CN117581577A

CN117581577A - Cell management method and device

Info

Publication number: CN117581577A
Application number: CN202280001332.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴昱民; 熊艺
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-29
Filing date: 2022-04-29
Publication date: 2024-02-20
Also published as: WO2023206571A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a cell management method and device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the network side equipment sends cell configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of a candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration. Therefore, when the activation condition is met, the terminal equipment can quickly trigger the pre-configured cell configuration (or cell group configuration) to activate (deactivate), so that the robustness of the terminal equipment in the mobility process can be improved.

Description

Cell management method and device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for cell management.

Background

In the fifth generation (5th generation,5G) communication system, the network side device configures "preconfigured cell configuration (or cell group configuration)" for the terminal device, and in the subsequent flow, sends an activation (deactivation) signaling to the terminal device, and selects a cell configuration (or cell group configuration) that needs to be activated (deactivated).

However, since there is a delay in transmission and processing of the "activation (deactivation) signaling", it is impossible to implement quick activation (deactivation) processing of the "preconfigured cell configuration (or cell group configuration)", which is a problem to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a cell management method and device, when an activation condition is met, a terminal device can quickly trigger a 'pre-configured cell configuration (or cell group configuration)' to activate (deactivate), so that the robustness of the terminal device in a mobility process can be improved.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a cell management method, where the method is performed by a network side device, and the method includes: transmitting cell configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following: candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration; candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

In the technical scheme, network side equipment sends cell configuration information to terminal equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of a candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration. Therefore, when the activation condition is met, the terminal equipment can quickly trigger the pre-configured cell configuration (or cell group configuration) to activate (deactivate), so that the robustness of the terminal equipment in the mobility process can be improved.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides another cell management method, which is performed by a terminal device, the method including: receiving cell configuration information sent by network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following: candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration; candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration; and in response to the activation condition being met, activating a specific candidate cell configuration and/or a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication apparatus, where the communication apparatus has a function of implementing part or all of the network side device in the method described in the first aspect, for example, a function of the communication apparatus may be provided with a function in part or all of the embodiments of the present disclosure, or may be provided with a function of implementing any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure separately. The functions may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units or modules corresponding to the functions described above.

In one implementation, the communication device may include a transceiver module and a processing module in a structure configured to support the communication device to perform the corresponding functions in the method. The transceiver module is used for supporting communication between the communication device and other equipment. The communication device may further comprise a memory module for coupling with the transceiver module and the processing module, which holds the necessary computer programs and data of the communication device.

As an example, the processing module may be a processor, the transceiver module may be a transceiver or a communication interface, and the storage module may be a memory.

In one implementation, the communication device includes: a transceiver module configured to send cell configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the cell configuration information is used to indicate at least one of: candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration; candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides another communication apparatus having a function of implementing part or all of the terminal device in the method example described in the second aspect, for example, a function of the communication apparatus may be provided with a function in part or all of the embodiments of the present disclosure, or may be provided with a function of implementing any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure separately. The functions may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units or modules corresponding to the functions described above.

In one implementation, the communication device may include a transceiver module and a processing module in a structure configured to support the communication device to perform the corresponding functions of the method. The transceiver module is used for supporting communication between the communication device and other equipment. The communication device may further comprise a memory module for coupling with the transceiver module and the processing module, which holds the necessary computer programs and data of the communication device.

In one implementation, the communication device includes: the transceiver module is configured to receive cell configuration information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following: candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration; candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration; and the processing module is configured to activate the specific candidate cell configuration and/or the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition in response to the activation condition being met.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication device comprising a processor, which when invoking a computer program in memory, performs the method of the first aspect described above.

In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication device comprising a processor that, when invoking a computer program in memory, performs the method of the second aspect described above.

In a seventh aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the memory having a computer program stored therein; the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory to cause the communication device to perform the method of the first aspect described above.

In an eighth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the memory having a computer program stored therein; the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory to cause the communication device to perform the method of the second aspect described above.

In a ninth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communications apparatus comprising a processor and interface circuitry for receiving code instructions and transmitting to the processor, the processor being configured to execute the code instructions to cause the apparatus to perform the method of the first aspect described above.

In a tenth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communications device comprising a processor and interface circuitry for receiving code instructions and transmitting to the processor, the processor being configured to execute the code instructions to cause the device to perform the method of the second aspect described above.

In an eleventh aspect, an embodiment of the disclosure provides a data transmission system, where the system includes a communication device according to the third aspect and a communication device according to the fourth aspect, or where the system includes a communication device according to the fifth aspect and a communication device according to the sixth aspect, or where the system includes a communication device according to the seventh aspect and a communication device according to the eighth aspect, or where the system includes a communication device according to the ninth aspect and a communication device according to the tenth aspect.

In a twelfth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer readable storage medium, configured to store instructions for use by the network-side device, where the instructions, when executed, cause the network-side device to perform the method described in the first aspect.

In a thirteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a readable storage medium, configured to store instructions for use by the terminal device, where the instructions, when executed, cause the terminal device to perform the method according to the second aspect.

In a fourteenth aspect, the present disclosure also provides a computer program product comprising a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the first aspect described above.

In a fifteenth aspect, the present disclosure also provides a computer program product comprising a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the second aspect described above.

In a sixteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a chip system comprising at least one processor and an interface for supporting a network-side device to implement the functionality referred to in the first aspect, e.g. to determine or process at least one of data and information referred to in the above-mentioned method. In one possible design, the chip system further includes a memory for storing computer programs and data necessary for the network-side device. The chip system can be composed of chips, and can also comprise chips and other discrete devices.

In a seventeenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a chip system comprising at least one processor and an interface for supporting a terminal device to implement the functionality referred to in the second aspect, e.g. to determine or process at least one of data and information referred to in the above-mentioned method. In one possible design, the chip system further includes a memory for holding computer programs and data necessary for the terminal device. The chip system can be composed of chips, and can also comprise chips and other discrete devices.

In an eighteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the first aspect described above.

In a nineteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the second aspect described above.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments or the background of the present disclosure, the following description will explain the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments or the background of the present disclosure.

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a network architecture provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a cell management method provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of another cell management method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of yet another cell management method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of yet another cell management method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a block diagram of a communication device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of another communication device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of a chip provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical solution of the embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to various communication systems, for example: long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD) system, LTE time division duplex (time division duplex, TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (universal mobile telecommunication system, UMTS), future fifth generation (5th generation,5G) system, or New Radio (NR), etc.

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present disclosure may also be referred to as: a User Equipment (UE), a Mobile Station (MS), a Mobile Terminal (MT), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment, etc.

The terminal device may be a device providing voice/data connectivity to a user, e.g., a handheld device with wireless connectivity, an in-vehicle device, etc. Currently, some examples of terminals are: a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, palmtop, mobile internet device (mobile internet device, MID), wearable device, virtual Reality (VR) device, augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) device, wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), wireless terminal in unmanned (self driving), wireless terminal in teleoperation (remote medical surgery), wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), wireless terminal in transportation security (transportation safety), wireless terminal in smart city (smart city), wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), cellular phone, cordless phone, session initiation protocol (session initiation protocol, SIP) phone, wireless local loop (wireless local loop, WLL) station, personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), handheld device with wireless communication function, public or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, vehicle-mounted device, wearable device, terminal device in future 5G network or evolving land communication device (public land mobile network) are not limited to this embodiment of the PLMN.

By way of example, and not limitation, in embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. The wearable device can also be called as a wearable intelligent device, and is a generic name for intelligently designing daily wear by applying wearable technology and developing wearable devices, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothes, shoes and the like. The wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also can realize a powerful function through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable intelligent device includes full functionality, large size, and may not rely on the smart phone to implement complete or partial functionality, such as: smart watches or smart glasses, etc., and focus on only certain types of application functions, and need to be used in combination with other devices, such as smart phones, for example, various smart bracelets, smart jewelry, etc. for physical sign monitoring.

In addition, in the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an internet of things (internet of things, ioT) system, where IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and the main technical feature is to connect the article with a network through a communication technology, so as to implement an intelligent network of man-machine interconnection and internet of things.

In addition, the network side device in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be a device for communicating with a terminal device, where the network side device may also be referred to as an access device or a wireless network side device, may be an evolved NodeB (eNB or eNodeB) in an LTE system, may also be a wireless controller in a cloud wireless access network (cloud radio access network, CRAN) scenario, or may be a relay station, an access point, a vehicle device, a wearable device, and a network side device in a future 5G network or a network side device in a future evolved PLMN network, etc., may be an Access Point (AP) in a WLAN, may be a gNB in a new radio system (NR) system, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network-side device is a device in the RAN, or a RAN node that accesses the terminal device to the wireless network. For example, by way of illustration and not limitation, as network-side devices, there may be cited: a gNB, a transmission and reception point (transmission reception point, TRP), an evolved Node B (eNB), a radio network controller (radio network controller, RNC), a Node B (Node B, NB), a base station controller (base station controller, BSC), a base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS), a home base station (e.g., home evolved NodeB, or home Node B, HNB), a baseband unit (BBU), or a wireless fidelity (wireless fidelity, wifi) Access Point (AP), etc. In one network architecture, the network devices may include Centralized Unit (CU) nodes, or Distributed Unit (DU) nodes, or RAN devices including CU nodes and DU nodes, or RAN devices including control plane CU nodes (CU-CP nodes) and user plane CU nodes (CU-UP nodes) and DU nodes.

The network side device provides service for a cell, and the terminal device communicates with the network side device through a transmission resource (for example, a frequency domain resource, or a spectrum resource) used by the cell, where the cell may be a cell corresponding to the network side device (for example, a base station), and the cell may belong to a macro base station or a base station corresponding to a small cell (small cell), and the small cell may include: urban cells (metro cells), micro cells (micro cells), pico cells (pico cells), femto cells (femto cells) and the like, and the small cells have the characteristics of small coverage area and low transmitting power and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission services.

Alternatively, multiple cells may operate on the same frequency on a carrier in the LTE system or the 5G system, and in some scenarios, the carrier may be considered to be identical to the concept of the cell. For example, in the scenario of carrier aggregation (carrier aggregation, CA), when configuring a secondary carrier for a terminal device, the carrier index of the secondary carrier and the Cell identifier (Cell identification, cell ID) of the secondary Cell operating on the secondary carrier are carried at the same time, in which case the concept of the carrier and the Cell may be considered to be equivalent, such as that the terminal device accesses one carrier and accesses one Cell to be equivalent.

It will be understood that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device and/or the network side device may perform some or all of the steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, these steps or operations are merely examples, and the embodiments of the present disclosure may also perform other operations or variations of the various operations. Furthermore, the various steps may be performed in a different order presented by embodiments of the disclosure, and it is possible that not all of the operations in the embodiments of the disclosure may be performed.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a network architecture to which embodiments of the present disclosure are applied. As shown in fig. 1, the terminal device may perform dual-connectivity (DC) with two network side devices, which are, as an example, a primary base station and a secondary base station, respectively. Among the two network side devices, the network side device responsible for interacting with the terminal device and responsible for interacting with the core network control plane entity is a Master Node (MN), and the other wireless network side device is a Secondary Node (SN). In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the primary base station MN may also be referred to as a primary network side device, and the secondary base station SN may also be referred to as a secondary network side device.

Similarly, the terminal device may also have communication connection with multiple network side devices and may send and receive data, which may be called multi-connection or multi-link (MC), where one network side device may be responsible for interacting radio resource control messages with the terminal device and for interacting with a core network control plane entity, and then the network side device may be called MN, and the other network side devices may be called SN.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the MN and the SN may be base stations of the same radio access type (radio access type, RAT) or base stations of different RATs.

In the dual-connection DC configuration, the serving Cell of the general terminal device under the Primary base station includes a Primary Cell PCell (Primary Cell) (or a Special Cell SpCell) and 0 to n Secondary cells scells (Secondary cells), and the serving Cell group under the general Primary base station is referred to as a Primary Cell group MCG (Master Cell Group, primary Cell group). The serving cells of the terminal equipment under the secondary base station include a primary secondary cell PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell ) (or a special cell SpCell) and 0 to m secondary cells scells, and the serving cell group under the secondary base station is generally called a secondary cell group SCG (Secondary Cell Group ). Here, n, m are positive integers greater than 1, respectively.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, "activating a cell" may be understood as "putting a cell in an activated state (activation)", or "recovering (resume) a cell". When a cell is in an active state, the terminal device activates the cell, which corresponds to the terminal device keeping the cell in an active state. When a cell is in an inactive state, the terminal device activates the cell, which corresponds to the terminal device switching the cell from the inactive state to the active state.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, "deactivating a cell" may be understood as "putting a cell in a deactivated state (deactivation)", or "suspending" a cell. When a cell is in an active state, the terminal device deactivates the cell, which corresponds to the terminal device switching the cell from the active state to the deactivated state. When a cell is in the deactivated state, the terminal device deactivates the cell, which corresponds to the terminal device maintaining the cell in the deactivated state.

It should be noted that the terminal device deactivates a cell, which is not "turned off" on behalf of the network side, but rather pauses the reception/transmission of data related to this terminal device.

In addition, when a cell is in a deactivated state, the terminal device does not need to receive a PDCCH or a physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH) corresponding to the cell, cannot transmit uplink data on the cell, and does not need to perform channel quality indication (channel quality indication, CQI) measurement of the cell.

It may be understood that, the communication system described in the embodiments of the present disclosure is for more clearly describing the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and is not limited to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and those skilled in the art can know that, with the evolution of the system architecture and the appearance of new service scenarios, the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are equally applicable to similar technical problems.

A cell management method and apparatus provided by the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart of a cell management method according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 2, the method is performed by the network side device, and the method may include, but is not limited to, the following steps:

s21: and sending cell configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information may indicate candidate cell configurations of one or more candidate cells, and the candidate cell configurations correspond to one or more activation conditions.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information may indicate candidate cell group configurations of one or more candidate cell groups, and one or more activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configurations.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information may indicate candidate cell configurations of one or more candidate cells, one or more activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configurations, and candidate cell group configurations of one or more candidate cell groups, where the candidate cell group configurations correspond to one or more activation conditions.

It may be understood that after the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration may be determined, and/or the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration may be determined.

Under the condition that the activation condition is met, the candidate cell configuration and/or the candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the met activation condition can be activated, and the corresponding candidate cell and/or candidate cell group is activated;

or deactivating the candidate cell configuration and/or the candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the satisfied activation condition, and deactivating the corresponding candidate cell and/or candidate cell group.

In a possible implementation manner, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information is used to indicate candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, where the candidate cell is an SCell, and the candidate cell of the SCell is configured to be in a cell activation state, and the activation condition corresponding to the cell activation state is that a ratio of an RSRP (reference signal received power ) of the candidate cell SCell to a current serving SCell agreed by a protocol is greater than a first threshold.

When the activation condition is satisfied, the candidate cell configuration is activated, the cell activation state is activated, and the state of the first SCell of the candidate cell may be an activation state or a deactivation state.

It should be noted that, the foregoing examples are merely illustrative, and are not meant to be a specific limitation on the protection scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the candidate cell in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be another cell other than the SCell, the configuration of the candidate cell may be other configuration information, the activation condition may be other conditions, and so on.

By implementing the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information is used to indicate candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration. Therefore, when the activation condition is met, the terminal equipment can quickly trigger the pre-configured cell configuration (or cell group configuration) to activate (deactivate), so that the robustness of the terminal equipment in the mobility process can be improved.

In some embodiments, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, including: the network side equipment sends a cell activation list to the terminal equipment, wherein the cell activation list comprises at least one of the following components:

candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

Candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

It may be understood that the network side device sends the cell configuration information to the terminal device, and may send the cell configuration information by sending a cell activation list, where the cell activation list may include one or more candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells, and the candidate cell configurations correspond to one or more activation conditions.

The cell activation list may include one or more candidate cell group configurations of the candidate cell groups, where the candidate cell group configurations correspond to one or more activation conditions.

The cell activation list may include one or more candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells, one or more activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configurations, and one or more candidate cell group configurations of the one or more candidate cell groups, one or more activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configurations.

In some embodiments, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, including:

sending a candidate cell list to the terminal equipment, wherein the candidate cell list comprises candidate cell configuration of candidate cells and/or candidate cell group configuration of candidate cell groups;

Sending an activation condition list to the terminal equipment, wherein the activation condition list comprises activation conditions;

and sending indication information to the terminal equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.

It may be understood that, the network side device sends the cell configuration information to the terminal device, and may send the candidate cell list, where the candidate cell list includes candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells, send the activation condition list to the terminal device, where the activation condition list includes activation conditions, and send indication information to the terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a correspondence between the candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells and the activation conditions.

The network side device sends the cell configuration information to the terminal device, and the network side device can send the candidate cell list, wherein the candidate cell list comprises candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and send the activation condition list to the terminal device, and the activation condition list comprises activation conditions, and sends indication information to the terminal device, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation conditions.

It can be understood that, the network side device sends the cell configuration information to the terminal device, and the activation condition list can be sent to the terminal device by sending a candidate cell list, where the candidate cell list includes candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition list includes activation conditions; and sending indication information to the terminal equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.

In some embodiments, after sending the cell configuration information to the terminal device, the network side device further includes: determining the cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition; and/or determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device may specify a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and determine a cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may specify a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and determine a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device may specify a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, determine a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and determine a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition.

In some embodiments, the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the determined activation condition; and/or determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and determine a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

It should be noted that the foregoing embodiments are merely illustrative, and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the disclosure, and the foregoing embodiments are not exhaustive, but are merely illustrative of some embodiments, and the embodiments may be implemented alone or in combination of two or more.

In some embodiments, the network side device determines a cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition, including at least one of:

determining candidate cell configuration information, and determining the cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition according to the candidate cell configuration information;

determining a first activation condition configuration, and determining a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the first activation condition configuration;

and determining a first corresponding relation configuration of the candidate cell configuration and the activation condition, and determining the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the first corresponding relation configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine candidate cell configuration information, and determine, according to the candidate cell configuration information, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, candidate cell configuration information, and determine, according to the candidate cell configuration information, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine a first activation condition configuration, and determine, according to the first activation condition configuration, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, the first activation condition configuration, and determine, according to the first activation condition configuration, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine a first correspondence configuration between candidate cell configurations and activation conditions, and determine, according to the first correspondence configuration, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation conditions, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, the first correspondence configuration between candidate cell configurations and activation conditions, and determine, according to the first correspondence configuration, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation conditions.

In some embodiments, the network side device determines a cell group type of a particular candidate cell group corresponding to a particular candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, including at least one of:

determining candidate cell group configuration information, and determining cell group types of the specific candidate cell groups corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the candidate cell group configuration information;

determining second activation condition configuration, and determining cell group types of the specific candidate cell groups corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the second activation condition configuration;

and determining a second corresponding relation configuration of the candidate cell group configuration and the activation condition, and determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the second corresponding relation configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine candidate cell group configuration information, and determine, according to the candidate cell group configuration information, a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, candidate cell group configuration information, and determine, according to the candidate cell group configuration information, a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine a second activation condition configuration, and determine, according to the second activation condition configuration, a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the second activation condition configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device may determine a second correspondence configuration between candidate cell group configurations and activation conditions, and determine a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition according to the second correspondence configuration, or the network side device may determine the second correspondence configuration between candidate cell group configurations and activation conditions according to protocol conventions, and determine a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition according to the second correspondence configuration.

In some embodiments, the cell type comprises at least one of:

a primary cell PCell;

primary and secondary cells PSCell;

a special cell SpCell;

a secondary cell SCell;

a master cell group secondary cell MCG SCell;

secondary cell group secondary cell SCG SCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, may determine that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is PCell, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is PCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition, and may determine the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition as PSCell, or the network side device may determine the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition as PSCell according to a protocol convention.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition, and may determine that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is SpCell, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is SpCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition, may determine the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition as SCell, or the network side device may determine the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition as SCell according to the protocol convention.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and may determine that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is an MCG SCell, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is an MCG SCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, and may determine that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is an SCG SCell, or the network side device may determine, according to a protocol convention, that the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition is an SCG SCell.

In some embodiments, the cell group type includes at least one of:

master cell group MCG;

secondary cell group SCG.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition, and may determine the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition as MCG, or the network side device may determine the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition as MCG according to a protocol convention.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the network side device determines the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition, and may determine the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition as SCG, or the network side device may determine the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition as SCG according to a protocol convention.

In some embodiments, the activation condition includes at least one of:

a first activation condition determined from the signal measurement;

a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device;

and a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group may be the corresponding activation condition, which may be the first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition may be a second activation condition determined according to location information of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to a specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition includes a third activation condition determined according to a channel busyness degree.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition may be a second activation condition determined according to location information of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device determines a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to an activation condition, where the activation condition may be a third activation condition determined according to a channel busyness.

In some embodiments, the first activation condition comprises at least one of:

the ratio of the signal measurement results of the target cell and the serving cell is larger than a first threshold value;

the ratio of the signal measurement results of the target cell and the serving cell is equal to a first threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value;

The signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to the second threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a second threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than a third threshold value;

the signal measurement of the target cell is equal to the third threshold value.

The signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to the second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is greater than the third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that a ratio of the signal measurement result of the target cell to the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that a ratio of the signal measurement result of the target cell to the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a second threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the target cell is greater than a third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to the signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to the third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, or may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than a third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, or may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is greater than a third threshold value.

In some embodiments, the first threshold value is determined by a network side device configuration or according to a protocol convention.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that a ratio of the signal measurement result of the target cell to the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a first threshold value determined according to the network side device configuration.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that a ratio of the signal measurement result of the target cell to the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a first threshold value determined according to a protocol convention.

In some embodiments, the second threshold value is equal to the third threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value (a third threshold value), and the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than the third threshold value (a second threshold value).

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value (a third threshold value), and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value (a second threshold value).

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value (a third threshold value), and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to the third threshold value (a second threshold value).

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, and may be that the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value (a third threshold value), and the signal measurement result of the target cell is greater than the third threshold value (a second threshold value).

In some embodiments, the signal measurements include at least one of:

reference signal received power RSRP;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of RSRP (reference signal received power ) of the target cell to the serving cell is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of RSRQ (reference signal received quality, reference signal reception quality) of the target cell to the serving cell is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of SINR (signal to interference plus noise ratio ) of the target cell to the serving cell is greater than the first threshold value.

In some embodiments, the second activation condition comprises at least one of:

the height of the terminal equipment is larger than a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is equal to a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is smaller than a fourth threshold value;

the coordinate position of the terminal equipment is a pre-configured coordinate range;

the coordinate position of the terminal equipment is beyond the preset coordinate range.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device, and may be that the height of the terminal device is greater than a fourth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device, and may be that the height of the terminal device is equal to the fourth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device, and may be that the height of the terminal device is less than a fourth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device, and may be a coordinate range in which the coordinate location of the terminal device is preconfigured.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device, and may be that the coordinate location of the terminal device is beyond a pre-configured coordinate range.

In some embodiments, the third activation condition comprises at least one of:

the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

The busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the target cell is equal to the sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold, and the busyness measurement value of the target cell is less than a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold, and the busyness measurement value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold, and the busyness measurement value of the target cell is less than a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold, and the busyness measurement value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the target cell corresponding to the frequency point is smaller than the sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to the sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that a busyness measurement value of a serving cell corresponding to a frequency point is greater than a fifth threshold, and a busyness measurement value of a target cell corresponding to a frequency point is less than a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold, and a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold, and a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the target cell is less than a sixth threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, and may be that a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold, and a busyness measurement value of a frequency point corresponding to the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold.

In some embodiments, the busyness measure comprises at least one of:

a received signal strength indicator RSSI;

channel occupation time COT;

channel busy rate CBR;

channel occupancy COR.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold value, and may be that the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator, received signal strength indication) of the serving cell is greater than the fifth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold value, and may be that the COT (Channel Occupancy Time, channel occupation time) of the serving cell is greater than the fifth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold value, and may be that the CBR (Channel Busy Ratio, channel busyness rate) of the serving cell is greater than the fifth threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness, may be that the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is greater than a fifth threshold value, and may be that COR (Channel Occupancy Rate ) of the serving cell is greater than the fifth threshold value.

In some embodiments, the target cell is at least one of:

a specific candidate cell;

cells in a particular candidate cell set;

in the case that the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group is MCG, the target cell is PCell in the specific candidate cell group;

In the case that the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group is SCG, the target cell is PSCell in the specific candidate cell group;

a first cell in a specific candidate cell group specified by the protocol;

a second cell in the specific candidate cell group configured by the network side equipment;

a third cell specified by the protocol;

and a fourth cell configured by the network side equipment.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a cell in a specific candidate cell group to a signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that, in a case that a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group is MCG, a ratio of a PCell in the specific candidate cell group to a signal measurement result of the serving cell of the target cell is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that, in a case that a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group is SCG, a ratio of a signal measurement result of the target cell to a PSCell in the specific candidate cell group is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a third cell specified by a protocol to a signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a fourth cell configured for a network side device to the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than the first threshold.

In some embodiments, the serving cell is at least one of:

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is PCell, the serving cell is the currently activated PCell;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is the PCell, the serving cell is the PCell currently serving;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is a PSCell, the serving cell is a currently activated PSCell;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is a PSCell, the serving cell is the PSCell currently serving;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is SCell, the serving cell is the designated currently served SCell;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is SCell, the serving cell is the currently served SCell designated by the network side equipment;

in the case that the cell type of the specific candidate cell is SCell, the serving cell is the currently serving SCell agreed by the protocol;

The cell group type corresponding to the serving cell is the same as the cell group type corresponding to the specific candidate cell group;

in the case that the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group is MCG, the serving cell is PCell in the specific candidate cell group;

in the case that the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group is SCG, the serving cell is PSCell in the specific candidate cell group;

a fifth cell in the protocol-specified specific candidate cell group;

a sixth cell in the specific candidate cell group configured by the network side equipment;

a seventh cell specified by the protocol;

and an eighth cell configured by the network side equipment.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a currently activated PCell is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of a specific candidate cell to a specific candidate cell is PCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a currently served PCell is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of a specific candidate cell to a specific candidate cell is PCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a currently activated PSCell is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of a specific candidate cell to a specific candidate cell is PSCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a signal measurement result of a currently serving PSCell is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of a specific candidate cell to a specific candidate cell is PSCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a designated currently served SCell is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of the specific candidate cell to the specific candidate cell is SCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that, in a case that a cell type of a specific candidate cell to a specific candidate cell is SCell, a ratio of a signal measurement result of a currently served SCell designated by the serving cell for a network side device is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a currently serving SCell agreed by a protocol is greater than the first threshold value when a cell type of a specific candidate cell to the specific candidate cell is SCell.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a signal measurement result of a cell group type corresponding to the serving cell and a cell group type corresponding to the specific candidate cell group is greater than the first threshold value.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a PCell in a specific candidate cell group is greater than the first threshold value when a cell group type of the specific candidate cell to the specific candidate cell group is MCG.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold value, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a serving cell to a PSCell in a specific candidate cell group is greater than the first threshold value when a cell group type of the specific candidate cell to the specific candidate cell group is SCG.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a fifth cell in a specific candidate cell group specified by a protocol is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a signal measurement result of a sixth cell in a specific candidate cell group configured by a network side device is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a seventh cell specified by a protocol is greater than the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell may be a first activation condition determined according to a signal measurement result, may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a target cell to a signal measurement result of a serving cell is greater than a first threshold, and may be that a ratio of a signal measurement result of a specific candidate cell to a signal measurement result of an eighth cell configured by a network side device is greater than the first threshold.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart of a cell management method according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 3, the method is performed by the network side device, and the method may include, but is not limited to, the following steps:

s31: and sending cell configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

The description of S31 may be referred to the description of S21 in the above embodiment, and the same contents are not repeated here.

S32: and receiving the activation indication information sent by the terminal equipment.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, and sends activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, and sends activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, determines the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration, and can identify the activation condition, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell, and send activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, determines the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration, and can identify the activation condition, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell group configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell group, and send activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, determines the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration and the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration, may identify the activation condition, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell configuration, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell group configuration, activate or deactivate the specific candidate cell group, and activate the specific candidate cell group according to the activation condition, and then send activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell group configuration and activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a flowchart of a cell management method according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 4, the method is performed by a terminal device, and may include, but is not limited to, the steps of:

s41: and receiving cell configuration information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

The terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, and may refer to the description related to the embodiment in which the network side device sends the cell configuration information, which is the same and will not be described herein.

In some embodiments, the terminal device receives cell configuration information sent by the network side device, including: receiving a cell activation list sent by network side equipment, wherein the cell activation list comprises at least one of the following components:

It may be understood that the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, and may receive a cell activation list sent by the network side device, where the cell activation list may include one or more candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells, and the candidate cell configurations correspond to one or more activation conditions.

In some embodiments, the terminal device receives cell configuration information sent by the network side device, including:

receiving a candidate cell list sent by network side equipment, wherein the candidate cell list comprises candidate cell configuration of candidate cells and/or candidate cell group configuration of candidate cell groups;

Receiving an activation condition list sent by network side equipment, wherein the activation condition list comprises activation conditions;

and receiving indication information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.

It may be understood that the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, and may receive a candidate cell list sent by the network side device, where the candidate cell list includes candidate cell configurations of candidate cells, receives an activation condition list sent by the network side device, where the activation condition list includes activation conditions, and receives indication information sent by the network side device, where the indication information is used to indicate a correspondence between candidate cell configurations of the candidate cells and the activation conditions.

The terminal equipment receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side equipment, and can receive a candidate cell list sent by the network side equipment, wherein the candidate cell list comprises candidate cell group configuration of candidate cell groups, receives an activation condition list sent by the network side equipment, and receives indication information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell groups and the activation condition.

It can be understood that the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, and can receive the candidate cell list sent by the network side device, where the candidate cell list includes candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and receives the activation condition list sent by the network side device, where the activation condition list includes activation conditions; and receiving indication information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the corresponding relation between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.

S42: and in response to the activation condition being met, activating a particular candidate cell configuration and/or a particular candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

By implementing the embodiment of the disclosure, the network side device sends cell configuration information to the terminal device, where the cell configuration information is used to indicate candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration. Therefore, when the activation condition is met, the terminal equipment can quickly trigger the pre-configured cell configuration (or cell group configuration) to activate (deactivate), so that the robustness of the terminal equipment in the mobility process is improved.

In some embodiments, the terminal device performs at least one of the following in response to a particular cell group configuration being activated:

setting a first cell group which is activated before and has the same type as a specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration to be in a deactivated state;

applying a specific cell group configuration;

and carrying out corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, and the terminal device performs setting the first cell group which is activated before and has the same type as the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device sets a third cell group previously activated as the MCG to be in a deactivated state when the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is the MCG.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device sets a fourth cell group previously activated as the SCG to be in a deactivated state when the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is the SCG.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration and applies the specific cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration.

In some embodiments, the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to a cell group type of a particular cell group to which the particular cell group configuration corresponds, including at least one of:

triggering a switching process under the condition that the specific cell group is MCG;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and no activated SCG exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and no configured SCG exists before;

triggering an SCG change process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and the activated SCG exists before;

if the specific cell group is SCG and there is a configured SCG before, the SCG change procedure is triggered.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration, where the terminal device may trigger the handover process under the condition that the specific cell group is MCG.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration, and may trigger the SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and no activated SCG exists before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration, and can trigger the SCG adding process when the specific cell group is SCG and no configured SCG exists before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration, and can trigger the SCG change process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and the activated SCG exists before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, and performs corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration, where the terminal device may trigger the SCG change process when the specific cell group is SCG and there is a configured SCG before.

In some embodiments, the terminal device performs at least one of the following in response to a particular cell configuration being activated:

setting a first cell which is activated before and has the same specific cell type as the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state;

setting a second cell group which is activated before and has the same cell group type as the cell group corresponding to the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state;

applying a specific cell configuration;

applying the cell group configuration corresponding to the specific cell and corresponding to the specific cell configuration;

and carrying out corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device sets the first cell which is activated before and has the same type as the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device sets a second cell group which is activated before and has the same type as the cell group corresponding to the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when an activation condition corresponding to a specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and when the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is a PCell, the terminal device sets a fifth cell group that is previously activated as an MCG to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when an activation condition corresponding to a specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and when the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is PSCell, the terminal device sets a sixth cell group that is previously activated as SCG to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal equipment activates the specific cell configuration and applies the specific cell configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device applies the cell group configuration corresponding to the specific cell configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal equipment activates the specific cell configuration under the condition that the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is met, and the terminal equipment performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration.

In some embodiments, the corresponding processing is performed according to a cell type of the particular cell to which the particular cell configuration corresponds, including at least one of:

triggering a switching process under the condition that a specific cell is a PCell;

triggering a PSCell adding process under the condition that a specific cell is a PSCell and an activated PSCell does not exist before;

triggering a PSCell adding process under the condition that a specific cell is a PSCell and no configured PSCell exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that a specific cell is a PScell and no activated PScell exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that a specific cell is a PScell and no configured PScell exists before;

Triggering a PSCell change process when the specific cell is a PSCell and an activated PSCell exists before;

triggering a PSCell change process when the specific cell is a PSCell and the configured PSCell exists before;

triggering an SCG change process when the specific cell is a PScell and an activated PScell exists before;

if the specific cell is a PSCell and there is a PSCell configured previously, the SCG change procedure is triggered.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the handover process when the specific cell is a PCell.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the PSCell adding process when the specific cell is a PSCell and there is no activated PSCell before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the PSCell adding process when the specific cell is PSCell and there is no configured PSCell before.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the SCG adding process when the specific cell is a PSCell and there is no activated PSCell before.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the SCG adding process when the specific cell is a PSCell and there is no configured PSCell before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the PSCell changing process when the specific cell is PSCell and the activated PSCell exists before.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the PSCell changing process when the specific cell is PSCell and there is a configured PSCell before.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when an activation condition corresponding to a specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to a cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, where the terminal device may trigger an SCG change process when the specific cell is a PSCell and an activated PSCell exists before.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, and the terminal device performs corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration, and may trigger the SCG change process when the specific cell is a PSCell and there is a configured PSCell before.

In some embodiments, the terminal device further performs at least one of:

suspending configuration of the first cell in case the first cell is set to a deactivated state;

suspending the configuration of the first cell group in case the first cell group is set to a deactivated state;

in the case where the second cell group is set to the deactivated state, the configuration of the second cell group is suspended.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, and the terminal device sets the first cell which is activated before and has the same type as the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state, and suspends the configuration of the first cell when the first cell is set to be in the deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, and the terminal device executes to set the first cell group which is activated before and has the same type as the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration to the deactivated state, and when the first cell group is set to the deactivated state, the terminal device suspends the configuration of the first cell group.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, and the terminal device executes to set the second cell group which is activated before and has the same type as the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration to the deactivated state, and when the second cell group is set to the deactivated state, the terminal device suspends the configuration of the second cell group.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, when the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is MCG, the terminal device sets the first cell group previously activated as MCG to be in a deactivated state, and may suspend the configuration of the third cell group when the third cell group is set to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell group configuration, when the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is SCG, the terminal device sets the fourth cell group previously activated as the SCG to be in a deactivated state, and may suspend the configuration of the fourth cell group when the fourth cell group is set to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, when the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is a PCell, the terminal device sets a fifth cell group that is previously activated as an MCG to be in a deactivated state, and may suspend the configuration of the fifth cell group when the fifth cell group is set to be in a deactivated state.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the activation condition corresponding to the specific cell configuration is satisfied, the terminal device activates the specific cell configuration, when the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is PSCell, the terminal device sets the sixth cell group that is previously activated as the SCG to be in a deactivated state, and may suspend the configuration of the sixth cell group when the sixth cell group is set to be in a deactivated state.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a flowchart of a cell management method according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 5, the method is performed by a terminal device, and may include, but is not limited to, the steps of:

s51: and receiving cell configuration information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.

S52: and in response to the activation condition being met, activating a particular candidate cell configuration and/or a particular candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

S53: and sending activation indication information to the network side equipment.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, a terminal device receives cell configuration information of a network side device, determines candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, and/or activates or deactivates the candidate cell group configuration and/or the candidate cell group configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, and then sends activation instruction information to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the sending, by the terminal device, activation indication information to the network side device includes:

transmitting cell activation indication information to the network side device in response to activating a particular candidate cell configuration of the particular candidate cell configurations according to the activation condition, and/or

And transmitting cell group activation indication information to the network side equipment in response to activating a specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configurations according to the activation condition.

In some embodiments, in response to activating a particular candidate cell configuration of the particular candidate cell configurations according to the activation condition, transmitting cell activation indication information to the network side device, including at least one of:

configuring corresponding specific candidate cell information by the activated specific candidate cell;

the deactivated specific candidate cell configures corresponding specific candidate cell information.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, and sends the cell activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, and sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, and sends the cell activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, and sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when determining the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, performs activation or deactivation processing on the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, and sends specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration and specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the activated specific candidate cell configures corresponding specific candidate cell information, including at least one of:

configuring a corresponding specific candidate cell identifier by the activated specific candidate cell;

the specific candidate cell configuration identifier corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration;

a first activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is identified by a first association relation of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends the cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell identifier corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends the cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell configuration identifier corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when determining the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, performs activation or deactivation processing on the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the first activation condition identification of the activation condition to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when determining the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, performs activation or deactivation processing on the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the first association relation identifier associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration corresponds to specific candidate cell information, including at least one of:

Configuring corresponding specific candidate cell identifiers by the deactivated specific candidate cells;

specific candidate cell configuration identifiers corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration;

a second activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is identified by a second association relation of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends the cell activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell identification corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends the cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell configuration identifier corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends the cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the second activation condition identification of the activation condition to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when determining the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration, performs activation or deactivation processing on the specific candidate cell configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell, sends cell activation instruction information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell configuration in the candidate cell configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device, and sends the second association relation identifier associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the cell group activation indication information includes at least one of:

configuring corresponding specific candidate cell group information by the activated specific candidate cell group;

the deactivated specific candidate cell group configures corresponding specific candidate cell group information.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, and sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, and sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, and sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, and sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the activated specific candidate cell group configures corresponding specific candidate cell group information, including at least one of:

configuring the corresponding specific candidate cell group identification by the activated specific candidate cell group;

the activated specific candidate cell group configures a corresponding specific candidate cell group configuration identifier;

a third activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is identified by a third association relationship associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell group identifier corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell group configuration identifier corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the third activation condition identification of the activation condition to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the third association relation identifier associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the particular candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated particular candidate cell group configuration includes at least one of:

configuring corresponding specific candidate cell group identifiers by the deactivated specific candidate cell group;

the configuration identifier of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the configuration identifier of the deactivated specific candidate cell group;

fourth activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is associated with a fourth association relation identifier of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell group identifier corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the specific candidate cell group configuration identifier corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition when the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration when the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the fourth activation condition identification of the activation condition to the network side device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device receives the cell configuration information sent by the network side device, identifies the activation condition under the condition that the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration are determined, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group configuration under the condition that the activation condition is satisfied, activates or deactivates the specific candidate cell group, sends the cell group activation indication information to the network side device after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configuration according to the activation condition, sends the specific candidate cell group information corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device, and sends the fourth association relation identifier associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration to the network side device.

In the embodiments provided in the present disclosure, the method provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure is described from the perspective of the network side device and the terminal device, respectively. In order to implement the functions in the method provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the network side device and the terminal device may include a hardware structure, a software module, and implement the functions in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module. Some of the functions described above may be implemented in a hardware structure, a software module, or a combination of a hardware structure and a software module.

Referring to fig. 6, a schematic structural diagram of another communication device 10 according to an embodiment of the disclosure is provided. The communication device 10 shown in fig. 6 may include a transceiver module 101 and a processing module 102. The transceiver module 101 may include a transmitting module for implementing a transmitting function and/or a receiving module for implementing a receiving function, and the transceiver module 101 may implement the transmitting function and/or the receiving function.

The communication device 10 may be a network-side device, a device in a network-side device, or a device that can be used in cooperation with a network-side device.

The communication apparatus 10 is a network-side device:

The device comprises: a transceiver module 101 configured to send cell configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the cell configuration information is used to indicate at least one of:

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 101 is further configured to receive activation indication information sent by the terminal device, where the activation indication information is sent by the terminal device after activating a specific candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group configurations according to the activation condition, and/or after activating the specific candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group configurations according to the activation condition.

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 101 is further configured to send a cell activation list to the terminal device, the cell activation list comprising at least one of:

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 101 is further configured to send a candidate cell list to the terminal device, the candidate cell list comprising a candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or a candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group;

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is configured to determine a cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition; and/or

And determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is further configured to determine candidate cell configuration information, and determine, according to the candidate cell configuration information, a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition;

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is further configured to determine candidate cell group configuration information, and determine a cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the candidate cell group configuration information;

In some embodiments, the cell type comprises at least one of:

a primary cell PCell;

primary and secondary cells PSCell;

a special cell SpCell;

a secondary cell SCell;

a master cell group secondary cell MCG SCell;

secondary cell group secondary cell SCG SCell.

In some embodiments, the cell group type includes at least one of:

master cell group MCG;

secondary cell group SCG.

In some embodiments, the activation condition includes at least one of:

a first activation condition determined from the signal measurement;

and a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness.

In some embodiments, the first activation condition comprises at least one of:

the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

In some embodiments, the signal measurements include at least one of:

reference signal received power RSRP;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR.

In some embodiments, the second activation condition comprises at least one of:

the height of the terminal equipment is larger than a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is equal to a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is smaller than a fourth threshold value;

In some embodiments, the third activation condition comprises at least one of:

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value; the busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value; the busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value; the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value; the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value;

In some embodiments, the busyness measure comprises at least one of:

a received signal strength indicator RSSI;

channel occupation time COT;

channel busy rate CBR;

channel occupancy COR.

In some embodiments, the target cell is at least one of:

A specific candidate cell;

cells in a particular candidate cell set;

a first cell in a specific candidate cell group specified by the protocol;

a third cell specified by the protocol;

and a fourth cell configured by the network side equipment.

In some embodiments, the serving cell is at least one of:

a fifth cell in the protocol-specified specific candidate cell group;

a seventh cell specified by the protocol;

and an eighth cell configured by the network side equipment.

With continued reference to fig. 6, a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 10 according to an embodiment of the disclosure is provided. The communication device 10 shown in fig. 6 may include a transceiver module 101 and a processing module. The transceiver module 101 may include a transmitting module for implementing a transmitting function and/or a receiving module for implementing a receiving function, and the transceiver module 101 may implement the transmitting function and/or the receiving function.

The communication device 10 may be a terminal device, a device in a terminal device, or a device that can be used in cooperation with a terminal device.

The communication apparatus 10 is a terminal device:

the device comprises: a transceiver module 101 configured to receive cell configuration information sent by a network side device, where the cell configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration;

a processing module 102 is configured to activate a specific candidate cell configuration and/or a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition in response to the activation condition being satisfied.

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 101 is further configured to send activation indication information to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is further configured to, in response to the particular cell group configuration being activated, perform at least one of:

when the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is MCG, the first cell group which is activated by the MCG before is set to be in a deactivated state;

In the case that the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration is SCG, the second cell group which is activated as the SCG before is set to be in a deactivated state;

applying a specific cell group configuration;

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is further configured to perform at least one of:

In some embodiments, the processing module 102 is further configured to perform at least one of the following in response to the particular cell configuration being activated:

in the case that the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is the PCell, the third cell group which is activated as the MCG before is set to be in a deactivated state;

in the case that the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration is a PSCell, the fourth cell group which is activated as an SCG before is set to be in a deactivated state;

Applying a specific cell configuration;

suspending configuration of the second cell group in case the second cell group is set to a deactivated state;

suspending the configuration of the third cell group in case the third cell group is set to a deactivated state;

in the case where the fourth cell group is set to the deactivated state, the configuration of the fourth cell group is suspended.

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 101 is further configured to send cell activation indication information to the network-side device, and/or in response to activating a particular candidate cell configuration of the particular candidate cell configurations according to the activation condition

In some embodiments, the cell activation indication information includes at least one of:

a first activation condition identification of the activation condition;

a second activation condition identification of the activation condition;

a third activation condition identification of the activation condition;

fourth activation condition identification of the activation condition;

With respect to the communication apparatus 10 in the above-described embodiment, the specific manner in which the respective modules perform the operations has been described in detail in the embodiment regarding the method, and will not be described in detail herein.

The communication device 10 provided in the above embodiments of the present disclosure achieves the same or similar advantages as the cell management method in some of the above embodiments, and is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another communication device 1000 according to an embodiment of the disclosure. The communication apparatus 1000 may be a network-side device, a terminal device, a chip system, a processor, or the like that supports the network-side device to implement the above method, or a chip, a chip system, a processor, or the like that supports the terminal device to implement the above method. The communication device 1000 may be used to implement the method described in the above method embodiments, and reference may be made in particular to the description of the above method embodiments.

The communications device 1000 may include one or more processors 1001. The processor 1001 may be a general purpose processor or a special purpose processor, or the like. For example, a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be used to control communication devices (e.g., base stations, baseband chips, terminal equipment chips, DUs or CUs, etc.), execute computer programs, and process data of the computer programs.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include one or more memories 1002, on which a computer program 1004 may be stored, where the memory 1002 executes the computer program 1004, so that the communication device 1000 performs the method described in the above method embodiments. Optionally, the memory 1002 may also store data. The communication device 1000 and the memory 1002 may be provided separately or may be integrated.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further comprise a transceiver 1005, an antenna 1006. The transceiver 1005 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver circuit, or the like, for implementing a transceiver function. The transceiver 1005 may include a receiver, which may be referred to as a receiver or a receiving circuit, etc., for implementing a receiving function, and a transmitter; the transmitter may be referred to as a transmitter or a transmitting circuit, etc., for implementing a transmitting function.

Optionally, one or more interface circuits 1007 may also be included in the communications apparatus 1000. The interface circuit 1007 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor 1001. The processor 1001 executes the code instructions to cause the communication device 1000 to perform the method described in the method embodiments described above.

The communication apparatus 1000 is a network-side device: the transceiver 1005 is configured to perform S21 in fig. 2; s31 and S32 in fig. 3.

The communication apparatus 1000 is a terminal device: the transceiver 1005 is configured to perform S41 in fig. 4; s51 and S53 in fig. 5; the processor 1001 is configured to execute S42 in fig. 4; s51 in fig. 5.

In one implementation, a transceiver for implementing the receive and transmit functions may be included in the processor 1001. For example, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit, or an interface circuit. The transceiver circuitry, interface or interface circuitry for implementing the receive and transmit functions may be separate or may be integrated. The transceiver circuit, interface or interface circuit may be used for reading and writing codes/data, or the transceiver circuit, interface or interface circuit may be used for transmitting or transferring signals.

In one implementation, the processor 1001 may store a computer program 1003, where the computer program 1003 runs on the processor 1001, and may cause the communication device 1000 to execute the method described in the above method embodiment. The computer program 1003 may be solidified in the processor 1001, in which case the processor 1001 may be implemented by hardware.

In one implementation, the communications apparatus 1000 can include circuitry that can implement the functions of transmitting or receiving or communicating in the foregoing method embodiments. The processors and transceivers described in this disclosure may be implemented on integrated circuits (integrated circuit, ICs), analog ICs, radio frequency integrated circuits RFICs, mixed signal ICs, application specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), printed circuit boards (printed circuit board, PCB), electronic devices, and the like. The processor and transceiver may also be fabricated using a variety of IC process technologies such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (complementary metal oxide semiconductor, CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (positive channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (bipolar junction transistor, BJT), bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc.

The communication apparatus in the above embodiment description may be a terminal device, but the scope of the communication apparatus described in the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication apparatus may not be limited by fig. 7. The communication means may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be:

(1) A stand-alone integrated circuit IC, or chip, or a system-on-a-chip or subsystem;

(2) A set of one or more ICs, optionally including storage means for storing data, a computer program;

(3) An ASIC, such as a Modem (Modem);

(4) Modules that may be embedded within other devices;

(5) A receiver, a terminal device, an intelligent terminal device, a cellular phone, a wireless device, a handset, a mobile unit, a vehicle-mounted device, a network device, a cloud device, an artificial intelligent device, and the like;

(6) Others, and so on.

In the case where the communication device may be a chip or a chip system, please refer to fig. 8, which is a block diagram of a chip provided in an embodiment of the disclosure.

Chip 1100 includes processor 1101 and interface 1103. Wherein the number of processors 1101 may be one or more, and the number of interfaces 1103 may be a plurality.

For the case where the chip is used to implement the functions of the terminal device in the embodiments of the present disclosure:

an interface 1103 for receiving the code instruction and transmitting the code instruction to the processor.

A processor 1101 for executing code instructions to perform the cell management method as described in some embodiments above.

For the case where the chip is used to implement the functions of the network side device in the embodiments of the present disclosure:

Optionally, the chip 1100 further comprises a memory 1102, the memory 1102 being used for storing the necessary computer programs and data.

Those of skill in the art will further appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks (illustrative logical block) and steps (step) described in connection with the embodiments of the disclosure may be implemented by electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design requirements of the overall system. Those skilled in the art may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation is not to be understood as beyond the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

The embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a location information updating system, where the system includes the communication device as the terminal device and the communication device as the network side device in the embodiment of fig. 6, or the system includes the communication device as the terminal device and the communication device as the network side device in the embodiment of fig. 7.

The present disclosure also provides a readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, perform the functions of any of the method embodiments described above.

The present disclosure also provides a computer program product which, when executed by a computer, performs the functions of any of the method embodiments described above.

In the above embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer programs. When the computer program is loaded and executed on a computer, the flow or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the present disclosure are produced in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer program may be stored in or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, by wired (e.g., coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (digital subscriber line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means from one website, computer, server, or data center. The computer readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a high-density digital video disc (digital video disc, DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), or the like.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: the various numbers of first, second, etc. referred to in this disclosure are merely for ease of description and are not intended to limit the scope of embodiments of this disclosure, nor to indicate sequencing.

At least one of the present disclosure may also be described as one or more, a plurality may be two, three, four or more, and the present disclosure is not limited. In the embodiment of the disclosure, for a technical feature, the technical features in the technical feature are distinguished by "first", "second", "third", "a", "B", "C", and "D", and the technical features described by "first", "second", "third", "a", "B", "C", and "D" are not in sequence or in order of magnitude.

The correspondence relationships shown in the tables in the present disclosure may be configured or predefined. The values of the information in each table are merely examples, and may be configured as other values, and the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In the case of the correspondence between the configuration information and each parameter, it is not necessarily required to configure all the correspondence shown in each table. For example, in the table in the present disclosure, the correspondence shown by some rows may not be configured. For another example, appropriate morphing adjustments, e.g., splitting, merging, etc., may be made based on the tables described above. The names of the parameters indicated in the tables may be other names which are understood by the communication device, and the values or expressions of the parameters may be other values or expressions which are understood by the communication device. When the tables are implemented, other data structures may be used, for example, an array, a queue, a container, a stack, a linear table, a pointer, a linked list, a tree, a graph, a structure, a class, a heap, a hash table, or a hash table.

Predefined in this disclosure may be understood as defining, predefining, storing, pre-negotiating, pre-configuring, curing, or pre-sintering.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present disclosure.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not repeated herein.

The foregoing is merely specific embodiments of the disclosure, but the protection scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the disclosure, and it is intended to cover the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A method for cell management, the method being performed by a network side device and comprising:

transmitting cell configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following:

candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.
The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

and receiving the activation indication information sent by the terminal equipment.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said sending cell configuration information to the terminal device comprises:

transmitting a cell activation list to the terminal device, the cell activation list comprising at least one of:

the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said sending cell configuration information to the terminal device comprises:

Sending a candidate cell list to the terminal equipment, wherein the candidate cell list comprises the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group;

sending an activation condition list to the terminal equipment, wherein the activation condition list comprises the activation conditions;

and sending indication information to the terminal equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the correspondence between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

determining the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition; and/or

And determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.
The method of claim 5, wherein the determining the cell type of the particular candidate cell for which the particular candidate cell configuration for which the activation condition corresponds comprises at least one of:

determining candidate cell configuration information, and determining the cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the candidate cell configuration information;

Determining a first activation condition configuration, and determining a cell type of a specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the first activation condition configuration;

and determining a first corresponding relation configuration of the candidate cell configuration and the activation condition, and determining the cell type of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the first corresponding relation configuration.
The method of claim 5 or 6, wherein the determining the cell group type of the particular candidate cell group to which the particular candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition corresponds comprises at least one of:

determining configuration information of candidate cell groups, and determining cell group types of the specific candidate cell groups corresponding to the configuration of the specific candidate cell groups corresponding to the activation conditions according to the configuration information of the candidate cell groups;

determining a second activation condition configuration, and determining a cell group type of a specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the second activation condition configuration;

and determining a second corresponding relation configuration of the candidate cell group configuration and the activation condition, and determining the cell group type of the specific candidate cell group corresponding to the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition according to the second corresponding relation configuration.
The method according to any of claims 5 to 7, wherein the cell type comprises at least one of:

a primary cell PCell;

primary and secondary cells PSCell;

a special cell SpCell;

a secondary cell SCell;

a master cell group secondary cell MCG SCell;

secondary cell group secondary cell SCG SCell.
The method according to any of claims 5 to 8, wherein the cell group type comprises at least one of:

master cell group MCG;

secondary cell group SCG.
The method of claim 9, wherein the activation condition comprises at least one of:

a first activation condition determined from the signal measurement;

a second activation condition determined according to the location information of the terminal device;

and a third activation condition determined according to the channel busyness.
The method of claim 10, wherein the first activation condition comprises at least one of:

the ratio of the signal measurement results of the target cell and the serving cell is larger than a first threshold value;

the ratio of the signal measurement results of the target cell and the serving cell is equal to a first threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value;

The signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to the second threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is greater than a second threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is larger than a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is smaller than a second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is equal to a third threshold value;

the signal measurement result of the serving cell is equal to the second threshold value, and the signal measurement result of the target cell is greater than the third threshold value.
The method of claim 11, wherein the first threshold value is determined by the network side device configuration or is determined according to a protocol convention.
A method according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the second threshold value is equal to the third threshold value.
The method of any of claims 10 to 13, wherein the signal measurements comprise at least one of:

Reference signal received power RSRP;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR.
The method of any one of claims 10 to 14, wherein the second activation condition comprises at least one of:

the height of the terminal equipment is larger than a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is equal to a fourth threshold value;

the height of the terminal equipment is smaller than a fourth threshold value;

the coordinate position of the terminal equipment is a preconfigured coordinate range;

and the coordinate position of the terminal equipment is beyond a preset coordinate range.
The method of any one of claims 10 to 15, wherein the third activation condition comprises at least one of:

the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

The busyness measured value of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measured value of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measured value of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value;

the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is equal to a fifth threshold value, and the busyness degree measured value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is smaller than a sixth threshold value;

the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the serving cell is larger than a fifth threshold value, and the busyness measurement value of the corresponding frequency point of the target cell is equal to a sixth threshold value.
The method of claim 16, wherein the busyness measure comprises at least one of:

a received signal strength indicator RSSI;

channel occupation time COT;

channel busy rate CBR;

channel occupancy COR.
The method of any of claims 11 to 17, wherein the target cell is at least one of:

the specific candidate cell;

a cell in the particular candidate cell set;

in the case that the specific candidate cell group is MCG, the target cell is PCell in MCG;

in the case that the specific candidate cell group is SCG, the target cell is PSCell in SCG;

a first cell in the particular candidate cell set specified by a protocol;

the activation condition configured by the network side equipment specifies a second cell in the candidate cell group;

a third cell specified by the protocol;

and a fourth cell configured by the network side equipment.
The method of any of claims 11 to 18, wherein the serving cell is at least one of:

in the case that the specific candidate cell is a PCell, the serving cell is a currently activated PCell;

in the case that the specific candidate cell is a PCell, the serving cell is a PCell currently serving;

In the case that the specific candidate cell is a PSCell, the serving cell is a currently activated PSCell;

in the case that the specific candidate cell is a PSCell, the serving cell is a PSCell currently serving;

in the case that the specific candidate cell is an SCell, the serving cell is a designated SCell currently serving;

in the case that the specific candidate cell is an SCell, the serving cell is a currently served SCell designated by the network side device;

in the case that the specific candidate cell is an SCell, the serving cell is an SCell currently serving by a protocol contract;

under the condition of the specific candidate cell group, the cell group type corresponding to the service cell is the same as the cell group type corresponding to the specific candidate cell group;

in the case that the specific candidate cell group is MCG, the serving cell is PCell in MCG;

in the case that the specific candidate cell group is SCG, the serving cell is PSCell in SCG;

a fifth cell in the particular candidate cell set specified by a protocol;

a sixth cell in the specific candidate cell group configured by the network side equipment;

a seventh cell specified by the protocol;

and an eighth cell configured by the network side equipment.
A method of cell management, the method performed by a terminal device, comprising:

receiving cell configuration information sent by network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following:

candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration;

and in response to the activation condition being met, activating a specific candidate cell configuration and/or a specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition.
The method of claim 20, wherein the receiving the cell configuration information sent by the network side device comprises:

receiving a cell activation list sent by the network side equipment, wherein the cell activation list comprises at least one of the following components:

the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group, and the activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.
The method of claim 20, wherein the receiving the cell configuration information sent by the network side device comprises:

Receiving a candidate cell list sent by the network side equipment, wherein the candidate cell list comprises the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group;

receiving an activation condition list sent by the network side equipment, wherein the activation condition list comprises the activation conditions;

and receiving indication information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the candidate cell configuration of the candidate cell and/or the correspondence between the candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and the activation condition.
The method of any one of claims 20 to 22, further comprising:

and sending activation indication information to the network side equipment.
The method of any one of claims 20 to 23, further comprising:

in response to the particular cell group configuration being activated, at least one of:

setting a first cell group previously activated and of the same type as the particular cell group corresponding to the particular cell group configuration to a deactivated state;

applying the specific cell group configuration;

and carrying out corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the specific cell group corresponding to the specific cell group configuration.
The method of claim 24, wherein the corresponding processing according to the cell group type of the particular cell group to which the particular cell group configuration corresponds comprises at least one of:

triggering a switching process under the condition that the specific cell group is MCG;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and no activated SCG exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and no configured SCG exists before;

triggering an SCG change process under the condition that the specific cell group is SCG and the activated SCG exists before;

the specific cell group is SCG, and if there is a configured SCG before, the SCG change process is triggered.
The method of any one of claims 20 to 25, further comprising:

in response to the particular cell configuration being activated, at least one of:

setting a first cell which is activated before and has the same specific cell type as the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state;

setting a second cell group which is activated before and has the same cell group type as the cell group corresponding to the specific cell configuration to be in a deactivated state;

Applying the specific cell configuration;

applying the cell group configuration corresponding to the specific cell configuration;

and carrying out corresponding processing according to the cell type of the specific cell corresponding to the specific cell configuration.
The method of claim 26, wherein the corresponding processing according to the cell type of the particular cell to which the particular cell configuration corresponds comprises at least one of:

triggering a switching process under the condition that the specific cell is a PCell;

triggering a PSCell adding process under the condition that the specific cell is a PSCell and an activated PSCell does not exist before;

triggering a PSCell adding process under the condition that the specific cell is a PSCell and no configured PSCell exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell is a PScell and no activated PScell exists before;

triggering an SCG adding process under the condition that the specific cell is a PScell and no configured PScell exists before;

the specific cell is a PSCell, and the PSCell changing process is triggered under the condition that the activated PSCell exists before;

the specific cell is a PSCell, and the PSCell changing process is triggered under the condition that the configured PSCell exists before;

Triggering an SCG change process when the specific cell is a PScell and an activated PScell exists before;

and triggering an SCG change process when the specific cell is a PScell and the configured PScell exists before.
The method of claim 24 or 26, wherein the terminal device further performs at least one of:

suspending configuration of the first cell in case the first cell is set to a deactivated state;

suspending configuration of the first cell group if the first cell group is set to a deactivated state;

the configuration of the second cell group is suspended with the second cell group set to a deactivated state.
The method according to any one of claims 23 to 28, wherein the sending activation indication information to the network side device includes:

transmitting cell activation indication information to the network side device in response to activating a specific candidate cell configuration of the specific candidate cell configurations according to the activation condition, and/or

And sending cell group activation indication information to the network side equipment in response to activating a specific candidate cell group configuration in the candidate cell group configurations according to the activation condition.
The method of claim 29, wherein the cell activation indication information comprises at least one of:

the activated specific candidate cell configures corresponding specific candidate cell information;

and configuring corresponding specific candidate cell information by the deactivated specific candidate cell.
The method of claim 30, wherein the activated specific candidate cell configuration corresponds to specific candidate cell information comprising at least one of:

the activated specific candidate cell configures a corresponding specific candidate cell identifier;

the activated specific candidate cell configuration corresponds to the specific candidate cell configuration identifier;

a first activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is identified by a first association relation of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration.
The method of claim 30 or 31, wherein the particular candidate cell configuration for the deactivation corresponds to particular candidate cell information comprising at least one of:

the specific candidate cell configuration corresponding specific candidate cell identification is deactivated;

a specific candidate cell configuration identifier corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell configuration;

A second activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is identified by a second association relation associated with the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell configuration.
The method of any of claims 29 to 32, wherein the cell group activation indication information comprises at least one of:

configuring corresponding specific candidate cell group information by the activated specific candidate cell group;

the deactivated specific candidate cell group configures corresponding specific candidate cell group information.
The method of claim 33, wherein the activated specific candidate cell group configures corresponding specific candidate cell group information, comprising at least one of:

configuring the corresponding specific candidate cell group identification by the activated specific candidate cell group;

the activated specific candidate cell group configuration corresponds to the specific candidate cell group configuration identification;

a third activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is associated with a third association relation identifier of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration.
The method of claim 33 or 34, wherein the particular candidate cell group configuration for the deactivation corresponds to particular candidate cell group information comprising at least one of:

Configuring corresponding specific candidate cell group identifiers by the deactivated specific candidate cell group;

the specific candidate cell group configuration identifier corresponding to the deactivated specific candidate cell group configuration;

a fourth activation condition identification of the activation condition;

and the activation condition is associated with a fourth association relation identifier of the specific candidate cell corresponding to the activated specific candidate cell group configuration.
A communication device, comprising:

a transceiver module configured to send cell configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the cell configuration information is used to indicate at least one of:

candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration.
A communication device, comprising:

the transceiver module is configured to receive cell configuration information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the cell configuration information is used for indicating at least one of the following:

candidate cell configuration of a candidate cell and an activation condition corresponding to the candidate cell configuration;

candidate cell group configuration of the candidate cell group and activation conditions corresponding to the candidate cell group configuration;

And the processing module is configured to activate the specific candidate cell configuration and/or the specific candidate cell group configuration corresponding to the activation condition in response to the activation condition being met.
A communication device, characterized in that the device comprises a processor and a memory, the memory having stored therein a computer program, the processor executing the computer program stored in the memory to cause the device to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 19 or the processor executing the computer program stored in the memory to cause the device to perform the method according to any one of claims 20 to 35.
A communication device, comprising: a processor and interface circuit;

the interface circuit is used for receiving code instructions and transmitting the code instructions to the processor;

the processor for executing the code instructions to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 19 or for executing the code instructions to perform the method of any one of claims 20 to 35.
A computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause the method of any one of claims 1 to 19 to be implemented or which, when executed, cause the method of any one of claims 20 to 35 to be implemented.