This application provides a satellite communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives first indication information. The first indication information indicates a validity duration of first parameter information. The first parameter information includes at least one of the following information: a first timing advance, parameter information of the first timing advance, a first frequency offset pre-compensation, or parameter information of the first frequency offset pre-compensation. The terminal device performs uplink communication with a satellite in the validity duration based on the first parameter information. The terminal device can obtain, by receiving the first indication information, a validity duration of parameter information such as the first timing advance, the parameter information of the first timing advance, the first frequency offset pre-compensation, or the parameter information of the first frequency offset pre-compensation.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity, a message that is associated with an uplink grant. The UE may select, based at least in part on the message, either a cell-specific offset or an updated offset that is indicated after initial access, as a timing offset that accounts for a propagation delay between a base station of the NTN and the UE. The UE may transmit, to the NTN entity, an uplink communication using the timing offset. Numerous other aspects are described.

This application provides a non-terrestrial network (non-terrestrial network, NTN) communication method and an apparatus, to resolve the following problem: When performing a delay-sensitive communication service, UE may select a cell covered by a satellite since the UE cannot distinguish between a cell covered by a terrestrial base station and the cell covered by the satellite. The method includes: A first network device determines cell type information of a cell covered by a second network device, where the cell type information indicates that the cell is a terrestrial network communication cell or a non-terrestrial network communication cell; and the first network device sends the cell type information to a third network device.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for wireless communication, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes the following. A terminal device obtains first indication information. The terminal device transmits the first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information is used to determine a first transmission timing.

A communication method and apparatus are provided, where the method includes: A first network device generates and sends a paging message to a second network device. The paging message is used to page a terminal device, the paging message includes first indication information, and the first indication information indicates that a paging range includes a non-terrestrial network

NTN cell and/or a terrestrial network TN cell. By applying the foregoing technical solution, the network device may determine an appropriate paging area based on a type of the terminal device or capability information of the terminal device, to avoid sending the paging message in an area that is not supported by the terminal device, so that overheads of paging signaling are effectively reduced.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a reference time for updating one or more system information parameters associated with a non-terrestrial network (NTN) or updating a cell status associated with the NTN. The UE may determine an update timer length for updating the one or more system information parameters associated with the NTN or the cell status associated with the NTN. The UE may acquire, from a current cell or a new cell, a system information block (SIB) to refresh the one or more system information parameters after an expiration time associated with the one or more system information parameters, wherein the expiration time is based at least in part on the reference time and the update timer length. Numerous other aspects are described.

User equipment may configure a transmitter or receiver to conform to regulations or standards of a geographical region to communicate with non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellite networks). In one embodiment, the user equipment may receive an indication of a regulation or standard to which to conform to from a terrestrial communication node, and apply an emission mask to the transmitter based on the regulation or standard. The user equipment may additionally or alternatively configure the receiver to be compliant with a noise level tolerance of a received signal specified by the regulation or standard. In some embodiments, the user equipment may implement a frequency offset between the received signal and an interfering signal associated with the noise level tolerance that is scaled based at least on a channel bandwidth associated with the desired signal. Moreover, the user equipment may scale the noise level tolerance based on the frequency offset.

Systems and methods are provided for enhanced ship-based network connectivity using a content delivery network (CDN) edge server. An example method includes receiving user requests from user devices in wireless communication with a system, with the user requests being associated with applications executing on the user devices. An operating status associated with a satellite communication system is determined, the operation status being indicative of the satellite communication system having bandwidth and/or connectivity to route the user requests via a satellite network. Based on the operating status being negative, a first subset of the user requests is queued for transmission. A second subset of the user requests are responded to using an edge cache. Based on the operating status being positive, the user requests are transmitted via the satellite network to a shore-based system, the shore-based system routing the user requests to web applications associated with different functionality.

Provided in the present disclosure is a random access channel (PRACH) signal transmission method and device, the method comprising: on the basis of a system agreement or according to acquiring an instruction from a network side device, determining delay information for sending a PRACH signal; and according to a calculated initial timing advance (TA) and the delay information, sending the PRACH signal at a PRACH signal sending opportunity. Thus, the problem in existing PRACH signal transmission methods in which interference exists between PRACH signals when TA estimation is not accurate is solved.

An apparatus, comprising: means for receiving configured to acquire non-terrestrial network connection assistance information related to non-terrestrial network entities providing non-terrestrial network cells providing coverage to the apparatus; and means for transmitting configured to transmit at least the non-terrestrial network connection assistance information to user equipment within transmission range of the means for transmitting.