CN109474949B

CN109474949B - MDT measuring method and related equipment

Info

Publication number: CN109474949B
Application number: CN201710807454.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 金巴; 杨晓东
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-09-08
Filing date: 2017-09-08
Publication date: 2021-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 2037-09-08
Also published as: CN109474949A; WO2019047753A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a measuring method of MDT and related equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a terminal receives indication information of MDT measurement sent by a configuration base station in a connection state or an inactive state, wherein the indication information comprises one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement records of the terminal; and the terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result. The terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information, so that the terminal can be used for a 5G system, and the network performance of the 5G system can be improved.

Description

MDT measuring method and related equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a method for measuring Minimization of Drive-Test (MDT) and related equipment.

Background

The Minimization of Drive-Test (MDT) technology measures relevant information of network optimization required by a network side through a terminal and reports the information to the network side, thereby reducing the conventional Drive tests and improving network performance. In addition, the 5G system is different from the 4G system, for example: an inactive (inactive) state is introduced into the 5G system, which results in that the MDT measurement method of the current 4G system cannot be used for the 5G system, and thus the network performance of the 5G system is relatively poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a measuring method of MDT and related equipment, aiming at solving the problem that the network performance of a 5G system is poor.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring MDT, including:

the method comprises the steps that a terminal receives indication information of MDT measurement sent by a configuration base station in a connected state or an inactive state, wherein the indication information comprises one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement records of the terminal;

and the terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring MDT, including:

configuring a base station to generate indication information, wherein the indication information comprises one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement records of a terminal;

and the configuration base station sends the indication information to the terminal.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:

a receiving module, configured to receive indication information for configuring MDT measurement issued by a base station in a connected state or in an inactive active state, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, and the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement records of the terminal;

and the measuring module is used for carrying out MDT measurement according to the indication information and recording an MDT measurement result.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, where the base station is a configuration base station, and the base station includes:

a generating module, configured to generate indication information, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of a terminal;

and the sending module is used for sending the indication information to the terminal.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including: the MDT measuring method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, wherein the computer program realizes the steps in the MDT measuring method at the terminal side when being executed by the processor.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, including: the invention also relates to a method for configuring MDT on a base station side, comprising the steps of configuring MDT on a base station side according to an embodiment of the invention, and a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a MDT measurement system, including: the terminal and the configuration base station provided by the embodiment of the invention.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method for measuring MDT at a terminal side provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method for configuring MDT on a base station side provided in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, a terminal receives indication information of MDT measurement issued by a configuration base station in a connection state or inactive state, wherein the indication information comprises one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement record, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal; and the terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result. The terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information, so that the terminal can be used for a 5G system, and the network performance of the 5G system can be improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a structural diagram of a MDT measurement system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a method for measuring MDT according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of another MDT measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of another MDT measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of another MDT measurement method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a block diagram of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of another terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a block diagram of another terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a block diagram of another terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a structural diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a block diagram of another base station provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a block diagram of another terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 14 is a block diagram of another base station provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is a block diagram of another terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 16 is a block diagram of another base station provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a block diagram of another base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a structural diagram of an MDT configuration system provided in an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 1, the MDT configuration system includes a terminal 11, a configuration base station 12, and a reporting base station 13, where the terminal 11 may be a ue (user equipment), for example: the terminal may be a terminal side Device such as a Mobile phone, a Tablet Personal Computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop Computer (Laptop Computer), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), or a Wearable Device (Wearable Device), and it should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention. The configuration base station 12 and the reporting base station 13 may be 5G base stations (e.g., a gNB, a 5G NR NB), or may be 4G base stations (e.g., an eNB), or may be 3G base stations (e.g., an NB), and the like, and it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, specific types of the configuration base station 12 and the reporting base station 13 are not limited, and the configuration base station 12 and the reporting base station 13 are different base stations in the same scenarios, where the drawing illustrates different base stations, and the configuration base station 12 and the reporting base station 13 are the same base station in other scenarios. In addition, the configuration and the report are only for distinguishing the two base stations, and the configuration and the report do not limit the two base stations at all.

It should be noted that specific functions of the terminal 11, the configuring base station 12 and the reporting base station 13 will be described in detail through a plurality of embodiments below.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a method for measuring MDT according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, including the following steps:

step 201, a terminal receives indication information of MDT measurement issued by a base station in a connected state or inactive state, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement record, and the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal.

The state information may indicate that the terminal performs MDT measurement in one or more of an idle state, an inactive state, and a connected state. When the state information indicates that the terminal performs MDT measurement in multiple states, the multiple states may be any two combinations of three states, i.e., idle state, inactive state, and connection state, for example: and indicating that the MDT measurement is carried out in the idle state and the inactive state, or indicating that the MDT measurement is carried out in the idle state and the connected state, or indicating that the MDT measurement is carried out in the inactive state and the connected state.

The measurement stop threshold may be a threshold for instructing the terminal to stop MDT measurement, for example: a measurement record quantity threshold (LM) or a measurement duration threshold, etc.

Step 202, the terminal performs the MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result.

The step may be that the terminal performs MDT measurement and records in at least one of an idle state, a connected state, and an inactive state. And the status of performing the MDT measurement may be indicated by the above-mentioned status information.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention, the status information may be carried by the indication information, and if the indication information only includes the measurement stop threshold, that is, does not include the status information, the status information may be a terminal advance terminal, for example: the base station is configured to configure the terminal in advance, and step 202 may be that the terminal performs MDT measurement according to the indication information and pre-obtained state information, and records an MDT measurement result, where the pre-obtained state information is used to indicate a state of MDT measurement record of the terminal. This may reduce signaling overhead.

In addition, it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the measurement content of the MDT measurement is not limited, and may be any relevant information of network optimization required by the measurement network side, for example: reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP), Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR), or Reference Signal Receiving Quality (RSRQ), etc., which are not limited in the embodiments of the present invention.

Through the steps, the terminal can perform MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state, so that the terminal is applied to a 5G system and the effect of network optimization of the 5G system is improved. And when the measurement stop threshold is met, the MDT measurement can be stopped, so that the effect of saving the power consumption of the terminal is achieved.

The method can be applied to a 5G system, but is not limited to the following, for example: but also to future 6G systems, etc.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of another MDT measurement method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, including the following steps:

step 301, the terminal receives indication information of MDT measurement issued by the base station in a connected state or inactive state, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement record, and the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal.

As an optional implementation manner, the indication information further includes at least one of the following:

the type information of the measurement signal, the reported measurement signal power, the reported measurement signal quality and the MDT measurement area parameter;

wherein the MDT measurement area parameter is used to indicate an area where MDT measurement is performed.

The type information of the measurement signal may indicate a signal type of the terminal performing the MDT measurement, that is, when the terminal performs the MDT measurement, the measurement signal corresponding to the type information is measured, so as to improve the accuracy of the MDT measurement.

The reported measurement signal power and reported measurement signal quality can represent the measurement signal power and the measurement signal quality of the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, so that the terminal needs to report according to the reported measurement signal power and the reported measurement signal quality when reporting the MDT measurement result, and the reporting effect of the MDT measurement result is improved.

The MDT measurement area parameter may instruct the terminal to perform MDT measurement in a specific area, for example: the MDT measurement area parameter includes at least one of:

a network slice information list (slice list), parameter information of an access paging Area (RAN paging Area), parameter information of an access notification Area (RAN notification Area), parameter information of an access Location Area (RAN Location Area), and parameter information of a System message effective Area (System information Area).

The terminal can perform MDT measurement in the corresponding area through the MDT measurement area parameters, so that the accuracy of the MDT measurement is improved, and the power consumption of the terminal can be saved, because the terminal does not need to perform the MDT measurement in all areas.

And step 302, the terminal performs MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result.

As an optional implementation manner, the indication information includes a measurement stop threshold;

the terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information and records the MDT measurement result, and the method comprises the following steps:

the terminal carries out MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state and records the MDT measurement result;

and the terminal stops the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stop threshold.

The MDT measurement of the terminal satisfies the measurement stop threshold, where the relevant parameter of the MDT measurement of the terminal satisfies the measurement stop threshold, for example: the measurement duration or the measurement data amount etc. satisfy the respective thresholds. And the fact that the MDT measurement of the terminal satisfies the measurement stop threshold may also be understood as that the MDT measurement task of the terminal is completed.

And because the MDT measurement is stopped when the measurement stop threshold is met, the terminal can be prevented from always performing the MDT measurement in an idle state or an inactive state, and the effect of saving the power consumption of the terminal is achieved.

In this embodiment, the measurement stop threshold may include a measurement record amount threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

The measurement record quantity threshold may indicate that the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal in one or more states reaches the measurement record quantity threshold, and then the MDT measurement is stopped.

Therefore, the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal in one or more states reaches the measurement record quantity threshold, and the terminal can stop the MDT measurement, so that the terminal can perform the MDT measurement in one or more states to improve the MDT measurement effect.

The measurement duration threshold may correspond to a timer, the timer corresponds to one or more states, and if the timer reaches the measurement duration threshold, the MDT measurement is stopped;

the terminal is switched to a second state in a first state, the timer is suspended, and when the terminal returns to the first state, the timer continues to run; or

The terminal is switched to a second state in a first state, and the timer is not suspended;

the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other than the first state.

The above timer may be referred to as an MDT measurement timer. The timer corresponds to one or more states, and it is understood that the timer may operate in one or more states.

The timer is suspended when the terminal is switched to the second state from the first state, and the timer continues to run when the terminal returns to the first state, where the timer may be suspended when the terminal is switched to the idle state or the inactive state, and the timer continues to run when the terminal is switched to the idle state or the inactive state from the connected state. In addition, the terminal may switch to the second state in the first state, the timer may not be suspended, the terminal may switch to the idle state in the inactive state, and the timer may not be suspended.

Alternatively, when any two combinations of the idle state, the connection state, and the inactive state are indicated by the state information in the embodiment of the present invention, the timer may not be suspended when the terminal switches in the state combination indicated by the state information, and the timer may be suspended when the terminal switches to a state other than the combination. For example: when the combination of the state information indication is an idle state and an inactive state, the timer is not suspended when the inactive state is switched to the idle state, and is suspended when the idle state or the inactive state is switched to a connection state; another example is: when the combination indicated by the state information is the connection state and the inactive state, the timer is not suspended when the inactive state is switched to the connection state, and is suspended when the inactive state is switched to the idle state.

The timer can record the measuring time length of the terminal in the first state only, so that a longer measuring time length can be obtained. Or the terminal can be switched to the second state in the first state, and the timer is not suspended, that is, in the state switching process, the timer is also operated, so that the MDT measurement results in a plurality of states can be recorded, the state types of the MDT measurement results are enriched, and the flexibility of the MDT measurement stop condition can be improved.

Under the condition that the measurement stop threshold packet is measured for a length threshold, the MDT measurement of the terminal satisfies the measurement stop threshold, and the terminal stops the MDT measurement, including:

the MDT measuring time of the terminal reaches the measuring time threshold, and the terminal stops MDT measurement; or

And the terminal stops MDT measurement when the time length of the MDT measurement timer of the terminal is long.

The MDT measurement duration is an actual duration for the terminal to perform MDT measurement, the MDT measurement timer duration is a timer running duration, and the timer running duration includes the MDT measurement duration and may or may not include other durations, for example: the state switching duration may specifically refer to the above description about the timer suspension.

The flexibility of the MDT measurement can be improved by stopping the MDT measurement so as to be suitable for the MDT measurement in different scenes.

As another optional implementation manner, the terminal performs MDT measurement in one or more of idle state, connected state, and inactive state, and records the MDT measurement result, including:

the terminal MDT measurement does not meet the measurement stop threshold, the terminal is switched from a first state to a second state, and the terminal stops the MDT measurement, wherein the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other states except the first state.

The MDT measurement not meeting the measurement stop threshold may be that a recording result of the MDT measurement does not reach a measurement recording amount threshold, or that an MDT measurement duration does not reach a measurement duration threshold.

In this embodiment, if the terminal does not complete the MDT measurement task and leaves the idle state or the inactive state, the terminal stops the MDT measurement and stores the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal, so that the measurement result in the idle state or the inactive state can be stored in time, and the content of the measurement result subsequently reported by the terminal is enriched.

In addition, after the terminal stops MDT measurement, the terminal performs MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connected state, and inactive state, and records an MDT measurement result, which may further include:

and the terminal enters the first state, continues to carry out MDT measurement and records the MDT measurement result.

In addition, here, the continuing of the MDT measurement and the recording of the MDT measurement result may be continuing of the MDT measurement and recording of the MDT measurement result until the MDT measurement satisfies the measurement stop threshold.

The above-mentioned entering of the terminal into the first state may be understood as that the terminal enters the idle state again after leaving the idle state, or may be that the terminal enters the inactive state again after leaving the inactive state. Therefore, the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal subsequently can include the measurement result in an idle state or an inactive state for multiple times, so that the measurement performance of the MDT is improved.

Of course, in this embodiment, the terminal may enter the inactive state after leaving the idle state, or may enter the idle state after leaving the inactive state, so that the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal may include the measurement results in the idle state and the inactive state, so as to improve the measurement performance of the MDT.

In another embodiment, or the MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, the terminal switches from the first state to the second state, and after the terminal stops the MDT measurement, the method further includes:

and the terminal deletes the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

The deleting may be that the MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, the terminal is switched to a connection state in an idle state or an inactive state, and the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal is deleted after the MDT measurement is stopped. Or, the MDT measurement of the terminal does not meet the measurement stop threshold, the terminal switches to an idle state in an inactive state, and deletes the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal after stopping the MDT measurement. Certainly, the MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, the terminal switches to the idle state in the inactive state, and after the MDT measurement is stopped, the recorded MDT measurement result may not be deleted and the MDT measurement may be continued.

Or, when any two combinations of the idle state, the connection state, and the inactive state are indicated by the state information in the embodiment of the present invention, the MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, and when the terminal performs a handover in the state combination indicated by the state information, the recorded MDT measurement result may not be deleted. The MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, and the terminal may delete the recorded MDT measurement result when switching to a state other than the combination. For example: when the combination of the state information indication is an idle state and an inactive state, and the inactive state is switched to the idle state, the recorded MDT measurement result is not deleted, and if the idle state or the inactive state is switched to a connection state, the recorded MDT measurement result is deleted; another example is: and when the combination indicated by the state information is in a connected state and an inactive state, and the inactive state is switched to the connected state, the recorded MDT measurement result is not deleted, and if the inactive state is switched to the idle state, the recorded MDT measurement result is deleted.

In the embodiment, when the terminal does not complete the MDT measurement task, stopping the MDT measurement and deleting the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal can be realized, so that the MDT measurement can be stopped in time to save the power consumption and the storage space of the terminal.

And after the terminal deletes the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal, the method may further include:

and the terminal sends indication information for indicating the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal to an uplink base station.

The indication information can indicate the reporting base station, and the terminal deletes the MDT measurement result, thereby avoiding the reporting base station from sending the indication of reporting the MDT measurement result to the terminal and achieving the effect of saving transmission resources.

Step 303, the terminal reports the report information containing the MDT measurement result to a report base station or a network collection network element;

the configuration base station and the report base station are the same base station, or the configuration base station and the report base station are different base stations.

When the indication information received in step 301 includes the measurement stop threshold, the MDT measurement result reported in step 303 may be part or all of the MDT measurements recorded in the process from the start of the terminal to the stop of the MDT measurement according to the measurement stop threshold, or may be any combination of the MDT measurements recorded in the process from the start of the terminal to the stop of the MDT measurement meeting the stop threshold.

And step 303 may also be that after the terminal stops the MDT measurement, the reporting base station or the network collecting network element reports the reporting information including the MDT measurement result, so as to improve the timeliness of reporting the MDT measurement result.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, step 303 is optional, for example: and under the condition that the terminal does not meet the measurement stop threshold, the terminal can delete the recorded MDT measurement result and does not report the MDT measurement result.

As an optional implementation manner, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal to the reporting base station or the network collecting network element includes:

and the terminal reports reporting information containing the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

The measurement result status information may be 1 bit, for example: the measurement result of the idle state or the measurement result of the inactive state is indicated by 1 bit. Or may also indicate a measurement result including an idle state and an inactive state by 2 bits, etc.

In the embodiment, the state information of the measurement result can be reported to the network side, so that the accuracy of the MDT measurement result can be improved, and the network optimization of the network side is facilitated.

In addition, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information, which are recorded by the terminal and reported to the reporting base station by the terminal, where the measurement result status information is used to indicate a status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result, may include:

initiating a (Radio Resource Control, RRC) connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and reporting, by the terminal, report information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to the reporting base station through a message (Msg)3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The terminal enters a connection state, and reports reporting information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to the reporting base station through an RRC signaling; or

And the terminal reports reporting information containing the MDT measurement result and the state information of the measurement result to the reporting base station in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

In the embodiment, the report information containing the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information can be reported to the base station through the Msg3 or the Msg5, and the first measurement result is transmitted without adding an additional signaling, so that transmission resources can be saved, and the idle state can be reported in time to perform the MDT measurement result, thereby facilitating network optimization on a network side. And reporting the MDT measurement result to the base station through RRC signaling when the terminal enters the connected state again.

It should be noted that, before initiating the RRC connection establishment procedure, the terminal may be in an idle state, that is, the MDT measurement result includes a result of the terminal performing MDT measurement in the idle state; before initiating the RRC connection recovery procedure, the terminal may be in an inactive state, that is, the MDT measurement result includes a result of the terminal performing MDT measurement in the inactive state.

Wherein, after receiving the MDT measurement result, the base station may forward the MDT measurement result to a data collection network element.

In addition, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information are reported by the terminal to a reporting base station or a data collecting network element, where the measurement result status information is used to indicate a status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result, and the reporting information may also include:

the terminal sends a first indication to the reporting base station, receives a second indication returned by the reporting base station according to the first indication, and reports reporting information containing an MDT measurement result to the reporting base station according to the second indication, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

The terminal sends a third indication to the reporting base station, the terminal establishes connection with the data collecting network element, receives a fourth indication returned by the data collecting network element, and reports reporting information containing an MDT measurement result to the data collecting network element according to the fourth indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, the fourth indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result, and the fourth indication is sent by the data collecting network element according to the indicating information sent by the reporting base station and indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

In this embodiment, it can be realized that the indication that the terminal has the MDT measurement result is sent to the reporting base station, and the terminal reports according to the indication for reporting the MDT measurement result returned by the base station or the data collection network element, so that it can be avoided that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result to the network side when the network side does not need the MDT measurement result, and power consumption of the terminal and the base station can be saved.

Wherein the first indication and the third indication are sent by:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and sending the RRC connection establishment process to the reporting base station by the terminal through the Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

The terminal enters a connection state and is sent to the reporting base station through RRC signaling; or

And the terminal sends the RRC connection recovery request to the reporting base station in the process that the terminal initiates the RRC connection recovery.

And transmitting the first indication or the third indication to the reporting base station through the Msg3 or Msg5 or the RRC connection recovery process, so that transmission resources can be saved.

In this embodiment, various optional implementation manners are added on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and the terminal can perform MDT measurement in an idle state or an inactive state, so as to be applied to a 5G system, improve the effect of network optimization of the 5G system, and achieve the beneficial effects of saving transmission resources and terminal power consumption.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a flowchart of another MDT measurement method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, including the following steps:

step 401, configuring a base station to generate indication information, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of a terminal;

step 402, the configuration base station sends the indication information to the terminal.

Optionally, after the configuring the base station sends the indication information to the terminal, the method further includes:

and the configuration base station receives reporting information containing the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indicating information used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the indication information further includes at least one of the following:

Optionally, the measurement stop threshold includes a measurement record quantity threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

Optionally, the measurement record quantity threshold indicates that the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal in one or more states reaches the measurement record quantity threshold, and then the MDT measurement is stopped;

the measuring time length threshold corresponds to a timer, the timer corresponds to one or more states, and when the timer reaches the measuring time length threshold, the MDT measurement is stopped;

Optionally, the step of receiving, by the configuration base station, report information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indication information used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result includes:

and the configuration base station receives reporting information of the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information which are reported by the terminal, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the step of receiving, by the configuration base station, report information of the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information included in the report by the terminal includes:

the configuration base station initiates an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receives report information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

The configuration base station receives report information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connection state; or

And the configuration base station receives the report information containing the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information reported by the terminal in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

the configuration base station receives a first indication sent by the terminal, and receives a second indication returned according to the first indication and indication information containing an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

The configuration base station receives a third indication sent by the terminal and sends indication information used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result to a data collection network element according to the third indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information;

wherein the measurement result status information is used for indicating the status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the first indication and the third indication are sent as follows:

the configuration base station receives indication information which is sent by the terminal and used for indicating the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal;

and the deleted MDT measurement result is the MDT measurement result which is obtained by the terminal when the MDT measurement does not meet the measurement stop threshold record.

It should be noted that, this embodiment is taken as an implementation of configuring a base station corresponding to the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 3, and specific implementations thereof may refer to the relevant descriptions of the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 3 and achieve the same beneficial effects, and are not described herein again to avoid repeated descriptions.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a flowchart of a method for measuring MDT according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, including:

step 501, reporting the report information including the MDT measurement result reported by the base station receiving terminal and/or the indication information for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result;

wherein the MDT measurement result comprises:

and the terminal carries out MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state and records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the MDT measurement result includes:

the terminal carries out MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state until the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stop threshold acquired by the terminal, the terminal stops the MDT measurement, and the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result reported by the reporting base station receiving terminal includes:

and the reporting base station receives reporting information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the receiving, by the reporting base station, the report information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information reported by the terminal includes:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receiving report information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process by the report base station; or

The reporting base station receives reporting information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal in a connection state through an RRC (radio resource control) signaling; or

And the reporting base station receives reporting information and measuring result state information which are reported by the terminal in the process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery and contain MDT measuring results.

the reporting base station receives a first indication sent by the terminal, and receives a second indication returned according to the first indication, and reporting information which comprises an MDT measurement result and is reported by the terminal, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

And the reporting base station receives a third indication sent by the terminal and sends indication information for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result to a data collection network element according to the third indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information.

Optionally, the receiving, by the reporting base station, the first indication sent by the terminal includes:

the reporting base station initiates an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal and receives a first indication sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

The reporting base station receives a first indication sent by the terminal through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

The reporting base station receives a first indication sent by the terminal in the process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery;

the receiving, by the reporting base station, the third indication sent by the terminal includes:

the reporting base station initiates an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal and receives a third instruction sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

The reporting base station receives a third indication sent by the terminal through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

And the reporting base station receives a third indication sent by the terminal in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

It should be noted that, this embodiment is used as an implementation of reporting the base station corresponding to the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 3, and specific implementations thereof may refer to the relevant descriptions of the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 3 and achieve the same beneficial effects, and are not described herein again to avoid repeated descriptions.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 6, a terminal 600 includes:

a receiving module 601, configured to receive indication information for configuring MDT measurement issued by a base station in a connected state or in an inactive active state, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement records of the terminal;

a measuring module 602, configured to perform MDT measurement according to the indication information, and record an MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the indication information includes only the measurement stop threshold;

the measurement module 602 is configured to perform MDT measurement according to the indication information and pre-acquired state information, and record an MDT measurement result, where the pre-acquired state information is used to indicate a state of the terminal MDT measurement record.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, the terminal 600 further includes:

a reporting module 603, configured to report, to a reporting base station or a network collection network element, reporting information including an MDT measurement result;

Optionally, the indication information includes a measurement stop threshold;

as shown in fig. 8, the measurement module 602 includes:

the measurement unit 6021 is configured to perform MDT measurement in one or more states of an idle state, a connection state, and an inactive state, and record an MDT measurement result;

a stopping unit 6022, configured to stop the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stop threshold.

Optionally, the measurement stop threshold includes a measurement duration threshold;

the stopping unit 6022 is configured to stop the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement duration of the terminal reaches the measurement duration threshold; or

The stopping unit 6022 is configured to stop the MDT measurement by measuring the time length of the timer for the MDT of the terminal.

Optionally, the reporting module 603 is configured to report, to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element, reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, where the measurement result state information is used to indicate a state in which the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the reporting module 603 is configured to initiate a radio resource control RRC connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and report reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information to the reporting base station through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The reporting module 603 is configured to report, to the reporting base station, reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

The reporting module 603 is configured to report reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to the reporting base station in a process that the terminal initiates an RRC connection recovery.

Optionally, the reporting module 603 is configured to send a first indication to the base station, and the terminal receives a second indication returned by the base station according to the first indication and reports reporting information including an MDT measurement result to the base station according to the second indication, where the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information, and the second indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result; or

The reporting module 603 is configured to send a third indication to the base station, where the terminal establishes a connection with the data collecting network element, receive a fourth indication returned by the data collecting network element, and report reporting information including an MDT measurement result to the data collecting network element according to the fourth indication, where the third indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information, the fourth indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result, and the fourth indication is sent by the data collecting network element according to indication information sent by the base station and indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the first indication and the third indication are sent as follows:

Optionally, the measurement unit 6021 is configured to perform MDT measurement in one or more of idle state, connected state, and inactive state, and record an MDT measurement result; and the terminal switching from a first state to a second state to stop the MDT measurement, wherein the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other than the first state.

Optionally, the measurement unit 6021 is configured to, after the terminal stops the MDT measurement, enter the first state, continue the MDT measurement, and record an MDT measurement result.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 9, the terminal 600 further includes:

a deleting module 604, configured to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 10, the terminal 600 further includes:

a sending module 605, configured to send, to a reporting base station, indication information for indicating the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the terminal 600 may be a terminal in any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of the terminal in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the terminal 600 in this embodiment, so as to achieve the same beneficial effects, and details are not described here again.

Referring to fig. 11, fig. 11 is a structural diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the base station is a configuration base station, and as shown in fig. 11, a base station 1100 includes:

a generating module 1101, configured to generate indication information, where the indication information includes one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of a terminal;

a sending module 1102, configured to send the indication information to the terminal.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 12, the base station 1100 further includes:

a first receiving module 1103, configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indication information indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the first receiving module 1103 is configured to receive reporting information of an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, where the reporting information and the measurement result state information include information reported by the terminal, where the measurement result state information is used to indicate a state where the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the first receiving module 1103 is configured to initiate an RRC connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, which are reported by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 in the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The first receiving module 1103 is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, which are reported by the terminal through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

The first receiving module 1103 is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal in a process of initiating an RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

Optionally, the first receiving module 1103 is configured to receive a first indication sent by the terminal, and receive, according to a second indication returned by the first indication, indication information including an MDT measurement result and reported by the terminal, where the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, and the second indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result; or

The first receiving module 1103 is configured to receive a third indication sent by the terminal, and send, to a data collection network element according to the third indication, indication information used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result, where the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information;

Optionally, the first indication and the third indication are sent in the following manner, including:

Optionally, as shown in fig. 13, the base station 1100 further includes:

a second receiving module 1104, configured to receive indication information sent by the terminal and used for indicating the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal;

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the base station 1100 may be a configured base station in any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of configuring a base station in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the base station 1100 in this embodiment to achieve the same beneficial effects, and details are not repeated here.

Referring to fig. 14, fig. 14 is a structural diagram of another base station according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the base station is a reporting base station, and as shown in fig. 14, a base station 1400 includes:

a receiving module 1401, configured to receive report information including an MDT measurement result reported by a terminal and/or indication information indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result;

optionally, the MDT measurement result includes:

Optionally, the MDT measurement result includes:

Optionally, the receiving module 1401 is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal, where the measurement result state information is used to indicate a state in which the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the receiving module 1401 is configured to initiate an RRC connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and receive report information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, which are reported by the terminal through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, which are reported by the terminal in the connected state through an RRC signaling; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, which are reported by the terminal in a process that the terminal initiates an RRC connection recovery.

Optionally, the receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a first indication sent by the terminal, and a second indication returned according to the first indication, and receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and reported by the terminal, where the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information, and the second indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a third indication sent by the terminal, and send, to a data collecting network element, indication information used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result according to the third indication, where the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information.

Optionally, the receiving module 1401 is configured to initiate an RRC connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and receive a first indication sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a first indication sent by the terminal through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a first indication sent by the terminal in a process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to initiate an RRC connection establishment procedure at the terminal, and receive a third indication sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment procedure; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a third indication sent by the terminal through an RRC signaling when the terminal enters the connected state; or

The receiving module 1401 is configured to receive a third indication sent by the terminal in a process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the base station 1400 may be a reporting base station of any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of reporting the base station in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the base station 1400 in this embodiment, and the same beneficial effects are achieved, and details are not described here.

Referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is a block diagram of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 15, a terminal 1500 includes: at least one processor 1501, memory 1502, at least one network interface 1504, and a user interface 1503. The various components in terminal 1500 are coupled together by a bus system 1505. It is understood that bus system 1505 is used to enable communications among the components by way of connections. Bus system 1505 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus, in addition to a data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled as bus system 1505 in fig. 15.

The user interface 1503 may include, among other things, a display, a keyboard, or a pointing device (e.g., a mouse, track ball, touch pad, or touch screen, etc.).

It is to be understood that the memory 1502 in embodiments of the present invention can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Volatile Memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache Memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (ddr Data Rate SDRAM, ddr SDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1502 of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 1502 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or a subset thereof, or an expanded set thereof: an operating system 15021 and application programs 15022.

The operating system 15021 includes various system programs, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, and the like, for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application 15022 includes various applications, such as a Media Player (Media Player), a Browser (Browser), and the like, for implementing various application services. A program implementing a method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be included in application program 15022.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal 1500 further includes a computer program stored in the memory 1502 and executable on the processor 1501, specifically, a computer program stored in the application 15022, and the computer program implements the following steps when executed by the processor 1501:

The method disclosed in the above embodiments of the present invention may be applied to the processor 1501 or implemented by the processor 1501. Processor 1501 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 1501. The Processor 1501 may be a general-purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other Programmable logic device, discrete Gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present invention may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory 1502, and the processor 1501 reads the information in the memory 1502 and, in conjunction with its hardware, performs the steps of the above-described method.

It is to be understood that the embodiments described herein may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the Processing units may be implemented within one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), general purpose processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, other electronic units configured to perform the functions described herein, or a combination thereof.

For a software implementation, the techniques described herein may be implemented with modules (e.g., procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. The software codes may be stored in a memory and executed by a processor. The memory may be implemented within the processor or external to the processor.

the performing, by the processor 1501, the MDT measurement according to the indication information and recording an MDT measurement result includes:

and performing MDT measurement according to the indication information and pre-acquired state information, and recording an MDT measurement result, wherein the pre-acquired state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal MDT measurement record.

Optionally, after the terminal performs MDT measurement according to the indication information and records an MDT measurement result, the computer program when executed by the processor 1501 further implements the following steps:

reporting the report information containing the MDT measurement result to a report base station or a network collection network element;

Optionally, the indication information includes a measurement stop threshold;

performing MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state, and recording the result of MDT measurement;

and stopping the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stop threshold.

the stopping of the MDT measurement by the processor 1501 when the MDT measurement of the terminal satisfies the measurement stop threshold includes:

stopping MDT measurement when the MDT measurement time of the terminal reaches the measurement time threshold; or

And the time length of the MDT measurement timer of the terminal stops MDT measurement.

Optionally, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result reported by the processor 1501 to the reporting base station or the network collecting network element includes:

reporting report information containing the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to a report base station or a network collection network element, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, which are recorded by the terminal and reported to the reporting base station by the processor 1501, where the measurement result state information is used to indicate a state where the terminal records the MDT measurement result, and the reporting information includes:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and reporting information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information to the reporting base station through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

The terminal enters a connection state and reports reporting information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information to the reporting base station through RRC signaling; or

And reporting the reporting information containing the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information to the reporting base station in the process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery.

Optionally, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information to the reporting base station or the data collection network element, where the reporting information and the measurement result state information are executed by the processor 1501 and used to indicate a state where the terminal records the MDT measurement result, includes:

sending a first indication to the reporting base station, and the terminal receiving a second indication returned by the reporting base station according to the first indication and reporting information containing an MDT measurement result to the reporting base station according to the second indication, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

And sending a third indication to the reporting base station, wherein the terminal establishes a connection with the data collecting network element, receives a fourth indication returned by the data collecting network element, and reports reporting information containing an MDT measurement result to the data collecting network element according to the fourth indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, the fourth indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result, and the fourth indication is sent by the data collecting network element according to the indicating information sent by the reporting base station and indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the first indication and the third indication are sent as follows:

Optionally, the performing, by the processor 1501, the MDT measurement in one or more of the idle state, the connection state, and the inactive state, and recording the MDT measurement result includes:

Optionally, after the terminal stops MDT measurement, the processor 1501 executes one or more states of idle state, connected state, and inactive state to perform MDT measurement, and record an MDT measurement result, further including:

Optionally, the MDT measurement of the terminal does not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, the terminal switches from the first state to the second state, and after the MDT measurement is stopped, the computer program when executed by the processor 1501 further implements the following steps:

and deleting the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

Optionally, after deleting the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal, the computer program when executed by the processor 1501 further implements the following steps:

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the terminal 1500 may be a terminal in any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of the terminal in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the terminal 1500 in this embodiment, so as to achieve the same beneficial effects, and details are not described here again.

Referring to fig. 16, fig. 16 is a structural diagram of another base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. The base station is a configuration base station, and as shown in fig. 16, the base station 1600 includes: a processor 1601, a transceiver 1602, a memory 1603, and a bus interface, wherein:

in this embodiment of the present invention, the base station 1600 further includes: a computer program stored on the memory 1603 and executable on the processor 1601, the computer program, when executed by the processor 1601, performing the steps of:

generating indication information, wherein the indication information comprises one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement records, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement records of the terminal;

and sending the indication information to the terminal.

Wherein the transceiver 1602 is configured to receive and transmit data under the control of the processor 1601, and the transceiver 1602 includes at least two antenna ports.

In FIG. 16, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges with various circuits linking one or more processors, represented by processor 1601, and memory, represented by memory 1603, in particular. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1602 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The user interface 1604 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with a desired device externally for different user devices, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 1601 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 1603 may store data used by the processor 1601 in performing operations.

Optionally, after the configuring base station sends the indication information to the terminal, the computer program is executed by the processor 1601 to further implement the following steps:

Optionally, the receiving, by the processor 1601, reporting information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indication information used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result, includes:

and receiving reporting information of the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information which are reported by the terminal, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the receiving, by the processor 1601, report information of the MDT measurement result and measurement result status information included in the report by the terminal includes:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receiving report information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

When the terminal enters a connected state, receiving reported information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through an RRC (radio resource control) signaling; or

And receiving report information containing the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

receiving a first indication sent by the terminal, a second indication returned according to the first indication, and indication information containing an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

Receiving a third indication sent by the terminal, and sending indication information for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result to a data collection network element according to the third indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and measurement result state information;

Optionally, the first indication and the third indication are sent as follows:

Optionally, after the indication information is sent to the terminal, the computer program is further executed by the processor 1601 to implement the following steps:

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the base station 1600 may be a configured base station in any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of configuring a base station in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the base station 1600 in this embodiment, and achieve the same beneficial effects, and details are not described here.

Referring to fig. 17, fig. 17 is a structural diagram of another base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 17, the base station 1700 includes: a processor 1701, a transceiver 1702, a memory 1703, and a bus interface, wherein:

in this embodiment of the present invention, the base station 1700 further includes: a computer program stored on the memory 1703 and executable on the processor 1701, the computer program when executed by the processor 1701 performing the steps of:

and receiving report information containing the MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indication information used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the MDT measurement result includes:

Wherein a transceiver 1702 for receiving and transmitting data under control of a processor 1701, said transceiver 1702 comprising at least two antenna ports.

In fig. 17, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors, represented by the processor 1701, and various circuits, represented by the memory 1703, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1702 may be a plurality of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The user interface 1704 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with a desired device for different user devices, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 1701 is responsible for managing a bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 1703 may store data used by the processor 1701 in performing operations.

Optionally, the MDT measurement result includes:

Optionally, the reporting information including the MDT measurement result reported by the receiving terminal executed by the processor 1701 includes:

and receiving reporting information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal, wherein the measurement result state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal when the terminal records the MDT measurement result.

Optionally, the receiving, by the processor 1701, the report information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information reported by the terminal includes:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receiving report information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information reported by the terminal through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

Receiving report information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal in a connected state through an RRC (radio resource control) signaling; or

And receiving report information and measurement result state information which are reported by the terminal in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal and contain MDT measurement results.

receiving a first indication sent by the terminal, a second indication returned according to the first indication, and report information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, wherein the first indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information, and the second indication is used for indicating that the terminal reports the MDT measurement result; or

And receiving a third indication sent by the terminal, and sending indication information for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result to a data collection network element according to the third indication, wherein the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information.

Optionally, the receiving, by the processor 1701, the first instruction sent by the terminal includes:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receiving a first indication sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

Receiving a first indication sent by the terminal through RRC signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

Receiving a first indication sent by the terminal in the process that the terminal initiates RRC connection recovery;

the processor 1701 is configured to execute the third instruction received from the terminal, including:

initiating an RRC connection establishment process at the terminal, and receiving a third indication sent by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

Receiving a third indication sent by the terminal through RRC signaling when the terminal enters the connected state; or

And receiving a third indication sent by the terminal in the process of initiating RRC connection recovery by the terminal.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the base station 1700 may be a configured base station in any implementation manner in the method embodiment of the present invention, and any implementation manner of configuring a base station in the method embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by the base station 1700 in this embodiment, and the same beneficial effects are achieved, and details are not described here.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including: the MDT measuring method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, wherein the computer program realizes the steps in the MDT measuring method at the terminal side when being executed by the processor.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, including: the invention also relates to a method for configuring MDT on a base station side, comprising the steps of configuring MDT on a base station side according to an embodiment of the invention, and a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method for measuring an MDT at a terminal side provided by the embodiment of the present invention are implemented.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method for configuring MDT on the base station side according to the embodiment of the present invention.

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

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

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a U disk, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method for measuring MDT (minimization of drive tests), comprising:

the terminal receives indication information for configuring MDT measurement issued by a base station in a connected state or an inactive state, wherein the indication information comprises a measurement stop threshold or one or more of the measurement stop threshold and state information of MDT measurement record, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal;

the terminal carries out MDT measurement according to the indication information and records an MDT measurement result;

the terminal switching from a first state to a second state when the MDT measurement of the terminal does not meet the measurement stop threshold, and stopping the MDT measurement, wherein the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other than the first state;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication information includes only the measurement stop threshold;

and the terminal performs MDT measurement according to the indication information and the pre-acquired state information, and records an MDT measurement result, wherein the pre-acquired state information is used for indicating the state of the terminal MDT measurement record.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein after the terminal performs MDT measurement according to the indication information and records MDT measurement results, the method further comprises:

the terminal reports reporting information containing the MDT measurement result to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication information further comprises at least one of:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the measurement stop threshold comprises a measurement record quantity threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the measurement record quantity threshold indicates that the terminal records the MDT measurement result in one or more states reaching the measurement record quantity threshold, and then stopping the MDT measurement;

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the reporting information including the MDT measurement result is reported by the terminal to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element, and the reporting information includes:

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information recorded by the terminal are reported by the terminal to a reporting base station, and the measurement result status information is used to indicate a status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result, and the method comprises:

initiating a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment process at the terminal, and reporting information containing MDT measurement results and measurement result state information to the reporting base station by the terminal through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection establishment process; or

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the reporting information including the MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information are reported by the terminal to a reporting base station or a data collecting network element, and the method comprises:

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first indication and the third indication are sent by:

11. The method of claim 1, wherein after the terminal stops MDT measurement, the terminal performs MDT measurement in one or more of an idle state, a connected state, and an inactive state, and records MDT measurement results, further comprising:

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal's MDT measurements do not satisfy the measurement stop threshold, wherein the terminal switches from a first state to a second state, and wherein after the terminal stops MDT measurements, the method further comprises:

and the terminal deletes the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein after the terminal deletes the MDT measurement recorded by the terminal, the method further comprises:

14. A method for measuring MDT, comprising:

configuring a base station to generate indication information, wherein the indication information comprises a measurement stop threshold or one or more of the measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, and the state information is used for indicating the state of the MDT measurement record of a terminal;

the configuration base station sends the indication information to the terminal;

wherein the indication information is such that: the terminal carries out MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state and records the MDT measurement result; the terminal switching from a first state to a second state when the MDT measurement of the terminal does not meet the measurement stop threshold, and stopping the MDT measurement, wherein the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other than the first state; and the terminal stops the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stop threshold.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein after the configuring the base station to send the indication information to the terminal, the method further comprises:

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the indication information further comprises at least one of:

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the measurement stop threshold comprises a measurement record quantity threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the measurement record quantity threshold indicates that MDT measurement results recorded by the terminal in one or more states reach the measurement record quantity threshold, and then MDT measurement is stopped;

19. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the configuring the base station to receive reporting information including MDT measurement results reported by the terminal and/or indication information for indicating that the terminal has MDT measurement results, comprises:

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the configuring the base station receives report information and measurement result status information of the MDT measurement results included in the report from the terminal, and the report information and the measurement result status information comprise:

21. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the configuring the base station to receive reporting information including MDT measurement results reported by the terminal and/or indication information for indicating that the terminal has MDT measurement results, comprises:

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the first indication and the third indication are sent by:

23. The method of claim 14, wherein after the configuring the base station to send the indication information to the terminal, the method further comprises:

24. A terminal, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive indication information for configuring MDT measurement issued by a base station in a connected state or in an inactive active state, where the indication information includes a measurement stop threshold or one or more of the measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal;

the measuring module is used for carrying out MDT measurement according to the indication information and recording an MDT measurement result;

wherein the measurement module comprises:

the measuring unit is used for carrying out MDT measurement in one or more states of idle state, connection state and inactive state and recording the MDT measurement result; and the terminal switching from a first state to a second state to stop the MDT measurement, wherein the first state is one of an idle state, a connection state and an inactive state, and the second state is other than the first state;

and the stopping unit is used for stopping the MDT measurement when the MDT measurement of the terminal meets the measurement stopping threshold.

25. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the indication information includes only the measurement stop threshold;

the measurement module is configured to perform MDT measurement according to the indication information and pre-acquired state information, and record an MDT measurement result, where the pre-acquired state information is used to indicate a state of the terminal MDT measurement record.

26. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the terminal further comprises:

the reporting module is used for reporting the reporting information containing the MDT measurement result to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element;

27. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the indication information further comprises at least one of:

28. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the measurement stop threshold comprises a measurement record quantity threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

29. The terminal of claim 28, wherein the measurement record quantity threshold indicates that MDT measurement results recorded by the terminal in one or more states reach the measurement record quantity threshold, and then MDT measurement is stopped;

30. The terminal of claim 26, wherein the reporting module is configured to report reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information to a reporting base station or a network collecting network element, and the measurement result status information is used to indicate a status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result.

31. The terminal of claim 30, wherein the reporting module is configured to initiate a radio resource control, RRC, connection setup procedure at the terminal, and report reporting information including MDT measurement results and measurement result status information to the reporting base station through a message Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection setup procedure; or

The reporting module is used for the terminal to enter a connection state and reporting information containing an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information to the reporting base station through RRC signaling; or

The reporting module is used for reporting information containing the MDT measurement result and the measurement result state information to the reporting base station in the process that the terminal initiates the RRC connection recovery.

32. The terminal of claim 30, wherein the reporting module is configured to send a first indication to the base station, and the terminal receives a second indication returned by the base station according to the first indication and reports reporting information including an MDT measurement result to the base station according to the second indication, where the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and the measurement result status information, and the second indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result; or

The reporting module is configured to send a third indication to the base station, where the terminal is connected to a data collection network element, receive a fourth indication returned by the data collection network element, and report reporting information including an MDT measurement result to the data collection network element according to the fourth indication, where the third indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information, the fourth indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result, and the fourth indication is sent by the data collection network element according to indication information sent by the base station and indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result.

33. The terminal of claim 32, wherein the first indication and the third indication are sent by:

34. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the measurement unit is configured to enter the first state after the terminal stops MDT measurement, continue MDT measurement, and record MDT measurement results.

35. The terminal of claim 34, wherein the terminal further comprises:

and the deleting module is used for deleting the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal.

36. The terminal of claim 35, wherein the terminal further comprises:

and the sending module is used for sending indication information for indicating the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal to a reporting base station.

37. A base station, the base station being a configured base station, comprising:

a generating module, configured to generate indication information, where the indication information includes a measurement stop threshold or one or more of a measurement stop threshold and state information of an MDT measurement record, where the state information is used to indicate a state of the MDT measurement record of the terminal;

a sending module, configured to send the indication information to the terminal;

38. The base station of claim 37, wherein the base station further comprises:

a first receiving module, configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal and/or indication information indicating that the terminal has the MDT measurement result.

39. The base station of claim 37, wherein the indication information further comprises at least one of:

40. The base station of claim 39, wherein the measurement stop threshold comprises a measurement record quantity threshold or a measurement duration threshold.

41. The base station of claim 40, wherein the measurement record quantity threshold indicates that the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal in one or more states reaches the measurement record quantity threshold, and then the MDT measurement is stopped;

42. The base station of claim 38, wherein the first receiving module is configured to receive reporting information and measurement result status information of an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, and the measurement result status information is used to indicate a status of the terminal when recording the MDT measurement result.

43. The base station of claim 42, wherein the first receiving module is configured to initiate an RRC connection setup procedure at the terminal, and receive report information including MDT measurement results and measurement result status information reported by the terminal through Msg3 or Msg5 of the RRC connection setup procedure; or

The first receiving module is used for receiving reporting information containing an MDT measuring result and measuring result state information reported by the terminal through an RRC (radio resource control) signaling when the terminal enters a connected state; or

The first receiving module is configured to receive reporting information including an MDT measurement result and measurement result state information reported by the terminal in a process in which the terminal initiates an RRC connection recovery.

44. The base station of claim 38, wherein the first receiving module is configured to receive a first indication sent by the terminal, and a second indication returned according to the first indication, and receive indication information including an MDT measurement result reported by the terminal, where the first indication is used to indicate that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information, and the second indication is used to indicate that the terminal reports an MDT measurement result; or

The first receiving module is configured to receive a third indication sent by the terminal, and send, to a data collecting network element according to the third indication, indication information used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result, where the third indication is used for indicating that the terminal has an MDT measurement result and measurement result status information;

45. The base station of claim 44, wherein the first indication and the third indication are transmitted by:

46. The base station of claim 37, wherein the base station further comprises:

a second receiving module, configured to receive indication information sent by the terminal and used to indicate the terminal to delete the MDT measurement result recorded by the terminal;

47. A terminal, comprising: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which computer program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps in the method of measuring MDT according to any one of claims 1 to 13.

48. A base station, the base station being a configured base station, comprising: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which computer program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps in the method of measuring MDT according to any one of claims 14 to 23.

49. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored thereon, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method of measuring an MDT according to any one of claims 1 to 13, or carries out the steps of the method of measuring an MDT according to any one of claims 14 to 23.