Mobile terminals and methods for performing a measurement
View Patent ↗A mobile terminal is described comprising a detector configured to detect an event which may trigger a change of a measurement gap configuration for the mobile terminal; a determiner configured to determine, upon detecting the event, whether the measurement gap configuration for the mobile terminal after the event is suitable for a measurement to be performed; and a signaling circuit configured to request a measurement gap reconfiguration if the measurement gap configuration is not suitable for the measurement.
1. A user equipment device comprising:
a measurement circuit configured to perform a plurality of measurements;
a determiner configured to determine a measurement gap configuration for the user equipment device, wherein the measurement gap configuration comprises a plurality of measurement gaps configured for the user equipment device;
a measurement controller configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the measurement gap configuration and to control the measurement circuit to carry out the measurement in an associated measurement gap; wherein the measurement controller is configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the measurement gap configuration such that if in a first measurement a first signal is to be received and in a second measurement a second signal is to be received and the signal quality of the first signal is higher than the signal quality of the second signal, the first measurement is performed before the second measurement;
a communication circuit configured to communicate the association of measurements with the plurality measurement gaps to a network component.
2. The user equipment device of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuit is further configured to send a measurement report for each of the plurality of measurements.
3. A user equipment device comprising:
a measurement circuit configured to perform a plurality of measurements, wherein in each measurement, a signal is to be received;
a determiner configured to determine a measurement gap configuration for the user equipment device, wherein the measurement gap configuration comprises a plurality of measurement gaps configured for the user equipment device; and
a measurement controller configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the measurement gap configuration based on information about the signal qualities of an signals to be received and to control the measurement circuit to carry out the measurement in the associated measurement gap;
wherein the measurement controller is configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the gap measurement configuration such that if in a first measurement a first signal is to be received and in a second measurement a second signal is to be received and the signal quality of the first signal is higher than the signal quality of the second signal, the first measurement is performed before the second measurement.
4. A user equipment device comprising:
a measurement circuit configured to perform a plurality of measurements, wherein in each measurement, a signal is to be received;
a determiner configured to determine a measurement gap configuration for the user equipment device after a handover has occurred, wherein the measurement gap configuration comprises a plurality of measurement gaps configured for the user equipment device;
a measurement controller configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the measurement gap configuration based on information about the signal qualities of the signals to be received and to control the measurement circuit to carry out the measurement in an associated measurement gap;
wherein the measurement controller is configured to associate each measurement of the plurality of measurements with at least one measurement gap of the measurement gap configuration such that if in a first measurement a first signal is to be received and in a second measurement a second signal is to be received and the signal quality of the first signal is higher than the signal quality of the second signal, the first measurement is performed before the second measurement; and
wherein the user equipment device is configured to receive a measurement gap reconfiguration from the network component after the handover where the measurement gap reconfiguration incorporates the measurement gap configuration determined by the determiner of the user equipment device.
5. The user equipment device of claim 3 , wherein the communication circuit is further configured to send a measurement report for each of the plurality of measurements.