US-12627990-B2 - UE capability information processing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium

Abstract

Provided are a UE capability information processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprising: reporting first capability information to a network side device; the first capability information being UE capability information associated with a SCG deactivate state ( 101 ); receiving, from the network-side device, first configuration information for instructing a UE to perform a configuration associated with the SCG deactivate state ( 102 ); and performing the configuration associated with the SCG deactivate state ( 103 ). By defining the UE capability associated to the SCG deactivate state in multiple connection scenarios, when the network side is performing an operation or configuration corresponding to the SCG deactivate state, on the basis of the corresponding UE capability, the network side may decide whether to perform or how to implement the corresponding operation or configuration, to ensure that when no data transmission exists on the SCG side, the SCG is suspended to conserve energy, and when needed, the SCG can be quickly activated to perform normal data transmission.

Inventors

• Bufang ZHANG
• Meng Xu
• Jing Liang

Assignees

• DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.

Dates

Publication Date

20260512

Application Date

20220106

Priority Date

20210108

Claims (20)

1. 1 . A method for processing user equipment (UE) capability information, comprising: reporting first capability information to a network side device, wherein the first capability information is UE capability information associated with a secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state; receiving first configuration information transmitted from the network side device, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate the UE to perform configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state; and performing the configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state, wherein the first capability information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports a capability associated with the SCG deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with SCG state transition; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement and radio link failure (RLF) reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing beam management in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with maintaining an uplink timing advance (TA) value in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability to directly configure the SCG to be in a deactivated state; or whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state.
2. 2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information is distinguished by at least one of the followings: bands supported by the UE; band combinations supported by the UE; duplex modes supported by the UE; transmission frequency ranges supported by the UE; types of radio access networks supported by the UE; types of multi-connectivity network architectures supported by the UE; types of radio access networks for a master node (MN) supported by the UE; or types of radio access networks for a secondary node (SN) supported by the UE.
3. 3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with SCG state transition, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through a medium access control layer control element (MAC CE); whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through downlink control information (DCI); whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through radio resource control (RRC); or whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through a timer.
4. 4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing CSI-RS measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports periodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports semi-persistently reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports aperiodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports reporting CSI-RS measurement results through a pre-configured SCG resource in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
5. 5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing RRM measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing RRM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing relaxed RRM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing relaxed RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
6. 6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing RLM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
7. 7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing beam management in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing primary secondary cell (PSCell) beam measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing PSCell beam failure detection in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing PSCell beam failure recovery in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCG secondary cell (SCell) beam measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCG SCell beam failure detection in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing SCG SCell beam failure recovery in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
8. 8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing relaxed SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
9. 9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with maintaining the uplink TA value in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports maintaining the uplink TA value in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports running a temporary uplink timing advance timer (TAT) in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
10. 10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability to directly configure the SCG to be in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing SCG addition; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing SCG reconfiguration; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing conditional PSCell addition; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing PSCell change; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing reconfiguration with sync of PSCell; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing conditional PSCell change; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing RRC connection resume; whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing primary cell (PCell) handover; or whether the UE supports directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state in case of performing reconfiguration with sync of PCell.
11. 11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing SCell addition in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCell release in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCell reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing PSCell change in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing reconfiguration with sync of PSCell in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing conditional PSCell change in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCG release in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing SCG reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing PCell handover in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing reconfiguration with sync of PCell in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
12. 12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing the configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state; configuring a state transition of the SCG; performing configuration associated with CSI-RS measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration associated with RRM measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration associated with RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration associated with beam management in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration associated with SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration associated with maintaining an uplink TA value in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing configuration for directly configuring the SCG to be the deactivated state; or performing configuration associated with reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
13. 13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the configuring the state transition of the SCG comprises at least one of the followings: configuring the state of the SCG to transition from an activated state to a deactivated state; or configuring the state of the SCG to transition from a deactivated state to an activated state; wherein the first configuration information comprises at least one of the followings: medium access control layer control element (MAC CE); downlink control information (DCI); radio resource control (RRC); or the configuring the state transition of the SCG comprises: starting a first timer, and configuring the state of the SCG to transition from a deactivated state to an activated state; or starting a second timer, and configuring the state of the SCG to transition from an activated state to a deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with CSI-RS measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: periodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; semi-persistently reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; aperiodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or reporting CSI-RS measurement results through a pre-configured SCG resource in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with RRM measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: performing RRM measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing relaxed RRM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or performing relaxed RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: performing RLM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or performing RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with beam management in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: performing PSCell beam measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing PSCell beam failure detection in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing PSCell beam failure recovery in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing SCG secondary cell (SCell) beam measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing SCG SCell beam failure detection in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or performing SCG SCell beam failure recovery in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: performing SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or performing relaxed SRS transmission in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration associated with maintaining uplink TA value in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: maintaining the uplink TA value in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or running a temporary uplink TAT in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or the performing configuration for directly configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: upon performing SCG addition, configuring added SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing SCG reconfiguration, configuring reconfigured SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing conditional PSCell addition, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing PSCell change, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon reconfiguration with sync of PSCell, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing conditional PSCell change, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing RRC connection resume, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; upon performing PCell handover, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; or upon reconfiguration with sync of PCell, configuring the SCG to be in the deactivated state directly; or the performing configuration associated with reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state comprises at least one of the followings: performing SCell addition in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing SCell release in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing SCell reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing PSCell change in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing reconfiguration with sync of PSCell in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing conditional PSCell change in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing SCG release in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing PSCell reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; performing PCell handover in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or performing reconfiguration with sync of PCell in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
14. 14 . A method for processing user equipment (UE) capability information, comprising: obtaining first capability information reported from the UE, wherein the first capability information is UE capability information associated with a secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state; and transmitting first configuration information to the UE, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate the UE to perform configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state: wherein the first capability information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports a capability associated with the SCG deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with SCG state transition; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement and radio link failure (RLF) reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing beam management in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with maintaining an uplink timing advance (TA) value in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability to directly configure the SCG to be in a deactivated state; or whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state.
15. 15 . A user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory storing a computer program; a processor; and a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data under a control of the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the UE to perform the following operations of: reporting first capability information to a network side device, wherein the first capability information is UE capability information associated with a secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state; receiving first configuration information transmitted from the network side device, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate the UE to perform configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state; and performing the configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state; wherein the first capability information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports a capability associated with the SCG deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with SCG state transition; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement and radio link failure (RLF) reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing beam management in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability associated with maintaining an uplink timing advance (TA) value in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state; whether the UE supports a capability to directly configure the SCG to be in a deactivated state; or whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state.
16. 16 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first capability information is distinguished by at least one of the followings: bands supported by the UE; band combinations supported by the UE; duplex modes supported by the UE; transmission frequency ranges supported by the UE; types of radio access networks supported by the UE; types of multi-connectivity network architectures supported by the UE; types of radio access networks for a master node (MN) supported by the UE; or types of radio access networks for a secondary node (SN) supported by the UE.
17. 17 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with SCG state transition, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through a medium access control layer control element (MAC CE); whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through downlink control information (DCI); whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through radio resource control (RRC); whether the UE supports performing the SCG state transition through a timer.
18. 18 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing CSI-RS measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports periodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports semi-persistently reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports aperiodically reporting CSI-RS measurement results through an MN side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports reporting CSI-RS measurement results through a pre-configured SCG resource in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
19. 19 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing RRM measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing RRM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing relaxed RRM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing relaxed RRM measurement based on measurement configuration configured on an SCG side in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.
20. 20 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first capability information comprises at least one type of indication information for the capability associated with performing RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports performing RLM measurement in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; whether the UE supports performing RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state; or whether the UE supports performing RLM measurement and RLF reporting in case that the SCG is in the deactivated state.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION The present application is a National Stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2022/070514, filed on Jan. 6, 2022, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110024367.7 filed on Jan. 8, 2021, entitled “UE Capability Information Processing Method and Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium”, which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties. FIELD The present application relates to the field of communication, and in particular, to methods and apparatuses for processing user equipment (UE) capability information, devices and a storage medium. BACKGROUND A secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state is introduced into anew radio (NR) and is also referred to as an SCG dormant state or an SCG suspended state or a primary secondary cell (PSCell)/an SCG primary cell suspended or dormant state or a PSCell deactivated state, etc., For infrequent large data flows, in case that no larger data packet transmission or no data transmission on the SCG side occurs, the SCG is suspended, that is, both the UE and the network side device save SCG contexts, but some actions are suspended, for example, the UE stops monitoring the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from the SCG side, the UE does not monitor the SCG channel, and the UE stops data transmission to the SCG side, etc., which save UE power consumption. In case that a larger data flow interaction occurs or data transmission occurs on the SCG side, the SCG of the UE is quickly activated for data transmission. However, whether UE supports SCG deactivated state and UE capabilities associated with the SCG deactivated state are still unclear. In a multi-connectivity scenario, how to assist the network side device to configure, based on UE capabilities associated with the SCG deactivated state, the SCG deactivated state or operations associated with the SCG deactivated state for the UE is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. SUMMARY Embodiments of the present application provide methods and apparatuses for processing user equipment (UE) capability information, devices and a storage medium, which may solve a problem of UE capabilities associated with the SCG deactivated state are not clear. An embodiment of the present application provides a method for processing UE capability information, including: reporting first capability information to a network side device, where the first capability information is UE capability information associated with a secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state;receiving first configuration information transmitted from the network side device, where the first configuration information is used to indicate the UE to perform configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state; andperforming the configuration associated with the SCG deactivated state. According to the method for processing the UE capability information provided by an embodiment of the present application, before reporting the first capability information to the network side device, the method further includes: obtaining a capability request message transmitted from the network side device, where the capability request message includes first indication information for indicating the UE to report the first capability information. According to the method for processing the UE capability information provided by an embodiment of the present application, the first capability information includes at least one of the followings: whether the UE supports a capability associated with the SCG deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with SCG state transition;whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement and reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement and radio link failure (RLF) reporting in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing beam management in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability associated with maintaining an uplink timing advance (TA) value in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state;whether the UE supports a capability to directly configure the SCG to be in a deactivated state; orwhether the UE supports a capability associated with performing reconfiguration in case that the SCG is in a deactivated state. According to the method for processing the UE capability information provided by an embodiment of the present application, the first capability