| CPC H04W 28/06 (2013.01) [H04W 4/06 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |

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1. A data transmission method, comprising:
sending, by a network device, first indication information to a first terminal device, wherein the first indication information comprises a first sequence number (SN), wherein the first SN is determined based on a maximum sequence number SN2 of a data packet sent by the network device to a second terminal device in a unicast manner, and wherein the first indication information indicates that the first terminal device is to receive a data packet in a multicast manner; and
sending, by the network device, the data packet to the first terminal device and the second terminal device in the multicast manner based on the first SN.
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