In accordance with various embodiment, the invention provides a method for a transmission point (TP) to adjust an amount of random access resources. The method includes: transmitting a synchronization signal to one or more devices; transmitting one or more reference signals to the one or more devices, wherein each reference signal is associated with a set of random access resources of the TP; receiving one or more random access signals from the one or more devices, wherein each of the one or more random access signals is correspondent with at least one of the sets of the random access resources; and based on the one or more random access signals, adjusting a transmission power of at least one of the reference signals.
In accordance with various embodiment, the invention provides a device that is configured to communicate with one or more transmission points (TP's). The device includes at least one processor configured to: receive one or more synchronization signals; derive a synchronization reference from the one or more synchronization signals; receive a plurality of reference signals; based on the derived synchronization reference, perform a plurality of measurements on the plurality of reference signals; based on the plurality of measurements, select a plurality of random access resources; and select a random access resource from a plurality of random access resources for transmitting a random access signal to at least one of the one or more TP's.
Further features and advantages of the present invention, as well as the structure and operation of various embodiments of the present invention, are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.