Measurement gap determining method and apparatus, and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12574773-B2
Application number	US-202117549888-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2021
Priority date	Jun 14, 2019
Publication date	Mar 10, 2026
Grant date	Mar 10, 2026

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a measurement gap determining method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method comprises: the terminal receives first configuration information and/or second configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the first configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap used before BWP switch and a second measurement gap used after the BWP switch, and the second configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap sharing scheme used before the BWP switch and a second measurement gap sharing scheme used after the BWP switch.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A measurement gap determining method, the method comprising:
a terminal receiving first configuration information and/or second configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the first configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap used before a bandwidth part (BWP) switch and a second measurement gap used after the BWP switch, and the second configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap sharing scheme used before the BWP switch and a second measurement gap sharing scheme used after the BWP switch, wherein the terminal switches from a first BWP to a second BWP in a first measurement period, and the first measurement period is divided into a first time segment and a second time segment by a BWP switch interruption; wherein:
in the first time segment, the first BWP is in an activated state;
if a first signal is completely located within the first BWP or the first BWP is an initial BWP, the measurement of the first signal does not require the measurement gap; or
if the signal is completely or partially located outside the first BWP, the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap;
wherein:
in the second time segment, the terminal determines whether the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap based on a positional relationship between the second BWP and the first signal;
in the second time segment, the second BWP is in an activated state;
the step of the terminal determining, in the second time segment, whether the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap based on the positional relationship between the second BWP and the first signal comprises:
if the first signal is completely located within the second BWP or the second BWP is an initial BWP, the measurement of the first signal does not require the measurement gap;
if the first signal is completely or partially located outside the second BWP, the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap;
wherein the method further comprises:
 if the terminal does not support simultaneous reception of the first signal and data, for the condition that the measurement gap is not required for the measurement of the first signal, the terminal cannot transmit signals in a timing window where the first signal is located; or
if the terminal does not support simultaneous reception of the first signal and data, for the condition that the measurement gap is not required for the measurement of the first signal, the terminal cannot transmit signals in a timing window where the first signal is located, as well as n1 symbols before the first signal and n2 symbols after the first signal, and n1 and n2 are positive integers;

wherein for the condition that the measurement gap is required for the measurement of the first signal, the terminal cannot transmit signals other than the measurement within the measurement gap.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first configuration information comprises a configuration of a plurality of measurement gap patterns, and the configuration of each of the plurality of measurement gap patterns comprises at least one of the following: a measurement gap length, and a measurement gap repetition period.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the second configuration information supports the following configurations of the first and second measurement gap sharing schemes:
each measurement frequency layer equally splits measurement opportunities of the measurement gap; intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement equally split the measurement opportunities of the measurement gap according to a ratio, and there are a plurality of values of the ratio.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the first measurement gap and/or the first measurement gap sharing scheme is determined according to whether the measurement gap is required before the BWP switch; the second measurement gap and/or the second measurement gap sharing scheme is determined according to whether the measurement gap is required after the BWP switch; wherein the terminal determines the first measurement gap before the BWP switch and the second measurement gap after the BWP switch from the first configuration information according to first indication information, and/or, determines the first measurement gap sharing scheme before the BWP switch and the second measurement gap sharing scheme after the BWP switch from the second configuration information according to second indication information.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first indication information is carried in downlink control information DCI or a radio resource control RRC message;
wherein the second indication information is carried in DCI or RRC message; wherein the DCI or the RRC message further carries third indication information, and the third indication information is used to indicate the terminal to switch from the first BWP to the second BWP.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the measurement of the first signal belongs to an intra-frequency measurement; or, the measurement of the first signal belongs to an inter-frequency measurement.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
the terminal sending first capability information to the network device, and the first capability information is used to indicate a capability of measurement gap supported by the terminal.

8 . A terminal, wherein the terminal comprises a memory and a processor, the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to execute the computer program stored in the memory to cause the terminal to perform an operation of:
receiving first configuration information and/or second configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the first configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap used before a bandwidth part (BWP) switch and a second measurement gap used after the BWP switch, the second configuration information is used for the terminal to determine a first measurement gap sharing scheme used before the BWP switch and a second measurement gap sharing scheme used after the BWP switch, wherein the terminal switches from a first BWP to a second BWP in a first measurement period, and the first measurement period is divided into a first time segment and a second time segment by a BWP switch interruption; wherein:
in the first time segment, the first BWP is in an activated state;
if the first signal is completely located within the first BWP or the first BWP is an initial BWP, the measurement of the first signal does not require the measurement gap; or
if the signal is completely or partially located outside the first BWP, the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap;
wherein:
in the second time segment, the terminal determines whether the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap based on a positional relationship between the second BWP and the first signal;
in the second time segment, the second BWP is in an activated state;
the step of the terminal determining, in the second time segment, whether the measurement of the first signal requires the measurement gap based on the positional relationship between the second BWP and the first signal comprises:
if the first signal is completely located within the second BWP or the second BWP is an initial BWP, the measurement of the first signal does not require the measurement gap;
if the first signal is completely or partially located outside the second BWP, the measurement of the first signal requires

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Hu Rongyi
• Xu Weijie
• Wang Shukun
• Shi Cong

Classifications

• H04W24/02

  Arrangements for optimising operational condition · CPC title

• H04W36/0094

  Definition of hand-off measurement parameters · CPC title

• H04W24/10 Primary

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

• H04W36/0088 Primary

  Scheduling hand-off measurements · CPC title