WO2019023851A1 - Communication method, device, and system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides a communication method and device. The communication method comprises: a network device determining a congestion status of a first cell accessed by a terminal device; and the network device sending first instruction information to the terminal device if the congestion status of the first cell satisfies a preset first condition, the first instruction information being used to prevent the terminal device from sending to the network device a first access request for the first cell in a first time period. In the event of network congestion, information, for preventing a terminal device from re-accessing the network within a specified time after resources are released by the network, is sent to the terminal that has accessed the network, such that the network avoids becoming further congested due to re-access to the network by the terminal device, alleviating network congestion.

Description

Communication method, communication device and system Technical field

The present application relates to the field of wireless communications and, more particularly, to communication methods, communication devices and systems.

Background technique

With the development and advancement of communication technologies and the popularity of intelligent terminal devices, the number of terminal devices has increased tremendously.

Moreover, in the prior art, resources (for example, time domain resources or frequency domain resources) that can be used by the communication system are limited, and there may be a case where a large number of terminal devices request to access the wireless network at the same time, thereby causing resources that the communication system can provide. The access requirements of a large number of terminal devices that request access at the same time are satisfied, thereby causing network congestion.

How to alleviate network congestion has become an urgent problem in the industry.

Summary of the invention

The application provides a communication method, communication device and system capable of slowing network congestion.

The first aspect provides a communication method, including: determining, by a network device, a congestion status of a first cell that is accessed by a terminal device; and when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, the network device The terminal device sends the first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device is prohibited from transmitting the first access request to the first cell to the network device in the first time period.

Optionally, the first access request is an access request that is initiated by the terminal device for the first cell after the resource of the first cell used is released.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the network device determines that the first cell (ie, an example of the network provided by the network device) is congested, the first indication information is sent to the terminal device that has accessed the first cell, The first indication information is used to indicate that the network device prohibits the terminal device from sending a first access request to the network device in the first time period, where the first access request is that the terminal device is releasing the first cell used by the terminal device. After the resource is first initiated, the access request for the first cell is prevented, so that the terminal device can prevent the terminal device from sending an access request to the network device during network congestion after releasing the resource, thereby preventing the terminal device from accessing and causing the network to be caused. Further congestion, in turn, can alleviate network congestion.

Optionally, the first indication information includes the information of the first duration, and the first time period is a period in which the time when the terminal device receives the first indication information is a starting point and the duration is the first duration.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, by making the first indication information include the duration of the first time period, the terminal device can be easily determined by the first time period, and the resource overhead of the transmission of the first indication information can be reduced.

Optionally, the network device determines a congestion status of the first cell that is accessed by the terminal device, where the network device periodically detects the first time, where the first time is that the access processing for the first cell fails. The number of times, or the first number of times is the number of radio resource control RRC connection requests received by the network device in the first cell; the network device determines the congestion status of the first cell according to the determined first number of times And the first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, the first cell is determined by causing the network device to control the connection request based on the number of access processing failures for the first cell and the number of radio resource control connection requests received by the network device in the first cell. The congestion condition can improve the accuracy and reliability of the determined congestion condition, and can enable the network device to easily determine the congestion state, and can further improve the practicability of the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, before the network device sends the first indication information to the terminal device when the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition, the communication method further includes: determining, by the network device, the multiple values and a one-to-one mapping relationship between the plurality of durations; the network device determines, according to the mapping relationship, a duration corresponding to the value of the first number of times of the plurality of durations as a duration of the first period of time.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, the network device obtains a mapping relationship between the plurality of values and the plurality of durations in advance, and the plurality of values are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of congestion levels, thereby enabling the network device to The value of the first time corresponding to the current congestion level of the first cell, and the length of time corresponding to the current congestion level of the first cell is found in the mapping relationship, thereby being able to flexibly determine the duration of prohibiting the access of the terminal device, and Colleagues who slow down network congestion improve the communication efficiency of terminal devices and improve the user experience of terminal devices.

Optionally, the determining, by the network device, the congestion status of the first cell that is accessed by the terminal device, the network device periodically detecting the usage rate of the resource corresponding to the first cell, where the network device determines the first And determining, by the usage rate of the resource corresponding to the cell, the congestion status of the first cell; and the first condition is that the usage rate of the resource corresponding to the first cell is greater than or equal to a preset second threshold.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, by determining, by the network device, the congestion status of the first cell based on the usage rate of the resource corresponding to the first cell, the accuracy and reliability of the determined congestion condition can be improved, and By making the network device easily determine the congestion state, the utility of the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention can be further improved.

Optionally, the network device determines a congestion status of the first cell that is accessed by the terminal device, where the network device periodically detects a load of the first cell, and the network device determines, according to the load of the first cell, Determining a congestion condition of the first cell; and the first condition is that a load of the first cell is greater than or equal to a preset third threshold.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, by determining the congestion condition of the first cell based on the load of the first cell by the network device, the accuracy and reliability of the determined congestion condition can be improved, and the network device can be made easy. Determining the congestion state can further improve the usability of the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the communication method further includes: when the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset second condition, sending, by the network device, second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate the network The device allows the terminal device to send the first access request to the network device in a first time period, where the second condition is that the first time is less than a preset first threshold

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the network device determines that the congestion of the first cell is mitigated, the second indication information is sent to the terminal device that has accessed the first cell, where the second indication information is used to indicate the The network device allows the terminal device to send a first access request to the network device in a first time period, thereby ensuring that the terminal device sends an access request to the network device during network non-congestion after releasing the resource, thereby improving the terminal. The communication efficiency of the device reduces the service access delay of the terminal device and improves the user experience of the terminal device.

Optionally, when the network device meets the preset first condition, the network device sends the first indication information to the terminal device, where the network device determines the first time interval, and at the first When the time interval is less than or equal to the preset first time threshold, and the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition, the terminal device is Sending the first indication information, where the first time interval is a time interval between a time when the network device estimates the resource of the first cell used by the terminal device and the current time.

Optionally, when the network device meets the preset first condition, the network device sends the first indication information to the terminal device, where the network device determines the second time interval, and in the second When the time interval is greater than or equal to the preset second time threshold, and the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition, the first indication information is sent to the terminal device, where the second time interval is the terminal The time interval between the time of the last service access of the device before the current time and the current time.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the first time interval is small or the second time interval is large, it indicates that the terminal device is likely to release resources, that is, the terminal device may re-initiate the access request. The effect is large, and thus, the effect of the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention can be further improved.

In a second aspect, a communication method is provided, including: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device is prohibited from transmitting the first cell to the network device in a first time period. a first access request, the first cell is a cell that the terminal device has accessed, where the first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition The terminal device prohibits sending the first access request to the network device in the first time period according to the first indication information.

Optionally, the first access request is an access request that is initiated by the terminal device for the first cell after the resource of the used first cell is released.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the network device determines that the first cell (ie, an example of the network provided by the network device) is congested, the first indication information is sent to the terminal device that has accessed the first cell, The first indication information is used to indicate that the network device prohibits the terminal device from sending a first access request to the network device in the first time period, where the first access request is that the terminal device is releasing the first cell used by the terminal device. After the resource is first initiated, the access request for the first cell is prevented, so that the terminal device can prevent the terminal device from sending an access request to the network device during network congestion after releasing the resource, thereby preventing the terminal device from accessing and causing the network to be caused. Further congestion, in turn, can alleviate network congestion.

Optionally, the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and the communication method further includes: determining, by the terminal device, a time period starting from a time when the first indication information is received, and a duration of the first duration is determined as The first time period.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, by making the first indication information include the duration of the first time period, the terminal device can be easily determined by the first time period, and the resource overhead of the transmission of the first indication information can be reduced.

Optionally, the first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold, where the first number of times is a number of access processing failures for the first cell, or the first number of times The number of times the radio resource control RRC connection request received by the network device in the first cell is controlled.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, the first cell is determined by causing the network device to control the connection request based on the number of access processing failures for the first cell and the number of radio resource control connection requests received by the network device in the first cell. The congestion condition can improve the accuracy and reliability of the determined congestion condition, and can enable the network device to easily determine the congestion state, and can further improve the practicability of the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the method further includes: receiving, by the terminal device, second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the network device allows the terminal device to send the first connection to the network device in a first time period. And the first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset second condition, where the second condition is that the first number of times is less than a preset first Threshold; the terminal device according to the second indication information, The first access request is sent to the network device during the first time period.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the network device determines that the congestion of the first cell is mitigated, the second indication information is sent to the terminal device that has accessed the first cell, where the second indication information is used to indicate the The network device allows the terminal device to send a first access request to the network device in a first time period, thereby ensuring that the terminal device sends an access request to the network device during network non-congestion after releasing the resource, thereby improving the terminal. The communication efficiency of the device reduces the service access delay of the terminal device and improves the user experience of the terminal device.

In a third aspect, there is provided a communication apparatus comprising means for performing the steps of the first aspect and the communication method of the implementations of the first aspect.

In one design, the communication device is a communication chip, and the communication chip may include an input circuit or interface for transmitting information or data, and an output circuit or interface for receiving information or data.

In another design, the communication device is a network device, and the communication chip may include a transmitter for transmitting information or data, and a receiver for receiving information or data.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a communication apparatus comprising means for performing the steps of the communication method of the second aspect and the implementations of the second aspect.

In one design, the communication device is a communication chip, and the communication chip may include an input circuit or interface for transmitting information or data, and an output circuit or interface for receiving information or data.

In another design, the communication device is a terminal device, and the communication chip may include a transmitter for transmitting information or data, and a receiver for receiving information or data.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided, comprising: a processor, a memory for storing a computer program, the processor for calling and running the computer program from a memory, such that the communication device performs the first or second A communication method in any of the possible implementations.

Optionally, the processor is one or more, and the memory is one or more.

Alternatively, the memory may be integrated with the processor or the memory may be separate from the processor.

Optionally, the communication device further includes a transmitter (transmitter) and a receiver (receiver).

In one possible design, a network device is provided that includes a transceiver, a processor, and a memory. The processor is configured to control a transceiver transceiver signal for storing a computer program for calling and running the computer program from the memory, such that the network device performs the first aspect or any of the possible implementations of the first aspect The method in .

In another possible design, a terminal device is provided, including a transceiver, a processor, and a memory. The processor is configured to control a transceiver transceiver signal for storing a computer program, the processor for calling and running the computer program from the memory, such that the terminal device performs any of the second aspect or the second aspect The method in .

In a sixth aspect, a system is provided, the system comprising the above terminal device and a network device.

In a seventh aspect, a computer program product is provided, the computer program product comprising: a computer program (which may also be referred to as a code, or an instruction) that, when executed, causes the computer to perform the first aspect or A method in any of the possible implementations of the two aspects.

In an eighth aspect, a computer readable medium storing a computer program (which may also be referred to as code, or instructions), when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the first aspect or Two parties Any of the possible implementations of the method.

A ninth aspect provides a chip system including a memory and a processor for storing a computer program for calling and running the computer program from the memory, such that the communication device mounted with the chip system performs the above The method of any of the possible implementations of the first aspect or the second aspect.

In any of the above aspects, optionally, the terminal device is an Internet of Things IoT device.

In any of the above aspects, optionally, the resource used by the first cell is a narrowband NB frequency domain resource.

In any of the above aspects, optionally, the network device is an access network device, such as a base station.

Therefore, it is possible to prevent the terminal device from sending an access request to the network device during network congestion after releasing the resource, thereby preventing the terminal device from accessing and causing further congestion to the network, thereby alleviating network congestion.

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1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a system to which a communication method and a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention are applied.

2 is a schematic interaction diagram of a communication method to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Fig. 3 is a schematic block diagram showing an example of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic configuration of an example of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram showing another example of the communication apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic configuration of an example of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terms "component," "module," "system," and the like, as used in this specification, are used to mean a computer-related entity, hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component can be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and a computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or execution thread, and the components can be located on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. Moreover, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. A component may, for example, be based on signals having one or more data packets (eg, data from two components interacting with another component between the local system, the distributed system, and/or the network, such as the Internet interacting with other systems) Communicate through local and/or remote processes.

It should be understood that the embodiments of the present invention can be applied to various communication systems, such as: Global System of Mobile communication (GSM) system, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access. (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) system, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, Advanced Long Term Evolution (LTE-A) system , Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), or next-generation communication systems, etc., where the next generation communication system may include, for example. , fifth-generation (5G) communication system.

In general, traditional communication systems support a limited number of connections and are easy to implement. However, with the development of communication technologies, mobile communication systems will not only support traditional communication, but also support, for example, device to device (Device to Device, D2D) communication, Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, Machine Type Communication (MTC), and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication.

Embodiments of the present invention describe various embodiments in connection with a network device and a terminal device, where:

A terminal device may also be called a user equipment (User Equipment, UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a mobile station, a remote station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a terminal, a wireless communication device, and a user. Agent or user device. The terminal device can be a station in the WLAN (STAION, ST), which can be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, and a personal digital processing. (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA) device, handheld device with wireless communication capabilities, computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, in-vehicle device, wearable device, and next-generation communication system, for example, a terminal device in a 5G network or Terminal equipment in the future evolution of the Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) network.

By way of example and not limitation, in the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. A wearable device, which can also be called a wearable smart device, is a general term for applying wearable technology to intelligently design and wear wearable devices such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothing, and shoes. A wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the user's clothing or accessories. Wearable devices are more than just a hardware device, but they also implement powerful functions through software support, data interaction, and cloud interaction. Generalized wearable smart devices include full-featured, large-size, non-reliable smartphones for full or partial functions, such as smart watches or smart glasses, and focus on only one type of application, and need to work with other devices such as smartphones. Use, such as various smart bracelets for smart signs monitoring, smart jewelry, etc.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an Internet of Things (IoT) system, and the IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and its main technical feature is to pass the article through the communication technology. Connected to the network to realize an intelligent network of human-machine interconnection and physical interconnection.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the IOT technology can achieve massive connection, deep coverage, and terminal power saving through, for example, Narrow Band NB technology. For example, the NB includes only one resource block (Resource Bloc, RB), that is, the bandwidth of the NB is only 180 KB. In order to achieve massive access, the terminal must be required to be discrete in access. The communication method according to the embodiment of the present invention can effectively solve the congestion problem of the mass terminal of the IOT technology when accessing the network through the NB.

The network device may be a device for communicating with the mobile device, such as a network device, and the network device may be an access point (AP) in the WLAN, a base station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS) in GSM or CDMA, or may be A base station (NodeB, NB) in WCDMA may also be an evolved base station (Evolutional Node B, eNB or eNodeB) in LTE, or a relay station or an access point, or an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, and a network in a future 5G network. A device or a network device in a future evolved PLMN network.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device provides a service for the cell, and the terminal device communicates with the network device by using a transmission resource (for example, a frequency domain resource, or a spectrum resource) used by the cell, where the cell may be a network device. A cell corresponding to a cell (a base station) may belong to a macro base station, or may belong to a base station corresponding to a small cell, where the small cell may include: a metro cell, a micro cell, and a pico cell. (Pico cell), femto cell, etc. These small cells have the characteristics of small coverage and low transmission power, and are suitable for providing high-speed data transmission services.

In addition, multiple carriers can work at the same frequency on the carrier in the LTE system or the 5G system. In some special scenarios, the concept of the carrier and the cell can be considered to be equivalent. For example, in carrier aggregation (Carrier Aggregation, In the scenario of the CA, when the secondary carrier is configured for the UE, the carrier index of the secondary carrier and the cell identifier of the secondary cell working in the secondary carrier (Cell Indentify, Cell ID) are carried in the scenario. In this case, the carrier can be considered as a carrier. It is equivalent to the concept of a cell, such as the UE accessing one carrier and accessing one cell is equivalent.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device or the network device includes a hardware layer, an operating system layer running on the hardware layer, and an application layer running on the operating system layer. The hardware layer includes hardware such as a central processing unit (CPU), a memory management unit (MMU), and a memory (also referred to as main memory). The operating system may be any one or more computer operating systems that implement business processing through a process, such as a Linux operating system, a Unix operating system, an Android operating system, an iOS operating system, or a Windows operating system. The application layer includes applications such as browsers, contacts, word processing software, and instant messaging software. In addition, the embodiment of the present invention does not specifically limit the specific structure of the execution body of the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, as long as it can be provided according to the embodiment of the present invention by running a program for recording the code of the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The method can be communicated. For example, the execution body of the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may be a terminal device or a network device, or a function module that can call a program and execute a program in the terminal device or the network device.

Furthermore, various aspects or features of embodiments of the invention may be implemented as a method, apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques. The term "article of manufacture" as used in this application encompasses a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media. For example, the computer readable medium may include, but is not limited to, a magnetic storage device (eg, a hard disk, a floppy disk, or a magnetic tape, etc.), such as a compact disc (CD), a digital versatile disc (Digital Versatile Disc, DVD). Etc.), smart cards and flash memory devices (eg, Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), cards, sticks or key drivers, etc.). Additionally, various storage media described herein can represent one or more devices and/or other machine-readable media for storing information. The term "machine-readable medium" may include, without limitation, a wireless channel and various other mediums capable of storing, containing, and/or carrying instructions and/or data.

1 is a schematic diagram of a system 100 in which a communication method of an embodiment of the present invention can be applied. As shown in FIG. 1, the system 100 includes a network device 102, which may include one antenna or multiple antennas, such as antennas 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, and 114. Additionally, network device 102 may additionally include a transmitter chain and a receiver chain, as will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art, which may include multiple components related to signal transmission and reception (eg, processor, modulator, multiplexer) , demodulator, demultiplexer or antenna, etc.).

Network device 102 can communicate with a plurality of terminal devices, such as terminal device 116 and terminal device 122. However, it will be appreciated that network device 102 can communicate with any number of terminal devices similar to terminal device 116 or terminal device 122. Terminal devices 116 and 122 may be, for example, cellular telephones, smart phones, portable computers, handheld communication devices, handheld computing devices, satellite radios, global positioning systems, PDAs, and/or any other suitable for communicating over wireless communication system 100. device.

As shown in FIG. 1, terminal device 116 is in communication with antennas 112 and 114, wherein antennas 112 and 114 transmit information to terminal device 116 over a forward link (also referred to as downlink) 118 and through the reverse link (also Information referred to as uplink 120 receives information from terminal device 116. In addition, terminal device 122 is in communication with antennas 104 and 106, wherein antennas 104 and 106 transmit information to terminal device 122 over forward link 124 and receive information from terminal device 122 over reverse link 126.

For example, in a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, for example, forward link 118 can use a different frequency band than reverse link 120, and forward link 124 can be used differently than reverse link 126. Frequency band.

As another example, in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system and a Full Duplex system, the forward link 118 and the reverse link 120 can use a common frequency band, a forward link 124, and a reverse link. Link 126 can use a common frequency band.

Each antenna (or set of antennas consisting of multiple antennas) and/or regions designed for communication is referred to as a sector of network device 102. For example, the antenna group can be designed to communicate with terminal devices in sectors of the network device 102 coverage area. The network device can transmit signals to all of the terminal devices in its corresponding sector through a single antenna or multiple antenna transmit diversity. In the course of network device 102 communicating with terminal devices 116 and 122 via forward links 118 and 124, respectively, the transmit antenna of network device 102 may also utilize beamforming to improve the signal to noise ratio of forward links 118 and 124. Moreover, when the network device 102 utilizes beamforming to transmit signals to the randomly dispersed terminal devices 116 and 122 in the associated coverage area, as compared to the manner in which the network device transmits signals to all of its terminal devices through single antenna or multi-antenna transmit diversity, Mobile devices in neighboring cells are subject to less interference.

At a given time, network device 102, terminal device 116, or terminal device 122 may be a wireless communication transmitting device and/or a wireless communication receiving device. When transmitting data, the wireless communication transmitting device can encode the data for transmission. In particular, the wireless communication transmitting device may acquire (eg, generate, receive from other communication devices, or store in memory, etc.) a certain number of data bits to be transmitted over the channel to the wireless communication receiving device. Such data bits may be included in a transport block (or multiple transport blocks) of data that may be segmented to produce multiple code blocks.

In addition, the communication system 100 can be a PLMN network, a D2D network, an M2M network, an IoT network, or other networks. FIG. 1 is only a simplified schematic diagram of an example, and other network devices may also be included in the network, which are not shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, the communication method 200 of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the system 100 may include one or more network devices, and the actions performed by the network devices in the communication method 200 of the embodiment of the present invention are similar. Hereinafter, for ease of understanding, without loss of generality, The operation of the network device #A will be described as an example.

Further, the network device #A may provide one or more cells. Hereinafter, for the sake of easy understanding, without loss of generality, an access control procedure for the cell #A (that is, an example of the first cell) will be described as an example.

In addition, in the communication system, there may be one or more terminal devices that have accessed the cell #A, and the actions performed by the plurality of terminal devices in the communication method 200 of the embodiment of the present invention are similar, and below, in order to facilitate understanding Without loss of generality, the control process for the terminal device #A is explained.

2 is a schematic interaction diagram of a communication method 200 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device #A is a terminal device that has accessed the cell #A, and the process of the access may be similar to the process in which the terminal device accesses the cell provided by the network device in the prior art, where Detailed descriptions are omitted for ease of understanding and explanation.

At S210, network device #A may determine the current congestion status of cell #A, or network device #A may determine that cell #A is at the current time (hereinafter, for ease of understanding and differentiation, note time #1) The congestion state during the detection period).

The "congestion status" may also be referred to as the "congestion degree", which may refer to whether the resource provided by the cell #A can satisfy the access requirement of multiple terminal devices of the access cell #A.

By way of example and not limitation, network device #A may determine the congestion condition of cell #A based on at least one of the following parameters.

Parameter A. Number of failed access processing for cell #A detected during one detection period

Specifically, the reason for the failure of the access processing for a cell includes that the terminal device does not compete for the access resource, or the radio resource of the cell cannot meet the data transmission requirement of the terminal device that needs to access, and thus, access for one cell The number of processing failures can characterize the congestion condition of the cell. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device may periodically detect the number of times the access processing fails, and determine the congestion status of the cell in the period according to the number of times the access processing fails in one period.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device requests to access the network device (or the cell provided by the network device), the terminal device sends an access request to the network device.

The network device may send an access request response to the terminal device based on the access request (or may also be referred to as a random access request), as an example and not by limitation. For example, the access request response may include the network device as a terminal. The temporary identifier of the cell allocated by the device.

The terminal device may send a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection request to the network device based on the access request response.

After receiving the RRC connection request, the network device wants the terminal device to send an RRC connection request response.

Thereby, the terminal device can determine the number of times the access processing for the cell #A fails due to at least one of the following manners.

Mode 1

In the embodiment of the present invention, the number of access processing failures for the cell #A determined by the network device #A (hereinafter, for convenience of understanding and explanation, it is recorded as: the number of times #A, that is, an example of the first number of times) It is determined based on the random access request received by network device #A.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the random access may be performed based on a contention mechanism. In a region where the service access of the terminal device occurs frequently, multiple terminal devices inevitably compete for the same random intervention channel (Random Access). Channel, RACH), that is, multiple terminal devices use the same RACH to send a random access request. In this case, the network device performs access processing based on the random access request with the highest level of the received burst, for example, the network device may only send the request to the sender terminal with the highest level of the burst. The device sends a random access request response, and other terminal devices (ie, terminal devices other than the transmitting terminal device with the highest level of the access request of the highest burst among the plurality of terminal devices that use the same RACH to send the random access request) The access processing failed. Or, the multiple random access requests interfere with each other, and the access processing of each of the plurality of terminal devices that use the same RACH to send the random access request fails.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the number of access failures #A determined for the cell #A determined by the network device #A may be the transmission phase of the random access request and the random access request response in the random access procedure. The number of times the access processing failed.

Mode 2

In the embodiment of the present invention, the number of times #A may be determined based on the RRC connection request received by the network device #A.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, after receiving the RRC connection request, the network device #A may allocate the terminal device for use based on the usage of the cell #A resource (for example, the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource). The RRC connection resource is set up, and the indication information of the resource is carried in the RRC connection request response, and is sent to the terminal device.

Therefore, when the currently available resource of the cell #A (for example, the resource not occupied by the terminal) cannot satisfy the establishment requirement of the RRC connection, the network device #A can determine the access point of the transmitting terminal device for the RRC connection request. The failure.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the number of access failures #A determined for the cell #A determined by the network device #A may be determined in the transmission phase of the RRC connection request and the RRC connection request response in the random access procedure. The number of times the access processing failed.

It should be understood that the number of access failures #A determined for the cell #A determined by the network device #A enumerated above is merely an illustrative description, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and the other can enable the network device to determine the connection for one cell. The method and the process of the total number of times of processing are all within the protection scope of the present invention. For example, the foregoing manners 1 and 2 may also be used in combination, that is, the access processing for the cell #A determined by the network device #A fails. The number of times #A may be the sum of the number of times determined based on the mode 1 and the number of times determined based on the mode 2.

Therefore, when the number of access failures #A for the cell #A is greater than or equal to the preset threshold #A (ie, an example of the first threshold), the network device #A can determine The cell #A is currently in a congested state.

Here, it should be noted that the threshold #A may be a value specified by the communication system or the communication protocol, or the specific value of the threshold #A may be obtained through experiments, and the present invention is not particularly limited. For example, in a state in which it is determined that the cell #A is congested, the number of times the access process fails for the cell #A in one cycle is detected, and the threshold #A is determined according to the detected number, for example, the detected The number of times itself may be used as the threshold value #A, or a predetermined number of times (for example, weighting or averaging) may be performed on the detected number of times, and the processed value may be used as the threshold value #A. Moreover, the value of the threshold #A may be different under different systems. In addition, the value of the threshold #A may be different in periods of different sizes or periods in different periods.

Parameter B. Number of RRC connection requests detected during one detection period

Specifically, the more times the network device receives the RRC connection request in one cell, the more information (eg, control information) or data that needs to be transmitted through the cell, and the resource may be limited due to limited resources of the cell. The resources of the cell cannot meet the transmission requirements of the above information or data, resulting in congestion in the cell.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device #A can periodically detect the number of times RRC connection request received by the cell #A#B, and determine the cell within the period according to the number of times #B detected in one cycle# The congestion status of A.

For example, when the number of times the RRC connection request received by the cell #A is greater than or equal to the preset threshold #B (ie, another example of the first threshold) during the period in which the current time is located, the network device #A It can be determined that the cell #A is currently in a congested state.

Here, it should be noted that the threshold #B may be a value specified by the communication system or the communication protocol, or the specific value of the threshold #B may be obtained through experiments, and the present invention is not particularly limited. The value of the threshold #B may be different under different systems. In addition, the value of the threshold #B may be different in periods of different sizes or periods in different periods. For example, within a specified system and period, the congestion of the cell #A may be determined under different RRC connection request numbers, and thus, the minimum number of RRC connection requests when the cell #A is congested may be determined, and the number is used as a threshold. #B.

Parameter C. Load of the cell detected in one detection period

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the load of the cell may be determined according to the proportion of the currently occupied (or unoccupied) resources in the cell in the total resources that can be used by the cell.

The greater the load of the cell, the more information (eg, control information) or data that needs to be transmitted through the cell. The resources of the cell are limited, and the resources of the cell may not meet the transmission requirements of the foregoing information or data, resulting in congestion of the cell.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the network device #A can periodically detect the load of the cell #A, and determine the congestion status of the cell #A in the period according to the load of the cell #A detected in one cycle.

For example, when the load of the cell #A cell #A is greater than or equal to the preset threshold #C in the period in which the current time is, the network device #A may determine that the cell #A is currently in a congested state.

Here, it should be noted that the threshold #C may be a value specified by the communication system or the communication protocol, or the specific value of the threshold #C may be obtained through experiments, and the present invention is not particularly limited. The value of the threshold #C may be different under different systems. In addition, the value of the threshold #C may be different in periods of different sizes or periods in different periods. For example, within a specified system and period, the congestion condition of the cell #A under different loads can be determined, and thus, the minimum load when the cell #A is congested can be determined, and the determined load size is taken as the threshold #C. As an example and not by way of limitation, the size of the threshold #C may be any value between 80% and 100%.

It should be understood that the parameters used by the network device #A listed above to determine the congestion status of the cell #A are merely exemplary. The present invention is not limited thereto, and other parameters that enable the network device to determine the congestion degree of a cell are all included in the present disclosure. Within the scope of protection of the invention.

Further, the above-mentioned parameter A, parameter B, and parameter C may be used alone or in combination, and the present invention is not particularly limited. For example, the network device #A may comprehensively determine the congestion status based on the parameter A (hereinafter, for ease of understanding and distinction, It is described as congestion status #A), congestion status determined based on parameter B (hereinafter, for convenience of understanding and distinction, recorded as congestion status #B), and congestion status determined based on parameter B (hereinafter, for ease of understanding and distinction, Congestion status #C), determine the congestion status of the final cell #A.

For example, in the embodiment of the present invention, the congestion status of the cell #A may be represented by a numerical value, that is, the congestion condition #A may be characterized as a value #A, and the congestion condition #B may be characterized as a value #B, the congestion condition C. It can be characterized as a value #C, whereby the congestion condition of the cell #A can be characterized as an average or weighted average of the values #A, #B, and #C.

For another example, the congestion status of cell #A may include congestion and no congestion, ie, congestion condition #A may be congested or not, congestion condition #B may be congested or not, congestion condition #C may be congested or not congested . In this case, by way of example and not limitation, for example, when one or more of the congestion conditions #A, congestion status #B, and congestion status #C are congested, the network device #A may determine the congestion status of the cell #A. For congestion. For another example, when all the congestion conditions in the congestion status #A, the congestion status #B, and the congestion status #C are not congested, the network device #A may determine that the congestion status of the cell #A is not congested.

Thereafter, the network device #A may determine whether the congestion status of the cell #A determined as described above satisfies a preset congestion determination condition (ie, an example of the first condition), specifically, the network device #A may determine the cell # Whether the congestion condition in the period in which the time #1 is in A satisfies the preset congestion determination condition.

The congestion determination condition may be a condition for determining whether the congestion status of the cell #A is congestion.

As an example and not by way of limitation, when the congestion condition of the cell #A includes congestion and no congestion, the congestion determination condition may be that the congestion status indicates that the cell is congested (ie, an example of the first condition).

For example, if the congestion condition of the cell #A is congestion, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the congestion determination condition.

If the congestion status of the cell #A is not congested, the network device #A may determine that the congestion status of the cell #A is not This congestion determination condition is satisfied.

Or, by way of example and not limitation, when the congestion status of the cell #A is represented by a numerical value, for example, the congestion status of the cell #A is characterized by the number of random access processing failures, the number of RRC connection requests, or the cell load, the congestion The determination condition may be: whether the value of the congestion condition is greater than or equal to a preset threshold (ie, the first threshold, eg, the threshold #A, the threshold #B, or the threshold #C).

For example, if the number of access failures #A for the cell #A is greater than or equal to the threshold #A, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the congestion determination condition.

If the number of access failures #A for the cell #A is less than the threshold #A, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A does not satisfy the congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the number of times RRC connection request received by the cell #A is greater than or equal to the threshold #B, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the number of times RRC connection request received by the cell #A#B is smaller than the threshold #B, the network device #A may determine that the congestion status of the cell #A does not satisfy the congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the load through the cell #A is greater than or equal to the threshold #C, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the load passing through the cell #A is less than the threshold #C, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A does not satisfy the congestion determination condition.

Thus, when the network device #A determines in S210 that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the congestion determination condition, the network device #A can determine the terminal device #A at S220.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device #A is a terminal device that has accessed the cell #A. Further, the terminal device #A may be one or plural, and the present invention is not particularly limited.

Optionally, the terminal device #A may be a terminal device that needs to frequently access or release resources of the cell #A. For example, the terminal device #A can be an IoT device.

Specifically, the IoT device needs frequent access and release of communication resources due to the small amount of data accessed by the IoT device and frequent service access.

Optionally, the terminal device #A may be a terminal device that the network device determines to release the resource (for example, a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource) of the used cell #A.

The "resource of the cell #A to be used soon" may mean that the network device #A determines the interval #A between the time when the terminal device #A releases the resource of the used cell #A and the current time (ie, The first time interval is less than or equal to the preset threshold #D, wherein the threshold #D may be a threshold specified by the communication system or the communication protocol, or the threshold #D may be set by the operator or the system administrator on the network. In device #A.

By way of example and not limitation, wherein network device #A may be based on the progress of service access of terminal device #A (eg, the size of downlink data that has not been transmitted to terminal device #A cached in network device #A, or the terminal device #A indicates the size of the uplink data that has not been transmitted to the network device #A) The time at which the terminal device #A releases the resource of the occupied cell #A is determined.

Optionally, the terminal device #A may be a terminal device that is determined by the network device to have no service access for a long time.

The “service access for a long time” may mean that the network device #A determines the time and current time when the terminal device #A has recently accessed the service before the current time (transmitting data or information before the network device #A). The interval #B (ie, the second time interval) is greater than or equal to the preset threshold #E, wherein the threshold #E may be The threshold specified by the communication system or the communication protocol, or the threshold #E may be set by the operator or system administrator in the network device #A.

It should be understood that the conditions that need to be met by the terminal device #A listed above are merely exemplary descriptions, and the present invention is not limited thereto. The terminal device #A may be any terminal device that has accessed the cell #A.

Thereafter, the network device #A can transmit the information #A to the terminal device #A (that is, an example of the first indication information).

The information #A is used to instruct the network device #A to prohibit the terminal device #A from transmitting the access request #A for the cell #A to the network device #A in the period #A (ie, an example of the first access request) ).

The period #A is after the terminal device #A releases the resources of the occupied cell #A.

And, the access request #A is an access request for the cell #A that is transmitted for the first time after the terminal device #A releases the resource of the occupied cell #A.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the network device #A may indicate the time period #A to the terminal device #A by at least one of the following manners.

Way a

This information #A can be used to indicate the duration #A, which is the duration of the period #A.

And, the terminal device #A can determine, based on the specification of the communication system or the protocol, or the instruction of the network device #A, that the starting point of the time period #A is the time at which the terminal device #A receives the information #A.

Mode b

The information #A may indicate the above-mentioned duration #A and the start point (or start time) of the period #A.

Thus, at S220, the terminal device #A can receive the information #A, and thus, at S230, if the terminal device #A releases the resources of the occupied cell #A, it does not go to the network device in the period #A. #A sends an access request.

In addition, it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the congestion status of the cell #A is represented by a numerical value, or when the congestion determination condition may be: whether the value of the congestion status is greater than or equal to a preset threshold. .

The network device #A can also obtain the mapping relationship #A, which can be used to indicate a one-to-one mapping relationship between multiple values and multiple durations.

Therefore, the network device can change the value of the congestion status of the cell #A in the mapping relationship #A (for example, the number of access processing failures for the cell #A, the number of RRC connection requests received through the cell #A) The duration corresponding to the load of cell #A is determined as duration #A.

Optionally, at S240, the network device #A may determine a congestion status of the cell #A at time #2 (the time #2 is located after the time when the network device #A transmits the information #A), or the network device #A may It is determined that the cell #A is in a congestion state during the detection period in which the time #2 is located).

Further, the process may be similar to the process of the congestion status of the cell #A determined at the time #1 by the network device #A in S210. Here, in order to avoid redundancy, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Thereafter, the network device #A may determine whether the congestion status of the cell #A determined as described above satisfies a preset non-congestion determination condition (ie, an example of the second condition),

Specifically, the network device #A can determine whether the congestion condition in the period in which the cell #A is in the time #2 satisfies the preset non-congestion determination condition.

The non-congestion determination condition may be a condition for determining whether the congestion status of the cell #A is non-congested.

As an example and not by way of limitation, when the congestion condition of the cell #A includes congestion and no congestion, the non-congestion determination condition may be that the congestion status indicates that the cell is not congested (ie, an example of the second condition).

For example, if the congestion condition of the cell #A is not congested, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the non-congestion determination condition.

If the congestion condition of the cell #A is congestion, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A does not satisfy the non-congestion determination condition.

Or, by way of example and not limitation, when the congestion status of the cell #A is represented by a numerical value, for example, the congestion status of the cell #A is characterized by the number of times the random access processing fails, the number of RRC connection requests, or the cell load, the determination The condition may be: whether the value of the congestion condition is less than or equal to a preset threshold (ie, a second threshold, eg, threshold #A, threshold #B, or threshold #C).

For example, if the number of access failures #A for the cell #A is less than or equal to the threshold #A, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the non-congestion determination condition.

If the number of access failures #A for the cell #A is greater than the threshold #A, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A does not satisfy the non-congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the number of times RRC connection request received by the cell #A is less than or equal to the threshold #B, the network device #A may determine that the congestion status of the cell #A satisfies the non-congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the number of times RRC connection request received by the cell #A#B is greater than the threshold #B, the network device #A may determine that the congestion status of the cell #A does not satisfy the non-congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the load passing through the cell #A is less than or equal to the threshold #C, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the non-congestion determination condition.

For another example, if the load passing through the cell #A is greater than the threshold #C, the network device #A may determine that the congestion condition of the cell #A does not satisfy the non-congestion determination condition.

It should be noted that the threshold value used when the network device #A determines whether the congestion status of the cell satisfies the congestion determination condition and the threshold value used when the network device #A determines whether the congestion status of the cell satisfies the non-congestion determination condition may be the same or different. The invention is not particularly limited. For example, the threshold value used when the network device #A determines whether the congestion condition of the cell satisfies the congestion determination condition may be greater than the threshold used when the network device #A determines whether the congestion condition of the cell satisfies the non-congestion determination condition.

Thus, when the network device #A determines in S240 that the congestion condition of the cell #A satisfies the non-congestion determination condition, the network device #A may transmit the information #B to the terminal device #A at S250 (ie, the second indication information An example).

The information #B is used to indicate that the network device #A allows the terminal device #A to transmit the access request #A for the cell #A to the network device #A in the period #A (ie, an example of the first access request) ).

Thus, at S250, the terminal device #A can receive the message #A, and thus, at S260, if the terminal device #A releases the resource of the occupied cell #A, it is in the time slot #A, and needs to pass the cell # When A transmits data or information, an access request can be sent to the network device #A.

According to the communication method of the embodiment of the present invention, when the network device determines that the first cell (ie, an example of the network provided by the network device) is congested, the first indication information is sent to the terminal device that has accessed the first cell, The first indication information is used to indicate that the network device prohibits the terminal device from sending a first access request to the network device in the first time period, where the first access request is that the terminal device is releasing the first cell used by the terminal device. After the resource is first initiated, the access request for the first cell is prevented, so that the terminal device can prevent the terminal device from sending an access request to the network device during network congestion after releasing the resource, thereby preventing the terminal device from accessing and causing the network to be caused. Further congestion, in turn, can alleviate network congestion.

According to the foregoing method, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram 1 of an apparatus 10 for communication according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 3, the apparatus 10 may be a terminal device (for example, the terminal device #A), or may be a chip. Or a circuit, such as a chip or circuit that can be placed in a terminal device. The terminal device may correspond to the terminal device in the foregoing method.

The apparatus 10 can include a processor 11 (i.e., an example of a processing unit) and a memory 12. The memory 12 is for storing instructions for executing the instructions stored by the memory 12 to cause the apparatus 20 to implement the steps performed by the terminal device (e.g., terminal device #A) in the corresponding method of FIG.

Further, the device 10 may further include an input port 13 (ie, an example of a communication unit) and an output port 14 (ie, another example of a communication unit). Further, the processor 11, memory 12, input port 13 and output port 14 can communicate with one another via internal connection paths to communicate control and/or data signals. The memory 12 is configured to store a computer program, and the processor 11 can be used to call and run the computer program from the memory 12 to control the input port 13 to receive signals, and control the output port 14 to send signals to complete the terminal device in the above method. A step of. The memory 12 can be integrated in the processor 11 or can be provided separately from the processor 11.

Optionally, if the device 10 is a terminal device, the input port 13 is a receiver, and the output port 14 is a transmitter. The receiver and the transmitter may be the same or different physical entities. When they are the same physical entity, they can be collectively referred to as transceivers.

Optionally, if the device 10 is a chip or a circuit, the input port 13 is an input interface, and the output port 14 is an output interface.

As an implementation manner, the functions of the input port 13 and the output port 14 can be implemented by a dedicated chip through a transceiver circuit or a transceiver. The processor 11 can be implemented by a dedicated processing chip, a processing circuit, a processor, or a general purpose chip.

As another implementation manner, the terminal device provided by the embodiment of the present application may be implemented by using a general-purpose computer. The program code that implements the functions of the processor 11, the input port 13, and the output port 14 is stored in the memory 12, and the general purpose processor implements the functions of the processor 11, the input port 13, and the output port 14 by executing the code in the memory 12.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the input port 13 is configured to receive, by the network device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the network device prohibits the communication device from sending the first access to the network device in the first time period. The request, the first access request is an access request that is initiated by the communications device for the first cell after the resource of the used first cell is released, where the first indication information is that the network device determines the Sent when the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition;

The processor 11 is configured to prohibit the communication unit from sending the first access request to the network device in the first time period according to the first indication information.

Optionally, the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and

The processor 11 is further configured to determine, as the starting point, a time period in which the time of receiving the first indication information is the first time period as the first time period.

Optionally, the first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold, where the first number of times is a number of access processing failures for the first cell, or the first number of times The number of times the radio resource control RRC connection request received by the network device in the first cell is controlled.

Optionally, the input port 13 is further configured to receive, by the network device, second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the network device allows the communication device to send the first access request to the network device in a first time period. The first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset second condition, The second condition is that the first number of times is less than a preset first threshold.

The processor 11 is configured to control, according to the second indication information, the communication unit to send the first access request to the network device in a first time period.

The functions and operations of the modules or units in the communication device 10 are only exemplified. The modules or units in the communication device 10 can be used to perform the actions or processes performed by the terminal device in the method 200. Here, in order to avoid redundancy, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

For the concepts, explanations, detailed descriptions and other steps of the device 10 related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application, refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments, and no further details are provided herein.

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device 20 provided by the present application. The terminal device 20 can be applied to the system shown in FIG. For the convenience of explanation, FIG. 4 shows only the main components of the terminal device. As shown in FIG. 4, the terminal device 20 includes a processor, a memory, a control circuit, an antenna, and an input and output device.

The processor is mainly used for processing the communication protocol and the communication data, and controlling the entire terminal device, executing the software program, and processing the data of the software program, for example, in the embodiment of the indication method for supporting the terminal device to perform the foregoing transmission precoding matrix. The action described. The memory is primarily used to store software programs and data, such as the codebooks described in the above embodiments. The control circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing radio frequency signals. The control circuit together with the antenna can also be called a transceiver, and is mainly used for transmitting and receiving RF signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, keyboards, etc., are primarily used to receive user input data and output data to the user.

After the terminal device is powered on, the processor can read the software program in the storage unit, interpret and execute the instructions of the software program, and process the data of the software program. When the data needs to be transmitted by wireless, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent, and then outputs the baseband signal to the radio frequency circuit. The radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signal, and then sends the radio frequency signal to the outside through the antenna in the form of electromagnetic waves. When data is transmitted to the terminal device, the RF circuit receives the RF signal through the antenna, converts the RF signal into a baseband signal, and outputs the baseband signal to the processor, which converts the baseband signal into data and processes the data.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that FIG. 4 shows only one memory and processor for ease of illustration. In an actual terminal device, there may be multiple processors and memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, and the like.

As an optional implementation manner, the processor may include a baseband processor and a central processing unit, and the baseband processor is mainly used to process the communication protocol and the communication data, and the central processing unit is mainly used to control and execute the entire terminal device. A software program that processes data from a software program. The processor in FIG. 4 integrates the functions of the baseband processor and the central processing unit. Those skilled in the art can understand that the baseband processor and the central processing unit can also be independent processors and interconnected by technologies such as a bus. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal device may include a plurality of baseband processors to accommodate different network standards, and the terminal device may include a plurality of central processors to enhance its processing capabilities, and various components of the terminal devices may be connected through various buses. The baseband processor can also be expressed as a baseband processing circuit or a baseband processing chip. The central processing unit can also be expressed as a central processing circuit or a central processing chip. The functions of processing the communication protocol and the communication data may be built in the processor, or may be stored in the storage unit in the form of a software program, and the processor executes the software program to implement the baseband processing function.

Exemplarily, in the embodiment of the present application, the antenna and control circuit having the transceiving function can be regarded as the transceiving unit 201 of the terminal device 20, and the processor having the processing function is regarded as the processing unit 202 of the terminal device 20. Figure 4 As shown, the terminal device 20 includes a transceiving unit 201 and a processing unit 202. The transceiver unit can also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiver, a transceiver, and the like. Optionally, the device for implementing the receiving function in the transceiver unit 201 can be regarded as a receiving unit, and the device for implementing the sending function in the transceiver unit 201 is regarded as a sending unit, that is, the transceiver unit 201 includes a receiving unit and a sending unit. Illustratively, the receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, a receiver, a receiving circuit, etc., and the transmitting unit may be referred to as a transmitter, a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit or the like.

According to the foregoing method, FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram 2 of a device 30 for communication according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 5, the device 30 may be a network device (for example, the network device #A) or a chip. Or a circuit, such as a chip or circuit that can be placed in a network device. The network device corresponds to the network device in the foregoing method (for example, the network device #A described above).

The apparatus 30 can include a processor 31 (ie, an example of a processing unit) and a memory 32. The memory 32 is configured to store instructions for executing the instructions stored by the memory 32 to cause the apparatus 30 to implement the steps performed by the network device (e.g., network device #A) in the aforementioned method of FIG. .

Further, the device 30 may further include an input port 33 (ie, an example of a communication unit) and an output port 33 (ie, another example of the processing unit). Still further, the processor 31, memory 32, input port 33, and output port 34 can communicate with one another via internal connection paths to communicate control and/or data signals. The memory 32 is used to store a computer program. The processor 31 can be used to call and run the computer program from the memory 32 to control the input port 33 to receive signals, and control the output port 34 to send signals to complete the terminal in the method 200. The steps of the device. The memory 32 can be integrated in the processor 31 or can be provided separately from the processor 31.

The control input port 33 receives the signal, and the control output port 34 transmits a signal to complete the steps of the network device in the above method. The memory 32 can be integrated in the processor 31 or can be provided separately from the processor 31.

Optionally, if the device 30 is a network device, the input port 33 is a receiver, and the output port 34 is a transmitter. The receiver and the transmitter may be the same or different physical entities. When they are the same physical entity, they can be collectively referred to as transceivers.

Optionally, if the device 30 is a chip or a circuit, the input port 33 is an input interface, and the output port 34 is an output interface.

Optionally, if the device 30 is a chip or a circuit, the device 30 may not include the memory 32, and the processor 31 may read an instruction (program or code) in the memory external to the chip to implement the foregoing The function of the network device in the corresponding method in 2.

As an implementation, the functions of the input port 33 and the output port 34 can be implemented by a dedicated chip through a transceiver circuit or a transceiver. The processor 31 can be implemented by a dedicated processing chip, a processing circuit, a processor, or a general purpose chip.

As another implementation manner, a network device provided by an embodiment of the present application may be implemented by using a general-purpose computer. The program code that implements the functions of the processor 31, the input port 33, and the output port 34 is stored in a memory, and the general purpose processor implements the functions of the processor 31, the input port 33, and the output port 34 by executing code in the memory.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the processor 31 may be configured to determine a congestion status of the first cell accessed by the terminal device;

The output port 33 is configured to send the first indication information to the terminal device when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the communication device prohibits the terminal device from being in the first Sending a first access request to the communication device in a period of time, the first access request is an access request for the first cell that is initiated by the terminal device for the first time after releasing the used resource of the first cell.

Optionally, the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and

The first time period is a time period when the terminal device receives the first indication information as a starting point and the duration is the first time period.

Optionally, the processor 31 may be specifically configured to periodically detect the first number of times, and determine a congestion status of the first cell according to the determined first time, where the first time is an access processing for the first cell. The number of failures, or the first number of times is the number of times the radio resource control RRC connection request received by the communication device in the first cell, and

The first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold.

Optionally, the processor 31 may be further configured to determine a one-to-one mapping relationship between the plurality of values and the plurality of durations, and corresponding to the first number of times of the plurality of durations according to the mapping relationship. The duration is determined as the duration of the first time period.

Optionally, the output port 33 is further configured to send, to the terminal device, second indication information, when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset second condition, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the communication device allows the The terminal device sends the first access request to the communication device in a first time period, wherein the second condition is that the first number of times is less than a preset first threshold.

Optionally, the processor 31 is further configured to determine a first time interval, where the first time interval is a time interval between a time when the terminal device releases the resource of the first cell used by the terminal device and a current time Or, the first time interval is a time interval between a time when the terminal device last accessed the service before the current time and the current time;

The output port 33 is specifically configured to send the first indication information to the terminal device when the first time interval is less than or equal to a preset time threshold, and the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition.

The functions and operations of the modules or units in the communication device 30 are only exemplified. The modules or units in the communication device 30 can be used to perform various actions or processes performed by the network device in the foregoing method 200. Here, in order to avoid redundancy, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

For the concepts, explanations, detailed descriptions and other steps of the device 30 related to the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application, refer to the descriptions of the foregoing methods or other embodiments, and no further details are provided herein.

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which may be used to implement the functions of the network device in the foregoing method. For example, it can be a schematic diagram of a base station. As shown in FIG. 6, the base station can be applied to the system as shown in FIG. 1. The base station 40 includes one or more radio frequency units, such as a remote radio unit (RRU) 401 and one or more baseband units (BBUs) (also referred to as digital units, DUs) 402. . The RRU 401 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, or a transceiver, etc., which may include at least one antenna 4011 and a radio frequency unit 4012. The RRU 401 is mainly used for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals and converting radio frequency signals and baseband signals, for example, for transmitting the signaling messages described in the foregoing embodiments to the terminal device. The BBU 402 portion is mainly used for performing baseband processing, controlling a base station, and the like. The RRU 401 and the BBU 402 may be physically disposed together or physically separated, that is, distributed base stations.

The BBU 402 is a control center of a base station, and may also be referred to as a processing unit, and is mainly used to perform baseband processing functions such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulation, spreading, and the like. For example, the BBU (processing unit) 402 can be used to control the base station 40 to perform the operation procedure of the network device in the foregoing method embodiment.

In an example, the BBU 402 may be composed of one or more boards, and multiple boards may jointly support a single access standard radio access network (such as an LTE system or a 5G system), or may support different ones. Access system Wireless access network. The BBU 402 also includes a memory 4021 and a processor 4022. The memory 4021 is used to store necessary instructions and data. For example, the memory 4021 stores the codebook or the like in the above embodiment. The processor 4022 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform an operation procedure about the network device in the foregoing method embodiment. The memory 4021 and the processor 4022 can serve one or more boards. That is, the memory and processor can be individually set on each board. It is also possible that multiple boards share the same memory and processor. In addition, the necessary circuits can be set on each board.

In a possible implementation manner, with the development of System-on-chip (SoC) technology, all or part of the functions of the 402 part and the 401 part may be implemented by the SoC technology, for example, by a base station function chip. The base station function chip integrates a processor, a memory, an antenna interface and the like. The program of the base station related function is stored in the memory, and the processor executes the program to implement the related functions of the base station. Optionally, the base station function chip can also read the memory external to the chip to implement related functions of the base station.

It should be understood that the structure of the base station illustrated in FIG. 9 is only one possible form, and should not be construed as limiting the embodiments of the present application. This application does not preclude the possibility of other forms of base station architecture that may arise in the future.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a communication system including the foregoing network device and one or more terminal devices.

It should be understood that, in this embodiment of the present application, the processor may be a central processing unit (CPU), and the processor may also be other general-purpose processors, digital signal processors (DSPs), and dedicated integration. Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware component, etc. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor or any conventional processor or the like.

It should also be understood that the memory in the embodiments of the present application may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read only memory (ROMM), an erasable programmable read only memory (erasable PROM, EPROM), or an electrical Erase programmable EPROM (EEPROM) or flash memory. The volatile memory can be a random access memory (RAM) that acts as an external cache. By way of example and not limitation, many forms of random access memory (RAM) are available, such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous dynamic randomness. Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous DRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), synchronous connection dynamic random access memory Take memory (synchlink DRAM, SLDRAM) and direct memory bus random access memory (DR RAM).

The above embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any other combination. When implemented in software, the above-described embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer instructions or computer programs. When the computer instructions or computer programs are loaded or executed on a computer, the processes or functions described in accordance with embodiments of the present application are 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 instructions can be stored in a computer readable storage medium or can be readable from one computer readable storage medium to another computer Storage media transfers, for example, may be transmitted from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server, or data center by wire (eg, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, or the like that contains one or more sets of available media. The usable medium can be a magnetic medium (eg, a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (eg, a DVD), or a semiconductor medium. The semiconductor medium can be a solid state hard drive.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" herein is merely an association relationship describing an associated object, indicating that there may be three relationships, for example, A and/or B, which may indicate that A exists separately, and A and B exist simultaneously. There are three cases of B alone. In addition, the character "/" in this article generally indicates that the contextual object is an "or" relationship.

It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the size of the sequence numbers of the foregoing processes does not mean the order of execution sequence, and the order of execution of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not be applied to the embodiment of the present application. The implementation process constitutes any limitation.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the elements and algorithm steps of the various examples described in connection 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 solution. A person skilled in the art can use different methods to implement the described functions for each particular application, but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scope of the present application. A person skilled in the art can clearly understand that for the convenience and brevity of the description, the specific working process of the system, the device and the unit described above can refer to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiment, and details are not described herein again. In the several embodiments provided by the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the device embodiments described above are merely illustrative. For example, the division of the unit is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be another division manner, for example, multiple units or components may be combined or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed. In addition, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interface, device or unit, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment. In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The functions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a standalone product. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application, which is essential or contributes to the prior art, or a part of the technical solution, may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium, including The instructions are used to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the methods described in various embodiments of the present application. The foregoing storage medium includes various media that can store program codes, such as a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The foregoing is only a specific embodiment of the present application, but the scope of protection of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope disclosed in the present application. It should be covered by the scope of protection of this application. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present application should be determined by the scope of the claims.

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A communication method, comprising: The network device determines a congestion status of the first cell accessed by the terminal device; When the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition, the network device sends first indication information to the terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device is prohibited from being in the first Sending a first access request for the first cell to the network device within a time period. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the first access request is specifically for the first cell that is initiated by the terminal device after releasing the used resource of the first cell. Access request. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and The first time period is a time period when the terminal device receives the first indication information as a starting point and the duration is the first time period. The communication method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the network device determines a congestion status of the first cell accessed by the terminal device, including: The network device periodically detects the first number of times, where the first number of times is the number of times the access processing fails for the first cell, or the first number of times is that the network device is in the first The number of times the radio resource received in the cell controls the RRC connection request; Determining, by the network device, a congestion status of the first cell according to determining the first number of times; The first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein, before the network device sends the first indication information to the terminal device, when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, The communication method further includes: The network device determines a one-to-one mapping relationship between the plurality of values and the plurality of durations; The network device determines, according to the mapping relationship, a duration corresponding to the value of the first number of times of the plurality of durations as a duration of the first period of time. The communication method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the communication method further comprises: When the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset second condition, the network device sends second indication information to the terminal device, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the network device allows the terminal The device sends the first access request to the network device in a first time period, where the second condition is that the first number of times is less than a preset first threshold. The communication method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the network device sends the first to the terminal device when the congestion condition of the first cell satisfies a preset first condition Instructions, including: Determining, by the network device, a first time interval, and when the first time interval is less than or equal to a preset first time threshold, and the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, The terminal device sends the first indication information, where the first time interval is a time interval between a time when the network device estimates the resource of the first cell used by the terminal device and the current time; or The network device determines a second time interval, and the second time interval is greater than or equal to a preset second time And the first indication information is sent to the terminal device when the congestion condition of the first cell meets the preset first condition, where the second time interval is the last time before the current time of the terminal device The time interval between the moment of business access and the current time. A communication method, comprising: The terminal device receives the first indication information from the network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device is prohibited from transmitting a first access request for the first cell to the network device in the first time period, where the first cell The first indicator information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion status of the first cell meets a preset first condition; The terminal device prohibits sending the first access request to the network device in the first time period according to the first indication information. The communication method according to claim 8, wherein the first access request is specifically the first time that the terminal device initiates access to the first cell after releasing the used resource of the first cell. request. The communication method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and The communication method further includes: The terminal device determines, as the starting point, a time period in which the time length of the first indication information is the first time period as the first time period. The communication method according to any one of claims 8 to 10, wherein the first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold, and the first number of times is The number of times the access processing of the first cell fails, or the first number of times is the number of times the radio resource control RRC connection request received by the network device in the first cell. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprises: The terminal device receives the second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the network device allows the terminal device to send the first access request to the network device in a first time period. The first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion status of the first cell meets a preset second condition, where the second condition is that the first number of times is less than a preset First threshold And the terminal device sends the first access request to the network device in the first time period according to the second indication information. A communication device, comprising: a processing unit, configured to determine a congestion status of the first cell accessed by the terminal device; a communication unit, configured to send first indication information to the terminal device when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device is prohibited from being in the first A first access request for the first cell is sent to the communication device for a period of time. The communication device according to claim 13, wherein the first access request is specifically for the first cell that is initiated by the terminal device after releasing the used resources of the first cell. Access request. The communication device according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the first indication information includes information of a first duration, and The first time period is a start time and a duration of the time when the terminal device receives the first indication information. The first time period. The communication device according to any one of claims 13 to 15, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to periodically detect the first number of times, and determine congestion of the first cell according to determining the first number of times a first time, the first number of times is an access processing failure for the first cell, or the first number of times is a radio resource control RRC connection received by the communication device in the first cell The number of requests, and The first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold. The communication device according to claim 16, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine a one-to-one mapping relationship between the plurality of values and the plurality of durations, and to use the plurality of durations according to the mapping relationship The duration corresponding to the value of the first number of times is determined as the duration of the first period of time. The communication device according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the communication unit is further configured to: when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset second condition, send a second indication to the terminal device Information, the second indication information is used to indicate that the communication device allows the terminal device to send the first access request to the communication device in a first time period, where the second condition is the first The number of times is less than a preset first threshold. The communication device according to any one of claims 13 to 18, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to determine a first time interval, and the first time interval is less than or equal to a preset first time And controlling, by the communication unit, the first indication information to be sent to the terminal device, where the first time interval is the network device estimation, when the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition Time interval between the time at which the terminal device releases the resource of the first cell used and the current time; or The processing unit is specifically configured to determine a second time interval, and when the second time interval is greater than or equal to a preset second time threshold, and the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition, The communication unit is configured to send the first indication information to the terminal device, where the second time interval is a time interval between a time when the terminal device last accessed the service before the current time and the current time. A communication device, comprising: a communication unit, configured to receive first indication information from the network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the communication apparatus is prohibited from transmitting a first access request for the first cell to the network device in a first time period, where The first cell is a cell that the communication device has accessed, and the first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion condition of the first cell meets a preset first condition; And a processing unit, configured to, according to the first indication information, prohibit the communication unit from sending a first access request to the network device in a first time period. The communication device according to claim 20, wherein the first access request is an access request for the first cell that is initiated by the communication device for the first time after releasing the used resource of the first cell. ,among them, The communication device according to claim 20 or 21, wherein the first indication information comprises information of a first duration, and The processing unit is further configured to determine, as the starting point, a time period in which the time of receiving the first indication information is a starting time and a duration of the first time period as the first time period. The communication device according to any one of claims 20 to 22, wherein the first condition is that the first number of times is greater than or equal to a preset first threshold, and the first number of times is The number of times the access processing of the first cell fails, or the first number of times is the number of times the radio resource control RRC connection request received by the network device in the first cell. A communication device according to claim 23, characterized in that The communication unit is further configured to receive second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the network device allows the communication device to send the first to the network device in a first time period. An access request, where the first indication information is sent by the network device when determining that the congestion status of the first cell meets a preset second condition, where the second condition is the first number of times Less than the preset first threshold. The processing unit is further configured to control, according to the second indication information, the communication unit to send the first access request to the network device in a first time period. A communication device, comprising: a memory for storing a computer program; A processor for executing a computer program stored in the memory to cause the apparatus to perform the communication method of any one of claims 1 to 12. A computer readable storage medium comprising a computer program that, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the communication method of any one of claims 1 to 12.

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