Patent attributes
This application discloses a method and an apparatus for sending indication information. The method includes: A network device determines a location of first indication information in at least one piece of second indication information based on first information. The first information includes at least one of identification information of a first terminal device and time information of a first preset time period, the first terminal device is one of to-be-woken-up terminal devices that are within a discontinuous reception outside active time period, and the first indication information indicates the first terminal device to enter an inside active time period within a preset time period. The network device sends the second indication information on a time-frequency resource corresponding to the first preset time period. The second indication information indicates at least one to-be-woken-up terminal device to enter an inside active time period within a corresponding time period.
