Patent 10448430 was granted and assigned to ZTE on October, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A random access method comprises: transmitting, by a firstuser equipment (UE) in a UE group, and according to a time-frequency resource, a preamble to an evolved node B (eNB); and monitoring, by a second UE in the UE group and/or the first UE, for a random access response (RAR) corresponding to the preamble transmitted by the eNB, wherein the first UE is at least one UE in the UE group, and the second UE is all or a part of the UEs in the UE group.