It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention, the control information indicates that downlink data transmission of the first subframe is less than the first threshold. When the first threshold is 1 ms, the control information may directly indicate that a target subframe is the first subframe (or a partial subframe), or may directly indicate a data transmission length of a target subframe. The target subframe herein may be any subframe in a data transmission burst of the first cell, for example, any one of a first/second/third/fourth/fifth subframe in
In another embodiment of the present invention, step 112 further includes: indicating, by the access network device by using a reference signal including a reference sequence, that the downlink data transmission length of the first subframe is less than the first threshold.
Specifically, the access network device may send the reference signal including a reference sequence in any subframe in one burst data transmission including the first subframe, to indicate that the downlink data transmission length of the first subframe is less than the first threshold.