A beam failure recovery method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: A terminal device initiates a random access process when detecting that a beam failure occurs on all M TRPs associated with a special cell; determines available beams of N TRPs in the M TRPs, where 1<N?M, and M and N are integers; and sends first information to a network device in the random access process, where the first information indicates information about the available beams of the N TRPs, and each of the N TRPs corresponds to one available beam. After receiving the first information, the network device returns a random access response message to the terminal device.

A first exemplary embodiment provides a method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling communication of the wireless device in a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprises a first radio network node (12) and a second radio network node (13), which first radio network node (12) serves the wireless device (10). The wireless device receives an indication indicating a mapping between one or more channel state information reference signals, CSI-RS, and one or more random access channel, RACH, configurations. The wireless device receives one or more CSI-RSs from the second radio network node (13), and selects a CSI-RS out of the one or more received CSI-RSs. The wireless device further initiates a random access procedure towards the second radio network node (13) using at least part of the RACH configuration mapped to the selected CSI-RS.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Wireless communications systems may support beamformed transmissions between devices (e.g., to improve coverage range). The beamformed transmissions may depend on discovery and maintenance of receive and transmit beams over which a given device may communicate with another device. Various receive and transmit beams for a given device may be compared using reference signals. As the number of devices attempting to access a cell increases, the number of reference signals to be transmitted may scale proportionally. Large numbers of reference signals may flood time-frequency resources of the system and/or require excessive processing at a mobile device. Scrambling sequences for reference signals may be employed to improve efficiency of resource usage. In aspects, the scrambling sequences may be implicitly determined (e.g., based on resources over which the access request was transmitted). Such an implicit association may reduce the need for additional signaling.

A method and an apparatus for controlling in-device coexistence interference (IDC) in a wireless communication system are provided. The present invention comprises transmitting IDC indication information including an unusable frequency band that is a frequency band in which performing communication is difficult because of IDC interference to a Base Station (BS), receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration including IDC Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration reconfiguring DRX relating the unusable frequency band based on the IDC indication information from the BS and performing autonomously denial of Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) transmission in the unusable frequency band by reconfiguring DRX based on the IDC DRX configuration.

User equipment (UE) selection of contention-free random access (CFRA) and contention-based random access (CBRA) for handover processing is discussed. The aspects include receiving a random access configuration at the UE including configuration for CFRA and CBRA. The UE will determine a first random access resource, wherein the first random access resource maps to one or more beams from a target base station. The UE may initiate a random access request using the CFRA when the first random access resource is a contention-free resource, and initiate the random access request using the CBRA when the first random access resource is a contention-based resource.

The present disclosure is related to a 5.sup.th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate than a 4.sup.th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: generating remaining minimum system information (RMSI) comprising random access channel (RACH) configuration, wherein the RACH configuration comprises an association between RACH resources and one of a synchronization signal (SS) block and channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the RMSI.

A method for processing beam failure and a terminal are provided by the present disclosure. The method includes: determining a BFR event, wherein the beam failure recovery event includes an abnormality occurring in a BFR procedure or at least two cells both undergoing a BFR; executing a specific operation according to the BFR event.

A communication method and system for converging a 5.sup.th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4.sup.th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system includes intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method includes receiving and selectively applying at least one of a first set of random access prioritization parameters, a second set of random access prioritization parameters, or a third set of random access prioritization parameters, based on whether a random access procedure is initiated for beam failure recovery or handover.

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: receiving, at a user equipment from a first access point supporting a serving cell, one or more user equipment specific allocations of a random access preamble and timing information associated with the random access preamble, the timing information indicating when the user equipment is to use the associated random access preamble; responsive to the receiving, starting a timer; and sending, to a second access point supporting a target cell, a random access request including one of the one or more random access preambles, the included random access preamble being selected based on a value of the timer and the timing information.

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: receiving, at a user equipment from a first access point supporting a serving cell, one or more user equipment specific allocations of a random access preamble and timing information associated with the random access preamble, the timing information indicating when the user equipment is to use the associated random access preamble; responsive to the receiving, starting a timer; and sending, to a second access point supporting a target cell, a random access request including one of the one or more random access preambles, the included random access preamble being selected based on a value of the timer and the timing information.