Patent ID: 9380606
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a wireless communication device from a network node, an assigned one of a plurality of time intervals in a periodically repeating access cycle for transmission of an access signal, the plurality of time intervals in the access cycle based on synchronization information broadcast over an air interface to the wireless communication device so that the wireless communication device is synchronized with other wireless communication devices on the same access cycle with the same numbering of the time intervals; receiving, at the wireless communication device from the network node, a preamble assignment for the assigned one of the plurality of time intervals; transmitting, at the wireless communication device, the access signal over an access channel in the assigned one of the plurality of time intervals using a preamble corresponding to the preamble assignment; wherein the plurality of time intervals are a plurality of time slots in the periodically repeating access cycle, and wherein receiving an assigned one of the plurality of time intervals comprises receiving one of the plurality of time slots based on a slot numbering comprising system frame number associated with the selected one of the slots and broadcast over the air interface.