Uplink measurement management method, apparatus, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12335754-B2
Application number	US-202217987115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 15, 2022
Priority date	May 20, 2020
Publication date	Jun 17, 2025
Grant date	Jun 17, 2025

Abstract

Embodiments of this application provide an uplink measurement management method. The method includes: A radio access network (RAN) device receives a first message from a positioning device, where the first message is used by the positioning device to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message includes a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount. The RAN device measures an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) of a terminal device based on the measurement periodicity and the measurement amount, and sends a first response to the positioning device, where the first response includes a measurement result of the uplink SRS.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An uplink measurement management method, comprising:
receiving, by a radio access network (RAN) device, a first message from a positioning device, wherein the first message is used to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message comprises a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount;
measuring, by the RAN device, an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) of a terminal device based on the measurement periodicity and the measurement amount; and
sending, by the RAN device, a first response to the positioning device, wherein the first response comprises a measurement result of the uplink SRS.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measurement result of the uplink SRS comprises at least one of the following parameters: signal strength of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, information about time of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, or information about an angle of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the RAN device comprises any one of the following devices: a serving RAN device of the terminal device, a first central unit (CU) connected to a serving distributed unit (DU) of the terminal device, a first central unit-control plane unit (CU-CP) comprised in the first CU, a neighboring-cell RAN device of the terminal device, a second CU connected to a neighboring-cell DU of the terminal device, or a second CU-CP comprised in the second CU.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the positioning device is a location management function (LMF).

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first message is a new radio positioning protocol A (NRPPa) measurement request message, and the first response is an NRPPa measurement report message.

6. An uplink measurement management method, comprising:
sending, by a positioning device, a first message to a radio access network (RAN) device, wherein the first message is used to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message comprises a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount; and
receiving, by the positioning device, a first response from the RAN device, wherein the first response comprises a measurement result of an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS).

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the measurement result of the uplink SRS comprises at least one of the following parameters: signal strength of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, information about time of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, or information about an angle of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the RAN device comprises any one of the following devices: a serving RAN device of a terminal device, a first central unit (CU) connected to a serving distributed unit (DU) of the terminal device, a first central unit-control plane unit (CU-CP) comprised in the first CU, a neighboring-cell RAN device of the terminal device, a second CU connected to a neighboring-cell DU of the terminal device, or a second CU-CP comprised in the second CU.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the positioning device is a location management function (LMF).

10. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first message is a new radio positioning protocol A (NRPPa) measurement request message, and the first response is an NRPPa measurement report message.

11. A radio access network (RAN) device, comprising:
a transceiver;
at least one processor; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the RAN device to:
receive a first message from a positioning device, wherein the first message is used to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message comprises a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount;
measure an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) of a terminal device based on the measurement periodicity and the measurement amount; and
send a first response to the positioning device, wherein the first response comprises a measurement result of the uplink SRS.

12. The RAN device according to claim 11 , wherein the measurement result of the uplink SRS comprises at least one of the following parameters: signal strength of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, information about time of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, or information about an angle of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device.

13. The RAN device according to claim 11 , wherein the RAN device comprises any one of the following devices: a serving RAN device of the terminal device, a first central unit (CU) connected to a serving distributed unit (DU) of the terminal device, a first central unit-control plane unit (CU-CP) comprised in the first CU, a neighboring-cell RAN device of the terminal device, a second CU connected to a neighboring-cell DU of the terminal device, or a second CU-CP comprised in the second CU.

14. The RAN device according to claim 11 , wherein the first message is a new radio positioning protocol A (NRPPa) measurement request message, and the first response is an NRPPa measurement report message.

15. A positioning device, comprising:
a transceiver;
at least one processor; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the positioning device to:
send a first message to a radio access network (RAN) device, wherein the first message is used to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message comprises a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount; and
receive a first response from the RAN device, wherein the first response comprises a measurement result of an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS).

16. The positioning device according to claim 15 , wherein the measurement result of the uplink SRS comprises at least one of the following parameters: signal strength of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, information about time of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device, or information about an angle of arrival of the uplink SRS received by the RAN device.

17. The positioning device according to claim 15 , wherein the positioning device is a location management function (LMF).

18. The positioning device according to claim 15 , wherein the first message is a new radio positioning protocol A (NRPPa) measurement request message, and the first response is an NRPPa measurement report message.

19. A communications system, comprising a radio access network (RAN) device and a positioning device, wherein
the RAN device, comprising:
a first transceiver;
at least one first processor; and
one or more first memories coupled to the at least one first processor and storing programming instructions that, when executed by the at least one first processor, cause the RAN device to:
receive a first message from the positioning device, wherein the first message is used by the positioning device to request the RAN device to perform uplink measurement, and the first message comprises a measurement periodicity and a measurement amount;
measure an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) of a terminal device based on the measurement periodicity and the measurement amount; and
send a first response to the positioning device, wherein the first response comprises

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hao Jinping
• Xu Bin
• Yao Ting

Classifications

• H04W24/10

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

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• G01S5/0236

  Assistance data, e.g. base station almanac · CPC title

• G01S5/0221

  Receivers · CPC title

• G01S5/0063

  of measured values, i.e. measurement on base station and position calculation on mobile · CPC title