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Configuration de mesure de couche d'application dans un état inutilisé ou inactif Download PDF

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WO2024239216A1
WO2024239216A1 PCT/CN2023/095638 CN2023095638W WO2024239216A1 WO 2024239216 A1 WO2024239216 A1 WO 2024239216A1 CN 2023095638 W CN2023095638 W CN 2023095638W WO 2024239216 A1 WO2024239216 A1 WO 2024239216A1
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Jing He
Malgorzata Tomala
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  • Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to the field of telecommunication and in particular to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state.
  • the application layer measurement which may also be called as quality of experience, QoE, measurement may be performed at the application layer of a user equipment (UE) .
  • UE user equipment
  • LTE long term evolution
  • NR New Radio
  • QoE supports to configure multiple QoE measurement configurations to one UE for different QoE measurements, maximum up to 16.
  • MMS Multicast/Broadcast Services
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • current mechanism may trigger UE to enter RRC connected state firstly and release previous QoE measurement configuration and configures new one to the UE by an RRC message.
  • an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive in an RRC connected state, from a network device, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; receive in the RRC non-connected state, from the network device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state; and perform at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: transmit, to a terminal device in an RRC connected state, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; and transmit, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • a method comprises receiving in an RRC connected state, at a terminal device and from a network device, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; receiving in the RRC non-connected state, from the network device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state; and performing at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • a method comprises transmitting, from a network device and to a terminal device in RRC connected state, at least one application layer measurement configuration each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; and transmitting, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • an apparatus comprising means for receiving in an RRC connected state, from a network device, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; means for receiving in the RRC non-connected state, from the network device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state; and means for performing at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • an apparatus comprising means for transmitting in an RRC connected state, , to a terminal device, at least one application layer measurement configuration each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; and means for transmitting in the RRC non-connected state, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example environment in which example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented
  • FIG. 2 shows a signaling chart illustrating an example of process according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of an example method of application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of an example method of application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 5 shows a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of an example computer readable medium in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • references in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
  • first, ” “second” and the like may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another. For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of example embodiments.
  • the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the listed terms.
  • performing a step “in response to A” does not indicate that the step is performed immediately after “A” occurs and one or more intervening steps may be included.
  • circuitry may refer to one or more or all of the following:
  • circuitry also covers an implementation of merely a hardware circuit or processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a hardware circuit or processor and its (or their) accompanying software and/or firmware.
  • circuitry also covers, for example and if applicable to the particular claim element, a baseband integrated circuit or processor integrated circuit for a mobile device or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other computing or network device.
  • the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as New Radio (NR) , Long Term Evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) , Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) , High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) , Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) , an Enhanced Machine type communication (eMTC) and so on.
  • NR New Radio
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • LTE-A LTE-Advanced
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • HSPA High-Speed Packet Access
  • NB-IoT Narrow Band Internet of Things
  • eMTC Enhanced Machine type communication
  • the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) communication protocols, and/or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will of course also be future type communication technologies and systems with which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned system.
  • the terms “network device” , “radio network device” and/or “radio access network device” refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom.
  • the network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , an NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) or non-ground network device such as a satellite network device, a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite, an aircraft network device, and so forth
  • low earth orbit (RAN) split architecture includes a Centralized Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) .
  • CU Centralized Unit
  • DU Distributed Unit
  • part of the radio access network device or full of the radio access network device may embarked on an airborne or space-borne NTN vehicle.
  • terminal device refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communication.
  • a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, user equipment (UE) , a Subscriber Station (SS) , a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS) , or an Access Terminal (AT) .
  • UE user equipment
  • SS Subscriber Station
  • MS Mobile Station
  • AT Access Terminal
  • the terminal device may include, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) , an Internet of Things (loT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device and applications (e.g., remote surgery) , an industrial device and applications (e.g., a robot and/or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and/or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and/
  • the terminal device may also correspond to a Mobile Termination (MT) part of an IAB node (e.g., a relay node) .
  • MT Mobile Termination
  • IAB node e.g., a relay node
  • the terms “terminal device” , “communication device” , “terminal” , “user equipment” and “UE” may be used interchangeably.
  • resource may refer to any resource for performing a communication, for example, a communication between a terminal device and a network device, such as a resource in time domain, a resource in frequency domain, a resource in space domain, a resource in code domain, or any other resource enabling a communication, and the like.
  • a resource in both frequency domain and time domain will be used as an example of a transmission resource for describing some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is noted that example embodiments of the present disclosure are equally applicable to other resources in other domains.
  • FIG. 1 shows an example communication network 100 in which embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented.
  • the communication network 100 may include a terminal device 110.
  • the terminal device 110 may also be referred to as a UE.
  • the communication network 100 may further include a network device 120.
  • the network device 120 may also be referred to as a gNB.
  • the terminal device 110 may communicate with the network device 120.
  • the communication network 100 may include any suitable number of network devices and terminal devices.
  • links from the network device 120 to the terminal device 110 may be referred to as a downlink (DL)
  • links from the terminal device 110 to the network device 120 may be referred to as an uplink (UL)
  • the network device 120 is a transmitting (TX) device (or a transmitter) and the terminal device 110 is a receiving (RX) device (or receiver)
  • the terminal device 110 is a TX device (or transmitter) and the network device 120 is a RX device (or a receiver) .
  • Communications in the communication network 100 may be implemented according to any proper communication protocol (s) , includes, but not limited to, cellular communication protocols of the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 5G, the sixth generation (6G) , and the like, wireless local network communication protocols such as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and/or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • IEEE Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • the communication may utilize any proper wireless communication technology, includes but not limited to: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) , Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) , Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) , FDD, TDD, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) , Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple (OFDM) , Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) and/or any other technologies currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
  • DFT-s-OFDM Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM
  • the QoE measurement configuration only can be configured to UE to perform only in RRC_CONNECTED state.
  • the UE enters an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state
  • all configured QoE measurement will be released by UE Access Stratum (AS) informing to UE Application (AL) .
  • AS UE Access Stratum
  • A UE Application
  • release 18 MBS QoE it has already agreed that network can implicitly or explicitly indicate to UE by an RRC message (e.g., RRC release or RRC reconfiguration) that the QoE measurement configurations performed in an RRC_CONNECTED state can be continued to perform when UE moves to an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state.
  • NR QoE supports to configure multiple QoE measurement configurations to one UE for different QoE measurements, maximum up to 16.
  • the NR QoE not only supports normal QoE measurements (e.g., signaling-based QoE Measurement and management-based QoE measurement) , but also supports RAN-Visible QoE (RVQoE) measurement.
  • RVQoE RAN-Visible QoE
  • the RVQoE may be triggered by RAN-node and the RVQoE report may be used by RAN-node for RAN performance optimization.
  • the RVQoE support was agreed for UE in in an RRC_CONNECTED state while the RVQoE for UE in an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state may be discussed later (e.g., whether and how to support RVQoE to optimize the MCCH/MTCH for MBS service) .
  • UE may be triggered to enter an RRC_CONNECTED state firstly (e.g. paging the UE to enter connected mode) and release previous QoE measurement configuration and configures new one to the UE by an RRC message. After that, network may command UE back to RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state, which brings lots of unnecessary RRC state switching and air interface signalling increasing and therefore the QoE measurement reconfiguration procedure is quite low efficiency.
  • the NR QoE enhancement in release 18 may include supporting multicast/broadcast services (MBS) QoE measurement configuration and collection in RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE state has been discussed, which may refer to objectives as below:
  • MMS multicast/broadcast services
  • Support for new service type such as Augmented Reality (AR) , Mixed Reality (MR) , MBS and other new service type defined or to be supported by SA4.
  • AR Augmented Reality
  • MR Mixed Reality
  • MBS Mobility Management Entity
  • SA4 Support RAN-visible parameters for the additional service types, and the existing service if needed, and the coordination with SA4 is needed.
  • ⁇ Specify for QoE measurement configuration and collection in an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state for MBS, at least for broadcast service.
  • MBS UEs can be configured to perform QoE measurement in UE application layer even in an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state
  • how to configure or release a QoE measurement configuration to one MBS UE in an RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state by using a broadcast way which targets to avoid unnecessary RRC states transferring from RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state to an RRC_CONNECTED state for the UE, is expected to be further studied.
  • the present disclosure proposes a solution of application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state.
  • the terminal device 110 may obtain at least one application layer measurement configuration when the terminal device is in an RRC connected state, i.e., RRC_CONNECTED state.
  • Each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicates whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in a RRC non-connected state, i.e., RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state.
  • the network device 120 may transmit, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state when the terminal device is in the RRC non-connected state and perform at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • an application layer measurement used hereinafter may also be referred to as a QoE measurement, which may comprise at least one of a signaling-based QoE measurement, a management-based QoE measurement or a RAN visible QoE (RVQoE) measurement.
  • a QoE measurement may comprise at least one of a signaling-based QoE measurement, a management-based QoE measurement or a RAN visible QoE (RVQoE) measurement.
  • the application layer measurement and the QoE measurement may be considered as a same one.
  • FIG. 2 shows a signaling chart 200 for communication according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the signaling chart 200 involves a terminal device 110 and a network device 120.
  • the terminal device 110 may comprise an access stratum (AS) layer 101, which may also be referred to as a first layer and an application (AL) layer 102, which may also be referred to as a second layer hereinafter.
  • AS access stratum
  • AL application
  • FIG. 1 For the purpose of discussion, reference is made to FIG. 1 to describe the signaling chart 200. Although a single terminal device 110 is illustrated in FIG. 2, it would be appreciated that there may be a plurality of terminal devices performing similar operations as described with respect to the terminal device 110 below.
  • the network device 120 may transmit (202) at least one application layer measurement configuration to the terminal device 110 that is in an RRC connected state.
  • the at least one application layer measurement configuration may be obtained by the network device 120 from another node, such as an operation and maintenance (O&M) node.
  • the network device 120 may also configure the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • the at least one application layer measurement configuration may be a list of QoE measurement configurations which comprises multiple application layer measurement configurations.
  • Each of the multiple application layer measurement configurations may have an extra appliable state indication.
  • the extra appliable state indication may comprise an applied RRC state and whether an application layer measurement may be in an active/inactive state during the applied RRC state.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration may indicate at least one of an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is also to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement not activated in the RRC connected state is to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is not to be activated in the RRC non-connected state.
  • each MeasConfigAppLayer-r17 of AppLayerMeasConfig can add new indication into each MeasConfigAppLayer-r17 of AppLayerMeasConfig with new information to indicate which QoE configuration is applied to an RRC non-connected state, but it is in inactive state for an RRC connected state.
  • it may define one new AppLayerMeasConfig-r18 for QoE configuration specifically applied to an RRC non-connected state, without activation in an RRC connected state.
  • the extra appliable state indication can be added to either normal QoE measurements (e.g., the signaling-based QoE Measurement and a management-based QoE measurement) or a RVQoE measurement.
  • normal QoE measurements e.g., the signaling-based QoE Measurement and a management-based QoE measurement
  • RVQoE measurement e.g., the RVQoE measurement
  • the network device 120 may configure the at least one application layer measurement configuration to the terminal device 110 via an RRC message, such as an RRC reconfiguration or an RRC release.
  • RRC message such as an RRC reconfiguration or an RRC release.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration may correspond to an identity (ID) , which may be referred to as “MeasConfigAppLayerId” .
  • the MeasConfigAppLayerId can be used to identify each QoE measurement configuration whatever valid in an RRC connected state or only valid in an RRC non-connected state.
  • the MeasConfigAppLayerId may also be called as the first identity.
  • a new ID can be defined for each QoE measurement besides MeasConfigAppLayerId.
  • each of a set of application layer measurement configurations may be corresponding to a new ID, which may also be referred to as a second identity hereinafter.
  • the set of application layer measurement configurations may be associated with at least one application layer measurement of the RRC non-connected state.
  • the AS layer 101 of the terminal device 110 may receive the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • the terminal device 110 may store (204) , in the AS layer 101, information associated with at least one application layer measurement that is deactivated in the RRC connected state.
  • the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement may comprise respective application layer measurement configuration (s) of the at least one application layer measurement and their identities of the respective application layer measurement configuration (s) , e.g., first identities and/or second identities of the respective application layer measurement configuration (s) . Furthermore, the information may also indicate in which RRC state the at least one application layer measurement is to be activated.
  • the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement that is deactivated in the RRC connected state may also be transmitted (206) from the AS layer 101 to the AL layer 102. Then the terminal device 110 may store (208) , in the AL layer 102, the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement that is deactivated in the RRC connected state. It is to be understood that in this situation, i.e., the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement has been stored in the AL layer 102, the AS layer 101 may also store at least a portion of the information, e.g., respective identities of the application layer measurement configuration (s) and in which RRC state the at least one application layer measurement is to be activated.
  • the AS layer 101 may also store at least a portion of the information, e.g., respective identities of the application layer measurement configuration (s) and in which RRC state the at least one application layer measurement is to be activated.
  • an attention (AT) command associated with the information may also be transmitted from the AS layer 101 to the AL layer 102 of the terminal device 110.
  • the network device 110 may transmit (210) , to the terminal device 110, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • the network device 110 may transmit this message to the terminal device 110 via a system information block (SIB) .
  • SIB system information block
  • the network device 110 may transmit this message to the terminal device 110 via a paging message. It is also possible that the message may be transmitted via a multicast control channel (MCCH) or multicast traffic channel (MTCH) .
  • MCCH multicast control channel
  • MTCH multicast traffic channel
  • the message may indicate at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements and/or at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the message may indicate operations to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the applicable application layer measurements.
  • the terminal device may determine first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the terminal device may decide the first or second identities and perform the at least one operation in the RRC non-connected state for the applicable application layer measurements based on at least one rule by default: 1) stopping or deactivating all application layer measurements performing in the apparatus, 2) starting or activating all application layer measurements received from network device, 3) handling for buffered data for all application layer measurements.
  • the network device 120 can indicate one MeasConfigAppLayerId (i.e., the first identity) and one new ID in one broadcast/paging message to indicate UE that QoE configuration identified by the MeasConfigAppLayerId may be stopped and QoE configuration identified by the new ID may be activated.
  • MeasConfigAppLayerId i.e., the first identity
  • the network device 120 can also indicate more than one MeasConfigAppLayerId (i.e., the first identity) or new ID (i.e., the second identity) together with command indication to activate relative QoE configuration in the AL layer 102.
  • the command indication can also be “stop” , “replace” or others to at least one indicated QoE configuration.
  • the command indication can also include a generic indication on “stop” , “release” or “deactivate” operations, applicable to all QoE configurations.
  • the command indication can also include how to handle the stored QoE report data associated to the previous running but now stopped QoE configuration (s) .
  • the stored data may be indicated to be discarded or to be kept or to be kept within a duration. If no command indication included for buffer handling, the terminal device 110 may keep the stored data by default.
  • the message may indicate stopping or deactivating an activated application layer measurement. Further, the message may also indicate stopping or deactivating a transmission of reports collected for the application layer measurement. Since the transmission of the application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state may be stopped and the corresponding data may be buffered at the terminal device, the message may further indicate how to handle these buffered data.
  • the message may indicate starting or activating an application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, and/or replacing an application layer measurement performing by a further application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state.
  • the at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements may be performed (214) at the AL layer 102 of the terminal device 110.
  • the terminal device 110 may provide (212) at least the at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements in an AT command from the AS layer 101 to the AL layer 102 if respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements had been stored in the AL layer 102. Then the at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements may be triggered at the AL layer 102 of the terminal device 110.
  • the terminal device 110 may also provide (212) respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements from the AS layer 101 to the AL layer 102.
  • the terminal device 110 may also provide (212) at least the at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements in an AT command from the AS layer 101 to the AL layer 102. Then the at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements may be triggered at the AL layer 102 of the terminal device 110.
  • the message transmitted by a broadcast signaling may control all or a group of terminal devices in an RRC non-connected state, to switch QoE configuration simultaneously, which is suitable for management-based QoE case that O&M wants to switch to one new QoE measurements in one cell.
  • the message transmitted by a system information or paging message may control a few terminal devices in an RRC non-connected state, to switch QoE configuration, which is more suitable for signaling-based QoE case that the network device 120 wants to switch one UE’s QoE measurements to new one.
  • FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of an example method 300 of an application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the method 300 may be implemented at the terminal device 110 as shown in FIG. 1. For the purpose of discussion, the method 300 will be described with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the terminal device 110 receives in an RRC connected state, from a network device, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state.
  • the terminal device 110 receives in the RRC non-connected state, from the network device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • the terminal device 110 performs at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration indicates at least one of: an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is also to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement not activated in the RRC connected state is to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is not to be activated in the RRC non-connected state.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration is corresponding to a first identity.
  • each of a set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to a second identity the set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to at least one application layer measurement associated with the RRC non-connected state.
  • the terminal device 110 may store information associated with the at least one application layer measurement in a first layer of the terminal device or in a second layer of the terminal device.
  • the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement is transmitted from the first layer to the second layer.
  • the information comprises at least one of: respective application layer measurement configuration of the at least one application layer measurement; at least one of a first or a second identity of the respective application layer measurement configuration, or an RRC state for activating the at least one application layer measurement.
  • the terminal device 110 may provide, from the first layer of the terminal device to a second layer of the terminal device, an AT command associated with the information.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates at least one of: at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, or at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the appliable application layer measurements configured in the terminal device
  • the terminal device 110 may determine first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements comprising at least one of: a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations performing in the terminal device while to be stopped or deactivated, or a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations to be started or activated, or a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations configured in the terminal device.
  • the message is received from the network device via at least one of: a system information block, a paging message, a multicast control channel, or a multicast traffic channel.
  • the terminal device 110 may transmit, from a first layer of the terminal device to a second layer of the terminal device, at least the at least one of the first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements and at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements, in an AT command; and perform the at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the second layer.
  • the terminal device 110 may transmit, from the first layer of the terminal device to the second layer of the terminal device, at least the respective application layer measurement configurations and the at least one of the first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, in an AT command.
  • the at least one operation comprises at least one of: stopping or deactivating an application layer measurement, stopping or deactivating a transmission of reports collected for an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, starting or activating an application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, replacing an application layer measurement performing by a further application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, or a handling for buffered data of an application layer measurement.
  • the first layer is an access stratum layer
  • the second layer is an application layer
  • the one or more application layer measurements comprises at least one of: a signalling-based application layer measurement, a management-based application layer measurement, or a radio access network visible application layer measurement.
  • FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of an example method 400 of an application layer measurement configuration in idle or inactive state according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the method 400 may be implemented at the network device 120 as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the method 400 with be described with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the network device 120 transmits, to a terminal device 110 in an RRC connected state, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state.
  • the network device 120 transmits, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration is corresponding to a first identity.
  • each of a set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to a second identity the set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to at least one application layer measurement associated with the RRC non-connected state.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates at least one of: at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, or at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the message is transmitted to the terminal device via at least one of: a system information block, a paging message, a multicast control channel, or a multicast traffic channel.
  • the at least one operation comprises at least one of: stopping or deactivating an application layer measurement, stopping or deactivating a transmission of reports collected for an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, starting or activating an application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, replacing an application layer measurement performing by a further application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, or a handling for buffered data of an application layer measurement.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration indicates at least one of: an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is also to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement not activated in the RRC connected state is to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is not to be activated in the RRC non-connected state.
  • an apparatus capable of performing the method 300 may include means for performing the respective steps of the method 300.
  • the means may be implemented in any suitable form.
  • the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
  • the apparatus comprises means for receiving in an RRC connected state, from a network device, at least one application layer measurement configuration, each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; means for receiving in the RRC non-connected state, from the network device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state; and means for performing at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration indicates at least one of: an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is also to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement not activated in the RRC connected state is to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is not to be activated in the RRC non-connected state.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration is corresponding to a first identity.
  • each of a set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to a second identity the set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to at least one application layer measurement associated with the RRC non-connected state.
  • the apparatus may further comprise means for, in accordance with a determination, based on the at least one application layer measurement configuration, that at least one application layer measurement is deactivated in the RRC connected state, storing information associated with the at least one application layer measurement in a first layer of the apparatus or in a second layer of the apparatus.
  • the information associated with the at least one application layer measurement is transmitted from the first layer to the second layer.
  • the information comprises at least one of: respective application layer measurement configuration of the at least one application layer measurement; at least one of a first or a second identity of the respective application layer measurement configuration, or an RRC state for activating the at least one application layer measurement.
  • the apparatus may further comprise means for providing, from the first layer of the apparatus to a second layer of the apparatus, an attention, AT, command associated with the information.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates at least one of: at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, or at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates the at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the appliable application layer measurements configured in the apparatus
  • the apparatus may further comprise means for determining first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements comprising at least one of: a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations performing in the apparatus while to be stopped or deactivated, or a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations to be started or activated, or a set of at least one of first or second identities for the application layer measurement configurations configured in the apparatus.
  • the message is received from the network device via at least one of: a system information block, a paging message, a multicast control channel, or a multicast traffic channel.
  • the apparatus may further comprise means for transmitting, from a first layer of the apparatus to a second layer of the apparatus, at least the at least one of the first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements and at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements, in an attention, AT, command; and means for performing the at least one operation associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the second layer.
  • the apparatus may further comprise means for transmitting, from the first layer of the apparatus to the second layer of the apparatus, at least the respective application layer measurement configurations and the at least one of the first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, in an attention, AT, command.
  • the at least one operation comprises at least one of: means for stopping or deactivating an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, means for stopping or deactivating a transmission of reports collected for an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, means for starting or activating an application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, means for replacing an application layer measurement performing by a further application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, or a handling for buffered data of an application layer measurement.
  • the first layer is an access stratum layer
  • the second layer is an application layer
  • the one or more application layer measurements comprises at least one of: a signalling-based application layer measurement, a management-based application layer measurement, or a radio access network visible application layer measurement.
  • an apparatus capable of performing the method 400 may include means for performing the respective steps of the method 400.
  • the means may be implemented in any suitable form.
  • the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
  • the apparatus comprises means for transmitting, to a terminal device in an RRC connected state, at least one application layer measurement configuration each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration at least indicating whether an application layer measurement is to be activated in an RRC non-connected state; and means for transmitting, to the terminal device, a message associated with one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration is corresponding to a first identity.
  • each of a set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to a second identity the set of application layer measurement configurations corresponding to at least one application layer measurement associated with the RRC non-connected state.
  • the message associated with the one or more application layer measurements in the RRC non-connected state indicates at least one of: at least one of first or second identities of respective application layer measurement configurations of the one or more application layer measurements, or at least one operation to be performed in the RRC non-connected state for the one or more application layer measurements.
  • the message is transmitted to the terminal device via at least one of: a system information block, a paging message, a multicast control channel, or a multicast traffic channel.
  • the at least one operation comprises at least one of: means for stopping or deactivating an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, means for stopping or deactivating a transmission of reports collected for an application layer measurement performed in the RRC connected state, means for starting or activating an application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, means for replacing an application layer measurement performing by a further application layer measurement required in the RRC non-connected state, or a handling for buffered data of an application layer measurement.
  • each of the at least one application layer measurement configuration indicates at least one of: an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is also to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement not activated in the RRC connected state is to be activated in the RRC non-connected state, or an application layer measurement activated in the RRC connected state is not to be activated in the RRC non-connected state.
  • FIG. 5 is a simplified block diagram of a device 500 that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the device 500 may be provided to implement a communication device, for example, the terminal device 110 or the network device 120 as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the device 500 includes one or more processors 510, one or more memories 520 coupled to the processor 510, and one or more communication modules 540 coupled to the processor 510.
  • the communication module 540 is for bidirectional communications.
  • the communication module 540 has one or more communication interfaces to facilitate communication with one or more other modules or devices.
  • the communication interfaces may represent any interface that is necessary for communication with other network elements.
  • the communication module 540 may include at least one antenna.
  • the processor 510 may be of any type suitable to the local technical network and may include one or more of the following: general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples.
  • the device 500 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
  • the memory 520 may include one or more non-volatile memories and one or more volatile memories.
  • the non-volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 524, an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, a compact disc (CD) , a digital video disk (DVD) , an optical disk, a laser disk, and other magnetic storage and/or optical storage.
  • Examples of the volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a random access memory (RAM) 522 and other volatile memories that will not last in the power-down duration.
  • a computer program 530 includes computer executable instructions that are executed by the associated processor 510.
  • the instructions of the program 530 may include instructions for performing operations/acts of some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the program 530 may be stored in the memory, e.g., the ROM 524.
  • the processor 510 may perform any suitable actions and processing by loading the program 530 into the RAM 522.
  • the example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of the program 530 so that the device 500 may perform any process of the disclosure as discussed with reference to FIG. 2 to FIG. 4.
  • the example embodiments of the present disclosure may also be implemented by hardware or by a combination of software and hardware.
  • the program 530 may be tangibly contained in a computer readable medium which may be included in the device 500 (such as in the memory 520) or other storage devices that are accessible by the device 500.
  • the device 500 may load the program 530 from the computer readable medium to the RAM 522 for execution.
  • the computer readable medium may include any types of non-transitory storage medium, such as ROM, EPROM, a flash memory, a hard disk, CD, DVD, and the like.
  • the term “non-transitory, ” as used herein, is a limitation of the medium itself (i.e., tangible, not a signal) as opposed to a limitation on data storage persistency (e.g., RAM vs. ROM) .
  • FIG. 6 shows an example of the computer readable medium 600 which may be in form of CD, DVD or other optical storage disk.
  • the computer readable medium 600 has the program 530 stored thereon.
  • various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. While various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representations, it is to be understood that the block, apparatus, system, technique or method described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
  • Some example embodiments of the present disclosure also provide at least one computer program product tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, such as a non-transitory computer readable medium.
  • the computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target physical or virtual processor, to carry out any of the methods as described above.
  • program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.
  • the functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in various embodiments.
  • Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
  • Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages.
  • the program code may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program code, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions/operations specified in the flowcharts and/or block diagrams to be implemented.
  • the program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
  • the computer program code or related data may be carried by any suitable carrier to enable the device, apparatus or processor to perform various processes and operations as described above.
  • Examples of the carrier include a signal, computer readable medium, and the like.
  • the computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium.
  • a computer readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory) , an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

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Des modes de réalisation de la présente divulgation concernent des dispositifs, des procédés, des appareils et des supports de stockage lisibles par ordinateur pour la configuration de mesure de couche d'application dans un état inutilisé ou inactif. Le procédé consiste à recevoir, dans un état connecté de commande de ressources radio (RRC), en provenance d'un dispositif de réseau, au moins une configuration de mesure de couche d'application, la ou les configurations de mesure de couche d'application indiquant au moins si une mesure de couche d'application doit être activée dans un état RRC non connecté ; recevoir, dans l'état RRC non connecté, en provenance du dispositif de réseau, un message associé à une ou plusieurs mesures de couche d'application dans l'état RRC non connecté ; et effectuer au moins une opération associée à la ou aux mesures de couche d'application dans l'état RRC non connecté sur la base de la ou des configurations de mesure de couche d'application.
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