The present invention discloses a method, including: determining, by first user equipment, a frame structure of a first serving cell; and sending and receiving, by the first user equipment in the first serving cell, information based on the frame structure of the first serving cell, where: in the frame structure of the first serving cell, one radio frame includes at least one first subframe and at least one second subframe, and both the first subframe and the second subframe include a symbol used for downlink transmission, a guard period, and a symbol used for uplink transmission; in the first subframe, a quantity of symbols used for downlink transmission is greater than a quantity of symbols used for uplink transmission; and in the second subframe, a quantity of symbols used for downlink transmission is less than a quantity of symbols used for uplink transmission.