Patent ID: 8665857

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, comprising: transmitting a random access (RA) preamble for random access; and receiving a random access response including a first part and a second part, the first part including a list of N RA preamble identifiers (IDs) for N RA preambles being responded to by the random access response, and the second part including N individual RA responses for the N RA preambles, where N is a value of one or greater, wherein the first part includes N entries, each entry including an extension (E) field and an RA preamble ID field, the extension field being set to a first value to indicate another entry will follow in the first part or a second value to indicate no other entry will follow in the first part, and the RA preamble ID field carrying an RA preamble ID of an RA preamble being responded to by the random access response, wherein the first part includes a header and the second part includes a payload.