The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for handling primary scrambling codes (PSC) in a wireless network. For example, the disclosure presents a method for detecting, by a user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs, a PSC in search windows with different timing offsets, wherein the different timing offsets correspond to a plurality of small cells sharing the PSC in a coverage area of a macro cell, and transmitting, by the UE, a plurality of measurement reports corresponding to the different timing offsets. As such, primary scrambling codes (PSC) are handled in a wireless network.