Physical layer signaling techniques in wireless communications systems

A method for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising:

• receiving configuration information, identified by a subset of a set of wireless resources of a channel on a contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band, that contains frame format information for one or more subframes, the frame format information comprising one or more parameters for wireless communications using the contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• monitoring the subset of the set of wireless resources;
• and
• receiving, from a base station, the frame format information identified by the subset of the set of wireless resources.

An apparatus for wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• the processor and the memory configured to:
• identify a first subset of wireless resources of a channel on a contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum for signaling first configuration information to a first user equipment (UE) group;
• identify a second subset of wireless resources of the channel on the contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band, for signaling second configuration information to a second UE group, the first configuration information including one or more parameters for the first UE group and the second configuration information including one or more parameters for the second UE group to perform wireless communications using the contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• and
• transmit the first configuration information to the first UE group using the first subset of wireless resources and the second configuration information to the second UE group using the second subset of wireless resources.

An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• the processor and memory configured to:
• receive configuration information identified by a subset of a set of wireless resources of a channel on a contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band, that contains frame format information for one or more subframes, the frame format information comprising one or more parameters for wireless communications using the contention-based shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• monitor the subset of the set of wireless resources;
• and
• receive, from a base station, the frame format information identified by the subset of the set of wireless resources.