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: The present disclosure relates to network slice configuration methods and apparatus. One example method includes determining, by a first network device, network slice configuration information, and sending, by the first network device, the network slice configuration information to a second network device, where the network slice configuration information instructs the second network device to perform network slice configuration based on the network slice configuration information.

Abstract: This application provides a method and a corresponding apparatus. One example method includes: A transmitting side receives an RLC status report from a receiving side, where the RLC status report includes at least one piece of status information, each of the at least one piece of status information indicates one or more receiving statuses of one or more consecutive RLC service data units (SDUs) that are not successfully received, and the at least one piece of status information is sequentially sorted in ascending order of RLC SDU sequence numbers (SNs) in the RLC status report; and if the last piece of status information in the RLC status report indicates that a part of data of a first RLC SDU is lost, the transmitting side determines, based on the RLC status report, whether a receiving status of the first RLC SDU is completely reflected in the RLC status report.

Abstract: A cell reselection method includes generating, by a radio access network device, cell reselection information, wherein the cell reselection information includes an identifier of at least one carrier frequency and an identifier of a network slice supported by each of the at least one carrier frequency. The cell reselection method further includes sending, by the radio access network device, the cell reselection information to a terminal device, wherein the cell reselection information is useable by the terminal device for cell reselection.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and an apparatus. When more than two radio link control RLC entities are configured for one radio bearer RB, a secondary network device receives indication information from a master network device. The secondary network device may determine, based on the indication information, a master RLC entity associated with the radio bearer, to indicate, to a terminal device, RLC entities that need to be activated and deactivated.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a HARQ process-based data transmission method and a terminal, and relate to communication technologies, to determine an initial status of a HARQ process and further perform uplink transmission by using a HARQ process that is in a not pending status. A specific solution includes: A terminal sets one or more HARQ processes that are associated with a first configured grant CG configuration on a first bandwidth part BWP to be in a not pending status, where the first CG configuration includes one or more CG configurations configured by a network device for the terminal on the first BWP, and the first BWP is a currently activated BWP of the terminal; and the terminal sends uplink data to the network device by using the HARQ process that is associated with the first CG configuration and that is in the not pending status.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a configuration message from a network device, where the configuration message is used to configure a plurality of uplink BWPs and a plurality of downlink BWPs; determining, by the terminal device, a first BWP in the plurality of uplink BWPs, where the first BWP is used to transmit feedback information of downlink information that is on a second BWP, and the second BWP is any one of the plurality of downlink BWPs; receiving, by the terminal device, the downlink information on the second BWP; and sending, by the terminal device, the feedback information of the downlink information by using the first BWP, so that a BWP on which the feedback information is sent can be determined in a scenario in which a plurality of BWPs are activated.

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.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to radio resource control (RRC) reestablishment methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a terminal device selects a target cell, where the target cell supports an expected network slice. The terminal device sends an RRC reestablishment request message by using the target cell. The expected network slice may include a network slice that the terminal device expects to access, or a network slice corresponding to a PDU session established by the terminal device by using a last serving access network device of the terminal device. The terminal device may select the target cell within a preset time period. For example, the terminal device starts a first timer when the terminal device starts selecting the target cell, and selects the target cell during running of the first timer. The first timer may be specific to one or more network slices or all network slices.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a resource allocation method and an apparatus. In those embodiments, a terminal device obtains a first parameter indicating a maximum service data volume to be provided by an access network device for a first service in a first time length; and determines, based on the maximum service data volume, a resource of a media access control protocol data unit MAC PDU, the resource being occupied by buffered data of the first service. In those embodiments, the terminal device determines, based on the maximum service data volume of the first service, the resource of the MAC PDU. Compared with a conventional method, the maximum service data volume of the first service is considered. This helps improve reasonableness of allocating the resource of the MAC PDU to the data of the first service.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus includes a terminal device that receives a first SSB, determines a PUSCH occasion corresponding to the first SSB, and sends uplink information by using the PUSCH occasion corresponding to the first SSB; and further, the terminal device receives, based on a spatial reception parameter of the first SSB, downlink information sent by a network device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a random access processing method. A random access preamble and uplink data are sent in an initiation phase of a random access procedure, and the random access procedure is ended in time after feedback information for the uplink data is received. According to technical solutions provided in the embodiments of this application, a terminal side device may send the uplink data when sending the random access preamble in the random access procedure. In addition, the random access procedure can be ended in advance after the feedback information for the uplink data is received.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus includes a network device sends first information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device can determine a HARQ feedback manner based on the first information, where the HARQ feedback manner includes skipping ACK feedback and/or NACK feedback. In this manner, the network device controls the HARQ feedback manner used by the terminal device, so that the terminal device can be flexibly controlled to use different HARQ feedback manners in different scenarios, to adapt to a service constraint, effectively reduce power consumption of the terminal device, and save air interface resources.

Abstract: A communication method includes determining, by a terminal side device, that a consistent uplink listen before talk (LBT) failure occurs in a first bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell. The communication method also includes canceling, by the terminal side device, a consistent uplink LBT failure status of the cell in response to a determination by the terminal side device to switch to a second BWP of the cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, and relate to the communication field. The method includes: A first network device receives a first report from a terminal device, where the first report includes first information, and the first information indicates that the terminal device passively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access, or actively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access. The first network device performs processing based on the first report.

Abstract: An access network device sends first information and second information to a terminal, where the first information includes a value set of a communication time interval, and the second information indicates a value of the communication time interval in the value set, and the value is used to determine timing duration of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer. The communication time interval includes at least one of a time interval from the terminal receiving downlink scheduling grant information to the terminal receiving downlink data scheduled by using the downlink scheduling grant information, a time interval from the terminal receiving downlink data to the terminal sending HARQ feedback information of the downlink data, and a time interval from the terminal receiving uplink scheduling grant information to the terminal sending uplink data scheduled by using the uplink scheduling grant information.

Abstract: This application provides a time synchronization method, an access network device, a communication apparatus, a computer storage medium, and a communication system. The method includes: A first access network device obtains first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a first terminal has a requirement for receiving or sending an uplink time synchronization message, and/or the indication information is used to indicate a precision requirement for time synchronization between the first terminal and a wireless network. The first access network device performs time synchronization on the first terminal based on the first indication information. This can avoid a case in which a requirement on a synchronization error of a time sensitive network TSN in an uplink time synchronization scenario cannot be met due to an excessively large air interface synchronization error, so that synchronization between TSN devices is improved, and TSN performance is improved.

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: 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.