CSI obtaining method, server, terminal, and AP

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11121802-B2
Application number	US-201916258303-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2019
Priority date	Jul 28, 2016
Publication date	Sep 14, 2021
Grant date	Sep 14, 2021

Abstract

A method includes determining at least one first measurement AP in first storage APs according to the address of the first AP, sending a second CSI measurement request to the at least one first measurement AP, where the second CSI measurement request includes the address of the terminal, receiving first measurement data, where the first measurement data includes first CSI, the first CSI is obtained after a target measurement AP performs channel estimation on the first service data, and sending the first measurement data or a first processing result to the terminal, where the first processing result is obtained by using the first measurement data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of obtaining channel state information by a server, the method comprising:
receiving a channel state information (CSI) obtaining request sent by a terminal, wherein the CSI obtaining request comprises an address of a first access point (AP) communicatively connected to the terminal and an address of the terminal;
determining at least one first measurement AP in first storage APs according to the address of the first AP, wherein the first storage APs are APs that are stored by the server and that perform channel estimation on service data to obtain CSI, and the at least one first measurement AP is an AP within coverage corresponding to the address of the first AP;
sending a first CSI measurement request to the at least one first measurement AP, wherein the first CSI measurement request comprises the address of the terminal, so that the at least one first measurement AP listens to, according to the address of the terminal, first service data sent by the terminal;
receiving first measurement data, wherein the first measurement data comprises first CSI, the first CSI is obtained after a target measurement AP performs channel estimation on the first service data obtained by means of listening, and the target measurement AP is an AP that obtains the first service data by means of listening in the at least one first measurement AP; and
sending, by the server, the first measurement data or a first processing result to the terminal, wherein the first processing result is obtained by using the first measurement data.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining precision of the first processing result according to the first measurement data;
if the precision is less than or equal to a preset threshold, sending a multicast request to the terminal, wherein the multicast request comprises an address of the at least one first measurement AP, and the multicast request is used to instruct the terminal to send second service data to the at least one first measurement AP; and
receiving second measurement data fed back by the at least one first measurement AP, wherein the second measurement data comprises second CSI, and the second CSI is obtained after the at least one first measurement AP performs channel estimation on the second service data; and
sending the second measurement data or a second processing result to the terminal, wherein the second processing result is obtained by using the second measurement data.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the determining at least one first measurement AP according to the address of the first AP, the method further comprising:
sending a second CSI measurement request to the terminal, wherein the second CSI measurement request comprises an address of the at least one first measurement AP, so that the terminal determines a second measurement AP according to the address of the at least one first measurement AP.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first measurement data further comprises identification information of the first CSI, and the identification information of the first CSI comprises at least one of an antenna configuration of the at least one first measurement AP, a frequency band of the at least one first measurement AP, a channel of the at least one first measurement AP, a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the terminal, or a MAC address of the at least one first measurement AP.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining at least one first measurement AP in first storage APs according to the address of the first AP comprises:
determining, according to the address of the first AP, the coverage corresponding to the address of the first AP; and
determining, according to the coverage and an address of the first storage AP, the at least one first measurement AP that is located within the coverage and that is in the first storage AP.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the determining, according to the coverage and an address of the first storage AP, the at least one first measurement AP located within the coverage comprises:
determining, according to the coverage and the address of the first storage AP, the at least one first to-be-determined AP located within the coverage; and
determining the at least one first measurement AP in the at least one first to-be-determined AP according to at least one of a frequency band used by the at least one first to-be-determined AP, a channel of the at least one first to-be-determined AP, bandwidth of the at least one first to-be-determined AP, network transmission traffic, or network service performance.

7. A method of obtaining channel state information by a terminal, the method comprising:
sending a channel state information (CSI) obtaining request to a server, wherein the CSI obtaining request comprises an address of a first AP communicatively connected to the terminal and an address of the terminal; and
receiving first measurement data or a first processing result sent by the server, wherein the first processing result is obtained by using the first measurement data, and the first measurement data comprises first CSI.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving an address of at least one first measurement AP and precision of the first processing result that are sent by the server;
if the precision is less than or equal to a preset threshold, sending second service data to the at least one first measurement AP, so that the at least one first measurement AP performs channel estimation on the second service data to obtain second CSI; and
receiving second measurement data or a second processing result sent by the server, wherein the second measurement data comprises the second CSI, and the second processing result is obtained by using the second measurement data.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein after sending a CSI obtaining request to a server, the method further comprising:
obtaining a union set of an address of a second storage AP and an address of the at least one first measurement AP to obtain an address of a second measurement AP, wherein the second storage AP is an AP that is stored by the terminal and that can be is communicatively connected to the terminal, and the address of the at least one first measurement AP is from the server;
listening to, according to the address of the second measurement AP, third service data sent by an AP in the second measurement AP; and
when the third service data is received, performing channel estimation on the third service data to obtain third CSI.

10. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
obtaining at least one of a service precision requirement or a service algorithm complexity requirement; and
sending the CSI obtaining request to the server only when the service precision requirement is greater than a first preset value and/or or when the service algorithm complexity requirement is greater than a second preset value.

11. A server, comprising:
a receiving module configured to receive a channel state information (CSI) obtaining request sent by a terminal, wherein the CSI obtaining request comprises an address of a first access point AP communicatively connected to the terminal and an address of the terminal;
a processing module configured to determine at least one first measurement AP in first storage APs according to the address of the first AP, wherein the first storage APs are APs that are stored by the server and that perform channel estimation on service data to obtain CSI, and the at least one first measurement AP is an AP within coverage corresponding to the address of the first AP; and
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Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jiang Weipeng
• Liu Yongjun
• Lei Yun

Classifications

• H04L1/0026 Primary

  Transmission of channel quality indication · CPC title

• H04W24/10 Primary

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04L9/40

  Network security protocols · CPC title

• H04W24/00

  Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title