CPC H04W 74/0841 (2013.01) [H04W 74/0875 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |
1. A method for providing Random Access Channel (RACH) response preamble prioritization, the method comprising:
receiving, from a RACH receiver at a Preamble Prioritization Element (PPE), a list of detected preambles from a plurality of User Equipment (UE) devices, the preambles having a configured priority for different preamble groups;
providing, by the PPE, an ordered prioritized list of the detected preambles;
forwarding, by the PPE to a RACH response element, a predetermined number of detected preambles from the ordered prioritized list; and
sending a first Random Access Response (RAR) message to a UE that sent a dedicated preamble based on the ordered prioritized list.
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