Communication method, apparatus, and system, and storage medium

A communication method, wherein the method comprises:

• sending, by a first network device, m device identifiers of m network devices to a first radio unit (RU), wherein
• the m network devices comprise the first network device,
• the m network devices are connected to each other,
• m is an integer greater than 0,
• the m device identifiers are used to trigger the first RU to perform cooperative communication processing,
• the cooperative communication processing implements cooperative communication between the first RU and a second RU,
• the second RU is connected to n network devices,
• n is an integer greater than 0, and
• a same device exists among the m network devices and the n network devices.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having instructions stored therein that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:
• cause a first radio unit (RU) to process m device identifiers of m network devices received from a first network device and n device identifiers of n network devices received from a second RU to determine, based on the m device identifiers and the n device identifiers, that a same device exists among the m network devices and the n network devices, wherein the m network devices comprise the first network device, the m network devices are connected to each other, m is an integer greater than 0, the second RU is connected to the n network devices, and n is an integer greater than 0;
• and
• cause the first RU to perform cooperative communication processing to implement a cooperative communication between the first RU and the second RU.