sending or receiving, by a base station, a signal within an access signal time interval, where the access signal time interval includes sweeping time blocks (STB).
The access signal time interval is a downlink access signal time interval or an uplink access signal time interval, and the base station sends the signal over the downlink access signal time interval, or receives the signal over the uplink access signal time interval.
In the present disclosure, a time domain or frequency domain distribution density of the uplink access signal time interval is greater than or equal to a time domain or frequency domain distribution density of the downlink access signal time interval.
In the present disclosure, one downlink access signal time interval corresponds to a plurality of uplink access signal time intervals.
In the present disclosure, STBs in the downlink access signal time interval are in one-to-one correspondence with STBs in the uplink access signal time interval.
In the present disclosure, STBs in the downlink access signal time interval include one or more of the following signals: a synchronization signal (SS), a message signal (MSG), and a measurement reference signal (MRS).
In the present disclosure, the STBs have one or more of the following types of STBs:
a first type STB, which includes the SS, the MSG, and the MRS;
a second type STB, which merely includes the MRS;
a third type STB, which merely includes the SS and the MSG; and
a fourth type STB, which merely includes the SS.