Fish & Richardson P.C.
Random access procedure for enhanced coverage support
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (UE) and an evolved Node B (eNB) that are both running in Enhanced Coverage (EC) mode. The UE and eNB may communicate in a contention-based random access procedure having an EC level that may be used to determine the number of times an RA preamble may be sent, and one or more RA response opportunity windows that may be used to receive one or more RA responses. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
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Hyung-Nam Youn Hyoung Debdeep Umesh Marta Richard
Choi Heo Chatterjee Phuyal Martinez Tarradell Burbidge