A communication method and apparatus for a multicast broadcast service, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: transmitting a first user plane multicast broadcast service (MBS) session establishment request to a first user plane node corresponding to an i.sup.th level control plane node, and receiving a first user plane MBS session establishment response fed back by the first user plane node, i=1, . . . , N; transmitting a second user plane MBS session establishment request to a second user plane node, and receiving a second user plane MBS session establishment response fed back by the second user plane node; and transmitting a first MBS session start request to a son control plane node of the i.sup.th level control plane node.

A communication method and apparatus for a multicast broadcast service, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: transmitting a first user plane multicast broadcast service (MBS) session establishment request to a first user plane node corresponding to an i.sup.th level control plane node, and receiving a first user plane MBS session establishment response fed back by the first user plane node, i=1, . . . , N; transmitting a second user plane MBS session establishment request to a second user plane node, and receiving a second user plane MBS session establishment response fed back by the second user plane node; and transmitting a first MBS session start request to a son control plane node of the i.sup.th level control plane node.

This application provides a multicast service transmission method and apparatus, to deliver a multicast service regardless of whether there is a device supporting multicast in a system, so as to improve flexibility and reliability of the multicast service transmission. The method performed by a session management network element includes: receiving a first message or a second message, where the first message requests to add a terminal device to a multicast service, the second message is used to update a PDU session of the terminal device, and the PDU session is associated with the multicast service; and determining, based on multicast capability information of the terminal device and/or multicast capability information of an access network device, a delivery mode of the multicast service, where the access network device is an access network device currently accessed by the terminal device or a target access network device of the terminal device.

A communication method for transmitting multicast data by using a same multicast user plane function (UPF) includes: a first session management function (SMF) obtains forwarding configuration information or quality of service (QoS) context information of multicast data, and sends, to a second SMF, first path information for establishing a transmission path for multicast data transmission between a multicast UPF and a unicast UPF, or second path information for establishing a transmission path between the multicast UPF and an access network device.

The application relates to a configuration system (100) for a wireless communication network (102) that comprises at least one first communication device (104b) and at least one second communication device (104c). The at least one first and second communication devices (104b, 104c) belong to a plurality of communication devices (104, 104a, 104b, 104c, 104d). Each communication device (104, 104a, 104b, 104c, 104d) in the plurality of the communication devices is a radio node device configured to provide a bi-directional radio communication with at least one of the plurality of the communication devices. After receiving (220) a content of a network persistent configuration data (CO) from a communication device (104a) belonging to the plurality of the communication devices and storing (222) the received content of the configuration data, each first communication device (104b) is configured to broadcast (224) a configuration data description (DE), which comprises a version identifier (VE) of the configuration data, periodically in the network for indicating a capability of said first communication device to send (228) the stored content of the configuration data, which is in accordance with the version identifier, on request.

Methods for handling Media-based Modulation (MBM) in a wireless network (1000) by a Mission Critical (MC) Gateway (GW) User Equipment (UE) (300) are provided. The method includes storing information associated with an identifier at the MC gateway UE (300) in response to receiving an MC gateway Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) bearer announcement from an MC client (100). The MC gateway UE (300) uses the identifier and the information to activate for monitoring the MBMS bearer by the MC gateway UE (300). Further, the method includes sending an MBMS listening status report to the MC client (100) based on the MC GW MBMS bearer announcement. Further, the method includes establishing a communication channel with the MC client (100) based on a parameter to receive an MC service data from the MC gateway UE (300), where the MC gateway UE (300) forwards the MC service data to the MC client (100).

Methods for handling Media-based Modulation (MBM) in a wireless network (1000) by a Mission Critical (MC) Gateway (GW) User Equipment (UE) (300) are provided. The method includes storing information associated with an identifier at the MC gateway UE (300) in response to receiving an MC gateway Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) bearer announcement from an MC client (100). The MC gateway UE (300) uses the identifier and the information to activate for monitoring the MBMS bearer by the MC gateway UE (300). Further, the method includes sending an MBMS listening status report to the MC client (100) based on the MC GW MBMS bearer announcement. Further, the method includes establishing a communication channel with the MC client (100) based on a parameter to receive an MC service data from the MC gateway UE (300), where the MC gateway UE (300) forwards the MC service data to the MC client (100).

A paging message transmission method and apparatus are described. The method can include sending, by an access network device, a first paging message to a terminal device on a first paging occasion, where the first paging message comprises a first identifier and a preset time point for sending a second paging message, the first identifier indicates the first paging message is a short message, and the second paging message is a message for terminal paging. The method can also include sending, by the access network device to the terminal device at the preset time point, scheduling information corresponding to the second paging message, and sending the second paging message on a time-frequency resource corresponding to the scheduling information.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE), such as a pedestrian UE, may perform a discovery procedure with a second UE in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) wireless communications environment that includes multiple other UEs in addition to the first UE and the second UE. The second UE may, for example, be a roadside UE configured to aggregate V2X messages for the first UE. The first UE may determine, based on performing the discovery procedure, a schedule for the first UE to use to receive bundled V2X messages from the second UE. The first UE may receive, from the second UE based on the determined schedule, a message indicating bundled information from multiple V2X messages received at the second UE from the multiple UEs.

A method for determining a physical sidelink feedback channel resource and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: a first terminal device sends multicast information to at least two second terminal devices. The first terminal device determines, based on a total quantity of terminal devices in a multicast group and a resource group of physical sidelink feedback channel resources, a physical sidelink feedback channel resource corresponding to each second terminal device. The first terminal device receives, based on the physical sidelink feedback channel resource corresponding to each second terminal device, feedback information sent by each of the at least two second terminal devices. According to the foregoing method, physical sidelink feedback channel resources can be allocated to the terminal devices in the multicast group.