Patent ID: 8451804

Claim:
A method of handling random access, the method comprising: transmitting, by a network, information regarding one or more access service classes; allocating, by the network, access resources based on one or more purposes for attempting the random access, with respect to the one or more access service classes, wherein the one or more purposes for attempting the random access comprise at least mobility management or measurement report; transmitting, by the network, information regarding the allocated access resources; and receiving, by the network, an initial random access attempt corresponding to a determination of a random access probability, the determination of the random access probability being an arithmetic function of both the information regarding the one or more access service classes and the information regarding the allocated access resources, wherein receiving the initial random access attempt comprises receiving an access burst comprising a preamble, wherein the method further comprises deriving a purpose corresponding to the initial random access attempt from the preamble, and wherein deriving the purpose comprises using radio resources divided among the one or more purposes or groups of the one or more purposes having different priorities.