A scheduled entity in a wireless communication network, configured to receive, and a scheduling entity configured to transmit, a physical random access channel (PRACH) indication indicating resources of: at least one reference slot, at least one joint random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion (PO) (joint RO and PO) slot within the at least one reference slot, and at least a first RO and at least a first PO within the at least one joint RO and PO slot, the at least the first RO and the at least the first PO corresponding to each other and corresponding to a first beam of a plurality of beams of the scheduling entity. According to some aspects, the joint RO and PO slot corresponds to a plurality of contiguous slots that collectively include a plurality of RO and PO combinations scheduled consecutively in time.