Method and apparatus for receiving and sending system information, user equipment and base station

摘要

A method of receiving system information (SI) includes: a first SI request for requesting a base station to broadcast at least one piece of to-be-requested SI is sent to the base station, where the at least one piece of the to-be-requested SI belongs to second type, not broadcasted SI; the at least one piece of the to-be-requested SI broadcasted by the base station in response to the first SI request is received according to pre-acquired scheduling information; upon determining that any of one or more pieces of to-be-requested SI is not successfully received, a second SI request for requesting the base station to unicast the to-be-requested SI not successfully received by present UE is sent to the base station; and the to-be-requested SI not successfully received by the present UE, which is unicasted by the base station in response to the second SI request, is received.