CN117676621A

CN117676621A - Measurement method and communication device

Info

Publication number: CN117676621A
Application number: CN202210970522.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李铁; 杨培; 余政
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-12
Filing date: 2022-08-12
Publication date: 2024-03-08
Also published as: WO2024032234A1

Abstract

The application provides a measurement reporting method and a communication device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources, and the plurality of first resources are associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal equipment; reporting information is transmitted, the reporting information including measurements on a plurality of first resources for each of a plurality of antenna panels. Therefore, the plurality of antenna panels can measure on a plurality of resources, and report the measured values of the plurality of antenna panels, so that the measuring efficiency of the plurality of antenna panels can be improved.

Description

Measurement method and communication device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communication technology, and more particularly, to a method of measurement and a communication device.

Background

At present, the network device can configure measurement resources for the terminal device, the terminal device performs measurement on the measurement resources, and reports the measurement result to the network device, so that the network device can schedule resources for transmitting data for the terminal device according to the measurement result. In order to improve the data transmission performance of the terminal device, the terminal device may be provided with a plurality of antenna panels, and the terminal device may identify which antenna panel measurement result is reported by the terminal device through an implicit indication of the number parameter of the channel sounding reference signal (sounding reference signal, SRS) ports in the current protocol. However, this approach cannot support simultaneous measurement and reporting of multiple antenna panels, affecting measurement efficiency.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a measuring method and a communication device, which can improve the measuring efficiency of a multi-antenna panel.

In a first aspect, a method for measurement reporting is provided, which may be performed by a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device, the method comprising: receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources, and the plurality of first resources are associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal equipment; and transmitting reporting information, wherein the reporting information comprises measured values of each antenna panel in the plurality of antenna panels on the plurality of first resources.

The terminal device may have multiple antenna panels, two or more of which support simultaneous transmission and/or simultaneous reception.

Optionally, the first resource comprises at least one synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel block (synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block, SSB). Or may include at least one channel state information reference signal (channel state information-reference signal, CSI-RS). Or may include at least one SSB and at least one CSI-RS.

Optionally, the configuration information is any one of the following: channel state information (channel state information, CSI) measurement configuration information, CSI reporting configuration, or measurement configuration for inter-cell movement.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can configure at least one first plurality of resources associated with the antenna panels for the terminal equipment, so that the antenna panels can measure on the resources and report the measured values of the antenna panels, and the measuring efficiency of the antenna panels can be improved.

It should be noted that, the support of simultaneous transmission and/or simultaneous reception by two or more antenna panels may be: two or more antenna panels support simultaneous transmission of beams and simultaneous reception of beams. Or transmit beams simultaneously and not receive beams simultaneously. Or not transmit beams at the same time but receive beams at the same time.

That is, the plurality of antenna panels of the terminal device can support simultaneous transmission and/or simultaneous reception of the multi-antenna panels, enabling simultaneous measurement of the multi-antenna panels.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the configuration information includes a first set of resources, the first set of resources being a set of resources for channel measurement or a set of resources for interference measurement, the first set of resources including a plurality of resource groups associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of resource groups including a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

Optionally, the plurality of resource groups are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of antenna panels.

The resource group (resource group) may also be referred to as a resource sub-set.

It will be appreciated that the configuration information may include a resource set #1, where the resource set #1 is a resource set for channel measurement, and the resource set #1 includes a plurality of resource groups described above. Or the configuration information may include a resource set #2, where the resource set #2 is a resource set for channel measurement, and the resource set #2 includes a plurality of the above-described resource groups. Or the configuration information includes the resource set #1 and the resource set #2, and each includes a plurality of the resource groups.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can configure the first resource for the measurement of the multi-antenna panel for the terminal equipment in the resource set (resource set), so that the measurement of the multi-antenna panel can be supported, and the method is simple and effective.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the first set of resources is associated with a first TRP.

Optionally, the first set of resources associated with the first transmission and reception point (transmitting and receiving point, TRP) comprises: the first set of resources is associated with a first transmission configuration indication (transmission configuration indicator, TCI). Or the first resource set corresponds to a first control resource set pool index (control-resource set pool index, CORESETPOOINDEX).

Based on the technical scheme, the first resources associated with the plurality of antenna panels can be associated with TRP, so that measurement of single TRP or multiple TRP and the multi-antenna panel can be realized, and the measurement efficiency is improved.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the configuration information includes a plurality of first resource sets, the plurality of first resource sets being associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of first resource sets including a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

Optionally, the plurality of first resource sets are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of antenna panels.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the configuration information further includes a plurality of second resource sets, the plurality of second resource sets being associated with a plurality of TRPs.

Optionally, the plurality of second resource sets corresponds one-to-one to the plurality of TRPs.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can expand the number of resource sets (resource sets), the expanded resource sets can be used for measuring the antenna panel, and the resource sets associated with the multi-antenna panel and the resource sets associated with the TRP can be different resource sets, so that decoupling with the TRP can be realized, and the flexibility of measurement is improved.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the plurality of first resource sets are further associated with a plurality of TRPs.

Optionally, the first set of resources further corresponds one-to-one to the plurality of TRPs.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can multiplex the resource set associated with the TRP to be associated with the multi-antenna panel, so that the simultaneous measurement of the multi-antenna panel can be realized.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the configuration information includes at least one third set of resources, the at least one third set of resources is associated with at least one TRP, the at least one third set of resources includes the plurality of first resources, the configuration information further includes a set of antenna panels, the set of antenna panels includes identification information of the plurality of antenna panels, and the identification information of the plurality of antenna panels is associated with the first resources.

Optionally, the at least one third set of resources corresponds one-to-one to the at least one TRP.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can be configured with one antenna panel set for associating the multi-antenna panel with the resource set associated with the TRP, so that flexible measurement of the multi-antenna panel is realized.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the report information includes at least one measurement result set, and the at least one measurement result set corresponds to a resource set included in the configuration information.

Based on the technical scheme, the measurement result set corresponds to the resource set, that is to say, the measurement result set is associated with the first resource, so that the measurement results of a plurality of antenna panels can be reported at the same time, and the measurement efficiency is improved.

In a second aspect, a method of measurement reporting is provided, the method being executable by a network device or a chip in a network device, the method comprising: transmitting configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources, and the plurality of first resources are associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal equipment; report information is received, the report information including a measurement of each antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels on a corresponding first resource.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the configuration information includes a first set of resources, the first set of resources being a set of resources for channel measurement or a set of resources for interference measurement, the first set of resources including a plurality of resource groups associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of resource groups including a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the first set of resources is associated with a first TRP.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the configuration information includes a plurality of first resource sets, the plurality of first resource sets being associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of first resource sets including a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the configuration information further includes a plurality of second resource sets, the plurality of second resource sets being associated with a plurality of TRPs.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the plurality of first resource sets are also associated with a plurality of TRPs.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the configuration information includes at least one third set of resources, the at least one third set of resources is associated with at least one TRP, the at least one third set of resources includes the plurality of first resources, the configuration information further includes a set of antenna panels, the set of antenna panels includes identification information of the plurality of antenna panels, and the identification information of the plurality of antenna panels is associated with the first resources.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the report information includes at least one measurement result set, where the at least one measurement result set corresponds to a resource set included in the configuration information.

Various implementation manners of the second aspect are methods of a network device corresponding to various implementation manners of the first aspect, and regarding advantageous technical effects of the various implementation manners of the second aspect, reference may be made to descriptions of related implementation manners of the first aspect, which are not described herein.

In a third aspect, a communication device is provided, the communication device having functionality to implement the method of the first aspect, or any possible implementation of the first aspect. The functions may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a communication device having functionality to implement the method of the second aspect, or any possible implementation of the second aspect. The functions may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor and a memory. Optionally, a transceiver may also be included. Wherein the memory is for storing a computer program, and the processor is for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory and controlling the transceiver to transceive signals to cause the communication device to perform the method as in the first aspect, or any of the possible implementations of any of the first aspects.

The communication device is illustratively a terminal device.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor and a memory. Optionally, a transceiver may also be included. Wherein the memory is for storing a computer program, and the processor is for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory and controlling the transceiver to transceive signals to cause the communication device to perform the method as in the second aspect, or any possible implementation of any of the second aspects.

Illustratively, the communication device is a network appliance.

In a sixth aspect, there is provided a communication device comprising a processor and a communication interface for receiving data and/or information and transmitting the received data and/or information to the processor, the processor processing the data and/or information, and the communication interface further being for outputting the data and/or information after processing by the processor, such that the method as in the first aspect, or any of the possible implementations of the first aspect, is performed.

The communication device may be a chip applied to the terminal device.

In a seventh aspect, a communication device is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface for receiving and transmitting data and/or information received to the processor, the processor processing the data and/or information, and the communication interface further being for outputting the data and/or information after processing by the processor, such that the method as in the first aspect, or any of the possible implementations of the first aspect, is performed.

The communication device may be a chip applied to the terminal device.

In an eighth aspect, a communication device is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface for receiving and transmitting data and/or information received to the processor, the processor processing the data and/or information, and the communication interface is further for outputting the data and/or information after processing by the processor, such that the method as in the second aspect, or any possible implementation of the second aspect, is performed.

The communication device may be a chip applied to the network device.

A ninth aspect provides a computer readable storage medium having stored therein computer instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the method as in the first or second aspect, or any possible implementation of any of these aspects, to be performed.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the method as in the first or second aspect, or any of the possible implementations of any of these aspects, to be performed.

An eleventh aspect provides a wireless communication system comprising a communication device as claimed in the third aspect and/or a communication device as claimed in the fourth aspect.

A twelfth aspect provides a wireless communication system comprising a communication device as claimed in any one or more of the fifth to tenth aspects, or in any possible implementation of any of these aspects.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a communication system suitable for use in embodiments of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of another communication system suitable for use in embodiments of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an antenna panel according to an embodiment of the present application.

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

Fig. 5 is a schematic explanatory diagram of first configuration information provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a schematic explanatory diagram of second configuration information provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic explanatory diagram of second configuration information provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 8 to 10 are schematic block diagrams of possible devices provided in the embodiments of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) systems, LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD) systems, LTE time division duplex (time division duplex, TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (universal mobile telecommunication system, UMTS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (worldwide interoperability for microwave access, wiMAX) telecommunications systems, fifth generation (5th generation,5G) systems or New Radio (NR), and the like.

By way of example, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system 100 suitable for use in embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system 100 includes a network device 110 and a plurality of terminal devices 120 (such as terminal device 120a and terminal device 120b shown in fig. 1). Network device 110 may transmit data or control signaling for multiple terminal devices by simultaneously transmitting multiple analog beams over multiple radio frequency channels. As shown in fig. 1, the network device transmits beam 1 and beam 2 simultaneously, wherein beam 1 is used to transmit data or control signaling for terminal device 120a and beam 2 is used to transmit data or control signaling for terminal device 120 b. Beam 1 may be referred to as the serving beam for terminal device 120a and beam 2 may be referred to as the serving beam for terminal device 120 b. Terminal device 120a and terminal device 120b may belong to the same cell. It is to be appreciated that the communication system 100 described above is a scenario of single TRP transmission.

By way of example, fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a communication system 200 suitable for use in embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, the communication system 200 may include at least two network devices (such as network device 210a and network device 210b shown in fig. 2), and the communication system 200 may further include at least one terminal device, such as terminal device 220 shown in fig. 2. The terminal device 220 may establish a wireless link with the network device 210a and the network device 210b through a dual connection (dual connectivity, DC) technology, a multiple connection technology, or the like. The network device 210a may be, for example, a primary base station, and the network device 210b may be, for example, a secondary base station. In this case, the network device 210a is a network device when the terminal device 220 is initially accessed, and is responsible for radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) communication with the terminal device 220, and the network device 210b may be added when RRC reconfiguration is performed, for providing additional radio resources. It is appreciated that the communication system 200 described above is a scenario of multiple TRP transmissions.

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may be simply referred to as a terminal. The terminal device may be a device having a wireless transceiving function. The terminal device may be mobile or stationary. The terminal device can be deployed on land, including indoors or outdoors, hand-held or vehicle-mounted; can also be deployed on the water surface (such as ships, etc.); but may also be deployed in the air (e.g., on aircraft, balloon, satellite, etc.). The terminal device may include a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer (pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in an industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in a self driving (self driving), a wireless terminal device in a remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal device in a smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in a transportation security (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in a smart city (smart city), and/or a wireless terminal device in a smart home (smart home). The terminal device may also be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a session initiation protocol (session initiation protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local loop, WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), a handheld or computing device with wireless communication capabilities, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a fifth generation (the 5th generation,5G) network or a terminal device in a future evolved public land mobile network (public land mobile network, PLMN), etc. The terminal device may sometimes also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE). Alternatively, the terminal device may communicate with multiple access network devices of different technologies, for example, the terminal device may communicate with an access network device supporting LTE, may communicate with an access network device supporting 5G, and may also be connected with both the access network device supporting LTE and the access network device supporting 5G. The present disclosure is not limited.

In the present application, the means for implementing the functions of the terminal device may be the terminal device; or means, such as a chip system, a hardware circuit, a software module, or a hardware circuit plus a software module, capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the function, which means may be installed in the terminal device or may be used in cooperation with the terminal device. In the technical solution provided in the present disclosure, the device for implementing the function of the terminal device is a terminal device, and the terminal device is a UE, which is an example, and the technical solution provided in the present disclosure is described.

In this application, the chip system may be formed by a chip, and may also include a chip and other discrete devices.

The network device in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as an access network (radio access network, RAN) device.

A RAN device is a node or device that accesses a terminal device to a wireless network, which may also be referred to as a base station. RAN devices include, for example, but are not limited to: a base station, a next generation node B (gNB) in 5G, an evolved node B (eNB), a radio network controller (radio network controller, RNC), a Node B (NB), a base station controller (base station controller, BSC), a base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS), a home base station (e.g., home evolved nodeB, or home node B, HNB), a baseband unit (BBU), a transceiving point (transmitting and receiving point, TRP), a transmitting point (transmitting point, TP), and/or a mobile switching center, etc. Alternatively, the access network device may also be at least one of a Centralized Unit (CU), a Distributed Unit (DU), a centralized control plane (CU-CP) node, a centralized user plane (CU-UP) node, an access backhaul integrated (integrated access and backhaul, IAB), or a radio controller in a cloud radio access network (cloud radio access network, CRAN) scenario, etc. Alternatively, the access network device may be a relay station, an access point, a vehicle-mounted device, a terminal device, a wearable device, an access network device in a 5G network or an access network device in a future evolved public land mobile network (public land mobile network, PLMN), etc.

In the present application, the means for implementing the function of the access network device may be the access network device; or means, such as a system-on-chip, a hardware circuit, a software module, or a hardware circuit plus a software module, capable of supporting the access network device to perform this function, which may be installed in the access network device or may be used in cooperation with the access network device. In the technical solution provided in the present application, the device for implementing the function of the access network device is the access network device, and the access network device is a base station as an example, which describes the technical solution provided in the present application.

The architecture to which the embodiments of the present application shown in fig. 1 and 2 can be applied is merely an example, and the architecture to which the embodiments of the present application are applicable is not limited thereto, and any architecture capable of implementing the functions of the respective devices described above is applicable to the embodiments of the present application.

It should also be understood that the above designations are merely defined to facilitate distinguishing between different functions and should not be construed as limiting the present application in any way. The present application does not exclude the possibility of employing other naming in 5G networks as well as other networks in the future. For example, in a 6G network, some or all of the above devices may follow the terminology in 5G, other names may also be used, etc. The names of interfaces between the devices in fig. 1 are only an example, and the names of interfaces in the specific implementation may be other names, which are not specifically limited in this application. Furthermore, the names of the transmitted messages (or signaling) between the above-described respective devices are also merely an example, and do not constitute any limitation on the functions of the messages themselves.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, the following description is first made of the terms involved in the present application.

1. Beam (beam)

The beam may be embodied in an NR protocol as a spatial filter (spatial filter), or spatial filter (spatial filter) or spatial parameter (spatial parameters). The beam used to transmit the signal may be referred to as a transmit beam (transmission beam, tx beam), may be referred to as a spatial transmit filter (spatial domain transmit filter) or spatial transmit parameters (spatial domain transmit parameter); the beam used to receive the signal may be referred to as a receive beam (Rx beam), and may be referred to as a spatial receive filter (spatial domain receive filter) or spatial receive parameters (spatial domain receive parameter).

The transmit beam may refer to a distribution of signal strengths formed in spatially different directions after signals are transmitted through the antennas, and the receive beam may refer to a distribution of signal strengths of wireless signals received from the antennas in spatially different directions.

It should be understood that the above listed NR protocols are examples only for the implementation of beams and should not constitute any limitation to the present application. The present application does not exclude the possibility of defining other terms in future protocols to represent the same or similar meanings.

Furthermore, the beam may be a wide beam, or a narrow beam, or other type of beam. The technique of forming the beam may be a beamforming technique or other technique. The beamforming technique may specifically be a digital beamforming technique, an analog beamforming technique, or a hybrid digital/analog beamforming technique, etc. Different beams may be considered different resources. The same information or different information may be transmitted through different beams.

The beam generally corresponds to a resource, for example, when the network device measures the beam, the network device measures different beams through different resources, the terminal device feeds back the measured quality of the resource, and the network device knows the quality of the corresponding beam. At the time of data transmission, beam information is also indicated by its corresponding resource. For example, the network device indicates information of the terminal device physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH) beam by means of transmission configuration indication (transmission configuration indicator, TCI) resources in the downlink control information (downlink control information, DCI).

Alternatively, a plurality of beams having the same or similar communication characteristics are regarded as one beam. One or more antenna ports may be included in a beam for transmitting data channels, control channels, and sounding signals, etc. One or more antenna ports forming a beam may also be considered as a set of antenna ports.

In the embodiment of the present application, if no specific description is made, the beam refers to a transmission beam of the network device. In beam measurement, each beam of the network device corresponds to a resource, and thus the beam to which the resource corresponds can be uniquely identified by an index of the resource.

2. Antenna panel (antenna panel)

The antenna panel is used for transmitting or receiving beams. The antenna panel is typically a packaged antenna array, and the antenna panel may be defined as a set of multiple transceiver units that produce an analog beam. The antenna panel may typically comprise 1 or 2 antenna ports.

The terminal device and the network device can be configured with at least one antenna panel, but the antenna panel of the network device and the antenna panel of the terminal device are transparent, that is, the terminal device cannot sense the antenna panel of the network device, the network device cannot sense the antenna panel of the terminal device, in the current protocol, the terminal device can report the maximum SRS antenna port number of each antenna panel to the network device, and the network device performs scheduling based on the SRS antenna port number.

It will be appreciated that each of the plurality of antenna panels of a device may transmit data individually, and any two or more of the plurality of antenna panels may transmit data together.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an antenna panel according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 3, the terminal device is configured with 3 antenna panels, the antenna panel 1 is configured with 2 ports, the antenna panel 2 is configured with 1 port, and the antenna panel 3 is configured with 2 ports. The terminal device can perform data transmission through the antenna panels 1 to 3, respectively. Or the terminal device may also transmit and/or receive data through any two antenna panels simultaneously, such as antenna panel 1 and antenna panel 2, antenna panel 1 and antenna panel 3, and antenna panel 2 and antenna panel 3. Or the terminal device can also transmit and/or receive data simultaneously through the three antenna panels 1-3.

4. Channel state information (channel state information, CSI): during the transmission of a signal from a transmitting end to a receiving end over a wireless channel, fading occurs due to the possibility of scattering, reflection and attenuation of energy with distance. CSI is used to characterize the wireless channel and may include at least one of precoding matrix indicator (Pre-coding Matrix Indicator, PMI), channel quality indicator (Channel Quantity Indicator, CQI), CSI-RS resource indicator (CSI-RS resource indicator, CRI), synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block, SSB) resource indicator (SSB resource indicator, SSBRI), layer Indicator (LI), rank Indicator (RI), -reference signal received power (reference signal received power, RSRP), and signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR). CSI may be transmitted by the terminal device to the network device over a physical uplink control channel (physical uplink control channel, PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (physical uplink share channel, PUSCH).

5. Channel state information reporting configuration (CSI-ReportConfig): the method is mainly used for configuring parameters related to channel state reporting, such as reporting types, reported measurement indexes and the like. Reporting a configuration identifier (reportConfigId), which is an Identifier (ID) number of the CSI-ReportConfig, for marking the CSI-ReportConfig; a channel measurement resource (resource-Reference Signal, CSI-RS) for configuring a channel state information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resource of a channel measurement, which is associated to a resource configuration through a CSI report resource identifier (CSI-resource configuration id); interference measurement resources (CSI-IM-resources forinterference), resources of CSI-RS configured for interference measurement, are associated to the resource configuration by CSI-ResourceConfigId.

Optionally, the parameters of CSI reporting may include CSI reporting type (reportConfigType), CSI reporting amount (reportconquality), etc., and the network device may configure through different reporting amounts, so that the terminal device reports different CSI,

6. channel state information resource configuration (CSI-ResourceConfig): resource-related information for configuring CSI measurements. May include a CSI report resource identification (CSI-ResourceConfigId) and/or a CSI resource binding queue (CSI-RS-resourcesitsist), etc. Wherein, CSI-ResourceConfigId is used to mark the CSI-ResourceConfig; the CSI-RS-resourcesist may include a set of resources for channel measurements and a set of resources for interference measurements.

Wherein the set of resources for channel measurements may be a set of channel measurement resources (channel measurement resource, CMR), which may refer to Non-zero power channel state information reference signal resources (Non-Zero Power Channel State Information-Reference Signalresource, NZP CSI-RS resources), and the set of resources for interference measurements may be a set of interference measurement resources (interference measurement resource, IMR), which may refer to zero power channel state information reference signal resources (Zero Power ChannelState Information-Reference Signalresource, ZP CSI-RS resources).

CSI report (CSI report): the CSI report is sent by the terminal to the network device, and then the network device obtains the channel state when the network device sends downlink information to the terminal device. The 1 CSI report is used to instruct the terminal device to feed back 1 CSI, and different CSI may correspond to different frequency bands, different transmission hypotheses, different reporting modes or reporting amounts.

In general, one CSI report may be associated with 1 reference signal resource for channel measurement, and may also be associated with 1 or more reference signal resources for interference measurement. One CSI report corresponds to one transmission resource, and a transmission resource corresponding to CSI can also be understood as a time-frequency resource for transmitting the CSI.

8. Reference signal: is a known signal provided by the transmitting end to the receiving end for channel estimation or channel sounding. In the embodiments of the present application, the reference signal may be used for channel measurement, interference measurement, etc., such as measuring parameters of reference signal received quality (reference signal receiving quality, RSRQ), SINR, CQI, and/or PMI.

9. Reference signal resources: including at least one of time-frequency resources, antenna ports, power resources, scrambling codes, and the like of the reference signal. The network device may send reference signals to the terminal device based on the reference signal resources, and correspondingly, the terminal device may receive reference signals based on the reference signal resources.

Reference signals referred to in embodiments of the present application may include one or more of the following: a channel state information reference signal (channel state information-reference signal, CSI-RS), SSB, or SRS resource. In some cases, SSB may also refer to SSB resources.

In the current protocol, the terminal device reports the measurement result of which antenna panel through the implicit indication of the number parameter of the SRS ports. However, this approach cannot support simultaneous measurement and reporting of multiple antenna panels, affecting measurement efficiency.

The embodiment of the application provides a measurement reporting method and a communication device, which can support simultaneous measurement and reporting of a plurality of antenna panels and improve measurement efficiency. The method of measurement reporting will be described first.

And S410, the network equipment sends configuration information to the terminal equipment.

The configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal device.

The plurality of first resources being associated with the plurality of antenna panels may refer to: the terminal device can measure the plurality of antenna panels by using the corresponding first resources, namely, measure the beams on the first resources, and can obtain the measurement results of the plurality of antenna panels at the same time.

The plurality of antenna panels may refer to a plurality of antenna panels configured by the terminal device, or may refer to a plurality of antenna panels activated by the terminal device. The terminal device may have multiple antenna panels, two or more of which support simultaneous transmission and/or simultaneous reception.

It should be noted that, the support of simultaneous transmission and/or simultaneous reception by two or more antenna panels may be: two or more antenna panels support simultaneous transmission of beams and simultaneous reception of beams, or simultaneous transmission of beams and not simultaneous reception of beams, or simultaneous transmission of beams and simultaneous reception of beams.

It should be noted that the first resource may be understood as a resource group or a resource set, that is, the first resource may be a resource group or a resource set formed by a plurality of resource units. The resource units included in the resource group or the resource set may be the same or different, for example, the first resource may include at least one SSB, or may include at least one CSI-RS, or may include at least one SSB and at least one CSI-RS, which is not particularly limited in this application.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first resource may include a resource of a neighboring cell, and may further include a resource of a serving cell and a cell different from a physical cell identifier (physical cell identifier, PCI) of the serving cell, which is not particularly limited in the present application.

The configuration information may be a configuration of one or more cells. The terminal device supports measurements of multi-antenna panels of one or more cells, which are not particularly limited in this application.

The configuration information may be CSI measurement configuration information, CSI reporting configuration, or measurement configuration for inter-cell movement, which is not particularly limited in the present application. In the following description of the embodiments, in order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, the present application uses configuration information as CSI reporting configuration for exemplary illustration, and other implementations of information are similar, and are not repeated below.

Optionally, the configuration information includes enabling information for instructing the terminal device to perform measurements of common reception and/or common transmission by the multi-antenna panel. For example, the configuration information may carry an enabling identifier, and after receiving the configuration information, the terminal device may learn that the network device configures resources for measurement of multiple antenna panels for the terminal device.

Illustratively, the enabling identification may be:

index-simultaneous-r 18 ENUMERATED { enabled }, or,

groupBasedBeamReporting-index-v18

SEQUENCE{nrofReportedGroups-r18 ENUMERATED{n1,n2,n3,n4}}

optionally, the configuration information includes type information, where the type information is used to indicate a measurement result type of the antenna panel reported by the terminal device. For example, the type information may instruct the terminal device to report at least one of the following measurements of the antenna panel: RSPR, SINR.

By way of example, this type of information may be:

it will be appreciated that the antenna panel is a logical entity and that the application is not particularly limited as to how the physical antennas are mapped to the antenna panel. The identification information of the antenna panel may be used to identify or characterize or identify the antenna panel, i.e. the terminal device and the network device may interact with relevant information about the antenna panel based on the identification information of the antenna panel, e.g. the terminal device and the network device may indicate which antenna panel uses how many ports via the identification information of the antenna panel.

The identification information of the antenna panel includes at least one of: candidate value (candidate value), candidate value Set (candidate value Set), candidate value index (candidate value index), candidate index (candidate index), antenna panel identification (panel ID), SRS resource (SRS resource), SRS resource Set (SRS resource Set). The above parameters may be used to identify or identify the antenna panel, and their detailed meaning may be referred to the definition of the existing protocol, which is not described herein.

The configuration information may indicate the first resource in a variety of ways, which are described below separately.

Case 1:

the CSI reporting configuration (CSI-ReportConfig) includes a first resource set (resource set) including a plurality of resource groups, the plurality of resource groups being in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of antenna panels, the plurality of resource groups including a plurality of first resources, respectively.

The first set of resources may be associated with a first TRP.

Optionally, the first set of resources associated with the first TRP comprises: the first set of resources is associated with a first transmission configuration indication (transmission configuration indicator, TCI). Or the first resource set corresponds to a first control resource set pool index (control-resource set pool index, CORESETPOOINDEX).

Illustratively, resources in the CSI reporting configuration may be divided into different resource sets (resource sets) based on different TRPs in different measurement amounts, each resource set may be divided into different resource groups according to different antenna panels, and each resource group may include a first resource corresponding to one antenna panel. For more details, reference is made to the description of fig. 5, which is not repeated here.

Case 2:

the CSI reporting configuration includes a plurality of first resource sets, the plurality of first resource sets being in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of first resource sets including a first resource corresponding to an antenna panel.

Optionally, the CSI reporting configuration further includes a plurality of second resource sets, the plurality of second resource sets corresponding one-to-one to the plurality of TRPs.

For example, the resources in the CSI reporting configuration may be divided into different resource sets with different measurement amounts, each resource set may be divided into N resource sets, where N is the sum of the number of TRPs X and the number of antenna panels Y (n=x+y), i.e. each resource set includes X second resource sets corresponding to TRPs one to one, and Y first resource sets corresponding to antenna panels one to one, where N, X, Y are positive integers. For more details, reference is made to the description of fig. 6, which is not repeated here.

Case 3:

the CSI reporting configuration includes a plurality of third resource sets, the plurality of third resource sets being in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of antenna panels, the plurality of third resource sets also being in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of TRPs, each of the plurality of third resource sets including a first resource corresponding to an antenna panel.

For example, the resources in the CSI reporting configuration may be divided into different resource sets (resource sets) with different measurement amounts, and if the number of TRPs is the same as the number of antenna panels, for example, K, each resource set (resource set) may be divided into K third resource sets, where K third resource sets are in one-to-one correspondence with K TRPs, and K third resource sets are also in one-to-one correspondence with K antenna panels, where K is a positive integer. For more details, reference is made to the description of fig. 7, which is not repeated here.

S420, the terminal equipment sends report information to the network equipment.

The reporting information includes a measurement result on a corresponding first resource for each of the plurality of antenna panels.

In one possible implementation, the reported information includes at least one of: resource index, value of measurement quantity, index of resource set, index of resource group, index of resource subset, antenna panel information.

The resource index may be used to index the resources in the configuration information, for example, the resource index may be SSB RI/CRI, etc. The value of the measurement quantity may be a value of the measurement quantity indicated with the type information in the configuration information or a value of the measurement quantity previously configured, such as L1-RRSP, L1-RSRP, L3-SINR, L3-RSRQ, or the like. The index of the resource set, resource group or resource subset may be the resource set, resource group or resource subset in the configuration information, such as the identification of the CMR resource set (set ID), the identification of the antenna panel 1 resource group (group ID) or the identification of the antenna panel 2 resource subset (sub-set ID). The antenna panel information may be related information to the antenna panel, such as a candidate value index (candidate value index) implicitly indicating the number of antenna panel ports, antenna panel identification (panel ID), and the like.

It will be appreciated that if the configuration information includes a panel packet set, the reporting information may not carry antenna panel information. This is because the network device can obtain which measurement results are measurement results of which antenna panels according to the association relationship between the panel group set and the resource, for example, the association relationship between the panel group set and the resource set.

Alternatively, the terminal device may send the report information to the network device through PUCCH or PUSCH. Alternatively, the terminal device may also send the report information to the network device through UCI.

If the terminal device sends the report information to the network device through the PUCCH or PUSCH, optionally, the terminal device supports periodic reporting, semi-persistent reporting, and aperiodic reporting, which is not particularly limited in this application. Optionally, the report information further includes an enable identifier, for example, a multi-antenna panel simultaneous reporting enable identifier, through which the network device can learn that the report information includes measurement results of the multiple antenna panels.

If the terminal device sends the report information to the network device through UCI, the value of the measurement quantity may alternatively be SSBRI/CRI, L1-RSRP/SINR value.

In one possible implementation, if the configuration information includes at least one resource set, where each resource set includes at least one resource group, the order of measurement results in the reporting information may be sequentially ordered by the resource groups first, and then sequentially ordered by the resource sets, for convenience in understanding the embodiment of the present application, table 1 is an example of reporting information:

Table 1:

Group order and/or set order indication
	SSBRI/CRI of the group a of the set x
SSBRI/CRI of the group b of the set x
	SSBRI/CRI of the group a of the set y
SSBRI/CRI of the group b of the set y
	…
L1-RSRP/SINR value of the group a of the set x
	L1-RSRP/SINR value of the group b of the set x
L1-RSRP/SINR value of the group a of the set y
	L1-RSRP/SINR value of the group b of the set y

wherein the reported information includes measurement results of a resource set x (set x) and a resource set y (set y), for example, in a multi-TRP scenario, the resource set x and the resource set y may be associated with different TRPs. Each set of resources may include a resource group a (group a) and a resource group b (group b), e.g., resource group a and resource group b may each be associated with a different antenna panel. It can be seen that, in the report information shown in table 1, the value of SSBRI/CRI is reported first, in order of resource group a and resource group b in resource set x, and resource group a and resource group b in resource set y, and then the value of L1-RSRP/SINR is reported, and in order of resource group a and resource group b in resource set x, and resource group a and resource group b in resource set y, respectively. It is to be understood that this description is merely an exemplary illustration and is not intended to limit the present application in any way.

Alternatively, the value of the measurement quantity in the reported information may be a global difference, or a group difference, or a resource set difference, which is not particularly limited in this application.

Optionally, the report information may include indication information for indicating a sequence of ordering the resources, for example, the indication information indicates that the measurement results in the report information are ordered sequentially by the resource groups and then ordered sequentially by the resource sets, so that the network device may learn, according to the ordering of the indication information and the measurement results, resources, antenna panels and TRP corresponding to the measurement results, so that bit consumption of the report information can be saved.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment can configure at least one first plurality of resources associated with the antenna panels for the terminal equipment, so that the antenna panels can measure on the antenna panels, and report the measured values of the antenna panels, and the measuring efficiency of the antenna panels can be improved.

Fig. 5 (a) is a schematic diagram of measurement resource configuration of a single TRP multi antenna panel. The CSI reporting configuration information may include a set of resource sets CMR for channel measurements and a set of resource sets IMR for interference measurements. It will be appreciated that for supporting a single TRP (exemplified by the inclusion of TRP1 only), the CMR set is associated with TRP1, i.e., the CMR for TRP1 resource set in fig. 5 (a), and correspondingly, the IMR set is associated with TRP1, i.e., the IMR for TRP1 resource set in fig. 5 (a).

Each set of resources may be divided into a plurality of resource groups (or may also be referred to as resource subsets) based on different antenna panels. The antenna panel 1 resource group (also referred to as CMR for panel 1) and the antenna panel 2 resource group (also referred to as CMR for panel 2) in the CMR for TRP1 resource set, and the antenna panel 1 resource group (also referred to as CMR for panel 1) and the antenna panel 2 resource group (also referred to as CMR for panel 2) in the CMR for TRP2 resource set as shown in fig. 5 (a).

Wherein, each resource group may include at least 1 measurement resource, and each resource group illustrated in fig. 5 includes 4 measurement resources, and the measurement resources may be SSB or CSI-RS, which is not particularly limited in this application. The measurement resources in each resource group may be the same or may be different, e.g. the 4 measurement resources may all be SSBs, or all CSI-RS, or a mix of 2.

The number of resources to be allocated to the plurality of resource groups or resource subsets may be the same or different, and fig. 5 (a) is merely an example, and the present application is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, different resource groups in one resource set may be received or transmitted simultaneously, or different resource groups may not be received or transmitted simultaneously, for example, the resources in the antenna panel 1 resource group and the resources in the antenna panel 2 resource group in the CMR for TRP1 resource set may be received or transmitted simultaneously, or may not be received or transmitted simultaneously, which is not limited in this application.

The terminal device may display information indicating that single TRP transmission is supported and that multiple TRP transmission is not supported, for example, the terminal device may send information indicating that single TRP transmission is supported and that multiple TRP transmission is not supported to the network device, for example, the terminal device carries a single TRP measurement identifier in the configuration information, which is not particularly limited in this application. The terminal device may also implicitly indicate that single TRP transmission is supported and that multi TRP transmission is not supported, e.g. only one CMR resource set or only one pair of CMR and IMR set is configured in the configuration information, implicitly indicating that the terminal device supports single TRP transmission and that it does not support multi TRP transmission.

The manner in which the terminal device supports configuration information for single TRP transmission and does not support multi TRP transmission is described above with reference to fig. 5 (a), and the configuration information for the terminal device supporting multi TRP transmission is described below with reference to fig. 5 (b).

Referring to fig. 5 (b), unlike fig. 5 (a), fig. 5 (b) is exemplified with a terminal device supporting two TRPs (TRP 1 and TRP2, respectively), a CMR for TRP2 resource set is also included in the CMR set, and similarly, an IMR for TRP2 resource set is also included in the IMR set. The CMR for TRP2 resource set may be divided into a plurality of resource groups according to different antenna panels, and the IMR for TRP2 resource set may also be divided into a plurality of resource groups according to different antenna panels, and the specific division manner is similar to the division manner of the CMR for TRP1 resource set and the IMR for TRP1 resource set, which is described in fig. 5 (a) above and will not be repeated here.

The terminal device may also display information indicating that the multi-TRP transmission is supported, e.g. the terminal device may send information indicating that the multi-TRP transmission is supported to the network device, e.g. the terminal device carries a multi-TRP measurement identifier in the configuration information, which is not particularly limited in this application. The terminal device may also implicitly indicate that multi-TRP transmission is supported, such as configuring multiple sets of CMR resources in configuration information, or configuring multiple pairs of CMR and IMR sets, implicitly indicating that the terminal device supports multi-TRP transmission, and the number of sets of CMR resources or the logarithm of the pairs of CMR and IMR sets may implicitly indicate the number of TRPs.

Whether for single or multiple TRP transmission, the terminal device may perform measurements on the resource group to obtain measurement results of the antenna panel corresponding to the resource group, such as on the antenna panel 1 resource group to obtain measurement results of the antenna panel 1, and on the antenna panel 2 resource group to obtain measurement results of the antenna panel 2.

In one possible implementation, the terminal device may make measurements simultaneously on multiple resource groups included in the configuration information. And the terminal device can obtain the measurement results of a plurality of antenna panels at the same time.

Optionally, the terminal device is preconfigured to make measurements on at most two resource groups simultaneously. The terminal device can configure the association relationship between the two resource groups, and the two resource sets with the association relationship can be measured simultaneously. Furthermore, the complexity of terminal equipment processing and the complexity of subsequent network equipment scheduling can be reduced.

In one possible implementation, although not shown, one set of resources may be divided into multiple resource groups based on antenna panel combinations, each resource group being further divided into smaller units based on antenna panels in the antenna panel combinations. Illustratively, one set of resources may be divided into multiple resource groups with different antenna panel combinations, such as antenna panel 1-2 resource groups, antenna panel 2-3 resource groups, and antenna panel 1-3 resource groups, each of which is divided into multiple subgroups with different antenna panels, such as antenna panel 1-2 resource groups may be divided into antenna panel 1 resource subgroup and antenna panel 2 resource subgroup. The terminal device may measure two resource groups simultaneously.

Referring to fig. 6, the csi report configuration information may include 4 CMR resource sets and 4 IMR resource sets, wherein the 4 CMR resource sets include two resource sets associated with TRP: a set of TRP1 resources and a set of TRP2 resources, and two sets associated with an antenna panel: antenna panel 1 resource set and antenna panel 2 resource set. Similarly, the 4 IMR resource sets also include two resource sets associated with TRPs and two sets associated with antenna panels. That is, the antenna panel and the measurement resource set of TRP are not associated with each other.

It is to be understood that fig. 6 is an example of supporting two TRP transmissions by a terminal device and configuring two antenna panels, and the scenario of single TRP transmission is similar to that, i.e. 1 resource set associated with TRP is configured, which is not described herein.

Wherein, each resource set may include at least 1 measurement resource, and each resource set shown in fig. 5 includes 4 measurement resources, and the measurement resources may be SSB or CSI-RS, which is not particularly limited in this application. The measurement resources in each set of resources may be the same or may be different, e.g. the 4 measurement resources may all be SSBs, or all CSI-RS, or a mix of 2.

The number of resources to be allocated to the plurality of resource sets or resource subsets may be the same or different, and fig. 6 is merely an example, and the present application is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, the different resource sets may be received or transmitted simultaneously, or the different resource sets may not be received or transmitted simultaneously, for example, the resources in the TRP1 resource set and the antenna panel 1 resource set may be received or transmitted simultaneously, or may not be received or transmitted simultaneously, which is not limited in this application.

Whether for single TRP transmission or multi TRP transmission, the terminal device may perform measurements on the set of resources corresponding to the antenna panel to obtain measurements of the antenna panel corresponding to the set of resources, such as on the set of antenna panel 1 resources to obtain measurements of the antenna panel 1 and on the set of antenna panel 2 resources to obtain measurements of the antenna panel 2.

In one possible implementation, the terminal device may make measurements simultaneously on multiple sets of resources comprised by the configuration information. And the terminal device can obtain the measurement results of a plurality of antenna panels at the same time.

Optionally, the terminal device is preconfigured to measure on at most two sets of resources simultaneously. The terminal device can configure the association relationship between the two resource sets, and the two resource sets with the association relationship can be measured at the same time.

Unlike the network device in fig. 6 that additionally configures the resource set for the antenna panel, in this embodiment, the network device may also multiplex the existing measurement resource set of single TRP or multiple TRP instead of additionally configuring the resource set for antenna panel measurement. Based on the currently configured resource set of single TRP or multiple TRP, the relationship between single TRP and multiple TRP and the antenna panel can be associated, and the terminal equipment can perform antenna panel measurement based on the resource set of single TRP or multiple TRP. For example, referring to fig. 7, the csi report configuration information may include 2 CMR resource sets and 2 IMR resource sets, wherein the 2 CMR resource sets are: a TRP 1/antenna panel 1 resource set and a TRP 2/antenna panel 2 resource set. Similarly, the 2 IMR resource sets are respectively: a TRP 1/antenna panel 1 resource set and a TRP 2/antenna panel 2 resource set. That is, the antenna panel and the set of measurement resources of the TRP are related to each other.

Above is that TRP1 is associated with antenna panel 1 and TRP2 is associated with antenna panel 2, in one possible way the terminal device may configure a panel packet set for association with TRP.

Illustratively, the TRP1 resource set includes 8 resources, such as:

CMR set 1for TRP1＝{RS0,RS1,RS2,RS3,RS4,RS5,RS6,RS7}；

the TRP2 resource set includes 8 resources such as:

CMR set 2for TRP2＝{RS8,RS9,RS10,RS11,RS12,RS13,RS14,RS15}。

panel group set= { [ P1, P2], [ P2, P1], [ P2], [ P3], [ P2, P3], [ P1, P3] }.

The network device may set RS0, RS4 to correspond to panel packets P1, P2, indicating that RS0 and RS4 are received and measured using panels P1 and P2. Alternatively, for the same resource and panel pairing relationship, reception and/or measurement of different panels and different signals may be constrained or indicated, e.g., for the correspondence relationship described above, at least one or all of RS0, RS4 and [ P1, P2], RS0, RS4 and [ P2, P1, P2], RS4 and [ P1, P2], RS0, RS4 and P1, RS0, RS4 and P2 may be constrained or indicated. And may thereby support simultaneous reception and/or measurement by multiple antenna panels.

Optionally, there are duplicate elements in the panel grouping set. Such as the first two elements of the panel groupings set described above, are repeated.

Optionally, there are duplicate resources in the set of resources.

It will be appreciated that, in the above scenario where the terminal device supports two TRP transmissions, a set of resource sets and/or panel packet sets may be additionally configured in a single TRP transmission scenario, and the implementation manner is similar to that of a multi TRP transmission scenario, which is not described herein.

The above-mentioned association with the resource set by the configuration panel grouping set may, in a possible implementation, be that the terminal device does not display the configuration panel grouping set. The terminal equipment can measure the antenna panel through the association relation between the resources in the configured resource set and the antenna panel.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 8, the apparatus 800 may include a transceiver unit 810 and a processing unit 820. The transceiver unit 810 may communicate with the outside of the apparatus, and the processing unit 820 is used for data processing. The transceiver unit 810 may also be referred to as a communication interface or transceiver unit.

In one possible design, the apparatus 800 may implement a procedure performed by a terminal device corresponding to the method embodiment shown in fig. 4, where the processing unit 820 is configured to perform the operations related to the processing by the terminal device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 4, and the transceiver unit 810 is configured to perform the operations related to the transceiver by the terminal device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 4.

Illustratively, a transceiver unit 810 is configured to receive configuration information from a network device, the configuration information indicating a plurality of first resources associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal device; a processing unit 820 for making measurements; the transceiver 810 is further configured to send report information to the network device, where the report information includes a measured value of each antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels on the plurality of first resources.

In yet another possible design, the apparatus 800 may implement a procedure performed by a network device corresponding to the method embodiment shown in fig. 4, where the transceiver unit 810 is configured to perform the operations related to the transceiver of the network device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 4, and the processing unit 820 is configured to perform the operations related to the processing of the network device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 4.

Illustratively, a processing unit 820 is configured to generate configuration information indicating a plurality of first resources associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal device; a transceiver unit 810, configured to receive report information from a terminal device, where the report information includes a measured value of each antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels on the plurality of first resources.

It should be appreciated that the apparatus 800 herein is embodied in the form of functional units. The term "unit" herein may refer to an application specific integrated circuit (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), an electronic circuit, a processor (e.g., a shared, dedicated, or group processor, etc.) and memory that execute one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, and/or other suitable components that support the described functionality. In an alternative example, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the apparatus 800 may be specifically a terminal device or a chip applied to a terminal device in the foregoing embodiment, may be used to execute a procedure corresponding to a terminal device in the foregoing method embodiment, or the apparatus 800 may be specifically a network device or a chip applied to a network device in the foregoing embodiment, may be used to execute a procedure corresponding to a network device in the foregoing method embodiment, which is not repeated herein.

The apparatus 800 has a function of implementing the corresponding steps performed by the terminal device in the above method, or the apparatus 800 has a function of implementing the corresponding steps performed by the network device in the above method. The functions may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software comprises one or more modules corresponding to the functions; for example, the transceiver unit may be replaced by a transceiver (e.g., a transmitting unit in the transceiver unit may be replaced by a transmitter, a receiving unit in the transceiver unit may be replaced by a receiver), and other units, such as a processing unit, etc., may be replaced by a processor, to perform the transceiver operations and related processing operations in the various method embodiments, respectively.

The transceiver unit may be a transceiver circuit (for example, may include a receiving circuit and a transmitting circuit), and the processing unit may be a processing circuit. In the embodiment of the present application, the apparatus in fig. 8 may be the network device or the first terminal device in the foregoing embodiment, or may be a chip or a chip system, for example: system on chip (SoC). The transceiver unit may be an input/output circuit or a communication interface. The processing unit is an integrated processor or microprocessor or integrated circuit on the chip. And are not limited herein.

Fig. 9 shows a communication device 900 provided in an embodiment of the present application. The apparatus 900 includes a processor 910 and a memory 920. The memory 920 is configured to store instructions, and the processor 910 may call the instructions stored in the memory 920 to execute a procedure corresponding to the terminal device or the network device in the above method embodiment.

Specifically, in one possible implementation manner, the memory 920 is configured to store instructions, and the processor 910 may call the instructions stored in the memory 920 to execute a procedure corresponding to the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiment.

Specifically, in another possible implementation manner, the memory 920 is configured to store instructions, and the processor 910 may call the instructions stored in the memory 920 to execute a procedure corresponding to the network device in the above method embodiment.

It should be understood that the apparatus 900 may be specifically a terminal device or a network device in the foregoing embodiment, or may be a chip or a chip system for a terminal device or a network device. Specifically, the apparatus 900 may be configured to execute a procedure corresponding to the terminal device or the network device in the above method embodiment.

Alternatively, the memory 920 may include read-only memory and random access memory, and provide instructions and data to the processor. A portion of the memory may also include non-volatile random access memory. For example, the memory may also store information of the device type. The processor 910 may be configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, and when the processor 910 executes the instructions stored in the memory, the processor 910 is configured to perform the above-described flow of the method embodiment corresponding to the terminal device or the network device.

In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or by instructions in the form of software. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in a hardware processor for execution, or in a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor for execution. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method. To avoid repetition, a detailed description is not provided herein.

It should be noted that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capability. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be implemented by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in software form. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic device, a discrete hardware component. The processor in the embodiments of the present application may implement or execute the methods, steps and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in hardware, in a decoded processor, or in a combination of hardware and software modules in a decoded processor. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method.

It will be appreciated that the memory in embodiments of the present application may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (random access memory, RAM) which acts as an external cache. By way of example, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

Fig. 10 shows a communication device 1000 provided in an embodiment of the present application. The apparatus 1000 includes a processing circuit 1010 and a transceiver circuit 1020. Wherein the processing circuit 1010 and the transceiver circuit 1020 communicate with each other via an internal connection, the processing circuit 1010 is configured to execute instructions to control the transceiver circuit 1020 to transmit signals and/or receive signals.

Optionally, the apparatus 1000 may further include a storage medium 1030, where the storage medium 1030 and the processing circuit 1010, the transceiver circuit 1020 communicate with each other through an internal connection path. The storage medium 1030 is used to store instructions, and the processing circuit 1010 can execute the instructions stored in the storage medium 1030.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus 1000 is configured to implement a procedure corresponding to the terminal device in the above method embodiment.

When the communication device 1000 is used to implement the method shown in fig. 4, the processing circuit 1010 is used to implement the functions of the processing unit 820, and the transceiver circuit 1020 is used to implement the functions of the transceiver unit 810 or the transceiver unit 810 and the processing unit 820.

In another possible implementation manner, the apparatus 1000 is configured to implement a procedure corresponding to the network device in the above method embodiment.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the application, the application further provides a computer program product, which comprises: computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the embodiment shown in fig. 4.

According to the method provided in the embodiment of the present application, there is further provided a computer readable medium storing a program code, which when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method in the embodiment shown in fig. 4.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the application, the application also provides a system which comprises the terminal equipment and the network equipment.

The term "at least one of … …" or "at least one of … …" herein means all or any combination of the listed items, e.g., "at least one of A, B and C," may mean: there are six cases where A alone, B alone, C alone, both A and B, both B and C, and both A, B and C. The term "at least one" as used herein means one or more. "plurality" means two or more.

It should be understood that in embodiments of the present application, "B corresponding to a" means that B is associated with a, from which B may be determined. It should also be understood that determining B from a does not mean determining B from a alone, but may also determine B from a and/or other information. The terms "comprising," "including," "having," and variations thereof mean "including but not limited to," unless expressly specified otherwise.

It should also be understood that in the various embodiments of the present application, the first, second, and various numerical numbers are merely for ease of description and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application. For example, different information is distinguished, etc.

It should also be understood that in various embodiments of the present application, "indication" may include both direct and indirect indications, as well as explicit and implicit indications. The information indicated by a certain information (such as the configuration information described above) is called information to be indicated, and in a specific implementation process, there are various ways to indicate the information to be indicated, for example, but not limited to, the information to be indicated may be directly indicated, such as the information to be indicated itself or an index of the information to be indicated. The information to be indicated can also be indicated indirectly by indicating other information, wherein the other information and the information to be indicated have an association relation. It is also possible to indicate only a part of the information to be indicated, while other parts of the information to be indicated are known or agreed in advance. For example, the indication of the specific information may also be achieved by means of a pre-agreed (e.g., protocol-specified) arrangement sequence of the respective information, thereby reducing the indication overhead to some extent.

It should also be understood that in various embodiments of the present application, "preconfiguration" may be implemented by pre-storing corresponding codes, tables, or other manners in which related information may be indicated in a device (e.g., a terminal device), and the present application is not limited to a specific implementation thereof.

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

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

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

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

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied in essence or contributing part or part of the technical solution in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, including several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is merely specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and the changes and substitutions are intended to be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method of measurement reporting, the method comprising:

receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources, and the plurality of first resources are associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal equipment;

and transmitting reporting information, wherein the reporting information comprises measured values of each antenna panel in the plurality of antenna panels on the plurality of first resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information comprises a first set of resources, the first set of resources being a set of resources for channel measurements or a set of resources for interference measurements, the first set of resources comprising a plurality of resource groups associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of resource groups comprising a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first set of resources is associated with a first transmission and reception point, TRP.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information comprises a plurality of first sets of resources associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each first set of resources of the plurality of first sets of resources comprising a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the configuration information further comprises a plurality of second sets of resources, the plurality of second sets of resources being associated with a plurality of TRPs.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of first sets of resources are further associated with a plurality of TRPs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one third set of resources associated with at least one TRP, the at least one third set of resources comprising the plurality of first resources, the configuration information further comprising a set of antenna panels comprising identification information of the plurality of antenna panels, the identification information of the plurality of antenna panels being associated with the first resources.

8. The method according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein the configuration information further comprises enabling information indicating that the terminal device makes measurements of common reception and/or common transmission by a multi-antenna panel.

9. The method of any of claims 1 to 8, wherein the reporting information comprises at least one set of measurements corresponding to a set of resources comprised by the configuration information.

10. A method of measurement reporting, the method comprising:

transmitting configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of first resources, and the plurality of first resources are associated with a plurality of antenna panels of the terminal equipment;

report information is received, the report information including a measurement of each antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels on a corresponding first resource.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the configuration information comprises a first set of resources, the first set of resources being a set of resources for channel measurements or a set of resources for interference measurements, the first set of resources comprising a plurality of resource groups associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each of the plurality of resource groups comprising a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first set of resources is associated with a first transmission and reception point, TRP.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the configuration information comprises a plurality of first sets of resources associated with the plurality of antenna panels, each first set of resources of the plurality of first sets of resources comprising a first resource associated with an antenna panel.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration information further comprises a plurality of second sets of resources, the plurality of second sets of resources being associated with a plurality of TRPs.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of first sets of resources are further associated with a plurality of TRPs.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one third set of resources associated with at least one TRP, the at least one third set of resources comprising the plurality of first resources, the configuration information further comprising a set of antenna panels comprising identification information of the plurality of antenna panels, the identification information of the plurality of antenna panels being associated with the first resources.

17. The method according to any of claims 10 to 16, wherein the configuration information further comprises enabling information indicating that the terminal device makes measurements of common reception and/or common transmission by a multi-antenna panel.

18. The method of any of claims 10 to 17, wherein the reporting information comprises at least one set of measurements corresponding to a set of resources comprised by the configuration information.

19. A communication device comprising means for performing the method of any of claims 1 to 9.

20. A communication device comprising means for performing the method of any of claims 10 to 18.

21. A computer readable storage medium, characterized in that the computer readable storage medium has stored thereon a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method according to any of claims 1 to 9 or causes the computer to perform the method according to any of claims 10 to 18.

22. A chip comprising one or more processing circuits, wherein the one or more processing circuits are configured to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 or to implement the method of any one of claims 10 to 18.