# US 12,771,503 B2 · Interference management for two-step random access > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,771,503 B2 - Document ID: US12771503B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/673,218 - Filed: 2024-05-23 - Published: 2024-09-19 - Granted: 2026-10-20 - Earliest claimed: 2019-03-08 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Jing Lei; Wanshi Chen; Yiqing Cao - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12771503B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04W 74/0833: Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access - H04W 74/0836: with 2-step access - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a first random access message of a two-step random access procedure. In some examples, the first random access message may be transmitted by the UE based on one or more cell-specific transmission parameters or cell-specific transmission schemes. The base station may transmit, to the UE, a second random access response message of the two-step random access procedure in response to the first random access message. The second random access response message being transmitted based on one or more cell-specific transmission parameters or cell-specific transmission schemes. Accordingly, the base station and the UE may establish a connection with the UE based on the first random access message and the second random access response message, or the base station can indicate to the UE to return to an inactive mode or idle state. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A user equipment (UE) in a cell, comprising: one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: transmit, to a base station serving the cell, a first random access message of a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message including a random access preamble and a random access payload, wherein information bits of the random access payload are scrambled in accordance with a scrambling sequence, wherein the scrambling sequence is based at least in part on a random access radio network temporary identifier, a preamble identifier, and a cell identifier; receive, from the base station, a second random access response message of the two-step random access procedure in response to the first random access message; establish a connection with the base station based at least in part on the first random access message and the second random access response message; receive a cell-specific configuration for transmission of the random access preamble, wherein the cell-specific configuration comprises one or more cell-specific transmission parameters; and identify, from the cell-specific configuration, one or more random access preamble transmission occasions, wherein the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions comprise time domain resources, frequency domain resources, or both, at least one of the time domain resources or frequency domain resources being a cell-specific transmission parameter for the cell-specific configuration, wherein, to transmit the first random access message, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: transmit the random access preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) during the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: determine the random access radio network temporary identifier based at least in part on the cell identifier, wherein the first random access message is transmitted after channel coding. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein, to scramble the information bits of the random access payload, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: scramble the information bits of the random access payload based at least in part on a port index of a demodulation reference signal, wherein the scrambling sequence is based at least in part on the port index of the demodulation reference signal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the random access radio network temporary identifier is used for a radio resource control idle mode, a radio resource control inactive mode, and a radio resource connected mode. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: identify a time domain offset or a frequency domain offset, or both, between the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions and a corresponding random access payload transmission occasion, wherein the one or more cell-specific transmission parameters comprise the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, wherein, to transmit the first random access message, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: transmit the random access payload on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a random access payload transmission occasion based at least in part on transmitting the random access preamble on the PRACH and the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, or both. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The UE of claim 5, wherein to identify the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, or both, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: determine the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, or both, based at least in part on the cell identifier of the cell, wherein the time domain offset is an offset in a quantity of slots with respect to a start of the random access preamble in the PRACH and the frequency domain offset is an offset in a quantity of resource blocks with respect to the start of the random access preamble in the PRACH. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The UE of claim 5, wherein to identify the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, or both, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: receiving, in the cell-specific configuration, an indication of the time domain offset, the frequency domain offset, or both. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: identify a hopping sequence for transmission of the random access payload, wherein the hopping sequence is based at least in part on a time domain offset or a frequency domain offset, or both, between the random access preamble and the random access payload, wherein the first random access message is based at least in part on cell-specific time and frequency resources used for one or more transmission occasions defined by the hopping sequence, wherein, to transmit the first random access message, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: transmit the random access payload on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a random access payload transmission occasion based at least in part on the hopping sequence. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The UE of claim 8, wherein, to identify the hopping sequence, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: determine the time domain offset or the frequency domain offset, or both, based at least in part on the cell identifier of the cell and one or more pseudo-random sequences. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The UE of claim 9, wherein generation of at least one of the one or more pseudo-random sequences is based at least in part on the cell identifier. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The UE of claim 8, wherein, to identify the hopping sequence, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: receive a cell-specific configuration for the hopping sequence. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The UE of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: scramble, for a first hop of the hopping sequence, the information bits of the random access payload based at least in part on a first scrambling sequence that is a function of a first initialization value; scramble, for a second hop of the hopping sequence, information bits of a second random access payload based at least in part on a second scrambling sequence that is a function of a second initialization value; and transmit the random access payload on the PUSCH in a second random access payload transmission occasion based at least in part on the hopping sequence. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: determine a transmission power for transmission of the first random access message based at least in part on a pathloss compensation factor, wherein the pathloss compensation factor is different from neighboring cell pathloss compensation factors used by other UEs in neighboring cells during same transmission occasions, wherein, to transmit the first random access message, the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: transmit the first random access message based at least in part on the transmission power. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the pathloss compensation factor is based at least in part on a value of a transmission occasion of the first random access message. ### Claim 15 A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) in a cell, comprising: transmitting, to a base station serving the cell, a first random access message of a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message including a random access preamble and a random access payload, wherein information bits of the random access payload are scrambled in accordance with a scrambling sequence, wherein the scrambling sequence is based at least in part on a random access radio network temporary identifier, a preamble identifier, and a cell identifier; receiving, from the base station, a second random access response message of the two-step random access procedure in response to the first random access message; establishing a connection with the base station based at least in part on the first random access message and the second random access response message; receiving a cell-specific configuration for transmission of the random access preamble, wherein the cell-specific configuration comprises one or more cell-specific transmission parameters; and identifying, from the cell-specific configuration, one or more random access preamble transmission occasions, wherein the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions comprise time domain resources, frequency domain resources, or both, at least one of the time domain resources or frequency domain resources being a cell-specific transmission parameter for the cell-specific configuration, wherein, transmitting the first random access message, comprises transmitting the random access preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) during the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: determining the random access radio network temporary identifier based at least in part on the cell identifier, wherein the first random access message is transmitted after channel coding. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein scrambling the information bits of the random access payload further comprises: scrambling the information bits of the random access payload based at least in part on a port index of a demodulation reference signal, wherein the scrambling sequence is based at least in part on the port index of the demodulation reference signal. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein the random access radio network temporary identifier is used for a radio resource control idle mode, a radio resource control inactive mode, and a radio resource connected mode. ### Claim 19 A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication in a cell, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to: transmit, to a base station serving the cell, a first random access message of a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message including a random access preamble and a random access payload, wherein information bits of the random access payload are scrambled in accordance with a scrambling sequence, wherein the scrambling sequence is based at least in part on a random access radio network temporary identifier, a preamble identifier, and a cell identifier; receive, from the base station, a second random access response message of the two-step random access procedure in response to the first random access message; establish a connection with the base station based at least in part on the first random access message and the second random access response message; receive a cell-specific configuration for transmission of the random access preamble, wherein the cell-specific configuration comprises one or more cell-specific transmission parameters; and identify, from the cell-specific configuration, one or more random access preamble transmission occasions, wherein the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions comprise time domain resources, frequency domain resources, or both, at least one of the time domain resources or frequency domain resources being a cell-specific transmission parameter for the cell-specific configuration, wherein, to transmit the first random access message, the code comprises instructions executable by the one or more processors to: transmit the random access preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) during the one or more random access preamble transmission occasions.