A third aspect of this application provides a connection control method, where the method relates to a base station system, the base station system includes a centralized unit and a distributed unit, the centralized unit communicates with the distributed unit, the distributed unit communicates with a terminal through an air interface, and the method includes:
receiving, by the distributed unit, an access request message sent by the terminal;
obtaining, by the distributed unit based on the access request message, a first terminal identifier corresponding to the terminal, where the first terminal identifier is used to identify the terminal on the air interface;
sending, by the distributed unit, the first terminal identifier to the terminal; and
sending, by the distributed unit, the first terminal identifier and/or a cell identifier to the centralized unit.
In a possible design, the first terminal identifier is allocated by the distributed unit.
In a possible design, the method further includes:
sending, by the distributed unit, a first request message to the centralized unit, where the first request message is used to request the centralized unit to allocate a terminal identifier set; and
receiving, by the distributed unit, the terminal identifier set sent by the centralized unit, where the terminal identifier set includes the first terminal identifier.