What is disclosed is a method of operating a wireless communication device to select an overhead time cycle of a series of repeating overhead time cycles associated with a wireless access node, where each overhead time cycle comprises a plurality of time slots, and where the wireless access node transfers overhead information during individual ones of the time slots. The method includes receiving correlation information for each of the overhead time cycles, where the correlation information associates a noise range with each of the overhead time cycles. The method also includes determining a noise level at the wireless communication device of wireless communications of the wireless access node, processing the noise level and the correlation information to select one of the overhead time cycles, monitoring the time slots of the selected one of the overhead time cycles for the overhead information from the wireless access node, and ignoring the time slots during the non-selected overhead time cycles.