WO2022227967A1 - Measurement report transmission method, terminal device, and access network device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application discloses a measurement report transmission method, a terminal device, and an access network device. When application layer measurement reports are obtained, the terminal device can refer to time information to decide whether to encapsulate one obtained application layer measurement report into a first message, or encapsulate a plurality of obtained application layer measurement reports into the first message together. The terminal device decides, on the basis of the time information, the occasion for encapsulating one or a plurality of application layer measurement reports, and therefore the flexibility of the terminal device reporting the application layer measurement reports to an access network device is improved. Furthermore, when the terminal device determines to encapsulate a plurality of application layer measurement reports into the first message and sends the first message to the access network device, signaling for transmitting the application layer measurement reports between the terminal device and the access network device can be reduced, and the utilization rate of signaling for transmitting the application layer measurement reports can be improved.

Description

Measurement report transmission method, terminal device and access network device

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application filed on April 29, 2021 with the State Intellectual Property Office of China, the application number is 202110475709.7, and the application name is "Measurement report transmission method, terminal equipment and access network equipment", the entire content of which is Incorporated herein by reference.

technical field

The embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method for transmitting a measurement report, a terminal device, and an access network device.

Background technique

Quality of experience (QoE) is a performance indicator used to evaluate a user's comprehensive subjective perception of the quality and performance (including effectiveness and availability) of a device, network, system, application or service. The comfort of the application is defined. Measuring quality of experience is called QoE measurement (also known as application layer measurement). The application layer measurement can also refer to the quality and performance of the device, application or service reported by the terminal device. By collecting QoE measurement results (also referred to as application layer measurement results), operators learn about the user experience, and then better optimize the network to improve user experience.

In the current application layer measurement process, the access network device sends the application layer measurement configuration to the terminal device, and the terminal device measures the service according to the application layer measurement configuration to obtain the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service. Whenever the terminal device measures an application layer measurement report, the terminal device sends the aforementioned application layer measurement report to the access network device. Therefore, the signaling overhead of the current solution for transmitting application layer measurement reports is too high.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the present application provide a measurement report transmission method, a terminal device, and an access network device, which reduce signaling overhead for transmitting application layer measurement reports between the terminal device and the access network device.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a measurement report transmission method, which involves a terminal device and an access network device. In this method, the terminal device acquires time information. The time information indicates the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement. Then, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information. Then, the terminal device sends the first message to the access network device.

The time information indicates the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report. It can be understood that the terminal device can directly or indirectly determine the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report according to the time information, that is, the terminal device can directly or indirectly determine the time based on the time information. One or more application layer measurement reports are encapsulated into a first message, so that the aforementioned one or more application layer measurement reports are sent to the access network device through the aforementioned first message.

In addition, because the application layer measurement process requires the terminal device to obtain the application layer measurement configuration from the access network device, then the terminal device performs application layer measurement based on the application layer measurement configuration, and then obtains an application layer measurement report (that is, the terminal device performs an application layer measurement report). measurements obtained from layer measurements). The application layer measurement configuration may be received by the access network device from the core network element, or may be generated by the access network device. In addition, an application-layer measurement configuration generally corresponds to an exact service type, that is, an application-layer measurement configuration is used to measure a service of a certain service type.

Furthermore, the first message refers to a message capable of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports. The first message refers to a message in a broad sense, and in some possible scenarios, the first message may also be referred to as a first signaling, a first packet, a first data packet, a first command, or the like.

In this embodiment, when the terminal device obtains the application layer measurement report, it can refer to the time information to decide whether to encapsulate the obtained one application layer measurement report into the first message, or encapsulate the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into the first message. in a message. Since the terminal device decides the timing of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports based on the time information, the flexibility of the terminal device to report the application layer measurement report to the access network device is improved. Further, when the terminal device determines to encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned first message, and sends the first message to the access network device, it can save the time between the terminal device and the access network device. The signaling of the application layer measurement report is transmitted, and the utilization rate of the signaling used for transmitting the application layer measurement report is improved.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information In a message, each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that the terminal device can encapsulate at least two application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types into one message (ie, the aforementioned first message). For example, an application layer measurement report obtained by measuring a service of the first service type and an application layer measurement report obtained by measuring a service of the second service type are encapsulated in the aforementioned first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information In a message, each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to the same service type.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that the terminal device can encapsulate at least two application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type into one message (ie, the aforementioned first message). Optionally, the foregoing at least two application layer measurement reports are obtained by the terminal device at different times respectively. For example, the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report about the first service type every T milliseconds, then the terminal device can compare the application layer measurement report obtained at time t with the application layer measurement report obtained at time (t+T) The report is encapsulated together in the aforementioned first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device encapsulates at least three application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information In a message, the at least three application-layer measurement reports include not only at least two application-layer measurement reports belonging to the first service type, but also at least one application-layer measurement report belonging to the second service type. Wherein, the first service type is different from the second service type.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that the terminal device can encapsulate at least three application layer measurement reports into one message (ie, the aforementioned first message). In the aforementioned at least three application layer measurement reports, there are not only application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types, but also multiple application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

In a possible implementation, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. Specifically, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation period into the first message. That is to say, every time period corresponding to the first encapsulation period, the terminal device will trigger an encapsulation application layer measurement report. It can also be understood that a timing device (for example, a timer) is provided in the terminal device, and the duration set by the timing device is the aforementioned first packaging period. When the timing device is running, the terminal device may obtain one or more application layer measurement reports, and the terminal device will continue to receive the aforementioned application layer measurement reports until the timing device times out, then the terminal device triggers the obtained application layer measurement report to encapsulate to the first message. Of course, after the terminal device sends the aforementioned first message, if the access network device does not provide the terminal device with a new encapsulation cycle, or the terminal device does not obtain a new encapsulation cycle from other channels, the terminal device will use the aforementioned timing device Set to zero and re-time, and receive the application-layer measurement report obtained subsequently (that is, the application-layer measurement report obtained after sending the first message), when the timing device times out again, the terminal device will trigger the transmission of the first message. The application-layer measurement report of the device is encapsulated into a message, and the message is sent to the access network device. This cycle will not be repeated.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the multiple application layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device in the first encapsulation cycle may be application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types, or may be multiple application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. The application-layer measurement report may also include the foregoing two situations at the same time, which is not specifically limited here.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same.

In a possible implementation, the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods. The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device determines a second encapsulation period according to a plurality of the measurement periods, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate that the at least one application layer A period in which the layer measurement report is encapsulated into one message; the terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report measured in the second encapsulation period into the first message.

In this embodiment, the terminal device can determine the second packaging period based on multiple measurement periods, and the function of the second packaging period is similar to that of the foregoing first packaging period. However, the second encapsulation period in this embodiment is determined by the terminal device based on multiple measurement periods, and the aforementioned first encapsulation period is provided by the access network device to the terminal device.

Optionally, the second packaging periods are respectively greater than at least two measurement periods. At this time, the terminal device can obtain at least two application layer measurement reports in one second encapsulation period.

In a possible implementation, the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods. The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, including: the terminal device obtains a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to instruct triggering measurement of the service of the service type; After the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to the start indications of the multiple service types and the measurement periods of the multiple service types.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that after the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, the terminal device will determine whether it can measure other services in a short time in the future according to the start indications of multiple service types and the measurement periods of multiple service types. Application layer measurement report. If the terminal device can measure other application layer measurement reports in a short time in the future, the terminal device will determine not to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report; if it does not exist in a relatively short time in the future other application layer measurement reports, the terminal device will determine to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to the start indications of multiple service types and the measurement periods of multiple service types, including:

Based on the start indication and measurement period of the same service type, the terminal device determines the generation time of the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service type, and the generation time is used to instruct the terminal device to obtain the theoretical time of the application layer measurement report; the terminal device The device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to the multiple generation moments. Optionally, each generation moment corresponds to an application layer measurement report. Optionally, the foregoing multiple generation times are respectively the times when the terminal device measures application layer measurement reports of different service types.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that the terminal device can determine when the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service type will be measured according to the start indication of a certain service type and the measurement period of the service type. By analogy, when the terminal device calculates the generation time of multiple application layer measurement reports, the terminal device knows whether the application layer measurement report can be measured in the future, and then determines whether to wait for the next measured application layer measurement report. measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to multiple generation moments, including: the terminal device determines a package quantity according to the multiple generation moments, and the package number is used for Indicates the number of application layer measurement reports encapsulated in one message; when the number of application layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device reaches the encapsulated number, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into the first message.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that after the terminal device determines multiple generation times, the terminal device can determine the number of encapsulations, that is, which application layer measurement reports with relatively close generation times are encapsulated into the first message together, that is, in the first message. The number of application layer measurement reports carried. At this time, a counting device (eg, a counter) may be provided in the terminal device. After determining the number of packages, the terminal device starts the aforementioned counting device, and counts each time an application layer measurement report is obtained until the aforementioned number of packages is reached. Then, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the method further includes: when the terminal device determines to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained application layer measurement report into the first message ; when the terminal device determines not to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the terminal device waits for receiving the next application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, acquiring the time information by the terminal device includes: the terminal device receiving the time information from the access network device. It should be noted that when the time information includes multiple measurement periods, the terminal device may receive the time information through one message, or may receive different measurement periods through multiple messages.

In a possible implementation manner, acquiring the time information by the terminal device includes: the terminal device receives an application layer measurement configuration from the access network device; and the terminal device determines the time information according to the application layer measurement configuration.

In this embodiment, it is proposed that the application layer measurement configuration may include information capable of determining time information, and the terminal device may determine the aforementioned time information according to the application layer measurement configuration from the access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement index recognizable by the access network device and/or an application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a measurement report transmission method, which involves a terminal device and an access network device. The access network device sends time information to the terminal device, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; the access network device obtains from the terminal device A first message is received, the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report.

In this embodiment, the access network device provides time information for the terminal device, so that when the terminal device obtains the application layer measurement report, it can refer to the time information to decide whether to encapsulate one or more application layer measurement reports into the first message middle. Therefore, it is beneficial to improve the flexibility of the terminal equipment to report the application layer measurement report to the access network equipment. In addition, the access network device can obtain one or more application layer measurement reports from a first message, which is beneficial to save the signaling between the terminal device and the access network device for transmitting the application layer measurement report, and improves the transmission efficiency. The utilization of the signaling reported by the application layer measurement.

In a possible implementation manner, the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to the same service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the first message is encapsulated with at least three application layer measurement reports, and the at least three application layer measurement reports include not only at least two application layer measurement reports belonging to the first service type, but also at least three application layer measurement reports. An application layer measurement report belonging to the second service type. Wherein, the first service type is different from the second service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

Optionally, the foregoing multiple measurement periods are used to determine a second encapsulation period, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message.

In a possible implementation, the start indication and measurement period of the same service type are used to determine the generation time of the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service type, and the generation time is used to instruct the terminal device to obtain the application layer measurement report. The theoretical moment of the report. Optionally, each generation moment corresponds to an application layer measurement report. Optionally, the foregoing multiple generation times are respectively the times when the terminal device measures application layer measurement reports of different service types. Optionally, the generation time is used to determine the encapsulation quantity, where the encapsulation quantity is used to indicate the quantity of the application layer measurement reports encapsulated in one message.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator . After the access network device receives the first message from the terminal device, the method further includes: the access network device sends a first correspondence relationship to the adjacent access network device, where the first correspondence relationship includes the access layer measurement index and the Correspondence between application layer measurement indicators, where the access layer measurement indicators are used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device providing services for the terminal device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator ; After the access network device receives the first message from the terminal device, the method further includes: the access network device sends a second correspondence relationship to the adjacent access network device, where the second correspondence relationship includes wireless configuration information and the Correspondence between application layer measurement indicators, the radio configuration information is used to indicate that at least one cell of the access network device supports the radio configuration configured for the terminal device.

In a third aspect, the present application provides a terminal device. The terminal device includes: an acquisition module, an encapsulation module and a transmission module. Wherein, the acquisition module is used for acquiring time information, the time information indicates the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; the encapsulation module is used for according to The time information encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message; a sending module is configured to send the first message to an access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the encapsulation module is specifically configured to encapsulate at least two application-layer measurement reports into a first message according to the time information, and each application in the at least two application-layer measurement reports Layer measurement reports correspond to different service types.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message; the encapsulation module is specifically used for The application layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation cycle is encapsulated into the first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes multiple measurement periods; the packaging module is specifically configured to: determine a second packaging period according to the multiple measurement periods, where the second packaging period is used to indicate A cycle of encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message; and encapsulating the application layer measurement report obtained in the second encapsulation cycle into the first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes multiple measurement periods; the acquiring module is further configured to acquire a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to instruct triggering measurement of the service type The terminal equipment further includes a receiving module; the encapsulation module is specifically configured to, after the receiving module obtains an application layer measurement report, according to the start indications of multiple service types and the measurement periods of multiple service types, It is determined whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the encapsulation module is further configured to: when it is determined to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report into the first message; When it is determined not to generate the first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the receiving module is instructed to wait for receiving the next application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the obtaining module is specifically configured to receive the time information from the access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the obtaining module is specifically configured to receive an application layer measurement configuration from the access network device, and determine the time information according to the application layer measurement configuration.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator identifiable by the access network device and/or an application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device.

It should be noted that there are various other specific implementation manners in the embodiments of the present application. For details, reference may be made to the specific implementation manners of the first aspect and the beneficial effects thereof, which will not be repeated here.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides an access network device, where the access network device includes: a sending module and a receiving module. The sending module is configured to send time information to the terminal device, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; the receiving module, for receiving a first message from the terminal device, where the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator identifiable by the access network device and/or an application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an application layer measurement indicator The evaluation value of The access stratum measurement index is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device serving the terminal device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an application layer measurement indicator The evaluation value of The radio configuration information is used to indicate that at least one cell of the access network device supports the radio configuration configured for the terminal device.

It should be noted that there are various other specific implementation manners in the embodiments of the present application. For details, reference may be made to the specific implementation manners of the second aspect and the beneficial effects thereof, which will not be repeated here.

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a measurement report transmission method, and the method involves a first access network device and a second access network device. The aforementioned first access network device and the aforementioned second access network device are mutually adjacent access network devices. In this method, the first access network device receives from the terminal device an application layer measurement index that can be identified by the first access network device, where the application layer measurement index includes the measurement value of the application layer measurement index and/or the value of the application layer measurement index evaluation value; the first access network device obtains an access stratum measurement index, and the access stratum measurement index is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device providing services for the terminal device; the first access network device Send a first correspondence relationship to the second access network device, where the first correspondence relationship includes a correspondence relationship between the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides a measurement report transmission method, which involves a first access network device and a second access network device. The aforementioned first access network device and the aforementioned second access network device are mutually adjacent access network devices. In this method, the first access network device receives from the terminal device an application layer measurement index that can be identified by the first access network device, where the application layer measurement index includes the measurement value of the application layer measurement index and/or the value of the application layer measurement index evaluation value; the first access network device obtains wireless configuration information, the wireless configuration information is used to indicate that at least one cell of the access network device supports the wireless configuration configured for the terminal device; the first access network device reports to the second The access network device sends a second correspondence, where the second correspondence includes a correspondence between the wireless configuration information and the measurement index of the application layer.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device, where the communication device may be the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments, or may be a chip in the terminal device. The communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. When the communication device is a terminal device, the processing module may be a processor, and the transceiver module may be a transceiver; the terminal device may further include a storage module, and the storage module may be a memory; the storage module is used for storing instructions, the The processing module executes the instructions stored in the storage module, so that the terminal device executes the method in the first aspect or any one of the implementation manners of the first aspect. When the communication device is a chip in a terminal device, the processing module may be a processor, and the transceiver module may be an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit, etc.; the processing module executes the instructions stored in the storage module, so that the The terminal device executes the method in the first aspect or any one of the implementation manners of the first aspect. The storage module may be a storage module (eg, register, cache, etc.) within the chip, or may be a storage module (eg, read-only memory, random access memory, etc.) located outside the chip in the terminal device.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device, where the communication device may be the access network device in the foregoing embodiments, or may be a chip in the access network device. The communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. When the communication device is an access network device, the processing module may be a processor, and the transceiver module may be a transceiver; the access network device may further include a storage module, and the storage module may be a memory; the storage module is used for storing instructions, and the processing module executes the instructions stored in the storage module, so that the access network device executes the method in the second aspect or any one of the implementation manners of the second aspect. When the communication device is a chip in the access network device, the processing module may be a processor, and the transceiver module may be an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit, etc.; the processing module executes the instructions stored in the storage module to Make the access network device perform the method in the second aspect or any implementation manner of the second aspect, or the fifth aspect or the method in any implementation manner of the fifth aspect, or the sixth aspect or the method in any implementation manner of the fifth aspect. The method of any one of the embodiments of the six aspects. The storage module may be a storage module in the chip (for example, a register, a cache, etc.), or a storage module in the access network device located outside the chip (for example, a read-only memory, a random access memory, etc.) .

In a ninth aspect, the present application provides a communication device, which may be an integrated circuit chip. The integrated circuit chip includes a processor. The processor is coupled to a memory for storing programs or instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to perform a method as in the first aspect or any embodiment of the first aspect .

In a tenth aspect, the present application provides a communication device, which may be an integrated circuit chip. The integrated circuit chip includes a processor. The processor is coupled to a memory for storing programs or instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to perform a method as in the second aspect or any embodiment of the second aspect , or the method in the fifth aspect or any one of the embodiments of the fifth aspect, or the method in the sixth aspect or any one of the embodiments of the sixth aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, the embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product including instructions, which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the aforementioned first, second, fifth, and sixth aspects, and a method described in any of the various embodiments of the preceding aspects.

In a twelfth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium, including instructions, when the instructions are run on a computer, so that the computer executes the first, second, fifth, and first aspects described above. Six aspects, and the method described in any one of the various implementations of the foregoing aspects.

In a thirteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication system, where the communication system includes the first aspect and the terminal device in any implementation manner of the first aspect, and any one of the second aspect and the second aspect. The access network device in this embodiment; or, the communication system includes the first access network device in any embodiment of the fifth aspect and the fifth aspect, and the sixth aspect and any of the sixth aspect. A second access network device in an embodiment.

As can be seen from the above technical solutions, the embodiments of the present application have the following advantages:

In the present application, when the terminal device obtains the application layer measurement report, it refers to the time information to decide whether to encapsulate the obtained one application layer measurement report into the first message or to encapsulate multiple obtained application layer measurement reports into the first message middle. Since the terminal device decides the timing of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports based on the time information, the flexibility of the terminal device to report the application layer measurement report to the access network device is improved. Further, the terminal device determines to encapsulate a plurality of application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned first message, and sends the first message to the access network device, which can save application transmission between the terminal device and the access network device. The signaling of the layer measurement report improves the utilization rate of the signaling for transmitting the application layer measurement report.

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In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application more clearly, the following briefly introduces the accompanying drawings used in the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application.

FIG. 1 is a system architecture diagram to which the measurement report transmission method in this application is applicable;

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of the measurement report transmission method in this application;

3A is an example diagram of a situation in which a terminal device measures an application layer measurement report in the present application;

FIG. 3B is another example diagram of a situation where a terminal device measures an application layer measurement report in the present application;

Fig. 4 is another flow chart of the measurement report transmission method in this application;

Fig. 5 is another flowchart of the measurement report transmission method in this application;

Fig. 6 is another flow chart of the measurement report transmission method in this application;

FIG. 7 is another flowchart of the measurement report transmission method in the application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the communication device in the application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of the communication device in the application;

10 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of the communication device in the application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of the communication device in this application.

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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of the embodiments.

The terms "first", "second", "third", "fourth", etc. (if any) in the description and claims of this application and the above-mentioned drawings are used to distinguish similar objects and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or sequence. It is to be understood that data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances so that the embodiments described herein can be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprising" and "having" and any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, for example, a process, method, system, product or device comprising a series of steps or units is not necessarily limited to those expressly listed Rather, those steps or units may include other steps or units not expressly listed or inherent to these processes, methods, products or devices.

The following is an introduction to the system architecture and application scenarios of the measurement report transmission method proposed in this application:

The measurement report transmission method proposed in this application can be applied to the 4th generation mobile communication technology (the 4th generation mobile communication technology, 4G) system, and can also be applied to the 5th generation mobile communication technology (the 5th generation mobile communication technology, 5G) system can also be applied to subsequent evolutionary formulas, which is not limited in this application. As shown in FIG. 1 , the system includes terminal equipment 01 , access network equipment 021/022 and core network equipment 03 . In the scenario of QoE measurement (hereinafter referred to as application layer measurement), the aforementioned access network device 021 receives the application layer measurement configuration from the core network device 03, and then the access network device 021 forwards the application layer measurement configuration to the supporting application Terminal equipment 01 for layer measurements. After the aforementioned terminal device 01 obtains the application layer measurement report based on the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration, the terminal device 01 needs to report the application layer measurement report to the access network device 021, so that the access network device 021 reports the aforementioned application layer measurement report. Forwarded to the device responsible for collecting the aforementioned application layer measurement reports (eg, tracking area code (TCE) or measurement collector entity (MCE)).

Because, every time the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, it immediately sends the application layer measurement report to the access network device (or encapsulates the application layer measurement report into a message every time it obtains an application layer measurement report) , which may cause the terminal device to immediately send the aforementioned application layer measurement report to the access network device at an inappropriate timing, so the terminal device cannot flexibly report the aforementioned application layer measurement report. In addition, a terminal device has multiple services. When application layer measurement is required for each service of the terminal device, there will be a large number of signals between the terminal device and the access network device for transmitting application layer measurement reports. make. Therefore, the current solution for transmitting the application layer measurement report will also seriously consume the signaling overhead between the terminal device and the access network device.

In this regard, the present application provides a measurement report transmission method, a terminal device, and an access network device, which can improve the flexibility of the terminal device to report an application layer measurement report to the access network device, and reduce the cost of the terminal device and the access network device. The signaling overhead used to transmit application-layer measurement reports between them. For details, please refer to the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 later.

It should be noted that the terminal equipment referred to in this application includes equipment that provides voice and/or data connectivity to users. For example, a handheld device with wireless connectivity or a processing device connected to a wireless modem may be included. The terminal device can communicate with a core network (eg, a 4G core network (evolved packet core, EPC) or a 5G core network (5th generation core, 5GC)) via a radio access network (RAN), and can communicate with the RAN Exchange voice and/or data. The terminal equipment may include user equipment (UE), wireless terminal equipment, mobile terminal equipment, subscriber unit (subscriber unit), subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile station (mobile station), mobile station (mobile), remote remote station, access point (AP), remote terminal, access terminal, user terminal, user agent, or user equipment (user device), etc. In addition, the terminal device can also be a vehicle-mounted terminal, for example, a vehicle-mounted box (telematics box, T-Box), a domain controller (domain controller, DC), a multi-domain controller (multi domain controller, MDC) integrated in the vehicle Or on board unit (OBU). The terminal device can also be a wearable device, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothing and shoes, or other portable devices that can be directly worn on the body or integrated into the user's clothing or accessories. There is no specific limitation in this application.

It should be understood that the terminal device in this embodiment of the present application may be any of the foregoing devices or chips, which is not specifically limited here. Whether as a device or as a chip, the terminal device can be manufactured, sold or used as an independent product. In this embodiment and subsequent embodiments, only a terminal device is used as an example for description.

In addition, the access network equipment involved in this application is the access network equipment (radio access network, RAN) that currently provides services for terminal equipment, which may be 4G wireless access network equipment, or may be in the air in the 4G access network. A device on an interface that communicates with a wireless terminal device through one or more cells. For example, the access network device may be an LTE base station, and may also be referred to as an evolved base station (evolutional node B, NodeB or eNB or e) in a long term evolution LTE system or an evolved LTE system (long term evolution advanced, LTE-A). -NodeB). The access network device can be used to convert the received air frame and internet protocol (IP) packets to each other, and act as a router between the terminal device and the rest of the access network, wherein the rest of the access network can Including IP networks. The access network equipment may also coordinate the attribute management of the air interface. There is no specific limitation here.

It should be understood that the access network device in this embodiment of the present application may be any of the foregoing devices or a chip in the foregoing devices, which is not specifically limited here. No matter as a device or a chip, the access network device can be manufactured, sold or used as an independent product. In this embodiment and subsequent embodiments, only an access network device is used as an example for description.

The main process of the measurement report transmission method proposed by the present application will be introduced below with reference to FIG. 2. In this method, the terminal equipment and the access network equipment mainly perform the following steps:

Step 201, the terminal device acquires time information.

The time information indicates the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report. It can be understood that the terminal device can directly or indirectly determine the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report according to the time information, that is, the terminal device can directly or indirectly determine the time based on the time information. One or more application layer measurement reports are encapsulated into a message (hereinafter, the message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report is referred to as a first message), so that the aforementioned one or more application layer measurement reports are passed through the aforementioned first message. The message is sent to the access network device. It should be noted that, in this application, the terminal device encapsulates one or more application layer measurement reports into one message as an example for introduction. In practical applications, the solution proposed in this application can also be extended to a data packet in which a terminal device encapsulates one or more application layer measurement reports into a user plane.

In addition, the aforementioned application layer measurement report is a measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing application layer measurement. Generally, after receiving the application layer measurement configuration from the access network device, the terminal device will trigger the application layer measurement based on the foregoing application layer measurement configuration to obtain the foregoing application layer measurement report. The application layer measurement configuration may be received by the access network equipment from network elements such as core network (core network, CN), operation, administration and maintenance (operation, administration and maintenance, OAM) or element manager (element manager, EM). (for details, please refer to step 401a in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 4, or step 501a in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 5); it may also be generated by the access network device (for details, please refer to the steps in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 4). 401b, or, FIG. 5 corresponds to step 501b) in the embodiment.

In addition, an application-layer measurement configuration generally corresponds to an exact service type, that is, an application-layer measurement configuration is used to measure a service of a certain service type, and then an application-layer measurement report corresponding to the aforementioned service type is obtained. Wherein, the aforementioned service types may be streaming service (streaming service), voice service, multimedia telephony service (multimedia telephony service for IMS, MTSI) of IP multimedia system, virtual reality technology (virtual reality, VR) service and augmented reality (augmented reality) , AR) service, multicast broadcast service (multicast and broadcast service, MBS) and so on. Therefore, when the terminal device receives the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration, the terminal device can also receive the service type corresponding to the application layer measurement configuration. Generally, the application layer measurement configuration and the service type corresponding to the application layer measurement configuration are encapsulated in the same message and sent to the aforementioned terminal device. Therefore, when a terminal device obtains a certain application layer measurement configuration (eg, application layer measurement configuration 1) and a certain service type (eg, service type 1) from a message, the terminal device can determine the application layer measurement configuration 1 is used to measure the service corresponding to service type 1, and after measuring the service corresponding to service type 1 based on the application layer measurement configuration 1, the terminal device can obtain an application layer measurement report corresponding to service type 1.

Specifically, there are multiple ways for the terminal device to obtain time information:

In an optional implementation manner, the terminal device receives time information from the access network device. The access network device is also an access network device that provides the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration and service type for the terminal device. During specific implementation, the access network device may send the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration and time information to the aforementioned terminal device through different messages; the access network device may also send the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration and service information through the same message. The type and time information is sent to the aforementioned terminal device, which is not specifically limited here.

In addition, the time information received by the terminal device from the access network device may be received by the access network device from network elements such as the core network CN, operation, management and maintenance OAM or element management EM (for details, please refer to the corresponding embodiment in FIG. 4 ) Step 401a in FIG. 5 , or step 501a in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 5 ); it can also be generated by the access network device (for details, please refer to step 401b in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 4 , or, in the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 5 ) step 501b).

In another optional implementation manner, the terminal device determines the time information by itself. Optionally, the terminal device receives an application layer measurement configuration from the access network device, where the application layer measurement configuration includes time information. For example, the application layer measurement configuration received by the terminal device includes some parameters related to time or period (for example, measurement period), and the terminal equipment determines the aforementioned parameters (for example, measurement period) as time information. Optionally, the terminal device generates time information according to some received (or existing) parameters related to time or period (for example, measurement period). For example, the period during which the terminal device generates the encapsulation application layer measurement report according to the measurement period (hereinafter referred to as the encapsulation period, for example, the second encapsulation period and the third encapsulation period will be described later), and the encapsulation period is generated by the terminal equipment. time information. Of course, in practical applications, the terminal device may also generate time information in other ways or based on other parameters, which is not specifically limited in this application.

Specifically, there are various specific implementation forms of the time information obtained by the terminal device:

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message.

In another possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. It should be noted that the measurement period may also be referred to as a reporting period or a reporting interval (report interval).

In another possible implementation manner, the time information includes the number of encapsulations, and the number of encapsulations may be understood as the number of application-layer measurement reports encapsulated in a first message.

When the terminal device obtains the time information, and the terminal device also performs measurement based on the application layer measurement configuration to obtain one or more application layer measurement reports, the terminal device will perform step 202 .

Step 202, the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information.

The first message refers to a message capable of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports. The first message refers to a message in a broad sense, and in some possible scenarios, the first message may also be referred to as a first signaling, a first packet, a first data packet, a first command, or the like. Exemplarily, the first message may be a radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) message. Optionally, when the size of the first message exceeds a certain threshold (for example, the first message is an RRC message, and the size of the first message exceeds the maximum capacity of the packet data convergence protocol (packet data convergence protocol, PDCP) layer that can be carried size), the terminal device will segment or segment the first message, and generate multiple segmented or segmented messages, each segmented or segmented message carries a part of the content of the first message, and each segmented or segmented message carries the sequence number of a segment or segment, and indicates whether the current segment or segment message is the last segment or segment of the first message.

It should be noted that if multiple application layer measurement reports are encapsulated in the aforementioned first message, then the aforementioned multiple application layer measurement reports may be application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types, or may be multiple application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. An application-layer measurement report may also contain both of the foregoing two cases. At this time, the first message further includes the service type corresponding to the aforementioned one or more application layer measurement reports. The following analysis is performed separately:

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different business type. For example, an application layer measurement report 1 obtained by measuring a service of service type 1 and an application layer measurement report 2 obtained by measuring a service of service type 2 are encapsulated in the aforementioned first message.

In another possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to the same business types. Optionally, the foregoing at least two application layer measurement reports are obtained by the terminal device at different times respectively. For example, the terminal device obtains an application-layer measurement report about service type 1 every T milliseconds, then the terminal device can combine the application-layer measurement report 1 about service type 1 obtained at time t with the measurement report at time (t+T) The obtained application layer measurement report 2 about service type 1 is encapsulated in the aforementioned first message.

In another possible implementation manner, the terminal device encapsulates at least three application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and the at least three application layer measurement reports not only include at least two of the first service type The application layer measurement report also includes at least one application layer measurement report belonging to the second service type. Wherein, the first service type is different from the second service type. For example, it is assumed that the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report on service type 1 every T milliseconds, and obtains an application layer measurement report on service type 2 every 2T milliseconds. At this time, if the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report 1 for service type 1 at time t, and obtains an application layer measurement report 2 for service type 1 and an application layer measurement report for service type 2 at time (t+T) Measurement report 3, then, the terminal device may make a decision based on the time information as a result of encapsulating the aforementioned application layer measurement report 1, application layer measurement report 2 and application layer measurement report 3 into one message to send to the access network equipment.

The previous description is from the perspective of the number of application layer measurement reports that may be encapsulated in the first message. The following describes how the terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report into the first message based on the specific implementation of time information. It should be understood that, if the specific implementation manner of the time information is different, the implementation manner of the terminal device encapsulating the application layer measurement report into the first message based on the time information is also different. The following are respectively introduced:

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. The first encapsulation period may be directly sent by the access network device to the terminal device, or may be determined by the terminal device based on an application layer measurement configuration, which is not specifically limited here.

Specifically, the terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation period into the first message. That is to say, every time period corresponding to the first encapsulation period, the terminal device will trigger an encapsulation of the application layer measurement report, that is, the application layer measurement report obtained in one first encapsulation period is encapsulated into the aforementioned first message.

Exemplarily, a timing device (for example, a timer) is provided in the terminal device, and the duration set by the timing device is the aforementioned first encapsulation period. Optionally, the terminal device may start the timing device after receiving the application layer measurement configuration, or may start the timing device after starting the application layer measurement. When the timing device is running, the terminal device may obtain one or more application layer measurement reports. The terminal device will keep measuring and obtain the application layer measurement report until the timing device times out, then the terminal device will trigger the application layer measurement report to be obtained. encapsulated in the first message. Of course, after the terminal device sends the aforementioned first message, if the access network device does not provide the terminal device with a new encapsulation cycle, or the terminal device does not obtain a new encapsulation cycle from other channels, the terminal device will use the aforementioned timing device Set to zero and re-time, and receive the application-layer measurement report obtained subsequently (that is, the application-layer measurement report obtained after sending the first message), when the timing device times out again, the terminal device will trigger the transmission of the first message. The application-layer measurement report of the device is encapsulated into a message, and the message is sent to the access network device. This cycle will not be repeated.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the multiple application layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device in the first encapsulation cycle may be application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types, or may be multiple application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. The application-layer measurement report may also include the foregoing two situations at the same time, which is not specifically limited here.

It should also be understood that this embodiment does not require that the application layer measurement report obtained by the terminal device is periodically measured, that is, the application layer measurement report obtained by the terminal device about a certain service type may be measured according to a certain period. Yes, it is also possible that the terminal device does not show periodicity when measuring the application layer measurement report.

For ease of understanding, the following description takes FIG. 3A as an example. As shown in FIG. 3A , the case where the terminal device obtains application layer measurement reports of three service types respectively is listed, wherein each vertical arrow represents an application layer measurement report of a terminal device, and the length of each dashed box along the horizontal direction (It can also be referred to as the length along the time axis direction) represents a first packaging cycle (that is, packaging cycle 01, packaging cycle 02, packaging cycle 03 are all examples of the aforementioned first packaging cycle), and the black box that falls within the dashed box Arrows represent application layer measurement reports to be encapsulated into one message (ie, the aforementioned first message). It can be seen from the example shown in FIG. 3A that the terminal equipment obtains the application layer measurement report of service type 1 according to the measurement period T1; the terminal equipment obtains the application layer measurement report of service type 3 according to the measurement period T2; The application layer measurement report of the service type 2 is obtained, that is, the application layer measurement report of the service type 2 obtained by the terminal device does not show periodicity. At this time, if the terminal equipment performs encapsulation according to the received first encapsulation period, the terminal equipment may encapsulate two application layer measurement reports of different service types in the encapsulation period 01 into one message; the terminal equipment It is possible to encapsulate three application layer measurement reports of different service types in encapsulation cycle 02 into one message; the terminal device may encapsulate four application layer measurement reports in encapsulation cycle 03 into one message, there are two The application layer measurement reports all belong to the application layer measurement reports of service type 1. In practical applications, there may be more examples, which will not be listed one by one here.

In another possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. Still taking the aforementioned FIG. 3A as an example, T1 in FIG. 3A represents the measurement period for measuring the application of service type 1, that is, every two application layer measurement reports of service type 1 obtained by the terminal device will have an interval of T1.

Specifically, the terminal device can calculate the encapsulation period (for example, the second encapsulation period, the third encapsulation period, etc., which will be described later) by using the aforementioned measurement period, and the encapsulation period is used to instruct to encapsulate at least one application layer measurement report into one The period of the message; the terminal device may also use the aforementioned measurement period to calculate the encapsulation quantity, where the encapsulation quantity is used to indicate the quantity of application layer measurement reports encapsulated in a message. The following are respectively introduced:

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes multiple measurement periods, and the terminal device determines a second encapsulation period according to the multiple measurement periods, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate that at least one application layer measurement report is to be reported A period of encapsulation into one message; the terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report obtained in the second encapsulation period into the first message. Optionally, the second packaging periods are respectively greater than at least two measurement periods. At this time, the terminal device can obtain at least two application layer measurement reports in one second encapsulation period. In this embodiment, the terminal device can determine the second packaging period based on multiple measurement periods, and the function of the second packaging period is similar to that of the foregoing first packaging period. However, the second encapsulation period in this embodiment is determined by the terminal device based on multiple measurement periods, and the aforementioned first encapsulation period is provided by the access network device to the terminal device.

In particular, when the time information contains only one measurement period, the encapsulation period determined by the terminal device (hereinafter referred to as the third encapsulation period to be different from the second encapsulation period in the foregoing) can encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into a message. For example, suppose that the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report about service type 1 every T0 milliseconds, that is, the measurement period of the terminal device is T0, and the third encapsulation period determined by the terminal device according to the measurement period T0 is 2 times T0 . At this time, the terminal device may encapsulate the application layer measurement report 1 of service type 1 obtained at time t and the application layer measurement report 2 of service type 1 obtained at time (t+T0) into the first message together .

In another possible implementation manner, in addition to acquiring multiple measurement periods, the terminal device also needs to acquire a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to indicate that the application layer measurement of the service type is triggered . Then, after the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to the start indications of the multiple service types and the measurement periods of the multiple service types. If the terminal device determines to generate a first message that encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained application layer measurement report (may be one or multiple) into the first message, otherwise it continues to wait for the next An application layer measurement report.

For ease of understanding, the following description takes FIG. 3B as an example. As shown in FIG. 3B , the case where the terminal device obtains application layer measurement reports of three service types respectively is listed, wherein the first arrow of each time axis represents the start indication, and the following arrows represent the application layer measurement of a terminal device. Report. The terminal device obtains application layer measurement reports of service type 4 and service type 5 according to the measurement period T3; and the terminal device obtains the application layer measurement report of service type 6 according to the measurement period T4. At this time, after the terminal device obtains the first application layer measurement report (assuming it is the application layer measurement report 001), the terminal device will, according to the measurement period and start indication of service type 4 and the measurement period and start indication of service type 5, and the measurement period and start indication of service type 6, determine whether to trigger the generation of the first message (ie, determine whether to trigger the first message encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports). If the terminal device determines to continue to wait for the next application layer measurement report, that is, the generation of the first message is not triggered temporarily, when the terminal device measures the second application layer measurement report (assuming it is the application layer measurement report 002), the terminal device It will be judged again whether to generate the first message. If the terminal device determines to generate the first message immediately, the terminal device will encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report (application layer measurement report 001 and application layer measurement report 002) together into the first message; if the terminal device determines to continue Waiting for the next application layer measurement report, that is, without triggering the generation of the first message temporarily, when the terminal device measures the third application layer measurement report (assuming it is the application layer measurement report 005), the terminal device will once again determine whether to generate First news. If the terminal device determines to generate the first message immediately, the terminal device will encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report (application layer measurement report 001, application layer measurement report 002 and application layer measurement report 005) together into the first message; If the terminal device determines to continue to wait for the next application layer measurement report, the generation of the first message is not triggered temporarily. And so on, and will not be repeated here.

Specifically, the specific implementation manner in which the terminal device determines whether to wait for the next application layer measurement report (it can also be understood as the specific implementation manner in which the terminal device determines whether to generate the first message) includes:

Based on the start indication and measurement period of the same service type, the terminal device determines the generation time of the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service type, and the generation time is used to indicate the theoretical time at which the terminal device measures or obtains the application layer measurement report. Then, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application-layer measurement report according to multiple generation moments. Optionally, each generation moment corresponds to an application layer measurement report. Optionally, the foregoing multiple generation times are respectively the times when the terminal device measures application layer measurement reports of different service types. In this embodiment, it is proposed that the terminal device can determine when the application layer measurement report corresponding to the service type will be measured according to the start indication of a certain service type and the measurement period of the service type. By analogy, when the terminal device calculates the generation time of multiple application layer measurement reports, the terminal device knows whether other application layer measurement reports can be measured in the future, and then determines whether to wait for the next measurement report. Application layer measurement report.

For ease of understanding, still taking FIG. 3B as an example for introduction, the terminal device can determine the measurement period and start indication of service type 4 according to the measurement period and start indication of service type 5, and the measurement period and start indication of service type 6. The generation time of the application layer measurement report 001 and the generation time of the application layer measurement report 002 are both time t2. At this time, the terminal device will determine that the application layer measurement report 001 and the application layer measurement report 002 should be obtained at time t2 before triggering the generation of the first message. Similarly, the terminal device can also determine through calculation that the generation times of the application layer measurement report 003, the application layer measurement report 004 and the application layer measurement report 005 are all at time t3, then the terminal device will determine that the application layer measurement should be obtained at time t3. The report 003, the application layer measurement report 004 and the application layer measurement report 005 trigger the generation of the first message. And so on, and will not repeat them.

Further, the first message process for the terminal device to determine whether to generate and encapsulate at least one application layer measurement report according to multiple generation moments is specifically: the terminal device determines the number of packages according to the multiple generation moments, and the number of packages is used to indicate that the package is encapsulated in a message. The number of application layer measurement reports in the terminal device; when the number of application layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device reaches the encapsulation number, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into the first message. That is to say, after the terminal device determines multiple generation times, the terminal device can determine the number of encapsulations, that is, which application layer measurement reports with relatively close generation times are encapsulated into the first message together, that is, the first message carried in the first message. The number of application layer measurement reports. At this time, a counting device (eg, a counter) may be provided in the terminal device. After determining the number of packages, the terminal device starts the aforementioned counting device, and counts each time an application layer measurement report is obtained until the aforementioned number of packages is reached. Then, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned first message.

For ease of understanding, still taking FIG. 3B as an example for introduction, it is assumed that the measurement period T4 is equal to twice T3, and the measurement of the three service types starts at time t1. According to the measurement period and start indication of service type 4, the measurement period and start indication of service type 5, and the measurement period and start indication of service type 6, the terminal equipment can determine that the terminal equipment will obtain 1 times T3 after time t1. 2 application layer measurement reports (i.e. application layer measurement report 001 and application layer measurement report 002), that is, it is determined that the number of encapsulations at time t2 is 2; it can also be determined that 3 application layer measurement reports are obtained at 2 times T3 after time t1 ( That is, the application layer measurement report 003, the application layer measurement report 004, and the application layer measurement report 005), that is, it is determined that the number of encapsulations at time t3 is 3. And so on, and will not repeat them.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes the number of encapsulations, and the number of encapsulations may be understood as the number of application-layer measurement reports encapsulated in a first message. Exemplarily, the terminal device may set a counting device (for example, a counter) according to the aforementioned encapsulation quantity, and after the terminal device starts the aforementioned counting device, the terminal device counts each time it obtains an application layer measurement report until the aforementioned amount is reached. Number of packages. Then, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports (that is, the number of application layer measurement reports indicated by the aforementioned encapsulation quantity) into the aforementioned first message.

In a possible implementation, the time information includes an encapsulation size, where the encapsulation size is used to indicate the total size of an application layer measurement report that triggers encapsulation of a message. Exemplarily, if the encapsulation size is 2M, when the size of the application layer measurement report obtained by the terminal device is greater than or equal to 2M, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained application layer measurement report into a message.

It should be understood that the implementation manners of the foregoing various time information may be combined with each other.

Exemplarily, the aforementioned time information may include both a packaging period (eg, the aforementioned first packaging period) and a packaging quantity. For example, the terminal device starts a timing device with a duration of the first encapsulation period. Before the timing device times out, if the number of application-layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device reaches a certain threshold (for example, the aforementioned threshold is N, that is, the application-layer measurement If the number of reports reaches N), the terminal device may encapsulate the obtained N application-layer measurement reports into one message (for example, a first message). At the same time, the terminal device also resets the aforementioned timing device to zero and restarts the timing. When the timing device times out, the terminal device can also trigger the encapsulation of multiple application layer measurement reports received by the terminal device into one message (for example, another first message). The aforementioned threshold may be a value sent by the access network device to the terminal device; the aforementioned threshold may also be a fixed value, for example, a fixed value specified in the protocol; the aforementioned threshold may also be determined by the terminal device itself.

Exemplarily, the aforementioned time information may include both a packaging period (eg, the aforementioned first packaging period) and a packaging size. For example, the terminal device starts a timing device with a duration of the first encapsulation period. Before the timing device times out, if the total size of the application layer measurement report obtained by the terminal device exceeds a certain threshold #1 (for example, the aforementioned threshold #1 is 2M, And the total size of multiple application layer measurement reports obtained by the terminal device is 2.1M), then the terminal device can encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report (may be one application layer measurement report or multiple application layer measurement reports) into a message (eg, a first message). At the same time, the terminal device also resets the aforementioned timing device to zero and restarts the timing. When the timing device times out, the terminal device can also trigger the encapsulation of multiple application layer measurement reports received by the terminal device into one message (for example, another first message). The aforementioned threshold #1 may be sent by the access network equipment to the terminal equipment; the threshold #1 may also be fixed to a value, for example, a fixed value specified in the protocol; the threshold #1 may also be the terminal equipment self-determined.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device can also determine the time information according to the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the terminal device determines the time information according to the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the terminal device obtains the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. If the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to the two service types is within a certain range, the terminal device obtains the application layer measurement corresponding to the first service type. When reporting, the terminal device can wait for an application layer measurement report corresponding to another service type. Otherwise, the terminal device does not need to wait for an application layer measurement result corresponding to another service type, that is, the terminal device can generate a message.

In this application, the terminal device may use any of the foregoing implementation manners to generate the first message, which is not specifically limited here.

Step 203, the terminal device sends a first message to the access network device. Correspondingly, the access network device receives the first message from the terminal device.

In this embodiment, after the terminal device generates the first message, the terminal device will send the aforementioned first message to the access network device. At this time, the first message may include one application layer measurement report, or may include multiple application layer measurement reports. Compared with the traditional technology, in the solution of the traditional technology, every time the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, it sends the application layer measurement report to the access network device, and does not refer to other information (for example, the time information proposed in this application) , and will not consider encapsulating multiple application layer measurement reports into one message (because the terminal device cannot know which service types of application layer measurement reports will be measured and when). Therefore, in the present application, the terminal device can decide the timing of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports based on the time information, thus improving the flexibility of the terminal device to report the application layer measurement report to the access network device. Further, when the terminal device determines to encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned first message, and sends the first message to the access network device, it can save the time between the terminal device and the access network device. The signaling of the application layer measurement report is transmitted, and the utilization rate of the signaling used for transmitting the application layer measurement report is improved. It should be noted that the access network device that sends the application layer measurement configuration to the terminal device and the access network device that receives the application layer measurement report from the terminal device may not be the same access network device, or may be the same access network device. . For example, the access network device #1 sends the application layer measurement configuration to the terminal device. Due to the mobility of the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment may be handed over from the access network equipment #1 to the access network equipment #2. At this time, the terminal device can send the application layer measurement report to the access network device #2.

In addition, it should be noted that the time information obtained by the terminal equipment may be time information generated exclusively for application layer measurement report reporting. For example, the core network CN, operation, management and maintenance OAM or element management EM and other network elements are generating Time information generated when the application layer measurement configuration, or time information generated when the access network device generates the application layer measurement configuration. The time information may also be time-related information originally applied to other processing flows, but this embodiment uses the time information to decide whether to generate the first message. For example, the application layer measurement configuration will carry the measurement period, and the terminal device just uses the measurement period to decide whether to generate the first message. For another example, the access network device needs to set other configurations for the terminal device, and these configurations just contain information reflecting the measurement period measured by the application layer, and the terminal device just uses the measurement period to decide whether to generate the first message. Of course, the application does not exclude the role of the time information in other technical solutions, and the application only introduces the role of the time information in the solution of the application.

In addition, in a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement index recognizable by the access network device and/or an application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device.

Wherein, the application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device is generally located in a container (or referred to as the application layer measurement report is carried in the form of a container or encapsulated in the first message). Therefore, the access network device Unrecognized application layer measurement reports are often referred to as QoE measurement report containers. Generally, a container encapsulates an application layer measurement report of one service type. Because the access network device does not unpack the container after obtaining the container that encapsulates the application layer measurement report, the access network device that encapsulates the container does not actively unpack the identified application layer measurement report. It is called the application layer measurement report not identifiable by the access network device. In addition, the application layer measurement configuration corresponding to the application layer measurement report not recognizable by the access network device is also the application layer measurement configuration not recognizable by the access network device, and the application layer measurement configuration not recognizable by the access network device is also passed through It is encapsulated in the container and transmitted to the terminal device. Therefore, the application layer measurement configuration that is not recognizable by the access network device is often referred to as the QoE measurement configuration container (QoE measurement configuration container).

In addition, the application layer measurement indicators identifiable by the access network device can also be understood as the application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable by the access network device (or called the application layer measurement report is not in the form of a container). carried or encapsulated in the first message, but in other forms, such as in the form of an information element (IE), the application layer measurement index identifiable by the access network device is that the access network device can identify and use The measurement results about the application-layer measurement configuration. Corresponding to the application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) recognizable by the access network device is the QoE configuration (RAN-visible QoE configuration) recognizable by the access network device.

It should be noted that an application layer measurement report in the foregoing embodiment may be replaced by a QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container), or may be replaced by an application layer measurement report (RAN-visible) identifiable by an access network device. QoE report), can also be replaced with a combination of a QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container) and an application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable by the access network device. That is to say, if a terminal device needs to send a QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container) and an application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable to the access network device at the same time, the terminal device will The QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container) and the application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable by the access network device are sent to the access network device in one message. At this time, for the QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container) corresponding to the same service obtained by the terminal device at the same time and the application layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable by the access network device, it can be understood as is an application layer measurement report. That is to say, an application-layer measurement report obtained by a terminal device measuring a service of a certain service type may include: an application-layer measurement report that is not recognizable by the access network device encapsulated in the container, and the access network located outside the container. Device-aware application-layer measurement reports.

In addition, the "identifiable" mentioned in this application may also be referred to as "perceivable", "interpretable", "observable" and "detectable", etc., which are not specifically limited here.

The foregoing measurement report transmission method will be further introduced below with reference to FIG. 4 . As shown in Figure 4, the aforementioned time information comes from the access network side. In this process, the UE is an implementation of the terminal device in the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 , the RAN is an implementation of the access network device in the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 , and message 1 is the first implementation in the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 . An implementation of a message. The UE is divided into an access layer of the UE and an application layer of the UE. Specific steps are as follows:

Step 401a, the CN sends the application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information to the RAN.

The service type corresponds to the application layer measurement configuration, that is, the service type is the service type for which application layer measurement is performed according to the application layer measurement configuration. It can also be understood that the service type is used to specify the type of application layer measurement. The application layer measurement configuration may be an application layer measurement configuration recognizable by the access network device, that is, a QoE configuration (RAN-visible QoE configuration) recognizable by the access network device; it may also be an application layer measurement configuration unrecognizable by the access network device Configuration, that is, QoE measurement configuration container (QoE measurement configuration container); may also include application-layer measurement configurations identifiable by access network devices and application-layer measurement configurations unrecognizable by access network devices.

Exemplarily, the application layer measurement configuration identifiable by the access network device includes at least one of the following: some metrics or indicators that the terminal device needs to measure and report; time range, start time, and duration, etc.; reporting strategies for terminal devices, such as measurement period or reporting period or reporting interval, sampling ratio, location filtering configuration, etc. The sampling ratio refers to whether the terminal device reports the QoE measurement result or whether to perform the QoE measurement. The terminal device will use a random number generator and the sampling ratio to decide whether to report the QoE measurement result or whether to perform the QoE measurement. The location filtering configuration refers to the areas in which the terminal device performs QoE measurements.

The aforementioned metrics or indicators include at least one of the following: Average throughput: refers to the total number of bits received by the application layer of the UE within a measurement interval. For example, average throughput in streaming services. For details, please refer to the definition in Section 10.2 of the 3GPP protocol TS 26.247. Initial playback delay: Refers to the initial playback delay when streaming media starts to be presented. For example, it can be specifically defined as from the moment when the first segment of the media is acquired to the moment when the streaming media is extracted from the client buffer. For details, please refer to the definition in Section 10.2 of the 3GPP protocol TS 26.247. Buffering level: Refers to the time that the media data will continue to be played from the current playback moment. For details, please refer to the definition in Section 10.2 of the 3GPP protocol TS 26.247. The details are not listed here.

Optionally, the application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information that are not recognizable by the access network device in this step may be located in QOE measurement configuration information (QoE measurement configuration information). For example, the QoE measurement configuration information (QoE measurement configuration information) includes a QoE measurement configuration container (QoE measurement configuration container), the service type (service type) outside the aforementioned container, and the aforementioned time information outside the container. In addition, the QoE measurement configuration information (QoE measurement configuration information) further includes an area range of a QoE measurement collection (QoE measurement collection, QMC). Among them, the area scope of the QMC includes: a cell ID list (Cell ID List), a tracking area list (tracking area list, TA List) of the QMC, a tracking area identity list (tracking area identity list, TAI List) and the like.

In addition, for the explanation of the time information and the service type, reference may be made to the foregoing step 201, which will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that, in this step, the core network (core network, CN) network element can be replaced with an operation, administration and maintenance (operation, administration and maintenance, OAM) or element manager (element manager, EM) network element, or, Other network elements capable of generating application-layer measurement configurations. For example, for signaling-based QoE measurement, CN sends application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information to RAN; for management-based QoE measurement, OAM or EM sends application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information to RAN .

Step 401b, the RAN generates application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information.

In this step, in some cases, the RAN can generate application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information.

In this embodiment, step 401b is an optional step. When the RAN performs step 401a, the RAN will not perform step 401b; when the RAN performs step 401b, the RAN will not perform step 401a. There is no specific limitation here.

Step 402, the RAN sends the application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information to the access layer of the UE.

For signaling-based QoE measurement, the RAN decides whether to configure QoE measurement for the UE according to whether the UE supports QoE measurement and the area scope of the QMC in the QoE measurement configuration information. When the UE supports QoE measurement and the UE is currently within the area of the QMC, the RAN sends the application layer measurement configuration to the corresponding UE. For management-based QoE measurement, the RAN selects a suitable UE for QoE measurement according to whether the UE supports QoE measurement, the area range of the QMC in the QoE measurement configuration information, and other factors. After the RAN selects the UE, it sends the application layer measurement configuration to the UE.

Optionally, the RAN sends the application layer measurement configuration, service type and time information to the UE through an RRC message. It should be noted that the RAN may send the application layer measurement configuration and time information to the access layer of the UE through two RRC messages respectively, or may simultaneously send the application layer measurement configuration and time information through one message. The RRC message sent by the RAN for the application-layer measurement configuration may carry one application-layer measurement configuration, or may carry multiple application-layer measurement configurations (for example, application-layer measurement configurations for different service types). In addition, the sent application layer measurement configuration information may be for the UE to perform application layer measurement in the RRC idle state (RRC_IDLE) or RRC inactive state (RRC_INACTIVE), or it may be for the UE to perform the application layer measurement in the RRC connected state (RRC_CONNECTED) The measurement is not specifically limited here.

It should be understood that, in addition to sending the application layer measurement configuration that is not identifiable by the access network device to the UE, the RAN can also deliver the QoE configuration (RAN-visible QoE configuration) identifiable by the access network device to the UE to The UE is notified to report the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or the evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator in a form that the RAN can perceive (eg, in the form of an information element). Wherein, the measurement value of the application layer measurement index is a result of the measurement of the application layer index that can be identified by the RAN. The evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicators is the comprehensive score of the application layer indicators identifiable by the RAN, or the comprehensive score of the access layer indicators, or the composite score obtained by combining the application layer indicators and the access layer indicators, or an indicator indicating that the application layer indicators are excellent. The value of the degree of inferiority (for example, the value can be good, medium, and poor).

Step 403, the access layer of the UE sends the application layer measurement configuration and the service type to the application layer of the UE.

In this step, the application layer of the UE may also be replaced by a layer capable of performing QOE measurement, and the aforementioned layer capable of performing QOE measurement is located between the access layer of the UE and the application layer of the UE. For example, the UE defines a module dedicated to QoE measurement in its own module, and the module is located between the access layer of the UE and the application layer of the UE. In this embodiment and subsequent embodiments, only the application layer of the UE is taken as an example for introduction.

In this step, the access layer of the UE stores the time information, and sends the application layer measurement configuration and service type to the application layer of the UE. Wherein, the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration includes an application layer measurement configuration recognizable by the RAN and/or an application layer measurement configuration that is not recognizable by the RAN.

Optionally, the access layer of the UE sends the application layer measurement configuration and service type to the application layer of the UE through a password command (attention command, AT command). Optionally, the aforementioned password command is specifically AT command+CAPPLEVMC (command application level measurement configuration). One AT command+CAPPLEVMC may carry one or more application layer measurement configurations corresponding to one service type, or may carry multiple application layer measurement configurations corresponding to different service types.

In this embodiment, the access layer of the UE may carry multiple application layer measurement configurations through one password command (AT command), or may carry multiple application layer measurement configurations through multiple password commands (for example, one password command only carries an application layer measurement configuration).

Step 404, the application layer of the UE measures the service corresponding to the service type according to the application layer measurement configuration.

In this step, after the application layer of the UE receives the application layer measurement configuration and the service type, the application layer of the UE will use the application layer measurement configuration to measure the service of the service type to obtain the application layer corresponding to the service type. measurement report.

Optionally, when the application layer of the UE receives the application layer measurement configuration, when the service corresponding to the aforementioned service type starts, the UE will start the corresponding application layer measurement. When the application layer of the UE starts the measurement, the application layer of the UE will send a start indication to the access layer of the UE, and the start indication is used to indicate that the application layer measurement corresponding to a session corresponding to the aforementioned service type has started. The start indication includes information corresponding to the application layer measurement start. The information corresponding to the start of the application layer measurement includes the following items: the service type corresponding to the application layer measurement that the UE has started, and the application layer measurement of which slices in the service type have been started (for example, carrying single network slice selection assistance information ( single network slice selection assistance information, S-NSSAI)), record session indication (record session indication). The recording session indication is the same in the whole process of a session, and different sessions correspond to different recording session indications, that is, the application layer of the UE will allocate different recording session indications for different sessions.

Optionally, when the service corresponding to the aforementioned service type ends, the UE will end the corresponding application layer measurement. When the application layer of the UE ends the application layer measurement, the application layer of the UE will send an end indication to the access layer of the UE, and the end indication is used to indicate that the application layer measurement corresponding to a session corresponding to the aforementioned service type has ended. The end indication includes information corresponding to the end of the measurement at the application layer. The information corresponding to the end of the application layer measurement includes the following items: the service type corresponding to the application layer measurement that the UE has ended, the slices in the service type whose application layer measurement has ended (such as carrying S-NSSAI), a record session indication (record session indication).

Step 405, the application layer of the UE sends an application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE.

The application layer of the UE sends an application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE according to a certain rule (for example, the rule is included in the application layer measurement configuration). Exemplarily, the application layer of the UE may periodically send the application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE, that is, the application layer of the UE sends the application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE according to the measurement period. Exemplarily, the application layer of the UE may send the application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE after a session ends.

It should be noted that the application layer of the UE may carry multiple application layer measurement reports through one password command, or may carry multiple application layer measurement reports through multiple password commands (for example, a password command only carries one application layer measurement report) .

It should be noted that when the application layer of the UE sends the application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE, the application layer of the UE will indicate the service type corresponding to the application layer measurement report, so that when the application layer measurement report of the UE is reported When sent to the RAN, the RAN can learn which service type the application layer measurement report corresponds to.

It should also be noted that the aforementioned application layer measurement report may be an application layer measurement report identifiable by the RAN, for example, RAN-visible QoE report; or may be an application layer measurement report that is not identifiable by the RAN, for example, QoE measurement report container.

Step 406, the access layer of the UE determines whether to wait for the next application layer measurement report according to the time information.

In this embodiment, the access layer of the UE determines whether to wait for the next application layer measurement report according to the time information. It can also be understood that the access layer of the UE determines whether to generate the message 1 according to the time information.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. The access layer of the UE encapsulates the application layer measurement report received in the first encapsulation cycle into message 1 . That is to say, every time period corresponding to the first encapsulation period, the access layer of the UE will trigger an encapsulation of the application-layer measurement report, that is, the application-layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation period is encapsulated into the aforementioned message 1. .

Exemplarily, a timer (timer) is set in the access layer of the UE, and the set duration of the timer is the aforementioned first encapsulation period. When the timer is running, the access layer of the UE may receive one or more application layer measurement reports from the application layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE will continue to receive the aforementioned application layer measurement reports until the timer expires, Then the access layer of the UE triggers the encapsulation of the received application layer measurement report into message 1. After the access layer of the UE sends the aforementioned message 1, the access layer of the UE resets the aforementioned timer to zero and re-times it, and receives the subsequently received application layer measurement report (that is, the application layer measurement report received after sending the message 1). report), when the timer expires again, the access layer of the UE triggers to encapsulate the application layer measurement report received after sending message 1 into a message, and sends the message to the access network device. This cycle will not be repeated.

In another possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the access layer of the UE to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type . Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. Specifically, the access layer of the UE may calculate the encapsulation period (eg, the second encapsulation period, the third encapsulation period, etc.) by using the aforementioned measurement period, and the encapsulation period is used to indicate the encapsulation of at least one application layer measurement report into a message. Period; the access layer of the UE may also use the aforementioned measurement period to calculate the encapsulation quantity, where the encapsulation quantity is used to indicate the quantity of application layer measurement reports encapsulated in a message.

In another possible implementation manner, the time information includes the number of encapsulations, and the number of encapsulations may be understood as the number of application-layer measurement reports encapsulated in a first message. Exemplarily, the access stratum of the UE may set a counting device (for example, a counter) according to the aforementioned encapsulation quantity. When the layer receives an application layer measurement report, it counts once until the number of application layer measurement reports received by the access layer of the UE reaches the aforementioned encapsulation number. Then, the access layer of the UE encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports (that is, the number of application layer measurement reports indicated by the aforementioned encapsulation quantity) into the aforementioned message 1.

In another possible implementation, the time information includes an encapsulation size, where the encapsulation size is used to indicate a total size of an application-layer measurement report that triggers encapsulation of a message. Exemplarily, if the encapsulation size is 2M, when the size of the application layer measurement report obtained by the access layer of the UE is greater than or equal to 2M, the access layer of the UE will encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report into a message. 1.

In another possible implementation manner, the access layer of the UE can also determine the time information according to the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the access layer of the UE determines the time information according to the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the access layer of the UE obtains the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. If the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to the two service types is within a certain range, the access layer of the UE obtains the first service. When the application layer measurement report corresponding to the type is used, the access layer of the UE can wait for the application layer measurement report corresponding to another service type. Otherwise, the access layer of the UE does not need to wait for the measurement result of the application layer corresponding to another service type, that is, the access layer of the UE can generate a message.

It should be understood that the implementation manners of the foregoing various time information may be combined with each other. Specifically, please refer to the relevant description in the foregoing step 202, which will not be repeated here.

In this application, the access layer of the UE may use any of the foregoing implementation manners to determine whether to wait for the next application layer measurement report, which is not specifically limited here. Specifically, please refer to the relevant description in step 202 in the foregoing embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 , which will not be repeated here.

Specifically, when the access layer of the UE determines that there is no need to wait for the next application layer measurement report, it encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports into message 1, that is, the execution of step 407 is triggered. When the access layer of the UE determines that it needs to wait for the next application layer measurement report, the access layer of the UE will continue to receive the next application layer measurement report from the application layer of the UE.

Step 407 , the access layer of the UE encapsulates the received multiple application layer measurement reports into message 1 .

It should be noted that if multiple application layer measurement reports are encapsulated in the aforementioned message 1, then the aforementioned multiple application layer measurement reports may be application layer measurement reports corresponding to different service types, or may be multiple application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. The application-layer measurement report may also contain both of the above-mentioned cases. Exemplarily, the access layer of the UE encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into message 1 according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type. Exemplarily, the access layer of the UE encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into message 1 according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to the same service type. Optionally, the aforementioned at least two application layer measurement reports are obtained by the access layer of the UE at different times respectively. Exemplarily, the access layer of the UE encapsulates at least three application layer measurement reports into message 1 according to the time information, and the at least three application layer measurement reports not only include at least two application layer measurements belonging to the first service type The report also includes at least one application layer measurement report belonging to the second service type. Wherein, the first service type is different from the second service type. Specifically, please refer to the relevant description in step 202 in the foregoing embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 , which will not be repeated here.

Optionally, the aforementioned multiple application layer measurement reports are encapsulated into an application layer measurement report information element (application layer measurement report information element, MeasReportAppLayer IE), and the application layer measurement report information element MeasReportAppLayer IE is encapsulated in the aforementioned message 1. Optionally, message 1 is an RRC message.

Step 408, the access layer of the UE sends a message 1 encapsulated with multiple application layer measurement reports to the RAN.

Step 409, the RAN sends a message 1 encapsulated with multiple application layer measurement reports to a tracking area code (TCE).

In this embodiment, step 409 is an optional step.

In some embodiments, the aforementioned tracking area code (TCE) may be replaced by a measurement collector entity (MCE), and may also be replaced by other entities having a measurement result collection function.

In this embodiment, the access layer of the UE can forward the application layer measurement configuration and service type from the RAN side to the application layer of the UE, so that the application layer of the UE can perform the application layer measurement. Subsequently, the access layer of the UE receives the application layer measurement report from the application layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE can also decide the timing of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports according to the time information from the RAN side. Therefore, the flexibility of the UE to report the application layer measurement report to the RAN is improved. Further, the UE determines to encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned message 1, and sends the message 1 to the RAN, which can save the signaling between the UE and the RAN for transmitting the application layer measurement reports, and improve the use of Utilization of signaling for transport application layer measurement reports.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the aforementioned time information is determined by the UE based on information provided by the RAN or determined by the UE itself based on other information. The UE is an implementation of the terminal device, the RAN is an implementation of the access network device, and the message 1 is an implementation of the first message. The UE is divided into an access layer of the UE and an application layer of the UE. Specific steps are as follows:

Step 501a, the CN sends the application layer measurement configuration and service type to the RAN.

The service type corresponds to the application layer measurement configuration, that is, the service type is the service type for which application layer measurement is performed according to the application layer measurement configuration. It can also be understood that the service type is used to specify the type of application layer measurement. The application layer measurement configuration may be an application layer measurement configuration recognizable by the access network device, that is, a QoE configuration (RAN-visible QoE configuration) recognizable by the access network device; it may also be an application layer measurement configuration unrecognizable by the access network device Configuration, that is, QoE measurement configuration container (QoE measurement configuration container); may also include application-layer measurement configurations identifiable by access network devices and application-layer measurement configurations unrecognizable by access network devices. For the application layer measurement configuration recognizable by the access network device and the application layer measurement configuration not recognizable by the access network device, reference may be made to the relevant description in the foregoing step 201, which will not be repeated here.

In addition, for the explanation of the service type, reference may be made to the foregoing step 201, which will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that, in this step, the core network (core network, CN) network element can be replaced with an operation, administration and maintenance (operation, administration and maintenance, OAM) or element manager (element manager, EM) network element, or, Other network elements capable of generating application-layer measurement configurations. For example, for signaling-based QoE measurement, CN sends application-layer measurement configuration, service type, and time information to RAN; for management-based QoE measurement, OAM or EM sends application-layer measurement configuration, service type, and time information to RAN. .

Step 501b, the RAN generates an application layer measurement configuration and a service type.

In this step, in some cases, the RAN can generate application layer measurement configuration and service type.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, time information is not carried in steps 501a and 501b. It can also be understood that, in the QoE measurement configuration information (QoE measurement configuration information), outside the QoE measurement configuration container (QoE measurement configuration container), there is no information that is clearly used as time information. In this embodiment, the time information used by the UE is determined by the UE based on the information provided by the RAN, and please refer to step 505 for details.

In this embodiment, step 501b is an optional step. When the RAN performs step 501a, the RAN will not perform step 501b; when the RAN performs step 501b, the RAN will not perform step 501a. There is no specific limitation here.

Step 502, the RAN sends the application layer measurement configuration and the service type to the access layer of the UE.

Optionally, the RAN sends the application layer measurement configuration and service type of the access network device to the UE through an RRC message. It should be noted that the RAN may send the application layer measurement configuration and service type to the access layer of the UE through two RRC messages respectively, or may simultaneously send the application layer measurement configuration and service type through one message. The RRC message sent by the RAN for the application-layer measurement configuration may carry one application-layer measurement configuration, or may carry multiple application-layer measurement configurations (for example, application-layer measurement configurations for different service types). In addition, the sent application layer measurement configuration information may be for the UE to perform application layer measurement under RRC_IDLE/RRC_INACTIVE, or may be for the UE to perform application layer measurement under RRC_CONNECTED, which is not limited here.

It should be understood that, in addition to sending the application layer measurement configuration that is not identifiable by the access network device to the UE, the RAN can also deliver the QoE configuration (RAN-visible QoE configuration) identifiable by the access network device to the UE to The UE is notified to report the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or the evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator in a form that the RAN can perceive (eg, in the form of an information element). Specifically, please refer to the relevant introduction in the foregoing step 402, which is not limited here.

Step 503, the access layer of the UE sends the application layer measurement configuration and the service type to the application layer of the UE.

Step 503 is similar to step 403. For details, please refer to the relevant description in step 403, which will not be repeated here.

Step 504, the application layer of the UE measures the service corresponding to the service type according to the application layer measurement configuration.

Step 504 is similar to step 404. For details, please refer to the relevant description in step 404, which will not be repeated here.

Step 505, the application layer of the UE generates time information.

In a possible implementation, the application layer measurement configuration received by the application layer of the UE from the RAN includes time information. For example, the application layer measurement configuration received by the application layer of the UE includes some parameters related to time or period (eg, measurement period), and the application layer of the UE determines the aforementioned parameters (eg, measurement period) as time information.

Further, in a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement configuration includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the UE to obtain the time interval between two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. . Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. The terminal device determines at least one measurement period in the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration as time information.

In another possible implementation, the application layer of the UE generates time information according to some received (or existing) parameters related to time or period (eg, measurement period). For example, the application layer of the UE generates an encapsulation period for encapsulating the measurement report of the application layer according to the measurement period, and the encapsulation period is the time information generated by the UE.

Further, in a possible implementation manner, the application layer of the UE obtains at least one measurement period from the application layer measurement configuration, or the application layer of the UE obtains at least one measurement period from other configuration information. Wherein, each measurement period is used to indicate the time interval for the UE to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. Then, the application layer of the UE may calculate the encapsulation period (eg, the second encapsulation period, the third encapsulation period, etc.) using the aforementioned measurement period, where the encapsulation period is used to indicate the period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. The time information determined by the application layer of the UE includes the encapsulation period.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer of the UE may generate time information according to other information, which is not limited in this application.

It should be noted that there is no definite time sequence limitation between step 504 and step 505 . That is to say, the application layer of the UE may first execute step 504 and then execute step 505, or may execute step 505 first and then execute step 504, or may execute step 504 and step 505 at the same time.

After the application layer of the UE generates the time information, the application layer of the UE will execute step 506 .

Step 506, the application layer of the UE sends time information to the access layer of the UE.

Step 507, the application layer of the UE sends an application layer measurement report to the access layer of the UE.

It should be understood that there is no definite time sequence limitation between step 506 and step 507 . That is to say, the application layer of the UE may first execute step 506 and then execute step 507, or may execute step 507 first and then execute step 506, or may execute step 506 and step 507 at the same time. There is no specific limitation here. However, step 506 should follow step 505 and step 507 should follow step 504.

Step 508, the access layer of the UE determines whether to wait for the next application layer measurement report according to the time information.

When the access layer of the UE determines that there is no need to wait for the next application layer measurement report, it encapsulates the received multiple application layer measurement reports into message 1, that is, the execution of step 509 is triggered. When the access layer of the UE determines that it needs to wait for the next application layer measurement report, the UE will continue to receive the next application layer measurement report from the application layer of the UE.

Step 509 , the access layer of the UE encapsulates the received multiple application layer measurement reports into message 1 .

Step 510, the access layer of the UE sends a message 1 encapsulated with multiple application layer measurement reports to the RAN.

Step 511, the RAN sends a message 1 encapsulated with multiple application layer measurement reports to the TCE.

In this embodiment, steps 507 to 511 are similar to the aforementioned steps 405 to 409 . For details, please refer to the relevant descriptions in steps 405 to 409 , which will not be repeated here.

In this embodiment, the access layer of the UE can forward the application layer measurement configuration and service type from the RAN side to the application layer of the UE, so that the application layer of the UE performs application layer measurement and generates time information. Subsequently, the access layer of the UE receives the application layer measurement report and time information from the application layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE can also decide to encapsulate one or more application layer measurements according to the time information generated by the application layer of the UE Timing of the report. Therefore, the flexibility of the UE to report the application layer measurement report to the RAN is improved. Further, when the UE determines to encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned message 1 and sends the message 1 to the RAN, this solution can save the signaling between the UE and the RAN for transmitting the application layer measurement reports. , to improve the utilization of the signaling used to transmit the measurement report of the application layer.

It should be noted that when the time information is determined by the UE, the application layer of the UE may determine the time information, and then send the time information to the access layer of the UE, for example, the aforementioned steps 505 and 506; The incoming layer determines the time information. In this case, steps 505 and 506 in the foregoing embodiment may be replaced by step 505a.

It should be understood that there is no definite time sequence limitation between step 505a and step 507 . That is to say, the application layer of the UE may perform step 505a first and then step 507, or may perform step 507 first and then perform step 505a, or may perform step 505a and step 507 at the same time. There is no specific limitation here. However, step 505a should be located after step 502 and before step 508, and step 507 should be located after step 504.

Step 505a, the access stratum of the UE generates time information.

In a possible implementation, the application layer measurement configuration received by the access layer of the UE from the RAN includes time information. For example, the application layer measurement configuration received by the access stratum of the UE includes some parameters related to time or period (for example, the measurement period), and the access stratum of the UE determines the aforementioned parameters (for example, the measurement period) as time information .

Further, in a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement configuration includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the UE to obtain the time interval between two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. . Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. The terminal device determines at least one measurement period in the aforementioned application layer measurement configuration as time information.

In another possible implementation manner, the access layer of the UE generates time information according to some received (or existing) parameters related to time or period (eg, measurement period). For example, the access layer of the UE generates an encapsulation period for encapsulating the measurement report of the application layer according to the measurement period, and the encapsulation period is the time information generated by the UE.

Further, in a possible implementation manner, the access stratum of the UE obtains at least one measurement period from the application layer measurement configuration, or the access stratum of the UE obtains at least one measurement period from other configuration information. Wherein, each measurement period is used to indicate the time interval for the UE to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. Optionally, each measurement period in the aforementioned at least one measurement period corresponds to one service type, and the service types corresponding to each measurement period are not completely the same. Then, the access layer of the UE may calculate the encapsulation period (eg, the second encapsulation period, the third encapsulation period, etc.) using the aforementioned measurement period, where the encapsulation period is used to indicate the period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message . The time information determined by the access stratum of the UE includes the encapsulation period.

In another possible implementation manner, the aforementioned time information is the encapsulation quantity determined by the access layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE determines the aforementioned encapsulation quantity according to some parameters related to time or period, and the encapsulation quantity can be understood as The number of application layer measurement reports encapsulated in a first message. Exemplarily, the access stratum of the UE may set a counting device (for example, a counter) according to the aforementioned encapsulation quantity. When the layer receives an application layer measurement report, it counts once until the number of application layer measurement reports received by the access layer of the UE reaches the aforementioned encapsulation number. Then, the access layer of the UE encapsulates the obtained multiple application layer measurement reports (that is, the number of application layer measurement reports indicated by the aforementioned encapsulation quantity) into the aforementioned message 1.

In another possible implementation manner, the aforementioned time information is an encapsulation size determined by the access layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE determines the aforementioned encapsulation size according to some parameters related to time or period, and the encapsulation size is used to indicate the triggering The total size of the application layer measurement report that encapsulates a message. Exemplarily, if the encapsulation size is 2M, when the size of the application layer measurement report obtained by the access layer of the UE is greater than or equal to 2M, the access layer of the UE will encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report into a message. 1.

In a possible implementation manner, the access layer of the UE determines the time information according to the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the access layer of the UE determines the time information according to the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. For example, the access layer of the UE obtains the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to each service type. If the deviation of the time of the start indication corresponding to the two service types is within a certain range, the terminal device obtains the application corresponding to the first service type. When reporting the layer measurement, the access layer of the UE can wait for the application layer measurement report corresponding to another service type. Otherwise, the access layer of the UE does not need to wait for the measurement result of the application layer corresponding to another service type, that is, the terminal device can generate a message.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer of the UE may generate time information according to other information, which is not limited in this application.

In this embodiment, the access layer of the UE can forward the application layer measurement configuration and service type from the RAN side to the application layer of the UE, and the access layer of the UE can also generate time information. Subsequently, the access layer of the UE receives the application layer measurement report from the application layer of the UE, and decides the timing of encapsulating one or more application layer measurement reports according to the time information generated by the access layer of the UE. Therefore, the flexibility of the UE to report the application layer measurement report to the RAN is improved. Further, the UE determines to encapsulate multiple application layer measurement reports into the aforementioned message 1, and sends the message 1 to the RAN, which can save the signaling between the UE and the RAN for transmitting the application layer measurement reports, and improve the use of Utilization of signaling for transport application layer measurement reports.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 6 , the present application further provides a measurement report transmission method, and the measurement report transmission method involves a first access network device and a second access network device. Wherein, the first access network device and the second access network device may be mutually adjacent access network devices, or data exchange can be performed between the first access network device and the second access network device, or , the first access network device and the second access network device may provide a dual connectivity (dual connectivity, DC) service for the terminal device.

Step 601: The first access network device acquires application layer measurement indicators that can be identified by the first access network device.

The application-layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device may also be understood as an application-layer measurement report (RAN-visible QoE report) identifiable by the first access network device, and the first access network device may The identified application layer measurement index is the application layer measurement index in the application layer measurement report that can be identified and used by the first access network device.

Optionally, the application layer measurement index includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement index and/or an evaluation value of the application layer measurement index. Wherein, the measurement value of the application layer measurement index is a result of the measurement of the application layer index that can be identified by the RAN. The evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicators is the comprehensive score of the application layer indicators identifiable by the RAN, or the comprehensive score of the access layer indicators, or the composite score obtained by combining the application layer indicators and the access layer indicators, or an indicator indicating that the application layer indicators are excellent. The value of the degree of inferiority (for example, the value can be good, medium, and poor).

In a possible implementation manner, the first access network device receives, from the terminal device, an application-layer measurement indicator identifiable by the first access network device. In this embodiment, the terminal device can obtain the application layer measurement index identifiable by the aforementioned first access network device by using the methods proposed in the corresponding embodiments of FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , and FIG. 5 .

In another possible implementation manner, the first access network device generates an application layer identifiable by the first access network device according to an application layer measurement report received from the terminal device that is not recognizable by the first access network device measurement standard.

Exemplarily, the application layer measurement report that is not recognizable by the aforementioned first access network device is a QoE measurement report container (QoE measurement report container), and the aforementioned container is encapsulated with information that can reflect application layer measurement indicators, and the first access The network device decapsulates the aforementioned container to obtain the aforementioned information that can reflect the measurement indicators of the application layer. Then, the first access network device selects an application layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device from the information that can reflect the application layer measurement index.

In this embodiment, the terminal device can obtain the application layer measurement index that is not recognizable by the first access network device by using the methods proposed in the corresponding embodiments of FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , and FIG. 5 .

Step 602, the first access network device obtains the access layer measurement index.

Wherein, the access stratum measurement index is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device providing services for the terminal device. The measured value of the access stratum measurement index can reflect whether a certain cell can provide a certain service for the terminal equipment, and the level of the quality of the ability to provide the service.

Exemplarily, the access stratum measurement indicators include: indicators reflecting wireless signal quality (for example, reference signal received power (RSRP), reference signal received quality (RSRP), and signal-to-interference-noise ratio) (signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR), etc.), bit error rate, block error rate, delay, throughput rate, throughput and wireless load, etc.

Step 603: The first access network device generates a first correspondence, where the first correspondence includes a correspondence between the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index.

In this embodiment, after the first access network device receives the access layer measurement indicator and the application layer measurement indicator, the first access network device generates a first correspondence according to the aforementioned access layer measurement indicator and application layer measurement indicator .

In an optional implementation manner, the first access network device reports the first access network device according to the application layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device reported from each terminal device under the first access network device and the first access network device. The access layer measurement index corresponding to the application layer measurement index identifiable by the network device generates a first correspondence. The access layer measurement indicator corresponding to the application layer measurement indicator recognizable by the first access network device is the access layer measurement associated with the application layer measurement indicator recognizable by the first access network device reported by the terminal device index. For example, assuming that the application layer measurement index 1 is obtained by measuring the application layer of a service in a certain time period, then the access layer measurement index associated with the application layer measurement index 1 refers to: the access layer measurement index in the time period The measurement indicator, or the access layer measurement indicator when the terminal device reports the application layer measurement indicator, or the access layer measurement indicator when the access network device receives the application layer measurement indicator. Optionally, the first access network device generates the first correspondence by synthesizing application layer measurement indicators of multiple terminal devices and associated access layer measurement indicators. For example, the application layer indicators corresponding to the access layer measurement indicators in a certain range can be integrated to obtain the value of the integrated application layer indicator (for example, the average value, the minimum value, the maximum value or the weighted average value) or the integrated value of the application layer indicator. The value range (for example, the average value range, the minimum value range, or the maximum value range) of the value of the application layer metric.

In an optional implementation manner, the first access network device associates and stores the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index. For example, the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement are stored in a table correspondingly.

Exemplarily, when the aforementioned application layer measurement index is a measurement value of the application layer measurement index, the aforementioned first correspondence may be as shown in the following Table 1-1:

Table 1-1

For example, in the examples listed in Table 1-1, the measurement value of the access layer measurement indicator represents the measurement value of RSRP, and the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator represents the average throughput. At this time, the aforementioned Table 1-1 represents the range corresponding to the measurement value of the measurement indicator in each cell, within the range corresponding to the measurement value of the access layer measurement indicator. Optionally, the first correspondence is a correspondence between multiple access layer measurement indicators and application layer measurement indicators. For example, the first correspondence is that in cell 1, the measurement value of the access stratum measurement indicator #1 is the measurement value #1 and the measurement value of the access stratum measurement indicator #2 is the corresponding application layer measurement indicator# under the measurement value #2 The measurement value corresponding to 1 is measurement value #3.

Step 604, the first access network device sends the first correspondence to the second access network device.

In an optional implementation manner, the first correspondence is implemented in the form of a table (for example, the aforementioned Table 1-1). At this time, the first access network device sends the table storing the first correspondence to the second access network device.

In another optional implementation manner, the first access network device encapsulates the access layer measurement indicators and application layer measurement indicators that need to be corresponding into one message and sends it to the second access network device, so that the The second access network device can learn that there is a corresponding relationship between the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index in the preceding message.

Exemplarily, the first access network device encapsulates the cell identifier of the cell 1, the measurement value of the access layer measurement indicator corresponding to the cell 1, and the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator corresponding to the cell 1 into message 001. Then, the first access network device sends the message 001 to the second access network device, so that after receiving the foregoing message 001, the second access network device can know the value of the access stratum measurement index in the message 001 Both the measurement value and the measurement value of the application layer measurement index correspond to cell 1.

After the second access network device receives the first corresponding relationship, the second access network device can know that a certain cell under the first access network device is a terminal based on the first corresponding relationship according to the first corresponding relationship. The pros and cons of the service provided by the device. Furthermore, the second access network device may determine whether to switch the terminal device located in a certain cell of the second access network device to a certain cell of the first access network device based on the first correspondence. Exemplarily, when the second access network device determines whether to switch the terminal device located in the service range of the second access network device to the cell in the first access network device, the second access network device The current wireless signal quality of each cell in the first access network device and the above first corresponding relationship are obtained. It is assumed that the value of the application layer indicator corresponding to the terminal device after switching to each cell in the first access network device (referred to as The value of the switched application layer indicator). Therefore, the second access network device can determine whether to switch the terminal device to the cell in the first access network device (for example, when the value of the application layer indicator after the handover of the terminal device in each cell in the base station is lower than When a threshold is reached, the second access network device determines not to switch the terminal device to the cell in the first access network device; otherwise, it determines that the terminal device can be switched to the cell in the first access network device). Further, when the second access network device determines to switch the terminal device to the first access network device, the second access network device may further determine which cell in the first access network device to switch to (for example, , and select which cell has the largest value of the application layer indicator after handover).

It should be noted that the handover in this application includes switching a terminal device from one access network device to another access network device, and also includes an access network device migrating some data to another access network device (such as an access network device). The network device requests another access network device to provide dual connectivity services).

Step 605: The first access network device sends a handover request to the second access network device, where the handover request carries the values of expected application indicators of each service of the terminal device.

Step 605 is an optional step.

The value of the expected application layer indicator of each service may be delivered by the core network to the first access network device, or may be calculated by the first access network device according to the QoS requirements of each service of the terminal device, It may also be an application-layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device obtained by the first access network device from the terminal device.

The second access network device may determine whether to accept the terminal device and which services to accept according to the expected value of the application layer indicator of each service of the terminal device. For example, if the second access network device cannot satisfy the expected value of the application indicator of each service of the terminal device, the second access network device may refuse to accept the terminal device. When the second access network device cannot satisfy the expected value of the application indicator of the service 1 of the terminal device, the second access network device may refuse to accept the service 1 of the terminal device.

In this embodiment, the first access network device and the second access network device can exchange the measurement result reflecting the quality of the access layer (that is, the measurement value of the access layer measurement indicator) and the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator. Correspondence between. Therefore, it is helpful for the second access network device to determine whether to handover the terminal device in a certain cell of the second access network device to a certain cell in the first access network device based on the aforementioned correspondence. Therefore, a decision basis can be provided for the access network device to switch the terminal device, thereby better guaranteeing the service performance of the terminal device. In addition, the first access network device sends the value of the expected application indicator of each service of the terminal device to the second access network device, so that the second access network device judges according to the value of the expected application indicator of the terminal device Whether to accept the terminal device.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 7 , the present application also provides a method for transmitting a measurement report, and the method for transmitting a measurement report involves a first access network device and a second access network device. Wherein, the first access network device and the second access network device may be mutually adjacent access network devices, or data exchange can be performed between the first access network device and the second access network device, or The first access network device and the second access network device may provide a dual connectivity (dual connectivity, DC) service for the terminal device.

Step 701: The first access network device acquires application layer measurement indicators that can be identified by the first access network device.

Wherein, the application layer measurement index includes the measurement value of the application layer measurement index and/or the evaluation value of the application layer measurement index;

Step 701 is similar to step 601. For details, please refer to the relevant description in step 601, which will not be repeated here.

Step 702, the first access network device acquires wireless configuration information.

The wireless configuration information is used to indicate that at least one cell of the access network device is the wireless configuration configured by the terminal device. The wireless configuration includes carrier aggregation (CA) and/or dual connectivity (DC). Therefore, the aforementioned wireless configuration information can also be understood as being able to indicate whether a certain cell under the first access network device is configured with carrier aggregation CA for the terminal device, and whether the cell is configured with dual-connection DC for the terminal device.

Step 703: The first access network device generates a second correspondence relationship, where the second correspondence relationship includes a correspondence relationship between wireless configuration information and application layer measurement indicators.

In this embodiment, after the first access network device acquires the wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index, the first access network device generates the second correspondence according to the aforementioned wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index.

In an optional implementation manner, the first access network device reports the first access network device according to the application layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device reported from each terminal device under the first access network device and the first access network device. The network device generates a second correspondence for the wireless configuration information configured by each terminal device. The wireless configuration information configured by the first access network device for each terminal device is the wireless configuration information associated with the application layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device reported by the terminal device. For example, assuming that the application layer measurement indicator 1 is obtained by performing the application layer measurement of a certain service within a certain period of time, then the wireless configuration information associated with the application layer measurement indicator 1 refers to: the wireless configuration information in the period of time, or , the wireless configuration information when the terminal device reports the application layer measurement indicator, or the wireless configuration information configured for the terminal device when the access network device receives the application layer measurement indicator. Optionally, the first access network device generates the second correspondence by synthesizing application layer measurement indicators and associated wireless configuration information of multiple terminal devices. For example, the values of the application layer indicators of each terminal device under the same wireless configuration information can be synthesized to obtain the comprehensive value of the application layer indicators (such as the average value, the minimum value, the maximum value, or the weighted average, or the value of the application layer indicator range of values, etc.).

In an optional implementation manner, the first access network device associates and stores wireless configuration information and application layer measurement indicators. For example, wireless configuration information and application layer measurements are stored in a table correspondingly.

Exemplarily, the foregoing second correspondence may be shown in Table 2-1 below:

table 2-1

For example, in the examples listed in the foregoing Table 2-1, the measurement value of the application layer measurement index indicates the average throughput, and the wireless configuration information indicates whether CA and/or DC are supported. At this time, the aforementioned Table 2-1 indicates the range corresponding to the measured value of the applied measurement index in the case of the value corresponding to the wireless configuration information in each cell.

Step 704: The first access network device sends the second correspondence to the second access network device.

In an optional implementation manner, the second correspondence is implemented in the form of a table (for example, the aforementioned Table 2-1). At this time, the first access network device sends the table storing the second correspondence to the second access network device.

In another optional implementation manner, the first access network device encapsulates the corresponding wireless configuration information and application layer measurement indicators into a message and sends it to the second access network device, so that the second access network device can The network access device can learn that there is a corresponding relationship between the wireless configuration information in the preceding message and the application layer measurement index.

Exemplarily, the first access network device encapsulates the cell identifier of the cell 2, the wireless configuration information corresponding to the cell 2 (for example, supporting carrier aggregation CA), and the measurement value of the application layer measurement index corresponding to the cell 2 into message 002. middle. Then, the first access network device sends the message 002 to the second access network device, so that after receiving the foregoing message 002, the second access network device can learn the wireless configuration information and application layer in the message 002 The measured values of the measurement indicators all correspond to cell 2, that is, the second access network device can know that the cell 2 supports the configuration of carrier aggregation CA for the terminal device, and in the case that the terminal device is configured with carrier aggregation CA in cell 2, the terminal device The application layer in cell 2 measures the level of the indicator.

After the second access network device receives the second correspondence relationship, the second access network device may, according to the second correspondence relationship, obtain the wireless communication of a certain cell under the first access network device based on the second correspondence relationship. configuration. Further, the second access network device may determine whether to handover the terminal device located in a certain cell of the second access network device to a certain cell of the first access network device based on the second correspondence. For example, the terminal device 1 in the second access network device supports carrier aggregation CA, and the measurement value of the application layer measurement index in the cell 2 that supports the configuration of carrier aggregation CA for the terminal device under the first access network device is different. If the handover condition of the terminal device 1 is met, the second access network device will not handover the aforementioned terminal device 1 to the aforementioned cell 2 supporting carrier aggregation CA.

Step 705: The first access network device sends a handover request to the second access network device, where the handover request carries the value of the expected application indicator of each service of the terminal device.

Step 705 is an optional step.

The value of the expected application layer indicator of each service may be delivered by the core network to the first access network device, or may be calculated by the first access network device according to the QoS requirements of each service of the terminal device, It may also be an application-layer measurement index identifiable by the first access network device obtained by the first access network device from the terminal device.

The second access network device may determine whether to accept the terminal device and which services to accept according to the expected value of the application layer indicator of each service of the terminal device. For example, if the second access network device cannot satisfy the expected value of the application indicator of each service of the terminal device, the second access network device may refuse to accept the terminal device. When the second access network device cannot satisfy the expected value of the application indicator of the service 1 of the terminal device, the second access network device may refuse to accept the service 1 of the terminal device.

In this embodiment, the first access network device and the second access network device can interactively reflect the correspondence between the wireless configuration capability of the cell and the measurement value of the application layer measurement index. Therefore, it is helpful for the second access network device to determine whether to handover the terminal device in a certain cell of the second access network device to a certain cell in the first access network device based on the aforementioned correspondence. Therefore, a decision basis can be provided for the access network device to switch the terminal device, thereby better guaranteeing the service performance of the terminal device.

It should be noted that the foregoing embodiment corresponding to FIG. 6 and the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 7 may be combined. That is to say, in a possible implementation manner, the first access network device generates not only the aforementioned first correspondence relationship but also the aforementioned second correspondence relationship, and the first access network device can convert the aforementioned first correspondence relationship Both the relationship and the second corresponding relationship are sent to the second access network device. Subsequently, the second access network device can decide whether to switch a certain terminal device under the second access network device to a certain cell under the first access network device according to the aforementioned first correspondence and the second correspondence. It should also be noted that the first access network device may send the aforementioned first correspondence and the second correspondence together to the second access network device through one message. Certainly, the first access network device may also use two messages to send the aforementioned first correspondence and second correspondence to the second access network device, respectively. In a possible implementation manner, the first access network device has a third correspondence relationship, and the third correspondence relationship is a relationship between the measurement value of the access layer measurement index, the wireless configuration information, and the measurement value of the application layer measurement index. For example, the third correspondence is that in cell 1, the measurement value of the access layer measurement indicator #1 is the measurement value #1 and the wireless configuration information is that the measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator #1 corresponding to the configuration #1 is the measurement value #1 3.

As shown in FIG. 8 , it is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus 80 provided in this embodiment. It should be understood that the terminal device in the method embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2 and the UE in the method embodiment corresponding to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 may be based on the structure of the communication apparatus 80 shown in FIG. 8 in this embodiment.

The communication device 80 includes at least one processor 801 , at least one memory 802 and at least one transceiver 803 . The processor 801 , the memory 802 and the transceiver 803 are connected. Optionally, the communication apparatus 80 may further include an input device 805, an output device 806 and one or more antennas 804. The antenna 804 is connected to the transceiver 803 , and the input device 805 and the output device 806 are connected to the processor 801 .

In this embodiment, the memory 802 is mainly used for storing software programs and data. The memory 802 may exist independently and be connected to the processor 801 . Optionally, the memory 802 may be integrated with the processor 801, for example, in one or more chips. The memory 802 can store program codes for implementing the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, and is controlled and executed by the processor 801 . It should be understood that FIG. 8 in this embodiment only shows one memory and one processor, but, in practical applications, the communication device 80 may have multiple processors or multiple memories, which is not specifically described here. limited. In addition, the memory 802 may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device or the like. The memory 802 may be a storage element on the same chip as the processor (ie, an on-chip storage element), or an independent storage element, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment, the transceiver 803 may be used to support the reception or transmission of radio frequency signals between the communication apparatus 80 and an access network device, and the transceiver 803 may be connected to the antenna 804 . The transceiver 803 includes a transmitter Tx and a receiver Rx. Specifically, one or more antennas 804 may receive radio frequency signals, and the receiver Rx of the transceiver 803 is configured to receive the radio frequency signals from the antenna 804, convert the radio frequency signals into digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals, and convert the radio frequency signals into digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals. The digital baseband signal or the digital intermediate frequency signal is provided to the processor 801, so that the processor 801 performs further processing on the digital baseband signal or the digital intermediate frequency signal, such as demodulation processing and decoding processing. In addition, the transmitter Tx in the transceiver 803 is also used to receive the modulated digital baseband signal or digital intermediate frequency signal from the processor 801, and convert the modulated digital baseband signal or digital intermediate frequency signal into a radio frequency signal, and pass a The radio frequency signal is transmitted by the antenna or antennas 804 . Specifically, the receiver Rx can selectively perform one or more stages of down-mixing processing and analog-to-digital conversion processing on the radio frequency signal to obtain a digital baseband signal or a digital intermediate frequency signal. The sequence of the aforementioned down-mixing processing and analog-to-digital conversion processing The order is adjustable. The transmitter Tx can selectively perform one or more stages of up-mixing processing and digital-to-analog conversion processing on the modulated digital baseband signal or digital intermediate frequency signal to obtain a radio frequency signal, and the up-mixing processing and digital-to-analog conversion processing The sequence of s is adjustable. Digital baseband signals and digital intermediate frequency signals can be collectively referred to as digital signals.

It should be understood that the aforementioned transceiver 803 may also be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, a transceiver device, and the like. Optionally, the device used to implement the receiving function in the transceiver unit may be regarded as a receiving unit, and the device used to implement the transmitting function in the transceiver unit may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiver unit includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit, and the receiving unit also It can be called a receiver, an input port, a receiving circuit, etc., and the sending unit can be called a transmitter, a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.

The processor 801 may be a baseband processor or a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU), and the baseband processor and the CPU may be integrated or separated. The processor 801 can be used to implement various functions for the terminal device, for example, to process communication protocols and communication data, or to control the entire terminal device, execute software programs, and process data of software programs; or It is used to assist in completing computing processing tasks, such as graphic image processing or audio processing, etc.; or the processor 801 is used to implement one or more of the above functions.

In addition, the output device 806 communicates with the processor 801, and can display information in various ways, which are not specifically limited here.

Specifically, in the communication apparatus 80, the transceiver 803 can obtain time information, wherein the time information indicates the timing of encapsulating an application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement . The processor 801 can encapsulate at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information. In addition, the transceiver 803 can also send the first message to the access network device under the control of the processor 801 .

In a possible implementation manner, in the communication device 80, the processor 801 can encapsulate at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and each of the at least two application layer measurement reports Each application layer measurement report corresponds to different service types.

In a possible implementation manner, if the aforementioned time information includes a first encapsulation period, the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. The processor 801 can encapsulate the application layer measurement report received in the first encapsulation cycle into the first message.

In a possible implementation manner, if the aforementioned time information includes at least one measurement period, each measurement period is used to indicate the time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

The processor 801 can determine a second encapsulation period according to a plurality of the measurement periods, and encapsulate the application layer measurement report received in the second encapsulation period into the first message. The second encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message.

Alternatively, the processor 801 can obtain a start indication corresponding to each service type, and after receiving an application layer measurement report, determine whether to generate an encapsulation at least according to the start indications of multiple service types and the measurement periods of multiple service types. The first message of an application layer measurement report. Wherein, the start indication is used to instruct the service that triggers measurement of the service type.

For the rest, reference may be made to the method of the terminal device or the UE in the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described herein again.

As shown in FIG. 9 , it is a schematic structural diagram of another communication apparatus 90 provided in this embodiment. It should be understood that the access network device, the first access network device, the second access network device in the method embodiments corresponding to FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , FIG. 5 , FIG. 6 , and FIG. The RAN in the method embodiment corresponding to FIG. 5 may all be based on the structure of the communication apparatus 90 shown in FIG. 9 in this embodiment. It should also be understood that, when a subsequent evolved access network device or base station executes the methods involved in the embodiments of the present application, the subsequent evolved access network or base station may also use the communication shown in FIG. 9 in this embodiment. Structure of device 90.

The communication device 90 includes at least one processor 901 , at least one memory 902 , at least one transceiver 903 , at least one network interface 905 and one or more antennas 904 . The processor 901 , the memory 902 , the transceiver 903 and the network interface 905 are connected through a connection device, and the antenna 904 is connected with the transceiver 903 . The aforementioned connection device may include various types of interfaces, transmission lines, or buses, which are not limited in this embodiment.

The aforementioned network interface 905 is used to connect the communication device 90 with other communication devices through a communication link. Specifically, the network interface 905 may include a network interface between the communication apparatus 90 and a core network element, such as an S1 interface; the network interface 905 may also include the communication apparatus 90 and other network equipment (for example, other access network equipment) or network interface between core network elements), such as X2 or Xn interface.

For the transceiver 903, the memory 902, and the antenna 904, reference may be made to the related descriptions of the transceiver 803, the memory 802, and the antenna 804 in the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 8, and details are not repeated here.

In addition, the aforementioned processor 901 is mainly used to process communication protocols and communication data, control the entire network equipment, execute software programs, and process data of software programs, for example, to support the communication apparatus 90 to execute the above-mentioned embodiments. described action. The communication device 90 may include a baseband processor and a central processing unit, wherein the baseband processor is mainly used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processing unit is mainly used to control the entire communication device 90, execute software programs, and process software. program data. The processor 901 in FIG. 9 can integrate the functions of the baseband processor and the central processing unit. Those skilled in the art can understand that the baseband processor and the central processing unit can also be independent processors, interconnected by technologies such as buses. Those skilled in the art can understand that the communication device 90 may include multiple baseband processors to adapt to different network standards, the communication device 90 may include multiple central processors to enhance its processing capability, and the various components of the communication device 90 may use various bus connection. The baseband processor may also be expressed as a baseband processing circuit or a baseband processing chip. The central processing unit can also be expressed as a central processing circuit or a central processing chip. The function of processing the communication protocol and communication data may be built in the processor, or may be stored in the memory in the form of a software program, and the processor executes the software program to realize the baseband processing function.

Specifically, in the communication apparatus 90, the transceiver 903 can send time information to a terminal device, and receive a first message from the terminal device. The time information indicates the timing of encapsulating an application layer measurement report, the application layer measurement report is a measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing application layer measurement, and the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report.

In the communication device 90, the transceiver 903 can generate a first correspondence, and send the first correspondence to adjacent access network devices, where the first correspondence includes an access layer measurement index and an application layer measurement index The access stratum measurement index is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device providing services for the terminal device.

In the communication apparatus 90, the transceiver 903 can generate a second correspondence relationship, and send the second correspondence relationship to the adjacent access network device, where the second correspondence relationship includes the relationship between the wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index The wireless configuration information is used to indicate that at least one cell of the access network device supports the wireless configuration configured for the terminal device.

For the rest, reference may be made to the method of the access network device or the RAN in the foregoing embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

As shown in FIG. 10 , the present application further provides another communication apparatus 100, and the communication apparatus 100 may be a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device. The communication apparatus 100 includes: an acquisition module 1001 , an encapsulation module 1002 and a transmission module 1003 .

Wherein, the obtaining module 1001 is used for obtaining time information, the time information indicates the timing of encapsulating the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; the encapsulation module 1002 is used for according to the The time information encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message; the sending module 1003 is configured to send the first message to the access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the encapsulation module 1002 is specifically configured to encapsulate at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports The reports correspond to different business types.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message. The encapsulation module 1002 is specifically configured to encapsulate the application layer measurement report received in the first encapsulation cycle into the first message.

In a possible implementation manner, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type. When the time information includes multiple measurement periods. The encapsulation module 1002 is specifically configured to: determine a second encapsulation period according to a plurality of the measurement periods, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message; The application layer measurement report received in is encapsulated into the first message.

In a possible implementation manner, when the time information includes multiple measurement periods, the obtaining module 1001 is further configured to obtain a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to indicate a service that triggers measurement of the service type The terminal equipment also includes a receiving module; the encapsulation module 1002 is specifically used to determine whether to generate a measurement report according to the start indication of a plurality of business types and the measurement period of a plurality of business types after the receiving module receives an application layer measurement report. A first message of at least one application layer measurement report is encapsulated.

In a possible implementation manner, the encapsulation module 1002 is further configured to: when it is determined to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, encapsulate the received application layer measurement report into the first message; When it is determined not to generate the first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the receiving module is instructed to wait for receiving the next application layer measurement report.

In a possible implementation manner, the obtaining module 1001 is specifically configured to receive the time information from the access network device, or, specifically configured to receive an application layer measurement configuration from the access network device, and, according to the application The layer measurement configuration determines this time information.

For the rest, reference may be made to the method of the terminal device or the UE in the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described herein again.

As shown in FIG. 11 , the present application further provides another communication apparatus 110 , and the communication apparatus 110 may be an access network device or a chip in the access network device. The communication device 110 includes: a sending module 1101 and a receiving module 1102 . The sending module 1101 is configured to send time information to the terminal device, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement. The receiving module 1102 is configured to receive a first message from the terminal device, where the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report.

Optionally, the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type.

Optionally, the time information includes a first encapsulation period, where the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message.

Optionally, the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to indicate a time interval for the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layer measurement reports corresponding to the same service type.

Optionally, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement index recognizable by the access network device and/or an application layer measurement report unrecognizable by the access network device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator . The communication device 110 further includes a processing module 1103 . The processing module 1103 is configured to generate a first correspondence according to the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index. The sending module 1101 is further configured to send a first correspondence relationship to adjacent access network devices, where the first correspondence relationship includes the correspondence relationship between the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index, and the access layer measurement index uses It is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network equipment serving the terminal equipment.

In a possible implementation manner, the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicator includes a measurement value of the application layer measurement indicator and/or an evaluation value of the application layer measurement indicator . The communication device 110 also includes a processing module 1103. The processing module 1103 is configured to generate the second correspondence according to the wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index. The sending module 1101 is further configured to send a second correspondence relationship to adjacent access network devices, where the second correspondence relationship includes a correspondence relationship between wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index, and the wireless configuration information is used to indicate the At least one cell of the access network device supports the radio configuration configured for the terminal device.

For the rest, reference may be made to the method of the access network device in the foregoing embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In the implementation process, each step of the above-mentioned method can be completed by a hardware integrated logic circuit in a processor or an instruction in the form of software. The steps of the methods disclosed in conjunction with the embodiments of the present application may be directly embodied as executed by a hardware processor, or executed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor. The software modules may be located in random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers and other storage media mature in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory, and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware. To avoid repetition, detailed description is omitted here. It should also be understood that the first, second, third, fourth and various numerical numbers involved in this document are only distinctions made for convenience of description, and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

Furthermore, the present application provides a computer program product comprising one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions according to the embodiments of the present application are generated. For example, the methods related to the access network devices (eg, the first access network device, the second access network device, etc.) in the aforementioned FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , and FIG. 5 are implemented. For another example, the methods related to the terminal device as in the aforementioned FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are implemented. The computer may be a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted over a wire from a website site, computer, server or data center (eg, coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line (DSL)) or wireless (eg, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) to another website site, computer, server, or data center. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be stored by a computer, or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc., which includes one or more available media integrated. The available media may be magnetic media (eg, floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), optical media (eg, digital versatile disc (DVD)), or semiconductor media (eg, solid state disk (SSD)) Wait.

In addition, the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where the storage medium stores a computer program, and the computer program is executed by a processor to realize the terminal device or UE-related functions in the aforementioned FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , and FIG. 5 . method.

In addition, the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium, the storage medium stores a computer program, and the computer program is executed by a processor to realize the above-mentioned FIG. 2 , FIG. 4 , FIG. 5 , FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 . Methods related to access network devices (eg, a first access network device, a second access network device, etc.).

It should be understood that the term "and/or" in this document is only an association relationship to describe associated objects, indicating that there can be three kinds of relationships, for example, A and/or B, which can mean that A exists alone, and A and B exist at the same time , there are three cases of B alone. In addition, the character "/" in this document generally indicates that the related objects are an "or" relationship.

It should be understood that, in various embodiments of the present application, the size of the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes does not mean the sequence of execution, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its functions and internal logic, and should not be dealt with in the embodiments of the present application. implementation constitutes any limitation.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working process of the system, device and unit described above may refer to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present application, but not to limit them; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: The recorded technical solutions are modified, or some technical features thereof are equivalently replaced; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application.

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A measurement report transmission method, comprising: The terminal device acquires time information, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is a measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information; The terminal device sends the first message to the access network device. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into the first message according to the time information, comprising: The terminal device encapsulates at least two application layer measurement reports into the first message according to the time information, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the time information includes a first encapsulation period, and the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message; The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information, including: The terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation period into the first message. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layers corresponding to the same service type The time interval for measurement reporting. The method of claim 4, wherein the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods; The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information, including: The terminal device determines a second encapsulation period according to a plurality of the measurement periods, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message; The terminal device encapsulates the application layer measurement report obtained in the second encapsulation period into the first message. The method of claim 4, wherein the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods; The terminal device encapsulates at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information, including: obtaining, by the terminal device, a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to indicate a service that triggers measurement of the service type; After the terminal device obtains an application layer measurement report, the terminal device determines whether to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report according to the start indications of the multiple service types and the measurement periods of the multiple service types. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises: When the terminal device determines to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the terminal device encapsulates the obtained application layer measurement report into the first message; When the terminal device determines not to generate the first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the terminal device waits to receive the next application layer measurement report. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the terminal device acquiring time information includes: receiving, by the terminal device, the time information from the access network device; or, The terminal device generates the time information. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator recognizable by the access network device and/or unrecognizable by the access network device application layer measurement report. A measurement report transmission method, comprising: The access network device sends time information to the terminal device, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate the application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is the measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; The access network device receives a first message from the terminal device, where the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report. The method according to claim 10, wherein the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different service type. . The method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the time information includes a first encapsulation period, and the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message. The method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the terminal device to obtain two adjacent application layers corresponding to the same service type The time interval for measurement reporting. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein the application-layer measurement report includes application-layer measurement indicators identifiable by the access network device and/or unidentifiable by the access network device application layer measurement report. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein the application layer measurement report includes application layer measurement indicators visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicators include application layer measurement indicators Measured values and/or evaluation values of application-layer metrics; After the access network device receives the first message from the terminal device, the method further includes: The access network device sends a first correspondence relationship to the adjacent access network device, where the first correspondence relationship includes the correspondence relationship between the access layer measurement index and the application layer measurement index, and the access layer measurement index uses It is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device serving the terminal device. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein the application layer measurement report includes application layer measurement indicators visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicators include application layer measurement indicators Measured values and/or evaluation values of application-layer metrics; After the access network device receives the first message from the terminal device, the method further includes: The access network device sends a second correspondence relationship to the adjacent access network device, where the second correspondence relationship includes a correspondence relationship between wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index, and the wireless configuration information is used to indicate At least one cell of the access network device supports the radio configuration configured for the terminal device. A terminal device, characterized in that it includes: an acquisition module, configured to acquire time information, where the time information indicates the timing of encapsulating an application-layer measurement report, and the application-layer measurement report is a measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing application-layer measurement; an encapsulation module, configured to encapsulate at least one application layer measurement report into a first message according to the time information; A sending module, configured to send the first message to the access network device. The terminal device according to claim 17, wherein the encapsulation module is specifically configured to encapsulate at least two application layer measurement reports into a first message according to the time information, the at least two application layer measurement reports Each application layer measurement report in the report corresponds to a different service type. The terminal device according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the time information includes a first encapsulation period, and the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message; The encapsulation module is specifically configured to encapsulate the application layer measurement report obtained in the first encapsulation cycle into the first message. The terminal device according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the terminal device to obtain two adjacent applications corresponding to the same service type The interval for layer measurement reporting. The terminal device according to claim 20, wherein the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods; The encapsulation module is specifically used for: determining a second encapsulation period according to a plurality of the measurement periods, where the second encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into a message; The application layer measurement report obtained in the second encapsulation cycle is encapsulated into the first message. The terminal device according to claim 20, wherein the time information includes a plurality of measurement periods; The obtaining module is further configured to obtain a start indication corresponding to each service type, where the start indication is used to indicate a service that triggers measurement of the service type; The terminal device further includes a receiving module; The encapsulation module is specifically configured to, after the receiving module obtains an application-layer measurement report, determine whether to generate a first encapsulation of the at least one application-layer measurement report according to the start indications of multiple service types and the measurement periods of multiple service types. a message. The terminal device according to claim 22, wherein the encapsulation module is further used for: When it is determined to generate a first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, encapsulate the obtained application layer measurement report into the first message; When it is determined not to generate the first message encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report, the receiving module is instructed to wait for receiving the next application layer measurement report. The terminal device according to any one of claims 17 to 23, wherein the acquiring module is specifically configured to receive the time information from the access network device; or, the acquiring module is specifically configured to use to generate the time information. The terminal device according to any one of claims 17 to 24, wherein the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator identifiable by the access network device and/or the access network device cannot Identified application layer measurement report. An access network device, characterized in that it includes: a sending module, configured to send time information to the terminal device, where the time information indicates the opportunity to encapsulate an application layer measurement report, and the application layer measurement report is a measurement result obtained by the terminal device performing the application layer measurement; A receiving module, configured to receive a first message from the terminal device, where the first message is encapsulated with at least one application layer measurement report. The access network device according to claim 26, wherein the first message is encapsulated with at least two application layer measurement reports, and each application layer measurement report in the at least two application layer measurement reports corresponds to a different type of business. The access network device according to claim 26 or 27, wherein the time information includes a first encapsulation period, and the first encapsulation period is used to indicate a period for encapsulating at least one application layer measurement report into one message . The access network device according to claim 26 or 27, wherein the time information includes at least one measurement period, and each measurement period is used to instruct the terminal equipment to obtain two phases corresponding to the same service type. The time interval between adjacent application layer measurement reports. The access network device according to any one of claims 26 to 29, wherein the application layer measurement report includes an application layer measurement indicator recognizable by the access network device and/or the access network Device-unrecognized application-layer measurement reports. The access network device according to any one of claims 26 to 29, wherein the application layer measurement report includes application layer measurement indicators visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicators include application layer measurement indicators. The measured value of the layer measurement index and/or the evaluation value of the application layer measurement index; The sending module is further configured to send a first correspondence relationship to adjacent access network devices, where the first correspondence relationship includes a correspondence relationship between an access layer measurement index and an application layer measurement index, and the access layer measurement The indicator is used to describe the performance of at least one cell of the access network device serving the terminal device. The access network device according to any one of claims 26 to 29, wherein the application layer measurement report includes application layer measurement indicators visible to the access network device, and the application layer measurement indicators include application layer measurement indicators. The measured value of the layer measurement index and/or the evaluation value of the application layer measurement index; The sending module is further configured to send a second correspondence relationship to adjacent access network devices, where the second correspondence relationship includes the correspondence relationship between the wireless configuration information and the application layer measurement index, and the wireless configuration information is used to instruct at least one cell of the access network device to support the radio configuration configured for the terminal device. A communication device, comprising a processor and a memory; Wherein, the memory stores a computer program; The processor invokes the computer program in the memory to cause the communication device to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 9. A communication device, comprising a processor and a memory; Wherein, the memory stores a computer program; The processor invokes the computer program in the memory to cause the communication device to perform the method of any one of claims 10 to 16. A communication system, comprising: The terminal device according to any one of claims 17 to 25, and the access network device according to any one of claims 26 to 32.

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