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Granted Patent B2
US 12696327 · App. 18/404,968 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Random access method considering a coverage level, subcarrier spacing configuration and/or multi-tone configuration in internet of things environment

Inventors: Tae-Jin Lee (Suwon-si, KR); Yunmin Kim (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
H04W76/10H04W72/02H04W72/51H04W74/0833H04L1/1893H04W4/70Y02D30/70
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12696327
App. No.
18/404,968
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is random access method, performed by terminal for uplink data transmission during random access process between cellular based machine communication terminal and base station. The method includes performing random access process between cellular based machine communication terminal and base station, and the random access process includes selecting random access resource by considering coverage level and whether to support multi-tone transmission or not. Terminal can perform efficient random access process in response to coverage level, subcarrier spacing configuration, multi-tone configuration when machine communication terminal or machine communication device which operates in cellular based IoT system perform random access, number of repetition may be increased, when coverage level is changed, by minimizing the change in coverage level, and operation time of the terminal, due to standing by up to PRACH resource corresponding to the coverage level, may be reduced to reduce energy consumption and to enhance delay time performance.

Claims (24)

1 . A random access method for uplink data transmission during a random access process between a terminal and a base station, the method being performed by the base station and comprising:

receiving, from the terminal, a random access preamble;

transmitting, to the terminal, a random access response (RAR) including an uplink grant; and

configuring a resource for a subsequent message transmission,

wherein, in response to there being no subcarrier resource for a multi-tone MSG3 transmission, a subcarrier for a single-tone MSG3 transmission is used, and the MSG3 is a message by which the terminal performs a connection request to the base station for uplink data transmission, and

wherein, in a power ramping of a narrow band physical random access channel (NB-PRACH), the base station receives from the terminal the NB-PRACH with a maximum power except for a lowest repetition level having a highest coverage class.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, in response to a number of preamble transmissions being more than a maximum number of preamble transmissions, the coverage level is changed and the number of preamble transmissions is initialized.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein subcarrier resources to be used in a physical random access channel (PRACH) is divided according to a single-tone transmission or a multi-tone transmission.

4 . A random access method for uplink data transmission during a random access process between a terminal and a base station, the method being performed by the base station and comprising:

receiving, from the terminal, a random access preamble;

transmitting, to the terminal, a random access response including an uplink grant; and

determining a resource for a message transmission based on the uplink grant,

wherein a resource for the random access preamble is selected based on a coverage level and whether the terminal supports a multi-tone transmission,

wherein, in response to there being no subcarrier resource for a multi-tone MSG3 transmission, a subcarrier for a single-tone MSG3 transmission is used, and the MSG3 is a message by which the terminal performs a connection request to the base station for uplink data transmission, and

wherein, in a power ramping of a narrow band physical random access channel (NB-PRACH), the base station receives from the terminal the NB-PRACH with a maximum power except for a lowest repetition level having a highest coverage class.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein subcarrier resources to be used in a physical random access channel (PRACH) is divided according to a single-tone transmission or a multi-tone transmission.

6 . A random access method for uplink data transmission during a random access process between a terminal and a base station, the method being performed by the base station and comprising:

receiving, from the terminal, a random access preamble;

transmitting, to the terminal, a random access response (RAR) including an uplink grant; and

configuring a random access resource for a message transmission based on the uplink grant,

wherein, in response to there being no subcarrier resource for a multi-tone MSG3 transmission, a subcarrier for a single-tone MSG3 transmission is used, and the MSG3 is a message by which the terminal performs a connection request to the base station for uplink data transmission, and

wherein, in a power ramping of a narrow band physical random access channel (NB-PRACH), the base station receives from the terminal the NB-PRACH with a maximum power except for a lowest repetition level having a highest coverage class.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein, in response to a number of preamble transmissions being more than a maximum number of preamble transmissions, the coverage level is changed and the number of preamble transmissions is initialized.

8 . The method of claim 6 , wherein subcarrier resources to be used in a physical random access channel (PRACH) is divided according to a single-tone transmission or a multi-tone transmission.