The embodiments of the present application relates to the technical field of
wireless communications. Provided are an encoding method, a decoding method, and an apparatus, which are used for reducing the complexity of decoding. The encoding method comprises: a first
communication device acquiring a first sequence, wherein the first sequence is a bit sequence to be encoded, and the first sequence comprises K information bits; and the first
communication device encoding the first sequence. If K is less than (or equal to) K1, the first sequence is encoded on the basis of a basic sequence. Alternatively, if K is greater than (or equal to) K1, polar encoding is performed on the first sequence. K1 is a positive integer less than 11. On the basis of the solution, when the number K of information bits is larger (for example, greater than K1), if a basic sequence is used for performing encoding, the complexity of decoding is also larger due to the larger number of
mask sequences, and if polarization encoding is used, the complexity of decoding can be reduced.