A method of determining a position of a paging message, a communication device, a network-side device, and a user equipment are provided. The method of determining a position of a paging message includes determining a position of a paging message on a communication resource, where the location causes paging occasions of two consecutive paging messages to use different communication resources, and the communication resource includes at least one of following: a time-domain resource, a frequency-domain resource, a spatial domain resource, a code-domain resource.