Patent ID: 9253692
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented by a base station of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a first air-interface resource and a second air-interface resource for concurrent, non-interfering transmissions by two different wireless communication devices (WCDs) of identical random access requests to the base station; transmitting a first message to a first WCD, the first message containing a particular identifier for use in a first contention-free random access request to the base station, the first message further indicating to the first WCD the first air-interface resource for use by the first WCD in transmission of the first contention-free random access request; and transmitting a second message to a second WCD, the second message containing the particular identifier for use in a second contention-free random access request to the base station, the second message further indicating to the second WCD the second air-interface resource for use by the second WCD in transmission of the second contention-free random access request, wherein the first contention-free access request and the second contention-free access request are each identified only by the particular identifier.