APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL RESOURCE SELECTION

摘要

A method is provided that includes various operations from the perspective of a user equipment. The method includes receiving a plurality of selection probabilities for a respective plurality of component carriers in a carrier aggregation communication scheme, with the selection probabilities being quantitative values received from a base station via a paging message on a paging channel. The method also includes selecting a random-access channel resource on a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers based on the plurality of selection probabilities. And the method includes causing participation in a random-access procedure with the base station, including causing transmission of a random access preamble to the base station using the selected random-access channel resource. A corresponding method from the perspective of the base station is also provided.