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US 12,375,165 · App. 17/691,550 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Random access method, terminal device, network device and storage medium

Inventors: Weijie Xu (Dongguan, CN); Shukun Wang (Dongguan, CN); Chuanfeng He (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
H04B7/18513H04W24/08H04W72/0446H04W74/006H04W74/0841H04W74/0866
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Patent No.
US 12,375,165
App. No.
17/691,550
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a random access method, including: determining, by a terminal device, a target time according to an offset which is a time parameter related to a propagation delay between the terminal device and a network device; and transmitting, by the terminal device, a random access request to the network device based on the target time. Further disclosed are another five random access methods, a terminal device, a network device and a storage medium.

Claims (66)

1. A random access method, wherein the method comprises:

determining, by a terminal device, a target time according to an offset; and

transmitting, by the terminal device, a random access request to a network device based on the target time;

wherein a type of the random access is a first type of random access, a triggering mode of the random access is triggering by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, the determining the target time according to the offset comprises:

determining a random access occasion in a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource according to a last symbol of the PDCCH order and the offset, wherein a time interval between the last symbol of the PDCCH order and a first symbol of the random access occasion is greater than a duration corresponding to the offset.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the offset is predefined by the terminal device; or

the offset is configured by the network device.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein when the offset is configured by the network device, the offset is configured by the network device through at least one of the following signalings:

a system broadcast message;

a PDCCH signaling;

a radio resource control signaling; and

a media access control control element signaling.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a starting time of a random access response (RAR) window according to the offset.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the starting time of the RAR window is: a control resource set in a PDCCH common search space set configured for the terminal device, wherein the control resource set is at an earliest time position where the terminal device receives a PDCCH and the earliest time position is at a time after a duration corresponding to a specific offset after a last symbol of a random access occasion where the terminal device transmits a PRACH, wherein the duration corresponding to the specific offset is a sum of a specific duration and the duration corresponding to the offset.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a target time slot according to the offset; and

transmitting, by the terminal device, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for carrying message 3 based on the target time slot.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the determining the target time slot according to the offset comprises:

determining the target time slot according to a reference time slot and the offset, wherein the reference time slot is a time slot in which a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) carrying a RAR message is received.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

monitoring, by the terminal device, a PDCCH carrying a contention resolution message based on the offset.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the monitoring the PDCCH carrying the contention resolution message based on the offset comprises:

starting a random access contention resolution timer at a time after the duration corresponding to the offset after a time of transmitting message 3, and restarting the random access contention resolution timer at a first symbol after the duration corresponding to the offset after a time of retransmitting message 3; wherein the PDCCH carrying the contention resolution message is monitored during operation of the random access contention resolution timer.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the monitoring the PDCCH carrying the contention resolution message based on the offset comprises:

starting a random access contention resolution timer after message 3 is transmitted, and restarting the random access contention resolution timer after message 3 is retransmitted; wherein the PDCCH carrying the contention resolution message is monitored after the random access contention resolution timer runs for the duration corresponding to the offset.

11. A random access method, wherein the method comprises:

configuring, by a network device, an offset to a terminal device, and the offset is used for the terminal device to control transmitting of a random access request;

wherein a type of the random access is a first type of random access, a triggering mode of the random access is triggering by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, the offset is used by the terminal device to determine a random access occasion in a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource according to a last symbol of the PDCCH order and the offset, wherein a time interval between the last symbol of the PDCCH order and a first symbol of the random access occasion is greater than a duration corresponding to the offset.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the configuring the offset to the terminal device comprises:

transmitting a configuration message carrying the offset to the terminal device.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the configuration message comprises at least one of the following:

a system broadcast message;

a PDCCH signaling;

a radio resource control signaling; and

a media access control control element signaling.

14. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the network device, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carrying message 3 according to the offset.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the receiving the PUSCH carrying message 3 according to the offset comprises:

receiving the PUSCH carrying message 3 at a time after the duration corresponding to the offset after a time of transmitting a random access response (RAR).

16. A terminal device, comprising a processor and a memory for storing a computer program that is runnable on the processor, wherein when the processor is used to run the computer program, the processor is configured to:

determine a target time according to an offset; and

control an output interface to transmit a random access request to a network device based on the target time;

wherein a type of the random access is a first type of random access, a triggering mode of the random access is triggering by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, the processor is configured to:

determine a random access occasion in a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource according to a last symbol of the PDCCH order and the offset, wherein a time interval between the last symbol of the PDCCH order and a first symbol of the random access occasion is greater than a duration corresponding to the offset.

17. The terminal device according to claim 16 , wherein

the offset is predefined by the terminal device; or

the offset is configured by the network device.

18. The terminal device according to claim 17 , wherein when the offset is configured by the network device, the offset is configured by the network device through at least one of the following signalings:

a system broadcast message;

a PDCCH signaling;

a radio resource control signaling; and

a media access control control element signaling.

19. The terminal device according to claim 16 , the processor is further configured to:

determine a starting time of a random access response (RAR) window according to the offset.

20. A network device, comprising a processor and a memory for storing a computer program that is runnable on the processor, wherein when the processor is used to run the computer program, the processor is configured to:

configure an offset to a terminal device and the offset is used for the terminal device to control transmitting of a random access request;

wherein a type of the random access is a first type of random access, a triggering mode of the random access is triggering by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, the offset is used by the terminal device to determine a random access occasion in a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource according to a last symbol of the PDCCH order and the offset, wherein a time interval between the last symbol of the PDCCH order and a first symbol of the random access occasion is greater than a duration corresponding to the offset.

21. The network device according to claim 20 , wherein when the processor is used to run the computer program, the processor is further configured to:

transmit a configuration message carrying the offset to the terminal device.

22. The network device according to claim 21 , wherein the configuration message comprises at least one of the following:

a system broadcast message;

a PDCCH signaling;

a radio resource control signaling; and

a media access control control element signaling.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2022
From: WEIJIE XU; WANG, SHUKUN; HE, CHUANFENG
To: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059860/0417 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019109636 · Sep 30, 2019
Related Publication 20220201770A1 · Jun 23, 2022
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