Bandwidth agnostic tone mapping

The method of claim, wherein:

• the mapping comprises mapping coded bits of one period of PBCH transmission to a plurality of segments;
• and
• for each segment, coded bits of that segment are mapped to a fixed starting offset regardless of available resource for the transmission.

A method of wireless communications by a user equipment, comprising:

• determining a mapping of portion of coded bits of at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a beamformed reference signals (BRS) to tones of a symbol of a subframe that are a same set of tones independent of system bandwidth;
• and
• monitoring for the at least one of the PBCH or BRS in the symbol according to the mapping.

An apparatus for wireless communications by a base station, comprising:

• means for mapping a portion of at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a beamformed reference signal (BRS) to tones of a symbol of a subframe, via a same set of tones independent of system bandwidth;
• and
• means for transmitting the at least one of the PBCH or BRS in the symbol according to the mapping.

An apparatus for wireless communications by a user equipment, comprising:

• means for determining a mapping of portion of coded bits of at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a beamformed reference signals (BRS) to tones of a symbol of a subframe that are a same set of tones independent of system bandwidth;
• and
• means for monitoring for the at least one of the PBCH or BRS in the symbol according to the mapping.

A computer program having instructions stored thereon for:

• mapping a portion of at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a beamformed reference signal (BRS) to tones of a symbol of a subframe, via a same set of tones independent of system bandwidth;
• and
• transmitting the at least one of the PBCH or BRS in the symbol according to the mapping.

A computer program having instructions stored thereon for:

• determining a mapping of portion of coded bits of at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a beamformed reference signals (BRS) to tones of a symbol of a subframe that are a same set of tones independent of system bandwidth;
• and
• monitoring for the at least one of the PBCH or BRS in the symbol according to the mapping.