S10: The network device determines N pieces of to-be-jointly-coded downlink control information DCI, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
In this embodiment of the present invention, the network device determines the N pieces of to-be-jointly-coded DCI, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. As shown in
Optionally, as shown in
When an error occurs in a DCI decoding process, the CRC check fails. Even if the DCI is correctly decoded, if a CRC part is not descrambled by using a correct user equipment ID, the DCI cannot pass the CRC check. In other words, this mechanism prevents false detection of DCI between different user equipments.