A communication method, device, and a storage medium to resolve a problem that information about a clock frequency and a clock phase of a service cannot be correctly transmitted to a receiver or correctly recovered because transparent transmission of the information about the clock frequency and the clock phase of the service cannot be implemented. Because a value of k based on a reference data unit is inserted into a second data flow, and the value of k can indicate a quantity of third data units included between a second data unit and the reference data unit in a first data flow, a receive end device can completely recover the first data flow based on the value of k.