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RACH Procedure in 5G
RACH Procedure in 5G
NOTE : The Preamble selection process remains the same in the 2-Step RACH process but
there is furthermore information in MsgA
Implementation of 2-Step-RACH
• A common design for 3 main use cases of 5G-NR (mMTC, URLLC and eMBB) and for both licensed and
unlicensed spectrum
• 2-step RACH procedure potentially has benefits for channel access
• The triggers for 4-step RACH are also applicable to 2-step RACH and hence 2-step RACH could be applied
for all RRC states. ( Edit the slide that has All RACH Triggers)
• 2-step RACH is applied for RRC_INACTIVE , RRC_CONNECTED and RRC_IDLE state
• 2-step RACH is applicable to any cell size supported in Rel-15 NR and shall be able operate regardless of
whether the UE has valid Timing Alignment(TA) or not.
PRACH Preamble Transmission
•The Preamble Selection and transmission is the same as the 4-Step RACH process.
•UE follows the similar Procedure of 4-Step RACH while selecting a Random Access preamble.
•All the preamble formats and the PRACH configuration indexes defined in Rel-15 and in Rel-16 NR-U can be used.
•In the case of shared time-domain PRACH resources between 4-step RACH and 2-step RACH, different preambles are
allocated to differentiate the RA types.
•The mapping between SSB and PRACH occasion reuses that for 4-step RACH.
•The PRACH occasion can be shared between 2-StepRA and 4-step RA procedure
msgA-PUSCH transmission
PUSCH message is transmitted in the case of 2-Step RA as part of msgA. How and when this message is transmitted
by UE is discussed in this section:
What is a PUSCH Occasion?A PUSCH occasion for PUSCH transmission is defined by a frequency resource and a
time resource and is associated with a DMRS resource. The DMRS resources are provided by msgA-DMRS-
Configuration. Simply put PUSCH occasions are time and frequency resources where a UE can send PUSCH in the
uplink.
How UE knows when to transmit PUSCH for MsgA ?There are a couple of ways the UE gets this information from
the network, either in SIB1 when the UE is not in a connected state, or when the UE is rrc_connected state and this
information is passed on to UE by dedicated signaling for example during a handover procedure.
When does the UE transmit MsgA PUSCH ???????????