ENHANCEMENT ON RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL OCCASION AND SS/PBCH BLOCK ASSOCIATION

摘要

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment of a communication network, information comprising a random access channel configuration and a number of cycled beams; determining a number of random access channel occasions for a random access channel occasion group; transforming synchronization signal blocks to a beam index given the number of cycled beams and associating beams with the number of random access channel occasions of the random access channel occasion group; identifying a random access channel occasion group associated with the beam index; selecting at least one preamble associated with the beam index in the random access channel occasion group; and transmitting the at least one preamble within each of the number of random access channel occasions of the random access channel occasion group to perform a random access channel procedure.