WO2024229680A1 - Measurement report reporting method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed in embodiments of the present invention are a measurement report reporting method and an apparatus, applicable to the technical field of communications. The method performed by a terminal device comprises: receiving report configuration information sent by a network device; and according to the report configuration information, determining whether a measurement report of radio access network visible quality of experience (RVQoE) is reported to the network device. Therefore, a measurement report of RVQoE can be flexibly reported, such that a network device obtains a more accurate measurement report of RVQoE according to requirements, and performs resource scheduling more effectively.

Description

Measurement report reporting method and device Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and in particular to a measurement report reporting method and device.

Background Art

In the related technology, the measurement report of the radio access network visible Quality of Experience (RVQoE) is reported periodically, which is not flexible enough and may report some useless information. How to support more flexible reporting of RVQoE measurement reports is an issue that needs to be solved urgently.

Summary of the invention

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a measurement report reporting method and device, which can flexibly report RVQoE measurement reports, so that network equipment can obtain more accurate RVQoE measurement reports according to needs, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a measurement report reporting method, which is executed by a terminal device, and the method includes: the terminal device receives reporting configuration information sent by a network device; based on the reporting configuration information, determines whether to report a measurement report of a visible quality of experience RVQoE of a wireless access network to the network device.

In this technical solution, the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; according to the reporting configuration information, it is determined whether to report the measurement report of the visible quality of experience RVQoE of the wireless access network to the network device. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides another measurement report reporting method, which is executed by a network device, and the method includes: sending reporting configuration information to a terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report an RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which has some or all of the functions of the terminal device in the method described in the first aspect above. For example, the functions of the communication device may have some or all of the functions in the embodiments of the present disclosure, or may have the functions of implementing any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure alone. 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 or modules corresponding to the above functions.

In one implementation, the structure of the communication device may include a transceiver module and a processing module, and the processing module is configured to support the communication device to perform the corresponding functions in the above method. The transceiver module is used to support communication between the communication device and other devices. The communication device may also include a storage module, which is used to couple with the transceiver module and the processing module, and store the computer programs and data necessary for the communication device.

In one implementation, the communication device includes: a transceiver module configured to receive reporting configuration information sent by a network device; a processing module configured to determine whether to report a measurement report of a wireless access network visible quality of experience RVQoE to the network device based on the reporting configuration information.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides another communication device, which has some or all of the functions of the network device in the method example described in the second aspect above, such as the functions of the communication device may have some or all of the functions in the embodiments of the present disclosure, or may have the functions of implementing any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure alone. 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 or modules corresponding to the above functions.

In one implementation, the structure of the communication device may include a transceiver module and a processing module, and the processing module is configured to support the communication device to perform the corresponding functions in the above method. The transceiver module is used to support communication between the communication device and other devices. The communication device may also include a storage module, which is used to couple with the transceiver module and the processing module, and store the computer programs and data necessary for the communication device.

In one implementation, the communication device includes: a transceiver module configured to send reporting configuration information to a terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report an RVQoE measurement report to a network device.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor. When the processor calls a computer program in a memory, the method described in the first aspect is executed.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor. When the processor calls a computer program in a memory, the method described in the second aspect is executed.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor and a memory, in which a computer program is stored; the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory so that the communication device executes the method described in the first aspect above.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor and a memory, in which a computer program is stored; the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory so that the communication device executes the method described in the second aspect above.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor and an interface circuit, wherein the interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor, and the processor is used to run the code instructions to enable the device to execute the method described in the first aspect above.

In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, which includes a processor and an interface circuit, wherein the interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor, and the processor is used to run the code instructions to enable the device to execute the method described in the second aspect above.

In the eleventh aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication system, the system comprising the communication device described in the third aspect and the communication device described in the fourth aspect, or the system comprising the communication device described in the fifth aspect and the communication device described in the sixth aspect, or the system comprising the communication device described in the seventh aspect and the communication device described in the eighth aspect, or the system comprising the communication device described in the ninth aspect and the communication device described in the tenth aspect.

In a twelfth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions for the above-mentioned terminal device, and when the instructions are executed, the terminal device executes the method described in the first aspect.

In a thirteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a readable storage medium for storing instructions used by the above-mentioned network device, and when the instructions are executed, the network device executes the method described in the above-mentioned second aspect.

In a fourteenth aspect, the present disclosure further provides a computer program product comprising a computer program, which, when executed on a computer, enables the computer to execute the method described in the first aspect above.

In a fifteenth aspect, the present disclosure further provides a computer program product comprising a computer program, which, when executed on a computer, enables the computer to execute the method described in the second aspect above.

In a sixteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a chip system, which includes at least one processor and an interface, for supporting a terminal device to implement the functions involved in the first aspect, for example, determining or processing at least one of the data and information involved in the above method. In a possible design, the chip system also includes a memory, which is used to store computer programs and data necessary for the terminal device. The chip system can be composed of a chip, or it can include a chip and other discrete devices.

In a seventeenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a chip system, which includes at least one processor and an interface, and is used to support a network device to implement the functions involved in the second aspect, for example, determining or processing at least one of the data and information involved in the above method. In a possible design, the chip system also includes a memory, and the memory is used to store computer programs and data necessary for the network device. The chip system can be composed of a chip, or it can include a chip and other discrete devices.

In an eighteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer program, which, when executed on a computer, enables the computer to execute the method described in the first aspect.

In a nineteenth aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer program which, when executed on a computer, enables the computer to execute the method described in the second aspect.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or the background technology, the drawings required for use in the embodiments of the present disclosure or the background technology will be described below.

FIG1 is an architecture diagram of a communication system provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG2 is a flow chart of a measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG2 is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG3 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG4 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG5 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG6 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG7 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG8 is a flow chart of a capability reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG9 is a flowchart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG10 is a flow chart of another capability reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG11 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG12 is a structural diagram of another communication device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a chip provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, and examples of the embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals throughout represent the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary and are intended to be used to explain the present disclosure, and should not be construed as limitations on the present disclosure. In the description of the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified, "/" means or, for example, A/B can mean A or B; "and/or" in this article is merely a description of the association relationship of associated objects, indicating that three relationships may exist, for example, A and/or B can mean: A exists alone, A and B exist at the same time, and B exists alone.

The terms used in the disclosed embodiments are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the disclosed embodiments. The singular forms "a", "an" and "the" used in the disclosed embodiments and the appended claims are also intended to include plural forms, unless the context clearly indicates other meanings.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used to describe various information in the disclosed embodiments, these information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish the same type of information from each other. For example, without departing from the scope of the disclosed embodiments, the first information may also be referred to as the second information, and similarly, the second information may also be referred to as the first information. Depending on the context, the words "if" and "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at" or "when" or "in response to determination".

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, and examples of the embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals throughout represent the same or similar elements. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary and are intended to be used to explain the present disclosure, and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

Before introducing the embodiments of the present disclosure, some terms in the embodiments of the present disclosure are briefly explained first to facilitate understanding by those skilled in the art.

1. Quality of Experience (QoE) refers to the user's service quality experience.

In the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, QoE can be reflected by some application layer parameters, and QoE Measurement Collection (QMC) is a means for operators to collect QoE parameters of specific services (for example, video, voice, etc.) from the application layer of terminal devices through network configuration. Operators can use QMC to obtain the service experience of users in the network, locate users and problems with poor experience, and analyze and optimize user experience.

RAN visible QoE (RVQoE) measurements are configured by network equipment (e.g., gNB) to terminal devices, where a subset of configured QoE metrics are reported from the terminal device to the network equipment as explicit information elements (IEs) readable by the network equipment. RVQoE measurements can be used by network equipment for network optimization. Dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) and virtual reality (VR) services support RVQoE measurements. Network equipment configures RVQoE parameters to collect all or part of the available RVQoE parameters.

The visible parameters of RVQoE include the buffer level (Buffer Level, also known as the buffer level) and the playout delay for media startup (Playout Delay for Media Startup).

2. RVQoE Buffer Level

Annex D.4.5 in ISO/IEC 23009-1 defines the measurement of buffer level status events.

Table 1 below defines the metrics for the Bufferlevel status event. The keys in Table 1 should be used to reference the metrics defined in Table 1.

Table 1

The key is Bufferlevel(n), where n is a positive integer defined to refer to a metric that records the buffer level every n milliseconds.

It is understood that each element in Table 1 exists independently. These elements are exemplarily listed in the same table, but it does not mean that all elements in the table must exist at the same time as shown in the table. The value of each element is independent of the value of any other element in Table 1. Therefore, those skilled in the art can understand that the value of each element in Table 1 is an independent embodiment.

In order to better understand a measurement report reporting method and device disclosed in an embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication system to which the embodiment of the present disclosure is applicable is first described below.

Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a communication system provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication system may include, but is not limited to, a network device and a terminal device. The number and form of devices shown in FIG. 1 are only used for example and do not constitute a limitation on the embodiment of the present disclosure. In actual applications, two or more network devices and two or more terminal devices may be included. The communication system 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes, for example, a network device 101 and a terminal device 102.

It should be noted that the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be applied to various communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE) system, fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system, 5G new radio (NR) system, or other future new mobile communication systems.

The network device 101 in the disclosed embodiment may be an entity for transmitting or receiving signals on the network side. For example, the network device may be an access network device such as a base station, and the base station may be a base station (base transceiver station, BTS) in a global system of mobile communication (GSM) system or code division multiple access (CDMA), or a base station in a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system, or an evolutionary base station (eNB or eNodeB) in a long term evolution (LTE) system, a next generation base station (next generation NodeB, gNB) in a fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system, a next generation base station in a sixth generation (6G) mobile communication system, or a base station in a future mobile communication system. The disclosed embodiment does not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the network device. For example, the network device may also be a module or unit that completes part of the functions of the base station, for example, it may be a centralized unit (CU) or a distributed unit (DU). The CU and DU respectively complete part of the protocol stack functions of the base station. In addition, the functions of the CU may be implemented by multiple entities. For example, the functions of the CU control plane (CP) and the user plane (UP) are separated to form a CU control plane (CU-CP) and a CU user plane (CU-UP). For example, the CU-CP and the CU-UP may be implemented by different functional entities and connected through an E1 interface, and the CU-CP and the CU-UP may be coupled with the DU.

The terminal device 102 in the disclosed embodiment is an entity on the user side for receiving or transmitting signals, such as a mobile phone. The terminal device may also be referred to as a user equipment (UE), a terminal (terminal), a mobile station (MS), a mobile terminal (MT), etc. The terminal device may be a car with communication function, a smart car, a mobile phone, a wearable device, a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with wireless transceiver function, a virtual reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in self-driving, a wireless terminal device in remote medical surgery, a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in a smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal device in a smart home (smart home), etc. The embodiments of the present disclosure do not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the terminal device.

It can be understood that the communication system described in the embodiment of the present disclosure is for the purpose of more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present disclosure, and does not constitute a limitation on the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure. A person skilled in the art can know that with the evolution of the system architecture and the emergence of new business scenarios, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is also applicable to similar technical problems.

In addition, in order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the following points are explained.

First, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, "used to indicate" may include being used to indicate directly or indirectly. When describing that a certain information is used to indicate A, it may include that the information carries A, or it may also include that the information directly indicates A or indirectly indicates A, but it does not mean that the information must carry A.

The information indicated by the information is called the information to be indicated. In the specific implementation process, there are many ways to indicate the information to be indicated, such as but not limited to, directly indicating the information to be indicated, such as the information to be indicated itself or the index of the information to be indicated. The information to be indicated can also be indirectly indicated by indicating other information, wherein there is an association between the other information and the information to be indicated. It is also possible to indicate only a part of the information to be indicated, while the other parts of the information to be indicated are known or agreed in advance. For example, the indication of specific information can also be achieved by means of the arrangement order of each information agreed in advance (such as specified by the protocol), thereby reducing the indication overhead to a certain extent.

The information to be indicated can be sent as a whole or divided into multiple sub-information and sent separately, and the sending period and/or sending time of these sub-information can be the same or different. The specific sending method is not limited in this disclosure. Among them, the sending period and/or sending time of these sub-information can be predefined, for example, predefined according to a protocol.

Second, the first, second and various numbers in the present disclosure are only used for the convenience of description and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, to distinguish different information.

Third, the embodiments of the present disclosure list multiple implementation methods to clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Of course, those skilled in the art can understand that the multiple embodiments provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can be executed separately, or can be executed together with the methods of other embodiments of the embodiments of the present disclosure, or can be executed together with some methods in other related technologies separately or in combination; the embodiments of the present disclosure do not limit this.

In the related technology, the measurement report of the radio access network visible Quality of Experience (RVQoE) is reported periodically, which is not flexible enough and may report some useless information. How to support more flexible reporting of RVQoE measurement reports is an issue that needs to be solved urgently.

Based on this, a measurement report reporting method is proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure, where a terminal device receives reporting configuration information sent by a network device; and determines whether to report a measurement report of the visible quality of experience RVQoE of the wireless access network to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be flexibly reported, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

A measurement report reporting method and device provided by the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to Figure 2, which is a flow chart of a measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 2, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S21: receiving the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

S22: Determine whether to report a measurement report of the wireless access network visible quality of experience RVQoE to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, the terminal device may receive reporting configuration information sent by the network device, and then determine whether to report an RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In some embodiments, the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device, and can receive at least one of the radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) message, media access control control element (media access control control element, MAC CE), downlink control information (Downlink Control Information, DCI), etc. sent by the network device, wherein the RRC message, MAC CE, and DCI include the reported configuration information.

In some embodiments, when the terminal device determines to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the terminal device may not report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In some embodiments, in response to determining to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the terminal device reports the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the terminal device determines to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In some embodiments, the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting;

The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting;

A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting;

A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report;

A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value;

A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value;

Stop measuring the reported condition information;

Report exception condition information;

Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value;

Report duration;

Report quantity.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting is met. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting may be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the measurement reaches the evaluation time requirement.

It is understandable that the measurement meeting the evaluation time requirement may be that the measurement duration is greater than the evaluation time.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a condition of the number of evaluations that triggers measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting is met. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting may be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the number of measurements reaches the requirement for the evaluation number.

It can be understood that the number of measurements that meets the requirement of the number of evaluations may be the number of measurements that meets the number of evaluations.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers the measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the first threshold condition of the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the measurement value meets the first threshold condition of the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the measurement value meets the first threshold condition of the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report may be used to indicate that the measurement report is triggered after the measured value reaches the requirement of the first threshold.

It can be understood that the measured value meeting the requirement of the first threshold may be that the measured value is greater than the first threshold, or that the measured value is less than the first threshold, or that the measured value is within the interval required by the first threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a second threshold condition of the ratio of the measurement value triggering the measurement report to the maximum value.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value satisfies the second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value satisfies the second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Among them, the maximum value can be the minimum buffer time (Minimum Buffer Time).

The second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering measurement reporting may be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value reaches the second threshold requirement.

It can be understood that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value meets the requirement of the second threshold, which may be that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is greater than the second threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is less than the second threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is within the interval required by the second threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a third threshold condition of the ratio of the measurement value to the target value that triggers the measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value that triggers the measurement report sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the ratio of the measured value to the target value meets the third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value that triggers the measurement report. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the ratio of the measured value to the target value meets the third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value that triggers the measurement report indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Here, for example, the target value can be the minimum buffer time (Minimum Buffer Time).

The third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value for triggering measurement reporting may be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the ratio of the measured value to the target value reaches the requirement of the third threshold.

It can be understood that the ratio of the measured value to the target value meets the requirement of the third threshold, which may be that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is greater than the third threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is less than the third threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is within the interval required by the third threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report on the change trend of the measurement value.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network device including the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the change trend of the measurement value meets the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the change trend of the measurement value meets the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The fourth threshold condition of the variation trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report may be used to indicate that the measurement report is triggered after the variation trend of the measurement value reaches the requirement of the fourth threshold.

It can be understood that the change trend of the measured value meets the requirement of the fourth threshold, which may be that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is greater than the fourth threshold, or that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is less than the fourth threshold, or that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is within the interval range required by the fourth threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include condition information for stopping measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the condition information for stopping measurement reporting sent by the network device, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device if it is determined that the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met. Thus, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device if the condition information for stopping measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It is understandable that the terminal device stops reporting the RVQoE measurement report when determining that the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include condition information of reporting exceptions.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the condition information of the reporting exception sent by the network device, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the condition information of the reporting exception is met. Thus, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the condition information of the reporting exception indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that when the terminal device determines that the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met, the terminal device stops reporting the RVQoE measurement report regardless of whether it is necessary to report the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the condition information for reporting exceptions may be a situation where there is no output from the cache, i.e., the video is paused, or the condition information for stopping measurement reporting may be that the cache has been completed and no further cache is required, for example, the video has been cached and no further cache is required. In the case where the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met, even if the measurement value (e.g., Buffer Level) is very low (e.g., lower than a predefined first threshold) or is 0 (i.e., the condition is met), measurement reporting may not be performed.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reported configuration information may include indication information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the indication information for indicating the auxiliary information related to the measurement value sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the auxiliary information related to the measurement value together with the RVQoE measurement report. Thus, after receiving the indication information of the network device for indicating the auxiliary information related to the measurement value, the terminal device can report the auxiliary information together with the RVQoE measurement report, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that the auxiliary information related to the measurement value can be used to further determine the measurement content of the RVQoE measurement report.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a reporting duration.

In an exemplary embodiment, after the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information including the reporting duration sent by the network device, after starting to report the RVQoE measurement report, the terminal device can continue to report the RVQoE measurement report within the reporting duration. Thus, after receiving the reporting duration indicated by the network device, the terminal device can continue to report the RVQoE measurement report within the reporting duration, and can stop reporting after exceeding the reporting duration, so that the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The reporting duration may be used to indicate that after the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report starts, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report continues within the reporting duration.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include the reporting quantity.

In an exemplary embodiment, after the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information including the reporting quantity sent by the network device, after starting to report the RVQoE measurement report, it can report the RVQoE measurement report corresponding to the reporting quantity, and after reaching the corresponding number of the reporting quantity, stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report. Thus, after receiving the reporting quantity indicated by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report of the reporting quantity, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Among them, the reporting quantity can be used to indicate that after the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report starts, the number of RVQoE measurement reports continuously reported can be at most the number corresponding to the reporting quantity. After exceeding the number corresponding to the reporting quantity, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be stopped.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are not exhaustive but are only illustrations of some embodiments, and the above embodiments may be implemented individually or in combination. The above embodiments are only for illustration and are not intended to be specific limitations on the scope of protection of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

In an exemplary embodiment, when the reporting configuration information includes an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting and a first threshold condition for the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting, if the measurement value always meets the first threshold requirement within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device. If the measurement value does not meet the first threshold requirement within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In an exemplary embodiment, when the reporting configuration information includes an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting and a fourth threshold condition for a change trend of a measurement value for triggering measurement reporting, if the change trend of the measurement value always meets the requirement of the fourth threshold within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device. If the change trend of the measurement value does not meet the requirement of the fourth threshold within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In some embodiments, the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the RVQoE measurement report may include auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following:

Reason value;

Message used to request additional transmission.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the auxiliary information includes a cause value, wherein the cause value is used to indicate the cause of the RVQoE measurement report reporting. Exemplarily, the cause value is cache completion, etc.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the auxiliary information includes information for requesting to increase transmission. The information for requesting to increase transmission can be used to indicate that the terminal device requests to increase transmission information, so that the network device increases the transmission of corresponding information for the terminal device. Exemplarily, the information for requesting to increase transmission can be a delivery boost request (DeliveryBoostRequest)

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

By implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure, the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; according to the reporting configuration information, it is determined whether to report the measurement report of the visible quality of experience RVQoE of the wireless access network to the network device. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be flexibly reported, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 3, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 3, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S31: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

In the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device may receive the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

S32: The application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network device, the access layer entity of the terminal device can send the reporting configuration information to the application layer entity of the terminal device. Thus, the application layer entity of the terminal device can receive the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device.

S33: The application layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to send an RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device can determine whether to send an RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information.

In a possible implementation, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device determines to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information.

In which, when it is determined to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device may send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device.

In another possible implementation, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device determines to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information.

In which, when it is determined to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device may not send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, if the application layer entity of the terminal device determines to send an RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information, then after the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device, it can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S31 to S33 can be implemented separately or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 and S22 in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; the application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device; the application layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 4, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 4, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S41: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

In the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device may receive the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

S42: The application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device.

S43: The application layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to send an RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

Among them, the relevant descriptions of S41 to S43 can be found in the relevant descriptions in the above embodiments, and will not be repeated here.

S44: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to whether the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device is received and the reporting configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device may determine whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to whether the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device is received and the reporting configuration information.

In a possible implementation, an access layer entity of a terminal device receives a RVQoE measurement report sent by an application layer entity of the terminal device, and determines to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

In which, when it is determined to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device, the access layer entity of the terminal device may send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device.

In another possible implementation, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device, and determines to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information.

In which, when it is determined to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device, the access layer entity of the terminal device may not send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device.

In another possible implementation, the access layer entity of the terminal device does not receive the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device, and determines to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information.

In which, when it is determined to cancel or stop sending the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device, the access layer entity of the terminal device may not send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S41 to S44 can be implemented separately or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 and S22 in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; the application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device; the application layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information; the access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to whether the RVQoE measurement report sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device is received and the reporting configuration information. Thus, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be flexibly performed, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 5, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 5, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S51: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

For the relevant description of S51, reference may be made to the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

S52: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reported configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, after receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device, the application layer entity of the terminal device can determine whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device.

In a possible implementation, after receiving the reporting configuration information from the network device, the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device.

Wherein, in the case of determining to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the RVQoE measurement report is reported to the network device.

In which, when it is determined to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the application layer entity of the terminal device may not report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

It should be noted that the RVQoE measurement report received by the access layer entity of the terminal device from the application layer entity of the terminal device may be a RVQoE measurement report periodically generated by the terminal device.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S51 to S52 can be implemented separately or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 and S22 in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; the access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 6, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 6, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S61: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

For the relevant description of S61, reference may be made to the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

S62: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, when the application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device, it can determine to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device based on the reporting configuration information.

It should be noted that the RVQoE measurement report received by the access layer entity of the terminal device from the application layer entity of the terminal device may be a RVQoE measurement report periodically generated by the terminal device.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S61 to S62 can be implemented separately or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 and S22 in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 7, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 7, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S71: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reported configuration information sent by the network device.

S72: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reported configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device.

Among them, the relevant descriptions of S71 to S72 can be found in the relevant descriptions in the above embodiments, and will not be repeated here.

S73: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, when the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reported configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device, it can determine to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information.

It should be noted that the RVQoE measurement report received by the access layer entity of the terminal device from the application layer entity of the terminal device may be a RVQoE measurement report periodically generated by the terminal device.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S71 to S73 can be implemented separately or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 and S22 in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the disclosed embodiment, the access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to cancel the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device, and the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be flexibly performed, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 8, which is a flow chart of a capability reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 8, the method is executed by a terminal device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S81: Report capability information to the network device, where the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, the terminal device may report capability information to the network device, and the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. In this case, the terminal device can receive the reporting configuration information sent by the network device after determining the capability information reported by the terminal device.

For example, the capability information may indicate whether the access layer entity of the terminal device supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information, and/or the capability information may indicate whether the application layer entity supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

Among them, the relevant description of the terminal device receiving the reported configuration information sent by the network device can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, S81 can be implemented alone or in combination with any other steps in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S21 of the embodiments of the present disclosure and S22 and/or S31 to S33 and/or S41 to S44 and/or S51 to S52 and/or S61 to S62 and/or S71 to S73, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to this.

By implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device reports capability information to the network device before receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 9, which is a flow chart of another measurement report reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 9, the method is executed by a network device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S91: Send reporting configuration information to the terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a network device may send reporting configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report a measurement report of RVQoE to the network device. In some embodiments, the network device sends reporting configuration information to a terminal device, and may send at least one of a radio resource control (RRC) message, a media access control control element (MAC CE), and downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, wherein the RRC message, MAC CE, and DCI include reporting configuration information.

In some embodiments, the network device receives a RVQoE measurement report sent by the terminal device according to the reported configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information to the terminal device. When the terminal device determines to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reporting configuration information, the RVQoE measurement report sent by the terminal device based on the reporting configuration information can be received.

In some embodiments, the network device receives the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device according to the reported configuration information, including: the first sub-device of the network device receives the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device, and sends the RVQoE measurement report to the second sub-device of the network device.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the first sub-device of the network device may receive the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device, and send the RVQoE measurement report to the second sub-device of the network device.

In some embodiments, the network device sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal device, including: a first sub-device of the network device obtains the reporting configuration information from a second sub-device of the network device, and sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal device.

In the disclosed embodiment, the first sub-device of the network device may obtain the reporting configuration information from the second sub-device of the network device, and send the reporting configuration information to the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the first sub-device is a centralized unit-control plane CU-CP, and the second sub-device is a distributed unit DU.

Exemplarily, the CU-CP receives the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device, and sends the RVQoE measurement report to the DU.

Exemplarily, the CU-CP obtains reporting configuration information from the DU and sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting;

The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting;

A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting;

A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report;

A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value;

A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value;

Stop measuring the reported condition information;

Report exception condition information;

Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value;

Report duration;

Report quantity.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting can be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the measurement reaches the evaluation time requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It is understandable that the measurement meeting the evaluation time requirement may be that the measurement duration is greater than the evaluation time.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a condition of the number of evaluations that triggers measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting can be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the number of measurements reaches the evaluation number requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the evaluation number condition for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that the number of measurements that meets the requirement of the number of evaluations may be the number of measurements that meets the number of evaluations.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers the measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including a first threshold condition of a measurement value for triggering measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the first threshold condition of the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting can be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the measured measurement value reaches the first threshold requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the measurement value meets the first threshold condition of the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that the measured value meeting the requirement of the first threshold may be that the measured value is greater than the first threshold, or that the measured value is less than the first threshold, or that the measured value is within the interval required by the first threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a second threshold condition of the ratio of the measurement value triggering the measurement report to the maximum value.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including a second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report to the terminal device. The second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report can be used to indicate that the measurement report is triggered after the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value reaches the second threshold requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value satisfies the second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value that triggers the measurement report indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Among them, the maximum value can be the minimum buffer time (Minimum Buffer Time).

It can be understood that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value meets the requirement of the second threshold, which may be that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is greater than the second threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is less than the second threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value is within the interval required by the second threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a third threshold condition of the ratio of the measurement value to the target value that triggers the measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including a third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value for triggering measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value for triggering measurement reporting can be used to indicate that measurement reporting is triggered after the ratio of the measured value to the target value reaches the third threshold requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the ratio of the measured value to the target value satisfies the third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the target value for triggering measurement reporting indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Here, for example, the target value can be the minimum buffer time (Minimum Buffer Time).

It can be understood that the ratio of the measured value to the target value meets the requirement of the third threshold, which may be that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is greater than the third threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is less than the third threshold, or that the ratio of the measured value to the target value is within the interval required by the third threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report on the change trend of the measurement value.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report to the terminal device, and the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report can be used to indicate that the measurement report is triggered after the change trend of the measurement value reaches the fourth threshold requirement. Thus, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device under the condition that the change trend of the measurement value satisfies the fourth threshold condition of the change trend of the measurement value that triggers the measurement report indicated by the network device, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that the change trend of the measured value meets the requirement of the fourth threshold, which may be that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is greater than the fourth threshold, or that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is less than the fourth threshold, or that the change of the measured value compared with the previous measurement value is within the interval range required by the fourth threshold, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include condition information for stopping measurement reporting.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including conditional information for stopping measurement reporting to the terminal device, and the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the conditional information for stopping measurement reporting is met. Thus, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the conditional information for stopping measurement reporting indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It is understandable that the terminal device stops reporting the RVQoE measurement report when determining that the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include condition information of reporting exceptions.

In an exemplary embodiment, the network device sends reporting configuration information including conditional information of reporting exceptions to the terminal device, and the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when it is determined that the conditional information of reporting exceptions is met. Thus, the terminal device can stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device when the conditional information of reporting exceptions indicated by the network device is met, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that when the terminal device determines that the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met, the terminal device stops reporting the RVQoE measurement report regardless of whether it is necessary to report the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the condition information for reporting exceptions may be a situation where there is no output from the cache, i.e., the video is paused, or the condition information for stopping measurement reporting may be that the cache has been completed and no further cache is required, for example, the video has been cached and no further cache is required. In the case where the condition information for stopping measurement reporting is met, even if the measurement value (e.g., Buffer Level) is very low (e.g., lower than a predefined first threshold) or is 0 (i.e., the condition is met), measurement reporting may not be performed.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reported configuration information may include indication information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value.

In an exemplary embodiment, after receiving the reporting configuration information including the indication information for indicating the auxiliary information related to the measurement value sent by the network device, the terminal device can report the auxiliary information related to the measurement value together with the RVQoE measurement report. Thus, after receiving the indication information of the network device for indicating the auxiliary information related to the measurement value, the terminal device can report the auxiliary information together with the RVQoE measurement report, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

It can be understood that the auxiliary information related to the measurement value can be used to further determine the measurement content of the RVQoE measurement report.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include a reporting duration.

In an exemplary embodiment, after the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information including the reporting duration sent by the network device, after starting to report the RVQoE measurement report, the terminal device can continue to report the RVQoE measurement report within the reporting duration. Thus, after receiving the reporting duration indicated by the network device, the terminal device can continue to report the RVQoE measurement report within the reporting duration, and can stop reporting after exceeding the reporting duration, so that the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

The reporting duration may be used to indicate that after the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report starts, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report continues within the reporting duration.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reporting configuration information may include the reporting quantity.

In an exemplary embodiment, after the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information including the reporting quantity sent by the network device, after starting to report the RVQoE measurement report, it can report the RVQoE measurement report corresponding to the reporting quantity, and after reaching the corresponding number of the reporting quantity, stop reporting the RVQoE measurement report. Thus, after receiving the reporting quantity indicated by the network device, the terminal device can report the RVQoE measurement report of the reporting quantity, and the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be more flexible.

Among them, the reporting quantity can be used to indicate that after the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report starts, the number of RVQoE measurement reports continuously reported can be at most the number corresponding to the reporting quantity. After exceeding the number corresponding to the reporting quantity, the reporting of the RVQoE measurement report can be stopped.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are not exhaustive but are only illustrations of some embodiments, and the above embodiments may be implemented individually or in combination. The above embodiments are only for illustration and are not intended to be specific limitations on the scope of protection of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

In an exemplary embodiment, when the reporting configuration information includes an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting and a first threshold condition for the measurement value for triggering measurement reporting, if the measurement value always meets the first threshold requirement within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device. If the measurement value does not meet the first threshold requirement within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In an exemplary embodiment, when the reporting configuration information includes an evaluation time condition for triggering measurement reporting and a fourth threshold condition for a change trend of a measurement value for triggering measurement reporting, if the change trend of the measurement value always meets the requirement of the fourth threshold within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device. If the change trend of the measurement value does not meet the requirement of the fourth threshold within the evaluation time requirement, the terminal device may determine to cancel reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In some embodiments, the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the RVQoE measurement report may include auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following:

Reason value;

Message used to request additional transmission.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the auxiliary information includes a cause value, wherein the cause value is used to indicate the cause of the RVQoE measurement report reporting. Exemplarily, the cause value is cache completion, etc.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the auxiliary information includes information for requesting to increase transmission. The information for requesting to increase transmission can be used to indicate that the terminal device requests to increase transmission information, so that the network device increases the transmission of corresponding information for the terminal device. Exemplarily, the information for requesting to increase transmission can be a delivery boost request (DeliveryBoostRequest)

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

By implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure, the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device; according to the reporting configuration information, it is determined whether to report the measurement report of the visible quality of experience RVQoE of the wireless access network to the network device. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be flexibly reported, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

Please refer to Figure 10, which is a flow chart of another capability reporting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 10, the method is executed by a network device, and the method may include but is not limited to the following steps:

S101: Receive capability information reported by a terminal device, where the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting an RVQoE measurement report to a network device according to reporting configuration information.

In the disclosed embodiment, the network device may receive capability information reported by the terminal device, where the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting a measurement report of RVQoE to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In addition, after receiving the capability information reported by the terminal device, if the network device determines that it supports reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information, the network device can send the reporting configuration information to the terminal device.

For example, the capability information may indicate whether the access layer entity of the terminal device supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information, and/or the capability information may indicate whether the application layer entity supports reporting RVQoE measurement reports to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

Among them, the relevant description of the network device sending the reporting configuration information to the terminal device can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, and will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that the relevant description of reporting configuration information can be found in the relevant description in the above embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In this implementation mode or example, unless there is any contradiction, each step can be independent, arbitrarily combined or exchanged in order, and the optional methods or optional examples can be arbitrarily combined and can be arbitrarily combined with other implementation modes or examples.

It should be noted that in the embodiment of the present disclosure, S101 can be implemented alone or in combination with any other step in the embodiment of the present disclosure, such as being implemented in combination with S91 in the embodiment of the present disclosure, and the embodiment of the present disclosure is not limited to this.

By implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, the network device receives capability information reported by the terminal device before sending the reporting configuration information to the terminal device, wherein the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. Thus, the RVQoE measurement report can be reported flexibly, so that the network device can obtain a more accurate RVQoE measurement report according to the demand, and perform more effective resource scheduling.

To facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present disclosure, an exemplary embodiment is provided.

In the exemplary embodiment, description is given by taking the reported configuration information as the first information, the network device as the first node or the second node, and the measurement report as the RVQoE measurement report as an example.

The terminal device executes: determining first information for triggering measurement reporting, and sending a measurement report to the first node or the second node based on the first information.

In some embodiments, the first node includes at least one of a base station, a gNB-CU, a gNB-CU-CP, or a gNB-DU.

In some embodiments, the terminal device determines first information for triggering measurement reporting, including: the terminal device receives the first information for triggering measurement reporting according to or from the first node.

In some embodiments, the first information used to trigger the measurement report includes at least one of the following:

The evaluation time for triggering measurement reporting is used to evaluate whether the measurement value or the change trend of the measurement value has always met the threshold within the evaluation time. If the threshold is always met, the measurement is reported; if the threshold is not met, no report is made;

The evaluation number for triggering measurement reporting is used to evaluate the number of times that the continuous measurement values or the change trend of the measurement values meet the threshold. If the evaluation number is reached, the measurement is reported; if not, no report is made;

a measurement value threshold for triggering reporting, wherein the measurement value threshold is a specific measurement value or a ratio, wherein the ratio is a percentage between the measurement value and the maximum value or the target value;

The change trend threshold of the measurement value that triggers the reporting is used to indicate the change trend of the measurement value. If each measurement value continues to decrease or increase compared with the previous measurement value, it can be judged that the change trend is met;

Reporting exception condition information, used to indicate that even if the threshold is met, measurement reporting is not required under the conditions;

The auxiliary information indication related to the measurement value is used to instruct the terminal device to report the auxiliary information together with the measurement report after triggering the measurement report. The auxiliary information can be used for further judgment of the measurement content.

In some embodiments, the measured value is the buffer level, and the target value or maximum value is MBT (Minimum Buffer Time).

In some embodiments, the measurement value is the buffer level, and the reporting exception condition may be a situation where there is no buffer output, i.e., video playback is paused, or the reporting exception condition is that the video has been cached and no further caching is required. If the above conditions are met, even if the measurement value (e.g., Buffer Level) is very low (e.g., below a predefined threshold) or is 0 (i.e., meets the conditions), measurement reporting is not required.

In some embodiments, the “terminal device determines first information for triggering measurement reporting, and sends a measurement report to the first node or the second node according to the first information” includes:

The application layer of the terminal device determines the first information, and determines to send a first measurement report to the access layer of the terminal device based on the first information, and the access layer of the terminal device sends the first measurement report from the application layer to the first node; or

The access layer of the terminal device determines the first information, generates a first measurement report based on the first information and a second measurement report from the application layer, and sends the first measurement report to the first node, wherein the second measurement report is a measurement report generated based on a period.

In some embodiments, if the application layer of the terminal device determines the first information, the application layer of the terminal device receives the first information for triggering measurement reporting from the access layer of the terminal device.

In some embodiments, “sending a measurement report to the first node or the second node” further includes:

The measurement report includes auxiliary information of the measurement, and the auxiliary information of the measurement is used to assist in determining the measurement result.

In some embodiments, the measured auxiliary information includes at least one of the following:

A cause value, used to indicate the cause of the measurement report, for example, the cause value is cache completion, etc.;

Information used to request a delivery boost, for example, DeliveryBoostRequest.

In some embodiments, "the terminal device receives first information for triggering measurement reporting from the first node", wherein the first information for triggering measurement reporting is received by the first node from the second node.

In some embodiments, the first node is a gNB-CU-CP and the second node is a gNB-DU.

In the disclosed embodiment, a flexible RVQoE reporting configuration and mechanism is used to allow network devices to obtain more accurate RVQoE information according to demand, so as to perform resource scheduling more effectively.

In the above-mentioned embodiments provided by the present disclosure, the methods provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are introduced from the perspectives of terminal equipment and network equipment respectively.

Please refer to Figure 9, which is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device 1 provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication device 1 shown in Figure 9 may include a transceiver module 11 and a processing module 12. The transceiver module may include a sending module and/or a receiving module, the sending module is used to implement a sending function, the receiving module is used to implement a receiving function, and the transceiver module may implement a sending function and/or a receiving function.

The communication device 1 may be a terminal device, a device in a terminal device, or a device that can be used in conjunction with a terminal device. Alternatively, the communication device 1 may be a network device, a device in a network device, or a device that can be used in conjunction with a network device.

The communication device 1 is configured on the terminal device side:

The device includes: a transceiver module 11 and a processing module 12.

The transceiver module 11 is configured to receive reporting configuration information sent by the network device.

The processing module 12 is configured to determine whether to report a measurement report of the wireless access network visible quality of experience RVQoE to the network device according to the reporting configuration information.

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 11 is further configured to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information in response to determining to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In some embodiments, the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting;

The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting;

A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting;

A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report;

A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value;

A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value;

Stop measuring the reported condition information;

Report exception condition information;

Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value;

Report duration;

Report quantity.

In some embodiments, an access layer entity of a terminal device receives reported configuration information sent by a network device.

In some embodiments, an application layer entity of a terminal device receives reporting configuration information sent by an access layer entity of the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the application layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to send a measurement report of RVQoE to the access layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information;

In some embodiments, the access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on whether the RVQoE measurement report and/or reporting configuration information sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device is received.

In some embodiments, the access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device based on the reported configuration information.

In some embodiments, the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following:

Reason value;

Message used to request additional transmission.

Communication device 1, configured on the network device side:

The device includes: a transceiver module 11.

The transceiver module 11 is configured to send reporting configuration information to the terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device.

In some embodiments, the transceiver module 11 is further configured to receive a RVQoE measurement report sent by the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information.

In some embodiments, a first sub-device of the network device receives a RVQoE measurement report reported by a terminal device, and sends the RVQoE measurement report to a second sub-device of the network device.

In some embodiments, the first sub-device of the network device obtains the reporting configuration information from the second sub-device of the network device, and sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the first sub-device is a centralized unit-control plane CU-CP, and the second sub-device is a distributed unit DU.

In some embodiments, the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting;

The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting;

A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting;

A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report;

A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value;

A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value;

Stop measuring the reported condition information;

Report exception condition information;

Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value;

Report duration;

Report quantity.

In some embodiments, the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in making an auxiliary judgment on the RVQoE measurement report.

In some embodiments, the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following:

Reason value;

Message used to request additional transmission.

Regarding the communication device 1 in the above embodiment, the specific manner in which each module performs operations has been described in detail in the embodiment of the method, and will not be elaborated here.

The communication device 1 provided in the above embodiments of the present disclosure achieves the same or similar beneficial effects as the measurement report reporting methods provided in some of the above embodiments, which will not be described in detail here.

Please refer to Figure 10, which is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device 1000 provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication device 1000 can be a terminal device, or a network device, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the terminal device to implement the above method, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the network device to implement the above method. The communication device 1000 can be used to implement the method described in the above method embodiment, and the details can be referred to the description in the above method embodiment.

The communication device 1000 may include one or more processors 1001. The processor 1001 may be a general-purpose processor or a dedicated processor, etc. For example, it may be a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor may be used to process the communication protocol and communication data, and the central processing unit may be used to control the communication device (such as a network device, a baseband chip, a terminal device, a terminal device chip, a DU or a CU, etc.), execute a computer program, and process the data of the computer program.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include one or more memories 1002, on which a computer program 1004 may be stored, and the memory 1002 executes the computer program 1004 so that the communication device 1000 executes the method described in the above method embodiment. Optionally, data may also be stored in the memory 1002. The communication device 1000 and the memory 1002 may be provided separately or integrated together.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include a transceiver 1005 and an antenna 1006. The transceiver 1005 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, or a transceiver circuit, etc., for implementing a transceiver function. The transceiver 1005 may include a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver may be referred to as a receiver or a receiving circuit, etc., for implementing a receiving function; the transmitter may be referred to as a transmitter or a transmitting circuit, etc., for implementing a transmitting function.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include one or more interface circuits 1007. The interface circuit 1007 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor 1001. The processor 1001 executes the code instructions to enable the communication device 1000 to execute the method described in the above method embodiment.

The communication device 1000 is a terminal device: the transceiver 1005 and the processor 1001 are used to execute S21 to S22 in Figure 2; S31 to S33 in Figure 3; S41 to S44 in Figure 4; S51 to S52 in Figure 5; S61 to S62 in Figure 6; S71 to S73 in Figure 7; and S81 in Figure 8.

The communication device 1000 is a network device: the transceiver 1005 is used to execute S91 in FIG. 9 and S101 in FIG. 10 .

In one implementation, the processor 1001 may include a transceiver for implementing receiving and sending functions. For example, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit, an interface, or an interface circuit. The transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit for implementing the receiving and sending functions may be separate or integrated. The above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for reading and writing code/data, or the above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for transmitting or delivering signals.

In one implementation, the processor 1001 may store a computer program 1003, which runs on the processor 1001 and enables the communication device 1000 to perform the method described in the above method embodiment. The computer program 1003 may be fixed in the processor 1001, in which case the processor 1001 may be implemented by hardware.

In one implementation, the communication device 1000 may include a circuit that can implement the functions of sending or receiving or communicating in the aforementioned method embodiments. The processor and transceiver described in the present disclosure may be implemented in an integrated circuit (IC), an analog IC, a radio frequency integrated circuit RFIC, a mixed signal IC, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic device, etc. The processor and transceiver may also be manufactured using various IC process technologies, such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (positive channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (BJT), bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc.

The communication device described in the above embodiments may be a terminal device or a network device, but the scope of the communication device described in the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device may not be limited by FIG. 10. The communication device may be an independent device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be:

(1) Independent integrated circuit IC, or chip, or chip system or subsystem;

(2) having a set of one or more ICs, and optionally, the IC set may also include a storage component for storing data and computer programs;

(3) ASIC, such as modem;

(4) Modules that can be embedded in other devices;

(5) Receivers, terminal devices, intelligent terminal devices, cellular phones, wireless devices, handheld devices, mobile units, vehicle-mounted devices, network devices, cloud devices, artificial intelligence devices, etc.;

(6)Others

For the case where the communication device may be a chip or a chip system, please refer to FIG. 11 , which is a structural diagram of a chip provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure.

The chip 1100 includes a processor 1101 and an interface 1103. The number of the processor 1101 may be one or more, and the number of the interface 1103 may be multiple.

For the case where the chip is used to implement the functions of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present disclosure:

The interface 1103 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor.

The processor 1101 is configured to execute code instructions to execute the measurement report reporting method as described in some of the above embodiments.

For the case where the chip is used to implement the functions of the network device in the embodiment of the present disclosure:

The interface 1103 is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor.

The processor 1101 is configured to execute code instructions to execute the measurement report reporting method as described in some of the above embodiments.

Optionally, the chip 1100 further includes a memory 1102, and the memory 1102 is used to store necessary computer programs and data.

Those skilled in the art may also understand that the various illustrative logical blocks and steps listed in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by electronic hardware, computer software, or a combination of the two. Whether such functions are implemented by hardware or software depends on the specific application and the design requirements of the entire system. Those skilled in the art may use various methods to implement the functions described for each specific application, but such implementation should not be understood as exceeding the scope of protection of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

An embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a communication system, which includes the communication device as a terminal device and the communication device as a network device in the embodiment of Figure 9 above, or the system includes the communication device as a terminal device and the communication device as a network device in the embodiment of Figure 10 above.

The present disclosure also provides a readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which implement the functions of any of the above method embodiments when executed by a computer.

The present disclosure also provides a computer program product, which implements the functions of any of the above method embodiments when executed by a computer.

In the above embodiments, it can be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented by software, it can be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer programs. When the computer program is loaded and executed on a computer, the process or function described in the embodiment of the present disclosure is generated in whole or in part. The computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium. For example, the computer program can be transmitted from a website site, computer, server or data center by wired (e.g., coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (digital subscriber line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) mode to another website site, computer, server or data center. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server or data center that includes one or more available media integrated. The available medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a high-density digital video disc (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a solid state disk (SSD)), etc.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the various numerical numbers such as first and second involved in the present disclosure are only used for distinction for convenience of description and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and also indicate the order of precedence.

At least one in the present disclosure may also be described as one or more, and a plurality may be two, three, four or more, which is not limited in the present disclosure. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, for a technical feature, the technical features in the technical feature are distinguished by "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D", etc., and there is no order of precedence or size between the technical features described by the "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D".

Depending on the context, the words "if" and "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "when" or "when" or "in response to a determination."

The corresponding relationships shown in the tables in the present disclosure can be configured or predefined. The values of the information in each table are only examples and can be configured as other values, which are not limited by the present disclosure. When configuring the corresponding relationship between the information and each parameter, it is not necessarily required to configure all the corresponding relationships illustrated in each table. For example, in the table in the present disclosure, the corresponding relationships shown in some rows may not be configured. For another example, appropriate deformation adjustments can be made based on the above table, such as splitting, merging, etc. The names of the parameters shown in the titles of the above tables can also use other names that can be understood by the communication device, and the values or representations of the parameters can also be other values or representations that can be understood by the communication device. When implementing the above tables, other data structures can also be used, such as arrays, queues, containers, stacks, linear lists, pointers, linked lists, trees, graphs, structures, classes, heaps, hash tables or hash tables.

The predefined in the present disclosure may be understood as defined, predefined, stored, pre-stored, pre-negotiated, pre-configured, solidified, or pre-burned.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the units and algorithm steps of each example described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Professional and technical personnel can use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scope of this disclosure.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the systems, devices and units described above can refer to the corresponding processes in the aforementioned method embodiments and will not be repeated here.

The above is only a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, but the protection scope of the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Any person skilled in the art who is familiar with the technical field can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope disclosed in the present disclosure, which should be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure should be based on the protection scope of the claims.

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A measurement report reporting method, characterized in that the method is performed by a terminal device and includes: Receive reported configuration information sent by network devices; According to the reporting configuration information, it is determined whether to report a measurement report of the wireless access network visible quality of experience RVQoE to the network device. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises: In response to determining to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device, the RVQoE measurement report is reported to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following: Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting; The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting; A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting; A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report; A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value; A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value; Stop measuring the reported condition information; Report exception condition information; Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value; Report duration; Report quantity. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the receiving the reported configuration information sent by the network device comprises: The access layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the network device. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that the method further comprises: The application layer entity of the terminal device receives the reporting configuration information sent by the access layer entity of the terminal device. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that the determining whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information comprises: The application layer entity of the terminal device determines, according to the reporting configuration information, whether to send the RVQoE measurement report to the access layer entity of the terminal device; The access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to whether the RVQoE measurement report and/or the reporting configuration information sent by the application layer entity of the terminal device is received. The method according to claim 4, wherein determining whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information comprises: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device based on the reporting configuration information and the RVQoE measurement report received from the application layer entity of the terminal device. The method according to claim 4 or 7, characterized in that the method further comprises: The access layer entity of the terminal device determines to discard the RVQoE measurement report obtained from the application layer entity of the terminal device based on the reporting configuration information. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in judging the RVQoE measurement report. The method according to claim 9, wherein the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following: Reason value; Message used to request additional transmission. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that before the receiving the reporting configuration information sent by the network device, the method further comprises: Report capability information to the network device, wherein the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting an RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. A measurement report reporting method, characterized in that the method is performed by a network device and includes: Sending reporting configuration information to the terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report an RVQoE measurement report to the network device. The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the method further comprises: Receive the RVQoE measurement report sent by the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information. The method according to claim 13, wherein the receiving the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device according to the reporting configuration information comprises: The first sub-device of the network device receives the RVQoE measurement report reported by the terminal device, and sends the RVQoE measurement report to the second sub-device of the network device. The method according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the sending of reporting configuration information to the terminal device comprises: The first sub-device of the network device obtains the reporting configuration information from the second sub-device of the network device, and sends the reporting configuration information to the terminal device. The method according to claim 14 or 15 is characterized in that the first sub-device is a centralized unit-control plane CU-CP, and the second sub-device is a distributed unit DU. The method according to any one of claims 12 to 16, wherein the reported configuration information includes at least one of the following: Evaluation time conditions for triggering measurement reporting; The evaluation times conditions that trigger measurement reporting; A first threshold condition of the measurement value that triggers measurement reporting; A second threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value to the maximum value for triggering the measurement report; A third threshold condition of the ratio of the measured value reported to trigger the measurement to the target value; A fourth threshold condition for triggering the measurement report of the change trend of the measurement value; Stop measuring the reported condition information; Report exception condition information; Indicative information for indicating auxiliary information related to the measurement value; Report duration; Report quantity. The method according to any one of claims 12 to 17, characterized in that the RVQoE measurement report includes auxiliary information, and the auxiliary information is used to assist in judging the RVQoE measurement report. The method according to claim 18, wherein the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following: Reason value; Message used to request additional transmission. The method according to any one of claims 12 to 19, characterized in that before sending the reporting configuration information to the terminal device, the method further comprises: Receive capability information reported by the terminal device, wherein the capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports reporting an RVQoE measurement report to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. A communication device, comprising: The transceiver module is configured to receive the reported configuration information sent by the network device; The processing module is configured to determine whether to report a measurement report of the visible quality of experience RVQoE of the radio access network to the network device according to the reporting configuration information. A communication device, comprising: The transceiver module is configured to send reporting configuration information to the terminal device; wherein the reporting configuration information is used by the terminal device to determine whether to report the RVQoE measurement report to the network device. A communication device, characterized in that the device comprises a processor and a memory, the memory stores a computer program, the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory so that the device performs the method as described in any one of claims 1 to 11, or the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory so that the device performs the method as described in any one of claims 12 to 20. A communication device, characterized in that it comprises: a processor and an interface circuit; The interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor; The processor is used to run the code instructions to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, or is used to run the code instructions to execute the method according to any one of claims 12 to 20. A computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions, which, when executed, enables the method according to any one of claims 1 to 11 to be implemented, or, when executed, enables the method according to any one of claims 12 to 20 to be implemented.