A UE 6 can communicate with the LTE eNodeB 3 and, as long it is within one of the pico cells 4a, 4b and 4c, respectively, it can also communicate with the associated NR eNodeB 5a, 5b and 5c, respectively.

In this embodiment, the LTE eNodeB 3 and the NR eNodeBs 5a, 5b and 5c may form a system information area, as also discussed above. The system information area may have a specific identifier, on the basis of which the system information area can be identified.

The UE 6 may travel around (see dashed arrow), and in this simple mobility scenario, the UE 6 remains under the coverage of the same LTE cell 2, while passing through the coverage of multiple NR small cells, such as the three NR cells 4a-c.

In the following, embodiments are discussed, where no entity having an anchor function for transmission of system information is provided.

For the system information provision (SI) without anchor SI entity, each entity/cell, e.g. LTE eNodeB 3 and NR cells 4a-c will broadcast system information including minimum SI and other SI (or on-demand SI) by itself.

In general, in some embodiments, the scheduling information of the broadcast of other SI will include the following: periodicity (e.g. 80 ms, 160 ms), duration (number of periodicity, e.g. 1, 2 or 4 periodicity) and potentially transmission time (transmission start point).