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.

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: 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: The disclosure provides communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a second communication apparatus establishes at least one tunnel for a first radio bearer, where the at least one tunnel includes a first tunnel. The second communication apparatus sends a first message to a first communication apparatus, where the first message is carried in the first tunnel, the first message includes radio quality information of each of M logical channels, and the M logical channels are associated with the first radio bearer, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for configuring minimization of drive-tests MDT. The method for configuring MDT includes: A terminal device receives first MDT measurement configuration information and first indication information from a first network device. The terminal device learns, based on the first indication information, whether a type of first MDT configured by the first network device for the terminal device is signaling based MDT or management based MDT. Further, after establishing a connection to a second network device, the terminal device sends second indication information to the second network device, and reports the type of the first MDT that has been configured for the terminal device. The management based MDT overwrites signaling based MDT previously configured by the first network device for the terminal device can be avoided, thereby increasing a possibility that the management based MDT does not overwrite the configured signaling based MDT.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus are provided in embodiments of this application. When a cell served by a DU of an access network device and a neighboring cell use different timing, the DU may obtain timing configurations of a first cell and a second cell, or a RACH configuration that is of a second cell and that is based on timing of a first cell. When the method is applied to a RACH optimization scenario, the DU may determine, at same timing, RACH configurations of the two cells based on the foregoing obtained information, to accurately identify whether a RACH configuration conflict occurs between the cell and the neighboring cell, optimize the RACH configuration of the cell when the conflict occurs, and ensure a success rate and an access latency of random access performed by a terminal device.

Abstract: A handover method and a communication apparatus. A terminal device receives a first message, where the first message includes information about N candidate cells, the N candidate cells include N1 candidate cells and N2 candidate cells, the N1 candidate cells include a cell for which no conditional handover CHO execution condition information is configured, the N2 candidate cells include a cell for which the CHO execution condition information is configured, N and N2 are integers greater than 1 or equal to 1, and N1 is an integer greater than 0 or equal to 0. In a process of attempting to hand over from the source cell to the target cell, the terminal device maintains an RRC connection and/or data transmission with the source cell. Therefore, handover reliability is improved, a handover latency is reduced, and overall system performance is improved.

Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus, the method including receiving, by an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, a first message from a first access network device, where the first message comprises information for indicating to hand over a voice service of a terminal from a packet switched (PS) domain to a circuit switched (CS) domain, the first message further comprises identification information of a target device, and the target device is a second access network device in a 3G network, and sending, by the AMF entity, through a mobility management entity (MME) a request message to a mobile switching center (MSC) entity, where the request message comprises information indicating a source of the first message.

Abstract: In the embodiments of the present invention, UE can complete, by using only two interaction steps instead of six steps in the prior art, a process of sending a data packet to an eNodeB. Even a random access process in the six steps in the prior art includes four interaction steps, and by contrast, in the embodiments, signaling that needs to be consumed on an eNodeB when the UE sends data can be significantly reduced. This is relatively suitable for a scenario in which small data or occasional data is sent.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a measurement method, including: acquiring, by user equipment, a status of using a target unlicensed frequency band by a target radio access technology RAT; and selecting, by the user equipment, a corresponding measurement mode according to the usage status to measure a radio condition of the target unlicensed frequency band. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose user equipment, a network device, and a system.

Abstract: This application discloses a communication system including a master base station and a secondary base station, both connecting with a terminal. In the communication system, the master base station sends a first message to the secondary base station for allocating transmission resources for one or more flows to be transmitted between the secondary base station and a terminal, wherein the first message carries one or both of: identification information of each flow to be transmitted, and information of a data radio bearer (DRB) associated with each flow to be transmitted, then the secondary base station may determine a mapping relationship between a DRB and an admitted flow according to the first message. Moreover, the master base station sends DRB configuration information to the terminal. Therefore, requirements of 5G communication systems for QoS management of information transmission in a dual connectivity scenario can be met.

Abstract: A key management method and a communication apparatus is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a first radio access network (RAN) device, a key parameter and an identifier of a target terminal device sent by a first terminal device, performing at least one of encryption or decryption on transmission data related to communication between the first terminal device and the target terminal device based on the key parameter, and sending, by the first RAN device, the key parameter and an identifier of the first terminal device to the target terminal device.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a communication method and a communication apparatus, to reduce service delay due to uplink data cannot be directly sent by a terminal when the terminal is in an inactive state. The method in this application includes: receiving a first message from a first access network device; then releasing or suspending a configured dedicated signaling radio bearer SRB and resetting protocol entities corresponding to a configured data radio bearer DRB. The first message is used to indicate to a terminal to enter a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and the first message carries an identifier of the terminal in the radio resource control (RRC) inactive state and radio access network notification area (RNA) information.

Abstract: A communication method and a related device, the method including receiving a radio access capability of a terminal device, detecting whether a target radio access capability the same as the received radio access capability of the terminal device exists in a terminal device access capability set, where the terminal device access capability set is a set of radio access capability information corresponding to radio access capabilities, and, when the target radio access capability exists in the terminal device access capability set, indexing second access capability indication information in a context of the terminal device to radio access capability information corresponding to the target radio access capability.

Abstract: A radio access network RAN device receives a first message, where the first message includes identifiers of one or more first network slices, and the identifiers of the one or more first network slices are the same as identifiers that are of the one or more first network slices and that are included in a non-access stratum NAS request message sent by a terminal device to a core network CN device by using the RAN device; and the RAN device sends a second message including network slice redirection information to the terminal device, where the network slice redirection information includes at least one of network slice remapping information and terminal device redirection information, and the network slice redirection information is obtained after the RAN device performs network slice redirection decision-making on the one or more first network slices.

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: A communication method, a communications apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. A network device receives data carried on a first scheduling-free resource via a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process from a terminal device, and decodes the data to generate HARQ feedback information. The network device sends downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, where the DCI includes the HARQ feedback information and first indication information. The first indication information indicates the first HARQ process.

Abstract: This application provides a handover method and apparatus. The handover method includes: A terminal device sends path information used to determine a first cell to a network device; and the terminal device receives conditional handover CHO configuration information that is corresponding to the first cell and that is sent by the network device, and determines a target cell based on the CHO configuration information corresponding to the first cell. According to the technical solutions provided in this application, a handover success rate can be improved when the terminal device performs cell handover.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communication apparatus. In one example method, a centralized unit user plane (CU-UP) obtains a first service feature of a service. The first service feature includes one or more of the following: data that indicates whether the service is a periodic service, a periodicity corresponding to the service when the service is a periodic service, a service packet size corresponding to the service, a service model corresponding to the service, or scheduling time of the service. Then, the CU-UP sends the first service feature to a centralized unit control plane (CU-CP). Next, the CU-CP may send the first service feature to a distributed unit (DU).

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.