Patent ID: 9629183
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile communications terminal, comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit uplink random access channel (RACH) messages on a radio interface to a base station of a mobile communications network, the radio interface provided by the base station and the RACH messages identifying an uplink RACH of the radio interface; and circuitry configured to encode machine type communication (MTC) data within the uplink RACH by both preamble positioning within RACH resources and selecting a transmission timing for RACH messages within sub-frames of the uplink RACH, the encoded MTC data represented by the preamble position and the selected transmission timing, wherein the transceiver transmits the MTC data via the uplink RACH to the base station by transmitting the RACH messages according to the preamble position and the selected transmission timing.