The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a terminal, information on a residence time of the terminal and a transmission time of an uplink frame, determining a radio access network residence time based on the transmission time of the uplink frame, and transmitting the radio access network residence time and the residence time of the terminal to a user plane function (UPF).

Disclosed are a communication method for merging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for supporting a reservation resource, and according to the present invention, a method for a base station in a communication system comprises a step of transmitting reservation resource-related information to a terminal, determining, on the basis of the reservation-related information, whether a first signal is mapped to the reservation resource and a resource, in which the first signal to be transmitted to the terminal is overlapped, and transmitting the first signal to the terminal on the basis of the determination.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. A method and an apparatus for reselecting a beam and selecting a suitable beam to be camped on, by a terminal, in order to be provided with a service in a next generation mobile communication system operating on the basis of a beam.

A communication apparatus includes a communication unit that repeatedly transmits an advertising signal, and a control unit that, in a case of being not connected with a central device via the communication unit, controls the communication unit to transmit an advertising signal that includes information based on not being connected with the central device, and, in a case of being connected to the central device via the communication unit, controls the communication unit to transmit an advertising signal that includes information based on being connected with the central device, when receiving from another central device a connection request with respect to an advertising signal that includes information based on being connected with the central device, the control unit disconnects a BLE connection with the connected central device, and establishes a BLE connection with the another central device.

A method for protecting a user equipment includes: after sending a first request message for adjusting radio link configuration to a base station, monitoring a response message corresponding to the first request message in a first preset time period; determining a sending time for sending a second request message for adjusting the radio link configuration based on a monitoring result in the first preset time period; and sending the second request message at the sending time. This can avoid frequently sending a request message for adjusting a radio link configuration to a base station, reducing spectrum resource utilization and signaling burden of the network.

A BLUETOOTH communications method includes receiving a BLUETOOTH-headset communication instruction, wherein a quantity of BLUETOOTH headsets currently to be coupled to the terminal is greater than one; displaying, by a terminal, an information for a user to switch a BLUETOOTH headset working mode to a non-exclusive mode when the BLUETOOTH headset working mode is an exclusive mode; and, simultaneously communicating, by the terminal with all the BLUETOOTH headsets.

A method of determining a slot format in a wireless communication system, where the method is performed by a user equipment (UE) and includes: receiving, from a network, slot format information informing a first slot format for a plurality of normal symbols that are arranged within a period of time, wherein each of the plurality of normal symbols includes a normal cyclic prefix (CP). The method further includes: based on the received slot format information informing the first slot format, determining a second slot format for a plurality of extended symbols that are arranged within the period of time, wherein each of the plurality of extended symbols includes an extended CP.

Embodiments of this application relate to the communications field, and provide a terminal synchronization method and a terminal. A terminal sends synchronization signals in a distributed manner by controlling a sequence for sending the synchronization signals, so that terminals in a vehicle to vehicle communications system can have uniform timing. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a configurable transmission period for sending a first synchronization signal; and sending, by the terminal, the first synchronization signal based on the configurable transmission period.

A network device can receive a request from an application server for availability information associated with a response period in which a user equipment is responsive to communications. The network device can send a status query related to the user equipment to a radio access network controller device that processes signals between the user equipment and a mobile network core device. The network device can receive the availability information from the radio access network controller device and transmit a notification message to the application server that indicates the response period.

An anchor key generation method, device, and system, where the method includes generating, by a unified data management network element (UDM), an intermediate key based on a cipher key (CK), an integrity key (IK), and indication information regarding an operator; sending, by the UDM, the intermediate key to an authentication server function (AUSF); receiving, by the AUSF, the intermediate key; generating, by the AUSF, an anchor key based on the intermediate key; sending, by the AUSF, the anchor key to a security anchor function (SEAF); and generating, by the SEAF, a key (Kamf) based on the anchor key, where the Kamf is used to derive a 3.sup.rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) key.