Patent ID: 11910441
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method, comprising:
receiving a configuration for uplink physical random access channel transmissions, wherein the configuration comprises one or more conditions for applying short control signaling exemption to the uplink physical random access channel transmissions;
determining whether the short control signaling exemption can be applied to the uplink physical random access channel transmissions based on the one or more conditions; and
based on the determination, either:
transmitting the uplink physical random access channel transmissions using the short control signaling exemption, or
performing a listen before talk procedure and either transmitting the uplink physical random access channel transmissions or determining to not transmit the uplink physical random access channel transmissions depending on a result of the listen before talk procedure.