Techniques for selecting random access preambles and payload formats in wireless communications

Abstract

Aspects described herein relate to receiving a configuration indicating multiple association rules associating random access preambles and payload formats, selecting, as part of a random access procedure, a random access preamble from the random access preambles for transmitting over a random access occasion, determining, based at least in part on at least one of the association rules in the configuration, a payload format associated with the random access preamble and a corresponding payload resource unit, and transmitting the random access preamble over the random access occasion and, according to the payload format, an associated payload over the corresponding payload resource unit. Multiplexing of payload resource units with same or different payload formats can be performed in time, frequency and code domains, based on the received configuration.