WO2022082610A1

WO2022082610A1 - Information processing method and apparatus

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Publication number: WO2022082610A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/122863
Authority: WO
Inventors: 胡星星; 耿婷婷
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2020-10-22
Filing date: 2020-10-22
Publication date: 2022-04-28
Also published as: CN116250272A

Abstract

An information processing method and apparatus, for solving the technical problem in the prior art of analyzing an application layer measurement result of a terminal device separately. Said method comprises: a tracking and collecting entity receiving a first measurement result sent by an access network device, the first measurement result comprising a non-application layer measurement result of a terminal device; and the tracking and collecting entity receiving a second measurement result sent by the access network device, the second measurement result comprising an application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and then the tracking and collecting entity associating the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result with the terminal device. In this way, by associating a non-application layer measurement result and an application layer measurement result of a terminal device, a tracking and collecting entity can comprehensively use the two measurement results to perform comprehensive analysis on the network performance of the terminal device.

Description

An information processing method and device

technical field

The present application relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to an information processing method and device.

Background technique

In the mobile communication system, there are various communication measurement methods. When applied to terminal equipment, most of these measurement methods are performed independently, and each obtains a single performance of the terminal equipment, such as the data transmission performance, user experience performance or signal level performance of the terminal equipment. Wait. Among them, the user experience performance belongs to a performance measured at the application layer, while the data transmission performance and signal level performance belong to the performance measured at the non-application layer. When there is an application layer measurement requirement of the terminal device, the core network device or the network management device can send the application layer measurement request to the terminal device, so that the terminal device performs the corresponding application layer measurement and reports the application layer measurement result. After that, the core network device or the network management device may adjust the radio resource allocation of the terminal device according to the obtained application layer measurement result.

However, in the above manner, only the application layer measurement result of the terminal device is separately analyzed, and a single application layer measurement result cannot accurately reflect the comprehensive performance of a terminal device. In the prior art, the wireless resource allocation of the terminal device is determined based on a single measurement result, and it is likely that the resource allocation cannot match the real network performance of the terminal device due to less information being used.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present application provides an information processing method and apparatus, which are used to solve the technical problem of analyzing the measurement results of the application layer of the terminal equipment in isolation in the prior art.

In a first aspect, the present application provides an information processing method, which can be applied to a tracking collection entity. The method includes: the tracking collection entity receives a first measurement result sent by an access network device, where the first measurement result includes a terminal device's data. The non-application layer measurement result, and the tracking collection entity receives the second measurement result sent by the access network device, where the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and then the tracking collection entity can combine the non-application layer measurement result with the application layer measurement result. Layer measurement results are associated with the end device. In this way, by correlating the non-application layer measurement results and application layer measurement results of the terminal device, it is helpful for the tracking and collecting entity to comprehensively use the two measurement results to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the network performance of the terminal device, compared with the isolated analysis in the prior art. In terms of non-application layer measurement results, the analysis results obtained in this way can better match the real network performance of the terminal device. Therefore, the wireless resource allocation based on the analysis results can effectively improve the accuracy of resource allocation.

In an optional design, the non-application layer measurement results may include layer 2 (layer 2, L2) measurement results and/or minimization of drive-tests (MDT) measurement results, and the application layer measurement results may Include quality of experience (QoE) measurements. In this design, the L2 measurement result can indicate the network quality of the terminal equipment, the MDT measurement result can indicate the data transmission quality and signal level performance of the terminal equipment, and the QOE measurement result can indicate the user's network, application or service to the terminal equipment. Therefore, correlating these measurements of the terminal device enables the network quality, data transmission quality and signal level performance of the terminal device to be mapped together with the user's subjective experience of network performance, thereby helping from multiple perspectives In-depth analysis of the real network performance of end devices.

In an optional design, the first measurement result and the second measurement result may further include an identifier of the terminal device. This design enables the tracking and collection entity to associate the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device according to the identification of the terminal device, and realizes the comprehensive analysis of the network information of each terminal device from the perspective of each terminal device. .

In an optional design, the first measurement result and the second measurement result may further include the type of the terminal device. This design enables the tracking collection entity to associate the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of each terminal device belonging to the same type according to the type of the terminal device, and by classifying the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results corresponding to each type The correlation of measurement results helps operators to better understand the network characteristics of different types of terminal equipment.

In an optional design, the first measurement result and the second measurement result may further include the identifier of the terminal device and the type of the terminal device. In this way, the tracking collection entity can perform comprehensive analysis not only on the same terminal device, but also on each terminal device of the same type.

In an optional design, when the first measurement result and the second measurement result include the identifier of the terminal device, the identifier of the terminal device may include one or more of the following: The identification and the cell-radio network temporary network identifier (C-RNTI) of the terminal equipment in the serving cell, the task identification of the measurement task performed by the terminal equipment, and the quality of experience reference parameters. This design enables the tracking and collecting entity to choose a content as the identification of the terminal device according to its own needs, which is more flexible.

In an optional design, when the identity of the terminal device includes the identity of the serving cell where the terminal device is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell: the first measurement result may include the current serving cell where the terminal device is located , the C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment in the current serving cell, the second measurement result may include the terminal equipment in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifiers of the multiple serving cells, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. In this design, the access network equipment reports the complete movement trajectory of the terminal equipment in a measurement period to the tracking collection entity, which helps the tracking collection entity to obtain the movement trajectory of the terminal equipment in the measurement period according to the movement trajectory. The non-application layer measurement results in each serving cell, so that the tracking collection entity can use the non-application layer measurement results measured in the measurement period to correlate the application layer measurement results measured in the measurement period to improve the accuracy of the association sex.

In an optional design, the second measurement result further includes indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the multiple serving cells. In this case, the tracking collection entity associates the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results with the terminal equipment, which may mean: the tracking collection entity first finds out the non-application layer measurement of the target serving cell corresponding to the terminal equipment according to the instruction information As a result, the non-application layer measurement result in the target serving cell corresponding to the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current application layer measurement are associated with the terminal device. In this design, even if the measurement range is limited by the current application layer measurement, the tracking collection entity can only perform the correlation operation of the measurement results for the serving cells within the measurement range according to the indication information carried in the measurement results, so as to further improve the correlation accuracy.

In an optional design, the first measurement result further includes first time information, where the first time information is used to indicate the time for performing the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result, The second measurement result further includes second time information, where the second time information is used to indicate the time for performing the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result. In this case, before associating the non-application-layer measurement results and the application-layer measurement results with the terminal device, the tracking collection entity may first determine whether the time indicated by the first time information is within the time range indicated by the second time information, If so, the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result can be associated with the terminal device, if not, the association operation is not performed. In this design, the tracking collection entity can find out the non-application-layer measurement results that perform non-application-layer measurements within the time period when the measurement results are obtained according to the time information carried in the measurement results, so that the associated application-layer measurement results can be obtained. The measurement results of the non-application layer and the non-application layer not only have the consistency on the terminal equipment, but also have the consistency in time, and the correlation obtained in this way can better reflect the comprehensive performance of the terminal equipment in a certain period of time.

In an optional design, the tracking collection entity associates the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results with the terminal device, which may include one or more of the following:

In one case, when the first measurement result includes the identifier of the terminal device, the tracking collection entity may first establish the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result and the corresponding non-application layer measurement. Then, according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results measured by the terminal device in other time periods, the application layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement time periods are obtained. Of course, the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of other terminal devices can also be used to predict the application layer measurement results of other terminal devices. In this design, by establishing an association relationship between the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device in a certain measurement period, the tracking and collecting entity can directly use the association relationship to predict the application of the terminal device in other time periods. Layer measurement results or application layer measurement results of other terminal devices in any period of time, this method can no longer allow terminal equipment to actually perform application layer measurements and report application layer measurement results in other periods, thus helping to save signaling overhead. .

In another case, when the type of the terminal device is included in the first measurement result, the tracking collection entity may first establish an association relationship between the application-layer measurement result corresponding to the type of the terminal device and the non-application-layer measurement result, and then based on the The correlation relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the same type are obtained, and the application layer measurement results corresponding to the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the same type are obtained. In this design, by classifying different types of terminal devices to obtain the correlation between the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results corresponding to different types, not only in the case of fewer terminal devices supporting application layer measurement , directly use the correlation to predict the application layer measurement results of other terminal equipment belonging to the same type, increase the richness of the application layer measurement results, and can also perform more fine-grained analysis on different types of terminal equipment from the type of terminal equipment. Radio resource allocation to further improve the balance of radio resource allocation.

In a second aspect, the present application provides an information processing method, which can be applied to a first access network device. The method includes: the first access network device first sends a first measurement result to a tracking collection entity, and the first measurement result It includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, the first access network device sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, and the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, so as to facilitate the tracking collection entity according to the first measurement result. The measurement result and the second measurement result associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device. In this way, the non-application layer measurement results and application layer measurement results of the terminal device are reported to the tracking collection entity through the first access network device, which helps the tracking collection entity to comprehensively utilize the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the terminal device. The result is used to comprehensively analyze the performance of the terminal device. Compared with the method of analyzing the non-application layer measurement results in isolation in the prior art, the analysis results obtained in this way can better match the real network performance of the terminal device. Therefore, based on this The analysis results are used for wireless resource allocation, which can effectively improve the accuracy of resource allocation.

In an optional design, the non-application layer measurement results may include L2 measurement results and/or MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results may include QoE measurement results.

In an optional design, the first measurement result and the second measurement result further include the identifier of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.

In an optional design, the identity of the terminal device may include one or more of the following: the identity of the serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the The task identification and quality of experience reference parameters of the measurement task.

In an optional design, when the identifier of the terminal equipment is the identifier of the serving cell where the terminal equipment is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in the serving cell: the first measurement result may include the current serving cell where the terminal equipment is located , the C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment in the current serving cell, the second measurement result may include the terminal equipment in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifiers of the multiple serving cells, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.

In an optional design, the second measurement result may further include indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate a serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the plurality of serving cells, and the indication information may be used for tracking reception The entity obtains the non-application layer measurement results of the target serving cell located within the preset measurement range of the multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through. In this design, the first access network device directly sends all the serving cells that the terminal device passes through to the tracking receiving entity, and then the tracking and collecting entity selects the serving cells that the terminal device passes through according to the indication information to be within the preset measurement range. The target serving cell is used to determine the non-application layer measurement results and application layer measurement results to be associated. In this way, the tracking and collection entity manages the association process of each terminal equipment uniformly, which helps to make the entire association process more compliant with the specification.

In an optional design, before sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the first access network device may also select a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range from multiple serving cells, and then select a target serving cell within a preset measurement range. The second measurement result is generated according to the identity of the target serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the target serving cell, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. In this design, the first access network device selects the target serving cells within the preset measurement range by itself, and reports only these target serving cells to the tracking collection entity. In this way, the tracking collection entity can directly The results are correlated without the need to filter cells prior to correlation, helping to save the effort of tracking collection entities.

In an optional design, when the terminal device switches from the serving cell managed by the second access network device to the current serving cell within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the first access network device will also receive the first access network device. Second, the historical movement track information sent by the access network device, the historical movement track information includes the identification of the historical serving cell managed by the second access network device that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and the history of the terminal device in the history. C-RNTI in the serving cell. In this case, before sending the second measurement result, the first access network device may also use the historical movement track information, the identity of the current serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the The second measurement result is generated from the application layer measurement result obtained by measurement within the measurement period corresponding to the measurement result. In this design, the mobile track of the terminal equipment in each serving cell managed by the second access network equipment is automatically reported to the currently moved in No. an access network device, so that the first access network device can store a list of all serving cells passed by the terminal device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, thereby helping the first access network device to The tracking collection entity reports the movement track of the terminal device in this application layer measurement.

In an optional design, the first measurement result may further include first time information, where the first time information is used to indicate performing the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result time, the second measurement result may further include second time information, the second time information is used to indicate the time for performing the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result, the first time information and The second time information is used for the tracking collection entity to associate the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results to the terminal device.

In an optional design, after sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the access network device may also receive the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result sent by the tracking collection entity , and then according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results obtained by the terminal device in other measurement time periods, obtain the application layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement time periods, or according to the association relationship and other terminal devices. The non-application layer measurement results obtained from other terminal devices can be obtained.

In an optional design, after sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the access network device may also receive the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the type of the terminal device sent by the tracking collection entity Then, according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal devices with the same type, the application layer measurement results corresponding to the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal devices of the same type are obtained.

In an optional design, before sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the access network device may also receive the application layer measurement result of the terminal device sent by the terminal device. In this design, the application layer measurement is performed by the terminal device, so the application layer measurement result can reflect the real performance of the application layer of the terminal device.

In an optional design, before sending the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the access network device may also receive the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device sent by the terminal device. In this design, the terminal device performs non-application layer measurements by itself and actively reports it to the access network device. Therefore, the access network device can directly associate with the non-application layer measurement results reported by the terminal device, instead of periodically sending non-application layer measurements to the terminal device. layer measurement tasks, thereby helping to save communication overhead.

In an optional design, before sending the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the access network device may also perform non-application layer measurement on the terminal device to obtain the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device. The design can perform non-application layer measurement on the terminal device when the access network device has a non-application layer measurement requirement, without the need for continuous measurement by the terminal device, which helps to reduce the working pressure of the terminal device.

In a third aspect, the present application provides an information processing method, the method is applied to a terminal device, and the method includes: the terminal device performs an application layer measurement, obtains an application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and then sends the application layer measurement result of the terminal device. to the access network equipment. Wherein, the application layer measurement result is used to correlate to the terminal device together with the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device. The non-application measurement result of the terminal device can be obtained by the access network device performing non-application layer measurement on the terminal device, or the terminal device can obtain the non-application layer measurement by itself and send it to the access network device. In this way, the terminal equipment reports the measurement results of the application layer to the access network equipment, which helps the access network equipment to jointly track and collect the entity to comprehensively use the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment to evaluate the performance of the terminal equipment. Comprehensive analysis, instead of analyzing each measurement result of the terminal equipment in isolation, helps to improve the balance of subsequent resource allocation to the terminal equipment.

In an optional design, before performing the application layer measurement, the terminal device may also receive a measurement request sent by the access network device, where the measurement request includes application layer measurement configuration information and a preset measurement range. In this case, the terminal device may perform application layer measurement within a preset measurement range according to the application layer measurement configuration information. In this method, when the access network device sends the application layer measurement configuration information, the preset measurement range is sent to the terminal device synchronously, so that the terminal device can decide whether to perform the application layer measurement or not to perform the application layer measurement according to whether it is within the preset measurement range. layer measurement, instead of requiring the access network device to frequently interact with the terminal device to issue signaling to indicate whether the terminal device needs to perform application layer measurement, so this method helps to save the time between the terminal device and the access network device. Signaling overhead, and can reduce the work pressure of access network equipment.

In an optional design, when the terminal device is switched from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, or when the service bearer of the terminal device is switched from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, if the second serving cell If the cell is within the preset measurement range, the terminal device may continue to perform the application layer measurement, and if the second serving cell exceeds the preset measurement range, the terminal device suspends the application layer measurement. This method enables the terminal device to determine whether the current serving cell needs to continue the measurement or suspend the measurement by itself after the switching of the serving cell occurs, without the need for frequent exchanges between the access network device and the terminal device. Save network overhead.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus may be a tracking collection entity, and the information processing apparatus includes: a transceiver unit configured to receive a first measurement result sent by an access network device, the first measurement result It includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and receives the second measurement result sent by the access network device, and the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device; the association unit is used to associate the non-application layer measurement result. and application layer measurement results associated with end devices.

In an optional design, the non-application layer measurement results may include L2 measurement results and/or MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results include QoE measurement results.

In an optional design, the first measurement result and the second measurement result may further include the identifier of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.

In an optional design, when the identity of the terminal device includes the identity of the serving cell where the terminal device is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the first measurement result may include the current serving cell where the terminal device is located. The identifier, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the second measurement result may include the number of times the terminal device has passed in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifier of each serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.

In an optional design, the second measurement result may further include indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the multiple serving cells. In this case, the association unit is specifically configured to: first, according to the indication information, find the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell, and then compare the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell with the application layer of the terminal device. Layer measurements are associated with end devices.

In an optional design, the first measurement result may further include first time information, where the first time information is used to indicate the time for performing the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result , the second measurement result may further include second time information, where the second time information is used to indicate the time for performing the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result. In this case, the associating unit may also first determine whether the time indicated by the first time information is within the time range indicated by the second time information, and if so, it may associate the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results to the terminal device , if not, the association is not performed.

In an optional design, the associating unit is specifically configured to: when the first measurement result and the second measurement result also include the identifier of the terminal device, first establish the relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result. The association relationship is obtained, and then the application layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement time periods are obtained according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results obtained by the terminal device in other measurement time periods. Alternatively, the association unit may also obtain application-layer measurement results of other terminal devices according to the association relationship and non-application-layer measurement results of other terminal devices.

In an optional design, the association unit is specifically configured to: when the first measurement result and the second measurement result also include the type of the terminal device, first establish the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the type to which the terminal device belongs. The correlation relationship of the layer measurement results is obtained, and then the application layer measurement result corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of this type is obtained according to the correlation relationship and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of this type.

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus may be an access network device, the information processing apparatus includes: a processing unit and a transceiving unit, the processing unit is used to control the transceiving unit to perform transceiving operations, and the transceiving unit uses sending a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity under the control of the processing unit, where the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity under the control of the processing unit, The second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device. The first measurement result and the second measurement result are used to associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device.

In an optional design, when the identity of the terminal device is the identity of the serving cell where the terminal device is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the first measurement result may include the current serving cell where the terminal device is located. The identifier, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the second measurement result may include the number of times the terminal device has passed in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifier of each serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.

In an optional design, the second measurement result may further include indication time information, where the indication information is used to indicate a serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the multiple serving cells.

In an optional design, before the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the processing unit may select a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range from a plurality of serving cells, and select a target serving cell according to the target serving cell. The identification of the cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the target serving cell, and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, generate the second measurement result.

In an optional design, when the terminal device switches from the serving cell managed by the second access network device to the current serving cell within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the transceiver unit sends the second Before the measurement result, the transceiver unit may also receive historical movement track information sent by the second access network device, where the historical movement track information includes the second access network device management information that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identity of the historical serving cell and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the historical serving cell. Correspondingly, the processing unit may also measure the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result according to the historical movement track information, the identity of the current serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. , to generate a second measurement result.

In an optional design, the first measurement result may further include first time information, where the first time information is used to indicate the time for performing the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result , the second measurement result may also include second time information, where the second time information is used to indicate the time when the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result is performed, the first time information and the second time information It is used to associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device.

In an optional design, after the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the transceiver unit may also receive the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result sent by the tracking collection entity , the processing unit may also obtain application-layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement periods according to the association relationship and non-application-layer measurement results obtained by the terminal device in other measurement periods. Alternatively, the processing unit may also obtain application-layer measurement results of other terminal devices according to the association relationship and non-application-layer measurement results of other terminal devices.

In an optional design, after the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the transceiver unit may also receive the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the type of the terminal device sent by the tracking collection entity The processing unit can also obtain the application layer measurement result corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of this type according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of this type.

In an optional design, before the transceiver unit sends the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the transceiver unit may also receive the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device sent by the terminal device.

In an optional design, before the transceiver unit sends the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the processing unit may further perform non-application layer measurement on the terminal device to obtain the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device.

In an optional design, before the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the transceiver unit may also receive the application layer measurement result of the terminal device sent by the terminal device.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus may be a terminal device, and the information processing apparatus includes: a measurement unit, configured to perform application layer measurement to obtain an application layer measurement result of the terminal device; a transceiver unit, It is used to send the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the access network device. The application layer measurement result is used to associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device with the terminal device. The non-application measurement result of the terminal device is obtained by the access network device performing non-application layer measurement on the terminal device, or the terminal device performs The application layer measurement is obtained and sent to the access network equipment.

In an optional design, before the measurement unit performs application layer measurement, the transceiver unit may further receive a measurement request sent by the access network device, where the measurement request includes application layer measurement configuration information and a preset measurement range. In this case, the measurement unit is specifically configured to: perform application layer measurement within a preset measurement range according to the application layer measurement configuration information.

In an optional design, the measuring unit is specifically configured to: when the terminal equipment is switched from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, or when the service bearer of the terminal equipment is switched from the first serving cell to the second serving cell , if the second serving cell is within the preset measurement range, the application layer measurement is continued, and if the second serving cell exceeds the preset measurement range, the application layer measurement is suspended.

In a seventh aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, which may include a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface may be used to receive and transmit signals from other communication apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus of the fourth aspect. To the processor or send the signal from the processor to other communication devices other than the information processing device of the above fourth aspect, the processor can be used to implement any one of the first aspect through logic circuits or executing code instructions Information processing method.

In an eighth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, which may include a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface may be used to receive and transmit signals from other communication apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus of the fifth aspect. To a processor or send a signal from the processor to a communication device other than the information processing device of the fifth aspect above, the processor may be used to implement any one of the second aspect through logic circuits or executing code instructions Information processing method.

In a ninth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, which may include a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface may be used to receive and transmit signals from other communication apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus of the sixth aspect. To the processor or send the signal from the processor to other communication devices other than the information processing device of the above sixth aspect, the processor can be used to implement any one of the third aspect through logic circuits or executing code instructions Information processing method.

In a tenth aspect, the present application provides an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus may include a processor, the processor is connected to a memory, the memory is used for storing a computer program, and the processor is used for executing the computer program stored in the memory, so that information processing is performed. The device executes the information processing method according to any one of the above first aspects, or executes the information processing method according to any one of the above second aspects, or executes the information processing method according to any one of the above third aspects .

In an eleventh aspect, the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed, the information processing method described in any one of the first aspect above, or Implement the information processing method according to any one of the above second aspects, or implement the information processing method according to any one of the above third aspects.

In a twelfth aspect, the present application provides a chip, which may include a processor and an interface, where the processor is configured to read instructions through the interface to execute the information processing method described in any one of the above first aspects, or to execute the method as described in the first aspect. The information processing method according to any one of the above second aspects, or the information processing method according to any one of the above third aspects.

In a thirteenth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product, which is used to store a computer program, and when the computer program runs on a computer, causes the computer to execute any one of the above-mentioned first aspects. The information processing method, or executing the information processing method according to any one of the above second aspects, or executing the information processing method according to any one of the above third aspects.

In a fourteenth aspect, the present application provides a communication system, which may include a tracking collection entity, an access network device, and a terminal device, wherein the tracking collection entity may be used to execute the first aspect or any of the first aspects. In a method, an access network device can be used to execute the second aspect or any method in the second aspect, and a terminal device can be used to execute the third aspect or any method in the third aspect.

For the beneficial effects of the above-mentioned second aspect to the fourteenth aspect, please refer to the technical effects that can be achieved by the corresponding designs in the above-mentioned first aspect and the third aspect, which will not be repeated here.

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FIG. 1 exemplarily shows a schematic diagram of a system architecture of a communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applicable;

FIG. 2 exemplarily shows a function division manner of an access network device;

FIG. 3 exemplarily shows a dual-connection control plane architecture diagram;

FIG. 4 exemplarily shows a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of application layer measurement;

FIG. 5 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of an information processing method provided in Embodiment 1 of the present application;

FIG. 6 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of an information processing method provided in Embodiment 2 of the present application;

FIG. 7 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of an information processing method provided in Embodiment 3 of the present application;

FIG. 8 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of an information processing method provided in Embodiment 4 of the present application;

FIG. 9 exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of an information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of another information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of another information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 exemplarily shows a schematic structural diagram of another information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application.

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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. The described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments.

FIG. 1 exemplarily shows a schematic diagram of a system architecture of a communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applied. The system architecture shown in Figure 1 includes a trace collection entity (TCE), access network equipment and terminal equipment. It should be understood that the embodiments of the present application do not limit the number of tracking collection entities, the number of access network devices, and the number of terminal devices in the system architecture. In addition, the system architecture to which the embodiments of the present application are applicable may include other devices in addition to the tracking collection entity, the access network device, and the terminal device, such as a core network (core network, CN) and an operation management system as shown in FIG. 1 . A maintenance (operation administration and maintenance) entity, such as a wireless relay device and a wireless backhaul device, is also not limited in this embodiment of the present application. Moreover, the access network device in the embodiment of the present application may integrate all functions on an independent physical device, or may distribute functions on multiple independent physical devices, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. In addition, the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may be connected to the access network device in a wireless manner.

The communication system in this embodiment of the present application may refer to various communication systems, such as: 5G (or called new radio (NR)) communication system, 6G communication system, long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE for short) system, Code division multiple access (CDMA) system, wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) general packet radio service (GPRS) system, LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD for short) system, LTE time division duplex (TDD), universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), etc. Of course, it can also be a communication system in other unlicensed frequency bands. Not limited.

The following first introduces some terms and related technologies involved in the embodiments of the present application.

1. Terminal equipment.

The terminal device in this embodiment of the present application refers to a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user. For example, it may include a handheld device with wireless connectivity, an in-vehicle device, or a processing device connected to a wireless modem. The terminal equipment may communicate with the core network via a radio access network (RAN), and exchange voice and/or data with the RAN. The terminal equipment may include user equipment (user equipment, UE), mobile station (mobile station, MS), mobile terminal equipment (mobile terminal, MT), wireless terminal equipment, device-to-device communication (device-to-device, D2D) Terminal equipment, vehicle to everything (V2X) terminal equipment, machine-to-machine/machine-type communications (M2M/MTC) terminal equipment, internet of things (IoT) ) terminal equipment, subscriber unit (subscriber unit), subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile station (mobile station), remote station (remote station), access point (access point, AP), remote terminal equipment (remote terminal), Access terminal, user terminal, user agent, or user device, etc. For example, these may include mobile telephones (or "cellular" telephones), computers with mobile terminal equipment, portable, pocket-sized, hand-held, computer-embedded mobile devices, and the like. For example, personal communication service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, session initiation protocol (SIP) phones, wireless local loop (WLL) stations, personal digital assistants (personal digital assistants), PDA), etc. Also includes constrained devices, such as devices with lower power consumption, or devices with limited storage capacity, or devices with limited computing power, etc. For example, it includes information sensing devices such as barcodes, radio frequency identification (RFID), sensors, global positioning system (GPS), and laser scanners. At present, some examples of terminal devices are: mobile phone (mobile phone), tablet computer, notebook computer, PDA, mobile internet device (MID), wearable device, virtual reality (VR) device, augmented Augmented reality (AR) equipment, wireless terminal equipment in industrial control, wireless terminal equipment in self-driving, wireless terminal equipment in remote medical surgery, smart grid ( Wireless terminal equipment in smart grid), wireless terminal equipment in transportation safety, wireless terminal equipment in smart city, wireless terminal equipment in smart home, etc.

2. Access network equipment.

The access network device in the embodiments of this application refers to a RAN node (or RAN device) that accesses a terminal device to a wireless network, and may also be referred to as a base station, an access point, or a network device. The access network device communicates with the wireless terminal device through one or more cells on the air interface, and can be used to convert the received air frame and the Internet Protocol (IP) packet to each other, as the terminal device and the rest of the access network. A router between parts, where the rest of the access network can include an IP network. For example, it includes a road side unit (road side unit, RSB). The RSB may be a fixed infrastructure entity supporting V2X applications, and may exchange messages with other entities supporting V2X applications. The access network equipment can also coordinate the attribute management of the air interface. For example, the access network equipment may include an LTE system or an evolved base station (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB, evolutional Node B) in the LTE system or long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), or may also include a fifth The next generation node B ( ^gNB ) in the new radio (NR) system of the 5th generation (5G) mobile communication technology. At present, some examples of access network equipment are: evolving node B (gNB), transmission reception point (TRP), evolved node B (evolved node B, eNB), radio network controller (radio network controller) controller, RNC), node B (node B, NB), base station controller (BSC), base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS), home base station (for example, home evolved node B, HENB, or home Node B, HNB), base band unit (base band unit, BBU), or wireless fidelity (wireless fidelity, Wifi) access point (access point, AP) and so on.

In addition, in a network architecture, the access network equipment may include a centralized unit (centralized unit, CU) and a distributed unit (distributed unit, DU) in a cloud access network (cloud radio access network, Cloud RAN) system ) RAN equipment. Figure 2 exemplarily shows a function division method of the RAN device. As shown in Figure 2, the RAN device can split all the protocol layers in the protocol stack into two parts, and the functions of a part of the protocol layers are placed on the CU side Centralized control is performed, and the functions of some or all of the other protocol layers in the remaining part of the protocol layers are distributed in the DU, and the CU centrally controls the DU to realize. The protocol layers deployed in the CU may include a radio resource control (RRC) layer, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, and a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer , so that the CU can have the processing capabilities of RRC, PDCP and SDAP. The protocol layers deployed in the DU may include a radio link control (RLC) layer, a media access control (MAC) layer, and a physical layer (PHY), so that the DU may have RLC, The processing power of the MAC and PHY. It can be understood that the division of the above functions is only an example, and does not constitute a limitation on the CU and the DU. That is to say, the functions of each level in the protocol stack may also be divided between the CU and the DU in other manners, which are not described again in this embodiment of the present application.

In addition, the functions of the CU may be implemented by one entity or by different entities. For example, continuing to refer to FIG. 2, the control plane (CP) of the CU and the user plane (user plane, UP) of the CU may be further separated to obtain the CU-CP and the CU-UP. The CU-CP and the CU-UP can be implemented by different functional entities, and the CU-CP and the CU-UP can be coupled with the DU, which together complete the entire function of the RAN device. In a possible implementation manner, the CU-CP is used to implement the control plane function, for example, the CU-CP may include an RRC layer and a control plane (packet data convergence protocol-control, PDCP-C) layer of a packet data convergence protocol. Among them, the PDCP-C layer is mainly used for encryption and decryption of control plane data, integrity protection and data transmission. Correspondingly, the CU-UP is used to implement the user plane function, for example, it may include the SDAP layer and the user plane (packet data convergence protocol-user, PDCP-U) layer of the packet data convergence protocol. Among them, the SDAP layer is mainly used to process the data of the core network and map the processed data flow (flow) to the data bearer. PDCP-U is mainly used for data plane encryption and decryption, integrity protection, header compression, serial number maintenance and data transmission. Continuing to refer to FIG. 2 , internally, the CU-CP and the CU-UP can be connected through the E1 interface. Externally, the CU-CP can represent the RAN equipment connected to the core network through the Ng interface, and connected to the DU node through the control plane (F1-C) of the F1 interface. The CU-UP can be connected to the DU node through the user plane (F1-U) of the F1 interface. In addition, in another possible implementation manner, the PDCP-C may also be deployed in the CU-UP, which is not described too much in this application.

3. Core network.

The core network in this embodiment of the present application refers to a network that provides service support for terminal devices. Currently, some examples of core networks are: access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, session management function (SMF) entity, user plane function (UPF) entity Wait, I won't list them all here. Among them, the AMF entity can be used for the access management and mobility management of the terminal equipment. The SMF entity can be used to be responsible for session management, such as user session establishment. The UPF entity may refer to the functional entity of the user plane, which is mainly responsible for connecting to the external network. It should be noted that the entities in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as network elements or functional entities, for example, an AMF entity may also be referred to as an AMF network element or an AMF functional entity, and for example, an SMF entity may also be referred to as an SMF network element Or SMF functional entities, etc.

4. Track and collect entities.

The tracking collection entity in this embodiment of the present application refers to an entity that can complete tracking and collection. The tracking collection entity may be a network element or functional entity independent of the core network and access network equipment, or may be a network element or functional entity in the core network or access network equipment, which is not specifically limited.

5. Operation administration and maintenance (OAM) entity.

The operation management and maintenance entity in the embodiment of the present application refers to an entity capable of sending measurement tasks to an access network device. The operation management and maintenance entity may also send configuration information of the access network device to the access network device. The operation management and maintenance entity may be a network element or functional entity independent of the core network and access network equipment.

6. Data radio bearer (DRB).

The DRB in this embodiment of the present application refers to a data bearing manner for bearing data plane data. In a wireless network, a terminal device may communicate with multiple base stations, so that the wireless network can use the resources of multiple base stations to provide high-efficiency communication services for terminal devices. This state is called dual-connectivity. , DC). In the 5G protocol, it can also be referred to as multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) of multiple wireless air interfaces. Wherein, multiple base stations in the MR-DC may respectively have different RLC/MAC entities. These multiple base stations may be base stations belonging to the same radio access technology (RAT) (for example, they are all fourth generation (4G) base stations, or all fifth generation (5G) base stations), or they may belong to the same radio access technology (RAT). Base stations of different RATs (for example, one is a 4G base station and the other is a 5G base station), and some of them may belong to the same RAT and some of them belong to different RATs (for example, some are 4G base stations and some are 5G base stations). Figure 3 exemplarily shows a control plane DC-C architecture diagram under dual connectivity. As shown in Figure 3, among multiple base stations, the base station that interacts with the core network in the control plane signaling is called the master base station (master node). , MN), and other base stations are called secondary base stations (secondary node, SN). The MN and the SN are respectively connected with the terminal equipment through the Uu interface, and the MN and the SN are connected through the control plane Xn-C of the Xn interface. Various DCs such as EN-DC, NGEN-DC, NE-DC, and NR-DC can be included in MR-DC. The primary base station in the EN-DC is the LTE base station eNB connected to the 4G core network EPC, and the secondary base station in the EN-DC is the NR base station. The primary base station in NGEN-DC is the LTE base station ng-eNB connected to the 5G core network 5GC, and the secondary base station in NGEN-DC is the NR base station. The primary base station in the NE-DC is an NR base station connected to the 5G core network 5GC, and the secondary base station in the NE-DC is an LTE base station. At the beginning of 5G, the terminal equipment in the EN-DC network cannot camp on the NR cell, so EN-DC can also be called NSA. Correspondingly, an NR base station capable of resident terminal equipment may be referred to as a SA NR base station. The primary base station in NR-DC is the NR base station connected to the 5G core network 5GC, and the secondary base station in NR-DC is the NR base station. For a terminal device in an MR-DC, the user plane of the secondary base station can be connected to the core network connected to the primary base station. In this case, the core network can directly send data to the terminal device through the secondary base station.

In MR-DC, there may be a primary cell (PCell) in the MN. PCell refers to the cell deployed at the primary frequency point and the terminal device initiates the initial connection establishment process or the connection reestablishment process in the cell, or refers to the cell The cell indicated as the primary cell during handover. There may be a primary secondary cell (PSCell) in the SN. The PSCell refers to the cell where the terminal equipment initiates the random access procedure at the secondary base station, or when the terminal equipment skips the random access procedure during the change of the secondary base station and initiates data The cell for transmission, or the cell of the secondary base station that initiates random access during the reconfiguration process for synchronization. Since a terminal device can receive services from multiple cells at the same time under one base station, the serving cell group provided by the MN for the terminal device can also be called the master cell group (MCG). The serving cell group is called a secondary serving cell group (SCG). The MCG and the SCG respectively include at least one serving cell. When there is only one serving cell (serving cell, SC) in the MCG, the SC is the PCell of the terminal device. When there is only one SC in the SCG, the SC is the PSCell of the terminal device. In the DC architecture, both PCell and PSCell in MCG and SCG can be called special cells (special cell, SpCell). When there are multiple SCs in the MCG or SCG, the SCs other than the SpCell may be called secondary cells (secondary cell, SCell). In addition, the SCell and SpCell in each serving cell group can also perform carrier aggregation (CA), so as to jointly provide transmission resources for terminal equipment. The CA technology specifically refers to that a base station configures multiple carriers (component carriers, CCs) or SCs for a single terminal device, so as to jointly perform data transmission for the terminal device through the multiple carriers. In the terminal device in the RRC connected state (that is, the state is RRC_CONNECTED), if no CA/DC is configured but only one SC, the SC is PCell. If CA/DC is configured, the SC set is composed of sPCell and SCell. And each CC may correspond to an independent cell. For a terminal device, the sPCell of the terminal device and all the SCells may form the SC set of the terminal device, where the SC may refer to the PCell or the SCell.

In the MR-DC scenario, DRB can be divided into three data bearer types: MCG Bearer, SCG Bearer, and Split Bearer. Among them, MCG Bearer means that the RLC/MAC entity of the DRB is only deployed on the primary base station, SCG bearer means that the RLC/MAC entity of the DRB is only deployed on the secondary base station, and Split bearer means the RLC/MAC entity of the DRB It is deployed on the primary base station and the secondary base station at the same time. For the bearer that PDCP terminates on the MN, it is called MN terminated bearer, that is, the data on the downlink DL reaches the MN directly from the core network, and is processed by the MN's PDCP/SDAP and then sent to the terminal equipment through RLC/MAC. The data on the link UL is processed from the PDCP/SDAP of the MN and sent to the core network. Similarly, for the bearer that PDCP terminates on the SN, it is called SN terminated bearer, that is, the data on the DL reaches the SN directly from the core network, and is processed by the PDCP/SDAP of the SN and then sent to the UE through RLC/MAC. The data is processed from the PDCP/SDAP of the SN and sent to the core network. In addition, in DC, both the primary base station and the secondary base station may have RRC entities, and both may generate RRC messages (eg, measurement request messages, etc.). In addition, the secondary base station can also directly send the RRC message generated by the secondary base station to the terminal equipment. In this case, the RRC message sent by the terminal equipment to the secondary base station can also be directly sent to the secondary base station. The RRC message between the secondary base station and the terminal equipment The message is called SRB3. Alternatively, the secondary base station can also notify the primary base station of the RRC message generated by the secondary base station, and then the primary base station sends it to the terminal device. In this case, the terminal device can also send the RRC message to the secondary base station to the primary base station, and then via The primary base station forwards the RRC message to the secondary base station.

It can be seen that in the MR-DC scenario, the data bearing types of DRB can be divided into MN terminated MCG bearer, MN terminated SCG bearer, MN terminated Split bearer, SN terminated MCG bearer, SN terminated SCG bearer and SN terminated Split bearer. For terminal equipment, the terminal equipment may only see three data bearer types: MCG bearer, SCG bearer, and Split bearer. The serving cell corresponding to the MCG bearer may be at least one serving cell (such as PCell) in the MCG, the serving cell corresponding to the SCG bearer may be at least one serving cell (such as PSCell) in the SCG, and the serving cell corresponding to the Split bearer may be At least one serving cell in the MCG and at least one serving cell in the SCG.

7. Non-application layer measurement.

In this embodiment of the present application, other measurements other than the application layer measurement of the terminal device are collectively referred to as non-application layer measurements. The non-application layer measurement may also be referred to as the access layer measurement. In this case, the non-application layer measurement result is used to reflect the access layer measurement result. Typical non-application layer measurements may include, for example, L2 measurements and MDT measurements. Among them, the L2 measurement can count some network performance on the network side, and the measurement result of the L2 measurement can be used for the operator to perform radio link management, radio resource management and network maintenance. In some examples, the L2 measurement may only be performed on one terminal device, such as measuring the service throughput, service flow, processing delay, and air interface delay of the terminal device. Regarding the implementation process of the L2 measurement, reference may be made to the prior art, which is not described in detail in this application. The following focuses on the related content of MDT measurement.

In the traditional drive test work, operators generally do a routine network coverage drive test at regular intervals (for example, a month). to detect and optimize problems and failures in wireless networks. However, this kind of traditional drive testing is labor-intensive and expensive, and it may not be possible to detect network faults in time. To solve these problems, MDT measurement came into being. The basic idea of MDT measurement is: the operator signs contracts with the terminal equipment of some users in advance, so that the operator can automatically collect the measurement data of the terminal equipment by measuring the terminal equipment of these subscribers and receive the sent measurement results to replace the Part of the traditional road test work. Compared with traditional drive test work, MDT measurement can reduce manpower and material costs, and can improve the timeliness of network fault detection.

Several types of MDT measurements are exemplified below:

Signal level measurement: This kind of measurement can usually be performed by terminal equipment, and after measuring the signal level of the wireless signal, the measurement result is sent to the access network equipment;

Quality of service (quality of service, QoS) measurement, in one case, this measurement may be performed by access network equipment, and the QoS measurement performed by access network equipment may include, for example, service flow measurement, service throughput measurement, and service delay measurement Wait. In another case, the measurement may also be performed by the terminal equipment, and the Qos measurement performed by the terminal equipment may include, for example, uplink processing delay measurement. In another case, this measurement can also be performed jointly by the access network device and the terminal device. These measurements may include, for example, air interface delay measurement. The air interface delay refers to the time when data communication is performed between the access network device and the terminal device. The processing delay of the data packet, such as the time interval for the measurement data to pass through the SDAP or PDCP layer of the access network device to the SDAP or PDCP layer of the terminal device;

Accessibility measurement: This measurement is usually recorded by the terminal equipment and sent to the access network equipment when the RRC connection establishment fails.

In the embodiment of the present application, the mode of MDT measurement can be divided into immediate MDT measurement and logged MDT measurement. Among them, the Immediate MDT measurement is mainly performed on the terminal equipment in the RRC connected state (that is, the state is RRC_CONNECTED). Immediate MDT measurement is generally used to measure the data volume, Internet protocol (IP) throughput rate, packet transmission delay, packet loss rate, and processing delay of terminal equipment in the RRC connection state. The logged MDT measurement is mainly performed on the terminal equipment in the idle state (that is, the state is RRC_IDLE) or the terminal equipment in the RRC inactive state (that is, the state is RRC_INACTIVE), such as the terminal equipment in the idle state or the inactive state. Measurement is performed when the terminal device reselects to the same-frequency serving cell of the currently camped serving cell, or to the inter-frequency/inter-system adjacent serving cell broadcasted by the currently camped serving cell. The logged MDT is generally used to measure the received signal strength of a terminal device in an idle state or a terminal device in an RRC inactive state.

In this embodiment of the present application, MDT measurement initiation methods may include the following two:

One is signaling-based MDT (signalling based MDT, SBMDT) measurement. The signaling-based MDT measurement refers to the MDT measurement initiated for a specific terminal device, for example, the access network device is notified by the core network to initiate the MDT measurement for a specific terminal device. For signaling-based MDT measurement, only when the user of the terminal device agrees to perform MDT measurement (that is, the terminal device supports MDT measurement), the core network will initiate the MDT measurement message for the terminal device, otherwise the core network A message for MDT measurement for the terminal device will not be initiated. The MDT measurement message generally carries some MDT measurement configuration information, the IP address or the uniform resource identifier (URI) of the tracking collection entity or policy collection entity (measurement collection entity, MCE) (URI in computer terminology). Is a string used to identify the name of an Internet resource, which allows users to interact with resources in the network through a specific protocol. The most common form of URI is the Uniform Resource Locator, and URI is often specified as some Informal URL. There are also scenarios in which URIs are designated as Uniform Resource Names, in order to provide a way to supplement information such as URLs in the identification of specific namespace resources. The configuration information of the MDT measurement may include one or more of the following: the activation type of the MDT measurement (for example, it may include the Immediate MDT only type, the Logged MDT only type, and the Immediate MDT and Trace type, etc.), the area range of the MDT measurement, The mode of MDT measurement (such as immediate MDT mode or logged MDT mode) and some configuration parameters of this mode (such as measurement events of immediate MDT mode, logging interval and duration of logged MDT mode, etc.), common MDT measurement based on signaling List of public land mobile networks (PLMN).

The other is management based MDT (management based MDT, MBMDT) measurement. Management-based MDT measurement is not the MDT measurement for a specific terminal device, but the access network device first receives the MDT measurement message from the OAM entity or element manager (EM) entity, and then based on a certain policy An appropriate terminal device is selected from the terminal devices accessing the access network device to initiate MDT measurement. For example, a certain policy may mean that the access network device only selects those terminal devices that have agreed to perform MDT measurement to initiate MDT measurement. Whether each terminal device agrees to perform MDT measurement may be notified by the core network to the access network device in advance. Indicates that the user of the terminal device agrees to perform management-based MDT measurement, in this case, the indication information may be "Management Based MDT Allowed indication". Optionally, the indication information may also be an indication of which PLMNs the user agrees to perform management-based MDT in. In this case, the indication information may also be a list of PLMNs that agree to perform management-based MDT.

It should be noted that both the signaling-based MDT measurement and the management-based MDT measurement described above may include a logged MDT mode and an immediated MDT mode.

8. Application layer measurement.

The application layer measurement in the embodiment of the present application refers to the measurement performed on the performance of the application layer of the terminal device. Typical application layer measurements may include QoE measurements, for example. For some streaming services (such as streaming service (SS)) or voice services (such as multimedia telephony (Multimedia Telephony Service for IMS, MTSI) service of IP multimedia system), the measurement results obtained by non-application layer measurement In fact, it can only be used to characterize the pure signal quality or the communication quality of the access layer, but the pure signal quality or the communication quality of the access layer cannot reflect the user experience of users when using these services. Operators want to know the user experience so that they can better optimize the network quality to improve the user experience. Therefore, the application layer measurement of the terminal device actually belongs to an important measurement method to improve the user experience of using the network. The initiation mode of application layer measurement can also be divided into signaling-based application layer measurement and management-based application layer measurement. For the application layer measurement based on signaling, the measurement task can be notified by the core network to the base station to initiate application layer measurement for a specific terminal device. For the management-based application layer measurement, it is not the application layer measurement for a specific terminal device, but the access network device first receives the application layer measurement message from the OAM entity or the element management entity, and then based on a certain The strategy selects the appropriate terminal device from the terminal devices accessing the access network device to initiate the application layer measurement. When the application layer measurement is QoE measurement and the non-application layer measurement is MDT measurement, the QoE measurement task may be initiated independently of the MDT measurement task, or may be initiated simultaneously with the MDT measurement task. An example of simultaneous initiation is, for example, the message corresponding to the signaling-based QoE measurement task is carried in the message corresponding to the signaling-based MDT measurement task sent by the core network to the base station.

FIG. 4 exemplarily shows a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of application layer measurement. As shown in FIG. 4 , the flow includes the following steps:

In step 401a or step 401b, the access network device acquires an application layer measurement request message, where the application layer measurement request message carries application layer measurement configuration information.

In an optional implementation manner, the application-layer measurement configuration information may be carried in the form of a transparent container in the application-layer measurement request message. A container is a carrying method similar to a package, and will be opened (that is, parsed) only when the container reaches the final destination. In this embodiment of the present application, the access network device will not parse the content in the container ( even if the base station is capable of parsing). In this case, since the application layer measurement is performed in the application layer of the terminal device, the container where the configuration information of the application layer measurement is located will not be parsed until the application layer of the terminal device is reached. Other layers or other devices (such as access network devices) will not be parsed, but directly encapsulated and forwarded in the form of containers. In addition, the application layer measurement request message may include other information besides the application layer measurement configuration information, such as the area range to be measured (ie the preset measurement range) and/or the service type corresponding to the current measurement. These other information may not be carried in the application layer measurement request message in the form of a container, so these other information may be parsed by the access network device. Or, in another optional implementation manner, the application-layer measurement configuration information may also be carried in the form of a non-transparent container in the application-layer measurement request message. In this case, other layers or other devices (eg, access network devices) other than the application layer of the terminal device can also parse the application layer measurement request message to obtain the specific content of the application layer measurement configuration information. Or, in another optional implementation manner, a part of the content in the measurement configuration information of the application layer may be carried in a transparent container form, and another part of the content may be carried in a non-container form. There are many ways of carrying the application layer measurement configuration information in the application layer measurement request message, which will not be introduced one by one here.

Step 402, the access network device determines the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement according to the application layer measurement request message.

In this embodiment of the present application, when the application layer measurement is initiated in different ways, the access network device determines the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement in different ways. For example:

When the application-layer measurement is initiated by signaling-based application-layer measurement, the application-layer measurement task is initiated by the core network, and the access network device can receive from the core network, as indicated in step 401a, a signal for a specific terminal device. Application layer measurement request message. In this case, since the access network device allocates a dedicated communication interface for the communication between the terminal device and the core network when the terminal device accesses the core network, the access network device from which communication interface receives the application layer measurement The request message can be used to determine which terminal device to initiate the application layer measurement according to the corresponding relationship between the communication interface and the terminal device.

When the initiation method of the application layer measurement is management-based application layer measurement, the application layer measurement task is initiated by the OAM entity (or the element manager (EM) entity), and the access network device can follow the steps indicated in step 401b from The OAM entity (or EM entity) receives the measurement request message. In this case, the access network device may first determine access to the access network according to the restriction conditions such as the area range to be measured obtained by parsing the application layer measurement request message or some other factors, and then according to these restriction conditions or some other factors Which terminal devices meet the requirements of the application layer measurement among all the terminal devices of the network access device, and then use these terminal devices that meet the requirements as the terminal devices to perform this application layer measurement.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present application, "this application layer measurement" specifically refers to the entire application layer measurement from the start of this measurement task to the end of this measurement task, for example, when application layer measurement is to be performed on a session. , the entire measurement period from the start of the session to the end of the session is taken as the measurement period of the current application layer measurement. In addition, in an application layer measurement, the terminal device may report the application layer measurement result only once, for example, after a session ends, report the application layer measurement result obtained by the measurement during the entire measurement period of the session, or report the application layer measurement result multiple times. The measurement result, for example, in the course of a session, the application layer measurement result obtained by measurement in each 5 seconds is reported periodically according to the period of 5 seconds.

It should be understood that in the above two initiation manners, only when the terminal device supports application layer measurement, the access network device will take the terminal device as the terminal device to perform application layer measurement. Whether the terminal device supports application layer measurement can be reported by the terminal device to the access network device, or obtained by the access network device by sending a query message to the terminal device and receiving a response message, or by the access network device and the terminal device. It is pre-configured, which is not specifically limited.

It should be noted that, the solution in the above steps 401a and 401b is only an optional implementation manner. In this embodiment of the present application, the access network device may not determine the terminal device that performs the application layer measurement according to the application layer measurement message received from the core network, the OAM entity or the element management entity. For example, in another optional implementation manner, the access network device may further determine the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement according to its own requirements.

Step 403, the access network device carries the application layer measurement configuration information in an RRC message and sends it to the access stratum (access stratum, AS) in the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement.

In the above step 403, the data bearing form of the application layer measurement configuration information in the RRC message may also be a container form, a non-container form, or a mixed form of the two, see the introduction in the above step 401a or step 401b. Moreover, in addition to the application layer measurement configuration information, the RRC message may also include other information, such as the service type corresponding to the current measurement, to indicate which service type application to perform the application layer measurement.

Step 404, the AS in the terminal device sends the application layer measurement configuration information to the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device.

In the above step 404, since the AS is not the final layer to perform the application layer measurement, the AS can forward the application layer measurement configuration information to the upper layer of the AS. The upper layer of the AS may refer to the application layer of the terminal device, or may refer to a layer dedicated to the measurement of the application layer, or may be a layer between the application layer and the AS. When the upper layer of the AS is a layer between the application layer and the AS, the upper layer of the AS needs to further forward the application layer measurement configuration information until the application layer measurement configuration information is forwarded to the final measurement layer. It should be understood that when the RRC message includes both the application layer measurement configuration information and the service type corresponding to this measurement, the AS can also send the application layer measurement configuration information and the service type to be measured to the upper layer of the AS at the same time.

Step 405, the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device performs the application layer measurement to obtain the application layer measurement result.

In this embodiment of the present application, if the upper layer of the AS receives both the application layer measurement configuration information and the service type corresponding to the current measurement, the upper layer of the AS may, according to the application layer measurement configuration information, determine the service type corresponding to the current measurement. The corresponding application performs the application layer measurement to obtain the application layer measurement result. The application layer measurement result can occupy any byte from 1 byte to 8000 bytes.

In the above step 405, if the terminal device switches the serving cell in the process of performing the application layer measurement, the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs will re-determine whether the switched serving cell belongs to the pending terminal device. The range of the measurement area, if it belongs, the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs can send indication information for continuing the measurement to the terminal device to instruct the terminal device to continue to perform the measurement, or the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs. It is also not necessary to specially send indication information to the terminal device, and in this case, the terminal device continues to measure by default. If not, the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs may send the indication information to stop the measurement to the terminal device to instruct the terminal device to suspend the measurement, or the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs may also send a message to the terminal device to stop the measurement. The indication information for releasing the measurement configuration information of the application layer is sent to instruct the terminal device to end the measurement.

Step 406, the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device reports the measurement result of the application layer to the AS in the terminal device.

In the above steps 405 and 406, the upper layer of the AS may perform application layer measurement according to a certain set rule and report the application layer measurement result to the AS in the terminal device. The setting rule may be a default rule in the terminal device, or may be a certain rule indicated in the measurement configuration information of the application layer. For example, in a possible setting rule, the upper layer of the AS performs the application layer measurement according to the period indicated in the application layer measurement configuration information and reports the application layer measurement result. For another example, in another possible setting rule, the upper layer of the AS performs application layer measurement during each session (or a certain type of session) and reports the application layer measurement result after the session ends. Assuming that the terminal device passes through 5 serving cells during a session, the upper layer of the AS will report the application layer measurement results of the terminal device to the AS during the entire period from the start of the session to the end of the session.

Exemplarily, in addition to reporting the application layer measurement result to the AS, the upper layer of the AS may also indicate to the AS the service type corresponding to the current measurement.

Step 407, the AS in the terminal device carries the application layer measurement result in an RRC message and sends it to the access network device.

In the above step 407, the data bearing form of the application layer measurement result in the RRC message may also be a container form, a non-container form, or a mixed form of the two, see the introduction in the above step 401a or step 401b. In addition, the RRC message may include, in addition to the application layer measurement result, the service type corresponding to this measurement, so that the access network device or other entities can know which service type the application layer measurement result is for. quality of experience.

In the above step 407, if the terminal device switches the serving cell in the process of performing the application layer measurement, the AS will send the application layer measurement result to the access network device to which the switched serving cell belongs. In this case, when the access network device to which the serving cell after the handover belongs is different from the access network device to which the serving cell before the handover belongs, the access network device that sends the application-layer measurement configuration information (that is, the access network device in step 403) The access network device) and the access network device that receives the measurement result of the application layer (that is, the access network device in step 407) are not the same access network device. When the access network device to which the serving cell after the handover belongs is the same as the access network device to which the serving cell before the handover belongs, the access network device that sends the application layer measurement configuration information and the access network device that receives the application layer measurement result are the same access network device.

Step 408, the access network device sends the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the tracking collection entity.

In the embodiment of the present application, after receiving the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, the tracking collection entity may also determine the user experience of the user using the application in the terminal device according to the application layer measurement result (for example, the pros and cons of call quality, smoothness of watching videos, etc.), when the user experience is poor, the tracking collection entity can also notify the access network device to allocate more wireless resources to the terminal device, so as to improve the application performance of the terminal device and improve the user's application experience .

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present application, the foregoing step 408 is only an optional step. In another optional implementation manner, the access network device may first use the application layer measurement result to determine the user experience of the user using the application in the terminal device, and then adjust the user experience for the terminal device according to the application layer measurement result. The allocated wireless resources are used to improve the application performance of the terminal device and improve the user's application experience.

The application layer measurement shown in Figure 4, although it can measure the application layer measurement results of a certain terminal device or some terminal devices, there are still some problems in this method, such as:

Problem 1, when the application layer measurement results are sent to the tracking collection entity or other entities to determine the radio resource allocation in this way, the tracking collection entity or other entities can only use the application layer measurement result as a single factor to adjust the wireless resource allocation, and The measurement results of the application layer cannot accurately characterize the comprehensive performance of a terminal device, so this method can easily lead to inaccurate resource allocation.

Question 2: This method only relies on the actual measurement results of the application layer. In this case, if only a few terminal devices in the network support application layer measurement, the network side can only obtain very few application layer measurements. As a result, this results in less accurate current network performance determinations by access network equipment based on these few application layer measurements.

Question 3: If you want to obtain more application layer measurement results in this way, you can only allow more terminal devices to perform application layer measurement, or let terminal devices periodically report application layer measurement results to access network devices. However, , the application layer measurement results are exchanged in the form of RRC signaling. Whether it is the way of increasing the number of terminal devices or the way of periodic reporting, it will increase the network signaling overhead between the terminal device and the access network device.

Question 4: In this way, when the terminal equipment is handed over to the serving cell, the terminal equipment and the access network equipment need to re-exchange the relevant information about continuing the application layer measurement or terminating the application layer measurement, so that the terminal equipment and the access network equipment Between the AS and the upper layer of the AS, frequent signaling interaction is required, which will further increase the network signaling overhead.

Question 5: In this method, when the terminal device moves out of the area to be measured, the access network device will also send a message to the terminal device to release the current application layer measurement, which will cause the terminal device to directly stop this measurement. The secondary application layer measurement will cause the application layer measurement results that the terminal device has started to be discarded, which is not conducive to the access network device to collect sufficient application layer measurement results.

The following describes how the above-mentioned technical problems are solved through specific embodiments of the present application. It should be noted that in the following description, the tracking collection entity may be the tracking collection entity in FIG. 1 , or a communication device capable of supporting the functions required by the tracking collection entity to implement the method, and of course other communication devices, such as chip or system of chips. The access network device may be the access network device 1 or the access network device 2 in FIG. 1 , or a communication device capable of supporting the functions required by the access network device to implement the method, and of course other communication devices, such as a chip or system-on-chip. The terminal device may be the terminal device in FIG. 1 , or a communication device capable of supporting the functions required by the terminal device to implement the method, and of course may also be other communication devices, such as a chip or a chip system.

It should be understood that the terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application may be used interchangeably. "At least one" means one or more, and "plurality" means two or more. "And/or", which describes the association relationship of the associated objects, indicates that there can be three kinds of relationships, for example, A and/or B, which can indicate: the existence of A alone, the existence of A and B at the same time, and the existence of B alone, where A, B can be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the related objects are an "or" relationship. "At least one item(s) below" or similar expressions thereof refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of single item(s) or plural items(s). For example, at least one item (a) of a, b, or c can represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, where a, b, c may be single or multiple .

And, unless otherwise specified, ordinal numbers such as “first” and “second” mentioned in the embodiments of the present application are used to distinguish multiple objects, and are not used to limit the order, sequence, priority or importance of multiple objects degree. For example, the first access network device and the second access network device are only to distinguish the access network devices before and after the serving cell handover, or only to distinguish the access network devices before and after the data bearer handover, and It does not mean that the two access network devices are necessarily different access network devices, nor does it indicate that the two access network devices are different in priority or importance.

Example 1

FIG. 5 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of the information processing method provided in the first embodiment of the present application. The method may be executed by an access network device and a tracking collection entity, such as the access network device 1 or the access network device shown in FIG. 1 . The network access device 2, and the tracking collection entity. As shown in Figure 5, the method includes:

Step 501: The access network device sends a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device.

In the above step 501, the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device can be measured and reported by the terminal device (for example, non-application layer measurement indicators related to uplink transmission performance are measured) to the access network device, or the access network device can , or the core network, or the operation, management and maintenance entity to measure and obtain (for example, to measure the air interface performance). When the terminal device performs measurement, the terminal device may report the non-application layer measurement result in a periodic manner, or may report the non-application layer measurement result in accordance with the fixed rules of the serving cell where it is currently located. For example, in an optional implementation, if a serving cell is set to report non-application layer measurement results every ten minutes, after the terminal device joins the serving cell, the terminal device can report it every ten minutes The non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the serving cell is sent to the access network device to which the serving cell belongs, and the access network device to which the serving cell belongs every time after receiving the non-application layer measurement result reported by the terminal device, When to report the non-application layer measurement result to the tracking collection entity can be determined in real time or by the access network device itself.

In this embodiment of the present application, the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device may include an L2 measurement result and/or an MDT measurement result. The measurement indicators of the L2 measurement result may include one or more of service throughput, service data volume, and service transmission delay, or may also include other non-application layer measurement indicators. The MDT measurement result may be the measurement result obtained by the measurement performed in the immediate MDT mode, and the measurement indicators of the MDT measurement result may include the downlink signal quality, the power headroom of the terminal equipment, the interference power received by the access network equipment, the uplink and downlink transmission One or more of the data volume, uplink and downlink delay, and packet loss rate of uplink and downlink transmission, or may also include other application layer measurement indicators. Regarding the implementation process of the L2 measurement and the MDT measurement, reference may be made to any implementation solution in the art, which is not specifically limited in this application.

Step 502, the access network device sends a second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device.

In the above step 502, the application layer measurement result of the terminal device may be obtained according to the application layer measurement method shown in FIG. 4, or may be obtained according to the application layer measurement method shown in FIG. 8, which is not repeated here.

In this embodiment of the present application, the application layer measurement result of the terminal device may specifically refer to the QoE measurement result. The following exemplifies several measurement indicators corresponding to the QoE measurement results:

Average throughput: refers to the total number of bits received by the application layer of the terminal device in a measurement interval. This indicator is applicable to streaming media business scenarios, such as scenarios where users use the Internet to watch videos.

Initial playback delay: refers to the playback delay when the streaming media starts to appear, for example, from the moment the terminal device obtains the first segment of the streaming media to when the terminal device extracts the first segment of the streaming media from the client buffer. The time interval up to the moment.

Buffering level: refers to the duration that the streaming media can still be played from the current playback moment. When the network performance is better, the more preloaded resources of the streaming media, the longer the duration that the streaming media can still be played, and the higher the buffering level. .

Playback delay: refers to the playback delay when streaming media starts, such as dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) transmitted from hypertext transfer protocol The player receives a play/backward/start The time interval from the moment when the trigger instruction starts to the moment when the media is played.

Deterioration duration: refers to the Nepal time (nepal time, NPT) corresponding to the previous frame with better quality before the playback quality of the frame deteriorates to the first frame with better quality after the playback quality of the frame deteriorates. Interval between Nepal time. Among them, a frame with better quality refers to a frame that can be completely accepted and the corresponding picture of the frame contains all correct contents, or refers to a new frame and the new frame does not depend on any previously decoded frame. , or a new frame that depends only on previously decoded better quality frames.

Number of consecutive packet losses: refers to the number of consecutively lost packets in the real-time transport protocol (RTP) scenario.

Jitter duration: It means that the time interval between the actual playback moment of a frame and the expected playback moment exceeds a threshold. The expected playback time of a frame refers to the sum of the playback time of the previous frame and a preset time interval, and the preset time interval is the time interval between the Nepali time of the current frame and the Nepali time of the previous frame.

Out-of-sync duration: means that the absolute time difference between the first time difference and the second time difference exceeds a certain threshold. The first time difference refers to the time difference between the playback time of the previous frame in a video stream and the playback time of the previous frame in the voice stream, and the second time difference refers to the expected playback time of the previous frame in the video stream. The time difference between the moment and the expected playback moment of the previous frame in this voice stream.

Round-trip delay: Refers to the additional two-way delay of the round-trip time at the RTP level due to buffering and other processing in the client, such as RTP level->speaker->microphone->RTP level.

Average bit rate: refers to the bit rate at which valid media information is encoded within a measurement period.

It should be understood that the above is only an example to introduce several possible application layer measurement indicators, and the terminal device in this embodiment of the present application may measure one or more of the above several measurement indicators to obtain application layer measurement results. Of course, The application-layer measurement results can also be obtained by combining other application-layer measurement indicators.

Step 503, the tracking collection entity associates the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device.

In an optional implementation manner, when the access network device only initiates non-application layer measurement or application layer measurement for a certain terminal device, and only reports the measurement result corresponding to the terminal device, the access network device may only The first measurement result carries the unused layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the second measurement result carries the application layer measurement result of the terminal device. In this way, after receiving the first measurement result and the second measurement result, the tracking collection entity can directly associate the non-application layer measurement result carried in the first measurement result with the application layer measurement result carried in the second measurement result, so as to The non-application layer measurement results of the terminal device and the application layer measurement results of the terminal device are associated to the terminal device. In the embodiment of the present application, after the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result are associated with a terminal device, the tracking collection entity can know that the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result correspond to the same terminal device. Specifically, the above-mentioned application-layer measurement results and non-application-layer measurement results may be associated with the identifier of the terminal device. When the access network device initiates non-application-layer measurement or application-layer measurement for multiple (ie, two or more) terminal devices, and reports the measurement results corresponding to the multiple terminal devices, the tracking and collection entity can monitor each terminal device. The non-application-layer measurement results and application-layer measurement results are associated. The access network device may simultaneously carry the non-application layer measurement results of multiple terminal devices in the first measurement result, and simultaneously carry the non-application layer measurement results of multiple terminal devices in the second measurement result, and the first measurement result includes The plurality of terminal equipments in the second measurement result and the plurality of terminal equipments included in the second measurement result may be different. In this case, in order to facilitate the tracking and collection entity to distinguish the correspondence between the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results and the terminal equipment, the first measurement result and the second measurement result may also include the corresponding data of multiple terminal equipments. Device information, in this way, after receiving the first measurement result and the second measurement result, the tracking and collecting entity can also compare the application layer measurement result of the terminal device with the same device information to the device information carried in the two measurement results. The non-application layer measurement results are associated to the terminal device with the device information. In this way, even if the non-application layer measurement and the application layer measurement of the terminal device are performed and reported separately, the tracking collection entity can find different measurement results of the terminal device with the same device information according to the device information carried in the measurement result, so as to associate with the same device information. The equipment information provides the basis for the different measurement results of the terminal equipment.

It should be noted that, in the above embodiment, the device information of a terminal device may refer to the identifier of the terminal device (refer to the second embodiment for details), or may refer to the type of the terminal device (refer to the third embodiment for details). Wherein, the identity of the terminal equipment may include one or more of the following: the identity of the serving cell where the terminal equipment is located, the C-RNTI in the serving cell where the terminal equipment is located, the identity of the non-application layer measurement task ( For example, the identification of the MDT measurement task), the identification of the application layer measurement task (such as the identification of the QoE measurement task), the identification of the combination of the identification of the non-application layer measurement task and the identification of the application layer measurement task, and the QoE reference parameter. The identification of which terminal equipment is included in the first measurement result and the second measurement result will be specifically described in Embodiment 2 and Embodiment 3, and will not be introduced here.

In this embodiment of the present application, the non-application layer measurement and the application layer measurement may be performed in different time periods respectively, and there is a time difference between the non-application layer measurement results measured in different time periods and the application layer measurement results. If the measurement time is not considered, then It is very likely that the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results measured in different time periods will be associated together, and this association result cannot accurately reflect the performance of the terminal device in the same time period. Based on this, in an optional implementation manner, the first measurement result may further include first time information, where the first time information refers to the time corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result that can indicate the execution of the first measurement result. Any time information that is not measured at the application layer. Correspondingly, the second measurement result may also include second time information. The second time information refers to the time corresponding to the application layer measurement result that can indicate the execution of the second measurement result. Any time information about the time measured by the application layer. After receiving the first measurement result and the second measurement result, the tracking collection entity may first determine whether the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information, and when the time indicated by the first time information When the time is included in the time indicated by the second time information, it means that the non-application-layer measurement result is obtained by measurement within the measurement period corresponding to the application-layer measurement result, and the non-application-layer measurement result has better analysis for the application-layer measurement result. Therefore, the tracking collection entity can establish an association between the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results. When the time indicated by the first time information exceeds the time indicated by the second time information, it indicates that the non-application layer measurement result is not measured within the measurement period corresponding to the application layer measurement result. For example, the non-application layer measurement result may be The measurement is obtained before the application-layer measurement is performed, or the non-application-layer measurement result may be obtained after the application-layer measurement is completed. The non-application-layer measurement result and the application-layer measurement result do not belong to the same measurement period. In this case, The non-application-layer measurement result has little meaning for the analysis of the application-layer measurement result, so the tracking collection entity may not associate the non-application-layer measurement result with the application-layer measurement result.

In this embodiment of the present application, the tracking collection entity may determine whether the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information in the following manner:

When the first time information is the time when the access network device sends the measurement task corresponding to the non-application layer measurement, and the second time information is the time when the access network device sends the measurement task corresponding to the application layer measurement, if the first time information is the time when the access network device sends the measurement task corresponding to the application layer measurement The time corresponding to the time information is equal to or later than the time corresponding to the second time information, then the tracking collection entity may consider that the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information. If the time is earlier than the time corresponding to the second time information, the tracking collection entity may consider that the time indicated by the first time information exceeds the time indicated by the second time information; or,

When the first time information is the time when the access network device sends the non-application layer measurement result, and the second time information is the time when the access network device sends the application layer measurement result, if the time corresponding to the first time information is earlier than or is equal to the time corresponding to the second time information, then the tracking collection entity may consider that the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information. If the time corresponding to the first time information is later than the time corresponding to the second time information time, the tracking collection entity may consider that the time indicated by the first time information exceeds the time indicated by the second time information; or,

The first time information is the period during which the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result is performed (the measurement period corresponding to the first measurement result is the access network device or the core network startup in the first measurement result) When the non-application layer measurement reaches the time period when the non-application layer measurement result is obtained, for example, it can be the start time when the access network device or the core network starts the measurement corresponding to the first measurement result to the time when the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result is obtained. or the time period from when the terminal device starts the non-application layer measurement to the time when the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result is obtained, for example, the start time when the terminal device starts the measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result to the moment when the non-application layer measurement result in the first measurement result is obtained), and the second time information is the period during which the terminal device performs the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result (for example, the terminal device starts the second measurement From the start time of the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result in the result to the time when the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result is obtained, for example, the terminal device executes the entire period of the session to be tested, or the terminal device starts the second measurement result. In the case from the start time of the measurement corresponding to the measurement result to the time when the application layer measurement result in the second measurement result is obtained), if the time period corresponding to the first time information is within the range of the time period corresponding to the second time information, the tracking The collecting entity may consider that the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information. If the time period corresponding to the first time information exceeds the time period corresponding to the second time information, the tracking collecting entity may consider that the first time period corresponds to the time period corresponding to the second time information. The time indicated by the time information exceeds the time indicated by the second time information.

It should be understood that the above are just examples of several ways of judging whether the time indicated by the first time information is included in the time indicated by the second time information. It is determined that the non-application-layer measurement result is a judgment method obtained by measurement within the measurement time corresponding to the application-layer measurement result, which is all within the protection scope of the present application.

In the above embodiment 1, by correlating the non-application layer measurement results and application layer measurement results of the terminal device, the tracking collection entity can comprehensively use various measurement results of the terminal device to comprehensively analyze the performance of the terminal device. Compared with the method of determining the radio resource allocation by analyzing the measurement results of the application layer in isolation as shown in FIG. 4 , the tracking and collecting entity can refer to more information to adjust the resource allocation, thereby helping to improve the performance of each terminal device. Balance and accuracy of resource allocation.

Based on the first embodiment, several possible implementations of the solution in the first embodiment are introduced by using the second embodiment to the fourth embodiment.

Embodiment 2

FIG. 6 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of the information processing method provided by the second embodiment of the present application. The method may be executed by the first access network device, the second access network device, and the tracking collection entity, for example, as shown in FIG. 1 . Outgoing access network device 1, access network device 2 and tracking collection entity. As shown in Figure 6, the method includes:

Step 601: The first access network device sends a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the first measurement result includes the identifier of at least one terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result of the at least one terminal device.

In an optional implementation manner, for a terminal device, the first measurement result may include the following content:

The identifier of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current serving cell. The current serving cell may be one of the serving cells managed by the first access network device. For example, the current serving cell sets the terminal device to report non-application layer measurement results every 10 minutes, then since the terminal device joins the current serving cell, it can report to the first access network device every ten minutes that the terminal device is currently in the current serving cell. The non-application layer measurement result in the serving cell, and after receiving the non-application layer measurement result, the first access network device can real-time convert the identity of the current serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell and the The non-application layer measurement results or the access network equipment decides when to report it to the tracking collection entity. or,

The identifier of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the identifier assigned by the CU-CP to the terminal device, and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current serving cell. or,

The identifier of the non-application layer measurement task corresponding to the terminal device (for example, the identifier of the MDT measurement task) and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device in the current serving cell. The identifier of the MDT measurement task may, for example, refer to the task number of the MDT measurement task, or may refer to the tracking identifier in the MDT measurement task. or,

When the access network device initiates application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement simultaneously to the terminal device, it may also include the identification of the application layer measurement task corresponding to the terminal device (for example, the identification of the QoE measurement task) and the identification of the terminal device at the application layer. Non-application layer measurement results in the current serving cell. The identifier of the QoE measurement task may, for example, refer to the task number of the QoE measurement task, or may refer to the tracking identifier in the QoE measurement task. or,

When the access network device initiates application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement simultaneously to the terminal device, the QoE reference parameters corresponding to the QoE measurement task of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement of the terminal device in the current serving cell may also be included. Application layer measurement results. Among them, the QoE reference parameter is composed of three pieces of information: mobile country code (MCC), mobile network code (MNC) and QoE measurement collection identity (QMC ID), and has Global uniqueness. The QMC ID can be generated by the network administrator or operator.

In this embodiment of the present application, if the network architecture of the first access network device is as shown in FIG. 3 , the CU and DU in the first access network device may respectively report some of the non-application layer measurement results obtained by themselves for tracking. Collecting entity, in this case, the CU and DU may also simultaneously report the identification of the terminal equipment corresponding to the part of the non-application layer measurement results when reporting part of the non-application layer measurement results.

Step 602, the first access network device sends a second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the second measurement result includes the identification of at least one terminal device and the measurement obtained by the at least one terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. An application layer measurement.

It should be noted that the terminal device may periodically report the measurement result of the application layer, and may also report the measurement result of the application layer after each session ends. An example of periodically reporting the measurement results of the application layer is: when the terminal device reports in a 5-second period, if the current application layer measurement is for a 1-minute session, the terminal device can report the application layer measurement results 12 times. And each application layer measurement result may refer to the application layer measurement result within the corresponding 5-second session.

In an optional implementation manner, for a terminal device, the second measurement result may include the following content:

The identifiers of the multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in each serving cell of the multiple serving cells, and the second measurement The measurement result of the application layer obtained by the measurement in the whole measurement period corresponding to the result. The first access network device may be the access network device to which the serving cell where the terminal device is located at the end of the current application layer measurement belongs, or the terminal device reports the application layer measurement result corresponding to the second measurement result. Access network equipment to which the serving cell where it is located. For example, if the terminal device is configured to report the application layer measurement result after each session ends in the current application layer measurement task, the terminal device can start the current application layer measurement at the beginning of a session, and obtain the application layer measurement result after the session ends. The overall call quality of the secondary session is reported to the first access network device accessed by the terminal device when the session ends. For another example, if the terminal device is configured to report the application layer measurement result every 5 seconds in this application layer measurement task, the terminal device can report the application layer measurement result within the 5 seconds to the terminal device after every 5 seconds. The first access network device connected at the time when the 5 seconds arrive. In addition, the first access device can obtain the identifiers of multiple serving cells that pass through the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result and the C of the terminal device in each serving cell of the multiple serving cells in the following two ways -RNTI. Manner 1: The first access network device may generate a list of serving cells according to all serving cells passed by the terminal device in the entire measurement time period corresponding to the second measurement result, and receive the application layer measurement result corresponding to the second measurement result Afterwards, the second measurement result is generated according to the application layer measurement result corresponding to the second measurement result, the serving cell list and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in each serving cell indicated by the serving cell list and reported to the tracking collection entity. The serving cell list may include identifiers of one or more serving cells among all serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement time period corresponding to the second measurement result. The manner in which the first access network device determines the serving cell list will be described in detail below, and will not be introduced here. Mode 2: The terminal device first generates a list of serving cells according to all the serving cells that have passed through the entire measurement time period corresponding to the second measurement result, and then the serving cell list and the terminal device are in each serving cell indicated by the serving cell list. The C-RNTI and the application layer measurement result corresponding to the second measurement result are sent to the first access network device. The terminal device may generate the serving cell list according to the preset measurement range corresponding to the current application layer measurement and all the serving cells that have passed through the entire measurement time period corresponding to the second measurement result, for example, the entire serving cell list corresponding to the second measurement result The serving cells that belong to the preset measurement range corresponding to the current application layer measurement among all the serving cells passed in the measurement time period are taken as the serving cell list. For the implementation manner of how the terminal device obtains the preset measurement range corresponding to the current application layer measurement, refer to Embodiment 3 for details, which will not be introduced here. or,

The identifiers of the multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the identifiers in each serving cell of the multiple serving cells allocated by the CU-CP to the terminal device, and the identifiers of the terminal device The measurement result of the application layer measured during the whole measurement period. The manner of acquiring the identities of multiple serving cells that pass through the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result is the same as the first manner in the foregoing. or,

The identification of the application layer measurement task (for example, the identification of the QoE measurement task) and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifier of the QoE measurement task may, for example, refer to the task number of the QoE measurement task, or may refer to the tracking identifier in the QoE measurement task. or,

The QoE reference parameter corresponding to the QoE measurement task performed by the terminal device and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. Refer to the introduction in step 601 for the QoE reference parameter, and details are not repeated here. or,

When the access network device initiates application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement to the terminal device at the same time, the identification of the non-application layer measurement task (for example, the identification of the MDT measurement task) and the second measurement result of the terminal device may also be included. The measurement result of the application layer obtained by the measurement in the corresponding whole measurement period. The identifier of the MDT measurement task may, for example, refer to the task number of the MDT measurement task, or may refer to the tracking identifier in the MDT measurement task.

It should be understood that in the above steps 601 and 602, when the access network device simultaneously initiates application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement to the terminal device, the entire process of the terminal device's measurement at the application layer and the entire process of the non-application layer measurement The same ID can be used in both. For example, if the application-layer measurement configuration information of the terminal device is encapsulated in a non-application-layer measurement request message and sent to the access network device, the access network device can identify the task identifier of the current application-layer measurement (or any other , as long as it is guaranteed to use the same identification) as the identification of the terminal device in this application layer measurement and the identification of the terminal device in this non-application layer measurement, and in the entire application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement. are marked with this mark. In this way, even if the application-layer measurement results and the non-application-layer measurement results are reported separately according to their own rules, the tracking and collecting entity can determine the different measurement results belonging to the same terminal device according to the same identifier carried by each, so as to facilitate the tracking and collecting entity to establish an association. . This is just an optional implementation manner. In another optional implementation manner, different identifiers may be used for application layer measurement and non-application layer measurement. In this case, the access network device may pre-establish the application locally. The corresponding relationship between the identification used for layer measurement and the identification used for non-application layer measurement, and the corresponding relationship is reported when the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result are reported, so that the tracking and collection entity can obtain information belonging to the same terminal according to the corresponding relationship. Different measurement results of the device.

In an optional implementation manner, when the second measurement result reported by the first access network device includes identifiers of multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the terminal device When the C-RNTI of the device in each serving cell of the multiple serving cells and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, considering that the first access network device can only Actively learn the movement situation of the terminal device in each serving cell managed by the first access network device, but cannot actively learn the movement situation of the terminal device in the serving cells managed by other access network devices. Therefore, if During the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the terminal equipment is moved from the serving cell managed by other access network equipment (for example, the second access network equipment) to the serving cell managed by the first access network equipment, then the second The access network device may also actively send the list of historical movement trajectories of the terminal device within the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result to the first access network device. Wherein, the list of historical movement trajectories may include the identifier of each historical serving cell that the terminal device passes through before entering the serving cell managed by the first access network device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and the identifier of each historical serving cell that the terminal device passes through in each measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. C-RNTI in historical serving cells. under these circumstances:

If the terminal device moves only from the serving cell managed by the second access network device to the serving cell managed by the first access network device within the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the historical movement track list may only include the terminal device The identifier of the serving cell that the terminal device passes through in each serving cell managed by the second access network device and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in each serving cell managed by the second access network device;

If the terminal equipment first moves from the serving cell managed by other access network equipment (for example, the third access network equipment) to the serving cell managed by the second access network equipment within the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and then moves to the serving cell managed by the second access network equipment If the serving cell managed by the second access network device moves to the serving cell managed by the first access network device, the historical movement track list may also include the movement of the terminal device in each serving cell managed by the second access network device. The identity of the serving cell and the C-RNTI of each serving cell managed by the second access network device that the terminal device passes through, and the serving cell that the terminal device passes through in each serving cell managed by the third access network device and the C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in each serving cell managed by the third access network equipment. The identifier of the serving cell that the terminal device passes through in each serving cell managed by the third access network device and the C-RNTI of each serving cell managed by the third access network device that the terminal device passes through, It may be sent by the third access network device to the second access network device actively when the terminal device moves to the serving cell managed by the second access network device.

In this way, according to the above embodiment, if the terminal device reports an application layer measurement result of the current application layer measurement (that is, the application layer measurement result included in the second measurement result) in the serving cell managed by the first access network device ) operation, then the first access network device may store the identifiers of all serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and the terminal device in each serving cell of all the serving cells. The CRNTI and the application layer measurement result obtained by the terminal equipment in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.

Further, on this basis, the access network device may also generate the above-mentioned serving cell list in the following manner:

If there is no other indication in the application layer measurement request message, it means that all serving cells passed by the terminal device in the whole measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result can meet the requirements of the application layer measurement. Therefore, the access network device can directly generating the above-mentioned serving cell list by the identifiers of all serving cells passed by the device in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result;

If the application layer measurement request message also instructs the terminal device to stop application layer measurements in certain time periods or in certain serving cells (or instructs the terminal device to only perform application layer measurements in certain time periods or in certain serving cells), Then the first access network device can also first determine those serving cells that need to stop measuring from all the serving cells that the terminal device passes through according to the instruction, and then deduct those services that need to stop measuring from all the serving cells that the terminal device passes through. After the cell, the above-mentioned serving cell list is generated according to the identities of those serving cells that need to be measured. Alternatively, the access network device may also directly generate the above serving cell list according to the identifiers of all serving cells that the terminal device passes through in the entire measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, but it needs to carry a list of serving cells when reporting the second measurement result. Cell indication information, where the cell indication information is used to indicate which serving cells in the serving cell list belong to serving cells that need to perform measurement (for example, which serving cells are in a preset measurement range).

Step 603, the tracking collection entity obtains the application layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result of the same terminal device according to the identification of each terminal device included in the first measurement result and the identification of each terminal device included in the second measurement result. .

In this embodiment of the present application, if the second measurement result further includes the above cell indication information, the tracking collection entity may first screen out those target serving cells that need to be measured from the serving cell list according to the cell indication information, and then, according to the terminal The identifier of the device in each target serving cell is obtained from the first measurement result sent by the first access network device and the non-application layer measurement results of each terminal device included in the first measurement result sent by other access network devices The non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the identification, obviously, the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the identification are actually the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment corresponding to these target serving cells. In this way, even if the application layer measurement result is a comprehensive measurement result for multiple serving cells that pass through a certain measurement time period of the current application layer measurement, the non-application layer measurement result is only for different serving cells. For a single measurement result, the tracking and collection entity can also obtain the non-application layer measurement corresponding to each serving cell in the historical movement trajectory of the terminal device according to the historical movement trajectory reported by the access network device for the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement. As a result, the reliability of the non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results associated with the same terminal device is improved.

It should be understood that, in this embodiment of the present application, if the first measurement result and the second measurement result also include time information as shown in step 503, when the tracking collection entity searches for the non-application layer measurement result, it will In addition to the identification in the target serving cell, the time when the terminal device performs non-application layer measurement will also be considered, so that only the non-application layer measurement results whose time of performing non-application layer measurement is within the time range of performing application layer measurement will be used as the result of the non-application layer measurement. The layer measurement result is the non-application layer measurement result to be associated. In this way, even if an identity is reused in different measurement processes (for example, the terminal equipment passes through the same serving cell in different measurement processes, or a certain identity of the terminal equipment is reused in different time periods, etc.), the tracking collection entity It is also possible to accurately match the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results obtained by the same terminal device performing measurement in the same time period according to the time information, and the correlation between these non-application layer measurement results and application layer measurement results is targeted.

In the embodiment of the present application, after the tracking collection entity obtains the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device, it can directly use the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the terminal device to adjust the radio resource allocation, or it can Continue to perform step 604 as follows. When directly adjusting the radio resource allocation, since the tracking and collecting entity is more fully informed of various measurement results of the same terminal device, not just the application layer measurement results, the tracking and collecting entity can synthesize the various measurement results of the terminal device together. The wireless performance of the terminal device is evaluated, thereby helping to improve the accuracy of allocating wireless resources to the terminal device based on the evaluation result. It should be understood that the tracking and collection entity performing radio resource allocation is only an optional implementation manner, and in another optional implementation manner, the tracking collection entity may also associate the obtained application layer measurement results of the same terminal device with The layer measurement result is sent to the first access network device, so that the first access network device uses the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device to adjust the radio resource allocation.

Step 604, the tracking collection entity establishes an association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the same terminal device and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result.

Optionally, the tracking collection entity may establish the application-layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application-layer measurement result according to the application-layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application-layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within a measurement time period of the current application-layer measurement. The correlation relationship between the measurement results, the correlation relationship between the application layer measurement results and the corresponding non-application layer measurement results can also be established according to the first measurement results and the corresponding second measurement results in the entire measurement period of the current application measurement. The association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result is established according to the first measurement result and the corresponding second measurement result in the partial measurement period of the current application measurement, which is not specifically limited.

In this embodiment of the present application, an application layer measurement result of a terminal device may include measurement results of multiple application layer measurement indicators, and a non-application layer measurement result of a terminal device may also include measurement results of multiple non-application layer measurement indicators After the tracking collection entity obtains the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurements of a terminal device, the tracking collection entity can also use big data analysis to extract the characteristics and characteristics of the measurement results of each non-application layer measurement index of the terminal device. The characteristics of the measurement results of each application layer measurement index, and according to the characteristics of the measurement results of each application layer measurement index and the characteristics of the measurement results of each non-application layer measurement index, the measurement results of each application layer measurement index and the non-application layer measurement results are established. The relationship between the measurement results of the layer measurement indicators. Wherein, the manner of establishing the association relationship can be set by those skilled in the art according to experience, for example, it may include but not limited to model training, artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence, AI) algorithm or neural network model and the like.

Step 605: The tracking collection entity sends the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the same terminal device and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result to the first access network device.

It should be understood that the tracking collection entity may also send the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the same terminal device and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result to other access network devices, and the other access network devices perform the operations in step 606 below.

Step 606, the first access network device uses the association relationship between the application layer measurement results of the same terminal device and the corresponding non-application layer measurement results, and the non-application layer measurement results measured by the terminal device in other measurement periods to predict the Application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment in other measurement periods. Alternatively, the first access network device may also use the above information of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement results of other terminal devices to predict the application layer measurement results of other terminal devices, and only predict the application layer measurement results obtained by other terminal devices. May not be as accurate as predicting application layer measurements from the same end device.

It should be noted that, if the tracking collection entity sends the association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result to other access network devices in the above step 605, other access network devices that receive the association relationship will also receive the association relationship. The correlation can be used to predict application layer measurement results of the terminal device or other terminal devices.

In this embodiment of the present application, although the correlation between the application-layer measurement result of the terminal device and the corresponding non-application-layer measurement result depends on the application-layer measurement and It is not an application layer measurement, but the association relationship can be used to characterize the commonality of the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device or other terminal device in any measurement period. Therefore, the first access network device predicts the application layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement periods based on the association relationship, or predicts the application layer measurement results of other terminal devices in any measurement period, which can also ensure the accuracy of the prediction results. sex. In this process, other measurement periods may refer to:

The historical period before the measurement period in which the application-layer measurement result and the non-application-layer measurement result are obtained is measured. In this case, even if there are only a few application layer measurement results stored in the first access network device (for example, there are many terminal devices that only perform non-application layer measurements but not application layer measurements in the historical period), the first access network device will not perform application layer measurements. The network access device can also predict and obtain more application-layer measurement results in the historical period according to the association relationship and the non-application-layer measurement results obtained by measurement in the historical period. This helps to enrich the information stored in the first access network device, and facilitates subsequent analysis and display of the overall application layer performance of the terminal device;

The application layer measurement in the future period after the measurement period in which the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result are obtained is measured. In this case, the terminal device can only perform non-application layer measurements in the future period without performing application layer measurements, which not only helps to save the network resources of the terminal device, but also eliminates the need for communication between the terminal device and the first access network device. The related information of the application layer measurement is frequently exchanged, thereby also helping to save the network signaling overhead between the first access network device and the terminal device. In addition, even if the terminal device does not meet the requirements of the application layer measurement in the future period (for example, moves out of the preset measurement area), as long as the terminal device will perform non-application layer measurement, the first access network device can continue to predict the terminal device. to improve the accuracy of adjusting radio resource allocation.

It should be noted that the above steps 605 and 606 are only an optional implementation manner, and in another optional implementation manner, the tracking collection entity may not send the association relationship to the first access network device, but It can directly use the association to predict the application layer measurement result corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result of any terminal device (including the terminal device or other terminal devices) subsequently received, and then send the predicted application layer measurement result. to the first access network device. This way not only enables the first access network device to perform radio resource allocation based on more application layer measurement results, but also reduces the work pressure of the first access network device. Alternatively, the tracking and collecting entity can also determine a radio resource allocation strategy according to the application layer measurement result predicted by itself and send it to the first access network device, so that the first access network device can adjust the radio resources according to the radio resource allocation strategy. allocation, so as to further reduce the working pressure of the first access network equipment.

In the second embodiment, the access network device carries the identifier of the terminal device when reporting the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result, so that the tracking collection entity can establish the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result of the same terminal device. Therefore, it is helpful to use more sufficient information in subsequent decision-making of radio resource allocation (that is, to solve the problem 1 shown in FIG. 4 ). Further, by using the correlation between the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results measured in one measurement period or multiple measurement periods to predict the application layer measurement results in other measurement periods, it can not only analyze the application of the terminal equipment. Layer performance reduces the dependence on the actual implementation of the application layer measurement, and also makes the terminal equipment no longer need to report the application layer measurement results periodically and frequently, which also helps to save the signaling overhead of the air interface (that is, to solve the problem shown in Figure 4). Questions 2 and 3).

Embodiment 3

FIG. 7 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of the information processing method provided in Embodiment 3 of the present application. The method may be executed by an access network device and a tracking collection entity, such as the access network device 1 or the access network device shown in FIG. 1 . The network access device 2, and the tracking collection entity. As shown in Figure 6, the method includes:

Step 701: The first access network device sends a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the first measurement result includes the type of at least one terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result of the at least one terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, the type of a terminal device may be a communication entity or a drone in V2X, or the like. Communication entities in V2X may include, for example, vehicles or cell phones in V2X.

Exemplarily, if the network architecture of the first access network device is as shown in FIG. 3 , the CU and DU in the first access network device may respectively report part of the non-application layer measurement results obtained by themselves to the tracking collection entity. , in this case, the CU and the DU may also simultaneously report the type of the terminal equipment corresponding to the part of the non-application layer measurement results when reporting part of the non-application layer measurement results.

It should be noted that, in the above step 701, the first access network device may also send a first measurement result to other entities (such as OAM), where the first measurement result includes the type of at least one terminal device and the above-mentioned at least one terminal device. of non-application layer measurements. In this case, other entities may also learn the performance of a certain type of terminal equipment in the first access network equipment. When other entities acquire the type of at least one terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result of the at least one terminal device from multiple access network devices, they can know that a certain type of terminal device is in the multiple access network devices at other times. overall performance. In this way, when other entities present the network performance of different terminal devices to the outside (such as operator customers), they can present the network performance according to the terminal type, so as to facilitate the outside to know the network performance corresponding to different types of terminals and help the outside to make targeted network performance optimization operations.

Step 702: The first access network device sends a second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the second measurement result includes the type of at least one terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the at least one terminal device.

In an optional implementation manner, for the above step 701 or step 702, before the first access network device (or terminal device) performs non-application layer measurement or performs application layer measurement, if the non-application layer measurement request message Or the application layer measurement request message also indicates that only non-application layer measurement or application layer measurement is performed on a certain type or certain types of terminal equipment, then the first access network device can also first determine whether the type of the terminal equipment belongs to Indicates the type of the terminal device to be measured, if yes, initiates non-application layer measurement or application layer measurement to the terminal device, if not, does not initiate non-application layer measurement or application layer measurement to the terminal device.

Step 703: The tracking and collection entity obtains the application layer measurement results and corresponding non-application layer measurement results of the same type of terminal devices according to the types of the terminal devices included in the first measurement result and the types of the terminal devices included in the second measurement results. measurement results.

It should be noted that, the tracking collection entity can first obtain the application layer measurement results and corresponding measurements of the same terminal device in the current application layer measurement or in a certain or certain measurement period of the current application layer measurement by using the method in the second embodiment. The non-application-layer measurement results of the same type of terminal equipment in this application-layer measurement or in a certain or certain measurement period of this application-layer measurement are obtained later. The corresponding non-application-layer measurement results. Of course, the tracking collection entity may not need to obtain the application layer measurement results and the corresponding non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device in this application layer measurement or in a certain or certain measurement period of this application layer measurement, but instead Only the application-layer measurement results and non-application-layer measurement results of terminal devices belonging to the same type can be known.

In this embodiment of the present application, the tracking collection entity may directly classify the application-layer measurement results and non-application-layer measurement results of the same type of terminal equipment into one category according to the types of the terminal equipment included in the first measurement result and the second measurement result. , which helps the operator or equipment manufacturer to better understand the network performance corresponding to different types of terminal equipment, and facilitates the operator or equipment manufacturer to subsequently allocate wireless resources based on the network performance of various types of terminal equipment.

Step 704: The tracking collection entity establishes an association relationship between the application layer measurement results of the same type of terminal equipment and the corresponding non-application layer measurement results.

In this embodiment of the present application, for the process of establishing the association relationship, reference may be made to the foregoing step 604 . The only difference is that step 704 may be to establish an association relationship between the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of multiple terminal devices of the same type, while step 604 is to measure the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device. The result is an association relationship. In this embodiment of the present application, after the application layer measurement results and the non-application layer measurement results are associated with the same type of terminal equipment, the tracking collection entity can know that the application layer measurement results and the non-application layer measurement results correspond to the same type of terminal equipment. Specifically, the above-mentioned application-layer measurement results and non-application-layer measurement results may be associated with the type of the terminal device.

It should be noted that, the tracking and collecting entity can first establish the association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result of the same terminal device by using the method in the second embodiment, and then according to the association of multiple terminal devices belonging to the same type. The relationship obtains the correlation relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the same type of terminal equipment. Of course, the tracking collection entity can also directly collect the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of multiple terminal devices belonging to the same type according to the application layer measurement results and non-application layer measurement results of the same terminal device without first establishing the association relationship. The layer measurement result obtains the correlation relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the same type of terminal equipment.

Step 705: The tracking and collection entity sends the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the same type of terminal device and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result, and the corresponding type to the first access network device.

It should be understood that the tracking collection entity can also send the association relationship between the application layer measurement results of the same type of terminal equipment and the corresponding non-application layer measurement results to other access network devices, and the other access network devices perform the following steps in step 706. operate.

Step 706, the first access network device uses the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of the type to predict the application layer measurement result of the terminal device of the type.

In this embodiment of the present application, the association relationship corresponding to each type of terminal device may be different. When the first access network device uses the association relationship to predict the application layer measurement result of the terminal device belonging to the type, the terminal device belonging to the type may refer to:

Terminal devices of this type that do not support application layer measurements. In this way, even if there are only a few terminal devices in the current network that support the application layer measurement, the first access network device can predict the application layer of the terminal device that does not support the application layer measurement under the type according to the association relationship corresponding to each type. measurements, thereby helping to improve the accuracy of current network performance analysis with adequate application-layer measurements; and/or,

A terminal device of this type that supports application layer measurements. In this way, even if the terminal equipment belonging to this type performs the application layer measurement infrequently, it can indirectly predict the application layer measurement results of other secondary application layer measurements through the association relationship, so as to save the time between the first access network equipment and the terminal equipment. network signaling overhead.

It should be noted that, if the tracking collection entity sends the association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the corresponding non-application layer measurement result to other access network devices in the above step 705, other access network devices that receive the association relationship The association can also be used to predict application-layer measurement results for that type of terminal device.

It should be noted that the above steps 705 and 706 are only an optional implementation manner, and in another optional implementation manner, the tracking collection entity may not send the association relationship and the corresponding type to the first access network. equipment or other access network equipment, but can directly use the association to predict the application layer measurement results of other terminal equipment of this type, and then send the predicted application layer measurement results to the first access network equipment or other access network equipment. network device, or can also determine a wireless resource allocation strategy according to the application layer measurement result predicted by itself and send it to the first access network device or other access network device, allowing the first access network device or other access network devices to access The network device adjusts the radio resource allocation according to the radio resource allocation policy. In this embodiment, the tracking and collection entity shares the prediction work of the first access network device or other access network devices, so that the work pressure of the first access network device or other access network devices can be relieved.

In the third embodiment, by classifying the correlation between the application layer measurement results corresponding to each type of terminal equipment and the non-application layer measurement results, the operator or equipment manufacturer can better understand the corresponding The network performance helps to adjust the radio resource allocation from a more fine-grained level (that is, to solve the problem 1 illustrated in FIG. 4 ). Further, by using the association relationship of a certain type of terminal equipment to predict the application layer measurement results of other terminal equipment of this type or other application layer measurement results of this type of terminal equipment, it can not only increase the richness of application layer measurement results. , and also helps to save the signaling overhead of the air interface (that is, to solve the second and third problems shown in FIG. 4 ).

It should be noted that, in the foregoing Embodiment 1 to Embodiment 3, the tracking collection entity may also be an access network device or other entity device capable of performing big data analysis. When the tracking collection entity is an access network device, the access network device does not perceive the non-application layer measurement results in the original evolution process (that is, the original access network device does not parse the non-application layer measurement results, for example, only performs forwarding operation without using the non-application layer measurement results to perform other operations), and after the access network device is improved according to the solutions in the first to third embodiments, the access network device will perceive the non-application layer measurement results, and will Predict more application-layer measurement results based on the self-perceived non-application-layer measurement results to improve the ability to allocate radio resources.

Embodiment 4

FIG. 8 exemplarily shows a schematic flowchart of the information processing method provided in Embodiment 4 of the present application. The method may be executed by the core network or OAM, terminal equipment, access network equipment, and tracking collection entities, for example, as shown in FIG. 1 . The core network or OAM, terminal equipment, access network equipment 1 or access network equipment 2, and tracking collection entity. As shown in Figure 8, the method includes:

Step 801, the access network device receives an application layer measurement request message from the core network or an operation management and maintenance entity, where the application layer measurement request message carries application layer measurement configuration information and a preset measurement range.

Exemplarily, the application layer measurement configuration information may be carried in the application layer measurement request message in the form of a container or in the form of a non-transparent container, or a part of the application layer measurement configuration information may be carried in the form of a transparent container. , while the other part is carried in the application layer measurement request message in a non-container form, and the preset measurement range can be carried in the application layer measurement request message in a non-container form. Moreover, in addition to the application layer measurement configuration information and the preset measurement range, the application layer measurement request message may also include other information, such as the service type corresponding to the current application layer measurement. In the case that the application layer measurement request message includes the application layer measurement configuration information, the preset measurement range and the service type corresponding to the current application layer measurement, the application layer measurement request message indicates that the current application layer measurement is correct. Which service type of the terminal equipment in which measurement range is used for application layer measurement, and this application layer measurement can also be application layer measurement for multiple service types within multiple measurement ranges, multiple measurement ranges and multiple services. Types can be in one-to-one correspondence, one-to-many correspondence, or many-to-one correspondence, which is not specifically limited.

Step 802, the access network device determines the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement according to the application layer measurement request message.

In this embodiment of the present application, the access network device may determine the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement with reference to the content described in step 402. For example, when the current application layer measurement is a signaling-based application layer measurement, the access network device When it is determined that the terminal device corresponding to the signaling supports the application layer measurement, the terminal device can be used as the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement. Of course, the access network device can also directly use the terminal device as the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement. terminal equipment. When the current application-layer measurement is management-based application-layer measurement, the access network device may select from all terminal devices accessing each serving cell managed by the access network device to support the application-layer measurement and be located in a preset measurement The terminal equipment within the range is used as the terminal equipment to perform the application layer measurement, and the description will not be repeated here.

Step 803, the access network device carries the application layer measurement configuration information and the preset measurement range in an RRC message and sends it to the access stratum (AS) in the terminal device to perform the application layer measurement.

Exemplarily, the measurement configuration information of the application layer may also be in the form of a container, or may be in the form of a non-transparent container, or a part of the measurement configuration information of the application layer may be in the form of a transparent container, and the other part of the measurement configuration information may be in the form of a non-container. The bearer is carried in the RRC message, and the preset measurement range may be carried in the RRC message in the form of a non-container. Moreover, in addition to the application layer measurement configuration information and the preset measurement range, the RRC message may also include other information, such as the service type corresponding to the current application layer measurement.

Step 804, the AS in the terminal device parses the RRC message to obtain application layer measurement configuration information and a preset measurement range, and sends the application layer measurement configuration information to the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device.

Step 805, the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device performs the application layer measurement according to the application layer measurement configuration information.

Step 806, in the process of application layer measurement, when the terminal equipment needs to be triggered to switch from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, or the data bearer of the terminal equipment needs to be triggered to switch from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, connect the The network access device sends the cell switching instruction information to the AS of the terminal device.

In the above step 806, the indication information of the handover cell may be carried in the RRC message, and the indication information of the handover cell may be used to indicate the second serving cell. Moreover, the access network device may specifically send the indication information of switching cells to the RRC layer of the terminal device. Exemplarily, the indication information in the RRC message may be a reconfiguration (reconfigurationWithSync, RWS) function for performing synchronization, or may be a function of the network side notifying the terminal device to perform a bearer type change.

Step 807, the AS of the terminal device determines whether the second serving cell indicated by the cell handover indication information is located within the preset measurement range, if so, executes step 805, and if not, executes step 808.

In the embodiment of the present application, if the second serving target cell is located within the preset measurement range, even if the terminal device or the data bearer of the terminal device is switched to the second serving cell, the terminal device needs to continue to execute the application in the second serving cell Layer measurement. In this case, the AS of the terminal device may not respond, so that the upper layer of the AS of the terminal device continues to perform the application layer measurement.

Step 808, the AS of the terminal device sends the indication information of suspending the measurement to the upper layer of the AS of the terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, the indication information for suspending the measurement may be used to instruct the upper layer of the AS to suspend the application layer measurement, and may also be used to indicate that the application layer measurement (for example, session or video) of the application layer measurement result that has started to be recorded can continue to be applied The layer measures and continues to record the application layer measurement results, but those sessions or videos that have not been started before or that are subsequently started in the second serving cell are no longer subjected to application layer measurement and recording. If the latter method is adopted, the measurement that has been started can be maintained even when the terminal equipment moves out of the measurement range, so the application layer measurement results that the terminal equipment has started will not be discarded, which helps the access network equipment to collect sufficient According to the measurement results of the application layer, this method can solve the problem 5 shown in FIG. 4 .

In an optional implementation manner, when the AS of the terminal device sends the indication information for suspending the measurement to the upper layer of the AS, it can also send the service type corresponding to the indication information for suspending the measurement at the same time. In this case, the indication information for suspending the measurement is used to instruct to suspend the application layer measurement of the service type, and does not suspend the application layer measurement of other service types.

Step 809, the upper layer of the AS of the terminal equipment suspends the application layer measurement in the second serving cell according to the indication information of suspending the measurement.

In this embodiment of the present application, after the terminal device moves out of the second serving cell, the foregoing steps 806 to 809 may be repeatedly performed between the access network device and the terminal device.

Optionally, the solution in the above steps 807 to 809 is only an optional implementation manner. In another optional implementation manner, in step 804, the AS in the terminal device may also parse the RRC message to obtain the application layer measurement configuration information and the preset measurement range, and convert the application layer measurement configuration information and the preset measurement range. The measurement range is sent to the upper layers of the AS in the terminal equipment. After step 806, the AS layer of the terminal device may also send relevant information of the second serving cell to the upper layer of the AS layer, and the upper layer of the AS layer determines whether the second serving cell belongs to the preset measurement range. If so, the upper layer of the AS layer can continue to perform the application layer measurement, if not, the upper layer of the AS can suspend the application layer measurement, and can also continue to those application layer measurements (such as session or video) for which the application layer measurement results have been recorded. The application layer measures and continues to record the application layer measurement results, but those sessions or videos that have not been started before or that are subsequently started in the second serving cell are no longer subjected to application layer measurement and recording. Optionally, when sending the relevant information of the second serving cell to the upper layer of the AS, the AS of the terminal device may also send the service type corresponding to the data bearer switched to the second serving cell at the same time.

Step 810, when the upper layer of the AS in the terminal device determines that it is necessary to report the measurement result of the application layer, it reports the measurement result of the application layer to the AS in the terminal device.

For example, if the application layer measurement is performed in the form of each session, it can be determined that the application layer measurement result needs to be reported after each session ends. If the application layer measurement is performed in a periodic manner, it is determined that the application layer measurement result needs to be reported after each period of time elapses.

Step 811, the AS in the terminal device carries the application layer measurement result in an RRC message and sends it to the access network device.

Step 812, the access network device sends the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the tracking collection entity.

Exemplarily, after step 812, the tracking collection entity may also associate the application-layer measurement results and the non-application-layer measurement results of the terminal device according to the solutions in Embodiments 1 to 3.

It should be noted that the present application does not limit the execution order of the above steps 805 to 812 .

In the fourth embodiment, the measurement range corresponding to the current application layer measurement is synchronously delivered to the terminal device through the access network device, so that the terminal device can automatically perform the switching according to the serving cell and the measurement after cell handover or data bearer handover occurs. The relationship between the ranges determines whether to continue or suspend the application-layer measurement, and it no longer requires frequent signaling interaction between the access network device and the terminal device to decide whether to continue or suspend the application-layer measurement. This method can effectively save the signaling overhead between the access network device and the terminal device (ie, solve the fourth problem shown in FIG. 4 ). Further, when the fourth embodiment is combined with the solutions in the first to third embodiments, the present application can solve each of the problems from the first problems to the fifth problems shown in FIG. 4 .

It should be understood that various embodiments in this application can also be combined with each other to obtain new embodiments.

It should be noted that the names of the above information are only examples. With the evolution of communication technology, any of the above information may change its name, but no matter how the name changes, as long as its meaning is the same as the meaning of the above information in this application , all fall within the protection scope of this application.

The foregoing mainly introduces the solution provided by the present application from the perspective of interaction between various network elements. It can be understood that, in order to realize the above-mentioned functions, each network element in the above-mentioned implementation includes corresponding hardware structures and/or software modules for executing each function. Those skilled in the art should easily realize that the present invention can be implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and computer software in conjunction with the units and algorithm steps of each example described in the embodiments disclosed herein. Whether a function is performed by hardware or computer software driving hardware depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality using different methods for each particular application, but such implementations should not be considered beyond the scope of the present invention.

According to the foregoing method, FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of an information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 9 , the information processing apparatus may be a tracking collection entity, access network equipment or terminal equipment, or may be a chip or circuit , for example, a chip or circuit that can be set in the tracking and collecting entity, another example, a chip or circuit that can be set in an access network device, and another example, a chip or circuit that can be set in a terminal device.

Further, the information processing apparatus 901 may further include a bus system, wherein the processor 902, the memory 904, and the transceiver 903 may be connected through the bus system.

It should be understood that the above-mentioned processor 902 may be a chip. For example, the processor 902 may be a field programmable gate array (FPGA), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), or a system on chip (SoC). It can be a central processing unit (CPU), a network processor (NP), a digital signal processing circuit (DSP), or a microcontroller (microcontroller). unit, MCU), it can also be a programmable logic device (PLD) or other integrated chips.

In the implementation process, each step of the above-mentioned method may be completed by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in the processor 902 or an instruction in the form of software. The steps of the methods disclosed in conjunction with the embodiments of the present application may be directly embodied as executed by a hardware processor, or executed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor 902 . The software modules may be located in random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers and other storage media mature in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory 904, and the processor 902 reads the information in the memory 904, and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware.

It should be noted that the processor 902 in this embodiment of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip, which has a signal processing capability. In the implementation process, each step of the above method embodiments may be completed by a hardware integrated logic circuit in a processor or an instruction in the form of software. The aforementioned processors may be general purpose processors, digital signal processors (DSPs), application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components . The methods, steps, and logic block diagrams disclosed in the embodiments of this application can be implemented or executed. 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 conjunction with the embodiments of the present application may be directly embodied as executed by a hardware decoding processor, or executed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software modules may be located in random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers and other storage media mature in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory, and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware.

It can be understood that the memory 904 in this embodiment of the present application may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically programmable Erase programmable read-only memory (electrically EPROM, EEPROM) or flash memory. Volatile memory may be random access memory (RAM), which acts as an external cache. By way of example and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (double data rate SDRAM, DDR SDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (synchlink DRAM, SLDRAM) ) and direct memory bus random access memory (direct rambus RAM, DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to include, but not be limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

When the information processing apparatus 901 corresponds to the tracking collection entity in the above method, the information processing apparatus may include a processor 902 , a transceiver 903 and a memory 904 . The memory 904 is used for storing instructions, and the processor 902 is used for executing the instructions stored in the memory 904, so as to realize the correlation of tracking and collecting entities in the method corresponding to any one or any of the items shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. Program.

When the information processing apparatus 901 is the aforementioned tracking collection entity, the information processing apparatus 901 may be configured to execute the method executed by the tracking collection entity in any one of the foregoing Embodiments 1 to 4.

The information processing apparatus 901 is the above-mentioned tracking collection entity, and when the first embodiment is implemented, the transceiver 903 can receive the first measurement result sent by the access network device, and the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the transceiver 903 The second measurement result sent by the access network device may also be received, where the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the processor 902 may associate the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result to the terminal device.

When the information processing apparatus 901 corresponds to the access network device in the above method, the information processing apparatus may include a processor 902 , a transceiver 903 and a memory 904 . The memory 904 is used for storing instructions, and the processor 902 is used for executing the instructions stored in the memory 904, so as to implement the access network device in any one or any of the corresponding methods shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. related programs.

When the information processing apparatus 901 is the foregoing access network device, the information processing apparatus 901 may be configured to execute the method executed by the access network device in any one of the foregoing Embodiments 1 to 4.

The information processing apparatus 901 is the above-mentioned network device, and when the first embodiment is implemented, the transceiver 903 may send the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, and the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device. The tracking collection entity sends the second measurement result, and the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, so that the tracking collection entity associates the non-application layer measurement result with the application layer measurement result to obtain an association relationship. In addition, the transceiver 903 can also receive the association relationship from the tracking collection entity, and the processor 902 can perform subsequent radio resource allocation according to the association relationship.

When the information processing apparatus 901 corresponds to the terminal device in the above method, the information processing apparatus may include a processor 902 , a transceiver 903 and a memory 904 . The memory 904 is used to store instructions, and the processor 902 is used to execute the instructions stored in the memory 904, so as to implement the relevant solutions of the terminal device in the corresponding methods of any one or any of the items shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. .

When the information processing apparatus 901 is the above-mentioned terminal device, the information processing apparatus 901 may be configured to execute the method executed by the terminal device in any one of the first embodiment to the fourth embodiment.

The information processing apparatus 901 is the above-mentioned terminal device, and when the fourth embodiment is executed, the processor 902 can perform application layer measurement to obtain the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the transceiver 903 can send the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the access network. equipment, so that the access network equipment can jointly track and collect the entity to execute the first embodiment to the third embodiment.

For the concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the information processing apparatus, please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments for explanations, detailed descriptions, and other steps, which will not be repeated here.

Based on the above embodiments and the same concept, FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of an information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 10 , the information processing apparatus 1001 may be a tracking and collecting entity, or a chip or a circuit. For tracking chips or circuits in a collection entity.

The information processing apparatus may correspond to the tracking collection entity in the above method. The information processing apparatus may implement the steps performed by the tracking collection entity in any one or more of the corresponding methods shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. The information processing apparatus may include an associating unit 1002 and a transceiving unit 1003 .

When the information processing apparatus 1001 is the above-mentioned tracking collection entity, the transceiver unit 1003 can receive the first measurement result sent by the access network device, the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the transceiver unit 1003 can also receive the access network device. The second measurement result sent by the device includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the associating unit 1002 may associate the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result to the terminal device.

The transceiver unit 1003 can be a sending unit or a transmitter when sending information, the transceiver unit 1003 can be a receiving unit or a receiver when receiving information, the transceiver unit 1003 can be a transceiver, and the transceiver, transmitter or receiver can be a radio frequency Circuit, when the information processing device 1001 includes a storage unit, the storage unit is used to store computer instructions, the associative unit 1002 is communicatively connected to the storage unit, and the associative unit 1002 executes the computer instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the information processing device 1101 can be used to execute The method performed by the tracking collection entity in any of the foregoing Embodiments 1 to 4. Wherein, the association unit 1002 may be a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, and an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC).

When the information processing apparatus 1001 is a chip, the transceiver unit 1003 may be an input and/or output interface, a pin, a circuit, or the like. The association unit 1002 can execute the computer-executable instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the chip in the information processing apparatus 1001 executes the method performed in any one of the first to fourth embodiments. Optionally, the storage unit is a storage unit in a chip, such as a register, a cache, etc., and the storage unit can also be a storage unit located outside the chip in the information processing device 1001, such as a read-only memory (Read Only Memory, ROM) or Other types of static storage devices that can store static information and instructions, such as Random Access Memory (RAM).

For the concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the information processing apparatus 1001, please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments for explanations, detailed descriptions, and other steps, which will not be repeated here.

Based on the above embodiments and the same concept, FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of an information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 11 , the information processing apparatus 1101 may be an access network device, or may be a chip or a circuit. A chip or circuit installed in an access network device.

The information processing apparatus may correspond to the access network device in the above method. The information processing apparatus can implement the steps performed by the access network device in any one or more of the corresponding methods shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. The information processing apparatus may include a processing unit 1102 and a transceiving unit 1103 .

When the information processing apparatus 1101 is the above-mentioned access network device, the processing unit 1102 and the transceiver unit 1103 cooperate to realize the following functions: send the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and , send the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, so that the tracking collection entity establishes the association relationship between the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device .

The transceiver unit 1103 can be a sending unit or a transmitter when sending information, the transceiver unit 1103 can be a receiving unit or a receiver when receiving information, the transceiver unit 1103 can be a transceiver, and the transceiver, transmitter or receiver can be a radio frequency Circuit, when the information processing device 1101 includes a storage unit, the storage unit is used to store computer instructions, the associative unit 1102 is communicatively connected to the storage unit, and the processing unit 1102 executes the computer instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the information processing device 1201 can be used to execute The method performed by the tracking collection entity in any of the foregoing Embodiments 1 to 4. The processing unit 1102 may be a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

When the information processing device 1101 is a chip, the transceiver unit 1103 may be an input and/or output interface, a pin, a circuit, or the like. The processing unit 1102 can execute the computer-executable instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the chip in the information processing device 1101 executes the method performed in any one of the first to fourth embodiments. Optionally, the storage unit is a storage unit in a chip, such as a register, a cache, etc., and the storage unit can also be a storage unit located outside the chip in the information processing device 1101, such as a read-only memory (Read Only Memory, ROM) or Other types of static storage devices that can store static information and instructions, such as Random Access Memory (RAM).

For the concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the information processing apparatus 1101, please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments for explanations, detailed descriptions, and other steps, which will not be repeated here.

Based on the above embodiments and the same concept, FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of an information processing apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 12 , the information processing apparatus 1201 may be a terminal device, or a chip or a circuit. Chips or circuits in end equipment.

The information processing apparatus may correspond to the terminal device in the above method. The information processing apparatus may implement the steps performed by the terminal device in any one or more of the corresponding methods shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 8 above. The information processing apparatus may include a measuring unit 1202 and a transceiving unit 1203 .

When the information processing apparatus 1201 is the above-mentioned terminal device, the measurement unit 1202 can perform application layer measurement to obtain the application layer measurement result of the terminal device, and the transceiver unit 1203 can send the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the access network device, so that the access network can The device joint tracking and collection entity associates the application layer measurement results of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal device.

The transceiver unit 1203 can be a sending unit or a transmitter when sending information, the transceiver unit 1203 can be a receiving unit or a receiver when receiving information, the transceiver unit 1203 can be a transceiver, and the transceiver, transmitter or receiver can be a radio frequency Circuit, when the information processing device 1201 includes a storage unit, the storage unit is used to store computer instructions, the measurement unit 1202 is connected in communication with the storage unit, and the measurement unit 1202 executes the computer instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the information processing device 1301 can be used to execute The method performed by the tracking collection entity in any of the foregoing Embodiments 1 to 4. The measurement unit 1202 may be a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

When the information processing apparatus 1201 is a chip, the transceiver unit 1203 may be an input and/or output interface, a pin, a circuit, or the like. The measurement unit 1202 can execute the computer-executable instructions stored in the storage unit, so that the chip in the information processing device 1201 executes the method performed in any one of the first to fourth embodiments. Optionally, the storage unit is a storage unit in a chip, such as a register, a cache, etc., and the storage unit can also be a storage unit located outside the chip in the information processing device 1201, such as a read-only memory (Read Only Memory, ROM) or Other types of static storage devices that can store static information and instructions, such as Random Access Memory (RAM).

For concepts related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application involved in the information processing apparatus 1201 , please refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments for explanations and detailed descriptions and other steps, which will not be repeated here.

It should be understood that the division of the units of the above

information processing apparatuses

1001 , 1101 and 1201 is only a division of logical functions, and may be fully or partially integrated into one physical entity in actual implementation, or may be physically separated. In this embodiment of the present application, the transceiver unit 1003, the transceiver unit 1103, and the transceiver unit 1203 may be implemented by the transceiver 903 shown in FIG.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application also provides a computer program product, the computer program product includes: computer program code, when the computer program code is run on a computer, the computer is made to execute the steps shown in FIGS. 1 to 8 . The method of any one of the illustrated embodiments.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where the computer-readable medium stores program codes, when the program codes are executed on a computer, the computer is made to execute FIGS. 1 to 8 . The method of any one of the illustrated embodiments.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a communication system, which includes the aforementioned tracking and collection entity, one or more access network devices, and one or more terminal devices.

In the above-mentioned embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, it can be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present application are generated. The computer may be a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be downloaded from a website site, computer, server, or data center Transmission to another website site, computer, server, or data center by wire (eg, coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line, DSL) or wireless (eg, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that includes an integration of one or more available media. The available media may be magnetic media (eg, floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tapes), optical media (eg, high-density digital video discs (DVDs)), or semiconductor media (eg, solid state drives, SSD)) etc.

Claims

An information processing method, comprising:

receiving a first measurement result from an access network device, where the first measurement result includes a non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device;

receiving a second measurement result from the access network device, where the second measurement result includes an application layer measurement result of the terminal device;

The non-application layer measurement results and the application layer measurement results are associated to the terminal device.
The method of claim 1, wherein the non-application layer measurement results include layer 2L2 measurement results and/or minimized drive test MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results include quality of experience (QOE) measurement results.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first measurement result and the second measurement result further include the identification of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.
The method of claim 3, wherein the identifier of the terminal device includes one or more of the following:

The identifier of the serving cell where the terminal device is located, the cell radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the task identifier of the measurement task performed by the terminal device, and the quality of experience reference parameter.
The method according to claim 4, wherein when the identifier of the terminal device includes an identifier of a serving cell where the terminal device is located and a C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell:

The first measurement result includes the identity of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application of the terminal device in the current serving cell Layer measurement results;

The second measurement result includes the identifiers of multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and the C-RNTIs of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells. and the application-layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.
The method according to claim 5, wherein the second measurement result further includes indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the plurality of serving cells ;

The associating the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result to the terminal device includes:

According to the indication information, search for the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell;

Associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell and the application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result to the terminal device.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the first measurement result further includes first time information, and the first time information is used to instruct the execution of the first measurement result. The time of the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result; the second measurement result further includes second time information, and the second time information is used to indicate the execution of the The time of the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result;

Before associating the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result to the terminal device, the method further includes:

It is determined that the time indicated by the first time information is within the time range indicated by the second time information.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the associating the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result to the terminal device comprises:

When the first measurement result and the second measurement result include the identifier of the terminal device, establish an association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result, according to the association relationship and The non-application layer measurement results obtained by the terminal equipment measured in other measurement periods are obtained, and the application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment in other measurement periods are obtained; or,

When the first measurement result and the second measurement result include the type of the terminal device, establish an association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the type to which the terminal device belongs. The association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained, and the application layer measurement results corresponding to the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained.
An information processing method, comprising:

sending a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the first measurement result includes a non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device;

sending a second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device;

The first measurement result and the second measurement result are used to associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device.
The method of claim 9, wherein the non-application layer measurement results include layer 2L2 measurement results and/or minimized drive test MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results include quality of experience (QOE) measurement results.
The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the first measurement result and the second measurement result further include the identification of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.
The method of claim 11, wherein the identifier of the terminal device includes one or more of the following:

The identifier of the serving cell where the terminal device is located, the cell radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the task identifier of the measurement task performed by the terminal device, and the quality of experience reference parameter.
The method according to claim 12, wherein when the identifier of the terminal device is the identifier of the serving cell where the terminal device is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell:

The first measurement result includes the identity of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer of the terminal device in the current serving cell measurement results;

The second measurement result includes the identifiers of the multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the C-RNTI and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells. The application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.
The method according to claim 13, wherein the second measurement result further includes indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the plurality of serving cells .
The method according to claim 13, wherein before the sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the method further comprises:

Selecting a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range from the multiple serving cells;

According to the identifier of the target serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell, and the application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the generated Describe the second measurement result.
The method according to any one of claims 13 to 15, wherein if the terminal device switches from the serving cell managed by the second access network device to the current one within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result the serving cell, before the sending the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, further includes:

Receive historical movement track information sent by the second access network device, where the historical movement track information includes the second access network device that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result The identity of the managed historical serving cell, and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the historical serving cell;

According to the historical movement track information, the identity of the current serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the measurement is obtained. The application layer measurement result is generated, and the second measurement result is generated.
The method according to any one of claims 9 to 16, wherein the first measurement result further includes first time information, and the first time information is used to instruct the execution of the first measurement result. The time of the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result; the second measurement result further includes second time information, and the second time information is used to indicate the execution of the application layer in the second measurement result. the time of the application layer measurement corresponding to the measurement result; the first time information and the second time information are used by the tracking collection entity to compare the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device with the application layer measurement result of the terminal device The measurement results are associated with the terminal equipment.
The method according to any one of claims 9 to 17, wherein the method further comprises:

Receive the association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result sent by the tracking collection entity, and obtain the non-application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device in other measurement periods according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement result. , obtain application layer measurement results of the terminal device in other measurement periods; or,

Receive the association relationship between the application layer measurement result corresponding to the type of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result sent by the tracking collection entity, and according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device with the type , and obtain the application layer measurement result corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device of the type.
An information processing device, comprising:

a transceiver unit, configured to receive a first measurement result from an access network device, where the first measurement result includes a non-application layer measurement result of a terminal device; and, receive a second measurement result from the access network device, The second measurement result includes the application layer measurement result of the terminal device;

an associating unit, configured to associate the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result with the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the non-application layer measurement results include layer 2L2 measurement results and/or minimized drive test MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results include quality of experience (QOE) measurement results.
The apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the first measurement result and the second measurement result further include the identifier of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the identifier of the terminal device includes one or more of the following:

The identifier of the serving cell where the terminal device is located, the cell radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the task identifier of the measurement task performed by the terminal device, and the quality of experience reference parameter.
The apparatus according to claim 22, wherein when the identity of the terminal equipment includes an identity of a serving cell where the terminal equipment is located and a C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in the serving cell:

The first measurement result includes the identity of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application of the terminal device in the current serving cell Layer measurement results;

The second measurement result includes the identifiers of multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, and the C-RNTIs of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells. and the application-layer measurement result obtained by the terminal device in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.
The apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the second measurement result further includes indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the plurality of serving cells ;

The association unit is specifically used for:

According to the indication information, search for the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell;

Associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell and the application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result to the terminal device.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 19 to 24, wherein the first measurement result further includes first time information, and the first time information is used to instruct the execution of the first measurement result. The time of the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result; the second measurement result further includes second time information, and the second time information is used to indicate the execution of the The time of the application layer measurement corresponding to the application layer measurement result;

Before the association unit associates the non-application layer measurement result and the application layer measurement result with the terminal device, the association unit is further configured to:

It is determined that the time indicated by the first time information is within the time range indicated by the second time information.
The device according to any one of claims 19 to 25, wherein the association unit is specifically used for:

When the first measurement result and the second measurement result include the identifier of the terminal device, establish an association relationship between the application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the non-application layer measurement result, according to the association relationship and The non-application layer measurement results obtained by the terminal equipment measured in other measurement periods are obtained, and the application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment in other measurement periods are obtained; or,

When the first measurement result and the second measurement result include the type of the terminal device, establish an association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the type to which the terminal device belongs. The association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained, and the application layer measurement results corresponding to the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained.
An information processing device, characterized in that it includes a transceiver unit and a processing unit:

The transceiver unit and the processing unit cooperate to send a first measurement result to the tracking collection entity, where the first measurement result includes the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device; and, send the first measurement result to the tracking collection entity. 2. Measurement results, where the second measurement results include application-layer measurement results of the terminal device;

The first measurement result and the second measurement result are used to associate the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device and the application layer measurement result of the terminal device to the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the non-application layer measurement results include layer 2L2 measurement results and/or minimized drive test MDT measurement results, and the application layer measurement results include quality of experience (QOE) measurement results.
The apparatus according to claim 27 or 28, wherein the first measurement result and the second measurement result further include the identifier of the terminal device and/or the type of the terminal device.
The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the identifier of the terminal device includes one or more of the following:

The identifier of the serving cell where the terminal device is located, the cell radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI of the terminal device in the serving cell, the task identifier of the measurement task performed by the terminal device, and the quality of experience reference parameter.
The apparatus according to claim 30, wherein when the identifier of the terminal equipment is the identifier of the serving cell where the terminal equipment is located and the C-RNTI of the terminal equipment in the serving cell:

The first measurement result includes the identity of the current serving cell where the terminal device is located, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the non-application layer of the terminal device in the current serving cell measurement results;

The second measurement result includes the identifiers of the multiple serving cells that the terminal device passes through within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the C-RNTI and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the multiple serving cells. The application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result.
The apparatus according to claim 31, wherein the second measurement result further includes indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range among the plurality of serving cells .
The apparatus of claim 32, wherein before the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity, the processing unit is configured to:

Selecting a target serving cell located within a preset measurement range from the plurality of serving cells;

According to the identifier of the target serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device corresponding to the target serving cell, and the application layer measurement result measured by the terminal device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result, the generated Describe the second measurement result.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 27 to 33, wherein if the terminal device switches from a serving cell managed by the second access network device to the current device within the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result serving cell, before the transceiver unit sends the second measurement result to the tracking collection entity,

The transceiver unit is further configured to: receive historical movement track information sent by the second access network device, where the historical movement track information includes the terminal device's elapsed time in the measurement period corresponding to the second measurement result. The identifier of the historical serving cell managed by the second access network device, and the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the historical serving cell;

The processing unit is further configured to: according to the historical movement track information, the identity of the current serving cell, the C-RNTI of the terminal device in the current serving cell, and the second measurement of the terminal device in the second measurement The second measurement result is generated based on the measurement result of the application layer obtained by measurement in the measurement period corresponding to the result.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 27 to 34, wherein the first measurement result further includes first time information, and the first time information is used to instruct the execution of the first measurement result. The time of the non-application layer measurement corresponding to the non-application layer measurement result; the second measurement result further includes second time information, and the second time information is used to indicate the execution of the application layer in the second measurement result. the time of the application layer measurement corresponding to the measurement result; the first time information and the second time information are used by the tracking collection entity to compare the non-application layer measurement result of the terminal device with the application layer measurement result of the terminal device The measurement results are associated with the terminal equipment.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 27 to 35, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to: receive an application-layer measurement result and a non-application-layer measurement result of the terminal device sent by the tracking collection entity the association relationship; the processing unit is further configured to: obtain the application layer measurement of the terminal device in other measurement time periods according to the association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results obtained by the terminal device in other measurement time periods result; or,

The transceiver unit is further configured to: receive the association relationship between the application layer measurement result and the non-application layer measurement result corresponding to the type of the terminal device sent by the tracking collection entity; the processing unit is further configured to: according to the The association relationship and the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained, and the application layer measurement results corresponding to the non-application layer measurement results of the terminal equipment with the type are obtained.
An information processing device, characterized in that it includes a processor and a communication interface, and the communication interface is used to receive signals from other communication devices other than the information processing device and transmit to the processor or transfer signals from the information processing device. The signal of the processor is sent to other communication devices other than the information processing device, and the processor is used to implement the method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, or realize the The method of any one of claims 9 to 18.
An information processing device, characterized in that it includes a processor, the processor is connected to a memory, and the processor is configured to execute a computer program stored in the memory, so that the device executes the functions as claimed in claims 1 to 8 A method as claimed in any one of, or performing a method as claimed in any one of claims 9 to 18 .
A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that, the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and when the computer program is executed, the method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, or A method as claimed in any one of claims 9 to 18 is carried out.
A computer program product, characterized in that it is used to store a computer program that, when the computer program runs on a computer, causes the computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, or to execute the method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8. The method of any one of claims 9 to 18.
A chip, characterized by comprising a processor and an interface, wherein the processor is configured to read instructions through the interface to execute the method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, or to execute the method as claimed in claim 9 The method of any one of to 18.
A communication system, characterized in that it includes a tracking collection entity and an access network device; wherein the tracking collection entity is used to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, and the access network device For carrying out the method of any one of claims 9 to 18.