Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose communications methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a method comprising receiving, by a first communications device, information about a radio bearer (RB) of a heterogeneous communications system, wherein a duplication operation for the RB is configured by a second communications device, and the first communications device and the second communications are comprised in a master node or a secondary node; generating, by the first communications device, an activation indication indicating whether to activate or deactivate the duplication operation of the RB, wherein whether to activate or deactivate the duplication operation is determined by the first communications device; and sending the activation indication to a terminal device.

Abstract: A context management method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: When a distributed unit DU of a network side device receives a first message from a centralized unit CU of the network side device, the distributed unit DU of the network side device may store a context of the terminal side device in an inactive state. The first message includes a second message, and the second message is used to indicate the terminal side device to enter the inactive (inactive) state and release a connection to the network side device.

Abstract: This application discloses an information indication method and a related terminal device and network device. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, time domain requirement information of data transmission. The time domain requirement information includes at least one of time adjustment information, jitter time information, time domain resource information, latest sending time information, and remaining duration of the data transmission. The method further comprises sending, by the terminal device, the time domain requirement information to a network device.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes: receiving an uplink grant message from a network device, where the uplink grant message includes first information, and the first information corresponds to a plurality of transport block sizes; determining the plurality of transport block sizes based on the first information; determining, based on a size of to-be-sent data, a first transport block size from the plurality of transport block sizes; and sending the to-be-sent data to the network device based on the first transport block size.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an RRC connection management method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: sending, by UE when in an RRC idle mode, an uplink data request to an access network node by using a shared data sending resource, where the uplink data request includes uplink data and request information that is used for requesting to enter an RRC connected mode; and receiving, by the UE, an access network dedicated identifier of the UE from the access network node, where the access network dedicated identifier of the UE is determined by the access network node according to the request information, and the UE is in the RRC connected mode within a validity period of the access network dedicated identifier of the UE.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data sent by a terminal in an inactive state, where the data includes to-be-sent data sent by the terminal and identification information of the terminal; determining an anchor base station of the terminal based on the identification information; and sending the data to the anchor base station, so that the anchor base station sends the data to a core-network device. The uplink data of the terminal is forwarded to the anchor base station by using a serving base station and through an interaction between the anchor base station and the serving base station that currently provides an air interface resource for the terminal, and is then transmitted to a core network.

Abstract: A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first access network device sends a first message to a core network device, where the first message is used to indicate to suspend one or both of a first PDU session and a second PDU session. The first PDU session and the second PDU session are PDU sessions that are established as requested by a same terminal, and are used to transmit a duplicated data packet. According to the method, when a condition for implementing reliable transmission is not met, the core network device can be indicated to suspend the PDU session. In this way, a PDU session does not need to be re-established, and signaling overheads for establishing the PDU session are saved.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication processing method. A data volume report reported by a terminal device includes a data volume on one of at least two paths in a radio bearer in a duplication mode, so that signaling overheads in a data volume reporting process of the terminal device can be reduced.

Abstract: This application relates to the communications field, and discloses an event processing method and an apparatus, to prevent a network device from misunderstanding occurrence of a first event or a second event. The event processing method includes: determining first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate random access RA triggered by a first event or a second event, the first event refers to that a quantity of transmissions of a scheduling request SR reaches a maximum quantity of transmissions of the SR, and the second event refers to that for an SR that has been triggered and that is in a pending state, there is no available physical uplink control channel PUCCH resource; and sending the first indication information.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus are provided, to resolve a problem of low data transmission efficiency. The method includes: in response to receiving a paging message from a terminal device, a terminal device determines, based on a preconfiguration and/or the paging message, a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource used to transmit a paging response, and sends the paging response to the access network device on the first PUSCH resource, where the paging response carries identity authentication information of the terminal device. After the access network device or a core network successfully performs identity authentication on the terminal device, downlink data transmission can be performed. Compared with a manner in which downlink data transmission can be performed only after a radio resource control (RRC) connection is set up or resumed, this manner can improve data transmission efficiency.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: determining, by a first network device, at least one candidate target cell and first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to trigger a terminal to determine one of the at least one candidate target cell as a to-be-handed-over-to cell; and sending, by the first network device, a first message to the terminal, where the first message includes first cell indication information and the first configuration information, and the first cell indication information is used to indicate the at least one candidate target cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, network devices. One example data transmission method includes: a first network node sends a first indication information to a second network node, the first indication information includes information about an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device, or the first indication information indicates a relationship between an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device and a predefined data volume threshold.

Abstract: A qubit device may include a closed loop comprising one or more polycrystalline spin-triplet superconductors. The closed loop may maintain a half-quantum magnetic flux in a ground state. A qubit device may include a closed loop comprising one or more single crystalline spin-triplet superconductors connected by one or more s-wave superconductors. The closed loop may maintain a half-quantum magnetic flux in a ground state.

Abstract: A signal transmission method includes receiving configuration information from a network device. The configuration information is used to indicate a serving cell that is allowed or forbidden to be used by a terminal for a first service or first control information. The method also includes adjusting the serving cell that is allowed or forbidden to be used by the terminal for the first service or the first control information. The method further includes transmitting the first service or the first control information by using an adjusted serving cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a configuration method and apparatus. When indicating, by using an RRC connection release message, a terminal to enter an inactive state from a connected state, a network device may include, in the RRC connection release message, a configuration parameter allocated to the terminal in the inactive state. That is, the terminal receives the radio resource control RRC connection release message sent by the network device, where the RRC connection release message includes first information used to indicate a target configuration parameter. In this way, the terminal may enter the inactive state based on the RRC connection release message, and determine a context parameter of the inactive state based on the first information, so that the configuration parameter is properly allocated to the terminal in the inactive state.

Abstract: This application provides a method for processing timing advance TA of a terminal, and an apparatus. A terminal obtains a correspondence between first TA and a beam, determines, based on the correspondence, the beam corresponding to the first TA, and further determines, based on the beam corresponding to the first TA, whether the first TA is invalid. In other words, in embodiments of this application, the terminal may determine, by using a finer granularity, whether the first TA is invalid, and this helps trigger selection of more appropriate TA. Therefore, compared with a conventional solution, embodiments of this application can further reduce interference between uplink transmission.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a multicast transmission control method. A terminal side device gives a feedback to an access network side device for a received multicast service, the feedback indicating that the terminal side device successfully receives the multicast service or fails to receive the multicast service, so that the access network side device can learn a status of the sent multicast service. This facilitates optimization of transmission of the multicast service.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an RRC connection management method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: sending, by UE when in an RRC idle mode, an uplink data request to an access network node by using a shared data sending resource, where the uplink data request includes uplink data and request information that is used for requesting to enter an RRC connected mode; and receiving, by the UE, an access network dedicated identifier of the UE from the access network node, where the access network dedicated identifier of the UE is determined by the access network node according to the request information, and the UE is in the RRC connected mode within a validity period of the access network dedicated identifier of the UE.

Abstract: A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first access network device sends a first message to a core network device, where the first message is used to indicate to suspend one or both of a first PDU session and a second PDU session. The first PDU session and the second PDU session are PDU sessions that are established as requested by a same terminal, and are used to transmit a duplicated data packet. According to the method, when a condition for implementing reliable transmission is not met, the core network device can be indicated to suspend the PDU session. In this way, a PDU session does not need to be re-established, and signaling overheads for establishing the PDU session are saved.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies, to resolve problems of a long data transmission delay and high signaling overheads. A first access network device receives uplink user plane data from a user equipment in an inactive state, and sends an uplink control plane information element and the uplink user plane data to a second access network device through a same interface. The method is applied to a data transmission process.