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US 12,159,480 · App. 17/606,015 · Granted Dec 3, 2024

Method and apparatus for fingerprint database creation, method and apparatus for fingerprint database application, centralized processing device and base station

Inventor: Hong Feng (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
G06V40/1365G06V40/13G06V40/1347H04W36/00833H04W36/008375
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Patent No.
US 12,159,480
App. No.
17/606,015
Granted
Dec 3, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation, a method for radio frequency fingerprint database application, a device, a centralized processing device and a base station. During creating a radio frequency fingerprint database, neighbor cell information statistics is performed on each of a plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of divided grids, and an effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell is generated according to a result of the dividing and a result of the neighbor cell information statistics.

Claims (66)

1. A method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation, comprising:

dividing a cell logically into a plurality of grids according to a plurality of grid indexes and historical data reported by each of a plurality of terminals in the cell, wherein one grid index is used to uniquely identify one grid;

performing neighbor cell information statistics on each of a plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of grids; and

generating an effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell according to a result of the dividing and a result of the neighbor cell information statistics;

wherein each of the plurality of grid indexes comprises a serving cell identification and serving cell quality.

2. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of grid indexes further comprises:

a strongest intra-frequency neighbor cell identification and strongest intra-frequency neighbor cell quality.

3. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 1 , wherein the historical data comprises a measurement report MR and handover HO information reported by a terminal within a preset period of time from a current time; or, the historical data comprises a preset number of MRs and the HO information recently reported by the terminal.

4. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 3 , wherein the MR comprises one or both of an inter-frequency MR and an inter-system MR, and an intra-frequency MR.

5. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 3 , wherein the HO information comprises one or both of an inter-frequency HO and an inter-system HO.

6. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 1 , wherein dividing the cell into the plurality of grids according to the plurality of grid indexes and historical data reported by each of the plurality of terminals in the cell comprises:

performing association filling processing on the historical data reported by each of the plurality of terminals in the cell;

dividing the cell into the plurality of grids according to the plurality of grid indexes and the historical data after the association filling processing.

7. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 6 , wherein the historical data comprises an intra-frequency MR, an inter-frequency MR, an inter-system MR, an inter-frequency HO and an inter-system HO, each of the plurality of grids comprises information of M intra-frequency neighbor cells, and performing association filling processing on the historical data reported by each of the plurality of terminals in the cell comprises:

for each terminal of the plurality of terminals, associating the intra-frequency MR, the inter-frequency MR, the inter-system MR, the inter-frequency HO and the inter-system HO successively reported by the each terminal to obtain the historical data of the each terminal; and

for history data in which a number of intra-frequency neighbor cells is less than M, filling the history data to obtain the history data after the association filling processing, wherein M is a positive integer.

8. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 1 , wherein generating the effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell according to the result of the dividing and the result of the neighbor cell information statistics comprises:

generating an initial radio frequency fingerprint database according to the result of the dividing and the result of the neighbor cell information statistics; and

screening grids in the initial radio frequency fingerprint database to determine the effective radio frequency fingerprint database.

9. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 8 , wherein screening the grids in the initial radio frequency fingerprint database to determine the effective radio frequency fingerprint database comprises:

removing grids whose number of MRs participating in grid construction is less than a construction threshold in the initial radio frequency fingerprint database;

removing neighbor cells whose number of neighbor cell reporting times is less than a reporting threshold in the initial radio frequency fingerprint database;

selecting neighbor cells of which neighbor cell quality average values, overlapping coverage degrees and handover success rates are respectively greater than each respective corresponding threshold as effective neighbor cells, and using grids containing at least one effective neighbor cell as temporary effective grids;

in response to a number of the temporary effective grids not exceeding an effective grid threshold, taking all the temporary effective grids as effective grids; and

in response to a number of neighbor cells contained in each of the effective grids not exceeding a neighbor cell threshold, creating the effective radio frequency fingerprint database based on the effective grids.

10. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 9 , wherein in response to the number of the temporary effective grids exceeding the effective grid threshold, the temporary effective grids having higher ratios of a number of effective neighbor cells to a number of total neighbor cells is preferentially selected as the effective grids.

11. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 9 , wherein in response to the number of neighbor cells contained in each of the effective grids exceeding the neighbor cell threshold, neighbor cells having higher neighbor cell weights in each of the effective grids are preferentially reserved, and remaining neighbor cells are screened out; and wherein each of the neighbor cell weights is obtained by normalizing a neighbor cell quality average value of a neighbor cell in each of the effective grids and then respectively multiplying the neighbor cell quality average value, an overlapping coverage degree and a handover success rate of the neighbor cell by each respective corresponding weight.

12. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 1 , wherein the neighbor cell information counted for a certain neighbor cell under a grid represents at least one of neighbor cell quality of the certain neighbor cell measured in the grid, an overlapping coverage degree of the certain neighbor cell in the grid, and a handover success rate of handover of a terminal to the certain neighbor cell in the grid.

13. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation according to claim 12 , wherein before performing the neighbor cell information statistics on each of the plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of grids, the method further comprises:

counting a number of MRs participating in grid construction for each of the plurality of grids; and

for each neighbor cell of the plurality of neighbor cells of the cell, counting the following in each of the plurality of grids:

the neighbor cell quality average value;

a number of reporting times of neighbor cell quality being greater than a first threshold;

a number of neighbor cell reporting times; and

a number of handover attempts and a number of handover successes for the each neighbor cell;

wherein the neighbor cell quality is represented by the neighbor cell quality average value, the overlapping coverage degree is represented by a ratio of the number of the reporting times of the neighbor cell quality being greater than the first threshold to the number of MRs, and the handover success rate is represented by a ratio of the number of handover successes to the number of handover attempts.

14. A method for radio frequency fingerprint database application, comprising:

acquiring an effective radio frequency fingerprint database created by a centralized processing device, wherein the effective radio frequency fingerprint database is created according to a method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation; and

applying the effective radio frequency fingerprint database to perform radio resource management RRM on a plurality of terminals;

wherein the method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation comprises:

dividing a cell logically into a plurality of grids according to a plurality of grid indexes and historical data reported by each of a plurality of terminals in the cell, wherein one grid index is used to uniquely identify one grid;

performing neighbor cell information statistics on each of a plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of grids; and

generating an effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell according to a result of the dividing and a result of the neighbor cell information statistics;

wherein each of the plurality of grid indexes comprises a serving cell identification and serving cell quality.

15. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database application according to claim 14 , wherein applying the effective radio frequency fingerprint database to perform radio resource management RRM on the plurality of terminals comprises:

determining that a grid to which a terminal belongs is stable when the RRM needs to be performed on the terminal; and

applying the effective radio frequency fingerprint database to perform the RRM on the terminal.

16. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database application according to claim 15 , wherein determining that the grid to which the terminal belongs is stable comprises:

in response to determining that last N stability decisions of the grid to which the terminal belongs are all temporarily stable, determining that the grid to which the terminal belongs is stable, wherein a value of N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2;

in a stability decision, in response to that grids to which the terminal belongs in intra-frequency measurement reports MRs respectively reported by the terminal at this time and at previous time are the same, or that the grids to which the terminal belongs in intra-frequency measurement reports MRs respectively reported by the terminal at this time and at previous time are different but effective neighbor cells to which the terminal belongs in intra-frequency measurement reports MRs respectively reported by the terminal at this time and at previous time are the same, determining that the grid to which the terminal belongs is temporarily stable.

17. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database application according to claim 14 , wherein the effective radio frequency fingerprint database comprises a terminal list uniquely corresponding to a plurality of grids, and the terminal list records unique identification information of each of the plurality of terminals in the plurality of grids.

18. The method for radio frequency fingerprint database application according to claim 14 , further comprising:

updating the following information of the grid to which the terminal belongs according to MR and handover HO information reported by the terminal in real time:

a number of MRs participating in grid construction;

a neighbor cell quality average value;

a number of reporting times of neighbor cell quality being greater than a first threshold;

a number of neighbor cell reporting times; and

a number of handover attempts and a number of handover successes for a neighbor cell.

19. A centralized processing device, comprising: a first processor, a first memory and a first communication bus; wherein:

the first communication bus is configured to realize communication connection between the first processor and the first memory; and

the first processor is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the first memory to perform steps in a method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation;

wherein the method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation comprises:

dividing a cell logically into a plurality of grids according to a plurality of grid indexes and historical data reported by each of a plurality of terminals in the cell, wherein one grid index is used to uniquely identify one grid, and each of the plurality of grid indexes comprises a serving cell identification and serving cell quality;

performing neighbor cell information statistics on each of a plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of grids; and

generating an effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell according to a result of the dividing and a result of the neighbor cell information statistics.

20. The centralized processing device according to claim 19 , wherein each of the plurality of grid indexes further comprises: a strongest intra-frequency neighbor cell identification and strongest intra-frequency neighbor cell quality.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2021
From: FENG, HONG
To: ZTE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057922/0061 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910336189.4 · Apr 24, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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