CROSS-SCHEDULED RANDOM ACCESS ORDER TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS

摘要

A node (1120) of a wireless network (1100) includes processor circuitry (1310) that is configured to obtain (1510) an identification of a cell on which a user equipment shall transmit a random access preamble and to encode (1520) the identification of the cell on which the user equipment shall transmit the random access preamble into at least one unused bit position of a physical downlink control channel random access order. A transmitter (1340) is responsive to the processor circuitry and is configured to transmit (1530) the physical downlink control channel random access order including the identification of the cell that was encoded into the at least one unused bit position of the physical downlink control channel random access order. Related user equipment, systems and methods are also described.