Method of uplink MDT measurement
Methods of MDT information logging and reporting are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided to resolve shortcomings of prior art by correlating UL measurements with QoS information to enable UL performance analysis and accurate detection of coverage problems. In another embodiment, a method is provided to resolve the shortcomings of the prior art by making DL measurements and location information collecting or logging conditional on UL measurements.
1. A method, comprising:
transmitting uplink data from a user device (UE) to a network device over a wireless uplink channel;
measuring transmission power of the uplink channel and thereby generating transmission power information;
obtaining transmission Quality of Service (QoS) information of the uplink channel;
correlating the transmission power information with the transmission QoS information and generating a correlation result of UE's UL performance; and
identifying a performance problem of the UE for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) based on the correlation result.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission QoS information comprises at least one of a data rate, a transport block size, a modulation and coding scheme, a transmission bandwidth, a number of resource blocks, a number of soft combinations or network macro diversity, a signal strength or quality, and an interference level.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission power information comprises at least one of an absolute transmission power measured, a power headroom report, an indicator indicating that the UE is power limited, and implicit power information deduced based on a power control command or a defined UE power control behavior.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE archives the correlation result of the transmission power information and the transmission QoS information in a UE metrics log.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
reporting the UE metrics log to the network device.
6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the archiving into the log is conditional based on a condition corresponding to a network performance problem.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the condition being a low data rate and the UE is power limited.
8. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a network device, uplink data from a user device (UE) over an uplink channel in a wireless network;
receiving transmission power information from the UE;
obtaining transmission Quality of Service (QoS) information;
correlating the transmission power information with the transmission QoS information and generating a correlation result of UE's UL performance; and
identifying a performance problem of the UE for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) based on the correlation result.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmission QoS information comprises at least one of a data rate, a transport block size, a modulation and coding scheme, a transmission bandwidth, a number of resource blocks, a number of soft combinations or network macro diversity, a signal strength or quality, and an interference level.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmission power information comprises at least one of an absolute transmission power measured, a power headroom report, an indicator indicating that the UE is power limited, and implicit power information deduced based on a power control command or a defined UE power control behavior.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the network device archives the correlation result of the transmission power information and the transmission QoS information in a network metrics log.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving a UE correlation metrics log that comprises another correlation result of the transmission power information and the transmission QoS information generated by the UE.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the network metrics log further includes the UE correlation metrics log.
14. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver that transmits uplink data to a network device over a wireless uplink channel;
an uplink power measurement module that measures transmission power of the uplink channel and thereby generating transmission power information;
a Quality of Service (QoS) module that obtains QoS information of the uplink channel; and
a correlation module that correlates the transmission power information and the transmission QoS information, generates a correlation result of the UE's UL performance, and identifies a performance problem of the UE for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) based on the correlation result.
15. The UE of claim 14 , wherein the transmission QoS information comprises at least one of a data rate, a transport block size, a modulation and coding scheme, a transmission bandwidth, a number of resource blocks, a number of soft combinations or network macro diversity, a signal strength or quality, and an interference level.
16. The UE of claim 14 , wherein the transmission power information comprises at least one of an absolute transmission power measured, a power headroom report, an indicator indicating that the UE is power limited, and implicit power information deduced based on a power control command or a defined UE power control behavior.
17. The UE of claim 14 , further comprising:
a memory that stores the correlation result of the transmission power information and the transmission QoS information in a UE metrics log.
18. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the transceiver reports the UE metrics log to the network device.
19. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the storing into the log is conditional based on a condition corresponding to a network performance problem.
20. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the condition being a low data rate and the UE is power limited.
21. The UE of claim 14 , further comprising:
a configuration module, wherein the configuration module configures a correlation algorithm for the correlation module.