In an embodiment of the present invention, the determining, by the user equipment, a data transmission characteristic of the first cell in the first subframe based on a preset condition includes: When a time resource of a CSI-RS and/or a CSI-IM of the user equipment overlaps the first subframe, the first subframe includes the CSI-RS and/or the CSI-IM of the user equipment. The CSI-RS and/or the CSI-IM of the user equipment is periodically configured. However, for user equipment in an LTE system release 12, CSI-RS and CSI-IM transmission is not supported in a DwPTS. In this embodiment, the CSI-RS and CSI-IM transmission is supported, and a channel state information measurement and a channel state interference information measurement are implemented.
It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention, the data transmission length of the first subframe may include 14 OFDM symbols if the first threshold corresponds to a value greater than 1 ms.
It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention, in a radio frame, a first subframe is a subframe whose subframe index number is 0 and a sixth subframe is a subframe whose subframe index number is 5. When the first subframe is the subframe whose subframe index number is 0, the first slot included in the first subframe is a slot whose slot index number is 0. When the first subframe is the subframe whose subframe index number is 5, the first slot included in the first subframe is a slot whose slot index number is 10.