A user equipment, UE, for wireless communication, comprising: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon; and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive configuration information associated with at least two uplink carriers; select one of the at least two uplink carriers if power of a first downlink reference signal measured by the UE is below a first threshold value; select a contention-free random access, CFRA, resource associated with a second downlink reference signal on the selected uplink carrier if power of the second downlink reference signal measured by the UE is above a second threshold value, wherein the second downlink reference signal is synchronization signal block, SSB, or channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the SSB and the CFRA resource is associated with the SSB if the second downlink reference signal is the SSB, and wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the CSI-RS and the CFRA resource is associated with the CSI-RS if the second downlink reference signal is the CSI-RS; and perform a random access procedure using the selected CFRA resource and the selected uplink carrier. one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon; and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive configuration information associated with at least two uplink carriers; select one of the at least two uplink carriers if power of a first downlink reference signal measured by the UE is below a first threshold value; select a contention-free random access, CFRA, resource associated with a second downlink reference signal on the selected uplink carrier if power of the second downlink reference signal measured by the UE is above a second threshold value, wherein the second downlink reference signal is synchronization signal block, SSB, or channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the SSB and the CFRA resource is associated with the SSB if the second downlink reference signal is the SSB, and wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the CSI-RS and the CFRA resource is associated with the CSI-RS if the second downlink reference signal is the CSI-RS; and perform a random access procedure using the selected CFRA resource and the selected uplink carrier. receive configuration information associated with at least two uplink carriers; select one of the at least two uplink carriers if power of a first downlink reference signal measured by the UE is below a first threshold value; select a contention-free random access, CFRA, resource associated with a second downlink reference signal on the selected uplink carrier if power of the second downlink reference signal measured by the UE is above a second threshold value, wherein the second downlink reference signal is synchronization signal block, SSB, or channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the SSB and the CFRA resource is associated with the SSB if the second downlink reference signal is the SSB, and wherein the second threshold value is associated with signal quality of the CSI-RS and the CFRA resource is associated with the CSI-RS if the second downlink reference signal is the CSI-RS; and perform a random access procedure using the selected CFRA resource and the selected uplink carrier.