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Communicating information indicating support for a plurality of coverage enhancement levels

  • US 10,425,963 B2
  • Filed: 07/17/2018
  • Issued: 09/24/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • in a base station,transmitting to a mobile device, information indicating support of a plurality of coverage enhancement levels for the mobile device, wherein a coverage enhancement level provides signal strength information and each coverage enhancement level corresponds to a different physical random access channel for the mobile device; and

    receiving from the mobile device, a preamble signal using a physical random access channel corresponding to a coverage enhancement level selected, by the mobile device, from the plurality of coverage enhancement levels,wherein the physical random access channel corresponding to the selected coverage enhancement level is an extended physical random access channel overlapping a physical random access channel.

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