Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. A terminal device reports information about a cell in an SCG in which master cell group MCG connection recovery is attempted when the terminal device detects that a connection failure occurs in an MCG, to assist an access network device in configuring a mobility-related parameter. The communication method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a failure report, where the failure report includes information about a cell in a secondary cell group SCG in which master cell group MCG connection recovery is attempted when the terminal device detects that a connection failure occurs in an MCG; and sending, by the terminal device, the failure report to a first access network device.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies. The method may include: A network device performs integrity protection on system information by using a first private key, and sends the system information, where the system information includes a first public key corresponding to the first private key and/or an index of the first public key. Correspondingly, a terminal device receives the system information from the network device, and if determining that the first public key is valid, the terminal device verifies integrity of the system information by using the first public key. According to this method, on one hand, the terminal device can effectively identify validity of the system information. On the other hand, because the system information includes the first public key and/or the index of the first public key, flexible update of an asymmetric key can be implemented.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a corresponding apparatus and system. The method includes: receiving, in a first network, a paging message that is from a first network device and that is used to page a first terminal device, where the paging message includes first information, and a network type of the first network is a first network type; and determining, based on the first information, a second network associated with the paging message that is used to page the first terminal device, where a network type of the second network is a second network type. The first network type is a non-public network and the second network type is a public network, or the first network type is a public network and the second network type is a non-public network. Cross-network paging between networks of different network types can be supported.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a system for identifying a fake base station are disclosed. The method includes: A terminal device generates a cell monitoring report, where the cell monitoring report includes an identifier of a cell on which the terminal device camps and first time information, and the first time information is used to indicate a time point at which or a time period in which the terminal device does not receive a paging message in a time period of camping on the cell. The terminal device sends the cell monitoring report to a network device. The network device identifies a fake base station based on the cell monitoring report. In the embodiments of the present invention, a fake base station can be accurately identified.

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: Embodiments of this application disclose an access control method, a terminal, and an access network device. The method includes: receiving, by an access network device, indication information; determining, by the access network device, a terminal as a terminal in high-speed movement based on the indication information; performing, by the access network device, a timing operation; when a time of the timing operation exceeds a preset time threshold, calculating, by the access network device, a moving speed of the terminal; and when the moving speed of the terminal is less than a preset speed threshold, forbidding, by the access network device, the terminal to access a cell of the access network device, where the cell of the access network device is a dedicated cell of a terminal located in a high-speed moving vehicle.

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 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.

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: A communications method, including receiving, by a second access network device, a first message from a terminal device, the first message indicating occurrence of a connection failure between the terminal device and a first access network device, where the first access network device is a master access network device that exists before the terminal device sends the first message, and the second access network device is a secondary access network device of the terminal device, sending an identifier of the terminal device to the first access network device, receiving, by the second access network device, context information that is of the terminal device on the first access network device and that is from the first access network device, and indicating, by the second access network device, to the terminal device to update to use the second access network device as a new master access network device.

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: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for handover in a radio access network is provided, wherein the method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a handover pre-configuration message from a source node serving the UE in the radio access network, the handover pre-configuration message including handover information of a target node in the radio access network, receiving, by the UE, an activation command from the source node after receiving the handover pre-configuration message, and transmitting, by the UE, an access request message to the target node in accordance with the handover information in response to receiving the activation command.

Abstract: A communication method, apparatus, and system are disclosed, to provide a mechanism of mobility, of a terminal device that supports private networks, between the private networks. The method includes: a first access network device determines, based on a first list, a target cell that belongs to a target first network, where the first list includes an identity of at least one first network to which a terminal device subscribes. The first access network device sends a first message to a second access network device that serves the target cell, the first message carries a second list, the second list is used to enable the second access network device to determine the identity of the at least one first network to which the terminal device subscribes.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, conditional handover configuration information from a first network device, where the first network device is a network device to which a serving cell belongs, and the serving cell is a cell that currently accessed by the terminal belongs; and determining, by the terminal device, a first target cell based on the conditional handover configuration information.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device receives conditional handover configuration information from a first network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a trigger condition of a conditional handover, and the first network device is a network device to which a serving cell currently accessed by the terminal device belongs. The terminal device determines a first target cell based on the conditional handover configuration information, where the first target cell is a cell in at least one candidate target cell that satisfies the trigger condition.

Abstract: This application provides a communications method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving an uplink data transmission threshold from a first network device, where the uplink data transmission threshold includes both a first transmission threshold and a second transmission threshold or includes a second transmission threshold. The first transmission threshold is used to indicate a maximum size of a data packet supported by the terminal device in a non-connected state on a first uplink carrier, and the second transmission threshold is used to indicate a maximum size of a data packet supported by the terminal device in the non-connected state on a supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier. The method further comprises determining, based on the uplink data transmission threshold and a size of a to-be-transmitted uplink data packet, to transmit, in the non-connected state, the uplink data packet on the first uplink carrier or the SUL carrier.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to improve communication efficiency. The method includes: determining downlink signal quality; determining a downlink coverage enhancement CE level of a terminal device based on the downlink signal quality and a first CE level quality threshold; and determining an uplink CE level of the terminal device based on the downlink signal quality and a second CE level quality threshold, where the first CE level quality threshold is different from the second CE level quality threshold.

Abstract: This application provides a communications method and a communications apparatus, to reduce storage resources required by an access network device to store a context of a terminal device. The method includes: The access network device gathers terminal devices that have a same attribute in a group, where a context of each terminal device is divided into two parts: a common context and a dedicated context, the common context is shared by all the terminal devices in the group, and the dedicated context is a context specific to the terminal device. The access network device stores one common context for each group and stores a dedicated context of each terminal device in the group, to maintain the context of each terminal device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first access network device, a first message from a second access network device, where the first message requests context information of a terminal device; and sending, by the first access network device, a data packet to the second access network device. The first access network device is a corresponding access network device of the terminal device before the re-establishment procedure, and the second access network device is a corresponding access network device when the terminal device initiates the re-establishment procedure.

Abstract: The present application provides a data transmission method in a wireless communication system. A first security parameter indication is introduced into uplink data on a first bearer, and a base station can determine, based on the first security parameter indication in the uplink data, whether first security processing of the uplink data is performed using a first security parameter or a second security parameter, so as to select a corresponding security parameter to perform second security processing; and a second security parameter indication is introduced into downlink data, and UE can determine, based on the second security parameter indication in the downlink data, whether the first security processing of the data is performed using the first security parameter or the second security parameter, so as to select a corresponding security parameter to perform the second security processing.