In various embodiments, other scheduled transmissions, i.e., other than random access signals, are scheduled for transmission on a set of allowed random access resources. In various embodiments, unscheduled other transmissions are transmitted on a set of allowed random access resources. Such scheduled or unscheduled transmissions include data, control and/or reference signal transmissions from devices, backhaul transmissions and fronthaul transmissions. In various embodiments, such transmissions are received (which could include received, processed, detected and/or decoded) by other TP(s) than the TP that performs random access signal detection on the set of allowed random access resources. Hence, the random access resources can be reused in network, improving the overall efficiency. This is sometimes called space division multiple access. In various embodiments, such transmissions are received (which could include received, processed, detected and/or decoded) by the same TP(s) that performs random access signal detection on the set of allowed random access resources. This could be achieved by using various forms of multiplexing of the transmissions, in various embodiments, for instance code multiplexing, spatial multiplexing using multiple receive antennas, etc. In this way, the random access resources can be further reused in the network.
Several benefits of the method in various embodiments are listed below. For example,