Patent ID: 8559362

Claim:
A method of coordinating resources for repetition of random access bursts performed by a mobile terminal, the method comprising: determining, by the mobile terminal, groups of access slots based on parameters from a network, wherein the access slots are organized according to a frequency pattern and each access slot is defined by at least frequency, time or code; transmitting, by the mobile terminal, an access burst on an access slot of a chosen group of the groups of access slots; and re-transmitting, by the mobile terminal, the access burst on a next access slot of the chosen group, wherein the groups of access slots comprise: a first group of access slots corresponding to a first path loss greater than or equal to a first threshold value; a second group of access slots corresponding to a second path loss less than the first threshold value and greater than a second threshold value; and a third group of access slots corresponding to a third path loss less than the second threshold value; and wherein the first path loss, the second path loss and the third path loss represent a signal attenuation between the mobile terminal and the network.