Communication method and apparatus

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory is configured to store non-transitory instructions, and in response to being executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to execute operations comprising:
• receiving first data from a network device or a terminal device;
• and
• demapping the first data based on a first frequency hopping pattern, wherein the first frequency hopping pattern is one of K candidate frequency hopping patterns, one candidate frequency hopping pattern in the K candidate frequency hopping patterns comprises L frequency hopping portions, at least two candidate frequency hopping patterns in the K candidate frequency hopping patterns comprise a same frequency hopping portion, K is an integer greater than 1, and L is an integer greater than 1;
• wherein one of the L frequency hopping portions comprises one frequency domain resource portion in a frequency domain and comprises one time domain resource portion in a time domain;
• wherein an index of the frequency domain resource portion satisfies at least:
• Σl=0L-1((mk,l−l)mod M)×Ml=(Σi=0pc((k+1)×θ+i)×2i)mod ML
• wherein mk,l is the index of the frequency domain resource portion, mk,l is an integer less than or equal to M−1, M represents a quantity of candidate frequency domain resource portions comprised in the frequency domain resource useable to map the first data, the frequency domain resource portion is one of the candidate frequency domain resource portions, k represents an index of the candidate frequency hopping pattern, k is an integer less than or equal to K−1, l represents an index of the time domain resource portion, l is an integer less than or equal to L−1, c(n) represents a Gold sequence, p represents a parameter related to a length of the Gold sequence, and θ represents a related parameter.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing non-transitory instructions, and in response to the non-transitory instructions being executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors are configured:

• to perform operations comprising:
• receiving first data from a network device or a terminal device;
• and
• demapping the first data based on a first frequency hopping pattern, wherein the first frequency hopping pattern is one of K candidate frequency hopping patterns, one candidate frequency hopping pattern in the K candidate frequency hopping patterns comprises L frequency hopping portions, at least two candidate frequency hopping patterns in the K candidate frequency hopping patterns comprise a same frequency hopping portion, K is an integer greater than 1, and L is an integer greater than 1;
• wherein one of the L frequency hopping portions comprises one frequency domain resource portion in a frequency domain and comprises one time domain resource portion in a time domain;
• wherein the index of the frequency domain resource portion satisfies at least:
• Σl=0L-1((mk,l−l)mod M)×Ml=(Σi=0pc((k+1)×θ+i)×2i)mod ML
• wherein mk,l is an index of the frequency domain resource portion, mk,l is an integer less than or equal to M−1, M represents a quantity of candidate frequency domain resource portions comprised in the frequency domain resource useable to map the first data, the frequency domain resource portion is one of the candidate frequency domain resource portions, k represents an index of the candidate frequency hopping pattern, k is an integer less than or equal to K−1, l represents an index of the time domain resource portion, I is an integer less than or equal to L−1, c(n) represents a Gold sequence, p represents a parameter related to a length of the Gold sequence, and θ represents a related parameter.