Beam switching method and related device

Abstract

Embodiments provide a beam switching method and a related device. Under the method a first subframe sent by a base station by using a first beam can be received by a terminal device. The first subframe includes first-order downlink control information and second-order downlink control information. The terminal device can search for the second-order downlink control information based on the first-order downlink control information. The first-order downlink control information includes location indication information of the second-order downlink control information in the first subframe. the terminal device can switch from the first beam to a second beam based on the found second-order downlink control information to receive a second subframe. The downlink control information includes a switching indication field of the second beam. In this way, flexibility of beam switching is improved, load balancing of a control channel is implemented, and a latency of beam switching is reduced.

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