Methods and systems for indicating measured frequencies in a measurement report

A user equipment, UE, configured to enable efficient inter-frequency load balancing or dual connectivity setup or multi-connectivity setup or carrier aggregation setup, the user equipment comprising processing circuitry configured to cause the UE to:

• receive a measurement configuration from a network node, the measurement configuration comprising information that indicates two or more frequencies for which measurements are to be performed by the UE;
• perform measurements in accordance with the measurement configuration to provide performed measurements;
• and
• transmit a measurement report to the network node, the measurement reporting comprising the performed measurements and information that indicates at least one of the two or more frequencies on which the UE has already performed measurements at a time at which the measurement report was generated.

A method performed by a network node, the method comprising one or more of the following:

• receiving a measurement report from a User Equipment, UE;
• determining whether the UE is capable of including, in the measurement report, information that indicates at least one of the two or more frequencies on which the UE has already performed measurements at a time at which the measurement report was generated;
• if the UE is not capable of including the information, waiting for one or more additional measurement reports from the UE before taking an action;
• if the UE is capable of including the information:
• determining whether the UE has already performed measurements on one or more higher priority frequencies, wherein a higher priority frequency is a frequency having a priority above a threshold priority;
• if the UE has already performed measurements on the one or more higher priority frequencies, taking a load-balancing action;
• and
• if the UE has not already performed measurements on the one or more higher priority frequencies, waiting for one or more additional measurement reports from the UE before taking an action.

A network node, the network node comprising processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to:

• receive a measurement report from a User Equipment, UE;
• determine whether the UE is capable of including, in the measurement report, information that indicates at least one of the two or more frequencies on which the UE has already performed measurements at a time at which the measurement report was generated;
• if the UE is not capable of including the information, wait for one or more additional measurement reports from the UE before taking an action;
• if the UE is capable of including the information:
• determine whether the UE has already performed measurements on one or more higher priority frequencies, wherein a higher priority frequency is a frequency having a priority above a threshold priority;
• if the UE has already performed measurements on the one or more higher priority frequencies, take a load-balancing action;
• and
• if the UE has not already performed measurements on the one or more higher priority frequencies, wait for one or more additional measurement reports from the UE before taking an action.