Random Access Method and Apparatus

Abstract

This application relates to the wireless communications field, and discloses a random access method and apparatus, to resolve a problem of how a terminal device selects an uplink to perform random access. The method includes: selecting, by a terminal device, a first uplink from at least two preconfigured uplinks to perform random access; and selecting, by the terminal device when random access performed by using the first uplink fails, a second uplink from the at least two uplinks to perform random access, where the at least two uplinks are communications links between the terminal device and a first network device, the first network device and the terminal device are located in a same cell, the first uplink is a normal uplink NUL, and the second uplink is a supplementary uplink SUL. In this way, the terminal device selects an uplink to perform random access.

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