MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION METHOD, IDENTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT METHODS, MACRO BASE STATION AND UE

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a measurement configuration method, an identification and measurement method, a macro base station, and UE. The measurement configuration method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: configuring, by a macro base station, a first measurement gap pattern for UE; receiving, by the macro base station, indication information sent by the UE, where the indication information is used to represent that quality of a signal radiated by a small base station and received by the UE is higher than or equal to a preset signal quality threshold; and configuring, by the macro base station, a second measurement gap pattern for the UE, where a measurement gap period in the second measurement gap pattern is less than a measurement gap period in the first measurement gap pattern. By means of the method in the embodiments of the present invention, unnecessary power consumption can be reduced for UE, and an objective of sharing load for a macro base station in time by using a small cell can be achieved.