Abstract: A reference time determining method and apparatus are provided, to prevent aberrations in a control instruction execution time caused by inconsistency between a reference time of a terminal and a reference time of a control device in the conventional technology. In this application, the terminal may receive a plurality of pieces of time reference information sent by the network device. When the terminal receives indication information from the network device, the terminal may select, based on the indication information, one piece of time reference information from the plurality of pieces of time reference information as first time reference information. The indication information indicates the first time reference information. After determining the first time reference information, the terminal may determine the reference time of the terminal based on the first time reference information.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus, and a system, to reduce outdated information sent by a terminal to a network device, thereby reducing improper scheduling decisions made by the network device. The method includes: sending a first data packet to a network device, and storing the first data packet; receiving a first uplink grant from the network device, and skipping using the first uplink grant to perform uplink transmission; receiving a second uplink grant from the network device, where the second uplink grant is a grant for retransmission and generated due to a failure of transmission on the first uplink grant; and ignoring the second uplink grant, or transmitting a second data packet to the network device based on the second uplink grant.

Abstract: This application provides an Ethernet data-based communication method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device from a network device, a parameter used to indicate a first Ethernet compression capability; generating a first Ethernet packet based on the parameter of the first Ethernet compression capability; and sending the first Ethernet packet to the network device. Therefore, not only a manner in which the network device enables the terminal device to use an Ethernet compression capability is proposed, but also the terminal device and the network device can transmit compressed Ethernet data in a wireless network, thereby effectively saving resources.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus. A terminal device receives at least one video frame from a network device. The terminal device determines a video frame parameter based on the at least one video frame. The terminal device sends the video frame parameter to the network device.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a data packet in a first cycle from a second communication apparatus within a first receive window, where the first receive window is determined based on a first moment at which the data packet in the first cycle arrives at the second communication apparatus and validity duration, and the validity duration is a validity time of the data packet in the first cycle; and delivering the data packet in the first cycle to an application layer within the first receive window.

Abstract: Example data sending methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes sending a first message to a network device by a terminal device. The first message is used to indicate information about remaining time of each of one or more data packets. The remaining time of each of the one or more data packets is used to indicate that the terminal device needs to finish sending each of the one or more data packets before the end of the remaining time. The terminal device obtains information about a resource configured by the network device for the terminal device, wherein the resource is used to send each of the one or more data packets before the end of the remaining time.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communication technologies, and provide a timing method for dealing with a link exception and an apparatus. A specific solution is as follows: receiving a first synchronization packet from a first terminal device; receiving a second synchronization packet from a second terminal device or a server; and if the first synchronization packet and the second synchronization packet belong to a same TSN domain, determining a to-be-forwarded synchronization packet in the first synchronization packet and the second synchronization packet. In this way, if the to-be-forwarded packet is the first synchronization packet, the first synchronization packet is forwarded, and the second synchronization packet is filtered. Embodiments of this application are used to improve timing precision in a timing process of the TSN device for the 5GS.

Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus. A transmission priority of a data packet may be changed so that the data packet has an opportunity to continue to be transmitted. when the data packet just arrives at a PDCP layer of a communication apparatus, and the priority of the data packet is an initial priority. If the data packet is not sent or is not successfully sent after a decoding moment of a receiver is exceeded, compared with a manner of directly discarding the data packet, in this manner, the priority of the data packet may be changed, so that the data packet has the opportunity to continue to be transmitted. This helps improve a compression rate and a decoding effect, to improve user experience.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes a terminal device that receives first configuration information and second configuration information from a network device. The first configuration information is used to configure a primary RLC group, and the second configuration information is used to configure a secondary RLC group. The terminal device determines the primary RLC group and the secondary RLC group based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information. According to the foregoing solution, the network device may configure the primary RLC group and the secondary RLC group for the terminal device, and the primary RLC group and the secondary RLC group each may include at least one RLC entity.

Abstract: This application provides example communication methods, apparatuses, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a user plane network element, characteristic information of a service data flow, where the characteristic information describes a characteristic of the service data flow. The user plane network element identifies a data packet group in the service data flow based on the characteristic information of the service data flow. The user plane network element sends the data packet group to an access network device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal, and a network device. In the embodiments of this application, an operation on a wideband that includes a plurality of bandwidth parts can be supported.

Abstract: A communication method includes receiving, by a first communication apparatus, indication information from a second communication apparatus, and determining, by the first communication apparatus, a first quality of service (QoS) of the extended reality (XR) service based on the at least one piece of QoS of an XR service. The first communication apparatus is a core network device or an access network device. The indication information is useable to indicate at least one piece of QoS of the XR service. The XR device receives data of the XR service or sends data of the XR service by a terminal device. The second communication apparatus is an XR server or a chip in the XR server.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first data packet; and sending the first data packet and first indication information to an access network device, where the first indication information indicates that the first data packet is an uplink data packet or a downlink data packet, and the first indication information is used by the access network device to determine an access network AN packet delay budget PDB of a first quality of service QoS flow corresponding to the first data packet.

Abstract: A minimization of drive tests (MDT) method and apparatus includes: a network device sends MDT configuration information to a terminal, where the MDT configuration information includes an MDT measurement parameter of a shared spectrum; and the terminal performs MDT on the shared spectrum based on the MDT configuration information to obtain a measurement report, and sends the measurement report to the network device. The MDT may be performed on a shared spectrum to obtain a measurement report. The measurement report may better reflect an application status of the shared spectrum, to help optimize a network device that performs communication by using the shared spectrum.

Abstract: A communication method is provided. A first network element receives an association identifier of a first application from a session management network element, where the association identifier is for associating different quality of service QoS flows of the first application. The first network element performs joint scheduling on the plurality of QoS flows of the first application that each carry the association identifier. Based on this solution, the first network element can identify, based on the association identifier, QoS flows belonging to a same application, and perform joint scheduling, and it is ensured that the QoS flows of the same application can arrive at a terminal device simultaneously or a time interval between arrivals at the terminal device is small, so that service experience of a user can be improved.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A network device receives indication information. The indication information indicates that there is an association relationship between M QoS flows. The network device may further process the M QoS flows based on the indication information. In this manner, when processing the M QoS flows, the network device considers the association relationship between the M QoS flows, to help satisfy a synchronization requirement between different data flows.

Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a communications method. The method includes: generating, by an first base station, a radio resource control release message on which encryption and integrity protection are performed by using a new key; and sending, by the first base station, the radio resource control release message to a second base station, thereby improving security of communication between the serving device and the terminal and reducing signaling overheads for performing key negotiation over an air interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to random access methods and terminal devices. One example method includes determining a first random access time-frequency resource corresponding to a first network slice service, where the first network slice service is a network slice service that is to be initiated, determining a random access type corresponding to the first network slice service, determining a second random access time-frequency resource from the first random access time-frequency resource based on the random access type, where the second random access time-frequency resource is a random access time-frequency resource corresponding to the random access type, and initiating random access based on the second random access time-frequency resource.

Abstract: A terminal device generates a report result including at least one of a logged minimization of drive tests report, an RLF report, and an RACH report. The logged minimization of drive tests report includes an identifier of a candidate access cell, information indicating whether the candidate access cell supports a network slice service initiated by the terminal device, location information of the terminal device where the terminal device receives a system message of the candidate access cell, and a network slice identifier of the network slice service initiated by the terminal device. The RLF report includes an identifier of a cell in which a radio link failure occurs after the terminal device accesses the cell and the network slice identifier corresponding to the network slice service in which the radio link failure occurs on the terminal device. The RACH report includes an identifier of a cell accessed by the terminal device and the network slice identifier.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and an apparatus. When a time-frequency resource used by a terminal device for data transmission is unavailable, the terminal device postpones, based on indication information of a network device and/or according to a postponement rule, the data transmission to a time-frequency resource closest to the time-frequency resource. Therefore, a data transmission latency is reduced.