Patent ID: 11882073
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communications, comprising:
a transceiver;
memory; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory and configured to:
identify symbols to be used by the UE to transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) within a subframe;
identify one or more symbols to be skipped by the PRACH within the subframe; and
transmit, via the transceiver, the PRACH over one or more slots of the subframe based, at least in part, on the symbols to be used and the one or more symbols to be skipped,
wherein a format of the PRACH comprises one of a plurality of PRACH formats, a number of symbols used to transmit the PRACH is dynamically variable, and the one or more symbols to be skipped by the PRACH within the subframe is based on a number of PRACH formats of the plurality of PRACH formats that fit within the one or more slots of the subframe.