Facilitating Synchronization Between a Base Station and a User Equipment

A method comprising:

• determining a cyclically permutable (CP) codeword based on a set of CP codewords in accordance with a Cell ID;
• and
• encoding the CP codeword into a synchronization signal to be sent to a user equipment (UE), the encoding being facilitated by deriving a repetitive cyclically permutable (RCP) codeword from the CP codeword and encoding the RCP codeword into the synchronization signal, wherein the RCP codeword has a plurality of codeword elements, wherein each codeword element of the plurality of codeword elements is associated with a value, wherein the value of at least one codeword element in the RCP codeword is repeated in another codeword element position in the RCP codeword, wherein the synchronization signal comprises a plurality of synchronization sequences transmitted in a radio frame, and wherein allocation of the plurality of synchronization sequences to a plurality of slots of the radio frame is performed in accordance with the RCP codeword.