRP or the measurement information corresponds to LOS or NLOS.

2. The positioning method of claim 1, wherein the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the first frequency domain measurement information comprising at least one of the following frequency domain information comprising:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

3. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the first time domain measurement information including at least one of the following time domain information including:

Indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

4. The positioning method of claim 1, wherein the first spatial measurement information is determined by the terminal device, the first spatial measurement information comprising at least one of the following spatial information comprising:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

5. The positioning method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises being transmitted in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

position information.

6. The positioning method of claim 1, wherein the first information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

7. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1-6, characterized by further comprising: transmitting second threshold information to the network side equipment, wherein the second threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information, and the following threshold information comprises:

Frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

8. The positioning method according to claim 1, further comprising, before said transmitting the first information to the network-side device:

and receiving first request information, wherein the first request information is used for requesting the terminal equipment to report the first information.

9. The positioning method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

10. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1-6, 8, 9, further comprising:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

11. The positioning method of claim 9, wherein the third information or the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

12. The positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the first threshold information includes at least one of the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

13. The positioning method according to claim 12, wherein the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by a location management server, LMF, or a base station.

14. The positioning method of claim 12, wherein the first threshold information is configured or reconfigured by at least one of the following configurations:

unicast is carried out through the LPP protocol;

15. The positioning method of claim 10, wherein the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the fifth information;

beam information corresponding to the fifth information;

16. The positioning method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

17. The positioning method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: and sending second request information, wherein the second request information is used for requesting the first threshold information from the network side equipment.

18. The positioning method according to any one of claims 1-6, 8, 9, 11-17, further comprising: receiving seventh information issued by the network side equipment, wherein the seventh information comprises at least one of the following components:

A set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

19. The positioning method according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising, before transmitting the first information and/or receiving the second information:

and carrying out capability communication with the network side equipment, wherein the capability comprises whether LOS/NLOS identification is supported or not.

20. A positioning device, comprising:

a first sending module, configured to send first information to a network side device, where the first information includes at least two of the following information associated with measurement of one downlink positioning reference signal, where the following information includes: first frequency domain measurement information, first time domain measurement information and first spatial domain measurement information; the first time domain measurement information and the first airspace measurement information are obtained according to measurement related to at least two paths of a first path, a median path, an additional path and a reference path of the downlink positioning reference signal;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

21. A positioning method performed by a base station, the method comprising:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

wherein the eighth information and the ninth information are used to identify LOS/NLOS status information indicating whether TRP or measurement information corresponds to LOS or NLOS and determine location information.

22. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, the second frequency domain measurement information comprising at least one of the following frequency domain information comprising:

Energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

23. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, the second time domain measurement information comprising at least one of the following time domain information, the following time domain information comprising:

indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

A channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

24. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the second spatial measurement information is determined by the base station, the second spatial measurement information comprising at least one of the following spatial information, the following spatial information comprising:

polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

25. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the eighth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

26. The positioning method according to any one of claims 21-25, characterized by further comprising: transmitting fourth threshold information to the location management server LMF, the fourth threshold information including at least one of the following threshold information including:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

Phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

27. The positioning method according to claim 21, characterized by further comprising, before said sending the eighth information to the location management server LMF:

and receiving third request information, wherein the third request information is used for requesting the base station to report the eighth information.

28. The positioning method as set forth in claim 21, further comprising:

first LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

29. The positioning method of claim 28, wherein the third information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

30. The positioning method of claim 21, wherein the third threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information, the following threshold information comprising:

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

31. The positioning method of claim 30, wherein the third threshold information is configured by the location management server LMF via NRPPa protocol.

32. The positioning method according to any one of claims 21-25, 27-31, further comprising:

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

33. The positioning method of claim 32, wherein the fourth information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the fourth information;

beam information corresponding to the fourth information;

34. The positioning method as set forth in claim 21, further comprising:

error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

35. The positioning method of claim 21, further comprising, prior to said receiving ninth information:

and sending fourth request information, wherein the fourth request information is used for requesting the third threshold information from the location management server (LMF).

36. A positioning device, comprising:

a third sending module, configured to send eighth information to the location management server LMF, where the eighth information includes at least two of the following information, and the following information includes: second frequency domain measurement information, second time domain measurement information, and second spatial domain measurement information;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

37. A positioning method performed by a location management server, LMF, the method comprising at least one of the following steps:

Wherein the first information, the second information, the eighth information, and the ninth information are used to identify LOS/NLOS status information indicating whether TRP or measurement information corresponds to LOS or NLOS and determine location information.

38. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first frequency domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device and the second frequency domain measurement information is determined by the base station, the first frequency domain measurement information and/or the second frequency domain measurement information comprising at least one of the following frequency domain information comprising:

energy or power values of the frequency domain channels;

maximum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

minimum value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

a reference value of frequency domain channel energy or power;

reference range values for frequency domain channel energy or power.

39. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first time domain measurement information is determined by the terminal device and the second time domain measurement information is determined by the base station, the first time domain measurement information and/or the second time domain measurement information comprising at least one of the following time domain information comprising:

Indication information of the median diameter;

a power value or energy value of the median diameter;

a channel delay power spectrum;

quantized time delay power spectrum;

channel impulse response;

quantized channel impulse response;

k-factor.

40. The positioning method of claim 37, wherein the first spatial measurement information is determined by the terminal device and the second spatial measurement information is determined by the base station, and wherein the first spatial measurement information and/or the second spatial measurement information comprises at least one of the following spatial information comprising:

Polarization information of the antenna element;

phase information of a first path or a reference path on the antenna element;

additional path power or energy information on the antenna element;

phase information of an additional path on the antenna element;

41. The positioning method of claim 37, wherein the first information comprises received in at least one of the following information fields:

measuring information;

position information.

42. The positioning method of claim 37, wherein the first information is associated with at least one of the following information:

terminal ID information corresponding to the first information;

beam information corresponding to the first information;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

Terminal ID information corresponding to the eighth information;

beam information corresponding to the eighth information;

43. The positioning method of any of claims 37-42, further comprising: receiving second threshold information reported by the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving fourth threshold information reported by the base station;

frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

44. The positioning method as set forth in claim 37, further comprising:

third LOS/NLOS status information;

the third LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

second LOS/NLOS status information;

the second LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

45. The positioning method of claim 44 wherein the fourth information or the fifth information is further associated with at least one of the following information:

46. The positioning method of any of claims 37-42, 44, 45, further comprising: transmitting third information to the terminal device and/or the base station, the third information being determined by the location management server LMF, the third information comprising at least one of:

First LOS/NLOS state information;

the first LOS/NLOS identifies quality or reliability.

47. The positioning method of claim 46, wherein the third information is further associated with at least one of the following information, the following information comprising:

terminal ID information corresponding to the third information;

beam information corresponding to the third information;

48. The positioning method of any of claims 37-42, 44, 45, 47, further comprising:

a set of transmission reception points TRP for positioning;

transmitting a receiving point TRP priority;

a resource set;

resource set priority.

49. The positioning method according to claim 37, wherein the first threshold information and/or the third threshold information comprises at least one of the following threshold information comprising:

Frequency domain power or energy reference threshold information;

frequency domain power or energy range threshold information;

k factor reference threshold information;

k factor reference range information;

power range threshold information or energy range threshold information;

phase reference threshold information;

phase range threshold information.

50. The positioning method as set forth in claim 37, further comprising:

transmitting sixth information to the terminal equipment;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

transmitting tenth information to the base station;

the sixth information and/or the tenth information includes at least one of:

Error model information;

preprocessing model information;

machine learning model information.

51. The positioning method according to claim 37, further comprising, before the receiving the first information reported by the terminal device:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

52. The positioning method according to claim 37, further comprising, before said issuing second information to said terminal device:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

53. The positioning method as set forth in claim 37, further comprising:

54. A positioning device, comprising at least one of the following modules:

55. A terminal device comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program or instruction when executed by the processor implements the steps of the positioning method as claimed in any of claims 1-19.

56. A base station comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program or instruction when executed by the processor carries out the steps of the positioning method according to any of claims 21-35.

57. A location management server LMF comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instruction when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the positioning method according to any of claims 37-53.

58. A readable storage medium, characterized in that it has stored thereon a program or instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the positioning method according to any of claims 1-19, 21-35, 37-53.