A communication method and apparatus relate to the field of communication technologies, to improve flexibility and efficiency of scheduling an antenna port combination for uplink transmission. The method includes: A network device sends a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration message to a terminal, where the SRS configuration message includes N SRS resources, the N SRS resources include a first SRS resource and a second SRS resource, each of the first SRS resource and the second SRS resource includes one or more SRS ports; and the network device receives an SRS corresponding to an mth SRS port of the first SRS resource and an SRS corresponding to an nth SRS port of the second SRS resource that are sent by the terminal through a same antenna port, where N, m, and n are positive integers.