Abstract: A relay communication method, includes: a relay node receives data from a second network node; the relay node performs first-part processing and second-part processing on the data; and the relay node sends to a third network node, data obtained after the first-part processing and the second-part processing. In one non-limiting example, thy first-part processing includes at least one of: physical layer function processing, media access control layer function processing, and adaptation function processing. In another non-limiting example, the second-part processing includes at least one of simplified radio link control layer function processing, adaptation function processing, media access control layer function processing, and physical layer function processing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data forwarding methods. One example method includes receiving, by a first node, a first data packet, where the first data packet includes first data and an identifier of a second node of the first data, querying, by the first node, a first route mapping relationship based on the identifier of the second node to determine a third node, where the first route mapping relationship includes a correspondence between the second node and the third node, and forwarding, by the first node, the first data to the third node.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a time domain resource format configuration method. In addition to configuring time domain resources for an IAB node based on a downlink-flexible-uplink time domain resource format, an IAB donor may further configure time domain resources for the IAB node based on an uplink-flexible-downlink time domain resource format, so that the time domain resources can be flexibly configured for the IAB node, to improve utilization and a throughput of the time domain resources in an IAB network.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus, to reduce wastes of transmission resources. The method includes: receiving, by a first node, a data packet from an air interface, where the first node is a wireless backhaul node, and the wireless backhaul node is configured to provide a wireless backhaul service for a node that wirelessly accesses the wireless backhaul node; duplicating, by the first node, the data packet to obtain M data packets, where M is an integer greater than 1; and splitting, by the first node, the M data packets, and sending the M data packets to a second node through at least two paths. This application relates to the field of communications technologies.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: An IAB donor gNodeB determines first indication information, and then sends a first message to an eNB, where the first message includes a first control plane message and the first indication message; and the eNB may determine a first radio bearer based on the first indication information in the received first message, and then sends a second message including the first control plane message to an IAB node by using the first radio bearer. The first radio bearer corresponds to a type of a downlink F1AP message, so that the eNB selects different radio bearers for different types of downlink F1AP messages, thereby providing an effective QoS guarantee for a service of a terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node dual connectivity setup methods and communication apparatus. In one example method, a first IAB node sets up a first F1 interface with a primary donor node of the first IAB node. The first IAB node obtains an internet protocol (IP) address anchored at a secondary donor node connected to the first IAB node and/or configuration information of a serving cell, of the first IAB node, belonging to the secondary donor node. The first IAB node sends, to the secondary donor node, a request for setting up a second F1 interface with the secondary donor node, where the request includes the configuration information of the serving cell, of the first IAB node, belonging to the secondary donor node.

Abstract: Example information transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining first information by a relay node, where the first information includes at least one of the following information: a buffer status at a granularity of the relay node, a buffer status at a granularity of an RB between the relay node and at least one first node, a buffer status at a granularity of each first node in the at least one first node, and a buffer status at a granularity of an RB between each first node in the at least one first node and a child node, where the at least one first node is a child node of the relay node. A first packet that carries the first information is sent by the relay node to a second node.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a link maintenance method and an apparatus in a relay system, to reduce a service interruption latency, or to avoid service congestion. The method includes: determining, by a first node, one or more candidate neighboring nodes to be measured; measuring, by the first node, the one or more candidate neighboring nodes; determining, by the first node based on a measurement result, whether to establish or delete a backup backhaul link between the first node and the one or more candidate neighboring nodes; and sending, by the first node, a request to a second node, where the request is used to request the second node to establish or delete the backup backhaul link between the first node and the one or more candidate neighboring nodes.

Abstract: A data packet transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: An IAB donor determines first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a first backhaul link BH RLC channel, and the first BH RLC channel is used to transmit a control protocol data unit PDU at a backhaul adaptation protocol BAP layer. The IAB donor sends the first configuration information to an IAB node. According to the foregoing procedure, the IAB donor indicates, by using the first configuration information, the IAB node to send the control PDU at the BAP layer through the first BH RLC channel, to implement bearer mapping when the IAB node needs to send the control PDU at the BAP layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a configuration method. A donor CU may configure a mapping rule of a data packet in advance, and then send the mapping rule to a donor DU. The donor DU maps, based on the mapping rule, a subsequently received data packet to a corresponding RLC channel for transmission. In a method in the embodiments of this application, the donor DU may configure mapping rules of two mapping processes for the donor CU. In the 1st mapping process, one or more mapping fields are first determined based on a value of one or more fields (where these fields are referred to as reference fields below for ease of description) in the data packet. In the 2nd mapping process, the RLC channel is determined based on a value of the one or more mapping fields.

Abstract: The disclosure provides routing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a first node receives a data packet. The first node determines a Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) header in the data packet, where the BAP header includes a BAP address of a destination node of the data packet and first information. The first information is used to determine whether the BAP header includes a routing path identifier of the data packet. The first node sends the data packet including the BAP header to the destination node based on the BAP header.

Abstract: This application provides a method for determining an association between logical channel groups, including: The first backhaul node receives a first buffer status report from a first device, where the first buffer status report is used to determine uplink buffer statuses of one or more first logical channel groups of a MAC entity corresponding to the first backhaul node and the first device. The first backhaul node determines, based on the one or more first logical channel groups and a first mapping relationship, second logical channel groups associated with the one or more first logical channel groups, where a second device is a parent node of the first backhaul node, and the first mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between the one or more first logical channel groups and one or more second logical channel groups of a MAC entity corresponding to the first backhaul node and the second device.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example communication methods and access network device. One example method includes sending, by an access network device, indication information to user equipment, where the indication information indicates a manner of receiving multicast service data, and the manner of receiving multicast service data includes a unicast manner. The multicast service data is sent by the access network device in the unicast manner.

Abstract: This application provides a communications method, apparatus, and system, aiming to improve a capacity of a 5G network. The system includes a first access network device, a second access network device, a terminal, and an RN, where the terminal is connected to the first access network device by the RN, the terminal is further connected to the second access network device, the terminal receives signaling and/or data from the second access network device, and the terminal further receives data from the first access network device by the RN. This application relates to the field of communications technologies.

Abstract: A communication method and a related product, in which the method is implemented on an access network side and includes: an access network device sending indication information to user equipment, where the indication information is used to indicate a manner of receiving multicast service data, and the receiving manner includes a unicast manner and/or a multicast manner; and the access network device sending the multicast service data in the unicast manner and/or the multicast manner indicated by the indication information.

Abstract: This application provides a method includes: a first IAB node receives N data packets from a donor base station to a terminal device; the first IAB node determines a PDCP PDU SN of a first data packet in PDCP PDU SNs of the N data packets, where the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet is a largest PDCP PDU SN in the PDCP PDU SNs of the N data packets, or the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet is a largest PDCP PDU SN in consecutive PDCP PDU SNs starting from a smallest PDCP PDU SN in the PDCP PDU SNs that are of the N data packets and that are arranged in ascending order; and the first IAB node sends first information to the donor base station, where the first information includes a value of the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet.

Abstract: A network access method includes: learning, by a first RN, that a site type of a first communications site is an RN; and sending, by the first RN, first indication information to the first communications site, so that the first RN accesses the first communications site, where the first indication information carries information indicating that a site type of the first RN is an RN.

Abstract: The present invention provides a communications method and apparatus. The method includes: when an integrated access and backhaul IAB node detects that an RLF occurs on a first backhaul BH link, triggering, by the IAB node, feedback of DDDS information of the IAB node to an IAB donor node, and/or sending, by the IAB node, first indication information to a child node of the IAB node, where the first indication information is used to indicate the child node of the IAB node to trigger feedback of DDDS information of the child node to the IAB donor node.

Abstract: A method for accessing a network by a terminal device by using a wireless means in the field of communications technologies, includes: receiving, by a resident node in a communications network, a first message from a terminal device, where the first message includes an authorization request; sending, by the resident node, a second message, where the second message is processed by a network node into a third message; and receiving, by the resident node, authorization result information from the network, and sending the authorization result information to the terminal device.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example downlink buffer status feedback methods and apparatuses. One example method includes determining first information by a first node, where the first information indicates a downlink buffer status of a first bearer between the first node and a parent node of the first node. The first information is sent by the first node to a second node, where the first node is a relay node in a wireless relay communications system, and the second node is a parent node of the first node.