The synchronization signal, the measurement RS, the measurement result, the random access resource, and the random accessing mapping mentioned at the operations 104, 106, 108, and 112, respectively, will be described in further detail below.
Referring now to FIG. 4, an exemplary embodiment of periodically transmitted bursts is shown. More specifically in the illustrated embodiment of FIG. 4, the periodically transmitted bursts include a burst period, a burst duration, and a burst width. In some embodiments, synchronization signals and measurement RS's are transmitted in bursts (periodically). In some embodiments, the time between bursts, i.e., the burst period, in a periodic transmission, is much larger than the burst duration. In some embodiments, the burst duration is a multiple of 1 ms, e.g., between 1-5 ms. In some embodiments, the burst duration is an integer multiple of the LTE Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol duration, i.e., multiples of approximately 71.4 microseconds in some LTE configurations. In some embodiments, the burst period is 80, 100, 160 or 200 milliseconds but other durations may be used in other embodiments.
