Aspects of system information block (SIB) management during wireless communication include assigning a cell controlled by a network entity to a cell group based on at least one interference parameter of the cell, wherein the cell group is one of a plurality of cell groups into which each cell in the wireless network is assigned based on a respective interference parameter of each cell. The SIB management further includes identifying, within a subframe, one or more SIB resource blocks (RBs) in which a SIB transmission is scheduled for other cells in the cell group. In addition, the SIB management includes halting, at the network entity, one or more non-SIB RB transmissions of the cell in the identified one or more SIB RBs in the subframe in which the SIB transmission is scheduled for the other cells in the cell group.