Patent ID: 11950294
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 24:
25. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
means for receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling including an indication of two or more available uplink channel transmission occasions for random access message transmission, wherein the two or more available uplink channel transmission occasions span at least two slots;
means for selecting at least one uplink channel transmission occasion of the two or more available uplink channel transmission occasions for transmission of a random access message;
means for formatting the random access message, based at least in part on the RRC signaling and the selected at least one uplink channel transmission occasion, to include a preamble, a reference signal, and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein reference signal resources for the reference signal include at least one symbol in a slot of the PUSCH; and
means for transmitting the random access message using the selected at least one uplink channel transmission occasion.