Communication method and communication apparatus

Abstract

A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a first satellite, a PDU, where the PDU includes first information, the first information includes an identifier of a UPF agent, and the identifier of the UPF agent indicates one of one or more UPF agents associated with a last-hop satellite; and forwarding, by the first satellite, the PDU to a second satellite, where the second satellite is a next hop that is of the first satellite, that corresponds to the first information, and that is determined from at least one correspondence pre-stored by the first satellite, and each of the at least one group of correspondences indicates a correspondence between one piece of first information and a next hop.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.