Method of network management by assistance from terminal using control-plane signaling between terminal and network

摘要

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate network management and optimization. As described herein, a network and a device communicating with the network can exchange network management information, thereby supporting a Self Organized Network (SON) architecture for improved network management and optimization performance. A Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer protocol and/or an Internet Protocol (IP) application, in combination with a set of associated network management messages, can be utilized to exchange network management information between a device and a network. As further described herein, various procedures can be utilized to install a SON policy to a device in order to define device behavior for operations such as collecting and reporting information related to network management. Additionally, a set of standardized events can be defined, based on which a device can detect the occurrence of an event and report the occurrence to an associated network.

主权项

1. A method for logging and reporting measurements related to network events by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving control plane based messaging from a network that configures the UE for performing one or more measurements related to one or more network events and for logging the one or more measurements, wherein the control plane based messaging is based on a protocol stack that includes one or more access stratum (AS) protocols, wherein the one or more AS protocols includes a radio resource control (RRC) signaling protocol, and wherein the configuring comprises configuring the UE with a trigger for the logging the one or more measurements; performing the one or more measurements, wherein the performing the one or more measurements comprises determining one or more of a time of the one or more network events, an observed network location at a time associated with the one or more network events, or channel information at a time associated with the one or more network events; logging at least one of the one or more measurements, based on the configuration; receiving, via the control plane based messaging, an explicit request from the network to report at least one of the logged one or more measurements; and reporting, via the control plane based messaging, the at least one of the logged one or more measurements to the network based on the request, wherein the reporting comprises transmitting the one or more measurements to a server.