Communication method and communications apparatus

An apparatus, comprising:

• a transceiver configured to receive a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) from a network device;
• and
• a processor configured to process a transport block carried by the PBCH by descrambling the transport block to obtain information bits of the PBCH, the descrambling is performed by using one segment of a plurality of segments of a pseudo-random sequence, the one segment of the plurality of segments of the pseudo-random sequence implicitly indicates the 2nd and 3rd least significant bits of a system frame number of a radio system frame in which the PBCH is located.

A computer readable medium having processor-executable programs stored thereon, the processor-executable programs when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement operations including:

• receiving a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) from a network device;
• and
• processing a transport block carried by the PBCH by descrambling the transport block to obtain information bits of the PBCH, the descrambling is performed by using one segment of a plurality of segments of a pseudo-random sequence, the one segment of the plurality of segments of the pseudo-random sequence implicitly indicates the 2nd and 3rd least significant bits of a system frame number of a radio system frame in which the PBCH is located.