| CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 74/004 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a terminal, a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a base station;
obtaining, by the terminal, system information from the PBCH included in the SS/PBCH block;
transmitting, by the terminal to the base station, a message A, based on the system information; and
receiving, by the terminal, a random access response (RAR) in a message B during a window;
wherein, based on a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble being mapped to a valid physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion, for both of i) a transmission of a PRACH and a PUSCH and ii) a transmission of only a PRACH without a PUSCH, the window for detecting the message B starts at least one symbol after a last symbol of a PUSCH occasion corresponding to the PRACH preamble.
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