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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2022
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Tingyu Xin, Shenzhen, CN;
Yan Wang, Beijing, CN;
Zhenzhen Cao, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Bingzhao Li, Beijing, CN;
Lei Chen, Beijing, CN;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A communications method and a communications apparatus. For a radio bearer that carries a multicast service, a downlink user plane tunnel is established between a first access network node and a second access network node. A data packet of the multicast service is transmitted through the downlink user plane tunnel to enable the multicast service to be transmitted in a CU-DU architecture. A unicast tunnel is also established to transmit a data packet of the multicast service that is sent in a unicast mode. In this way, the first access network node is able to transmit the data packet of the multicast service to the second access network node on the unicast tunnel in the unicast mode.