In various embodiments, a random access slot is a continuous time-frequency range, e.g. a set of adjacent RB's in some embodiments or a set of adjacent sub-carriers and time-symbols in some embodiments. In some embodiments, there are several simultaneous, or partly simultaneous, random access slots on different frequencies. In some embodiments, the time-frequency range of two different random access slots do not overlap, whereas they partly overlap in some embodiments. In some embodiments, a random access slot occurs repeatedly in time, e.g. periodically in some embodiments.
In various embodiments, a random access preamble is a signal that may be used as a random access signal by a device. In various embodiments, there are multiple different random access preambles that may be used as random access signals. In some embodiments, a random access preamble is defined by a sequence, code and/or index, that in various embodiments are used to generate the random access preamble. In other embodiments, a random access preamble is defined through other parameters, that may be used to generate the signal.