| CPC H04W 52/0212 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A reference signal sending method, wherein the sending method comprises:
determining, by an apparatus of a network device, a time domain resource in first duration based on a quantity of paging occasions in a discontinuous reception period, wherein the time domain resource is used to transmit a reference signal, and the first duration is a period of time in a first period associated with the discontinuous reception period; and
sending, by the apparatus, the reference signal to a terminal device on a time-frequency resource corresponding to the time domain resource in the first duration.
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