Preamble transmission counter for a beam failure recover of a wireless device

A method comprising:

• starting, by a wireless device, a beam failure recovery (BFR) timer in response to initiation of a BFR;
• selecting a reference signal in response to an expiry of the BFR timer;
• transmitting a first preamble associated with the reference signal;
• incrementing a preamble transmission counter, from a value of the preamble transmission counter before the expiry of the BFR timer, in response to not receiving a downlink control information for the transmitting the first preamble;
• and
• transmitting a second preamble for the BFR in response a value of the preamble transmission counter, after the incrementing, being equal to or less than a number for preamble transmissions.

A system comprising:

• a wireless device comprising:
• one or more first processors;
• and
• a first memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors of the wireless device, cause the wireless device to:
• start a beam failure recovery (BFR) timer in response to initiating a contention-free random access for a BFR;
• based on expiry of the BFR timer, transmit a first preamble employing a contention-based random access for the BFR;
• based on not receiving a response to the first preamble, increment a preamble transmission counter from a value of the preamble transmission counter of the contention-free random access;
• and
• transmit a second preamble in response to a value of the preamble transmission counter, after the incrementing, being equal to or less than a number;
• and
• a base station comprising:
• one or more second processors;
• and
• a second memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the one or more second processors of the base station, cause the base station to receive the second preamble.