Patent attributes
A communication method is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a first base station, a first request sent by a terminal, where the first request is used to request an RRC connection from the first base station; sending, by the first base station, a handover request to a second base station when the first base station does not support a network slice to which the terminal belongs, where the second base station supports the network slice to which the terminal belongs; and receiving, by the first base station, a handover request response from the second base station, and sending a first request response to the terminal, where the first request response includes configuration information of the second base station.