CN109936590B - Information transmission method and device, computer storage medium, communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses an information transmission method and device, a computer storage medium and a communication system, which are used for enabling a position application platform to acquire position information of one or more user equipment served by a base station at one time through acquisition equipment, and avoiding a related flow of independently initiating a position report for each user, thereby saving signaling overhead of a communication network, avoiding the need of modifying a core network, saving cost and being easy to implement. An information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes: determining location related information of User Equipment (UE); and sending a message containing the UE position related information to a core network according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between a base station and acquisition equipment, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and the acquisition equipment analyzes the message according to the information transmission format and acquires the UE position related information, and provides the UE position related information to a position application platform.

Description

Information transmission method and device, computer storage medium, communication system

technical field

The present application relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to information transmission methods and devices, computer storage media, and communication systems.

Background technique

Some location applications in the prior art, for example, big data analysis based on user location, need to acquire location information of all users under the base station in real time. In the prior art, however, the location application platform needs to independently initiate a location reporting process for each user, which brings a large signaling load to the mobile communication network device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The embodiments of the present application provide an information transmission method and device, a computer storage medium, and a communication system, so that the location application platform can obtain the location information of one or more user equipments served by the base station at one time through the acquisition device, avoiding the need for independent information for each user. Initiate the relevant process of location reporting, thereby saving the signaling overhead of the communication network, and without the need to transform the core network, saving costs and being easy to implement.

On the base station side, an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

determining the location-related information of the user equipment UE;

Send a message containing the location-related information of the UE to the core network according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and makes the collection device follow the The information transmission format parses the message and obtains the location-related information of the UE, and provides the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Through this method, the location-related information of the user equipment UE is determined, and according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the acquisition device, a message containing the location-related information of the UE is sent to the core network, so that the core network discards the information. Or ignore the message, and make the collection device parse the message according to the information transmission format and obtain the location-related information of the UE, and provide the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform, so that The location application platform obtains the location information of one or more user equipment served by the base station at one time through the acquisition device, avoiding the relevant process of independently initiating the location report for each user, thereby saving the signaling overhead of the communication network, and eliminating the need for the core network. Retrofit, cost saving and easy to implement.

Optionally, a message including the location-related information of the UE is sent to the core network through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network.

Optionally, the message is a non-standard message.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Therefore, the embodiment of the present application can further enable the collection device to provide more accurate and comprehensive user location information such as the indoor location information, outdoor location information, and/or location-related measurement information of the UE to the location application platform, thereby enabling the location application platform Provide more accurate and user-perceived location services.

Correspondingly, on the side of the collection device, an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

According to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the acquisition device, obtain the location-related information of the user equipment UE sent by the base station to the core network;

The location related information of the UE is provided to the location application platform.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the location application platform, an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

Obtain location-related information of the user equipment UE through interaction with the collection device;

A location service is provided based on the location-related information of the UE.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the base station side, an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

a determining unit, configured to determine the location-related information of the user equipment UE;

A sending unit, configured to send a message containing the location-related information of the UE to the core network according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and makes The collection device parses the message according to the information transmission format, acquires the location-related information of the UE, and provides the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Optionally, the sending unit sends a message including the location-related information of the UE to the core network through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network.

Optionally, the message is a non-standard message.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the collection device, an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

an acquisition unit, configured to acquire the location-related information of the user equipment UE sent by the base station to the core network according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the acquisition device;

A sending unit, configured to provide the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the location application platform, an information transmission device provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

an acquisition unit, configured to acquire location-related information of the user equipment UE through interaction with the acquisition device;

a providing unit, configured to provide a location service based on the location-related information of the UE.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

On the other hand, an information transmission device provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

memory for storing program instructions;

The processor is configured to call the program instructions stored in the memory, and execute any one of the above information transmission methods provided by the embodiments of the present application according to the obtained program.

On the other hand, a computer storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present application stores computer-executable instructions, where the computer-executable instructions are used to cause the computer to execute any of the foregoing information transmission methods provided by the embodiments of the present application.

On the other hand, a communication system provided by an embodiment of the present application includes any one or more of the above-mentioned information transmission apparatuses provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the system further includes core network equipment.

Description of drawings

In order to illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application more clearly, the following briefly introduces the drawings used in the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without any creative effort.

1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture provided by an embodiment of the present application;

2 is a schematic flowchart of a specific flow of an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

3 is a schematic flowchart of an information transmission method on a base station side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

4 is a schematic flowchart of an information transmission method on a collection device side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

5 is a schematic flowchart of an information transmission method on a location application platform side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an information transmission apparatus on a base station side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an information transmission apparatus on a collection device side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

8 is a schematic structural diagram of an information transmission device on a location application platform side provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourth information transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The embodiments of the present application provide an information transmission method and device, a computer storage medium, and a communication system, so that the location application platform can obtain the location information of one or more user equipments served by the base station at one time through the acquisition device, avoiding the need for independent information for each user. Initiate the relevant process of location reporting, thereby saving the signaling overhead of the communication network, and without the need to transform the core network, saving costs and being easy to implement.

Mobile communication network operators can use base station positioning to combine user identity information and service information generated in the mobile network authorized by the user with user location information in real time, so as to provide mobile users and partners (such as CP (Content Provider, content provider). Provider)/SP (Service Provider, service provider)) provides personalized and interactive location application services.

It should be noted that, the user described in the embodiments of the present application may refer to user equipment (or referred to as a terminal) or the like.

The terminal implements the collection and processing of position measurement related parameters. The mobile communication network includes two parts, the access network and the core network, which are mainly responsible for the bearer of location service signaling or messages, and provide various network parameters required by the location capability engine. In a 4G network, the access network includes an evolved base station (e-Node B), and the core network includes a mobility management entity (Mobility Management Entity, MME), a system architecture evolution gateway (System Architecture Evolution Gateway, SAE-GW), a home subscription Network elements such as a home subscriber server (HSS) and a gateway mobile location center (Gateway Mobile Location Center, GMLC). On the one hand, the location application platform supports various methods such as Assisted-Global Positioning System (A-GPS) positioning, base station positioning, IP address positioning, etc. Business processing, to meet the application service functions related to the user's location. The location application platform and the core network are transmitted through the Internet.

In addition, there are more and more demand for location applications for indoor scenarios, which are different from outdoor scenarios. In the prior art, standard interfaces are used inside the mobile communication network and between the mobile communication network and the location application platform, and the transmission content of user location information in the standard interface cannot meet the requirements. In the prior art, the transmission content of location information mainly includes the following two types:

First, the location information of the user is at the cell level, that is, what is transmitted is the identity of the cell to which the user belongs;

Second, the location information of the user is at the geographic location level, that is, the longitude and latitude information of the user is transmitted.

For the first one above, the positioning accuracy is low and cannot meet the accuracy requirements of many location services. With the deployment of integrated pico base stations and distributed pico base stations, and the popularization and application of fingerprint matching and positioning calculation methods, more accurate indoor user location information can actually be obtained. The integrated pico base station and the distributed pico base station are small base stations, for example, the integrated pico base station RRU and BBU are integrated together, such as Nanocell; the distributed pico base station is a remote fiber base station with a BBU+RRU structure.

For the above-mentioned second type, on the one hand, due to the weak indoor Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) signal, the longitude and latitude information cannot be obtained. On the other hand, the indoor location information is usually represented by information such as floor and relative reference point position. more intuitive.

If the standard interface is modified accordingly, it will involve the software upgrade of the core network equipment, which is costly and has a large impact. If a private interface is customized between the base station and the location application, and the two are transmitted through the Internet, the network operation security requirements cannot be met due to the base station being attacked and the user's location information being private data.

Based on the above analysis, the network architecture of the location service provided in the embodiment of the present application is shown in FIG. 1 .

In Fig. 1, a collection device is deployed in a mobile communication network. The acquisition device monitors the interface data between the base station and the core network (such as S1-MME, S1-U interface data) and the core network internal interface data (such as S5/8, S6a interface data) by mirroring, and monitors the data. analysis. For the consideration of network operation security, the location application platform can be deployed in the charging domain of the mobile communication network. Optionally, the collection device is connected to the operator's Mobile Digital Communication Network (MDCN) network through a router or a switch, and is connected to the location application platform.

The mirroring method is realized by the multiplexing of the optical splitter, which means that the optical path signal is completely copied and distributed to the application system (for example, the location application platform) through the link optical splitter.

The acquisition device can parse the acquisition content according to the 3GPP standard protocol format, and extract various key information from it, such as: user ID, Tracking Area Code (TAC), cell ID, source IP address, destination IP address, source port , destination port, protocol number, etc.; record and distribute according to the data content and format requirements required by the application system; further, in the embodiment of this application, the 3GPP standard protocol interface is extended, and the extended content adopts the private interface format; the acquisition device needs to be able to Identify extended content.

That is to say, in this embodiment of the present application, the transmission mode and data format of user location-related information are agreed between the base station and the collection device. The specific implementation process, for example, as shown in FIG. 2 , includes:

Step 1: The base station obtains measurement information related to the user's location, which can be the user's location-related information measured by the base station itself, or the user's location-related measurement information measured by the terminal and reported to the base station; the base station can calculate the user's location accordingly. information, which can be the location information of outdoor users or the precise location information of indoor users;

Step 2: The base station transmits the user's location-related information to the MME through the control interface (S1-MME interface) between the base station and the MME; wherein, the user's location information here may include the location information of all users under the base station, not limited to The location information of a specific user; and, in this step, the base station extends the 3GPP standard interface message, and the extended content is non-standard, that is, the MME cannot parse the content in the message;

Step 3: Therefore, the MME parses the message containing the user's location-related information sent by the base station to the MME according to the standard S1-MME interface definition, and cannot identify the user's location-related information reported by the base station, and then discards or ignores the message;

Step 4: The acquisition device monitors the S1-MME interface, identifies the user location-related information transmitted by the base station to the core network according to the information transmission format agreed with the base station in advance, and constructs a record related to the user's location, and provides it to the location application platform;

Step 5: The location application platform (such as a location-based big data analysis platform) processes the above records according to the agreed format, and uses the obtained user location-related information to provide services such as user behavior analysis and business operation analysis.

Wherein, the information transmission format pre-agreed by the collection device and the base station, for example, the agreed format shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1

In the above Table 1, the user location-related information may be measurement information related to the user's location, such as signal strength, signal arrival angle, time advance, etc.; location information; it may be indoor location information, or outdoor longitude and latitude information, etc., which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application. If it is the measurement information related to the user's location, the location application platform can obtain the user's precise location information through positioning calculation after obtaining the measurement information related to the user's location. The specific calculation method can be realized by using the existing technology. The calculation method can be, for example, a time of arrival (Time of Arrival, TOA), an Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) method, a fingerprint matching algorithm, etc., all of which are in the prior art and will not be described again.

Since the message carrying the user location-related information sent by the base station to the MME is a non-standard message (eg, as shown in the description of the message type in Table 1), the MME cannot recognize the message after receiving it, so it discards it. After receiving the message, the collecting device can obtain the location-related information of the users included in each cell in the current mobile network. Here, it should be noted that, if the message is a message obtained by modifying an existing S1 Application Protocol (S1-Application Protocol, S1-AP) message, then the attribute of the modified message is the "ignore" attribute, That is, the attribute is ignored, because the MME only ignores the message for which the attribute is ignored ("ignore") without special processing. Otherwise, if the message attribute is a reject ("reject") attribute, the MME will refuse to process the message with the "reject" attribute, trigger a failure process, and generate an alarm, which affects the normal signaling process.

Wherein, with regard to the execution of the above-mentioned step 2, the execution can be controlled by the setting of control parameters. For example, the control parameters may include parameters such as whether the base station transmits user location-related information to the MME and the transmission period, and these parameters are configured by the operation management (Operation&Management, O&M) . When the control switch for the base station to transmit the user location related information to the MME is turned on, the base station transmits the user location related information to the MME through a non-standard message of the S1-MME interface. Specifically, the transmission may be performed according to the transmission period.

In addition, in the above step 2, the transmission method of the user location-related information is not specifically limited. Taking the LTE network as an example, it can be transmitted by adding a new S1-AP message, or by modifying the existing S1-AP message. .

The message shown in Table 1 is an implementation method of adding an S1-AP message. The S1-AP message is, for example, a position information transmission (POSITION INFORMATION TRANSFER) message, and the transmission direction is from the e-NB to the MME. The message is transmitted to the MME through the S1-MME interface, and the message carries the user-defined location-related information.

To sum up, referring to FIG. 3 , on the base station side, an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

S101. Determine location-related information of a user equipment UE;

Wherein, the location-related information of the UE is the user's location-related information described in the foregoing embodiment.

S102. According to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, send a message including the location-related information of the UE to the core network, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and makes the collection The device parses the message according to the information transmission format, obtains the location-related information of the UE, and provides the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Wherein, the message including the location-related information of the UE is, for example, the above-mentioned S1-AP message. The information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the acquisition device, for example, the format shown in Table 1 above. Since the message is a non-standard message and adopts the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, the core network is made to discard or ignore the message, and the collection device is made to parse the information according to the information transmission format The message and the location-related information of the UE are obtained, and the location-related information of the UE is provided to the location application platform, so that the location application platform can obtain the location of one or more user equipments served by the base station at one time through the acquisition device. information, avoiding the relevant process of independently initiating location reporting for each user, thereby saving the signaling overhead of the communication network, without the need to transform the core network, saving costs and being easy to implement.

Optionally, the message including the location-related information of the UE is sent to the core network through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network, such as the above-mentioned S1-MME interface.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Therefore, the embodiment of the present application can further enable the collection device to provide more accurate and comprehensive user location information such as the indoor location information, outdoor location information, and/or location-related measurement information of the UE to the location application platform, thereby enabling the location application platform Provide more accurate and user-perceived location services.

Correspondingly, on the side of the collection device, referring to FIG. 4 , an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

S201, according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, obtain the location-related information of the user equipment UE sent by the base station to the core network;

S202. Provide location-related information of the UE to a location application platform.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the location application platform, referring to FIG. 5 , an information transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

S301. Obtain location-related information of a user equipment UE through interaction with a collection device;

S302. Provide a location service based on the location-related information of the UE.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

The apparatus corresponding to the above method provided by the embodiments of the present application will be introduced below.

Correspondingly, on the base station side, referring to FIG. 6 , an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

a determining unit 11, configured to determine the location-related information of the user equipment UE;

The sending unit 12 is configured to send a message containing the location-related information of the UE to the core network according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collection device, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and, The collection device is caused to parse the message according to the information transmission format, obtain the location-related information of the UE, and provide the location-related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Optionally, the sending unit 12 sends a message including the location-related information of the UE to the core network through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network.

Optionally, the message is a non-standard message.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the collection device, referring to FIG. 7 , an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

The obtaining unit 21 is configured to obtain the location-related information of the user equipment UE sent by the base station to the core network according to the information transmission format pre-agreed between the base station and the collecting device;

The sending unit 22 is configured to provide the location related information of the UE to the location application platform.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

Correspondingly, on the side of the location application platform, referring to FIG. 8 , an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

an obtaining unit 31, configured to obtain the location-related information of the user equipment UE through interaction with the collecting device;

A providing unit 32 is configured to provide a location service based on the location-related information of the UE.

Optionally, the location-related information of the UE includes one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

Indoor location information, outdoor location information, and location-related measurement information.

On the other hand, referring to FIG. 9 , an information transmission apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application includes:

a memory 41 for storing program instructions;

The processor 42 is configured to invoke the program instructions stored in the memory, and execute any of the above-mentioned information transmission methods provided by the embodiments of the present application according to the obtained program, for example, a method on the base station side or a method on the collection device side method, or a method on the platform side of the location application.

On the other hand, a computer storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present application stores computer-executable instructions, and the computer-executable instructions are used to make the computer execute any of the above information transmission methods provided by the embodiments of the present application, For example, it may be a method on the base station side, a method on the collecting device side, or a method on the location application platform side.

The computer storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present application may be any available medium or data storage device that can be accessed by a computer, including but not limited to magnetic storage (such as a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape, a magneto-optical disk (MO), etc.), an optical storage ( For example, CD, DVD, BD, HVD, etc.), and semiconductor memory (eg, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, non-volatile memory (NAND FLASH), solid-state disk (SSD)), and the like.

On the other hand, a communication system provided by an embodiment of the present application includes any one or more of the above-mentioned information transmission apparatuses provided by an embodiment of the present application. The information transmission apparatus provided by the embodiment of the present application may be a base station, a collection device, a location application platform, and other devices. Therefore, for example, the communication system may include one or more of the base station, acquisition device, and location application platform shown in FIG. 2 .

Optionally, the system further includes a core network device, such as a core network device such as an MME.

Optionally, the system further includes a terminal.

In addition, the information transmission device provided by the embodiments of the present application may also be a computing device, and the computing device may specifically be a desktop computer, a portable computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or the like. The computing device may include a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), a memory, an input/output device, etc., the input device may include a keyboard, a mouse, a touch screen, etc., and the output device may include a display device, such as a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), cathode ray tube (Cathode RayTube, CRT) and so on.

The memory may include read only memory (ROM) and random access memory (RAM), and provide the processor with program instructions and data stored in the memory. In this embodiment of the present application, the memory may be used to store a program of any information transmission method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

The processor invokes the program instructions stored in the memory, and the processor is configured to execute any information transmission method provided by the embodiments of the present application according to the obtained program instructions.

The terminal described in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as user equipment (User Equipment, referred to as "UE"), mobile station (Mobile Station, referred to as "MS"), mobile terminal (Mobile Terminal), etc., optional , the terminal may be capable of communicating with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN), for example, the terminal may be a mobile phone (or a "cellular" phone), or a mobile phone For example, the terminal may also be a portable, pocket-sized, hand-held, computer-built-in or vehicle-mounted mobile device.

The base station (eg, access point) refers to a device in an access network that communicates with wireless terminals through one or more sectors on the air interface. The base station may be used to convert received air frames to and from IP packets, acting as a router between the wireless terminal and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The base station may also coordinate attribute management of the air interface. For example, the base station may be a base station (BTS, BaseTransceiver Station) in GSM or CDMA, a base station (NodeB) in WCDMA, or an evolved base station (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB, evolutional Node B) in LTE ), which is not limited in the embodiments of this aspect.

The location application platform may be, for example, a terminal device or a specific device such as a server, and the specific implementation form thereof is not limited in this application.

To sum up, the technical solutions described in the embodiments of the present application enable the location application platform to obtain the location-related information of all users under the base station in a “snapshot” manner at one time, without the need to be triggered by the location application platform for each user. Initiate the relevant process of location reporting; the acquisition device obtains a "snapshot" every time it parses a non-standard message of the S1-MME interface. The transmission of user location-related information adopts a non-standard custom format, which can be applied to indoor scenarios; the messages in Table 1 above are non-standard custom, and indoor location information can be defined in it, such as floor, reference point position, relative position, etc. ;The core network equipment does not need to be modified in any form; there is no need to add a dedicated link between the base station and the location application platform to transmit user location-related information; this application is not limited to 3G/4G TDD&FDD network applications, and can also be applied in 5G networks .

As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, a system, or a computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media having computer-usable program code embodied therein, including but not limited to disk storage, optical storage, and the like.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the present application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to the processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine such that the instructions executed by the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device produce Means for implementing the functions specified in a flow or flow of a flowchart and/or a block or blocks of a block diagram.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory result in an article of manufacture comprising instruction means, the instructions The apparatus implements the functions specified in the flow or flow of the flowcharts and/or the block or blocks of the block diagrams.

These computer program instructions can also be loaded on a computer or other programmable data processing device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable device to produce a computer-implemented process such that The instructions provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flow or blocks of the flowcharts and/or the block or blocks of the block diagrams.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is also intended to include these modifications and variations.

Claims (14)

1. An information transmission method, comprising:

a base station determines position related information of User Equipment (UE);

the base station sends a message containing the UE position related information to a core network through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between the base station and acquisition equipment, wherein the message is a non-standard message, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and the acquisition equipment analyzes the message according to the information transmission format and acquires the UE position related information and provides the UE position related information for a position application platform;

the UE position related information comprises one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

2. An information transmission method, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that acquisition equipment analyzes a message which is sent to a core network by a base station through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network and contains the position related information of User Equipment (UE) according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between the base station and the acquisition equipment, and the position related information of the UE is obtained from the message, wherein the message is a non-standard message;

the acquisition equipment provides the position related information of the UE to a position application platform;

wherein the UE location related information comprises one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

3. An information transmission method, comprising:

the position application platform acquires the position related information of the user equipment UE through interaction with the acquisition equipment; the position related information of the UE is acquired by analyzing a message sent to a core network by a base station through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network by acquisition equipment according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between the base station and the acquisition equipment, wherein the message is a non-standard message;

the location application platform provides location services based on location related information of the UE;

wherein the UE location related information comprises one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

4. An information transmission apparatus, the apparatus being a base station, comprising:

a determining unit, configured to determine location related information of a user equipment UE;

a sending unit, configured to send a message including the location related information of the UE to a core network according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between a base station and a collection device, so that the core network discards or ignores the message, and so that the collection device parses the message according to the information transmission format and obtains the location related information of the UE, and provides the location related information of the UE to a location application platform, where the message is a non-standard message.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the sending unit sends the message containing the location related information of the UE to a core network through a control plane interface between a base station and the core network.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the UE location related information comprises one or a combination of the following information for one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

7. An information transmission device, the device is collection equipment, its characterized in that includes:

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring the position related information of the user equipment UE, which is sent to the core network by the base station, according to the information transmission format agreed in advance between the base station and the acquisition equipment; wherein the location related information of the UE is obtained from a message sent by the base station to the core network, and the message is a non-standard message;

and the sending unit is used for providing the position related information of the UE to a position application platform.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the location related information of the UE comprises one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

9. An information transmission apparatus, comprising:

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring the position related information of the user equipment UE through interaction with the acquisition equipment; the position related information of the UE is acquired by analyzing a message sent to a core network by a base station through a control plane interface between the base station and the core network by acquisition equipment according to an information transmission format agreed in advance between the base station and the acquisition equipment, wherein the message is a non-standard message;

a providing unit for providing a location service based on the location related information of the UE.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the UE location related information comprises one or a combination of the following information of one or more UEs:

indoor location information, outdoor location information, location related measurement information.

11. An information transmission apparatus, comprising:

a memory for storing program instructions;

a processor for calling program instructions stored in said memory to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 3 in accordance with the obtained program.

12. A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 3.

13. A communication system comprising an apparatus as claimed in any of claims 4 to 6, and/or an apparatus as claimed in claim 7 or 8, and/or an apparatus as claimed in claim 9 or 10.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising a core network device.

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