A method includes: generating, by a first network device, parameter information of a resource in which a channel state information CSI reference signal is located, where the parameter information is used by the second network device to determine one or more of the following information of the resource in which the CSI reference signal is located: subcarrier spacing information, cyclic prefix length information, frame structure time length information, and symbol quantity information; and sending, by the first network device, the parameter information to the second network device.