Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: detecting that a terminal in an inactive state is in an out-of-service state, and determining a target cell of the terminal.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: receiving measurement configuration information from a network device; determining whether a measurement task requires a measurement gap; and if the measurement task does not require the measurement gap, sending first measurement gap requirement information indicating that the measurement gap is not required to the network device, where the first measurement gap requirement information is used to deactivate or release configured measurement gap configuration information; and/or if the measurement task requires the measurement gap, sending second measurement gap requirement information indicating that the measurement gap is required to the network device, where the second measurement gap requirement information is used to activate or validate measurement gap configuration information corresponding to the second measurement gap requirement information.

Abstract: A communications method and apparatus. The communications method includes: transmitting a first request to a network device through a first resource, where the first request is used to request beam failure recovery of a first cell or is used to request system information of the first cell, the first resource is a resource of a second cell, and the first cell and the second cell are serving cells of a same terminal; and receiving a first response corresponding to the first request from the network device. Therefore, when a terminal has a plurality of serving cells, the terminal may transmit a request across cells (or across carriers), to improve transmission reliability.

Abstract: A communication method, a related device, and a system. The method includes: a first network device receives first information from a terminal device, where the first information includes a first delay and a second delay, the first delay is a delay of the terminal device on a first path, the second delay is a delay of the terminal device on a second path, and data packets transmitted on the first path and the second path belong to a first data radio bearer (DRB). The first network device determines an uplink delay of the first DRB based on the first information, a fourth delay, and a fifth delay, where the fourth delay is a network-side delay on the first path, and the fifth delay is a network-side delay on the second path.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method, an access device, and a terminal device. The data communication method includes: A first access network device receives a handover request message from a second access network device, where the handover request message is to request a terminal device to hand over from a cell of the second access network device to a cell of the first access network device. The first access network device determines that robust header compression ROHC restriction processing needs to be performed. The data communication method further includes: The first access network device receives at least one packet from the second access network device and performs the ROHC restriction processing on a second packet in the at least one packet. The method can avoid a decompression failure of a terminal.

Abstract: A communication method, apparatus, and system may include terminal device that receives first information from a core network device, where the first information is used to indicate whether the terminal device is to use a power-saving paging discontinuous reception cycle. The terminal device determines a paging discontinuous reception cycle of the terminal device based on the first information. Therefore, the terminal device avoids always selecting a shortest cycle as the paging discontinuous reception cycle, so that the paging discontinuous reception cycle determined by the terminal device is more appropriate, and power saving of the terminal device is facilitated.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communications apparatus. A source base station instructs a terminal to hand over from the source base station to a target base station, and sends, to the terminal, configuration information of a second connection required for communication between the terminal and the target base station. The terminal maintains a first connection for communication with the source base station, and establishes the second connection for communication with the target base station based on the configuration information of the second connection. The solutions in the embodiments of this application reduces latency in a handover process.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal, and a base station, so that communication is performed between a terminal and a cell during cell handover. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal from a first base station, a cell identity of a first cell, at least one beam parameter of the first cell, and a resource associated with the at least one beam parameter, where the first cell belongs to a second base station; further, determining a target beam parameter, and sending information on a resource corresponding to the target beam parameter; and receiving a response to the information by using a receive beam associated with the target beam parameter, so that communication can be performed between the terminal and a cell during cell handover.

Abstract: A method for a handover of a mobile station performed by a source base station and a target base station. The target base station receives a handover request message, from the source base station, in which includes QoS information of the mobile device, radio bearer identifier information of the source base station, and a first mapping relationship between a flow and a radio bearer of the source base station, the target base station acknowledges with a handover acknowledgement message. Therefore resource preparation at the target base station during a handover procedure is improved.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal, and an access network device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal in an RRC inactive state, first information to a first access network device, where the first information is used to indicate that the terminal is located in a wireless network area in which the terminal is in the RRC inactive state, and the first access network device is an access network device to which a cell in which the terminal is currently located belongs; receiving, by the terminal, a first message sent by the first access network device; and remaining, by the terminal, in the RRC inactive state based on the first message, or entering an idle state from the RRC inactive state based on the first message. According to the technical solutions of this application, performance of a communications system can be improved.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: A terminal device receives first information from a first network device or a second network device, and determines, based on the first information, that it is allowable that the terminal device sends MDT information to the first network device. When it is allowable that the terminal device sends the MDT information to the first network device, the terminal device sends the MDT information to the first network device. This prevents the terminal device from sending the MDT information to the first network device immediately after obtaining the MDT information and avoids disclosure of a network coverage status, thereby effectively and securely using the MDT information.

Abstract: The embodiments of this application provide a communication method and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to successfully report MCG link failure information. The method includes: When a terminal device sends a first data unit to a first access network device via an MCG split bearer, the terminal device determines that an MCG link failure occurs. In addition, the terminal device sends a second data unit to a second access network device via an SCG split bearer, so that the second access network device sends the second data unit to the first access network device, where the second data unit includes information used to indicate the MCG link failure.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to determine a DRX cycle. The method includes: receiving data in an active time of a current DRX cycle; when a DRX inactivity timer of the current DRX cycle expires, determining a type of a next DRX cycle depending on whether at least some data received in the active time is associated with a DRX short cycle, where if the at least some data is not associated with a DRX short cycle, the next DRX cycle is a DRX long cycle, or the type of the next DRX cycle is the same as that of a DRX cycle previous to the current DRX cycle. When the DRX inactivity timer expires, the type of the next DRX cycle can be more flexibly determined, and may not necessarily be a DRX short cycle. This can save power of a device to some extent.

Abstract: A method for sending system information comprises: a terminal receives a broadcast message from a network device, wherein the broadcast message comprises indication information for an system information (SI) and wherein that the indication information is for indicating that whether the SI is being broadcasted or not; and in case that the indication information indicates that the SI is not being broadcasted, the terminal sends a system information request to the network device for acquiring the SI.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatus. On one example method, a terminal device obtains measurement results of N cells, where the N cells include M non-public network cells, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and where M is an integer greater than or equal to 0. The terminal device determines, based on the measurement results of the N cells and measurement result offset values corresponding to H first cells in the N cells, a target cell on which the terminal device is to camp, where H is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and where H?N.

Abstract: A communication method, an access network device, and a terminal, the method comprising sending, by a first access network device, in a cell of the first access network device and corresponding to a radio network area of a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and in response to the terminal in the RRC inactive state needing to be paged, a first paging message paging the terminal and sending, by the first access network device to a second access network device, a paging request message requesting to page the terminal, where the second access network device is an access network device other than the first access network device, and where the second access network device corresponds to the radio network area.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a minimization of drive tests (MDT) configuration method, to improve accuracy of a cell measurement result. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by a base station, MDT configuration information sent by a core network or an operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) network management system, where the MDT configuration information includes first beam configuration information; and sending, by the base station, an MDT measurement configuration message to UE based on the MDT configuration information, where the MDT measurement configuration message includes second beam configuration information, and the second beam configuration information is the same as the first beam configuration information or the second beam configuration information is configuration information obtained after the first beam configuration information is processed.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus, the method including receiving configuration information of a serving cell, where the configuration information includes a set of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configurations, and the set of PDCCH configurations includes N control resource set-related parameters, where each of the N control resource set-related parameters corresponds to each of N transmission reception points (TRPs), and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and communicating with the serving cell based on the configuration information.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system. A first network device sends, to a terminal device, conditional handover configuration information that includes information about candidate cells and a handover trigger condition; after receiving the conditional handover configuration information and performing a conditional handover, the terminal device sends, to a second network device, a first failure cause value corresponding to a candidate target cell and/or a second failure cause value corresponding to a to-be-determined cell during the conditional handover; and the second network device receives the first failure cause value and/or the second failure cause value from the terminal device, and sends the first failure cause value and/or the second failure cause value to the first network device.

Abstract: A source base station receives a first data packet from a core network device; a target base station receives a second data packet from the core network device, where the second data packet is a duplicate of the first data packet, and the first data packet and the second data packet each include a first index; the source base station sends first indication information to the target base station, where the first indication information indicates a mapping relationship between the first index and a second index; the source base station sends a third data packet to a user equipment UE in response to the first data packet; the target base station sends a fourth data packet to the UE in response to the second data packet, where the third data packet and the fourth data packet each include the second index.