Abstract: An Ethernet header compression method and apparatus and an Ethernet header decompression method and apparatus. After receiving an Ethernet frame including a first to-be-compressed field, a compression end compresses an Ethernet header of the Ethernet frame based on a first correspondence including first compression information and a value of the first to-be-compressed field and the first compression information. Correspondingly, a decompression end decompresses an Ethernet header of a compressed Ethernet frame based on the first correspondence when receiving the compressed Ethernet frame. In the embodiments of this application, because the Ethernet header of the Ethernet frame is compressed, communication resources is 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: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a first compression dictionary by a compression node. The compression node compresses a first data packet by using a first compression dictionary, and sends a first compressed data packet to the decompression node. The compression node compresses a second data packet by using the first compression dictionary, and sends a second compressed data packet to the decompression node.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. A terminal: receives a first uplink grant from a network device; sends first uplink data in to-be-sent data to the network device by using the first uplink grant; receives a second uplink grant from the network device; and sends second uplink data to the network device by using the second uplink grant, where the second uplink data is at least a part of uplink data in the to-be-sent data except the first uplink data, where the terminal is in a first state, and where the first state includes an idle state or an inactive state. The embodiments of this application help reduce a latency in a data transmission process.

Abstract: This application provides a random access method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a response message from a network device; determining, by the terminal device, a message format of the response message, where the message format includes a first format or a second format; and parsing, by the terminal device, the response message based on the determined message format, where the response message in the first format includes a contention resolution identity and a control plane message; and the response message in the second format includes a contention resolution identity and includes no control plane message. A two-step random access method provided in this application includes two message formats of a random access response.

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: The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, network devices, and terminal devices. One example data transmission method includes receiving, by a first network node, a first report from a terminal device, where the first report is used to indicate an uplink data volume of a buffer of the terminal device, and sending, by the first network node, first indication information to a second network node, where the first indication information includes information about the uplink data volume of the buffer of the terminal device, or the first indication information is used to indicate a relationship between the uplink data volume of the buffer of the terminal device and a predefined data volume threshold.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for timing advance (TA) synchronization for uplink (UL) data transmissions are provided. A base station transmits a TA instruction to a UE. The TA instruction indicates one of at least two TA options. The first TA option indicates direct initial grant-free (GF) uplink (UL) data transmissions. The second TA option indicates indirect initial GF UL data transmissions with the UE initiating TA reference signaling for updating a TA parameter of the UE. The UE performs an initial GF UL data transmission to the base station based on the TA instruction.

Abstract: This application provides a random access method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, to a network device, a random access signal and first information used for contention resolution; monitoring a first response and a second response, where the first response is a response to the random access signal and includes an uplink grant, and the second response is a response to the first information used for contention resolution; and when detecting the first response, and detecting the second response before a time domain position of the uplink grant, determining that random access succeeds; or when detecting the first response, sending second information used for contention resolution by using the uplink grant, and when detecting the second response or a third response, determining that random access succeeds, where the third response is a response to the second information used for contention resolution.

Abstract: This application provides a random access method and a communications apparatus, so that a terminal device can determine a type of random access to be performed. The method includes: determining at least one random access preamble from at least one 2-step random access preamble, or determining one type of random access preamble from at least one 2-step random access preamble and at least one 4-step random access preamble, and performing random access by using the determined random access preamble.

Abstract: A method includes: triggering, by a terminal device, a scheduling request (SR); in response to determining that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying the SR and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carrying a first data packet overlap in time domain of a first uplink resource and a processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource is processing completed, sending, based on the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, the PUCCH on an overlapping time domain resource. According to the method, when the PUCCH carrying the SR and the PUSCH overlap in time domain of the first uplink resource, the terminal device considers the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, and may determine, based on the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, to send the PUCCH or the PUSCH on the overlapping time domain resource.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method. The method includes: A terminal device receives indication information from a network device, where the indication information includes a bit sequence, a value of an ith bit in the bit sequence indicate a usage status of an ith logical channel in M logical channels associated with a radio bearer, and a duplication transmission function is configured for the radio bearer; the terminal device transmits data based on the indication information through at least one logical channel associated with the radio bearer; and because the M logical channels are sorted based on IDs of cell groups associated with the M logical channels and IDs of the M logical channels, the ith bit in the bit sequence included in the indication information indicates the usage status of the ith logical channel in the M logical channels.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus is provided, to properly schedule retransmission of an uplink resource in a scenario in which uplink resources overlap in time domain. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, that a priority of a first uplink resource is higher than a priority of a second uplink resource in the first uplink resource and the second uplink resource that have an overlapping part in time domain; and when determining to send a signal by using the first uplink resource on the overlapping part, indicating, by the terminal to a network device, whether a MAC PDU is formed for the second uplink resource or whether data is stored in a corresponding buffer for the second uplink resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. The communication method includes: when a radio bearer RB needs to be established between a network device and a terminal device, the network device includes a first node and a second node, and functional entities corresponding to the RB include one PDCP entity and more than two RLC entities corresponding to the PDCP entity. The method includes: determining, by the first node, configuration information, where the configuration information is used to instruct the second node to establish N tunnels, the tunnel is used to transmit PDCP data or RLC data between the first node and the second node, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and transmitting, by the first node, the configuration information to the second node.

Abstract: An entity establishment processing method and an apparatus are provided. The processing method includes: A terminal side device receives first indication information from a first network side device, where the first indication information is used to trigger reestablishment of a first PDCP entity of the terminal side device. When a first bearer corresponding to the first PDCP entity is not a radio bearer used to perform duplication transmission between the terminal side device and a core network side device, in a process in which the terminal side device reestablishes the first PDCP entity based on the first indication information, the terminal side device sets a parameter of the first PDCP entity to an initial value.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a random access method including: A terminal side device obtains first uplink data from a first message buffer, where the first message buffer is a buffer specific to a first random access procedure, the first random access procedure is a procedure in which the terminal side device sends a first random access request, sends first uplink data on a first uplink resource, and receives response information, and the response information is a first random access response to the first random access request or a response to the first uplink data. The terminal side device sends the first random access request to a network side device, and sends the first uplink data to the network side device on the first uplink resource. The terminal side device detects downlink control information, where the downlink control information indicates a resource of the response information.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example random access methods and apparatuses. One example method includes a terminal receiving a random access configuration from a network device. Indication information from the network device is received by the terminal, where the indication information determines a target random access configuration in the random access configuration. Random access to the network device is initiated by the terminal based on the indication information by using the target random access configuration.

Abstract: This application provides a transmission method for retrieving old context of a terminal device, the method includes: a first network node sends a first message to a first system, where the first message is received from a terminal device and includes CRNTI allocated previously by the first network node for the terminal device; the first system sends a second message to the first network node, the second message comprises identification information of the terminal device which is in association with old context information of the terminal device that is stored at the first network node, and is used by the first network node to retrieve the old context information of the terminal device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to time synchronization methods and apparatus. In one example method, a terminal receives a system information block (SIB) sent by a distributed unit (DU), where the SIB is generated by the DU, the SIB includes time information, and the time information indicates a moment corresponding to a boundary of a system frame number (SFN) at which an end boundary of a system information (SI) window for sending the SIB is located, or indicates a moment corresponding to a boundary of an SFN immediately after an end boundary of an SI window for sending the SIB. The UE processes the time information to obtain a time reference.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, a terminal, a network device, and a storage medium. After the terminal receives, from the network device, indication information used to indicate the terminal to report traffic pattern information of a first logical channel, a first PDU session, a first application, a first radio bearer, or a first QoS flow, the terminal reports the traffic pattern information of the first logical channel, the first PDU session, the first application, the first radio bearer, or the first QoS flow based on the indication information. In this manner, the terminal reports, based on the indication, the traffic pattern information of only the logical channel, the PDU session, the service, the radio bearer, or the QoS flow that is indicated by the network device.