Techniques for adaptively enabling synchronization of nodes using a listen before talk load-based equipment protocol

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• means for identifying interference at a first node operating in a shared radio frequency spectrum band, the interference caused by a second node operating in the shared radio frequency spectrum band, the second node operating asynchronously to the first node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• and
• means for adaptively enabling, based at least in part on the identified interference, a synchronization of the first node with at least a third node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band.

A computer-readable medium for storing instructions executable by a processor, comprising:

• instructions to identify interference at a first node operating in a shared radio frequency spectrum band, the interference caused by a second node operating in the shared radio frequency spectrum band, the second node operating asynchronously to the first node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• and
• instructions to adaptively enable, based at least in part on the identified interference, a synchronization of the first node with at least a third node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band.