Raster design for narrowband operation for machine type communications

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory including instructions for at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
• receive, from a network device, a master information block (MIB) comprising a field that jointly indicates (i) a type of deployment for narrowband communications and (ii) whether a cell identifier (ID) of a first cell associated with the BS is the same as a cell ID of a second cell;
• determine, based at least in part on the field of the MIB, an exact frequency location of one channel to perform the narrowband communications, wherein the one channel corresponds to an anchor physical resource block for the narrowband communications;
• and
• communicate based at least in part on the exact frequency location of the one channel.

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• means for receiving, from a network device, a master information block (MIB) comprising a field that jointly indicates (i) a type of deployment for narrowband communications and (ii) whether a cell identifier (ID) of a first cell associated with the network device is the same as a cell ID of a second cell;
• means for determining, based at least in part on the field of the MIB, an exact frequency location of one channel to perform the narrowband communications, wherein the one channel corresponds to an anchor physical resource block for the narrowband communications;
• and
• means for communicating based at least in part on the exact frequency location of the one channel.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer executable code stored thereon, comprising:

• code for receiving, from a network device, a master information block (MIB) comprising a field that jointly indicates (i) a type of deployment for narrowband communications and (ii) whether a cell identifier (ID) of a first cell associated with the network device, is the same as a cell ID of a second cell;
• code for determining, based at least in part on the field of the MIB, an exact frequency location of one channel to perform the narrowband communications, wherein the one channel corresponds to an anchor physical resource block for the narrowband communications;
• and
• code for communicating based at least in part on the exact frequency location of the one channel.