COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The communication method includes: grouping a plurality of clients to obtain at least two device groups, where each of the at least two device groups includes at least two clients; receiving a publish request sent by a first client, where the publish request includes first data, the first data corresponds to a first topic, and the publish request is used to request the MQTT server to publish the first data; and determining a first device group to which the first client belongs from the at least two device groups, and sending a publish message to a second client in the first device group, where the publish message includes the first data.