WO2024125355A1 - 一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质 - Google Patents

一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质 Download PDF

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WO2024125355A1
WO2024125355A1 PCT/CN2023/136685 CN2023136685W WO2024125355A1 WO 2024125355 A1 WO2024125355 A1 WO 2024125355A1 CN 2023136685 W CN2023136685 W CN 2023136685W WO 2024125355 A1 WO2024125355 A1 WO 2024125355A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W64/00—Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
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    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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  • the present application relates to the field of wireless communication technology, and in particular to a method and device for reporting positioning information and a computer-readable storage medium.
  • the positioning reference unit was introduced in version 17 to help improve positioning performance.
  • the positioning reference signal PRS
  • the positioning reference signal can be measured using a PRU with a known position, and double difference equations can be constructed between different network devices and between the positioning terminal device and the PRU to eliminate the influence of non-ideal factors and improve positioning accuracy.
  • the relative position relationship between the PRU and the positioning terminal device will affect the positioning performance of the double difference. If double difference carrier phase positioning is to be performed to eliminate the influence of non-ideal factors, the PRU distribution needs to be as dense as possible during deployment, so a large number of PRUs are required. A large number of PRUs need to be deployed, and in complex environments, there are problems such as difficulty in selecting PRU sites and high maintenance costs of PRUs.
  • the embodiments of the present application provide a method, device and computer-readable storage medium for reporting positioning information, which can reduce the complexity of positioning.
  • the present application provides a method for reporting positioning information, which can be applied to a first network device, or to a device in the first network device (e.g., a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit), or a device that can be used in combination with the first network device, and is described below by taking the application to the first network device as an example.
  • the method may include: the first network device receives a first reference signal from a second network device; the first network device sends first information to a positioning management network element, the first information is determined based on measuring the first reference signal, the first information is used for calibration of a phase measurement amount, and the phase measurement amount is used for positioning the terminal device.
  • the embodiment of the present application can report positioning information through network equipment, specifically, network equipment (such as base stations) can send and receive reference signals to each other to form a self-loop, determine and report first information to the positioning management network element based on the received reference signal, so that the positioning management network element can solve the double difference carrier phase according to the first information to realize the positioning of the terminal device. Therefore, the embodiment of the present application can reduce the complexity of positioning by reporting positioning information through network equipment.
  • network equipment such as base stations
  • the method for reporting positioning information before the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device, the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the first network device receives first request information from a positioning management network element, where the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the first network device receiving the first reference signal from the second network device includes: the first network device receiving the first reference signal from the second network device on a reserved resource, where the reserved resource is a gap GAP symbol on a reserved time slot.
  • the reserved time slot can be an uplink and downlink switching time slot.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the first network device sends a reference signal to the second network device, and the second network device is the first network device or other network device except the first network device.
  • the second network device may be the first network device, that is, the first network device may send and receive the first reference signal by itself. Specifically, the first network device may send and receive the first reference signal by itself after receiving the first request information from the positioning management network element.
  • the second network device may also be a network device other than the first network device. Reference signals may be sent and received between network devices (such as base stations) to form a self-loop, and the first information may be determined based on the received reference signal and reported to the positioning management network element, so that the positioning management network element may perform double-difference carrier phase solution based on the first information and phase information to achieve the positioning of the terminal device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the first network device receives instruction information from the positioning management network element, the instruction information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device. Send a reference signal.
  • each of the multiple network devices can send and receive signals to each other.
  • the first network device sends a first reference signal to the second network device.
  • the first network device may send a reference signal to the second network device according to instruction information from a positioning management network element.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the first network device receives a second reference signal from the terminal device; the first network device measures the second reference signal to obtain phase information; and the first network device sends the phase information to the positioning management network element.
  • the first network device determines the phase information according to the second reference signal, it can send the phase information to the positioning management network element so that the positioning management network element can complete the double difference carrier phase positioning according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the first network device receives a second request message from the positioning management network element, and the second request message is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value, and the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is the phase arrival error (PAE).
  • PAE phase arrival error
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: a channel sounding reference signal (SRS), a positioning reference signal (PRS) and a remote interference management reference signal (RIM-RS).
  • SRS channel sounding reference signal
  • PRS positioning reference signal
  • RIM-RS remote interference management reference signal
  • the present application provides a method for reporting positioning information, which can be applied to a positioning management network element, or to a device in the positioning management network element (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit), or a device that can be used in combination with the positioning management network element.
  • the following description is given by taking the application to the positioning management network element as an example.
  • the method may include: the positioning management network element receives first information from a first network device, the first information is determined based on a first reference signal, the first information is used for calibration of a phase measurement amount, and the phase measurement amount is used for positioning the terminal device; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information.
  • the positioning management network element can solve the double difference carrier phase according to the first information from the network device to realize the positioning of the terminal device.
  • the positioning information is reported by the network device, which can reduce the complexity of positioning.
  • the executor of the second aspect can be a positioning management network element.
  • the specific content of the second aspect corresponds to the content of the first aspect.
  • the corresponding features of the second aspect and the beneficial effects achieved can refer to the description of the first aspect. To avoid repetition, the detailed description is appropriately omitted here.
  • the method for reporting the positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends first request information to the first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the positioning management network element sends indication information to the first network device, the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device, the second network device is the first network device or other network device except the first network device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the positioning management network element receives phase information from the first network device, and the phase information is determined based on the second reference signal; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information, including: the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends second request information to the first network device, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the positioning management network element receives phase information obtained by measuring a third reference signal from the terminal device; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information, including: the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the positioning management network element can send a request information to the terminal device for requesting the terminal device to measure a third reference signal, so that the terminal device measures the third reference signal to obtain phase information.
  • the positioning management network element can perform a double-difference carrier phase solution based on the first information and the phase information to determine the location information of the terminal device.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS.
  • the present application provides a method for reporting positioning information, which can be applied to a first network device and a positioning management network element, or to a device in the first network device and the positioning management network element (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit), or a device that can be used in combination with the first network device and the positioning management network element.
  • the following description is based on the application to the first network device and the positioning management network element.
  • the method may include: a first network device receives a first reference signal from a second network device; the first network device sends first information to the positioning management network element, the first information is determined according to the first reference signal, the first information is used for calibration of a phase measurement quantity, and the phase measurement quantity is used to locate the terminal device; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information.
  • the positioning information can be reported through the network device.
  • the reference signal can be sent and received between network devices (such as base stations) on the reserved resources to form a self-loop, and the first information is determined and reported to the positioning management network element based on the received reference signal, so that the positioning management network element can solve the double difference carrier phase according to the first information to realize the positioning of the terminal device. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, the complexity of double difference carrier phase positioning can be reduced by reporting the positioning information through the network device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information before the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device, the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends first request information to the first network device, and the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the first network device receiving the first reference signal from the second network device includes: the first network device receiving the first reference signal from the second network device on a reserved resource, where the reserved resource is a GAP symbol on a reserved time slot.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the first network device sends a reference signal to the second network device, and the second network device is the first network device or other network device except the first network device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information before the first network device sends a reference signal to the second network device, the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the positioning management network element sends indication information to the first network device, and the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the first network device receives a second reference signal from the terminal device; the first network device measures the second reference signal to obtain phase information; the first network device sends the phase information to the positioning management network element; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information, including: the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends second request information to the first network device, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the method for reporting positioning information also includes: the positioning management network element receives phase information obtained by measuring a third reference signal from the terminal device; the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information, including: the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for reporting positioning information further includes: the positioning management network element sends third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device.
  • the communication device has the function of implementing the behavior in the method example of the first aspect.
  • the function can be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software.
  • the hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the above functions.
  • the communication device includes:
  • a transceiver unit configured to receive a first reference signal from a second network device
  • the transceiver unit is used to send first information to the positioning management network element, where the first information is determined based on measuring a first reference signal, and the first information is used for calibrating a phase measurement quantity, and the phase measurement quantity is used for positioning the terminal device.
  • the transceiver unit before the transceiver unit receives the first reference signal from the second network device, it is also used to receive a reference signal from the positioning tube.
  • the first request information of the processing network element is used to request to measure the first reference signal.
  • the transceiver unit receives the first reference signal from the second network device, and is specifically configured to: receive the first reference signal from the second network device on a reserved resource, where the reserved resource is a GAP symbol on a reserved time slot.
  • the transceiver unit is further configured to send a reference signal to a second network device, where the second network device is the first network device or another network device except the first network device.
  • the transceiver unit before the transceiver unit sends the reference signal to the second network device, it is further used to receive indication information from the positioning management network element, where the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send the reference signal to the second network device.
  • the transceiver unit is further configured to receive a second reference signal from the terminal device;
  • the communication device also includes:
  • a processing unit used for measuring a second reference signal to obtain phase information
  • the transceiver unit is also used to send the phase information to the positioning management network element.
  • the transceiver unit is further used to receive second request information from the positioning management network element, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device.
  • the communication device has the function of implementing the behavior in the method example of the second aspect.
  • the function can be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software.
  • the hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the above functions.
  • the communication device includes:
  • a transceiver unit configured to receive first information from a first network device, the first information being determined according to a first reference signal, the first information being used for calibration of a phase measurement quantity, the phase measurement quantity being used for positioning the terminal device;
  • a processing unit is used to determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information.
  • the communication device further includes:
  • the transceiver unit is further configured to send first request information to the first network device before receiving the first information from the first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the transceiver unit is further used to send indication information to the first network device, where the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device, where the second network device is the first network device or other network device except the first network device.
  • the transceiver unit is further configured to receive phase information from the first network device, where the phase information is determined according to the second reference signal;
  • the processing unit determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the transceiver unit is further used to send second request information to the first network device, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the transceiver unit is further used to receive phase information obtained by measuring a third reference signal from the terminal device;
  • the processing unit determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the transceiver unit is further used to send third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device.
  • the communication device has the function of implementing the behavior in the method example of the third aspect.
  • the function can be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software.
  • the hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the above functions.
  • the communication device includes a first network device and a positioning management network element, wherein:
  • the first network device is configured to receive a first reference signal from a second network device
  • the first network device is further used to send first information to the positioning management network element, where the first information is determined according to the first reference signal, the first information is used for calibration of a phase measurement amount, and the phase measurement amount is used for positioning the terminal device;
  • the positioning management network element is used to determine the location information of the terminal device based on the first information.
  • the positioning management network element before the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device, the positioning management network element is further used to send first request information to the first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device, specifically for: receiving the first reference signal from the second network device on a reserved resource, where the reserved resource is a GAP symbol on a reserved time slot.
  • the first network device is further configured to send a reference signal to a second network device, where the second network device is the first network device or another network device except the first network device.
  • the positioning management network element is further used to send indication information to the first network device, where the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device.
  • the first network device is further configured to receive a second reference signal from the terminal device;
  • the first network device is also used to measure the second reference signal to obtain phase information
  • the first network device is further configured to send the phase information to the positioning management network element
  • the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the positioning management network element is further used to send second request information to the first network device, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the positioning management network element is further used to receive phase information obtained by measuring a third reference signal from the terminal device;
  • the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • the positioning management network element is further used to send a third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the first information is a difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the second network device and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device, which may be a first network device or a device in the first network device (e.g., a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the communication device may include a processor, the processor is coupled to a memory, the memory is used to store a program or instruction, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the communication device executes the method executed by the first network device or the device in the first network device in the above method embodiment.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device, which may be a positioning management network element, or a device in a positioning management network element (e.g., a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the communication device may include a processor, the processor is coupled to a memory, the memory is used to store a program or instruction, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the communication device executes the method executed by the positioning management network element or the device in the positioning management network element in the above method embodiment.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores a computer program or computer instructions.
  • the computer program or computer instructions When the computer program or computer instructions are run on a computer, the computer executes the method in the above-mentioned first aspect or any possible implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect or any possible implementation of the second aspect, and the third aspect or any possible implementation of the third aspect.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product comprising program instructions, which, when executed on a computer, enables the computer to execute the first aspect or any possible implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect or any possible implementation of the second aspect, the third aspect or any possible implementation of the third aspect.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a chip system, which includes a processor for implementing the functions in the above methods.
  • the chip system may also include a memory for storing program instructions and/or data.
  • the chip system may be composed of a chip, or may include a chip and other discrete devices.
  • an embodiment of the present application provides a communication system, which includes a first network device and a positioning management network element.
  • the first network device and the positioning management network element are running in the communication system, they are used to execute any one of the positioning information reporting methods described in the first to third aspects above.
  • FIG1 is a schematic diagram of a carrier phase ranging method provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG2 is a schematic diagram of a double-difference carrier phase positioning provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG3 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of a mobile communication system provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG4 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of an NG-RAN provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG5 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG6 is an interactive schematic diagram of a method for reporting positioning information provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG7 is a schematic diagram of a first network device architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG8 is a schematic diagram of a scenario of a method for reporting positioning information provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG9 is a schematic diagram of receiving a reference signal on a reserved resource according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG10 is an interactive schematic diagram of another method for reporting positioning information provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG11 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG12 is a schematic diagram of the structure of another communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG13 is a schematic diagram of the structure of another communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • A/B can mean A or B.
  • “And/or” in this application is merely a description of the association relationship of associated objects, indicating that three relationships may exist.
  • a and/or B can mean: A exists alone, A and B exist at the same time, and B exists alone.
  • “at least one” can refer to one or more, and “multiple” can refer to two or more.
  • “First”, “second”, etc. do not limit the quantity and execution order, and "first”, “second”, etc. do not limit them to be different.
  • indication may include direct indication and indirect indication, and may also include explicit indication and implicit indication.
  • the information indicated by a certain information is called information to be indicated.
  • the information to be indicated can be directly indicated, such as indicating the information to be indicated itself or the index of the information to be indicated.
  • the information to be indicated can also be indirectly indicated by indicating other information, and there is a correlation between the other indicated information and the information to be indicated.
  • only a part of the information to be indicated can be indicated, while the other parts of the information to be indicated are known or agreed in advance.
  • the indication of specific information can also be achieved by means of the arrangement order of each information agreed in advance (such as specified in the protocol), thereby reducing the indication overhead to a certain extent.
  • Carrier phase positioning technology is one of the high-precision positioning methods. It can measure the distance with integer ambiguity by measuring the carrier phase change of the reference signal from the transmitter to the receiver. Taking the RF signal with a frequency of 3GHz as an example, the corresponding carrier wavelength is 0.1 meters. Therefore, when the integer ambiguity of the carrier phase can be correctly solved, the carrier phase ranging accuracy can reach the centimeter level to the millimeter level, thereby obtaining a high-precision positioning result.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a carrier phase ranging provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • d represents the receiving end
  • the distance from the transmitter represents the carrier phase measurement value
  • N represents the integer ambiguity
  • N is an integer, indicating that N carrier cycles have passed
  • ⁇ represents the carrier wavelength
  • the distance d is related to the carrier phase Satisfy between:
  • FIG 2 is a schematic diagram of a double-difference carrier phase positioning provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • a reference station positioning reference unit, PRU
  • PRS positioning reference signal
  • Double-difference carrier phase positioning can also be performed using a reference station.
  • the positioning method of double difference carrier phase can be as follows:
  • phase measured by the terminal device can be expressed as:
  • the random initial phase ⁇ t of the terminal device can be eliminated.
  • PDOA can be measured:
  • the random initial phase ⁇ (i) and time synchronization error ⁇ (ij) on the network device side can be eliminated, and we can get According to the information of multiple network devices, multiple double-difference PDOA measurement values can be obtained, and the simultaneous equations can be used to calculate the position of the terminal device to be located according to the known PRU position and the network device position.
  • double-difference carrier phase positioning includes a variety of technical solutions, and the following are exemplarily listed as follows.
  • the PRU is introduced in version R17 to assist in improving the positioning performance.
  • double-difference carrier phase positioning is to be performed to eliminate the influence of non-ideal factors, it is necessary to ensure that the distribution of PRUs is as dense as possible during deployment, so a large number of PRUs are required.
  • a large number of PRUs need to be deployed, and there are problems such as difficulty in selecting PRU sites and high maintenance costs of PRUs in complex environments.
  • the embodiments of the present application can implement beacon-free double-difference carrier phase positioning, thereby reducing the complexity of double-difference carrier phase positioning.
  • LTE long term evolution
  • FDD frequency division duplex
  • TDD LTE time division duplex
  • UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
  • EDGE enhanced data rate for GSM evolution
  • WiMAX worldwide interoperability for microwave access
  • the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application can also be applied to other communication systems, such as public land mobile network (PLMN) system, advanced long term evolution (LTE advanced, LTE-A) system, fifth generation mobile communication (5G) system, new radio (NR) system, open access network (open RAN, ORAN) system, machine to machine communication (machine to machine, M2M) system, or other communication systems evolved in the future, etc., which are not limited by the embodiments of the present application.
  • PLMN public land mobile network
  • LTE advanced, LTE-A fifth generation mobile communication
  • 5G fifth generation mobile communication
  • NR new radio
  • open RAN open access network
  • machine to machine communication machine to machine, M2M
  • M2M machine to machine communication
  • the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application can also be applied to other communication systems, as long as there are entities in the communication system that can send control information and send (and/or receive) transmission blocks, and there are other entities in the communication system that can receive control information and receive (and/
  • the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application can also be applied to factories, automatic parking, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous driving, indoor high-precision positioning and other scenarios.
  • AGVs automated guided vehicles
  • autonomous driving indoor high-precision positioning and other scenarios.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of a mobile communication system provided by an embodiment of the present application.
  • the mobile communication system may include at least one network device (network device 302 and network device 303 as shown in FIG. 3) and a core network device 304.
  • the communication system may further include a terminal device 301.
  • the serving network device of the terminal device 301 may be a network device 302 and/or a network device 303, and the terminal device 301 is connected to the network device 302 and/or the network device 303 respectively through a Uu port.
  • Reference signals may be sent and received between at least one network device, so that the network device uses the first information for calibration of the phase measurement amount according to the received reference signal and uploads the first information to the core network device 304.
  • the network device and the core network device 304 may be independent and different physical devices, or the functions of the core network device 304 and the logical functions of the network device may be integrated on the same physical device, or the functions of part of the core network device 304 and part of the network device may be integrated on one physical device.
  • the terminal device may be fixed or movable.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of a NG-RAN (next-generation-radio access network) provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • the access network device may include a 4G ng-eNB and a 5G gNB, and the terminal device is connected to the ng-eNB and the gNB through the LTE-Uu interface and the NR-Uu interface, respectively.
  • the ng-eNB is a device or apparatus deployed in a wireless access network that meets the 4G standard and provides wireless communication functions for the terminal device.
  • the ng-eNB can be a base station, access point, etc. in various forms.
  • the ng-eNB can also be a transmission access point (TRP) for sending and receiving reference signals.
  • TRP transmission access point
  • the gNB can be a device or apparatus deployed in a wireless access network that meets the 5G standard and provides wireless communication functions for the terminal device.
  • the gNB can be a base station, access point, etc. in various forms.
  • the gNB can also be a TRP for sending and receiving reference signals, a transmission measurement function (TMF), etc.
  • the core network device may include an access and mobility management function (AMF) network element and a location management function (LMF).
  • the access network device may be connected to the core network device via an NG-C interface.
  • the access network device may be connected to the AMF network element in the core network device via an NG-C interface.
  • the core network device may also include an enhanced serving mobile location centre (E-SMLC) and a service location protocol (SLP).
  • E-SMLC may be a network element, module or component that provides a positioning function in a 4G core network.
  • SLP may be a network element, module or component that processes a user plane security location protocol in a 4G core network.
  • a terminal device can send a positioning service request to an access network device, and the access network device forwards the positioning service request of the terminal device to an access and mobility management function (AMF) network element in the core network.
  • AMF access and mobility management function
  • the AMF network element can send the request to an LMF network element, which is responsible for processing the received positioning request and initiating related positioning processes.
  • the terminal device may also include a user equipment location management function (UE-LMC).
  • UE-LMC user equipment location management function
  • UE-LMC is a possible deployment method, which is a component/application with partial LMF functions deployed on the terminal device to support positioning services on the PC5 port.
  • the embodiments of the present application can also be applied to the communication between the remote terminal (remote UE) and the relay terminal (relay UE) in the terminal-to-network relay (UE-to-network relay) scenario, and can also be applied to the communication between the source terminal (source UE) and the relay terminal (relay UE) in the terminal-to-terminal relay (UE-to-UE relay) scenario, and can also be applied to the communication between the relay terminal (relay UE) and the target terminal (target UE).
  • the embodiments of the present application are described using the scenario of application to NR communication as an example, and the application scenario is not limited.
  • the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may also be referred to as a terminal, user equipment (UE), mobile station, mobile terminal, etc., and may also be a chip, module or unit that realizes some of its functions.
  • the terminal device can be widely used in various communication scenarios, for example, it can be applied to device-to-device (D2D) communication, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, machine-type communication (MTC), Internet of Things (IOT), virtual reality, augmented reality, industrial control, automatic driving, telemedicine, smart grid, smart furniture, smart office, smart wear, smart transportation, or smart city.
  • D2D device-to-device
  • V2X vehicle-to-everything
  • MTC machine-type communication
  • IOT Internet of Things
  • virtual reality augmented reality
  • industrial control automatic driving
  • telemedicine smart grid
  • smart furniture smart office
  • smart wear smart transportation
  • smart city smart city
  • the terminal can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a computer with wireless transceiver function, a wearable device, a vehicle, a drone, a helicopter, an airplane, a ship, a robot, a mechanical arm, or a smart home device.
  • the present disclosure does not limit the device form of the terminal.
  • the terminal device may include one or more antennas.
  • the terminal device may additionally include a transmitter and a receiver, and those skilled in the art may understand that they may include multiple components related to signal transmission and reception (such as a processor, a modulator, a multiplexer, a demodulator, a demultiplexer or an antenna, etc.).
  • the network device in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for transmitting or receiving signals, and may be a device for communicating with a terminal.
  • the network device may be an access network device, and the access network device includes but is not limited to the base station in the above communication system, the evolved NodeB (eNodeB), the transmission reception point (TRP), the next generation base station (next generation NodeB, gNB) in the 5G mobile communication system, the next generation base station in the sixth generation (6th generation, 6G) mobile communication system, the access network device or the module of the access network device in the open access network ORAN (open RAN, ORAN) system, the base station in the future mobile communication system or the access node in the WiFi system, etc.
  • eNodeB evolved NodeB
  • TRP transmission reception point
  • gNB next generation base station
  • 6th generation, 6G sixth generation
  • the network device may also be a chip, module or unit that can realize some functions of the base station.
  • the network device may include a centralized unit (CU) node, a distributed unit (DU) node, or a RAN device including a CU node and a DU node.
  • CU may also be referred to as O-CU
  • DU may also be referred to as O-DU.
  • the access network device may be a macro base station, a micro base station or an indoor station, a relay node or a donor node, or a wireless controller in a cloud radio access network (CRAN) scenario.
  • the access network device may also be a server, a wearable device, or a vehicle-mounted device.
  • the access network device in the vehicle to everything (V2X) technology may be a road side unit (RSU).
  • Multiple access network devices in a communication system may be base stations of the same type or different types.
  • a base station may communicate with a terminal or communicate with the terminal through a relay station.
  • a terminal may communicate with multiple base stations in different access technologies.
  • the access network equipment and/or the terminal can be fixed or movable.
  • the access network equipment and/or the terminal can be deployed on land, including indoors or outdoors, handheld or vehicle-mounted; they can also be deployed on the water surface; they can also be deployed on aircraft, balloons and artificial satellites in the air.
  • the present disclosure does not limit the application scenarios of the access network equipment and terminals.
  • the access network equipment and the terminal equipment can be deployed in the same scenario or different scenarios. For example, the access network equipment and the terminal equipment are deployed on land at the same time; or, the access network equipment is deployed on land and the terminal equipment is deployed on the water surface, etc., and examples are not given one by one.
  • the terminal device or network device includes a hardware layer, an operating system layer running on the hardware layer, and an application layer running on the operating system layer.
  • the hardware layer includes hardware such as a central processing unit (CPU), a memory management unit (MMU), and a memory (also called main memory).
  • the operating system can be any one or more computer operating systems that implement business processing through a process, such as a Linux operating system, a Unix operating system, an Android operating system, an iOS operating system, or a Windows operating system.
  • the application layer includes applications such as a browser, an address book, a word processing software, and an instant messaging software.
  • the embodiment of the present application does not specifically limit the specific structure of the execution subject of the method provided in the embodiment of the present application.
  • the execution subject of the method provided in the embodiment of the present application can be a terminal device or a network device, or a functional module in the terminal device or the network device that can call and execute a program.
  • computer-readable media may include, but are not limited to: magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disks, floppy disks or tapes, etc.), optical disks (e.g., compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs), etc.), smart cards and flash memory devices (e.g., erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), cards, sticks or key drives, etc.).
  • the various storage media described herein may represent one or more devices and/or other machine-readable media for storing information.
  • machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, wireless channels and various other media capable of storing, containing and/or carrying instructions and/or data.
  • network devices and terminal devices included in the network architecture shown in FIG3 are only examples, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto.
  • more or fewer first terminal devices communicating with the network device may also be included, for example, more or fewer terminal devices communicating with the network device may also be included.
  • a single or multiple network devices and a single or multiple terminal devices may be included.
  • a single network device may transmit data or control signaling to a single or multiple terminal devices, and multiple network devices may also transmit data or control signaling to a single terminal device at the same time.
  • network devices terminal devices and core network devices
  • the application scenario may not be limited to including network devices, terminal devices and core network devices, for example, it may also include devices for carrying virtualized network functions, etc., which are obvious to those skilled in the art and will not be repeated here.
  • the present application provides a variety of methods for reporting positioning information, which will be described below through the following embodiments. Some of these methods for reporting positioning information are only applicable to some processes, and some can be applied to any one or more processes. It should be understood that these methods for reporting positioning information can be used in combination with each other.
  • reporting method of positioning information may change with the evolution of the technical solution, and the technical solution provided by this application is not limited to the process described below.
  • the description of the scene in the embodiment of this application is only an example, and does not limit the solution of the embodiment of this application to be used only in the description scene, and is also applicable to scenes with similar problems.
  • the first network device in the following embodiments may be an access network device in the network architecture shown in Figure 4, and the function performed by the first network device in this embodiment may also be performed by a device in the first network device (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the positioning management network element in the following embodiments may be an LMF network element in the network architecture shown in Figure 4, and the function performed by the positioning management network element in this embodiment may also be performed by a device in the positioning management network element (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the embodiments of this application are uniformly described here and will not be repeated later.
  • Figure 6 is an interactive schematic diagram of a method for reporting positioning information provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • the method for reporting positioning information shown in Figure 6 is uplink.
  • the positioning The method for reporting information may include steps S601-S609.
  • a positioning management network element sends first request information to a first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of a first reference signal.
  • the first network device receives the first request information from the positioning management network element.
  • the first request information may include configuration information of the first reference signal.
  • the configuration information may be information such as time-frequency resources and period of the first reference signal.
  • the first reference signal may include one or more of the following: SRS, PRS, and RIM-RS. This embodiment does not limit the type of the first reference signal.
  • the first network device may be a device or apparatus deployed in a wireless access network that meets the 4G standard and provides wireless communication functions for terminal devices, such as ng-eNB.
  • the ng-eNB may also be a transmission and reception point (TRP) for sending and receiving reference signals.
  • the first network device may also be a device or apparatus deployed in a wireless access network that meets the 4G standard and provides wireless communication functions for terminal devices, such as gNB.
  • the gNB may also be a TRP for sending and receiving reference signals, a transmission measurement function (TMF), etc.
  • the first network device may also be a pico base station device (picorru, pRRU), etc.
  • the embodiment of the present application does not limit the name of the first network device.
  • the positioning management network element and the first network device can communicate through NR positioning protocol A (NR positioning protocol A, NRPPa).
  • NR positioning protocol A NR positioning protocol A, NRPPa
  • the first network device may have multiple channels, and four channels are used for exemplary illustration here. Assume that the first network device has four channels, one of which can be used to send signals, and the other three channels are used to receive signals; or all four channels are used to receive signals. It should be noted that the architecture of the first network device can support loopback transmission and transmission. Specifically, please refer to Figure 7, which is a schematic diagram of a first network device architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 7, the first network device is used as a pRRU for exemplary illustration. The first network device receives and sends signals based on baseband (BB) and four radio frequency (RF) channels to support loopback transmission and transmission.
  • BB baseband
  • RF radio frequency
  • the first network device may also send a reference signal to a second network device
  • the second network device may be the first network device or another network device except the first network device.
  • the second network device is the first network device, that is, the first network device can send and receive the first reference signal autonomously.
  • the first network device can send and receive the first reference signal autonomously after receiving the first request information from the positioning management network element.
  • the second network device is a network device other than the first network device. Specifically, after receiving the first request information from the positioning management network element, the first network device may send a request information to the second network device for requesting the second network device to send a first reference signal to the first network device, and after receiving the request information, the second network device sends the first reference signal to the first network device.
  • the first network device may receive indication information from the positioning management network element, and the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device.
  • the first network device may send a reference signal to the second network device, so that the second network device can also determine the calibration information of the measurement quantity used to locate the terminal device based on the reference signal and send it to the positioning management network element, so that the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device based on the calibration information of the measurement quantity used to locate the terminal device.
  • the positioning management network element can determine the location of the terminal device based on the calibration information of the measurement quantity used for positioning reported by multiple network devices, thereby improving the accuracy of determining the location of the terminal device.
  • the positioning management network element can obtain information of multiple network devices (including the first network device and the second network device), and the information may include cell information, coordinates, TRP ID of NG-RAN TRP, PRS configuration, etc.
  • the second network device sends a first reference signal to the first network device.
  • the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device.
  • the first network device receives a first reference signal from the second network device.
  • the first network device can receive the first reference signal from the second network device on the reserved resources, and the reserved resources can be a gap GAP symbol on the reserved time slot.
  • the reserved time slot can be an uplink and downlink switching time slot.
  • the first reference signal sent by the network device and the second reference signal sent by the receiving terminal device are close in time domain, and then some non-ideal factors that are time-sensitive (time-varying) can be eliminated by the method of double-difference carrier phase, such as synchronization error, initial phase error, etc., and at the same time, uplink and downlink switching can be guaranteed, thereby improving network performance.
  • the first network device determines first information according to the first reference signal.
  • the first network device may determine the first information according to the first reference signal, wherein the first information may be used for calibration of a phase measurement quantity, and the phase measurement quantity may be used for positioning the terminal device.
  • the first information may be a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase
  • the actual phase value may be the phase corresponding to the actual distance between a network device different from the first network device and the first network device. It can be understood that the first network device can obtain a measured phase value based on measuring the first reference signal, and then obtain the actual phase value based on the actual distance between the network device different from the first network device and the first network device, and the measured phase value and the actual phase value are subtracted to calculate the phase calibration amount, that is, the first information.
  • the first network device measures a first reference signal from a second network device (the second network device and the first network device are different network devices) to obtain a measured phase value, obtains the actual phase value based on the actual distance between the second network device and the first network device, and obtains the first information by subtracting the measured phase value from the actual phase value.
  • the first information may be a phase arrival error (PAE), which may also be referred to as a phase calibration amount.
  • PAE phase arrival error
  • POA i may represent a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring a reference signal from the i-th network device
  • POA true_i represents an actual phase value corresponding to an actual distance between the first network device and the i-th network device
  • d i represents a distance from the first network device to the i-th network device
  • ⁇ represents a carrier wavelength.
  • the i-th network device may be a second network device different from the first network device.
  • PAE ij PDOA ij -PDOA true_ij
  • PDOA ij POA i -POA j
  • PDOA ij can represent the measured phase difference between the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the reference signal from the i-th network device and the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the reference signal from the j-th network device
  • PDOA true represents the actual phase difference between the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the i-th network device and the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the j-th network device
  • d i and d j are the distances from the first network device to the i-th network device and the j-th network device, respectively
  • ⁇ represents the carrier wavelength.
  • the i-th network device may be a second network device different from the first network device
  • the j-th network device may be a third network device different from the first network device and the second network device.
  • the measured phase value may be an instantaneous measured value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first network device may determine multiple measured phase values according to multiple first reference signals from the second network device, and take the difference between the average value of the multiple measured phase values and the actual phase value as the first information reported to the positioning management network element.
  • the actual phase value may be determined in any of the following ways:
  • a first possible implementation manner the first network device uses the positions of the first network device and the second network device to calculate a phase corresponding to an actual distance between the first network device and the second network device.
  • the positioning management network element may calculate the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the second network device according to the positions of the first network device and the second network device, and send the phase to the first network device.
  • the first network device sends first information to the positioning management network element.
  • the positioning management network element receives the first information from the first network device.
  • the first network device may send the first information to the positioning management network element, so that the positioning management network element may perform carrier phase calibration according to the first information to complete double-difference carrier phase positioning.
  • the positioning management network element sends a second request message to the first network device, where the second request message is used to request to measure a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the first network device receives the second request message from the positioning management network element.
  • the second reference signal may be an SRS.
  • the positioning management network element may obtain the terminal device capability, including the terminal device uplink second reference signal capability, through the LPP capability transfer process.
  • the positioning management network element may request the first network device to configure the terminal device to send the second reference signal.
  • the first network device determines the second reference signal resource and configures the configuration information of the second reference signal for the terminal device.
  • the terminal device sends a second reference signal to the first network device.
  • the first network device receives the second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the terminal device may send the second reference signal to the first network device according to the configuration information of the second reference signal configured by the first network device.
  • the first network device measures the second reference signal to obtain phase information.
  • the first network device After receiving the second reference signal from the terminal device, the first network device can determine phase information according to the second reference signal.
  • the phase information can be used by the positioning management network element to locate the terminal device.
  • the first network device determines the phase information according to the second reference signal.
  • the phase information is the difference between the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the second reference signal and the actual phase value, wherein the actual phase value may be the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device. It can be understood that the first network device can obtain the measured phase value according to the measurement of the second reference signal, and then obtain the actual phase value according to the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device, and the phase information can be calculated by subtracting the measured phase value from the actual phase value.
  • the phase information may be a phase arrival error (PAE), which may also be referred to as a phase calibration amount.
  • PAE phase arrival error
  • POA i can represent the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the reference signal from the i-th terminal device
  • POA true_i represents the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the i-th terminal device
  • di represents the distance between the first network device and the i-th terminal device
  • ⁇ represents the carrier wavelength
  • PAE ij PDOA ij -PDOA true_ij
  • PDOA ij POA i -POA j
  • PDOA ij can represent the measured phase difference between the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the reference signal from the i-th terminal device and the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the reference signal from the j-th terminal device
  • PDOA true represents the actual phase difference between the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the i-th terminal device and the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the j-th terminal device
  • di and dj are the distances from the first network device to the i-th terminal device and the j-th terminal device respectively
  • ⁇ represents the carrier wavelength.
  • the measured phase value may be an instantaneous measured value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first network device may determine multiple measured phase values according to multiple second reference signals from the terminal device, and take the difference between the average value of the multiple measured phase values and the actual phase value as the phase information reported to the positioning management network element.
  • the actual phase value may be determined in any of the following ways:
  • a first possible implementation manner the first network device uses the positions of the first network device and the terminal device to calculate the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the terminal device.
  • the positioning management network element may calculate the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the first network device and the terminal device according to the positions of the first network device and the terminal device, and send the phase to the first network device.
  • the first network device sends phase information to the positioning management network element.
  • the positioning management network element receives the phase information from the first network device.
  • the first network device may send the phase information to the positioning management network element, so that the positioning management network element may complete the double-difference carrier phase positioning according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for the positioning management network element to implement double-difference carrier phase positioning according to the first information and the phase information can refer to the detailed description of double-difference carrier phase positioning in the aforementioned technical terminology description part, which will not be repeated here.
  • Figure 8 is a scenario diagram of a method for reporting positioning information provided by an embodiment of the present application.
  • the scenario may include multiple network devices (for example, 4 pRRUs, namely pRRU1 to pRRU4). It is assumed that each pRRU has four channels, one of which is used to send a reference signal, and the other three channels are used to send a reference signal.
  • the first network device can be any one of the multiple pRRUs.
  • FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of receiving a reference signal on a reserved resource provided by an embodiment of the present application.
  • the uplink and downlink time slot ratio is 2:8, the signals received and sent between multiple network devices are on the GAP symbol in the self-contained slot.
  • the position of the signal received and sent between pRRUs can be as shown in FIG. 9: the first channel of pRRU1 sends a reference signal, which is located on the 8th GAP symbol in the S time slot.
  • the remaining three channels of pRRU1 and the four channels of the other three pRRUs can receive the reference signal sent by pRRU1 (such as SRS, PRS, RIM-RS and other reference signals) on this symbol.
  • multiple pRRUs may send the reference signal in turn, that is, the pRRUs sending the reference signal may be pRRU1 to pRRU4, which may send the reference signal in turn, and then the accuracy of the phase calibration amount may be improved by averaging or filtering.
  • the position of pRRU1 is known and a reference signal is sent to four pRRUs.
  • pRRU1 can be used as a beacon.
  • the terminal device sends SRS to four pRRUs to form double-difference positioning.
  • Each pRRU can report the phase information of the signal from the terminal device and the first information of the reference signal from pRRU1 to the positioning management network element (such as LMF network element) so that the LMF network element can perform double-difference carrier phase positioning.
  • the positioning management network element such as LMF network element
  • the size of the serial number of the above-mentioned processes does not mean the order of execution.
  • the execution order of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiment of this application.
  • a double-difference carrier phase positioning method without uplink beacon is designed.
  • reference signals can be sent and received between network devices (such as base stations) on reserved resources to form a self-loop, and the first information (such as phase calibration value PAE) can be determined and reported to the positioning management network element based on the received reference signal, and the phase information can be determined and reported to the positioning management network element based on the reference signal from the terminal device, so that the positioning management network element can solve the double-difference carrier phase according to the first information and the phase information to realize the positioning of the terminal device.
  • the first information such as phase calibration value PAE
  • different network devices can be regarded as beacons/reference stations respectively to achieve the purpose of beacon-free, so as to realize beacon-free double-difference carrier phase positioning, thereby reducing the complexity of double-difference carrier phase positioning.
  • Figure 10 is an interactive schematic diagram of another method for reporting positioning information provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 10, unlike the uplink of Figure 6 above, the method illustrated in Figure 10 is a downlink.
  • the positioning method may include S1001-S1009.
  • a positioning management network element sends first request information to a first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of a first reference signal.
  • the first network device receives the first request information from the positioning management network element.
  • the second network device sends a first reference signal to the first network device.
  • the first network device receives the first reference signal from the second network device.
  • the first network device determines first information according to the first reference signal.
  • the first network device sends first information to the positioning management network element.
  • the positioning management network element receives the first information from the first network device.
  • the positioning management network element sends third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the terminal device receives the third request information from the positioning management network element.
  • the third reference signal may be a PRS.
  • the positioning management network element requests the terminal device to measure the PRS.
  • the measurement may include downlink reference signal time difference (DL RSTD), downlink reference signal received power (DL RSRP), etc.
  • the positioning management network element may obtain the terminal device capability through the LPP capability transfer process, which may include downlink positioning reference signal (DL-PRS) resources and DL-PRS processing capabilities. Further, the positioning management network element may also obtain information of multiple network devices (including the first network device and the second network device), which may include cell information, coordinates, TRP ID of NG-RAN TRP, PRS configuration, etc.
  • DL-PRS downlink positioning reference signal
  • the positioning management network element may also obtain information of multiple network devices (including the first network device and the second network device), which may include cell information, coordinates, TRP ID of NG-RAN TRP, PRS configuration, etc.
  • the positioning management network element may provide auxiliary data to the terminal device, where the auxiliary data may include cell information, third reference signal configuration, and other information used by the terminal device to measure the third reference signal.
  • the first network device sends a third reference signal to the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device receives the first reference signal from the first network device. Three reference signals.
  • the positioning management network element may send indication information to the first network device to instruct the first network device to send the third reference signal to the terminal device, and the first network device sends the third reference signal to the terminal device according to the indication information.
  • the terminal device measures the third reference signal to obtain phase information.
  • the terminal device After the terminal device receives the third reference signal from the first network device, it can measure the third reference signal to obtain phase information. Specifically: after the terminal device receives the third reference signal from the first network device, it can determine the phase information based on the third reference signal.
  • the phase information can be used by the positioning management network element to locate the terminal device.
  • the phase information can be the difference between the measured phase value and the actual phase value obtained by the terminal device measuring the third reference signal, wherein the actual phase value can be the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device.
  • the terminal device can obtain the measured phase value based on measuring the third reference signal, and then obtain the actual phase value based on the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device, and the phase information can be calculated by subtracting the measured phase value from the actual phase value.
  • the phase information may be a phase arrival error (PAE), which may also be referred to as a phase calibration amount.
  • PAE phase arrival error
  • POA i may represent a measured phase value obtained by the terminal device measuring a reference signal from the i-th network device
  • POA true_i represents an actual phase value corresponding to an actual distance between the terminal device and the i-th network device
  • d i represents a distance between the terminal device and the i-th network device
  • ⁇ represents a carrier wavelength.
  • the i-th network device may be a first network device.
  • PAE ij PDOA ij -PDOA true_ij
  • PDOA ij POA i -POA j
  • PDOA ij can represent the measured phase difference between the measured phase value obtained by the terminal device measuring the reference signal from the i-th network device and the measured phase value obtained by the terminal device measuring the reference signal from the j-th network device
  • PDOA true represents the actual phase difference between the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the i-th network device and the actual phase value corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the j-th network device
  • di and dj are the distances between the terminal device to the i-th network device and the j-th network device respectively
  • ⁇ represents the carrier wavelength.
  • the measured phase value may be an instantaneous measured value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the terminal device may determine multiple measured phase values according to multiple third reference signals from the first network device, and take the difference between the average value of the multiple measured phase values and the actual phase value as the phase information reported to the positioning management network element.
  • the actual phase value may be determined in any of the following ways:
  • a first possible implementation manner the terminal device uses the positions of the terminal device and the first network device to calculate the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device.
  • the positioning management network element may calculate the phase corresponding to the actual distance between the terminal device and the first network device according to the positions of the terminal device and the first network device, and send the phase to the terminal device.
  • the terminal device sends phase information to the positioning management network element.
  • the positioning management network element receives the phase information from the terminal device.
  • the terminal device can transparently send phase information to the positioning management network element through a network device (such as an access network device), so that the positioning management network element can determine the location information of the terminal device based on the first information and the phase information.
  • a network device such as an access network device
  • the positioning management network element determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the method for the positioning management network element to implement double-difference carrier phase positioning according to the first information and the phase information can refer to the detailed description of double-difference carrier phase positioning in the aforementioned technical terminology description part, which will not be repeated here.
  • the size of the serial number of the above-mentioned processes does not mean the order of execution.
  • the execution order of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiment of this application.
  • a downlink beacon-free double-difference carrier phase positioning method is designed, which can be specifically configured through network settings.
  • the equipment such as base stations
  • the terminal device measures the third reference signal to determine and report the phase information to the positioning management network element, so that the positioning management network element can perform double-difference carrier phase solution based on the first information and the phase information to achieve the positioning of the terminal device.
  • the first information such as phase calibration value PAE
  • different network devices can be regarded as beacons/reference stations respectively to achieve the purpose of beacon-free, so as to realize beacon-free double-difference carrier phase positioning, thereby reducing the complexity of double-difference carrier phase positioning.
  • the communication device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described below.
  • the embodiment of the present application can divide the functional modules of the communication device according to the above method example.
  • each functional module can be divided according to each function, or two or more functions can be integrated into one processing module.
  • the above integrated module can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of software functional modules. It should be noted that the division of modules in the embodiment of the present application is schematic and is only a logical function division. There may be other division methods in actual implementation.
  • Figure 11 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • the communication device 1100 can be used to execute the process executed by the first network device in the embodiments shown in Figures 6-10.
  • the relevant introduction in the above method embodiments please refer to the relevant introduction in the above method embodiments.
  • the communication device 1100 at least includes: a transceiver unit 1101 and a processing unit 1102.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 can implement corresponding communication functions, and the processing unit 1102 is used for data processing.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 can also be called a communication interface or a communication unit.
  • the communication device 1100 may further include a storage module, which may be used to store instructions and/or data, and the processing unit 1102 may read the instructions and/or data in the storage module so that the communication device implements the aforementioned method embodiment.
  • the storage module may be implemented by at least one memory.
  • the communication device 1100 can be used to perform the actions performed by the first network device in the embodiments shown in Figures 6 to 10 above.
  • the communication device 1100 can be a first network device or a component that can be configured in the first network device.
  • the processing unit 1102 is used to perform the processing-related operations on the first network device side in the embodiments shown in Figures 8 to 10 above.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is used to perform the transceiver-related operations on the first network device side in the embodiments shown in Figures 8 to 10 above.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 may include a sending unit and a receiving unit.
  • the sending unit is used to perform the sending operation in the embodiments shown in Figures 8 to 10.
  • the receiving unit is used to perform the receiving operation in the embodiments shown in Figures 8 to 10.
  • the communication device 1100 may include a sending unit but not a receiving unit.
  • the communication device 1100 may include a receiving unit but not a sending unit. Specifically, it may depend on whether the above scheme executed by the communication device 1100 includes a sending action and a receiving action.
  • the communication device 1100 is used to execute the actions executed by the first network device in the embodiments shown in Figures 8-10 above.
  • the communication device 1100 may be a first network device, or may be a device (e.g., a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit) in the first network device.
  • the communication device 1100 is used to execute the following scheme:
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is configured to receive a first reference signal from a second network device
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is also used to send first information to the positioning management network element, where the first information is determined based on measuring a first reference signal, and the first information is used to calibrate a phase measurement value, which is used to locate the terminal device.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 before receiving the first reference signal from the second network device, is further configured to receive first request information from a positioning management network element, where the first request information is used to request measurement of the first reference signal.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 receives the first reference signal from the second network device, and is specifically configured to: receive the first reference signal from the second network device on a reserved resource, where the reserved resource is a GAP symbol on a reserved time slot.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to send a reference signal to a second network device, where the second network device is the first network device or another network device except the first network device.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 before the transceiver unit 1101 sends the reference signal to the second network device, it is further used to receive indication information from the positioning management network element, where the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send the reference signal to the second network device.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to receive a second reference signal from a terminal device
  • the communication device also includes:
  • the processing unit 1102 is configured to measure a second reference signal to obtain phase information
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to send the phase information to a positioning management network element.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further used to receive second request information from a positioning management network element, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the first information is the difference between the measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and the actual phase value.
  • the actual phase value is the phase corresponding to the actual distance between different network devices and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS and RIM-RS.
  • the communication device 1100 may be a positioning management network element, or may be a device (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit) in a positioning management network element.
  • the communication device 1100 is used to execute the following scheme:
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is configured to receive first information from a first network device, where the first information is determined according to a first reference signal and is used for calibrating a phase measurement amount, where the phase measurement amount is used for positioning the terminal device;
  • the processing unit 1102 is used to determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information.
  • the communication device further includes:
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is configured to send first request information to the first network device before the receiving unit receives the first information from the first network device, where the first request information is used to request measurement of a first reference signal.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further used to send indication information to the first network device, where the indication information is used to instruct the first network device to send a reference signal to the second network device, where the second network device is the first network device or other network device except the first network device.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to receive phase information from the first network device, where the phase information is determined according to the second reference signal;
  • the processing unit 1102 determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to send second request information to the first network device, where the second request information is used to request measurement of a second reference signal from the terminal device.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to receive phase information obtained by measuring a third reference signal from a terminal device;
  • the processing unit 1102 determines the location information of the terminal device according to the first information, and is specifically used to: determine the location information of the terminal device according to the first information and the phase information.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 is further configured to send third request information to the terminal device, where the third request information is used to request the terminal device to measure a third reference signal.
  • the first information is the difference between a measured phase value obtained by the first network device measuring the first reference signal and an actual phase value
  • the actual phase value is a phase corresponding to an actual distance between different network devices and the first network device.
  • the measured phase value is an instantaneous measurement value or an average value of multiple measurements.
  • the first information is PAE.
  • the first reference signal includes one or more of the following: SRS, PRS and RIM-RS.
  • the processing unit 1102 in the above embodiment may be implemented by at least one processor or a processor-related circuit.
  • the transceiver unit 1101 may be implemented by a transceiver or a transceiver-related circuit.
  • Figure 12 is a schematic diagram of the structure of another communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.
  • the communication device 1200 includes a processor 1210, the processor 1210 is coupled to a memory 1220, the memory 1220 is used to store computer programs or instructions and/or data, and the processor 1210 is used to execute the computer programs or instructions and/or data stored in the memory 1220, so that the method in the above method embodiment is executed.
  • the communication device 1200 includes one or more processors 1210.
  • the communication device 1200 may further include a memory 1220 .
  • the communication device 1200 may include one or more memories 1220 .
  • the memory 1220 may be integrated with the processor 1210 or provided separately.
  • the communication device 1200 may further include a transceiver 1230, which includes a transmitter and a receiver; the transceiver 1230 is used to receive and/or send signals.
  • the processor 1210 is used to control the transceiver 1230 to receive and/or send signals.
  • the transceiver 1230 is the input and output interface of the chip, wherein sending in the method embodiment corresponds to output, and receiving corresponds to input; the memory may be located outside the chip or inside the chip.
  • the communication device 1200 is used to implement the operations performed by the first network device in the above method embodiment.
  • the processor 1210 is used to implement the processing-related operations performed by the first network device in the above method embodiment
  • the transceiver 1230 is used to implement the sending and receiving-related operations performed by the first network device in the above method embodiment.
  • the communication device 1200 is used to implement the operations performed by the positioning management network element in the above embodiments.
  • the processor 1210 is used to implement the processing-related operations performed by the positioning management network element in the above method embodiment
  • the transceiver 1230 is used to implement the sending and receiving-related operations performed by the positioning management network element in the above method embodiment.
  • the device 1300 may include one or more processors 1310, which may also be referred to as a processing unit, and may implement certain control functions.
  • the processor 1310 may be a general-purpose processor or a dedicated processor, etc.
  • it may be a baseband processor or a central processing unit.
  • the baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data
  • the central processing unit may be used to control a communication device (such as a base station, a baseband chip, a terminal, a terminal chip, a DU or a CU, etc.), execute software programs, and process data of software programs.
  • the processor 1310 may also store instructions and/or data, which can be executed by the processor so that the device 1300 executes the method described in the above method embodiment.
  • the processor 1310 may include a transceiver unit for implementing the receiving and sending functions.
  • the transceiver unit may be a transceiver circuit, or an interface, or an interface circuit, or a communication interface.
  • the transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit for implementing the receiving and sending functions may be separate or integrated.
  • the above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for reading and writing code/data, or the above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface, or interface circuit may be used for transmitting or delivering signals.
  • the apparatus 1300 may include a circuit that may implement the functions of sending, receiving, or communicating in the aforementioned method embodiments.
  • the device 1300 may include one or more memories 1320, on which a computer program or instruction may be stored, and the computer program or instruction may be executed on the processor, so that the device 1300 performs the method described in the above method embodiment.
  • the processor 1310 and the memory 1320 may be provided separately or integrated together.
  • the device 1300 may further include a transceiver 1330 and/or an antenna 1333.
  • the transceiver 1330 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, a transceiver device or a transceiver module, etc., and is used to implement a transceiver function.
  • the transceiver 1330 may include a transmitter 1331 and a receiver 1332, which are respectively used to implement the sending and receiving operations of the corresponding device of the method embodiment.
  • the device 1300 in the embodiment of the present application can be used to execute the method described in Figures 6 to 10 in the embodiment of the present application.
  • the communication device 1300 may be a first network device, or may be a device in the first network device (e.g., a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the processor 1310 is used to execute the operations performed by the processing unit 1102 in the above embodiment
  • the transceiver 1330 is used to execute the operations performed by the transceiver unit 1101 in the above embodiment.
  • the transceiver 1330 is also used to send information to other communication devices outside the communication device.
  • the above first network device or the device in the first network device may also be used to execute various methods executed by the first network device in the method embodiments of Figures 6 to 10, which will not be described in detail.
  • the communication device 1300 can be a positioning management network element, or a device in the positioning management network element (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit).
  • the processor 1310 is used to execute the operations performed by the processing unit 1102 in the above embodiment
  • the transceiver 1330 is used to execute the operations performed by the transceiver unit 1101 in the above embodiment.
  • the transceiver 1330 is also used to receive information from other communication devices outside the communication device.
  • the above positioning management network element or the device in the positioning management network element can also be used to execute the various methods performed by the positioning management network element in the method embodiments of Figures 6 to 10, which will not be repeated.
  • the processor and transceiver described in the present application can be implemented in an integrated circuit (IC), an analog IC, a radio frequency interface chip (RFIC), a mixed signal IC, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic device, etc.
  • the processor and transceiver can also be manufactured using various IC process technologies, such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS), P-type metal oxide semiconductor (positive channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (BJT), bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc.
  • CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
  • NMOS N-type metal oxide semiconductor
  • PMOS P-type metal oxide semiconductor
  • BJT bipolar junction transistor
  • BiCMOS bipolar CMOS
  • SiGe silicon germanium
  • GaAs gallium arsenide
  • the device described in the above embodiment may be a first communication device or a second communication device, but the scope of the device described in this application is not limited thereto, and the structure of the device may not be limited by FIG. 13.
  • the device may be an independent device or may be part of a larger device.
  • the device may be:
  • the IC set may also include a storage component for storing data and/or instructions;
  • ASIC such as modem (MSM)
  • the embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon.
  • the program is executed by a processor, the process related to the first network device in the method for reporting positioning information provided in the above method embodiment can be implemented.
  • the embodiment of the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored.
  • the program When the program is executed by a processor, it can implement the process related to the positioning management network element in the method for reporting positioning information provided in the above method embodiment.
  • the embodiment of the present application also provides a computer program product including instructions, which, when executed on a computer or processor, enables the computer or processor to execute one or more steps in any of the above-mentioned methods for reporting positioning information. If the components of the above-mentioned devices are implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as independent products, they can be stored in the computer-readable storage medium.
  • An embodiment of the present application also provides a chip device, including a processor, for calling a computer program or computer instruction stored in the memory so that the processor executes the method of the embodiment shown in Figures 6 to 10 above.
  • the input of the chip device corresponds to the receiving operation in the embodiments shown in FIG. 6 to FIG. 10
  • the output of the chip device corresponds to the sending operation in the embodiments shown in FIG. 6 to FIG. 10 .
  • the processor is coupled to the memory via an interface.
  • the chip device further comprises a memory, in which computer programs or computer instructions are stored.
  • the chip device may be composed of a chip, or may include a chip and other discrete devices.
  • An embodiment of the present application further provides a communication system, which includes a first network device and a positioning management network element.
  • a communication system which includes a first network device and a positioning management network element.
  • the memory mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memories.
  • the non-volatile memory may be a hard disk drive (HDD), a solid-state drive (SSD), a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or a flash memory.
  • the volatile memory may be a random access memory (RAM), which is used as an external cache.
  • RAM random access memory
  • DRAM dynamic random access memory
  • SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory
  • DDR SDRAM double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory
  • ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory
  • SLDRAM synchronous link dynamic random access memory
  • DR RAM direct RAM bus RAM
  • Memory is any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and can be accessed by a computer, but is not limited to this.
  • the memory in the embodiments of the present application can also be a circuit or any other device that can realize a storage function, used to store program instructions and/or data.
  • processors mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be a central processing unit (CPU), or other general-purpose processors, digital signal processors (DSP), application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc.
  • DSP digital signal processors
  • ASIC application-specific integrated circuits
  • FPGA field programmable gate arrays
  • a general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may also be any conventional processor, etc.
  • processor is a general-purpose processor, DSP, ASIC, FPGA or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware component, the memory (storage module) is integrated in the processor.
  • memory described herein is intended to include, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.
  • the size of the serial numbers of the above-mentioned processes does not mean the order of execution.
  • the execution order of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.
  • the disclosed systems, devices and methods can be implemented in other ways.
  • the device embodiments described above are only schematic.
  • the division of the units is only a logical function division. There may be other division methods in actual implementation, such as multiple units or components can be combined or integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed.
  • Another point is that the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed can be through some interfaces, indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units, which can be electrical, mechanical or other forms.
  • the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in one place or distributed on multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.
  • each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.
  • the functions are implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as independent products, they can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium.
  • the technical solution of the present application or the part that contributes to the technology or the part of the technical solution, can be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for a computer device (which can be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method described in each embodiment of the present application.
  • the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as USB flash drives, mobile hard drives, ROM, RAM, magnetic disks, or optical disks.
  • modules/units in the device of the embodiment of the present application can be combined, divided and deleted according to actual needs.

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Abstract

本申请提供了一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质。其中，该方法包括：第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据测量第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。通过本申请提供的技术方案，可以降低定位的复杂度。

Description

一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质
本申请要求在2022年12月16日提交中国国家知识产权局、申请号为202211625809.4的中国专利申请的优先权，发明名称为“一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质”的中国专利申请的优先权，其全部内容通过引用结合在本申请中。
技术领域
本申请涉及无线通信技术领域，尤其涉及一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质。
背景技术
版本17中引入了参考站(positioning reference unit，PRU)辅助提升定位性能。具体地，可以利用已知位置的PRU对定位参考信号(positioning reference signal，PRS)进行测量，构建不同网络设备之间以及定位终端设备与PRU之间的双差方程，消除非理想因素的影响，提升定位精度。
然而在实际部署中，由于PRU与定位终端设备的相对位置关系会影响双差的定位性能，如果要进行双差载波相位定位来消除非理想因素的影响，需要在部署时尽可能的保证PRU的分布较密，因此需要的PRU的数量较多。PRU需要部署的数量较多，并且在复杂环境下存在PRU选点难以及PRU的维护成本较高等问题。
发明内容
本申请实施例提供一种定位信息的上报方法、装置及计算机可读存储介质，可以降低定位的复杂度。
第一方面，本申请提供了一种定位信息的上报方法，该方法可以应用于第一网络设备，也可以应用于第一网络设备中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)，或者是能够和第一网络设备匹配使用的装置，下面以应用于第一网络设备为例进行描述。该方法可以包括：第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据测量第一参考信号确定，该第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。
本申请实施例可以通过网络设备进行定位信息的上报，具体地可以通过网络设备(例如基站)之间可以互相收发参考信号，形成自环回，根据接收到的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报第一信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。因此，本申请实施例，通过网络设备进行定位信息的上报，可以降低定位的复杂度。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号包括：第一网络设备在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，该预留资源为预留时隙上的间隙GAP符号。
在本申请提供的方案中，预留时隙可以是上下行切换时隙。通过在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，可以尽可能地保证网络设备发送第一参考信号与接收终端设备发送的第二参考信号在时域上接近，进而可以通过双差载波相位的方法消除对时间敏感(时变)的一些非理想因素，如同步误差，初相误差等，同时可以保证上下行切换，可以提高网络性能。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
在本申请提供的方案中，一种可能的实现方式，第二网络设备可以是第一网络设备，即第一网络设备可以自发自收第一参考信号。具体地，第一网络设备可以在接收到来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息后，自发自收第一参考信号。另一种可能的实现方式，第二网络设备也可以是除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。可以通过网络设备(例如基站)之间互相收发参考信号，形成自环回，根据接收到的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报第一信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备 发送参考信号。
在本申请提供的方案中，接收到来自定位管理网元的指示信息后，多个网络设备中的每个网络设备之间可以相互收发信号。例如第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送第一参考信号。
在本申请提供的方案中，第一网络设备可以根据来自于定位管理网元的指示信息向第二网络设备发送参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号；第一网络设备测量第二参考信号得到相位信息；第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送该相位信息。
在本申请提供的方案中，第一网络设备根据第二参考信号确定相位信息后，可以向定位管理网元发送相位信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息完成双差载波相位定位。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的第二请求信息，该第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为达到相位误差(phase arrival error，PAE)。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：信道探测参考信号(sounding reference signal，SRS)、定位参考信号(positioning reference signal，PRS)和远程干扰管理参考信号(remote interference management reference signal，RIM-RS)。
第二方面，本申请提供了一种定位信息的上报方法，该方法可以应用于定位管理网元，也可以应用于定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)，或者是能够和定位管理网元匹配使用的装置，下面以应用于定位管理网元为例进行描述。该方法可以包括：定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息，第一信息根据第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
在本申请提供的方案中，定位管理网元可以根据来自于网络设备的第一信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。本申请实施例，通过网络设备进行定位信息的上报，可以降低定位的复杂度。
应理解，第二方面的执行主体可以为定位管理网元，第二方面的具体内容与第一方面的内容对应，第二方面相应特征以及达到的有益效果可以参考第一方面的描述，为避免重复，此处适当省略详细描述。
一种可能的实现方式，定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息之前，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的相位信息，该相位信息根据第二参考信号确定；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：定位管理网元根据第一信息和该相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元接收来自终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向终端设备发送第三请求信息，该第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。
在本申请实施例中，可以提供另一种定位信息的上报方法，即定位管理网元可以向终端设备发送用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号的请求信息，以使终端设备测量第三参考信号得到相位信息，定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息进行双差载波相位的解算，确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为PAE。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
第三方面，本申请提供了一种定位信息的上报方法，该方法可以应用于第一网络设备和定位管理网元，也可以应用于第一网络设备和定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)，或者是能够和第一网络设备和定位管理网元匹配使用的装置，下面以应用于第一网络设备和定位管理网元为例进行描述。该方法可以包括：第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
在本申请提供的方案中，可以通过网络设备进行定位信息的上报，具体地可以通过网络设备(例如基站)之间在预留资源上互相收发参考信号，形成自环回，根据接收到的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报第一信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。因此，本申请实施例，通过网络设备进行定位信息的上报，可以降低双差载波相位定位的复杂度。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号包括：第一网络设备在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，该预留资源为预留时隙上的GAP符号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：第一网络设备接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号；第一网络设备测量第二参考信号得到相位信息；第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送该相位信息；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：定位管理网元根据第一信息和该相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，该第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元接收来自终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，该定位信息的上报方法还包括：定位管理网元向终端设备发送第三请求信息，该第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为PAE。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
第四方面，本申请实施例提供一种通信装置。
有益效果可以参见第一方面的描述，此处不再赘述。所述通信装置具有实现上述第一方面的方法实例中行为的功能。所述功能可以通过硬件实现，也可以通过硬件执行相应的软件实现。所述硬件或软件包括一个或多个与上述功能相对应的模块。
一种可能的实现方式，该通信装置包括：
收发单元，用于接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；
收发单元，用于向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据测量第一参考信号确定，该第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，还用于接收来自定位管 理网元的第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，具体用于：在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，该预留资源为预留时隙上的GAP符号。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元向第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，还用于接收来自定位管理网元的指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号；
该通信装置还包括：
处理单元，用于测量第二参考信号得到相位信息；
收发单元，还用于向定位管理网元发送该相位信息。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于接收来自定位管理网元的第二请求信息，该第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备实际距离之间对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为PAE。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
第五方面，本申请实施例提供一种通信装置。
有益效果可以参见第二方面的描述，此处不再赘述。所述通信装置具有实现上述第二方面的方法实例中行为的功能。所述功能可以通过硬件实现，也可以通过硬件执行相应的软件实现。所述硬件或软件包括一个或多个与上述功能相对应的模块。
一种可能的实现方式，该通信装置包括：
收发单元，用于接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息，第一信息根据第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位；
处理单元，用于根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，该通信装置还包括：
收发单元，还用于接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息之前，向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于向第一网络设备发送指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于接收来自第一网络设备的相位信息，该相位信息根据第二参考信号确定；
处理单元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和该相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于接收来自终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；
处理单元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，收发单元还用于向终端设备发送第三请求信息，该第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备实际距离之间对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为PAE。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
第六方面，本申请实施例提供一种通信装置。
有益效果可以参见第三方面的描述，此处不再赘述。所述通信装置具有实现上述第三方面的方法实例中行为的功能。所述功能可以通过硬件实现，也可以通过硬件执行相应的软件实现。所述硬件或软件包括一个或多个与上述功能相对应的模块。
一种可能的实现方式，该通信装置包括第一网络设备和定位管理网元，其中：
第一网络设备，用于接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；
第一网络设备，还用于向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位；
定位管理网元，用于根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，定位管理网元，还用于向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，具体用于：在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，该预留资源为预留时隙上的GAP符号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备还用于向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，定位管理网元还用于向第一网络设备发送指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一网络设备还用于接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号；
第一网络设备还用于测量第二参考信号得到相位信息；
第一网络设备还用于向定位管理网元发送该相位信息；
定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和该相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，定位管理网元还用于向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，该第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，定位管理网元还用于接收来自终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；
定位管理网元根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
一种可能的实现方式，定位管理网元还用于向终端设备发送第三请求信息，该第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为第二网络设备与第一网络设备实际距离之间对应的相位。
一种可能的实现方式，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息为PAE。
一种可能的实现方式，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
第七方面，本申请实施例提供了一种通信装置，该通信装置可以为第一网络设备，也可以为第一网络设备中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)。该通信装置可以包括处理器，处理器与存储器耦合，存储器用于存储程序或指令，当程序或指令被处理器执行时，使通信装置执行上述方法实施例中由第一网络设备、或第一网络设备中的装置所执行的方法。
第八方面，本申请实施例提供了一种通信装置，该通信装置可以为定位管理网元，也可以为定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)。该通信装置可以包括处理器，处理器与存储器耦合，存储器用于存储程序或指令，当程序或指令被处理器执行时，使通信装置执行上述方法实施例中由定位管理网元、或定位管理网元中的装置所执行的方法。
第九方面，本申请实施例提供一种计算机可读存储介质，该计算机可读存储介质中存储有计算机程序或计算机指令，当该计算机程序或计算机指令在计算机上运行时，使得计算机执行上述第一方面或第一方面任一可能的实现方式、第二方面或第二方面任一可能的实现方式、第三方面或第三方面任一可能的实现方式中的方法。
第十方面，本申请实施例提供一种包含程序指令的计算机程序产品，当其在计算机上运行时，使得计算机执行上述第一方面或第一方面任一可能的实现方式、第二方面或第二方面任一可能的实现方式、第三 方面或第三方面任一可能的实现方式中的方法。
第十一方面，本申请实施例提供了芯片系统，该芯片系统包括处理器，用于实现上述各方法中的功能。在一种可能的实现中，该芯片系统还可以包括存储器，用于保存程序指令和/或数据。该芯片系统可以由芯片构成，也可以包含芯片和其他分立器件。
第十二方面，本申请实施例提供了一种通信系统，该通信系统包括第一网络设备和定位管理网元，当第一网络设备和定位管理网元在该通信系统中运行时，用于执行上述第一方面至第三方面所述的任一种定位信息的上报方法。
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为了更清楚地说明本申请实施例中的技术方案，下面将对实施例描述中所需要使用的附图作简单地介绍。
图1是本申请实施例提供的一种载波相位测距的示意图；
图2是本申请实施例提供的一种双差载波相位定位的示意图；
图3是本申请实施例提供的一种移动通信系统的网络架构示意图；
图4是本申请实施例提供的一种NG-RAN的网络架构示意图；
图5是本申请实施例提供的一种网络架构示意图；
图6是本申请实施例提供的一种定位信息的上报方法的交互示意图；
图7是本申请实施例提供的一种第一网络设备架构的示意图；
图8是本申请实施例提供的一种定位信息的上报方法的场景示意图；
图9是本申请实施例提供的一种在预留资源上接收参考信号的示意图；
图10是本申请实施例提供的另一种定位信息的上报方法的交互示意图；
图11是本申请实施例提供的一种通信装置的结构示意图；
图12是本申请实施例提供的另一种通信装置的结构示意图；
图13是本申请实施例提供的又一种通信装置的结构示意图。
具体实施方式
在本申请的描述中，除非另有说明，“/”表示“或”的意思，例如，A/B可以表示A或B。本申请中的“和/或”仅仅是一种描述关联对象的关联关系，表示可以存在三种关系，例如，A和/或B，可以表示：单独存在A，同时存在A和B，单独存在B这三种情况。此外，“至少一个”可以指一个或多个，“多个”可以指两个或两个以上。“第一”、“第二”等并不对数量和执行次序进行限定，并且“第一”、“第二”等也不限定一定不同。
需要说明的是，本申请中，“示例性的”或者“例如”等词用于表示作例子、例证或说明。本申请中被描述为“示例性的”或者“例如”的任何实施例或设计方案不应被理解为比其他实施例或设计方案更有选或更具优势。确切而言，使用“示例性的”或者“例如”等词旨在以具体方式呈现相关概念。
在本申请的描述中，“指示”可以包括直接指示和间接指示，也可以包括显示指示和隐式指示。将某一信息(如下文所述的指示信息)所指示的信息称为待指示信息，则具体实现过程中，对所述待指示信息进行指示的方式有很多种。例如，可以直接指示所述待指示信息，如指示所述待指示信息本身或者所述待指示信息的索引等。又例如，也可以通过指示其他信息来间接指示待指示信息，指示的其他信息与待指示信息之间存在关联关系。又例如，还可以仅仅指示待指示信息的一部分，而待指示信息的其他部分则是已知的或者提前约定的。另外，还可以借助预先约定(如协议规定)的各个信息的排列顺序来实现对特定信息的指示，从而在一定程度上降低指示开销。
下面先给出本申请实施例可能出现的技术术语的说明。本申请的实施方式部分使用的术语仅用于对本申请的具体实施例进行解释，而非旨在限定本申请。应理解，下述各个技术术语的定义仅为举例。例如随着技术的不断发展，上述定义的范围也有可能发生变化，本申请各实施例不作限制。
(1)载波相位定位
载波相位定位技术是高精度定位的方法之一，其可以通过测量参考信号从发射端到接收端的载波相位变化实现测量带有整周模糊度的距离。以频率3GHz的射频信号为例，对应的载波波长为0.1米，因而当可以正确求解载波相位整周模糊度后，载波相位测距精度可以达到厘米级到毫米级，从而得到高精度定位结果。请参阅图1，图1是本申请实施例提供的一种载波相位测距的示意图。如图1所示，d表示接收端 与发射端之间的距离，表示载波相位测量值，N表示整周模糊度，N为整数，表示经过了N个载波整周，λ表示载波波长，距离d与载波相位之间满足：
(2)双差载波相位定位
请参阅图2，图2是本申请实施例提供的一种双差载波相位定位的示意图。如图2所示，版本R17中引入了参考站(positioning reference unit，PRU)辅助提升定位性能。具体地，可以利用已知位置的参考站对定位参考信号(positioning reference signal，PRS)进行测量，构建不同网络设备(如基站)之间的双差方程，消除非理想因素的影响，提升定位精度。也可以利用参考站进行双差载波相位定位。
双差载波相位的定位方法可以如下：
假设终端设备(如UE)和网络设备都存在同步/相位误差，终端设备测量的相位可表示为：
其中，表示终端设备与网络设备i之间的传输时延，表示终端设备与网络设备i的时间同步误差，φt和φ(i)分别表示终端设备与网络设备i的随机初相误差，表示终端设备与网络设备i之间的相位整周模糊度。
通过不同网络设备之间做差，得到到达相位差(phase difference of arrival，PDOA)：
可以消除终端设备的随机初相φt。同样的对于PRU，可以测到PDOA：
终端设备与PRU之间再做差，可以得到双差PDOA：
可以消除网络设备侧的随机初相φ(i)以及时间同步误差Δ(ij)，得到根据多个网络设备信息可以得到多个双差PDOA的测量值，联立方程组根据已知的PRU位置以及网络设备位置可计算得到待定位的终端设备位置。
首先，为了便于理解本申请实施例，进一步分析并提出本申请所具体要解决的技术问题。目前，关于双差载波相位定位的实现包括多种技术方案，以下示例性的列举如下几种，其中，如上所述，版本R17中引入了PRU辅助提升定位性能。然而在实际部署中，由于PRU与定位终端设备的相对位置关系会影响双差的定位性能，如果要进行双差载波相位定位来消除非理想因素的影响，需要在部署时尽可能的保证PRU的分布较密，因此需要的PRU的数量较多。PRU需要部署的数量较多，并且在复杂环境下存在PRU选点难以及PRU的维护成本较高等问题。
基于由于PRU部署导致双差载波相位定位的实现成本较高的问题，本申请实施例可以实现免信标的双差载波相位定位，从而降低双差载波相位定位的复杂度。
应理解，本申请实施例的技术方案可以应用于各种通信系统，例如：长期演进(long term evolution，LTE)系统、LTE频分双工(frequency division duplex，FDD)系统、LTE时分双工(time division duplex，TDD)系统、通用移动通信(universal mobile telecommunications system，UMTS)系统、增强型数据速率GSM演进(enhanced data rate for GSM evolution，EDGE)系统、全球互联微波接入(worldwide interoperability for microwave access，WiMAX)系统。本申请实施例的技术方案还可以应用于其他通信系统，例如公共陆地移动网络(public land mobile network，PLMN)系统，高级的长期演进(LTE advanced，LTE-A)系统、第五代移动通信(the 5th generation，5G)系统、新空口(new radio，NR)系统、开放接入网(open RAN，ORAN)系统、机器与机器通信(machine to machine，M2M)系统、或者未来演进的其它通信系统等，本申请实施例对此不作限定。本申请实施例提供的技术方案还可以应用于其它的通信系统，只要该通信系统中存在实体可以发送控制信息，和发送(和/或接收)传输块，该通信系统中存在其它实体可以接收控制信息，和接收(和/或发送)传输块。
本申请实施例的技术方案还可以应用于工厂、自动泊车、自动引导运输车(automated guided vehicle，AGV)、自动驾驶、室内高精度定位等场景。
请参阅图3，图3是本申请实施例提供的一种移动通信系统的网络架构示意图。如图3所示，该移动通信系统可以包括至少一个网络设备(如图3所示的网络设备302和网络设备303)和核心网设备304， 可选地，该通信系统还可以包括终端设备301。其中，终端设备301的服务网络设备可以是网络设备302和/或网络设备303，终端设备301通过Uu口分别连接网络设备302和/或网络设备303。至少一个网络设备之间可以相互收发参考信号，以使网络设备根据接收到的参考信号用于相位测量量的校准的第一信息并将第一信息上传至核心网设备304。网络设备和核心网设备304可以是独立的不同的物理设备，也可以是将核心网设备304的功能与网络设备的逻辑功能集成在同一个物理设备上，还可以是一个物理设备上集成了部分核心网设备304的功能和部分的网络设备的功能。终端设备可以是固定位置的，也可以是可移动的。
进一步地，请参阅图4，图4是本申请实施例提供的一种NG-RAN(next-generation-radio access network)的网络架构示意图。如图4所示，接入网设备可以包括4G的ng-eNB以及5G的gNB，终端设备分别通过LTE-Uu接口和NR-Uu接口连接ng-eNB和gNB。其中，ng-eNB是一种部署在无线接入网络中满足4G标准，为终端设备提供无线通信功能的设备或装置。ng-eNB可以是各种形式的基站、接入点等。ng-eNB也可以是收发参考信号的传输接入点(transmission and reception point，TRP)。gNB可以是一种部署在无线接入网络中满足5G标准，为终端设备提供无线通信功能的设备或装置。gNB可以是各种形式的基站、接入点等。gNB也可以是收发参考信号的TRP、传输测量功能(transmission measurement function，TMF)等。核心网设备可以包括接入和移动性管理功能(access and mobility management function，AMF)网元和定位管理功能(location management functio，LMF)，接入网设备可以通过NG-C接口连接核心网设备，例如接入网设备可以通过NG-C接口连接核心网设备中的AMF网元。可选地，核心网设备还可以包括增强移动服务位置中心(enhanced serving mobile location centre，E-SMLC)和服务定位协议(service location protocol，SLP)，E-SMLC可以是一种4G核心网中提供定位功能的网元，模块或组件，SLP可以是一种4G核心网中处理用户面安全定位协议的网元，模块或组件。
进一步地，请参阅图5，图5是本申请实施例提供的一种网络架构示意图。如图5所示，在定位场景中，终端设备可以向接入网设备发送定位服务请求，接入网设备将终端设备的定位服务请求转发给核心网中的接入和移动性管理功能(access and mobility management function，AMF)网元，AMF网元接收到定位服务请求后，可以将请求发送给LMF网元，LMF网元负责处理收到的定位请求并发起相关的定位流程。可选地，终端设备还可以包括用户设备定位管理功能(user equipment location management component，UE-LMC)，UE-LMC是一种可能的部署方式，是部署于终端设备上的具有部分LMF功能的组件/应用，用于支持PC5口上的定位业务。
需要说明的是，本申请实施例也可以应用于终端到网络的中继(UE-to-network relay)场景中远端终端(remote UE)和中继终端(relay UE)之间的通信，还可以应用于终端到终端的中继(UE-to-UE relay)场景中源终端(source UE)和中继终端(relay UE)之间的通信，还可以应用于中继终端(relay UE)和目标终端(target UE)之间的通信，本申请实施例以应用于NR通信的场景为例进行说明，对应用场景不作限定。
本申请实施例中的终端设备，也可以称为终端、用户设备(user equipment，UE)、移动台、移动终端等，也可以为实现其部分功能的芯片、模块或单元。终端设备可以广泛应用于各种通信场景，例如，可以应用于设备到设备(device-to-device，D2D)通信、车物(vehicle to everything，V2X)通信、机器类通信(machine-type communication，MTC)、物联网(internet of things，IOT)、虚拟现实、增强现实、工业控制、自动驾驶、远程医疗、智能电网、智能家具、智能办公、智能穿戴、智能交通、或智慧城市等场景。终端可以是手机、平板电脑、带无线收发功能的电脑、可穿戴设备、车辆、无人机、直升机、飞机、轮船、机器人、机械臂、或智能家居设备等。本公开对终端的设备形态不做限定。
可以理解的，终端设备可以包括1个或多个天线。另外，终端设备可以附加地包括发射机和接收机，本领域技术人员可以理解，它们均可包括与信号发送和接收相关的多个部件(例如处理器、调制器、复用器、解调器、解复用器或天线等)。
本申请实施例中的网络设备是用于发射或接收信号的实体，可以是用于与终端通信的设备，网络设备可以是接入网设备，接入网设备包括但不限于上述通信系统中的基站(base station)、演进型基站(evolved NodeB，eNodeB)、发送接收点(transmission reception point，TRP)、5G移动通信系统中的下一代基站(next generation NodeB，gNB)、第六代(6th generation，6G)移动通信系统中的下一代基站、开放接入网ORAN(open RAN，ORAN)系统中的接入网设备或者接入网设备的模块、未来移动通信系统中的基站或WiFi系统中的接入节点等。网络设备也可以是能够实现基站部分功能的芯片、模块或单元。在一种网络结构中，网络设备可以包括集中单元(centralized unit，CU)节点、或分布单元(distributed unit，DU)节点、或包括CU节点和DU节点的RAN设备。其中，在ORAN系统中，CU还可以称为O-CU，DU还可以称为O-DU。
所述接入网设备可以是宏基站，微基站或室内站，中继节点或施主节点，或者是云无线接入网络(cloud radio access network，CRAN)场景下的无线控制器。可选的，接入网设备还可以是服务器，可穿戴设备，或车载设备等。例如，车辆外联(vehicle to everything，V2X)技术中的接入网设备可以为路侧单元(road side unit，RSU)。通信系统中的多个接入网设备可以为同一类型的基站，也可以为不同类型的基站。基站可以与终端进行通信，也可以通过中继站与终端进行通信。终端可以与不同接入技术中的多个基站进行通信。
接入网设备和/或终端可以是固定的，也可以是可移动的。接入网设备和/或终端可以部署在陆地上，包括室内或室外、手持或车载；也可以部署在水面上；还可以部署在空中的飞机、气球和人造卫星上。本公开对接入网设备和终端的应用场景不做限定。接入网设备和终端设备可以部署在相同的场景或不同的场景，例如，接入网设备和终端设备同时部署在陆地上；或者，接入网设备部署在陆地上，终端设备部署在水面上等，不再一一举例。
在本申请实施例中，终端设备或网络设备包括硬件层、运行在硬件层之上的操作系统层，以及运行在操作系统层上的应用层。该硬件层包括中央处理器(central processing unit，CPU)、内存管理单元(memory management unit，MMU)和内存(也称为主存)等硬件。该操作系统可以是任意一种或多种通过进程(process)实现业务处理的计算机操作系统，例如，Linux操作系统、Unix操作系统、Android操作系统、iOS操作系统或windows操作系统等。该应用层包含浏览器、通讯录、文字处理软件、即时通信软件等应用。并且，本申请实施例并未对本申请实施例提供的方法的执行主体的具体结构特别限定，只要能够通过运行记录有本申请实施例的提供的方法的代码的程序，以根据本申请实施例提供的方法进行通信即可，例如，本申请实施例提供的方法的执行主体可以是终端设备或网络设备，或者，是终端设备或网络设备中能够调用程序并执行程序的功能模块。
另外，本申请的各个方面或特征可以实现成方法、装置或使用标准编程和/或工程技术的制品。本申请中使用的术语“制品”涵盖可从任何计算机可读器件、载体或介质访问的计算机程序。例如，计算机可读介质可以包括，但不限于：磁存储器件(例如，硬盘、软盘或磁带等)，光盘(例如，压缩盘(compact disc，CD)、数字通用盘(digital versatile disc，DVD)等)，智能卡和闪存器件(例如，可擦写可编程只读存储器(erasable programmable read-only memory，EPROM)、卡、棒或钥匙驱动器等)。另外，本文描述的各种存储介质可代表用于存储信息的一个或多个设备和/或其它机器可读介质。术语“机器可读介质”可包括但不限于，无线信道和能够存储、包含和/或承载指令和/或数据的各种其它介质。
需要说明的是，图3所示的网络架构中所包含的网络设备和终端设备的数量和类型仅仅是一种举例，本申请实施例并不限制于此。例如，还可以包括更多的或者更少的与网络设备进行通信的第一终端设备，例如，还可以包括更多的或者更少的与网络设备进行通信的终端设备。例如，可以包括单个或多个网络设备，和单个或多个终端设备。单个网络设备可以向单个或多个终端设备传输数据或控制信令，多个网络设备也可以同时为单个终端设备传输数据或控制信令。为简明描述，不在附图中一一描述。此外，在如图3所示的网络架构中，尽管示出了网络设备、终端设备和核心网设备，但是该应用场景中可以并不限于包括网络设备、终端设备和核心网设备，例如还可以包括用于承载虚拟化网络功能的设备等，这些对于本领域技术人员而言是显而易见的，在此不再一一赘述。
本申请提供了多种定位信息的上报方法，下面将分别通过如下各实施例进行描述。这些定位信息的上报方法有些仅针对部分流程，有些可以应用于任意一个或多个流程。应理解的是，这些定位信息的上报方法可以相互结合使用。
应理解的是，定位信息的上报方法有可能会随着技术方案的演进而发生变化，本申请提供的技术方案并不限于下面描述的过程。进一步地，本申请实施例中对场景的描述仅为举例，并不限定本申请实施例的方案仅能运用为描述场景中，同样适用于存在类似问题的场景等。
下述实施例(如下述图6-图9对应的实施例)中的第一网络设备可以是图4所示的网络架构中的接入网设备，本实施例中由第一网络设备执行的功能也可以由第一网络设备中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)来执行。下述实施例中的定位管理网元可以是图4所示的网络架构中的LMF网元，本实施例中由定位管理网元执行的功能也可以由定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)来执行。本申请实施例在这里做统一说明，后续不再赘述。
下面对本申请实施例提供的一种定位信息的上报方法进行描述。请参阅图6，图6是本申请实施例提供的一种定位信息的上报方法的交互示意图。图6所示意的定位信息的上报方法为上行。如图6所示，该定位 信息的上报方法可以包括步骤S601-S609。
S601：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息。
第一请求信息可以包括第一参考信号的配置信息，例如配置信息可以是第一参考信号的时频资源、周期等信息。
第一参考信号可以包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS，本实施例对第一参考信号的类型不作限定。
第一网络设备可以是部署在无线接入网络中满足4G标准，为终端设备提供无线通信功能的设备或装置，例如ng-eNB，ng-eNB也可以是收发参考信号的传输接收节点(transmission and reception point，TRP)；第一网络设备也可以是部署在无线接入网络中满足4G标准，为终端设备提供无线通信功能的设备或装置，例如gNB，gNB也可以是收发参考信号的TRP、传输测量功能(transmission measurement function，TMF)等；第一网络设备还可以是皮基站设备(picorru，pRRU)等，本申请实施例对第一网络设备的名称不作限制。
一种可能的实现方式，定位管理网元与第一网络设备之间可以通过NR定位协议A(NR positioning protocol A，NRPPa)进行通信。
在一个实施例中，第一网络设备可以有多个通道，这里以四个通道进行示例性说明。假设第一网络设备有四个通道，其中一个通道可以用来发信号，其余三个通道用来收信号；或者四个通道都用来收信号。需要说明的是，第一网络设备的架构可以支持环回收发。具体地，请参阅图7，图7是本申请实施例提供的一种第一网络设备架构的示意图。如图7所示，以第一网络设备为pRRU进行示例性说明。第一网络设备基于基带(baseband，BB)和四个射频(radio frequency，RF)通道进行收发信号，以支持环回收发。
进一步地，第一网络设备还可以向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备可以是第一网络设备或者是除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。其中：
一种可能的实现方式，第二网络设备是第一网络设备，即第一网络设备可以自发自收第一参考信号。具体地，第一网络设备可以在接收到来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息后，自发自收第一参考信号。
另一种可能的实现方式，第二网络设备是除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。具体地，第一网络设备可以在接收到来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息后，向第二网络设备发送用于请求第二网络设备向第一网络设备发送第一参考信号的请求信息，第二网络设备接收到请求信息后，向第一网络设备发送第一参考信号。
进一步可选地，第一网络设备可以接收来自定位管理网元的指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号。第一网络设备接收该指示信息后，可以向第二网络设备发送参考信号，以使第二网络设备也可以根据参考信号确定并向定位管理网元发送用于对终端设备进行定位的测量量的校准信息，使得定位管理网元根据用于对终端设备进行定位的测量量的校准信息确定终端设备的位置信息。从而可以实现定位管理网元根据多个网络设备上报的用于定位的测量量的校准信息确定终端设备的位置，进而提高确定终端设备的位置的准确性。
可选地，定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息之前，定位管理网元可以获取多个网络设备(包括第一网络设备和第二网络设备)的信息，该信息可以包括小区信息、坐标、NG-RAN TRP的TRP ID、PRS配置等。
S602：第二网络设备向第一网络设备发送第一参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号。
第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，具体地，第一网络设备可以在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，预留资源可以为预留时隙上的间隙GAP符号。其中，预留时隙可以是上下行切换时隙。通过在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，可以尽可能地保证网络设备发送第一参考信号与接收终端设备发送的第二参考信号在时域上接近，进而可以通过双差载波相位的方法消除对时间敏感(时变)的一些非理想因素，如同步误差，初相误差等，同时可以保证上下行切换，从而提高网络性能。
S603：第一网络设备根据第一参考信号确定第一信息。
第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号后，可以根据第一参考信号确定第一信息。其中，第一信息可以用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量可以用于对终端设备进行定位。
一种可能的实现方式，第一信息可以为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位 值之间的差值，其中，实际相位值可以为不同于第一网络设备的网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。可以理解，第一网络设备可以根据测量第一参考信号得到测量相位值，再根据不同于第一网络设备的网络设备与第一网络设备实际距离得到实际相位值，将测量相位值与实际相位值做差可以计算出相位校准量，即第一信息。例如，第一网络设备测量来自于第二网络设备(第二网络设备与第一网络设备是不同的网络设备)的第一参考信号得到测量相位值，根据第二网络设备与第一网络设备之间的实际距离得到实际相位值，将测量相位值与实际相位值做差得到第一信息。
在一个实施例中，第一信息可以是达到相位误差(phase arrival error，PAE)，第一信息也可以称为相位校准量。其中，PAE的计算公式可以如下：
PAEi＝POAi-POAtrue_i
其中，POAi可以表示第一网络设备测量来自第i个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值，POAtrue_i表示第一网络设备与第i个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值，di表示第一网络设备到第i个网络设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。在一个实施例中，第i个网络设备可以是不同于第一网络设备的第二网络设备。
可选地，PAE的计算公式也可以如下：
PAEij＝PDOAij-PDOAtrue_ij
PDOAij＝POAi-POAj
其中，PDOAij可以表示第一网络设备测量来自第i个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值与第一网络设备测量来自第j个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值之间的测量相位差，PDOAtrue表示第一网络设备和第i个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值与第一网络设备和第j个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值之间的实际相位差，di与dj分别为第一网络设备到第i个网络设备与第j个网络设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。在一个实施例中，第i个网络设备可以是不同于第一网络设备的第二网络设备，第j个网络设备可以是不同于第一网络设备和第二网络设备的第三网络设备。
一种可能的实现方式，上述测量相位值可以为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。示例性地，第一网络设备可以根据来自第二网络设备的多个第一参考信号分别确定多个测量相位值，取该多个测量相位值的平均值与实际相位值之间做差作为向定位管理网元上报的第一信息。
上述实际相位值的确定可以是以下任一实现方式：
第一种可能的实现方式：第一网络设备利用第一网络设备与第二网络设备的位置，计算得到第一网络设备与第二网络设备实际距离对应的相位。
第二种可能的实现方式：定位管理网元可以根据第一网络设备与第二网络设备的位置，计算得到第一网络设备与第二网络设备实际距离对应的相位，并向第一网络设备发送该相位。
S604：第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息。相应地，定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息。
第一网络设备根据第一参考信号确定第一信息后，可以向定位管理网元发送第一信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息做载波相位校准，完成双差载波相位定位。
S605：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的第二请求信息。
一种可能的实现方式，第二参考信号可以是SRS。
可选地，定位管理网元可以通过LPP capability tansfer过程获取终端设备能力，包括终端设备上行第二参考信号能力。定位管理网元可以请求第一网络设备配置终端设备发送第二参考信号。第一网络设备确定第二参考信号资源，并为终端设备配置第二参考信号的配置信息。
S606：终端设备向第一网络设备发送第二参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
终端设备可以根据第一网络设备配置的第二参考信号的配置信息，向第一网络设备发送第二参考信号。
S607：第一网络设备测量第二参考信号得到相位信息。
第一网络设备接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号后，可以根据第二参考信号确定相位信息。该相位信息可以用于定位管理网元对终端设备进行定位。
第一网络设备根据第二参考信号确定相位信息，具体地：该相位信息是可以第一网络设备测量第二参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，其中，实际相位值可以为终端设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。可以理解，第一网络设备可以根据测量第二参考信号得到测量相位值，再根据终端设备与第一网络设备实际距离得到实际相位值，将测量相位值与实际相位值做差可以计算出相位信息。
在一个实施例中，相位信息可以是达到相位误差(phase arrival error，PAE)，相位信息也可以称为相位校准量。其中，PAE的计算公式可以如下：
PAEi＝POAi-POAtrue_i
其中，POAi可以表示第一网络设备测量来自第i个终端设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值，POAtrue_i表示第一网络设备与第i个终端设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值，di表示第一网络设备到第i个终端设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。
可选地，PAE的计算公式也可以如下：
PAEij＝PDOAij-PDOAtrue_ij
PDOAij＝POAi-POAj
其中，PDOAij可以表示第一网络设备测量来自第i个终端设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值与第一网络设备测量来自第j个终端设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值之间的测量相位差，PDOAtrue表示第一网络设备和第i个终端设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值与第一网络设备和第j个终端设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值之间的实际相位差，di与dj分别为第一网络设备到第i个终端设备与第j个终端设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。
一种可能的实现方式，上述测量相位值可以为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。示例性地，第一网络设备可以根据来自终端设备的多个第二参考信号分别确定多个测量相位值，取该多个测量相位值的平均值与实际相位值之间做差作为向定位管理网元上报的相位信息。
上述实际相位值的确定可以是以下任一实现方式：
第一种可能的实现方式：第一网络设备利用第一网络设备与终端设备的位置，计算得到第一网络设备与终端设备实际距离对应的相位。
第二种可能的实现方式：定位管理网元可以根据第一网络设备与终端设备的位置，计算得到第一网络设备与终端设备实际距离对应的相位，并向第一网络设备发送该相位。
S608：第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送相位信息。相应地，定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的相位信息。
第一网络设备根据第二参考信号确定相位信息后，可以向定位管理网元发送相位信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息完成双差载波相位定位。
S609：定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
可以理解，定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息实现双差载波相位的定位方法可以参考前述的技术术语说明部分的双差载波相位定位的详细描述，在此不再赘述。
下面结合上述步骤S601-S609进行举例说明。请参阅图8，图8是本申请实施例提供的一种定位信息的上报方法的场景示意图。如图8所示，该场景可以包括多个网络设备(例如4个pRRU，分别为pRRU1～pRRU4)，假设pRRU分别都有四个通道，其中pRRU1的一个通道用来发参考信号，其余三个通道 用来收参考信号，另外三个pRRU的四个通道都用来收参考信号，其中，pRRU1的架构可以支持环回收发。其中，pRRU可以在预留资源上接收来自自己或其它pRRU的参考信号。第一网络设备可以是多个pRRU中的任一pRRU。
示例性地，请参阅图9，图9是本申请实施例提供的一种在预留资源上接收参考信号的示意图。如图9所示，假设上下行时隙配比为2:8，多个网络设备间收发信号在自包含时隙(self-contained slot)内的GAP符号上，为了保证上下行切换，pRRU1发送参考信号与终端设备发送第二参考信号(如SRS)所占用的符号要有间隔，同时考虑到双差需要pRRU1发送参考信号与终端设备发送SRS之间的间隔尽可能的小，以消除对时间要求高的非理想因素的影响，因此pRRU间收发信号的位置可以如图9所示：pRRU1的第一个通道发送参考信号，位置在S时隙内的第8个GAP符号上，pRRU1的其余三个通道以及其它三个pRRU的四个通道可以在这个符号上接收pRRU1发送的参考信号(如SRS、PRS、RIM-RS等参考信号)。需要说明的是，多个pRRU之间可以轮发，即发送参考信号的pRRU可以是pRRU1～pRRU4轮询发，然后通过平均或滤波等方式提高相位校准量的精度。
pRRU1的位置已知并且向四个pRRU发送参考信号，这时可以将pRRU1当做一个信标。另外终端设备向四个pRRU发送SRS，可以形成双差定位。每个pRRU都可以将测到的来自终端设备的信号的相位信息与来自pRRU1的参考信号的第一信息上报给定位管理网元(如LMF网元)，以使LMF网元可以做双差载波相位定位。
应理解，在本实施例中，上述各过程的序号的大小并不意味着执行顺序的先后，各过程的执行顺序应以其功能和内在逻辑确定，而不应对本申请实施例的实施过程构成任何限定。
在本实施例提供的方案中，设计了一种上行免信标的双差载波相位定位方法，具体地可以通过网络设备(例如基站)之间在预留资源上互相收发参考信号，形成自环回，根据接收到的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报第一信息(如相位校准量PAE)，以及根据来自终端设备的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报相位信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。因此，本申请实施例，可以将不同网络设备分别看作信标/参考站来达到免信标的目的，以实现免信标的双差载波相位定位，从而可以降低双差载波相位定位的复杂度。
下面对本申请实施例提供的另一种通信方法进行描述。应理解，本申请中不同实施例的术语解释可以互相参考，为避免描述冗余，不同实施例可以不对同一术语赘述。请参阅图10，图10是本申请实施例提供的另一种定位信息的上报方法的交互示意图。如图10所示，不同于上述图6的上行，图10所示意的方法为下行。该定位方法可以包括S1001-S1009。
S1001：定位管理网元向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息。
S1002：第二网络设备向第一网络设备发送第一参考信号。相应地，第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号。
S1003：第一网络设备根据第一参考信号确定第一信息。
S1004：第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息。相应地，定位管理网元接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息。
可以理解，具体步骤S1001～S1004的描述可以参考上述步骤S601～S604，为避免重复，在此不加赘述。
S1005：定位管理网元向终端设备发送第三请求信息，第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。相应地，终端设备接收来自定位管理网元的第三请求信息。
一种可能的实现方式，第三参考信号可以是PRS。定位管理网元请求终端设备测量PRS，例如测量可以包括下行链路参考信号时间差(downlink reference signal time difference，DL RSTD)、下行链路参考信号接收功率(downlink reference signal Received power，DL RSRP)等。
进一步可选地，定位管理网元可以通过LPP capability transfer过程获得终端设备能力，可以包括下行定位参考信号(downlink-positioning reference signal，DL-PRS)资源和DL-PRS处理能力。进一步地，定位管理网元还可以获取多个网络设备(包括第一网络设备和第二网络设备)的信息，该信息可以包括小区信息、坐标、NG-RAN TRP的TRP ID、PRS配置等。
定位管理网元向终端设备发送第三请求信息之前，可以向终端设备提供辅助数据，该辅助数据可以包括小区信息、第三参考信号配置以及用于终端设备测量第三参考信号的其它信息。
S1006：第一网络设备向终端设备发送第三参考信号。相应地，终端设备接收来自第一网络设备的第 三参考信号。
定位管理网元可以向第一网络设备发送指示第一网络设备向终端设备发送第三参考信号的指示信息，第一网络设备根据指示信息向终端设备发送第三参考信号。
S1007：终端设备测量第三参考信号得到相位信息。
终端设备接收来自第一网络设备的第三参考信号后，可以测量第三参考信号得到相位信息。具体地：终端设备接收来自第一网络设备的第三参考信号后，可以根据第三参考信号确定相位信息。该相位信息可以用于定位管理网元对终端设备进行定位。该相位信息可以是终端设备测量第三参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，其中，实际相位值可以为终端设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。可以理解，终端设备可以根据测量第三参考信号得到测量相位值，再根据终端设备与第一网络设备实际距离得到实际相位值，将测量相位值与实际相位值做差可以计算出相位信息。
在一个实施例中，相位信息可以是达到相位误差(phase arrival error，PAE)，相位信息也可以称为相位校准量。其中，PAE的计算公式可以如下：
PAEi＝POAi-POAtrue_i
其中，POAi可以表示终端设备测量来自第i个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值，POAtrue_i表示终端设备与第i个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值，di表示终端设备到第i个网络设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。在一个实施例中，第i个网络设备可以是第一网络设备。
可选地，PAE的计算公式也可以如下：
PAEij＝PDOAij-PDOAtrue_ij
PDOAij＝POAi-POAj
其中，PDOAij可以表示终端设备测量来自第i个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值与终端设备测量来自第j个网络设备的参考信号得到的测量相位值之间的测量相位差，PDOAtrue表示终端设备和第i个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值与终端设备和第j个网络设备之间实际距离对应的实际相位值之间的实际相位差，di与dj分别为终端设备到第i个网络设备与第j个网络设备之间的距离，λ表示载波波长。
一种可能的实现方式，上述测量相位值可以为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。示例性地，终端设备可以根据来自第一网络设备的多个第三参考信号分别确定多个测量相位值，取该多个测量相位值的平均值与实际相位值之间做差作为向定位管理网元上报的相位信息。
上述实际相位值的确定可以是以下任一实现方式：
第一种可能的实现方式：终端设备利用终端设备与第一网络设备的位置，计算得到终端设备与第一网络设备实际距离对应的相位。
第二种可能的实现方式：定位管理网元可以根据终端设备与第一网络设备的位置，计算得到终端设备与第一网络设备实际距离对应的相位，并向终端设备发送该相位。
S1008：终端设备向定位管理网元发送相位信息。相应地，定位管理网元接收来自终端设备的相位信息。
可以理解，终端设备可以通过网络设备(如接入网设备)透传向定位管理网元发送相位信息，以实现定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
S1009：定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
可以理解，定位管理网元根据第一信息和相位信息实现双差载波相位的定位方法可以参考前述的技术术语说明部分的双差载波相位定位的详细描述，在此不再赘述。
应理解，在本实施例中，上述各过程的序号的大小并不意味着执行顺序的先后，各过程的执行顺序应以其功能和内在逻辑确定，而不应对本申请实施例的实施过程构成任何限定。
在本实施例提供的方案中，设计了一种下行免信标的双差载波相位定位方法，具体地可以通过网络设 备(例如基站)之间在预留资源上互相收发参考信号，形成自环回，根据接收到的参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报第一信息(如相位校准量PAE)，以及终端设备测量第三参考信号确定并向定位管理网元上报相位信息，以使定位管理网元可以根据第一信息和相位信息进行双差载波相位的解算，实现终端设备的定位。因此，本申请实施例，可以将不同网络设备分别看作信标/参考站来达到免信标的目的，以实现免信标的双差载波相位定位，从而可以降低双差载波相位定位的复杂度。
下面对本申请实施例提供的通信装置进行描述。
本申请实施例可以根据上述方法示例对通信装置进行功能模块的划分，例如，可以对应各个功能划分各个功能模块，也可以将两个或两个以上的功能集成在一个处理模块中。上述集成的模块既可以采用硬件的形式实现，也可以采用软件功能模块的形式实现。需要说明的是，本申请实施例中对模块的划分是示意性的，仅仅为一种逻辑功能划分，实际实现时可以有另外的划分方式。
请参阅图11，图11是本申请实施例提供的一种通信装置的结构示意图，如图11所示，该通信装置1100可以用于执行图6-图10所示的实施例中的第一网络设备执行的过程，具体请参考上述方法实施例中的相关介绍。
该通信装置1100，至少包括：收发单元1101和处理单元1102。收发单元1101可以实现相应的通信功能，处理单元1102用于进行数据处理。收发单元1101还可以称为通信接口或通信单元。
可选地，该通信装置1100还可以包括存储模块，该存储模块可以用于存储指令和/或数据，处理单元1102可以读取存储模块中的指令和/或数据，以使得通信装置实现前述方法实施例。存储模块可以通过至少一个存储器实现。
该通信装置1100可以用于执行上文图6-图10所示的实施例中第一网络设备所执行的动作。该通信装置1100可以为第一网络设备或者可配置于第一网络设备的部件。处理单元1102用于执行上文图8-图10所示的实施例中第一网络设备侧的处理相关的操作。可选地，收发单元1101用于执行上文图8-图10所示的实施例中第一网络设备侧的收发相关的操作。
可选地，收发单元1101可以包括发送单元和接收单元。发送单元用于执行上述图8-图10所示的实施例中的发送操作。接收单元用于执行上述图8-图10所示的实施例中的接收操作。
需要说明的是，通信装置1100可以包括发送单元，而不包括接收单元。或者，通信装置1100可以包括接收单元，而不包括发送单元。具体可以视通信装置1100执行的上述方案中是否包括发送动作和接收动作。该通信装置1100用于执行上文图8-图10所示的实施例中第一网络设备所执行的动作。
一种可能的实现方式中，该通信装置1100可以为第一网络设备，也可以为第一网络设备中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)。该通信装置1100用于执行如下方案：
收发单元1101，用于接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；
收发单元1101，还用于向定位管理网元发送第一信息，第一信息根据测量第一参考信号确定，该第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，还用于接收来自定位管理网元的第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，具体用于：在预留资源上接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，该预留资源为预留时隙上的GAP符号。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101向第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，还用于接收来自定位管理网元的指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于接收来自终端设备的第二参考信号；
该通信装置还包括：
处理单元1102，用于测量第二参考信号得到相位信息；
收发单元1101，还用于向定位管理网元发送该相位信息。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于接收来自定位管理网元的第二请求信息，该第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间 的差值，实际相位值为不同网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
在一个实施方式中，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
在一个实施方式中，第一信息为PAE。
在一个实施方式中，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
一种可能的实现方式中，该通信装置1100可以为定位管理网元，也可以为定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)。该通信装置1100用于执行如下方案：
收发单元1101，用于接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息，第一信息根据第一参考信号确定，第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，该相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位；
处理单元1102，用于根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
在一个实施方式中，该通信装置还包括：
收发单元1101，用于接收单元接收来自第一网络设备的第一信息之前，向第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，该第一请求信息用于请求测量第一参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于向第一网络设备发送指示信息，该指示信息用于指示第一网络设备向第二网络设备发送参考信号，第二网络设备为第一网络设备或除第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于接收来自第一网络设备的相位信息，该相位信息根据第二参考信号确定；
处理单元1102根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和该相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于向第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于接收来自终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；
处理单元1102根据第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：根据第一信息和相位信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
在一个实施方式中，收发单元1101还用于向终端设备发送第三请求信息，该第三请求信息用于请求终端设备测量第三参考信号。
在一个实施方式中，第一信息为第一网络设备测量第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，实际相位值为不同网络设备与第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
在一个实施方式中，测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
在一个实施方式中，第一信息为PAE。
在一个实施方式中，第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：SRS、PRS和RIM-RS。
应理解，各模块执行上述相应过程的具体过程在上述方法实施例中已经详细说明，为了简洁，在此不再赘述。
上文实施例中的处理单元1102可以由至少一个处理器或处理器相关电路实现。收发单元1101可以由收发器或收发器相关电路实现。
请参阅图12，图12是本申请实施例提供的另一种通信装置的结构示意图。如图12所示，该通信装置1200包括处理器1210，处理器1210与存储器1220耦合，存储器1220用于存储计算机程序或指令和/或数据，处理器1210用于执行存储器1220存储的计算机程序或指令和/或数据，使得上文方法实施例中的方法被执行。
可选地，该通信装置1200包括的处理器1210为一个或多个。
可选地，如图12所示，该通信装置1200还可以包括存储器1220。
可选地，该通信装置1200包括的存储器1220可以为一个或多个。
可选地，该存储器1220可以与该处理器1210集成在一起，或者分离设置。
可选地，如图12所示，该通信装置1200还可以包括收发器1230，其中，包括发射器和接收器；收发器1230用于信号的接收和/或发送。例如，处理器1210用于控制收发器1230进行信号的接收和/或发送。
可选地，当通信装置1200为芯片时，收发器1230为芯片的输入输出接口，其中方法实施例中的发送对应输出，接收对应输入；存储器可以位于芯片外，也可以位于芯片内。
作为一种方案，该通信装置1200用于实现上文方法实施例中由第一网络设备执行的操作。
例如，处理器1210用于实现上文方法实施例中由第一网络设备执行的处理相关的操作，收发器1230用于实现上文方法实施例中由第一网络设备执行的收发相关的操作。
作为一种方案，该通信装置1200用于实现上文实施例中由定位管理网元执行的操作。
例如，处理器1210用于实现上文方法实施例中由定位管理网元执行的处理相关的操作，收发器1230用于实现上文方法实施例中由定位管理网元执行的收发相关的操作。
请参阅图13，图13是本申请实施例提供的又一种通信装置的结构示意图。如图13所示，该装置1300可以包括一个或多个处理器1310，处理器1310也可以称为处理单元，可以实现一定的控制功能。处理器1310可以是通用处理器或者专用处理器等。例如可以是基带处理器或中央处理器。基带处理器可以用于对通信协议以及通信数据进行处理，中央处理器可以用于对通信装置(如，基站、基带芯片，终端、终端芯片，DU或CU等)进行控制，执行软件程序，处理软件程序的数据。
在一种可选的设计中，处理器1310也可以存有指令和/或数据，所述指令和/或数据可以被所述处理器运行，使得所述装置1300执行上述方法实施例中描述的方法。
在另一种可选的设计中，处理器1310中可以包括用于实现接收和发送功能的收发单元。例如该收发单元可以是收发电路，或者是接口，或者是接口电路，或者是通信接口。用于实现接收和发送功能的收发电路、接口或接口电路可以是分开的，也可以集成在一起。上述收发电路、接口或接口电路可以用于代码/数据的读写，或者，上述收发电路、接口或接口电路可以用于信号的传输或传递。
在又一种可能的设计中，装置1300可以包括电路，所述电路可以实现前述方法实施例中发送或接收或者通信的功能。
可选的，所述装置1300中可以包括一个或多个存储器1320，其上可以存有计算机程序或指令，所述计算机程序或指令可在所述处理器上被运行，使得所述装置1300执行上述方法实施例中描述的方法。所述处理器1310和存储器1320可以单独设置，也可以集成在一起。
可选的，所述装置1300还可以包括收发器1330和/或天线1333。所述收发器1330可以称为收发单元、收发机、收发电路、收发装置或收发模块等，用于实现收发功能。
可选的，收发器1330可以包括发射机1331和接收机1332，分别用于实现方法实施例相应设备发送和接收的操作。
可选的，本申请实施例中的装置1300可以用于执行本申请实施例中图6-图10描述的方法。
在一个实施例中，该通信装置1300可以为第一网络设备，也可以为第一网络设备中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)，存储器1320中存储的计算机程序指令被执行时，该处理器1310用于执行上述实施例中处理单元1102执行的操作，收发器1330用于执行上述实施例中收发单元1101执行的操作，收发器1330还用于向该通信装置之外的其它通信装置发送信息。上述第一网络设备或者第一网络设备内的装置还可以用于执行上述图6-图10方法实施例中第一网络设备执行的各种方法，不再赘述。
在一个实施例中，该通信装置1300可以为定位管理网元，也可以为定位管理网元中的装置(例如，芯片，或者芯片系统，或者电路)，存储器1320中存储的计算机程序指令被执行时，该处理器1310用于执行上述实施例中处理单元1102执行的操作，收发器1330用于执行上述实施例中收发单元1101执行的操作，收发器1330还用于接收来自该通信装置之外的其它通信装置的信息。上述定位管理网元或者定位管理网元内的装置还可以用于执行上述图6-图10方法实施例中定位管理网元执行的各种方法，不再赘述。
本申请中描述的处理器和收发器可实现在集成电路(integrated circuit，IC)、模拟IC、射频集成电路(radiofrequencyinterfacechip，RFIC)、混合信号IC、专用集成电路(application specific integrated circuit，ASIC)、印刷电路板(printed circuit board，PCB)、电子设备等上。该处理器和收发器也可以用各种IC工艺技术来制造，例如互补金属氧化物半导体(complementary metal oxide semiconductor,CMOS)、N型金属氧化物半导体(nMetal-oxide-semiconductor，NMOS)、P型金属氧化物半导体(positive channel metal oxide semiconductor,PMOS)、双极结型晶体管(Bipolar Junction Transistor，BJT)、双极CMOS(BiCMOS)、硅锗(SiGe)、砷化镓(GaAs)等。
以上实施例描述中的装置可以是第一通信设备或者第二通信设备,但本申请中描述的装置的范围并不限于此,而且装置的结构可以不受图13的限制。装置可以是独立的设备或者可以是较大设备的一部分。例如所述装置可以是：
(1)独立的集成电路IC，或芯片，或芯片系统或子系统；
(2)具有一个或多个IC的集合，可选的，该IC集合也可以包括用于存储数据和/或指令的存储部件；
(3)ASIC，例如调制解调器(MSM)；
(4)可嵌入在其他设备内的模块；
(5)接收机、终端、智能终端、蜂窝电话、无线设备、手持机、移动单元、车载设备、网络设备、云设备、人工智能设备、机器设备、家居设备、医疗设备、工业设备等等；
(6)其他等等。
本申请实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质，其上存储有计算机程序，该程序被处理器执行时可以实现上述方法实施例提供的定位信息的上报方法中与第一网络设备相关的流程。
本申请实施例还提供一种计算机可读存储介质，其上存储有计算机程序，该程序被处理器执行时可以实现上述方法实施例提供的定位信息的上报方法中与定位管理网元相关的流程。
本申请实施例还提供了一种包含指令的计算机程序产品，当指令在计算机或处理器上运行时，使得计算机或处理器执行上述任一个定位信息的上报方法中的一个或多个步骤。上述所涉及的设备的各组成模块如果以软件功能单元的形式实现并作为独立的产品销售或使用时，可以存储在所述计算机可读取存储介质中。
本申请实施例还提供一种芯片装置，包括处理器，用于调用该存储器中存储的计算机程度或计算机指令，以使得该处理器执行上述图6-图10所示的实施例的方法。
一种可能的实现方式中，该芯片装置的输入对应上述图6-图10所示的实施例中的接收操作，该芯片装置的输出对应上述图6-图10所示的实施例中的发送操作。
可选地，该处理器通过接口与存储器耦合。
可选地，该芯片装置还包括存储器，该存储器中存储有计算机程度或计算机指令。
该芯片装置，可以由芯片构成，也可以包含芯片和其他分立器件。
本申请实施例还提供一种通信系统，该系统包括第一网络设备和定位管理网元，具体描述可以参考图6-图10所示的定位信息的上报方法。
应理解，本申请实施例中提及的存储器可以是易失性存储器或非易失性存储器，或可包括易失性和非易失性存储器两者。其中，非易失性存储器可以是硬盘(hard disk drive，HDD)、固态硬盘(solid-state drive，SSD)、只读存储器(read-only memory，ROM)、可编程只读存储器(programmable ROM，PROM)、可擦除可编程只读存储器(erasable PROM，EPROM)、电可擦除可编程只读存储器(electrically EPROM，EEPROM)或闪存。易失性存储器可以是随机存取存储器(random access memory，RAM)，其用作外部高速缓存。通过示例性但不是限制性说明，许多形式的RAM可用，例如静态随机存取存储器(static rAM，SRAM)、动态随机存取存储器(dynamic RAM，DRAM)、同步动态随机存取存储器(synchronous dRAM，SDRAM)、双倍数据速率同步动态随机存取存储器(double data rate SDRAM，DDR SDRAM)、增强型同步动态随机存取存储器(enhanced SDRAM，ESDRAM)、同步连接动态随机存取存储器(synchlink DRAM，SLDRAM)和直接内存总线随机存取存储器(direct rambus RAM，DR RAM)。存储器是能够用于携带或存储具有指令或数据结构形式的期望的程序代码并能够由计算机存取的任何其他介质，但不限于此。本申请实施例中的存储器还可以是电路或者其它任意能够实现存储功能的装置，用于存储程序指令和/或数据。
还应理解，本申请实施例中提及的处理器可以是中央处理单元(central processing unit，CPU)，还可以是其他通用处理器、数字信号处理器(digital signal processor，DSP)、专用集成电路(application specific integrated circuit，ASIC)、现成可编程门阵列(field programmable gate array，FPGA)或者其他可编程逻辑器件、分立门或者晶体管逻辑器件、分立硬件组件等。通用处理器可以是微处理器或者该处理器也可以是任何常规的处理器等。
需要说明的是，当处理器为通用处理器、DSP、ASIC、FPGA或者其他可编程逻辑器件、分立门或者晶体管逻辑器件、分立硬件组件时，存储器(存储模块)集成在处理器中。
应注意，本文描述的存储器旨在包括但不限于这些和任意其它适合类型的存储器。
应理解，在本申请的各种实施例中，上述各过程的序号的大小并不意味着执行顺序的先后，各过程的执行顺序应以其功能和内在逻辑确定，而不应对本申请实施例的实施过程构成任何限定。
本领域普通技术人员可以意识到，结合本文中所提供的实施例描述的各示例的单元及算法步骤，能够以电子硬件、或者计算机软件和电子硬件的结合来实现。这些功能究竟以硬件还是软件方式来执行，取决 于技术方案的特定应用和设计约束条件。专业技术人员可以对每个特定的应用来使用不同方法来实现所描述的功能，但是这种实现不应认为超出本申请的范围。
所属领域的技术人员可以清楚地了解到，为描述的方便和简洁，上述描述的系统、装置和单元的具体工作过程，可以参考前述方法实施例中的对应过程，在此不再赘述。
在本申请所提供的几个实施例中，应该理解到，所揭露的系统、装置和方法，可以通过其它的方式实现。例如，以上所描述的装置实施例仅仅是示意性的，例如，所述单元的划分，仅仅为一种逻辑功能划分，实际实现时可以有另外的划分方式，例如多个单元或组件可以结合或者可以集成到另一个系统，或一些特征可以忽略，或不执行。另一点，所显示或讨论的相互之间的耦合或直接耦合或通信连接可以是通过一些接口，装置或单元的间接耦合或通信连接，可以是电性，机械或其它的形式。
所述作为分离部件说明的单元可以是或者也可以不是物理上分开的，作为单元显示的部件可以是或者也可以不是物理单元，即可以位于一个地方，或者也可以分布到多个网络单元上。可以根据实际的需要选择其中的部分或者全部单元来实现本实施例方案的目的。
另外，在本申请各个实施例中的各功能单元可以集成在一个处理单元中，也可以是各个单元单独物理存在，也可以两个或两个以上单元集成在一个单元中。
所述功能如果以软件功能单元的形式实现并作为独立的产品销售或使用时，可以存储在一个计算机可读取存储介质中。基于这样的理解，本申请的技术方案本质上或者说对技术做出贡献的部分或者该技术方案的部分可以以软件产品的形式体现出来，该计算机软件产品存储在一个存储介质中，包括若干指令用以使得一台计算机设备(可以是个人计算机，服务器，或者网络设备等)执行本申请各个实施例所述方法的全部或部分步骤。而前述的存储介质包括：U盘、移动硬盘、ROM、RAM、磁碟或者光盘等各种可以存储程序代码的介质。
本申请实施例方法中的步骤可以根据实际需要进行顺序调整、合并和删减。
本申请实施例装置中的模块/单元可以根据实际需要进行合并、划分和删减。
以上所述，以上实施例仅用以说明本申请的技术方案，而非对其限制；尽管参照前述实施例对本申请进行了详细的说明，本领域的普通技术人员应当理解：其依然可以对前述各实施例所记载的技术方案进行修改，或者对其中部分技术特征进行等同替换；而这些修改或者替换，并不使相应技术方案的本质脱离本申请各实施例技术方案的范围。

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  1. 一种定位信息的上报方法，其特征在于，包括：
    第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；
    所述第一网络设备向定位管理网元发送第一信息，所述第一信息根据所述第一参考信号确定，所述第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，所述相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。
  2. 根据权利要求1所述的方法，其特征在于，所述第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元向所述第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，所述第一请求信息用于请求测量所述第一参考信号。
  3. 根据权利要求1或2所述的方法，其特征在于，所述第一网络设备接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号包括：
    所述第一网络设备在预留资源上接收来自所述第二网络设备的所述第一参考信号，所述预留资源为预留时隙上的间隙GAP符号。
  4. 根据权利要求1-3任一所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述第一网络设备向所述第二网络设备发送参考信号，所述第二网络设备为所述第一网络设备或除所述第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
  5. 根据权利要求4所述的方法，其特征在于，所述第一网络设备向所述第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元向所述第一网络设备发送指示信息，所述指示信息用于指示所述第一网络设备向所述第二网络设备发送所述参考信号。
  6. 根据权利要求1-5任一所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
  7. 根据权利要求6所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述第一网络设备接收来自所述终端设备的第二参考信号；
    所述第一网络设备测量所述第二参考信号得到相位信息；
    所述第一网络设备向所述定位管理网元发送所述相位信息；
    所述定位管理网元根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：
    所述定位管理网元根据所述第一信息和所述相位信息确定所述终端设备的位置信息。
  8. 根据权利要求7所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元向所述第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，所述第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
  9. 根据权利要求6所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元接收来自所述终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；
    所述定位管理网元根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息包括：
    所述定位管理网元根据所述第一信息和所述相位信息确定所述终端设备的位置信息。
  10. 根据权利要求9所述的方法，其特征在于，所述方法还包括：
    所述定位管理网元向所述终端设备发送第三请求信息，所述第三请求信息用于请求所述终端设备测量第三参考信号。
  11. 根据权利要求1-10任一所述的方法，其特征在于，所述第一信息为所述第一网络设备测量所述第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，所述实际相位值为所述第二网络设备与所述第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
  12. 根据权利要求11所述的方法，其特征在于，所述测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
  13. 根据权利要求12所述的方法，所述第一信息为达到相位误差PAE。
  14. 根据权利要求1-13任一所述的方法，其特征在于，所述第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：信道探测参考信号SRS、定位参考信号PRS和远程干扰管理参考信号RIM-RS。
  15. 一种通信装置，其特征在于，包括：
    收发单元，用于接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号；
    所述收发单元还用于向定位管理网元发送第一信息，所述第一信息根据所述第一参考信号确定，所述第一信息用于相位测量量的校准，所述相位测量量用于对终端设备进行定位。
  16. 根据权利要求15所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号之前，还用于向所述第一网络设备发送第一请求信息，所述第一请求信息用于请求测量所述第一参考信号。
  17. 根据权利要求15或16所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元接收来自第二网络设备的第一参考信号，具体用于：
    在预留资源上接收来自所述第二网络设备的所述第一参考信号，所述预留资源为预留时隙上的间隙GAP符号。
  18. 根据权利要求15-17任一所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元还用于向所述第二网络设备发送参考信号，所述第二网络设备为所述第一网络设备或除所述第一网络设备外的其它网络设备。
  19. 根据权利要求18所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元向所述第二网络设备发送参考信号之前，还用于向所述第一网络设备发送指示信息，所述指示信息用于指示所述第一网络设备向所述第二网络设备发送所述参考信号。
  20. 根据权利要求15-19任一所述的装置，其特征在于，所述装置还包括：
    处理单元，用于根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息。
  21. 根据权利要求20所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元还用于接收来自所述终端设备的第二参考信号；
    所述处理单元还用于测量所述第二参考信号得到相位信息；
    所述收发单元还用于向所述定位管理网元发送所述相位信息；
    所述处理单元根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：
    根据所述第一信息和所述相位信息确定所述终端设备的位置信息。
  22. 根据权利要求21所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元还用于向所述第一网络设备发送第二请求信息，所述第二请求信息用于请求测量来自终端设备的第二参考信号。
  23. 根据权利要求20所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元还用于接收来自所述终端设备的测量第三参考信号得到的相位信息；
    所述处理单元根据所述第一信息确定终端设备的位置信息，具体用于：
    根据所述第一信息和所述相位信息确定所述终端设备的位置信息。
  24. 根据权利要求23所述的装置，其特征在于，所述收发单元还用于向所述终端设备发送第三请求信息，所述第三请求信息用于请求所述终端设备测量第三参考信号。
  25. 根据权利要求15-24任一所述的装置，其特征在于，所述第一信息为所述第一网络设备测量所述第一参考信号得到的测量相位值与实际相位值之间的差值，所述实际相位值为所述第二网络设备与所述第一网络设备之间实际距离对应的相位。
  26. 根据权利要求25所述的装置，其特征在于，所述测量相位值为瞬时测量值或多次测量的平均值。
  27. 根据权利要求26所述的装置，其特征在于，所述第一信息为达到相位误差PAE。
  28. 根据权利要求15-27任一所述的装置，其特征在于，所述第一参考信号包括以下一项或多项：信道探测参考信号SRS、定位参考信号PRS和远程干扰管理参考信号RIM-RS。
  29. 一种通信装置，其特征在于，包括处理器，所述处理器用于执行存储器中的计算机程序或指令，当所述计算机程序或指令被所述处理器执行时，使得所述装置执行如权利要求1-14中任意一项所述的方法。
  30. 根据权利要求29所述的装置，其特征在于，所述通信装置还包括所述存储器。
  31. 一种计算机可读存储介质，其特征在于，所述计算机可读存储介质中存储有计算机程序或计算机指令，当所述计算机程序或计算机指令被处理器执行时，实现如权利要求1-14中任意一项所述的方法。
  32. 一种定位系统，包括第一网络设备，用于执行如权利要求1-14中任意一项所述的方法中所述第一网络设备执行的方法；所述定位系统还包括定位管理网元，用于执行如权利要求1-14中任意一项所述的方法中所述定位管理网元执行的方法。
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