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US 12,726,839 · App. 18/564,473 · Granted Sep 1, 2026

Interference measurement method, interference processing method, and apparatuses therefor

Inventor: Yajun Zhu (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
H04W24/08H04B17/345H04L5/0051H04W24/10
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Patent No.
US 12,726,839
App. No.
18/564,473
Granted
Sep 1, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An interference measurement method is performed by a first terminal device and includes: receiving an inter user equipment interference management reference signal (UE-IM-RS); and determining a second terminal device that sends the UE-IM-RS and determining an interference measurement result of the second terminal device according to the UE-IM-RS, in which determining the interference measurement result of the second terminal device includes: determining measurement data of the UE-IM-RS; determining that the measurement data is greater than or equal to a measurement threshold value, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is an interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device; determining that the measurement data is less than the measurement threshold value, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is not an interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device.

Claims (55)

1 . An interference measurement method, performed by a first terminal device and comprising:

receiving an inter user equipment interference management reference signal (UE-IM-RS); and

determining a second terminal device that sends the UE-IM-RS and determining an interference measurement result of the second terminal device according to the UE-IM-RS,

wherein determining the interference measurement result of the second terminal device comprises:

determining measurement data of the UE-IM-RS;

determining that the measurement data is greater than or equal to a measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is an interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device; and

determining that the measurement data is less than the measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is not an interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a time-frequency resource for receiving the UE-IM-RS is configured by a network device, or is selected from a time-frequency resource pool configured by the network device.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the second terminal device that sends the UE-IM-RS comprises:

parsing the UE-IM-RS to obtain a terminal device identifier; and

determining a terminal device corresponding to the terminal device identifier as the second terminal device that sends the UE-IM-RS.

4 . An interference measurement device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having stored therein a computer program,

wherein the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, to cause the device to implement the method according to claim 1 .

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interference measurement result is that the second terminal device belongs to the interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device,

wherein the method further comprises:

sending a terminal device identifier of the second terminal device and the measurement data to a network device.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measurement data comprises at least one of: a reference signal receiving power (RSRP), a reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ), or a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data is configured by a network device or determined according to a protocol.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein among time-frequency resources for the first terminal device to receive signals and time-frequency resources for the second terminal device to send signals, resources with a same time and a same frequency exist.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed, cause the method according to claim 1 .

10 . An interference measurement method, performed by a second terminal device and comprising:

generating an inter user equipment interference management reference signal (UE-IM-RS) according to an identifier of the second terminal device; and

sending the UE-IM-RS to indicate a first UE that receives the UE-IM-RS to execute processes of determining an interference measurement result of the second terminal device according to the UE-IM-RS, the processes comprising:

determining measurement data of the UE-IM-RS;

determining that the measurement data is greater than or equal to a measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second UE is an interference UE to be reported by the first UE; and

determining that the measurement data is less than the measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second UE is not an the interference UE to be reported by the first UE.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein among time-frequency resources for a first terminal device that receives the UE-IM-RS to receive signals and time-frequency resources for the second terminal device to send signals, resources with a same time and a same frequency exist.

12 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein a time-frequency resource for sending the UE-IM-RS is configured by a network device, or is selected from a time-frequency resource pool configured by the network device.

13 . An interference measurement device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having stored therein a computer program,

wherein the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, to cause the device to implement the method according to claim 10 .

14 . An interference processing method, performed by a network device and comprising:

receiving a terminal device identifier of a second terminal device and measurement data from a first terminal device; wherein the second terminal device belongs to an interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device; and the measurement data are measurement data of an inter user equipment interference management reference signal (UE-IM-RS) sent by the second terminal device to the first terminal device; and

determining a scheduling strategy of the first terminal device and the second terminal device according to the measurement data,

wherein the first terminal device determines whether the second terminal device is the interference terminal device to be reported by:

determining an interference measurement result of the second terminal device according to the UE-IM-RS, comprising:

determining that the measurement data is greater than or equal to a measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is the interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device; and

determining that the measurement data is less than the measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the interference measurement result indicates that the second terminal device is not the interference terminal device to be reported by the first terminal device.

15 . An interference processing device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having stored therein a computer program,

wherein the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, to cause the device to implement the method according to claim 14 .

16 . The method according to claim 14 , further comprising:

configuring a time-frequency resource for communicating the UE-IM-RS; or

configuring a time-frequency resource pool for selecting a time-frequency resource for communicating the UE-IM-RS.

17 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein determining the scheduling strategy of the first terminal device and the second terminal device according to the measurement data comprises:

performing grouping processing on the first terminal device and the second terminal device according to the measurement data and a specified grouping strategy to obtain a grouping result; and

determining the scheduling strategy of the first terminal device and the second terminal device according to the grouping result.

18 . The method according to claim 17 , wherein the grouping strategy is that the measurement data are greater than or equal to a first grouping measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the first terminal device and the second terminal device are classified into a group; and

the scheduling strategy is that a co-frequency co-time full duplex pairing is not supported between the first terminal device and the second terminal device in the group.

19 . The method according to claim 17 , wherein the grouping strategy is that the measurement data are less than a second grouping measurement threshold value corresponding to the measurement data, and the first terminal device and the second terminal device are classified into a group; and

the scheduling strategy is that a co-frequency co-time full duplex pairing is supported between the first terminal device and the second terminal device in the group.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 27, 2023
From: ZHU, YAJUN
To: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
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Continuity (1)
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