Optionally, the base station 1 and the base station 2 may configure the CSI-IM 0 and the CSI-IM 2 as one CSI-IM resource, where the CSI-IM resource has one CSI-IM ID, or may configure the CSI-IM 0 and the CSI-IM 2 as two CSI-IM resources, where the two CSI-IM resources separately have different CSI-IM IDs and/or other parameters, but occupy a same time-frequency resource. This is not limited in this embodiment of this application.
The terminal device receives the DCI sent by the base station 1 and/or the base station 2 at a moment t. It should be understood that the DCI 1 sent by the base station 1 indicates the above first CSI configuration, and the DCI 2 sent by the base station 2 indicates the above second CSI configuration. According to the above “pre-scheduling” mechanism, if a base station sends DCI at the moment t, it indicates that the base station prepares to schedule data at a moment t+k. If the base station does not prepare to schedule data, DCI indicating the above CSI configuration is not sent to the terminal device at the moment t.