At 1102, the base station receives, from a user equipment (UE), an indication configured to activate or deactivate repetition of the downlink control channel associated with a network access procedure. For example, with reference to
In some examples, the indication may be from a set of indications including at least one of a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble from a preconfigured subset of PRACH preambles, a PRACH preamble repeated over multiple random access channel (RACH) occasions, a PRACH preamble on a predefined subset of RACH occasions, a PRACH preamble using a designated resource allocation, a request or a predefined message in a radio resource connection (RRC) connection request message, or a first uplink transmission after reception of a contention resolution message.