Abstract: This application provides example communication methods and example communications apparatuses, to implement bearer mapping for user data transmission. One example method is applied to a wireless backhaul system having a first network and a second network of different RATs. The example method includes obtaining, by a first management network element in the wireless backhaul system, information about a first radio bearer of a terminal in the first network, where the information about the first radio bearer is used to indicate the first radio bearer. The first management network element can then determine a mapping relationship between the first radio bearer and a second radio bearer based on the information about the first radio bearer, where the second radio bearer is a radio bearer of the first device in the second network.

Abstract: This application discloses communications methods, apparatuses, and systems. In one implementation, a method includes: performing a function of a control-plane protocol layer, wherein the control-plane protocol layer comprises a first protocol layer of the network node corresponding to a first protocol layer of a relay node, the first protocol layer is on an interface between the network node and the relay node, and the network node is a donor base station or a centralized unit of a donor base station; and sending, from the first protocol layer of the network node, a first message to the first protocol layer of the relay node, wherein the first protocol layer of the network node and the first protocol layer of the relay node are F1 application protocol layers, and the first message is a F1AP message that comprises one or more of context management information of a terminal device served by the relay node or a radio resource control message of the terminal device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an access control method, a communications device, and a base station, so that a UE determines, based on a UAC parameter determined based on a CE-level, whether access of the UE is barred, so that a probability that a UE with a large resource consumption amount accesses a communications network system can be controlled. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: determining, by user equipment UE based on a first coverage enhancement level CE-level, a first unified access control UAC parameter corresponding to the first CE-level; and determining, by the UE based on the first UAC parameter, whether access of the UE is barred.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus communicating to a network architecture are provided. The network architecture includes a control unit and one or more service units. The control unit is connected to the one or more service units. The method implemented by a terminal device includes: receiving a first message from the control unit, wherein the first message includes common control information of the one or more service units; and establishing a data transmission channel with a first service unit in the one or more service units based on the first message, wherein the data transmission channel is used to transmit data between the terminal device and the first service unit. According to this application, complete decoupling of a control plane and a user plane may be implemented, thus the control plane and the user plane can be transmitted on different carriers, thereby improving flexibility of communicating in different scenarios.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving, by a first entity, a first message sent by a second entity, where the first message carries configuration information of a sub-task, and the first entity and the second entity are entities in a radio access network; sending the configuration information of the sub-task to a terminal device; receiving a task execution result fed back by the terminal device; and sending the task execution result to the second entity. Because the sub-task is executed by the terminal device, a problem of a single communication link in a related technology can be avoided, to implement technical effects of communication flexibility and diversity. In addition, different sub-tasks are executed by different terminal devices, so that efficiency of completing a target task can be improved, and resources are appropriately used.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: A relay terminal receives first identifier information from a remote terminal, where when the remote terminal is in an idle state, the first identifier information includes an S-TMSI of the remote terminal, and when the remote terminal is in an inactive state, the first identifier information includes an I-RNTI of the remote terminal. When the relay terminal obtains, through monitoring, a first paging message including the first identifier information, sending, by the relay terminal, the first paging message to the remote terminal or sending first indication information to the remote terminal, where the first indication information indicates that the remote terminal is paged.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communications apparatus, to resolve a problem that a terminal cannot quickly resume a communication connection to a secondary node. The method includes: receiving, by a first master node, a first message from a terminal, where the first message is used to request state transition of the terminal from a third mode to a connected mode; determining, by the first master node, a secondary node that serves the terminal; obtaining, by the first master node, a first security parameter, where the first security parameter is used to derive a security key used for communication between the terminal and the secondary node that serves the terminal; obtaining, by the first master node, SCG configuration information; and sending, by the first master node, a second message to the terminal, where the second message includes the first security parameter and the SCG configuration information.

Abstract: A radio access network device receives first remapping information from a core network device, where the first remapping information includes an identifier of a first network slice and an identifier of at least one second network slice, and the first remapping information indicates that PDU sessions, in the first network slice, of a plurality of terminal devices connected to the radio access network device are to be remapped to one of the at least one second network slice; and the radio access network device sends first indication information to the core network device, where the first indication information includes the identifier of the second network slice, and the first indication information indicates the core network device to remap the PDU sessions, in the first network slice, of the terminal devices to the second network slice.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a node handover method and an apparatus. A source secondary node receives first handover information and determines to perform an uninterrupted node handover. The source secondary node performs, in a process of the uninterrupted node handover, first processing on first data received by the source secondary node, to obtain second data, and sends the second data to a terminal device. The source secondary node performs second processing on the first data to obtain third data in the process of the uninterrupted node handover, and sends fourth data to the terminal device via a target secondary node. According to some embodiments provided in this application, a communication delay of the terminal device can be reduced, and user experience of the terminal device can be improved.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. The method includes: a network device firstly sends the configuration information to the user equipment, and then the user equipment obtains a first condition based on the configuration information. Then, in a measurement process, the user equipment sends a measurement report to the network device when determining that the first condition is currently met. After obtaining the measurement report, the network device indicates at least one candidate relay device to the user equipment by using a path switch command. The user equipment determines one relay device in the at least one candidate relay device, and communicates with the network device or another network device through the determined relay device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a related apparatus, so that remote UE can communicate with a network via relay UE that resumes or establishes a radio resource control RRC connection, to ensure communication quality of the remote UE. The method includes: A first access network device receives a first message sent by first UE, where the first message includes a first identifier of second UE, and the first identifier is an identifier of the second UE in an RRC inactive state or an RRC idle state. The first access network device pages the second UE based on the first message. The first access network device sends a second message to the first UE, where the second message indicates the first UE to perform path switching, the second message includes a second identifier of the second UE.

Abstract: A relay device first receives a data packet from a network device through a first link, and sends the data packet to user equipment through a second link. A protocol stack of the relay device consists of a physical layer, a media access control layer, and a segmentation function or a resegmentation function of a radio link control layer; a protocol stack of the relay device consists of a physical layer, a media access control layer, a segmentation function or a resegmentation function of a radio link control layer, and an adaptation layer; or a protocol stack of the relay device consists of a physical layer and a hybrid automatic repeat request function of a media access control layer. The first link is a wireless communication link between the network device and the relay device, and the second link is a wireless direct communication link between the relay device and the user equipment.

Abstract: This application provides a data processing method and device, to implement bearer mapping of control plane signaling of user equipment on each interface. An IAB system includes a centralized unit CU, a distributed unit DU, a first IAB node, and a second IAB node. The method includes: generating, by the CU, a downlink F1AP message, where a message included in the downlink F1AP message is one or a combination of the following: an F1AP message of a terminal device, an F1AP message of the first IAB node, and an RRC message of the second IAB node; and sending, by the CU, the downlink F1AP message to the DU, and indicating that a message type of the message included in the downlink F1AP message is one of the following: an RRC message type, an F1AP message type, or an RRC message type and an F1AP message type.

Abstract: A method includes: a first terminal device receives first information from a network device, where the first information includes an indication information of a first unicast connection and a reference signal configuration corresponding to the first unicast connection, the reference signal configuration is used by the first terminal device to send a reference signal to a second terminal device; and the first terminal device sends the reference signal to the second terminal device on a sidelink based on the reference signal configuration.

Abstract: This application provides failure processing methods, handover methods, terminal devices, and network devices. One method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration of a secondary network device, if the RRC configuration of the secondary network device is from the secondary network device and the RRC configuration fails, sending, to a primary network device, first indication information for indicating a configuration failure of the RRC configuration.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method. In the method, a first access network device and a second access network device establish a data radio bearer (DRB)-based tunnel and a session-based tunnel. The second access network device sends a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer data packet to the first access network device via the DRB-based tunnel; and the second access network device sends a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) layer data packet to the first access network device via the session-based tunnel.

Abstract: A handover method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: After sending a handover command to a terminal device, a source network device sends, to a target network device, at least one data packet that is not successfully received by the terminal device, so that after the terminal device accesses the target network device, the target network device sends, to the terminal device, the at least one data packet received from the source network device. Because the data packet forwarded by the source network device to the target network device includes a data packet on which the source network device has performed PDCP processing and for which no acknowledgment response from the terminal device is preceived, a data loss of the terminal device in an inter-system handover process can be effectively avoided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and communication apparatus for providing a network slice. In one example method where an access network device accessed by a terminal device does not support a network slice requested by the terminal device, the terminal device sends a network slice identifier, corresponding to a protocol data unit (PDU) session, to the access network device by including the network slice identifier in an radio resource control (RRC) message. The access network device may learn of the network slice identifier, and when the access network device does not support the network slice, search, in an access network device corresponding to a neighboring cell, for a target second access network device that supports the network slice.

Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided to send, to a terminal device by using an RRC message, information about at least one first network slice corresponding to a first identifier. The method includes: a first access network device broadcasts a first identifier, where the first identifier identifies information about a first access network slice; and the first access network device sends a radio resource control RRC message to a terminal device, where the RRC message includes information about at least one first network slice corresponding to the first identifier.

Abstract: A communication method, a device, and a system, the method including sending, by a terminal device that supports a first user identity and a second user identity, first information to a first access network device using the first user identity, the first access network device being an access network device to which a first cell belongs, where the first cell is a primary cell in which the terminal device communicates with the first access network device by using the first user identity, where the second cell is a cell on which the terminal device camps using the second user identity, and the first indication information indicates that the first user identity and the second user identity that are supported by the terminal device share capabilities of the terminal device, and receiving first configuration information from the first access network device using the first user identity.