User equipments, base stations and methods

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• reception circuitry configured to receive first information;
• and
• transmission circuitry configured to perform a PRACH transmission with preamble repetition based on a set of resources where a set of preambles is allocated and perform a PRACH transmission without preamble repetition based on the set of resources, wherein
• the first information includes second information to specify a set of candidate resources and third information to specify the set of preambles, the third information including fourth information indicating a combination of features that the set of preambles is associated with,
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is not one of the features, the set of resources is a subset of the set of candidate resources indicated by a mask index included in the third information, and
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is one of the features, the mask index is not provided in the third information and the set of resources is all of the set of candidate resources.

A base station, comprising:

• transmission circuitry configured to transmit first information;
• and
• reception circuitry configured to perform a PRACH reception with preamble repetition based on a set of resources where a set of preambles is allocated and perform a PRACH reception without preamble repetition based on the set of resources, wherein
• the first information includes second information to specify a set of candidate resources and third information to specify the set of preambles, the third information including fourth information indicating a combination of features that the set of preambles is associated with,
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is not one of the features, the set of resources is a subset of the set of candidate resources indicated by a mask index included in the third information, and
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is one of the features, the mask index is not provided in the third information and the set of resources is all of the set of candidate resources.

A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

• receiving first information;
• and
• performing a PRACH transmission with preamble repetition based on a set of resources where a set of preambles is allocated and perform a PRACH transmission without preamble repetition based on the set of resources, wherein
• the first information includes second information to specify a set of candidate resources and third information to specify the set of preambles, the third information including fourth information indicating a combination of features that the set of preambles is associated with,
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is not one of the features, the set of resources is a subset of the set of candidate resources indicated by a mask index included in the third information, and
• in a case that the fourth information indicates the preamble repetition is one of the features, the mask index is not provided in the third information and the set of resources is all of the set of candidate resources.