US Patent 11265803 Communication method and communications apparatus

A communication method and a communications apparatus are provided. The communication method includes: receiving a first message from a shared channel of a plurality of network slices, where the first message includes a plurality of network IDs, and the plurality of network IDs are in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of network slices; selecting a target network slice from the plurality of network slices; and obtaining access configuration information of the target network slice from network configuration information, and accessing the target network slice based on the access configuration information of the target network slice, where the network configuration information includes a network ID of each of the plurality of network slices and the access configuration information of the target network slice. In this application, a terminal side device may autonomously select and access the target network slice, so that network complexity may be reduced, and a latency in accessing a network may also be effectively reduced.