Enhanced cell acquisition for enhanced machine type communications

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• means for determining one or more opportunities for assisting cell acquisition by one or more user equipments (UEs);
• means for boosting transmission power for one or more first signals used for cell acquisition during the determined one or more opportunities by reducing a number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) assignments during the determined one or more opportunities and allocating available transmission power to a narrowband region of available system bandwidth that is different from a center bandwidth region of the available system bandwidth, wherein the one or more first signals comprise at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal;
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• means for transmitting one or more second signals different from the one or more first signals across an entire system bandwidth while boosting the transmission power for the one or more first signals during the determined one or more opportunities.

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• at least one processor configured to:
• determine one or more opportunities for assisting cell acquisition by one or more user equipments (UEs);
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• boost transmission power for one or more first signals used for cell acquisition during the determined one or more opportunities by reducing a number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) assignments during the determined one or more opportunities and allocating available transmission power to a narrowband region of available system bandwidth that is different from a center bandwidth region of the available system bandwidth, wherein the one or more first signals comprise at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal;
• a transmitter configured to transmit one or more second signals different from the one or more first signals across an entire system bandwidth while the transmission power for the one or more first signals is boosted during the determined one or more opportunities;
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• a memory coupled to the at least one processor.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer executable code stored thereon for wireless communications by an apparatus, the computer executable code comprising:

• code for determining one or more opportunities for assisting cell acquisition by one or more user equipments (UEs);
• code for boosting transmission power for one or more first signals used for cell acquisition during the determined one or more opportunities by reducing a number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) assignments during the determined one or more opportunities and allocating available transmission power to a narrowband region of available system bandwidth that is different from a center bandwidth region of the available system bandwidth, wherein the one or more first signals comprise at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal;
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• code for transmitting one or more second signals different from the one or more first signals across an entire system bandwidth while boosting the transmission power for the one or more first signals during the determined one or more opportunities.