Patent ID: 11864246
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a terminal device, comprising:
determining an interlace configuration for uplink shared channel transmission to a network node in a two-step contention-free random access procedure; and
performing the uplink shared channel transmission to the network node in the two-step contention-free random access procedure, according to the determined interlace configuration; wherein the determination of the interlace configuration is based at least in part on dedicated signaling for the two-step contention-free random access procedure from the network node; wherein the dedicated signaling includes one or more of:
a start interlace index for an interlace or a set of interlaces allocated for the uplink shared channel transmission;
a number of consecutive interlaces allocated for the uplink shared channel transmission; and
a dedicated flag indicating whether to enable interlaced resource allocation for the uplink shared channel transmission in the two-step contention-free random access procedure.