Detailed Description
The MDT technology is introduced in the LTE system, and it is determined in R10 that the MDT will adopt a control plane (control plane) architecture, which has an advantage that the base station can accurately control the UE. The adoption of the control plane architecture requires the use of an RRC signaling bearer network for the configuration of the UE and the reporting of the UE to the network. In the MDT technology, to solve the problem of resource waste in the prior art, embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for MDT measurement configuration, so as to reasonably configure MDT measurement of a UE and save signaling and air interface resources.
The technical solutions in the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for configuring MDT measurement, as shown in fig. 2, including the following steps:
step 201, a base station device obtains information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the acquiring, by the base station device, information of the measurement-forbidden region and/or the measurement-forbidden frequency point includes: the base station equipment configures information of a measurement forbidden area and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point according to a preset strategy; or the base station equipment receives indication information from an operation maintenance center OMC, wherein the indication information carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point; and acquiring information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point according to the indication information.
Step 202, the base station device notifies the user equipment UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the notifying, by the base station device, the information about the measurement-prohibited area and/or the measurement-prohibited frequency point to the user equipment UE includes: the base station equipment informs the UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point through a measurement configuration message; the measurement configuration message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point and information of the measurement region and/or the measurement frequency point.
In addition, the base station device notifies the user equipment UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point, and the method further includes: the base station equipment informs the UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point through a broadcast message; and the broadcast message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
Step 203, the UE receives information of measurement forbidden areas and/or measurement forbidden frequency points from the base station device.
In this step, the receiving, by the UE, information of a measurement-forbidden region and/or a measurement-forbidden frequency point from the base station device includes: and the UE receives a measurement configuration message from the base station equipment, wherein the measurement configuration message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point and information of the measurement region and/or the measurement frequency point.
In addition, the receiving, by the UE, information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point from the base station device includes: the UE receives a broadcast message from the base station equipment; and the broadcast message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
And 204, the UE stops the corresponding MDT operation according to the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point.
In this step, the UE stops the corresponding MDT operation according to the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point, including: the UE stops the MDT operation in the measurement prohibition region according to the information of the measurement prohibition region; and/or the UE stops the MDT operation in the measurement prohibiting frequency points according to the information of the measurement prohibiting frequency points.
Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the base station device may determine the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point according to the actual needs, and notify the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point to the UE, so that the UE may not perform MDT measurement in the position corresponding to the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point, and thus the base station device may reasonably configure MDT measurement of the UE, and save signaling and air interface resources.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention, the following discusses the MDT measurement configuration method in detail with reference to specific embodiments.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring and configuring MDT, as shown in fig. 3, where the method includes the following steps:
step 301, a base station acquires information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
For convenience of description, the measurement-prohibited area is taken as an example in the embodiment of the present invention to explain, because the processing manners of the measurement-prohibited area and the measurement-prohibited frequency point are the same.
In practical application, the base station may configure the measurement prohibition area according to a preset policy (the preset policy may be arbitrarily selected according to its own needs). For example, in a hot-spot coverage cell, when the number of UEs is large, the pilot measurement pattern data of MDT is already collected enough, and at this time, if the UE still performs MDT measurement, it obviously causes waste of resources; based on this, the base station may set a preset policy for the hotspot coverage cell, so that when the pilot measurement pattern data of the MDT is sufficient, the hotspot coverage cell is configured as a measurement prohibition area. Of course, in practical applications, the preset policy may be arbitrarily selected according to practical situations, and is not described in detail in the embodiments of the present invention.
In addition, in practical applications, the measurement prohibition area may be configured by an OMC (Operations Maintenance Center). The manner of configuring the measurement prohibition area by the OMC is similar to the manner of configuring the measurement prohibition area by the base station according to the preset policy, and is not described in detail herein.
Further, the OMC needs to send the configured information of the measurement-prohibited area to the base station (which may be sent by way of indication information carrying the information of the measurement-prohibited area), and after receiving the indication information, the base station obtains the information of the measurement-prohibited area. In this case, the base station may directly determine the measurement-prohibited area based on the information of the measurement-prohibited area from the OMC, or may adjust the measurement-prohibited area based on the information of the measurement-prohibited area from the OMC. For example, the OMC configures measurement prohibition areas as cell 1 and cell 2, and when the base station learns that cell 3 does not need to perform MDT measurement any more after receiving the relevant information, the base station acquires the measurement prohibition areas as cell 1, cell 2, and cell 3.
Step 302, the base station sends the information of the measurement forbidden area to the UE through the measurement configuration message.
Wherein, the measurement configuration message carries the information of the measurement forbidden region and the information of the measurement region.
Specifically, after knowing the measurement-prohibited area, the base station may send the information of the measurement-prohibited area and the information of the measurement area to the UE in a measurement configuration message manner. For example, the measurement configuration message carries cell 1 and cell 2 as measurement forbidden areas, and cell 3, cell 4, cell 5, cell 6, and cell 7 as measurement areas.
In step 303, the UE stops the MDT operation for the measurement prohibited area.
The MDT operation includes, but is not limited to, operations such as MDT measurement, log, and measurement report of MDT.
Specifically, after receiving the measurement configuration message from the base station, according to the measurement-prohibited area and the information of the measurement area carried in the measurement configuration message, the UE needs to stop the MDT operation on the measurement-prohibited area. Of course, according to actual needs, in the measurement prohibition region, the UE may enable the LOG MDT duration timer for LOG MDT to continue to operate or may also disable the LOG MDT duration timer for LOG MDT, which is not described in this embodiment of the present invention again.
It should be noted that after receiving the measurement configuration message from the base station, the UE further needs to perform MDT operation on the corresponding measurement area according to the information of the measurement area carried in the measurement configuration message.
For example, when the cell 1 and the cell 2 are measurement-prohibited areas and the cell 3, the cell 4, the cell 5, the cell 6, and the cell 7 are measurement areas carried in the measurement configuration message, the UE needs to stop the MDT operation in the cell 1 and the cell 2 and perform the MDT operation in the cell 3, the cell 4, the cell 5, the cell 6, and the cell 7.
It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the UE may be a connected UE or an idle UE.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring and configuring MDT, as shown in fig. 4, where the method includes the following steps:
step 401, a base station acquires information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
For convenience of description, the embodiment of the present invention takes the forbidden measurement frequency point as an example to explain, because the processing modes of the forbidden measurement region and the forbidden measurement frequency point are the same.
The processing manner of this step is similar to that of step 301, and is not described in detail here.
Step 402, the base station sends the information of the forbidden measurement frequency point to the UE through the broadcast message. Wherein, the broadcast message carries the information of the forbidden measurement frequency points.
Specifically, after knowing that the measurement-prohibited frequency point is available, the base station may send the information of the measurement-prohibited frequency point to the UE in a broadcast message manner. For example, the information that the frequency point F1 is the forbidden measurement frequency point is carried in the broadcast message.
Step 403, the base station sends the information of the measurement frequency point to the UE through the measurement configuration message.
In this step, the base station does not need to consider which measurement frequency points are forbidden measurement frequency points and which measurement frequency points are not forbidden measurement frequency points, and only needs to send the information of all measurement frequency points to the UE through the measurement configuration message.
For example, the base station may carry information of the measurement frequency point F1, the measurement frequency point F2, and the measurement frequency point F3 in the measurement configuration message.
In step 404, the UE stops the MDT operation on the prohibited measurement frequency point.
The MDT operation includes, but is not limited to, operations such as MDT measurement, log, and measurement report of MDT.
Specifically, after receiving the measurement configuration message from the base station, according to the information of the measurement frequency point carried in the measurement configuration message and the information of the measurement prohibition frequency point carried in the broadcast message, the UE needs to stop the MDT operation on the measurement prohibition frequency point and perform the MDT operation on other measurement frequency points.
For example, when the information of the measurement frequency point F1, the measurement frequency point F2, and the measurement frequency point F3 is carried in the measurement configuration message; when the broadcast message carries information that the frequency point F1 is a forbidden measurement frequency point, the UE needs to stop the MDT operation in the frequency point F1 and perform the MDT operation in the measurement frequency point F2 and the measurement frequency point F3.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the following discusses the measurement configuration method of MDT in detail with reference to specific application scenarios.
A fourth embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring and configuring MDT, which is shown in an application scenario diagram in fig. 5, where in the application scenario, a base station does not configure a measurement area, and directly configures a measurement-prohibited area. For example, the base station does not configure a measurement area, but configures a bar cell list for the UE, where a cell included in the bar cell list is cell 1 (that is, cell 1 is a measurement prohibition area). As shown in fig. 5, the UE will perform MDT operations (e.g., measurement and log recording of log MDT, etc.) for all cells except cell 1 within the entire registered PLMN area according to the measurement configuration.
In an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in an application scenario diagram shown in fig. 6, in the application scenario, a TA area is configured in a base station, and a bar Cell list is configured, assuming that cells 1 to 7 form a TA area 1.
In this case, the base station configures a measurement area of the UE to be TA1, and configures a bar Cell list for the UE, where cells included in the bar Cell list are Cell 1 and Cell 2 (i.e., Cell 1 and Cell 2 are measurement-prohibited areas). As shown in fig. 6, the UE will perform MDT operations (e.g., measurement and log recording of log MDT, etc.) for all cells (e.g., cell 3.. cell 7, etc.) except for cell 1 and cell 2 within the entire TA1 area according to the measurement configuration.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a measurement configuration method for MDT, which is shown in an application scenario diagram in fig. 7, in the application scenario, a base station configures a measurement prohibition frequency point, and assumes that a network deploys 3 frequency layers, which are a measurement frequency point F1, a measurement frequency point F2, and a measurement frequency point F3, respectively. If the network does not want the UE to measure the cell of the measurement frequency point F2, the measurement frequency point F2 may be configured as a measurement prohibition frequency point for the UE.
In this case, the base station directly configures the bar frequency layer list to the UE, and the frequency layer list is the measurement frequency point F2. At this time, the UE needs to perform MDT operations (e.g., measurement and log recording of log MDT, etc.) for the entire PLMN area for which it is registered, except for all cells of the F2 frequency layer. When the UE moves to a cell of frequency F2 layer, the log MDT measurement and log are not performed.
A seventh embodiment of the present invention provides a method for configuring MDT measurement, as shown in an application scenario diagram shown in fig. 8, in this application scenario, for a connected UE (e.g., UE1), a neighboring cell of a cell where the UE1 is located may be configured as a measurement prohibition area, for example, when the UE1 is connected in the cell 1, neighboring cells such as the cell 2 and the cell 3 may be configured as measurement prohibition areas according to actual needs.
For a UE in an idle state (e.g., UE2), both a cell where the UE2 is located and a neighboring cell may be configured as measurement prohibition areas, for example, cell 1, cell 2, cell 3, etc. may be configured as measurement prohibition areas according to actual needs.
Therefore, in each embodiment of the present invention, the base station device may determine the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point according to actual needs, and notify the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point to the UE, so that the UE may not perform MDT measurement in the position corresponding to the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point, thereby enabling the base station device to reasonably configure MDT measurement of the UE, and saving signaling and air interface resources.
It should be noted that, in practical applications, the MDT measurement and reporting performed by the UE in the connected state may be performed by multiplexing an RRM measurement form, and during the RRM measurement, since some cells are prohibited to be measured, and during the MDT measurement, if the RRM measurement is multiplexed, the MDT measurement is not performed on these cells, and when the network side needs the MDT measurement data of these cells, the UE cannot report the relevant MDT measurement data to the network side, thereby affecting the use of the network side.
Based on the above problem, an eighth embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring and configuring MDT, where the method includes the following steps:
(1) the base station equipment acquires a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point in the RRM measurement.
Specifically, in RRM measurement, if some measurement regions and/or measurement frequency points are prohibited from performing measurement, and according to actual needs, the network side needs to know MDT measurement data of these measurement regions and/or measurement frequency points, the base station device needs to acquire the measurement-prohibited regions and/or measurement-prohibited frequency points in the RRM measurement.
(2) And the base station equipment configures the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point as an MDT measurement region and/or an MDT measurement frequency point. The measurement-forbidden region and the measurement-forbidden frequency point have the same processing mode, and the measurement-forbidden region is taken as an example in the embodiment of the invention for explanation. In this step, the base station device needs to configure the measurement prohibition area as the MDT measurement area.
Specifically, if the network side needs to know the MDT measurement data of the measurement prohibited area in the RRM measurement, the network side needs to configure the measurement prohibited area in the RRM measurement as the MDT measurement area.
For example, in RRM measurement, if cell 1 and cell 2 are prohibited measurement areas and the network side needs to know MDT measurement data of cell 1, the network side needs to configure cell 1 as an MDT measurement area.
(3) And the base station equipment informs the UE of the information of the MDT measurement area and/or the MDT measurement frequency point.
In this step, the base station device may notify the information of the MDT measurement area and/or the MDT measurement frequency point to the UE through a measurement configuration message; and the measurement configuration message carries an MDT measurement region and/or an MDT measurement frequency point.
The example that the base station apparatus notifies the UE of the MDT measurement area is described.
After the base station device learns the MDT measurement area, the base station device needs to notify the MDT measurement area to the UE through the measurement configuration message.
For example, in the RRM measurement, the cell 1 and the cell 2 are forbidden measurement regions, and the cell 3 to the cell 7 are measurement regions, and when the cell 1 is configured as the MDT measurement region in the above step, it is necessary to pass information that the cell 1 and the cell 3 to the cell 7 are measurement regions to the UE through the measurement configuration message.
Based on the same inventive concept as the above method, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a base station apparatus, as shown in fig. 9, including:
the acquisition module 11 is configured to acquire information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point;
a sending module 12, configured to notify the information of the measurement prohibited area and/or the measurement prohibited frequency point obtained by the obtaining module 11 to user equipment UE.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining module 11 is specifically configured to configure information of a measurement prohibition area and/or a measurement prohibition frequency point according to a preset policy; or,
receiving indication information from an operation maintenance center OMC, wherein the indication information carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point; and acquiring information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point according to the indication information.
The sending module 12 is specifically configured to notify the UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point through a measurement configuration message; the measurement configuration message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point and information of the measurement region and/or the measurement frequency point.
The sending module 12 is specifically configured to notify the UE of the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point through a broadcast message; and the broadcast message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
The modules of the device can be integrated into a whole or can be separately deployed. The modules can be combined into one module, and can also be further split into a plurality of sub-modules.
Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the base station device may determine the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point according to the actual needs, and notify the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point to the UE, so that the UE may not perform MDT measurement in the position corresponding to the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point, and thus the base station device may reasonably configure MDT measurement of the UE, and save signaling and air interface resources.
Based on the same inventive concept as the above method, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a user equipment, as shown in fig. 10, including:
a receiving module 21, configured to receive information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point from a base station device;
and the processing module 22 is configured to stop the corresponding MDT operation according to the information of the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point.
The receiving module 21 is specifically configured to receive a measurement configuration message from the base station device, where the measurement configuration message carries information of a measurement prohibition area and/or a measurement prohibition frequency point and information of a measurement area and/or a measurement frequency point.
The receiving module 21 is specifically configured to receive a broadcast message from the base station device; and the broadcast message carries information of a measurement forbidden region and/or a measurement forbidden frequency point.
The processing module 22 is specifically configured to stop the MDT operation in the measurement prohibition area according to the information of the measurement prohibition area; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
and stopping the MDT operation in the measurement prohibiting frequency points according to the information of the measurement prohibiting frequency points.
Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the base station device may determine the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point according to the actual needs, and notify the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point to the UE, so that the UE may not perform MDT measurement in the position corresponding to the measurement prohibition region and/or the measurement prohibition frequency point, and thus the base station device may reasonably configure MDT measurement of the UE, and save signaling and air interface resources.
Based on the same inventive concept as the above method, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a base station device, including:
the acquisition module is used for acquiring a measurement forbidding area and/or a measurement forbidding frequency point in RRM measurement;
a configuration module, configured to configure the measurement forbidden region and/or the measurement forbidden frequency point as an MDT measurement region and/or an MDT measurement frequency point;
and the sending module is used for informing the UE of the information of the MDT measuring region and/or the MDT measuring frequency point.
The sending module is specifically configured to notify the information of the MDT measurement area and/or the MDT measurement frequency point to the UE through a measurement configuration message; and the measurement configuration message carries an MDT measurement region and/or an MDT measurement frequency point.
Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the present invention may be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly may also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute the methods according to the embodiments of the present invention.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are merely schematic representations of one preferred embodiment and that the blocks or flow diagrams in the drawings are not necessarily required to practice the present invention.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the modules in the devices in the embodiments may be distributed in the devices in the embodiments according to the description of the embodiments, and may be correspondingly changed in one or more devices different from the embodiments. The modules of the above embodiments may be combined into one module, or further split into multiple sub-modules.
The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.
The above disclosure is only for a few specific embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and any variations that can be made by those skilled in the art are intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.