The embodiment of the invention discloses a communication method, relates to the technical field of communication, and is used for improving the real-time performance of rate adjustment of a terminal. The method comprises the steps that the scheduling priority of a
recovery bit query MAC CE of a target service is adjusted to be a target priority, the target priority comprises a first priority, and the first priority is higher than the scheduling priority of all service data; and sending the
recovery bit rate query MAC CE (
Media Access Control CE) according to the scheduling priority. According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the terminal can adjust the scheduling priority of the
recovery bit rate query MAC CE to be higher than the scheduling priority of all service data, so that the recovery
bit rate MAC CE is scheduled in time, the terminal can obtain the recommended bit rate in time, the real-time performance of rate adjustment of the terminal is improved, and the
service experience is improved.