| CPC H04W 74/006 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1829 (2013.01); H04L 25/0224 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] | 30 Claims |

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1. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
memory; and
one or more processors coupled with the memory and configured to:
determine a status of a repetition procedure associated with a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message of a four-step random access channel (RACH) procedure;
determine that a subset of RRC connection request message repetitions are to be used for joint channel estimation; and
invoke an activity state of an RRC connection setup message physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring procedure based at least in part on the status of the repetition procedure, wherein the one or more processors are configured to invoke the activity state based at least in part on determining that the subset of RRC connection request message repetitions are to be used for joint channel estimation.
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