Patent attributes
The present invention discloses a beam configuration method which includes: sending initial beam index information of an initial beam, allocated for user equipment, of a millimeter wave band to the user equipment; receiving a radio resource management (RRM) measurement report from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained after the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the initial beam that is indicated by the initial beam index information; and determining, according to the RRM measurement report, the initial beam index information that is used for communication with the user equipment.