An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprises one or more baseband processors to receive one or more subframes from a cell of a network, and to detect a Cell Specific Reference Signal (CRS) transmission pattern in the one or more subframes to determine whether CRS mitigation is used by the cell, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to adjust processing of the one or more subframes when CRS mitigation is used. The apparatus further includes a memory to store the one or more subframes.