Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for network access in a multi-rat wireless communications system

Abstract

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for network access in a wireless communications system using common signaling, such as synchronization signals, for multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, performs a cell search in the system, obtains first information indicative of whether spectrum sharing is configured in a cell discovered in the cell search and of available radio access technologies, RATs, in the discovered cell, in case the first information indicates that spectrum sharing is configured in the discovered cell, determines which of the of available RATs to access, obtains access configuration parameters for the determined RAT to access, and performs, using the access configuration parameters, a random-access procedure to access the RAT.

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