Non-PDCCH signaling of SIB resource assignment

A user equipment (UE) device, comprising:

• an antenna;
• a radio coupled to the antenna;
• and
• a processing element operably coupled to the radio,
• wherein the UE device is configured to:
• receive an information block (IB) comprising first information for accessing the cell, wherein the first information comprises resource assignments for at least two system information blocks (SIBs), wherein the IB is transmitted in a downlink shared data channel;
• and
• receive the at least two SIBs in the downlink shared data channel,
• wherein the information block is useable to determine the resource assignments of the at least two SIBs, and hence locations of the at least two SIBs in the downlink shared data channel, without decoding an associated downlink control channel.

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) device, the method comprising:

• performing a cell search;
• acquiring a cell associated with a base station based on the cell search;
• receiving, from the base station, an information block (IB) comprising first information for accessing the cell, wherein the first information comprises a resource assignment for system information block 1 (SIB-1);
• determining the resource assignment of the SIB-1 in a downlink shared data channel based on the IB and without decoding an associated downlink control channel;
• and
• receiving, from the base station, the SIB-1 in the downlink shared data channel in accordance with the determined resource assignment of the SIB-1.