CN120835359A

CN120835359A - Capability reporting method, device and equipment

Info

Publication number: CN120835359A
Application number: CN202410464630.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蒲文娟; 杨晓东
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2024-04-17
Filing date: 2024-04-17
Publication date: 2025-10-24
Also published as: WO2025218572A1

Abstract

The present application discloses a capability reporting method, apparatus, and device, belonging to the field of communications. The capability reporting method in an embodiment of the present application includes: a terminal reporting a first wireless access capability; after the terminal reports the first wireless access capability, the terminal reporting first information to an access network device; wherein the first information is used to indicate a second wireless access capability, and the second wireless access capability is a wireless access capability that the terminal possesses in addition to the first wireless access capability. In this embodiment, the terminal can report its wireless access capability in addition to the first wireless access capability, thereby preventing the network side from being unaware of the terminal's second wireless access capability and thus preventing the terminal's wireless access capability from being fully utilized, thereby improving the terminal's transmission rate and transmission stability.

Description

Capability reporting method, device and equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and a device for reporting a capability.

Background

When the terminal communicates with the network, the capability of the terminal at certain time may exceed the capability of the terminal stored in the network side, but the network side does not know the capability, so that the capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized, and the performances of the terminal, such as transmission rate, transmission stability and the like, are affected.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method, a device and equipment for reporting capability, which can solve the problem that the capability of a terminal cannot be fully utilized.

In a first aspect, a method for reporting a capability is provided, including:

The terminal reports the first wireless access capability;

after the terminal reports the first wireless access capability, the terminal reports first information to access network equipment;

the first information is used for indicating second wireless access capability, and the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of the first wireless access capability.

In a second aspect, a method for reporting capability is provided, including:

The access network equipment receives the first wireless access capability from the terminal, or the access network equipment obtains the first wireless access capability of the terminal from the core network equipment;

after the access network device acquires the first wireless access capability, the access network device receives first information from the terminal;

In a third aspect, a method for reporting a capability is provided, including:

the terminal reports at least two sets of third wireless access capability;

After the terminal reports the at least two sets of third wireless access capability, the terminal reports fifth information;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The third wireless access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities;

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a fourth aspect, a method for reporting a capability is provided, including:

the access network equipment receives at least two sets of third wireless access capability from the terminal, or the access network equipment obtains at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal from the core network equipment;

after the access network device acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal, the access network device receives fifth information from the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a fifth aspect, a capability reporting method is provided, including:

The core network equipment receives at least two sets of third wireless access capability from the terminal, or the core network equipment obtains at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal from the access network equipment;

after the core network device acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal, the core network device receives fifth information from the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a sixth aspect, a capability reporting device is provided, including:

the receiving and transmitting unit is used for reporting the first wireless access capability;

After the capability reporting device reports the first wireless access capability, the transceiver unit is further configured to report first information to an access network device;

The first information is used for indicating second wireless access capability, and the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the capability reporting device on the basis of the first wireless access capability.

In a seventh aspect, a capability reporting device is provided, including:

A transceiver unit, configured to receive a first radio access capability from a terminal, or obtain the first radio access capability of the terminal from a core network device;

the receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to receive first information from the terminal after the capability reporting device acquires the first radio access capability;

An eighth aspect provides a capability reporting apparatus, including:

The receiving and transmitting unit is used for reporting at least two sets of third wireless access capacity;

After the capability reporting device reports the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, the transceiver unit is further configured to report fifth information;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The capability reporting device applies the third wireless access capability in the at least two sets of third wireless access capability;

the capability reporting device switches the third wireless access capability.

A ninth aspect provides a capability reporting apparatus, including:

A transceiver unit, configured to receive at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, or obtain at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the core network device;

The receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to receive fifth information from the terminal after the capability reporting device obtains the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a tenth aspect, a capability reporting device is provided, including:

A transceiver unit, configured to receive at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, or obtain at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the access network device;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a terminal comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, or implement the steps of the method as described in the third aspect.

A twelfth aspect provides a terminal comprising a processor and a communication interface;

the communication interface is used for reporting the first wireless access capability;

after the terminal reports the first wireless access capability, the communication interface is further configured to report first information to an access network device;

A thirteenth aspect provides a terminal comprising a processor and a communication interface;

The communication interface is used for reporting at least two sets of third wireless access capability;

after the terminal reports the at least two sets of third wireless access capability, the communication interface is further configured to report fifth information;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a fourteenth aspect, there is provided an access network device comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the second aspect, or implement the steps of the method as described in the fourth aspect.

A fifteenth aspect provides an access network device comprising a processor and a communication interface;

The communication interface is used for receiving the first wireless access capability from the terminal or obtaining the first wireless access capability of the terminal from the core network equipment;

The communication interface is further configured to receive first information from the terminal after the access network device acquires the first radio access capability;

In a sixteenth aspect, an access network device is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface;

the communication interface is used for receiving at least two sets of third wireless access capability from the terminal or obtaining at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal from the core network equipment;

The communication interface is further configured to receive fifth information from the terminal after the access network device acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a seventeenth aspect, there is provided a core network device comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which program or instructions when executed by the processor implement the steps of the method according to the fifth aspect.

An eighteenth aspect provides a core network device, including a processor and a communication interface;

Wherein the communication interface is used for receiving at least two sets of third wireless access capability from the terminal or obtaining at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal from the access network equipment;

the communication interface is further configured to receive fifth information from the terminal after the core network device acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In a nineteenth aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or instructions which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method according to the first aspect, or performs the steps of the method according to the second aspect, or performs the steps of the method according to the third aspect, or performs the steps of the method according to the fourth aspect, or performs the steps of the method according to the fifth aspect.

In a twentieth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, comprising a terminal and an access network device;

Wherein the terminal is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, the access network device is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the second aspect, or the terminal is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the third aspect, and the access network device is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the fourth aspect.

In a twenty-first aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, including a terminal, an access network device, and a core network device;

wherein the terminal is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the third aspect, the access network device is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the fourth aspect, and the core network device is operable to perform the steps of the method as described in the fifth aspect.

In a twenty-second aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor being coupled, the processor being adapted to run a program or instructions, to implement the method according to the first aspect, or to implement the method according to the second aspect, or to implement the method according to the third aspect, or to implement the method according to the fourth aspect, or to implement the method according to the fifth aspect.

In a twenty-third aspect, there is provided a computer program/program product stored in a storage medium, the program/program product being executable by at least one processor to implement the steps of the method according to any one of the first to fifth aspects.

In embodiments of the first and second aspects of the present application, after the terminal reports the first radio access capability, the terminal reports first information to the access network device, where the first information is used to indicate a second radio access capability, and the second radio access capability is a radio access capability that the terminal additionally has on the basis of the first radio access capability. Specifically, the terminal can report the wireless access capability additionally provided on the basis of the first wireless access capability, so that the situation that the wireless access capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized due to the fact that the network side is unaware of the second wireless access capability of the terminal is avoided, and therefore the transmission rate and the transmission stability of the terminal can be improved.

In the embodiments of the third aspect, the fourth aspect and the fifth aspect of the present application, after the terminal reports at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, the terminal reports fifth information, where the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of third wireless access capabilities applied by the terminal in at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, and the terminal switches the third wireless access capabilities. Specifically, the terminal can report at least two sets of third wireless access capability, instruct the third wireless access capability applied currently or switch the third wireless access capability, and avoid that the wireless access capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized due to unknowing of at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal at the network side, thereby improving the transmission rate and the transmission stability of the terminal.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments of the present application will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system architecture according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a terminal capability transmission provided by the present application.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a feature set and feature set combination provided by the present application.

Fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a method for reporting capability according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart of another capability reporting method provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of another capability reporting device provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of another capability reporting device provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of another capability reporting device provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of still another capability reporting apparatus provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 12 is a schematic hardware structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 14 is a schematic block diagram of another network side device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which are derived by a person skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application, fall within the scope of protection of the application.

The terms "first," "second," and the like, herein, are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein, and that the "first" and "second" distinguishing between objects generally are not limited in number to the extent that the first object may, for example, be one or more. Furthermore, the "or" in the present application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, "A or B" encompasses three schemes, namely scheme one including A and excluding B, scheme two including B and excluding A, scheme three including both A and B. The character "/" generally indicates that the context-dependent object is an "or" relationship.

The term "indication" according to the application may be either a direct indication (or an explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or an implicit indication). The direct indication may be understood that the sender explicitly informs the specific information of the receiver, the operation to be executed, the request result, and the like in the sent indication, and the indirect indication may be understood that the receiver determines the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or determines the operation to be executed, the request result, and the like according to the determination result.

It should be noted that the techniques described in embodiments of the present application are not limited to the environment internet of things (Ambient Internet of Things, ioT) system, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/evolution of LTE (LTE-Advanced, LTE-a) systems, code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), wireless local area networks (Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN), wireless fidelity (WIRELESS FIDELITY, WIFI), bluetooth systems, or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in embodiments of the application are often used interchangeably, and the techniques described may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for exemplary purposes and NR terminology is used in much of the following description, but the techniques may also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as the 6 th Generation (6G) communication system.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applicable. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12.

Alternatively, the terminal 11 may be a Mobile phone, a tablet PC (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer), a notebook, a Personal digital assistant (Personal DIGITAL ASSISTANT, PDA), a palm PC, a netbook, an Ultra Mobile Personal Computer (Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer, UMPC), a Mobile internet appliance (Mobile INTERNET DEVICE, MID), an augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, an augmented Reality (XR) device, a robot, a wearable device (Wearable Device), an aircraft (FLIGHT VEHICLE), a vehicle-mounted device (Vehicle User Equipment, VUE), an on-board device, a pedestrian terminal (PEDESTRIAN USER EQUIPMENT, PUE), a smart home (home device with a wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, furniture, etc.), a game machine, a Personal Computer (Personal Computer, PC), a teller machine, a self-service machine, or the like. The wearable device comprises an intelligent watch, an intelligent bracelet, an intelligent earphone, intelligent glasses, intelligent jewelry (intelligent bracelets, intelligent rings, intelligent necklaces, intelligent anklets, intelligent footchains and the like), an intelligent wristband, intelligent clothing and the like. The in-vehicle apparatus may also be referred to as an in-vehicle terminal, an in-vehicle controller, an in-vehicle module, an in-vehicle component, an in-vehicle chip, an in-vehicle unit, or the like. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Alternatively, the network-side device 12 may include an access network device or a core network device.

Alternatively, the access network device may also be referred to as a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN) device, a radio access network function, or a radio access network element. The Access network device may include a base station, a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN) Access Point (AP), or a wireless fidelity (WIRELESS FIDELITY, WIFI) node, etc. The base station may be referred to as a Node B (NB, NB), an Evolved Node B (eNB), a next generation Node B (the next generation Node B, gNB), a New air Node B (New Radio Node B, NR Node B), an access point, a relay station (Relay Base Station, RBS), a serving base station (Serving Base Station, SBS), a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a Radio base station, a Radio transceiver, a Basic service set (Basic SERVICE SET, BSS), an Extended service set (Extended SERVICE SET, ESS), a Home Node B (HNB), a home Evolved Node B (home Evolved Node B), a transmission and reception point (Transmission Reception Point, TRP), or some other suitable term in the art, so long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary, and in the embodiment of the present application, the base station in the NR system is only described by way of example, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

Optionally, the core Network device may include, but is not limited to, at least one of a core Network node, a core Network Function, a Mobility management entity (Mobility MANAGEMENT ENTITY, MME), an access Mobility management Function (ACCESS AND Mobility Management Function, AMF), a session management Function (Session Management Function, SMF), a user plane Function (User Plane Function, UPF), a Policy control Function (Policy Control Function, PCF), a Policy and charging Rules Function unit (Policy AND CHARGING Rules Function, PCRF), an edge application service discovery Function (Edge Application Server Discovery Function, EASDF), a Unified data management (Unified DATA MANAGEMENT, UDM), a Unified data repository (Unified Data Repository, UDR), a home subscriber server (Home Subscriber Server, HSS), a centralized Network configuration (Centralized Network configuration, CNC), a Network storage Function (Network Repository Function, NRF), a Network opening Function (Network Exposure Function, NEF), a Local NEF (Local, or L-NEF), a binding support Function (Binding Support Function, BSF), an application Function (Application Function, AF), a Network data analysis Function (Network DATA ANALYTICS Function, NWDAF), a location management Function (Location Management Function), a mobile evolved location center (lc-Evolved Serving Mobile Location Centre), and the like. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, only the core network device in the NR system is described as an example, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited.

To facilitate a better understanding of the embodiments of the present application, UE capabilities are described.

The UE capabilities are further divided into Core Network (CN) capabilities and radio access Network (Radio Access Network, RAN) capabilities according to the Network elements used by the UE capabilities. RAN capabilities may also be referred to as radio access capabilities (radio access capability), which are the capabilities of the terminal to communicate with the radio access network element.

UE capabilities include optional UE capabilities and optional UE capabilities. The optional UE capability is to ensure that the terminal and the network side can perform most basic communication, and the function (function)/feature/procedure (procedure) supported by the terminal is compulsively required, so that the optional UE capability does not need to be reported. Wherein, the optional UE capability is a function/characteristic/flow that allows the UE to optionally support in consideration of different terminal types, communication scenarios, requirements, and the like. The optional UE capability needs to be reported to the network side in order for the network side to send configuration parameters supported by the UE.

In order to facilitate better understanding of the embodiments of the present application, reporting of UE radio access capability is described.

The radio access capability of the UE includes a very large number of parameters, such as the frequency band supported by the UE (band), the combination of frequency bands supported (BC), and the technical characteristics supported (feature). For some technical characteristics (features), the UE may also report whether to support the characteristics according to fine granularity, such as per band (per BC), per band combination (per BC), or per carrier (per CC per band per BC) per band combination.

In order to reduce signaling overhead caused by reporting the wireless access capability of the UE over the air, the wireless access capability reported by the UE may be stored in the core network, and when the serving base station of the UE is changed, the changed serving base station obtains the wireless access capability of the UE from the core network, and only when the core network also does not have the stored wireless access capability of the UE, the changed serving base station requests the UE to report the wireless access capability of the UE from the UE. The base station requests the UE to report the radio access capability by sending a UE capability request (UECapabilityEnquiry) to the UE, and the UE sends UE capability information (UE capability information) after receiving the UE capability request (UECapabilityEnquiry), where the UE capability information (UE capability information) carries the radio access capability of the UE, and may be specifically shown in fig. 2.

Such radio access capability of UEs stored in the core network is generally considered to be a relatively static capability, as it is not dynamically changed.

When the UE reports the radio access capability, the UE reports the supported band combination, such as band combination { A, B, Z }, for the band combination, and also reports the corresponding feature set combination (Feature Set Combinations), and Feature Set Combinations is the allocation/combination manner of the capability of the terminal under the band combination on each band. Since the terminal reports the corresponding Feature Set Combinations for each band combination, the signaling overhead is very large, and Feature Set Combinations may be similar or even the same considering different band combinations, when the UE reports the radio access capability, the UE reports a feature set combination pool (Feature Set Combinations pool), where the feature set combination pool includes several Feature Set Combinations, each feature set combination is given by a feature set combination identifier, and then the UE can index some Feature Set Combinations in Feature Set Combinations pool for each band combination by Feature Set Combinations ID, so that multiplexing of the same Feature Set Combinations on different band combinations can be achieved.

Further, when the UE reports each Feature Set Combinations in Feature Set Combinations pool, each Feature Set Combinations is reported according to the per band mode shown in fig. 3, and if a Feature Set Combinations band combination corresponds to 3 bands, the Feature Set Combinations includes a Feature Set of the first band, a Feature Set of the second band, and a Feature Set of the third band. In order to further reduce the reporting overhead of the Feature Set of the per band, the UE also reports a Feature Set pool (Feature Set pool), so that if the Feature Set of the first band and the Feature Set of the second band are identical, i.e. include N multiple identical parameters, the UE only needs to report the Feature Set once, and then report the index of the Feature Set in the Feature Set pool for the first band and the second band, respectively.

For better understanding of the embodiments of the present application, the usage scenario of the embodiments of the present application is illustrated, but the usage scenario of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to the illustrated examples.

In actual communication, there is a situation that a Backhaul (Backhaul) condition (such as WiFi connection, bluetooth connection, wired connection, etc.) is ideal between two UEs, where the capability or hardware of one UE (such as auxiliary UE (assistant UE)) may be used to assist the communication between the other UE (such as anchor UE) and the network side, so as to improve the transmission reliability and throughput of the anchor UE, or reduce the power consumption of the anchor UE. Specifically, this relationship between ASSISTANT UE and the anchor UE is UE aggregation, where the capability of the anchor UE may exceed the capability of the UE stored on the network side (e.g., the core network) under the aggregation condition. When two UEs are aggregated, the network side does not know ASSISTANT UE aggregated with the anchor UE, that is, the network side cannot perceive the capability change of the anchor UE, so that the available capability of the anchor UE cannot be fully utilized, and the performances of the anchor UE such as the transmission rate, the transmission stability and the like are affected.

In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solution of the present application is described in detail below through specific embodiments. The above related technologies may be optionally combined with the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, which all belong to the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application. Embodiments of the present application include at least some of the following.

Fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of a capability reporting method 200 according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4, the capability reporting method 200 may include at least some of the following:

S210, a terminal reports a first wireless access capability;

s220, the access network equipment receives the first wireless access capability from the terminal, or the access network equipment obtains the first wireless access capability of the terminal from the core network equipment;

S230, after the terminal reports the first wireless access capability, the terminal reports first information to the access network equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating second wireless access capability, and the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of the first wireless access capability;

s240, after the access network device acquires the first radio access capability, the access network device receives the first information from the terminal.

It should be understood that fig. 4 illustrates steps or operations of the capability reporting method 200, but these steps or operations are merely examples, and that other operations or variations of the operations of fig. 4 may also be performed by the present application.

In some implementations, in the above S210, the terminal reports the first radio access capability to the access network device, in which case, in the above S220, the access network device receives the first radio access capability from the terminal.

In other implementations, in the S210, the terminal reports the first radio access capability to the core network device, in which case, in the S220, the access network device obtains the first radio access capability of the terminal from the core network device.

In some implementations, the terminal reports the first radio access capability to the first access network element at a certain moment (for example, when initial registration is performed after the terminal is started), the first access network element sends the first radio access capability to the core network element for storage, then the terminal disconnects the RRC connection with the first access network element, and when the terminal subsequently establishes or resumes the RRC connection on the second access network element, the second access network element acquires the first radio access capability of the terminal from the core network element.

It should be noted that, the first radio access capability in the embodiment of the present application refers not to a certain capability, but generally refers to the overall radio access capability of the terminal, which includes a series of radio capability parameters, such as a supported frequency point, a supported frequency band combination, a supported characteristic, and so on.

The second radio access capability in the embodiment of the present application may be a radio access capability that is additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of the first radio access capability.

In some implementations, the first or second wireless access capability may be a capability of a certain characteristic (e.g., supported band) or a capability of multiple characteristics (e.g., supported band and supported band combination).

Alternatively, the first radio access capability and the second radio access capability may correspond to the same characteristics.

Alternatively, the terminal may have additional radio access capabilities on the basis of the first radio access capability in some special configurations. For example, for a terminal with a folding function, the terminal has a first radio access capability when in a folded state, and may have an additional radio access capability based on the first radio access capability when the terminal is in an unfolded or unfolded state, in other words, the terminal with the folding function may increase the radio access capability when being folded or unfolded.

Alternatively, the terminal may have additional radio access capabilities on the basis of the first radio access capability in some special scenarios. For example, the terminal may have a first radio access capability when not in aggregation, and the available radio access capability may be obtained from other terminals connected to it (wirelessly or wiredly) in the aggregation scenario, i.e. the terminal may have additional radio access capability based on the first radio access capability in the aggregation scenario, in which case the additional radio access capability the terminal may have may be part or all of the radio access capability of the other terminals. For example, in the case of aggregation of UE1 and UE2, the first radio access capability is the radio access capability of UE1 and the second radio access capability is part or all of the radio access capability of UE2 for UE 1.

Specifically, in the aggregation scenario, where at least two UEs have ideal backhaul conditions (such as WiFi, bluetooth, wired connection, etc.), the capability/hardware of one or more UEs (which may be referred to as assistance UE (assistant UE)) may be used to assist the communication between another UE (which may be referred to as anchor UE) and the network side, so as to improve the transmission reliability and throughput of the anchor UE, or reduce the power consumption of the anchor UE.

The wireless access capability (e.g., first wireless access capability, second wireless access capability, etc.) according to the embodiments of the present application may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

The method includes the steps of a frequency band supported by a terminal (band), a frequency band combination supported by the terminal (band combination), a maximum data rate supported by the terminal, a maximum transmitting power supported by the terminal, a bandwidth supported by the terminal, a multiple input multiple output (Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO) layer number supported by the terminal, a characteristic supported by the terminal, a measurement capability supported by the terminal (such as a frequency point for supporting measurement, a frequency point number, whether scheduling is affected during measurement, and the like).

For example, the first radio access capability of the terminal indicates support of band a, B, C, and the second radio access capability indicates support of band D, and the network side knows that the terminal supports band a, B, C, D.

For another example, the first radio access capability of the terminal indicates that the MIMO capability is 2, and the second radio access capability indicates that the MIMO capability is 4 (or indicates that the MIMO capability is increased by 2), and the network side knows that the MIMO capability supported by the terminal is 4. Specifically, since granularity of MIMO capability may be per CC per band per BC, then the indication of additional capability may also be one-to-one, i.e., per CC per band per BC, reporting additional MIMO capability.

In some embodiments, the terminal sends the first information to the current serving access network apparatus in an RRC connected state, where the first information may be carried by one of the following:

Radio resource Control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) messages, medium access Control (MEDIA ACCESS Control, MAC) signaling, physical layer signaling.

The first information may be UE assistance information, UE information response information, UE capability information, for example.

In other embodiments, the terminal may report the first information during RRC connection establishment, recovery, reestablishment, and handover so that the access network device may utilize the additional capabilities of the terminal as soon as possible. The first information may be carried by one of an RRC connection setup complete message, an RRC reconfiguration complete message, an RRC connection reestablishment complete message, an RRC connection resume request message, message 1 in four-step random access, message a in two-step random access, and a Logical Channel Identification (LCID), for example.

In some embodiments, after the terminal reports the first information, the terminal receives specific configuration information, where the specific configuration information is used to configure parameters related to the second radio access capability.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal can report the wireless access capability additionally provided on the basis of the first wireless access capability, namely the second wireless access capability, so that the situation that the wireless access capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized due to the fact that the network side is unaware of the second wireless access capability of the terminal is avoided, and the transmission rate and the transmission stability of the terminal can be improved.

In some embodiments, the first information includes, but is not limited to, at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

first characteristic information, the first characteristic information is used for the access network equipment to determine the second wireless access capability from a stored characteristic set combination or characteristic set pool;

a first capability identification, the first capability identification being used to indicate the second wireless access capability.

As an implementation manner, the second wireless access capability may be directly reported in the first information, so that the processing complexity of the network side may be simplified, and the method is applicable to a case where the second wireless access capability is less.

As another embodiment, when the first radio access capability reported by the terminal includes a feature set combination pool (feature set combination pool) and a feature set pool (feature set pool), the first information sent by the terminal may carry first feature information. Specifically, for example, the first characteristic information is a characteristic set combination identifier (feature set combination ID), the access network device determines a characteristic set combination currently supported by the terminal (i.e., the second wireless access capability) based on the characteristic set combination identifier reported by the terminal and a characteristic set combination pool stored by the access network device, for example, the first characteristic information is a characteristic set combination uniquely determined from the characteristic set combination pool stored by the access network device based on the characteristic set combination identifier reported by the terminal, i.e., the characteristic set currently supported by the terminal, or the first characteristic information is a characteristic set identifier (feature set ID), and the access network device determines a characteristic set currently supported by the terminal (i.e., the second wireless access capability) based on the characteristic set identifier reported by the terminal and the characteristic set pool stored by the access network device, for example, the characteristic set uniquely determined from the characteristic set pool stored by the access network device based on the characteristic set identifier reported by the terminal, i.e., the characteristic set currently supported by the terminal. The embodiment can reduce signaling overhead, and is suitable for the situation that the first wireless access capability and the second wireless access capability of the terminal support the same characteristic set or the characteristic set combination. It should be noted that the feature set combination identifier or the feature set identifier carried in the first information may be more than one, for example, the terminal may report multiple feature set combination identifiers, where each feature set combination identifier corresponds to a specific band combination, and further, for example, the terminal may report a corresponding feature set identifier for at least one band in a certain band combination.

It should be noted that, the association relationship between the feature set combination identifier and the feature set combination pool, and the association relationship between the feature set identifier and the feature set pool may refer to the above description about reporting the radio access capability of the terminal, which is not repeated herein for brevity.

As another embodiment, the first information may carry the first capability identity, and the first capability identity may be a terminal capability identity (UE capability ID) in radio capability signaling optimization (Radio Capabilities Signaling Optimization, RACS), in which case the core network supports RACS functions. Specifically, for example, the access network device may forward the first capability identifier to the core network device, and then, the core network device uniquely determines a set of radio access capabilities, that is, the second radio access capability, based on the first capability identifier, and forwards the second radio access capability to the access network device. The embodiment can reduce signaling overhead and is suitable for the situation that the second wireless access capability is stored in the core network equipment. For example, in a UE aggregation scenario, when two UEs are not aggregated, a first radio access capability of each UE is stored in a core network device, and when two UEs are aggregated, an anchor UE reports a radio access capability identifier of an auxiliary UE to a network side, and the network side queries the radio access capability of the auxiliary UE according to the radio access capability identifier, and sends capability information to an access network device, where the capability information is regarded as a second radio access capability of the anchor UE.

In some embodiments, the capability reporting method 200 further includes that the terminal reports updated first information to the access network device;

the updated first information is used for indicating the updated second wireless access capability.

Illustratively, at time 1, UE 1 is aggregated with UE 2, UE 1 indicating the radio access capability of UE 2 via the first information. At time 2, UE 1 and UE 3 are aggregated, then UE 1 updates the first information, and indicates the radio access capability of UE 3 through the updated first information.

In this embodiment, the terminal may indicate the updated second wireless access capability by reporting the updated first information, so that the network side may timely learn the updated second wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, a terminal reports updated first information to an access network device according to a first timer, wherein the first timer is started after the terminal reports the first information, and the terminal is allowed to report the updated first information under the condition that the first timer is overtime. Optionally, during the operation of the first timer, the terminal is prohibited or not allowed to report the updated first information.

In this embodiment, the terminal reports the updated first information to the access network device according to the first timer, so that frequent updating of the first information by the terminal can be avoided.

Alternatively, the duration of the first timer may be configured by the network side, or may be agreed by a protocol.

In some embodiments, the terminal starts the first timer immediately after reporting the first information, or starts the first timer after a first period of time elapses after reporting the first information. Alternatively, the first duration may be configured by the network side, or the first duration may be agreed by a protocol.

In some embodiments, the first information includes at least two sets of the second wireless access capabilities.

In particular, for example, the information element contained by each of the at least two sets of second radio access capabilities may be different.

In particular, for another example, the information elements comprised by each of the at least two sets of second radio access capabilities may be identical, but at least some of the information elements of different sets of second radio access capabilities may be different in value.

In some embodiments, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

And the terminal sends second information to the access network equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating the second wireless access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities.

In this embodiment, the terminal may send the second information based on the actual requirement, and instruct the terminal to apply the second wireless access capability in at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities, where, in a case where the second wireless access capability needs to be updated, only the updated second information needs to be reported, and the first information does not need to be repeatedly reported.

Alternatively, the second information may be carried by an RRC message, a MAC CE, or physical layer signaling. The second information may be sent after entering the RRC connection state, or may be sent during the process of establishing, recovering, reestablishing the RRC connection, and switching, and the specific message may refer to the sending of the first information, which is not described herein again.

In some embodiments, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

the terminal reports updated second information to the access network equipment;

The updated second information is used for indicating the second wireless access capability of the updated terminal applied in the at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities.

In this embodiment, the terminal may indicate the updated second wireless access capability of the terminal application by reporting the updated second information, so that the network side may timely learn the updated second wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the terminal reports updated second information to the access network device according to a second timer, wherein the second timer is started after the terminal reports the second information, and the terminal is allowed to report the updated second information under the condition that the second timer is overtime. Optionally, during the operation of the second timer, the terminal is prohibited or not allowed to report the updated second information.

In this embodiment, the terminal reports the updated second information to the access network device according to the second timer, so that frequent updating of the second information by the terminal can be avoided.

Alternatively, the duration of the second timer may be configured by the network side, or may be agreed by a protocol.

In some embodiments, before the terminal reports the first information to the access network device, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

the terminal receives first configuration information from the access network equipment;

The first configuration information is used for indicating content which is allowed to be carried by the first information.

In this embodiment, the content allowed to be carried by the first information may be indicated by the first configuration information, so that the terminal is prevented from carrying the content uninteresting by the network in the first information, and thus signaling overhead of the first information may be reduced.

Optionally, the first configuration information may be used to configure a filter, where the filter is used to limit content carried by the first information, or the filter is used to filter content allowed to be carried by the first information. Specifically, for example, the filter may be an additional capability indicating that the network side is interested, e.g., band of interest, band combination of interest.

Optionally, the first configuration information is used for indicating whether the terminal is allowed to report the second wireless access capability or is used for indicating the second wireless access capability which is allowed to report by the terminal.

Optionally, the first configuration information may be carried by:

RRC reconfiguration message, RRC connection recovery message.

In some embodiments, the step S230 may specifically include:

the terminal reports the first information to the access network device if at least one of the following is satisfied:

the network side allows the terminal to report the second wireless access capability;

And the network side requests the terminal to report the second wireless access capability.

The terminal sends first indication information to the access network equipment;

the first indication information is used for indicating whether the terminal has the second wireless access capability or not.

In this embodiment, the terminal may send the first indication information, so that the network side may timely learn whether the terminal has the second wireless access capability, so that the network side may enable reporting of the first information as soon as possible when the terminal has the second wireless access capability, so that the network side may timely acquire the first information.

In some embodiments, the first indication information is carried by one of:

RRC connection setup complete message, RRC reconfiguration complete message, RRC connection reestablishment complete message, RRC connection resume request message, message 1 in four-step random access (message 1, msg 1), message a in two-step random access (message a, msg a), logical channel identification (Logical CHANNEL IDENTITY, LCID), terminal assistance information.

In some embodiments, before the terminal sends the first indication information to the access network device, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

the terminal receives second configuration information from the access network equipment;

The second configuration information is used for indicating whether the terminal is allowed to send the first indication information in at least one of an RRC connection establishment process, an RRC connection recovery process and an RRC connection reestablishment process.

Alternatively, the second configuration information may be carried by broadcast or dedicated signaling (e.g., RRC release (release) message).

the terminal sends second indication information to the access network equipment;

The second indication information is used for indicating the terminal to support reporting of the second wireless access capability.

In this embodiment, the terminal may send the second indication information, so that the network side may timely learn that the terminal supports reporting the second wireless access capability, so that the network side may enable reporting of the first information as soon as possible, so that the network side may timely acquire the first information.

Alternatively, the second indication information may be carried by UE capability information.

In some embodiments, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

the terminal sends third information to the access network equipment;

the third information is used for indicating capability information which cannot coexist with the second wireless access capability in the first wireless access capability, or the third information is used for indicating capability information which can coexist with the second wireless access capability in the first wireless access capability.

Specifically, for example, considering that in the aggregation scenario, ASSISTANT UE transmissions may cause a certain interference to the transmissions of the anchor UE. Therefore, the Anchor UE may report, in addition to the first information, third information for indicating capability information in the first radio access capability that cannot coexist with the second radio access capability, or for indicating capability information in the first radio access capability that can coexist with the second radio access capability. For example, the third information may indicate that the band combination { a+b } in the first radio access capability may coexist with the band X in the second radio access capability, but that the band combination { a+c } in the first radio access capability cannot coexist with the band X in the second radio access capability.

In some embodiments, all the first radio access capabilities of the terminal cannot coexist with the second radio access capability, and then, when the terminal reports or activates the second radio access capability, the first radio access capability cannot be used or is temporarily not supported, which may be indicated to the network side explicitly or implicitly.

In some embodiments, the capability reporting method 200 further includes:

The terminal sends fourth information to the access network equipment, wherein the fourth information is used for indicating at least one of whether the second wireless access capability is applied and deleting the first information.

Optionally, the fourth information may be further used to indicate whether to activate the second radio access capability.

In some embodiments, the fourth information may be carried by one of:

RRC message, MAC signaling, physical layer signaling.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, after the terminal reports the first radio access capability, the terminal reports first information to the access network device, where the first information is used to indicate the second radio access capability, and the second radio access capability is a radio access capability that the terminal additionally has on the basis of the first radio access capability. Specifically, the terminal can report the wireless access capability additionally provided on the basis of the first wireless access capability, so that the situation that the wireless access capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized due to the fact that the network side is unaware of the second wireless access capability of the terminal is avoided, and therefore the transmission rate and the transmission stability of the terminal can be improved.

The following describes the technical solutions of the capability reporting method 200 according to the present application through embodiments 1 to 3.

In embodiment 1, a terminal is used for reporting first information, and the first information includes at least one of a second wireless access capability, first characteristic information, a first capability identifier, and a first capability identifier, where the first characteristic information is used for determining the second wireless access capability from a stored characteristic set combination or a characteristic set pool by an access network device, and the first capability identifier is used for indicating the second wireless access capability. Embodiment 1 may specifically include some or all of the following steps S1-1 to S1-4.

The method comprises the steps that S1-1, a terminal receives enabling information, wherein the enabling information is used for indicating a network side to allow the terminal to report second wireless access capability or the enabling information is used for indicating the network side to request the terminal to report the second wireless access capability, the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of first wireless access capability, and the first wireless access capability is the wireless access capability reported by the terminal before S1-1 is executed.

In some implementations, the enabling information may also be the first configuration information described above.

Optionally, the first radio access capability may include, but is not limited to, at least one of:

The method comprises the steps of a frequency band supported by a terminal (band), a frequency band combination supported by the terminal (band combination), a maximum data rate supported by the terminal, a maximum transmitting power supported by the terminal, a bandwidth supported by the terminal, a MIMO layer number supported by the terminal, a characteristic supported by the terminal (feature), a measurement capability supported by the terminal (such as a frequency point for supporting measurement, a frequency point number, whether scheduling is affected during measurement or not, and the like).

Optionally, the second wireless access capability may include, but is not limited to, at least one of:

S1-2, in the case that the terminal has the second wireless access capability (for example, terminal aggregation starts), the terminal reports the first information to an access network device. Specifically, the terminal reports additional capabilities, such as reporting an additionally supported frequency band (band), a frequency Band Combination (BC), an antenna, power, a MIMO layer number, and the like, through the first information.

Optionally, the first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

S1-3, when the terminal needs to change the second wireless access capability, the terminal reports updated first information to the access network equipment, wherein the updated first information is used for indicating the updated second wireless access capability.

S1-4, the terminal sends fourth information to the access network equipment;

the fourth information is used for indicating at least one of whether the second wireless access capability is applied, whether the second wireless access capability is activated and deleting the first information.

Specifically, for example, when the terminal does not perform aggregation any more, the terminal transmits the fourth information.

Specifically, after the terminal has sent the first information or the fourth information, the response of the network side may be an RRC reconfiguration message, so as to send the relevant configuration of the second radio access capability to the terminal.

In embodiment 2, a terminal reports first information, where the first information includes at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities, and the terminal reports second information, where the second information is used to indicate the second wireless access capabilities applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities. Embodiment 2 may specifically include some or all of the following steps S2-1 to S2-5.

And S2-1, receiving enabling information by the terminal, wherein the enabling information is used for indicating a network side to allow the terminal to report second wireless access capability or the enabling information is used for indicating the network side to request the terminal to report the second wireless access capability, wherein the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of the first wireless access capability, and the first wireless access capability is the wireless access capability reported by the terminal before executing S2-1.

S2-2, in the case that the terminal has the second wireless access capability (for example, terminal aggregation starts), the terminal reports first information to the access network device, wherein the first information comprises at least two sets of second wireless access capability.

Specifically, the terminal reports at least two sets of second wireless access capability through the first information.

Alternatively, each of the at least two sets of second radio access capabilities may correspond to an index.

S2-3, when the terminal needs to enable the second wireless access capability, the terminal sends second information to access network equipment, wherein the second information is used for indicating the terminal to apply a first set of second wireless access capability in the at least two sets of second wireless access capability.

S2-4, when the terminal needs to change the second wireless access capability, the terminal sends updated second information to the access network equipment, wherein the updated second information is used for indicating the terminal to apply a second set of second wireless access capability in the at least two sets of second wireless access capability.

S2-5, the terminal sends fourth information to the access network equipment;

Specifically, after the terminal has sent the second information or the fourth information, the response of the network side may be an RRC reconfiguration message, so as to send the relevant configuration of the second radio access capability to the terminal.

In embodiment 3, a terminal is used to report first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a second wireless access capability exists in the terminal, then the terminal reports first information, where the first information includes at least one of the second wireless access capability, first characteristic information, and a first capability identifier, where the first capability identifier is used to indicate the second wireless access capability, where the second wireless access capability is specified by taking a stored characteristic set combination or a characteristic set pool as an example. Embodiment 3 may specifically include some or all of the following steps S3-1 to S3-9.

And S3-1, receiving enabling configuration broadcasted by a network side by a terminal in an RRC idle state, and indicating to allow the terminal to send first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether the terminal has second wireless access capability, the second wireless access capability is the wireless access capability additionally provided by the terminal on the basis of the first wireless access capability, and the first wireless access capability is the wireless access capability reported by the terminal before executing S3-1.

S3-2, the terminal initiates an RRC connection setup procedure (such as receiving a page).

S3-3, the terminal sends an RRC connection establishment request message.

S3-4, the terminal receives the RRC connection setup message.

S3-5, if the terminal has the second wireless access capability (namely, if the terminal has the available additional capability), the terminal carries the first indication information in an RRC connection setup complete message, and the terminal sends the RRC connection setup complete message.

And S3-6, the terminal receives enabling information after entering the RRC connection state, wherein the enabling information is used for indicating a network side to allow the terminal to report the second wireless access capability, or the enabling information is used for indicating the network side to request the terminal to report the second wireless access capability.

Alternatively, the enabling configuration carried by the broadcast message in S3-1 may enable reporting of the first indication information and the first information at the same time.

And S3-7, reporting the first information to access network equipment by the terminal under the condition that the terminal has the second wireless access capability (for example, starting terminal aggregation). Specifically, the terminal reports additional capabilities, such as reporting an additionally supported frequency band (band), a frequency Band Combination (BC), an antenna, power, a MIMO layer number, and the like, through the first information.

Optionally, the first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

And S3-8, when the terminal needs to change the second wireless access capability, reporting updated first information to the access network equipment by the terminal, wherein the updated first information is used for indicating the updated second wireless access capability.

S3-9, the terminal sends fourth information to the access network equipment;

Fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart of a capability reporting method 300 according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5, the capability reporting method 300 may include at least some of the following:

s310, the terminal reports at least two sets of third wireless access capability;

s320, the access network equipment receives the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, or the access network equipment obtains the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the core network equipment;

S330, after the access network equipment acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal, the access network equipment receives fifth information from the terminal, wherein the fifth information is used for indicating at least one of the third wireless access capabilities applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities;

S340, the core network equipment receives the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, or the core network equipment obtains the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the access network equipment;

And S350, after the core network equipment acquires the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal, the core network equipment receives fifth information from the terminal, wherein the fifth information is used for indicating at least one of the third wireless access capabilities applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, and the terminal switches the third wireless access capabilities.

It should be understood that fig. 5 illustrates steps or operations of the capability reporting method 300, but these steps or operations are merely examples, and that other operations or variations of the operations in fig. 5 may also be performed by the present application.

In some implementations, the capability reporting method 300 may include S310, S320, and S330.

In other implementations, the capability reporting method 300 may include S310, S340, and S350.

In some implementations, in S310 above, the terminal reports at least two sets of third radio access capabilities to the access network device, in which case, in S320 above, the access network device receives at least two sets of third radio access capabilities from the terminal.

In other implementations, in the step S310, the terminal reports at least two sets of third radio access capabilities to the core network device, in which case, in the step S320, the access network device obtains at least two sets of third radio access capabilities of the terminal from the core network device.

In other implementations, in S310, the terminal reports at least two sets of third radio access capabilities to the first access network element at a certain moment (for example, when the terminal is initially registered after being started), the first access network element sends the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities to the second access network element for storage, then the terminal disconnects the RRC connection with the first access network element, when the terminal subsequently establishes or resumes the RRC connection on the second access network element, the second access network element acquires the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities of the terminal from the core network element (the subsequent terminal can report fifth information to the second access network element), or when the terminal subsequently establishes or resumes the RRC connection on the second access network element, the terminal sends fifth information to the second access network element through AS layer signaling, the fifth information carries index/identification information corresponding to the third radio access capabilities applied by the terminal, the second network element sends the fifth information to the core network element, and the second access network element inquires about the fifth information to the core network element based on the fifth information carrying the fifth radio access capabilities applied by the terminal, and the second access network element is queried on the fifth information carrying the index/identification information.

Optionally, the sets of third radio access capabilities reported by the terminal, the corresponding index information may be explicitly indicated by the terminal, or mapped in a preset manner (e.g., according to the number of bits of the sets of third radio access capabilities appearing in the message, e.g., further differentiated according to information elements (Information elements, IE) carried by different third radio access capabilities, e.g., higher-order capability and lower-order capability IE). The AS layer and the NAS layer of the terminal can mutually transfer index/identification information corresponding to the third wireless access capability when needed so AS to accurately send the fifth information.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal can correspond to different third wireless access capabilities in different forms. For example, for a terminal with a folding function, one set of third radio access capabilities may be provided when the terminal is in a folded configuration, and another set of third radio access capabilities may be provided when the terminal is in an unfolded or flipped-open configuration, in other words, the terminal with a folding function has at least two sets of third radio access capabilities. If the folding screen of the terminal has two sets of different third wireless access capabilities in the opening and closing state.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal can have at least two sets of third wireless access capability in different scenes. For example, the terminal may obtain available radio access capabilities from other terminals connected (wirelessly or wiredly) to the terminal in the aggregation scenario, i.e. the terminal may have a third set of radio access capabilities in the aggregation scenario, in which case the additional radio access capabilities the terminal may have may be part or all of the radio access capabilities of the other terminals. In a non-aggregation scenario, the terminal is provided with a third set of wireless access capabilities.

It should be noted that, in the aggregation scenario, the at least two UEs have ideal backhaul conditions (such as WiFi, bluetooth, wired connection, etc.), and the capability/hardware of one or more UEs (which may be referred to as assistance UE (assistant UE)) may be used to assist the communication between another UE (which may be referred to as anchor UE) and the network side, so as to improve the transmission reliability and throughput of the anchor UE, or reduce the power consumption of the anchor UE.

In an embodiment of the present application, the set of third wireless access capabilities may include, but is not limited to, at least one of:

In some embodiments, the at least two sets of third wireless Access capabilities may be carried by Access Stratum (AS) layer signaling or NAS layer signaling. The at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities may be reported by a terminal capability information message, for example.

In particular, for example, the information elements comprised by each of the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities may be different.

For another example, the information elements included in each of the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities may be the same, but the values of at least some of the information elements of different sets of third radio access capabilities may be different.

Optionally, the fifth information may include a specific bit for indicating that the terminal switches the third radio access capability. For example, a value of 0 is used to indicate that the terminal does not switch the third wireless access capability, a value of 1 is used to indicate that the terminal switches the third wireless access capability, or a value of 1 is used to indicate that the terminal does not switch the third wireless access capability, and a value of 0 is used to indicate that the terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

Optionally, the fifth information may indicate a set of the third radio access capabilities applied or activated by the terminal, meaning that the third radio access capabilities that are not activated default to a deactivated/unsupported/non-applied state. Optionally, the fifth information may indicate a plurality of sets of the third radio access capabilities applied or activated by the terminal.

In some embodiments, the fifth information is carried by one of:

RRC connection setup complete message, RRC reconfiguration complete message, RRC connection reestablishment complete message, RRC connection resume request message, message 1 in four-step random Access (Msg 1), message a in two-step random Access (Msg a), LCID, terminal assistance information, non-Access Stratum (NAS) message.

In some embodiments, before the terminal reports the fifth information, the capability reporting method 300 further includes:

The terminal receives third configuration information;

Wherein the third configuration information is used for indicating whether the terminal is allowed to transmit the fifth information in at least one of an RRC connection setup procedure, an RRC connection recovery procedure, and an RRC connection reestablishment procedure.

Specifically, for example, the terminal receives third configuration information from the access network device.

Alternatively, the third configuration information may be carried by broadcast or dedicated signaling (e.g., RRC release message).

In some embodiments, in a case where the access network device receives the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, the capability reporting method 300 further includes:

and the access network equipment sends the at least two sets of third wireless access capability to the core network equipment.

In some embodiments, in a case where the core network device receives fifth information from the terminal, the capability reporting method 300 further includes:

And the core network equipment sends sixth information to the access network equipment, wherein the sixth information is used for indicating the third wireless access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third wireless access capability.

In this embodiment, the access network device may learn, through the sixth information, a third radio access capability applied by the terminal in at least two sets of third radio access capabilities.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the application, after the terminal reports at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, the terminal reports fifth information, wherein the fifth information is used for indicating at least one of the third wireless access capabilities applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, and the terminal switches the third wireless access capabilities. Specifically, the terminal can report at least two sets of third wireless access capability, instruct the third wireless access capability applied currently or switch the third wireless access capability, and avoid that the wireless access capability of the terminal cannot be fully utilized due to unknowing of at least two sets of third wireless access capability of the terminal at the network side, thereby improving the transmission rate and the transmission stability of the terminal.

According to the capability reporting method provided by the embodiment of the application, the execution main body can be a capability reporting device or a processing unit used for executing the capability reporting method in the capability reporting device. In the embodiment of the application, a method for executing the capability reporting by the capability reporting device is taken as an example, and the capability reporting device provided by the embodiment of the application is described.

Fig. 6 shows a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device 400 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 6, the capability reporting device 400 includes:

a transceiver unit 410, configured to report the first radio access capability;

after the capability reporting device 400 reports the first radio access capability, the transceiver 410 is further configured to report first information to an access network device;

the first information is used to indicate a second wireless access capability, where the second wireless access capability is a wireless access capability that the capability reporting device 400 additionally has on the basis of the first wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to report the updated first information to the access network device;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 is specifically configured to:

reporting the updated first information to the access network equipment according to a first timer;

the first timer is started after the capability reporting device 400 reports the first information, and the capability reporting device 400 is allowed to report the updated first information when the first timer is overtime.

In some embodiments, the first information includes at least two sets of the second wireless access capabilities;

The transceiver unit 410 is further configured to send second information to the access network device, where the second information is used to indicate the second radio access capability applied by the capability reporting device 400 in the at least two sets of the second radio access capabilities.

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 400 reports the first information to the access network device, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to receive first configuration information from the access network device;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 is specifically configured to:

reporting the first information to the access network device if at least one of the following is satisfied:

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 400 reports the first information to the access network device, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to send first indication information to the access network device;

the first indication information is used to indicate whether the capability reporting device 400 has the second wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the first indication information is carried by one of:

The method comprises the steps of Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment completion message, RRC reconfiguration completion message, RRC connection reestablishment completion message, RRC connection recovery request message, message 1 in four-step random access, message A in two-step random access, logic Channel Identification (LCID) and terminal auxiliary information.

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 400 sends the first indication information to the access network device, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to receive second configuration information from the access network device;

the second configuration information is used for indicating whether the capability reporting device 400 is allowed to send the first indication information in at least one of an RRC connection establishment procedure, an RRC connection recovery procedure, and an RRC connection reestablishment procedure.

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 400 reports the first information to the access network device, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to send second indication information to the access network device;

the second indication information is used to indicate that the capability reporting device 400 supports reporting the second wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to send third information to the access network device;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 is further configured to send fourth information to the access network device;

wherein the fourth information is used for indicating at least one of whether to apply the second wireless access capability and deleting the first information.

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 410 may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip.

It should be understood that the capability reporting apparatus 400 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to a terminal in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and each unit in the capability reporting apparatus 400 is for implementing a corresponding flow of the terminal in the method 200 shown in fig. 4, and is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 7 shows a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device 500 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 7, the capability reporting device 500 includes:

a transceiver unit 510, configured to receive a first radio access capability from a terminal, or obtain the first radio access capability of the terminal from a core network device by an access network device;

After the capability reporting device 500 acquires the first radio access capability, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive first information from the terminal;

In some embodiments, the first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

First characteristic information, where the first characteristic information is used by the capability reporting device 500 to determine the second wireless access capability from a stored characteristic set combination or characteristic set pool;

the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive second information from the terminal, where the second information is used to indicate the second radio access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of the second radio access capabilities.

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 500 receives the first information from the terminal, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to send first configuration information to the terminal;

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 500 receives the first information from the terminal, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive first indication information from the terminal;

In some embodiments, the first indication information is carried by one of:

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 500 receives the first indication information from the terminal, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to send second configuration information to the terminal;

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 500 receives the first information from the terminal, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive second indication information from the terminal;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive third information from the terminal;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 510 is further configured to receive fourth information from the terminal;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 510 may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip.

It should be understood that the capability reporting apparatus 500 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the access network device in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and each unit in the capability reporting apparatus 500 is for implementing a corresponding flow of the access network device in the method 200 shown in fig. 4, and is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 8 shows a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device 600 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 8, the capability reporting device 600 includes:

a transceiver unit 610, configured to report at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities;

After the capability reporting device 600 reports the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, the transceiver unit 610 is further configured to report fifth information;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

the capability reporting device 600 applies the third wireless access capability in the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities;

the capability reporting device 600 switches the third radio access capability.

In some embodiments, the fifth information is carried by one of:

A Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment completion message, an RRC reconfiguration completion message, an RRC connection reestablishment completion message, an RRC connection recovery request message, a message 1 in four-step random access, a message A in two-step random access, a Logical Channel Identification (LCID), terminal auxiliary information and a non-access stratum (NAS) message.

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 600 reports the fifth information, the transceiver unit 610 is further configured to receive third configuration information;

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 610 may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip.

It should be understood that the capability reporting apparatus 600 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to a terminal in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and each unit in the capability reporting apparatus 600 is for implementing a corresponding flow of the terminal in the method 300 shown in fig. 5, and is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 9 shows a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device 700 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 9, the capability reporting device 700 includes:

A transceiver unit 710, configured to receive at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, or obtain at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the core network device;

The transceiver unit 710 is further configured to receive fifth information from the terminal after the capability reporting device 700 obtains the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the fifth information is carried by one of:

In some embodiments, before the capability reporting device 700 receives the fifth information from the terminal, the transceiver unit 710 is further configured to send third configuration information to the terminal;

In some embodiments, in case the capability reporting device 700 receives the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal, the transceiver unit 710 is further configured to send the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities to a core network device.

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 710 may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip.

It should be understood that the capability reporting apparatus 700 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the access network device in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and each unit in the capability reporting apparatus 700 is for implementing the corresponding flow of the access network device in the method 300 shown in fig. 5, and is not described herein for brevity.

Fig. 10 shows a schematic block diagram of a capability reporting device 800 according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 10, the capability reporting device 800 includes:

a transceiver unit 810 for receiving at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal or obtaining at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal from the access network device;

after the capability reporting device 800 obtains the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities of the terminal, the transceiver 810 is further configured to receive fifth information from the terminal;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the transceiver unit 810 is further configured to send sixth information to an access network device;

Wherein the sixth information is used to indicate the third radio access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities.

In some embodiments, the transceiver 810 may be a communication interface or transceiver, or an input/output interface of a communication chip or a system on a chip.

It should be understood that the capability reporting apparatus 800 according to the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the core network device in the embodiment of the method of the present application, and each unit in the capability reporting apparatus 800 is for implementing the corresponding flow of the core network device in the method 300 shown in fig. 5, and is not described herein for brevity.

The capability reporting device in the embodiment of the application can be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or can be a component in the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal or a network side device, or may be other devices than a terminal or a network side device. By way of example, the terminals may include, but are not limited to, the types of terminals 11 listed above, the network-side devices may include, but are not limited to, the types of network-side devices 12 listed above, the other devices may be servers, network attached storage (Network Attached Storage, NAS), etc., and the embodiments of the present application are not limited in detail.

The capability reporting device provided by the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 4 or fig. 5, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

As shown in fig. 11, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 900, including a processor 901 and a memory 902, where the memory 902 stores a program or instructions executable on the processor 901.

For example, when the communication device 900 is a terminal, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 901, implements each step executed by the terminal in the above-described method embodiment for reporting capability, and can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

For another example, when the communication device 900 is an access network device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 901, implements each step executed by the access network device in the above-mentioned method embodiment for reporting capability, and can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

For another example, when the communication device 900 is a core network device, the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor 901, implements each step executed by the core network device in the above-mentioned method embodiment for reporting capability, and can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled with the processor, and the processor is used for running programs or instructions to realize the steps executed by the terminal in the embodiment of the method shown in fig. 4 or fig. 5. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the terminal-side method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. Specifically, fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The terminal 1000 can include, but is not limited to, at least some of the components of a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that terminal 1000 can also include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, which can be logically connected to processor 1010 by a power management system so as to perform functions such as managing charge, discharge, and power consumption by the power management system. The terminal structure shown in fig. 12 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal, and the terminal may include more or less components than shown, or may combine certain components, or may be arranged in different components, which will not be described in detail herein.

It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the input unit 1004 may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, where the graphics processor 10041 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1007 includes at least one of a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 can include two portions, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 10072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and so forth, which are not described in detail herein.

In the embodiment of the present application, after receiving the downlink data from the network side device, the radio frequency unit 1001 may transmit the downlink data to the processor 1010 for processing, and in addition, the radio frequency unit 1001 may send the uplink data to the network side device. In general, the radio frequency unit 1001 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

The memory 1009 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1009 may mainly include a first memory area storing programs or instructions and a second memory area storing data, wherein the first memory area may store an operating system, application programs or instructions (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. Further, the memory 1009 may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), static random access memory (STATIC RAM, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DYNAMIC RAM, DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate Synchronous dynamic random access memory (Double DATA RATE SDRAM, DDRSDRAM), enhanced Synchronous dynamic random access memory (ENHANCED SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SYNCH LINK DRAM, SLDRAM), and Direct random access memory (DRRAM). Memory 1009 in embodiments of the application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The processor 1010 may include at least one processing unit, and optionally the processor 1010 integrates an application processor that primarily processes operations involving an operating system, user interface, application program, etc., and a modem processor that primarily processes capability reporting signals, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 1010.

In some embodiments, the radio frequency unit 1001 is configured to report a first radio access capability;

after the terminal 1000 reports the first radio access capability, the radio frequency unit 1001 is further configured to report first information to an access network device;

The first information is used to indicate a second wireless access capability, where the second wireless access capability is a wireless access capability that the terminal 1000 additionally has on the basis of the first wireless access capability.

In some embodiments, the radio frequency unit 1001 is configured to report at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities;

after the terminal 1000 reports the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities, the radio frequency unit 1001 is further configured to report fifth information;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The third radio access capabilities applied by the terminal 1000 in the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities;

the terminal 1000 switches the third radio access capability.

It can be appreciated that the implementation process of each implementation manner mentioned in this embodiment may refer to the related description of the method embodiment, and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects, so that repetition is avoided and detailed description is omitted herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides network side equipment, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled with the processor, and the processor is used for running programs or instructions to realize the steps executed by the access network equipment in the method embodiment shown in fig. 4 or 5. The network side device embodiment corresponds to the access network device method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment are applicable to the network side device embodiment and can achieve the same technical effects, so that the details are omitted for brevity.

Specifically, the embodiment of the application also provides network side equipment. As shown in fig. 13, the network-side apparatus 1100 includes an antenna 111, a radio frequency device 112, a baseband device 113, a processor 114, and a memory 115. The antenna 111 is connected to a radio frequency device 112. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 112 receives information via the antenna 111, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 113 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 113 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 112, and the radio frequency device 112 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 111.

The method performed by the access network device in the above embodiment may be implemented in a baseband apparatus 113, which baseband apparatus 113 comprises a baseband processor.

The baseband device 113 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, where at least two chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 13, where one chip, for example, a baseband processor, is connected to the memory 115 through a bus interface, so as to call a program in the memory 115, and perform an operation performed by the access network device in the foregoing method embodiment.

The network-side device may also include a network interface 116, such as a common public radio interface (Common Public Radio Interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the network side device 1100 of the embodiment of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored in the memory 115 and capable of running on the processor 114, and the processor 114 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 115 to execute the method executed by each unit shown in fig. 7 or fig. 9, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided and therefore a description thereof is omitted.

The embodiment of the application also provides network side equipment. As shown in fig. 14, the network-side device 1200 includes a processor 1201, a network interface 1202, and a memory 1203. The network interface 1202 is, for example, a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the network side device 1200 of the embodiment of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored in the memory 1203 and capable of running on the processor 1201, where the processor 1201 calls the instructions or programs in the memory 1203 to execute the method executed by each unit shown in fig. 10, and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and therefore, the description is omitted herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium stores a program or an instruction, and the program or the instruction realizes each process of the above-mentioned capability reporting method embodiment when being executed by a processor, and can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided and no redundant description is provided herein.

The processor is a processor in the terminal described in the foregoing embodiment, or the processor is a processor in the access network device described in the foregoing embodiment, or the processor is a processor in the core network device described in the foregoing embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer readable storage medium such as computer readable memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic or optical disk, etc. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, the chip comprises a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled with the processor, the processor is used for running programs or instructions, the processes of the above-mentioned capability reporting method embodiment can be realized, the same technical effects can be achieved, and the repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

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

The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program/program product, where the computer program/program product is stored in a storage medium, and the computer program/program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each process of the above-mentioned capability reporting method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and details are not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication system which comprises a terminal and access network equipment, wherein the terminal can be used for executing the steps executed by the terminal in the capacity reporting method, and the access network equipment can be used for executing the steps executed by the access network equipment in the capacity reporting method.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication system, which comprises a terminal, access network equipment and core network equipment, wherein the terminal can be used for executing the steps executed by the terminal in the capacity reporting method, the access network equipment can be used for executing the steps executed by the access network equipment in the capacity reporting method, and the core network equipment can be used for executing the steps executed by the core network equipment in the capacity reporting method.

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

From the description of the embodiments above, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described example methods may be implemented by means of a computer software product plus a necessary general purpose hardware platform, but may also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored on a storage medium (e.g., ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) comprising instructions for causing a terminal or access network device or core network device to perform the methods according to the various embodiments of the application.

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

Claims

1. The capability reporting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

The terminal reports the first wireless access capability;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining the position of the substrate comprises,

The first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:

The terminal reports updated first information to the access network equipment;

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of,

The terminal reports updated first information to the access network equipment, including:

The terminal reports the updated first information to the access network equipment according to a first timer;

the first timer is started after the terminal reports the first information, and the terminal is allowed to report the updated first information under the condition that the first timer is overtime.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining the position of the substrate comprises,

The first information includes at least two sets of the second wireless access capabilities;

the method further comprises the steps of:

6. The method according to any one of claim 1 to 5, wherein,

Before the terminal reports the first information to the access network device, the method further includes:

7. The method according to any one of claim 1 to 6, wherein,

The terminal reports first information to the access network device, including:

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein,

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of determining the position of the first electrode is performed,

The first indication information is carried by one of:

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining the position of the substrate comprises,

Before the terminal sends the first indication information to the access network device, the method further comprises:

11. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein,

12. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, further comprising:

the terminal sends third information to the access network equipment;

13. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 12, further comprising:

the terminal sends fourth information to the access network equipment;

14. The capability reporting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,

The first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,

the method further comprises the steps of:

the access network device receives second information from the terminal, wherein the second information is used for indicating the second wireless access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of second wireless access capabilities.

17. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 16, wherein,

Before the access network device receives the first information from the terminal, the method further comprises:

the access network equipment sends first configuration information to the terminal;

18. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 17, wherein,

the access network equipment receives first indication information from the terminal;

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,

The first indication information is carried by one of:

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe comprises,

Before the access network device receives the first indication information from the terminal, the method further comprises:

the access network equipment sends second configuration information to the terminal;

21. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 20, wherein,

the access network equipment receives second indication information from the terminal;

22. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 21, further comprising:

the access network equipment receives third information from the terminal;

23. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 22, further comprising:

the access network equipment receives fourth information from the terminal;

24. The capability reporting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the terminal reports at least two sets of third wireless access capability;

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,

The fifth information is carried by one of:

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,

Before the terminal reports the fifth information, the method further includes:

The terminal receives third configuration information;

27. The capability reporting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,

The fifth information is carried by one of:

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,

Before the access network device receives the fifth information from the terminal, the method further comprises:

the access network equipment sends third configuration information to the terminal;

wherein the third configuration information is used for indicating whether the terminal is allowed to transmit the fifth information in an RRC connection setup procedure, an RRC connection recovery procedure, or an RRC connection reestablishment procedure.

30. The method according to any of claims 27 to 29, wherein in case the access network device receives the at least two sets of third radio access capabilities from the terminal, the method further comprises:

The access network device sends the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities to a core network device.

31. The capability reporting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

32. The method according to claim 31, characterized in that the method further comprises:

The core network equipment sends sixth information to the access network equipment;

33. A capability reporting apparatus, comprising:

34. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

The first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

35. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

the transceiver unit is further configured to send second information to the access network device, where the second information is used to indicate the second radio access capability applied by the capability reporting device in the at least two sets of second radio access capabilities.

36. The device according to any one of claims 33 to 35, wherein,

Before the capability reporting device reports the first information to the access network device, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive first configuration information from the access network device;

37. The device according to any one of claims 33 to 36, wherein,

Before the capability reporting device reports the first information to the access network device, the transceiver unit is further configured to send first indication information to the access network device;

The first indication information is used for indicating whether the second wireless access capability exists in the capability reporting device.

38. The device according to any one of claims 33 to 37, wherein,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to send third information to the access network device;

39. The device according to any one of claims 33 to 38, wherein,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to send fourth information to the access network device;

40. A capability reporting apparatus, comprising:

41. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the device comprises,

The first information includes at least one of:

The second wireless access capability;

First characteristic information, the first characteristic information is used for the ability reporting device to determine the second wireless access ability from the stored characteristic set combination or characteristic set pool;

42. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the device comprises,

the transceiver unit is further configured to receive second information from the terminal, where the second information is used to indicate the second radio access capability applied by the terminal in the at least two sets of the second radio access capabilities.

43. The apparatus of any one of claims 40 to 42,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to send first configuration information to the terminal before the capability reporting device receives the first information from the terminal;

44. The apparatus of any one of claims 40 to 43,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further used for receiving third information from the terminal;

45. The apparatus of any one of claims 40 to 44, wherein,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further used for receiving fourth information from the terminal;

46. A capability reporting apparatus, comprising:

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

the capability reporting device switches the third wireless access capability.

47. The apparatus of claim 46, wherein the device comprises,

The fifth information is carried by one of:

48. The apparatus of claim 47, wherein the device comprises,

Before the capability reporting device reports the fifth information, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive third configuration information;

The third configuration information is used for indicating whether the capability reporting device is allowed to send the fifth information in at least one of an RRC connection establishment process, an RRC connection recovery process and an RRC connection reestablishment process.

49. A capability reporting apparatus, comprising:

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

50. The apparatus of claim 49, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities to a core network device if the capability reporting device receives the at least two sets of third wireless access capabilities from the terminal.

51. A capability reporting apparatus, comprising:

wherein the fifth information is used to indicate at least one of:

The terminal switches the third wireless access capability.

52. The apparatus of claim 51, wherein the device comprises,

The receiving and transmitting unit is further used for transmitting sixth information to the access network equipment;

53. A terminal comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 1 to 13, or performs the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 24 to 26.

54. An access network device comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 14 to 23, or the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 27 to 30.

55. A core network device comprising a transceiver, a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 31 to 32.

56. A readable storage medium, wherein a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, which when executed by a processor implements the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 1 to 13, or implements the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 14 to 23, or implements the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 24 to 26, or implements the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 27 to 30, or implements the steps of the capability reporting method of any one of claims 31 to 32.