Methods, systems, and apparatuses for handling dynamic spectrum sharing with uplink subcarrier shift

A user equipment (UE) that supports dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) with uplink (UL)-shift, the UE comprising:

• a baseband processing unit;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the baseband processing unit, configure the UE to:
• receive a first message from a network node, the first message comprising a cell barred field;
• decode the first message and determining status of the cell barred field;
• receive a second message from the network node comprising a second field related to barring UEs that support DSS with uplink-shift, and a third field related to support of UL-shift;
• decode the second message and determining status of the second field and the third field, wherein the second field is an exemption field which explicitly expresses whether UEs which support DSS with UL-shift are allowed to camp or not when the cell barred field is set to barred, and wherein the third field is a frequencyShift7p5 hz field;
• access a cell when the cell barred field is set to barred and the second field indicates that the UEs which support DSS with UL-shift are allowed to access the cell, and the third field is set to true.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of a user equipment (UE) that supports dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) with uplink (UL)-shift, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions configured to instruct one or more processors to:

• receive a first message from a network node, the first message comprising a cell barred field;
• decode the first message and determining status of the cell barred field;
• receive a second message from the network node comprising a second field related to barring UEs that support DSS with uplink-shift, and a third field related to support of UL-shift;
• decode the second message and determining status of the second field and the third field, wherein the second field is an exemption field which explicitly expresses whether UEs which support DSS with UL-shift are allowed to camp or not when the cell barred field is set to barred, and wherein the third field is a frequencyShift7p5khz field;
• access a cell when the cell barred field is set to barred and the second field indicates that the UEs which support DSS with UL-shift are allowed to access the cell, and the third field is set to true.