A system and a method are disclosed for dynamic spectrum sharing. In some embodiments, the method includes: processing, by a User Equipment (UE), a first transmission overlapping, in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and in a Resource Block (RB), a Long Term Evolution Cell Specific Reference Signal (LTE CRS) transmission, the first transmission including: a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) Demodulation Reference Symbol (DMRS) transmission, or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) DMRS transmission, or a PDCCH data transmission.