SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK TRANSMISSION

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating robustness for synchronization signal block (SSB) are provided. A network node may attempt to transmit SSBs in first positions. For example, the network node may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure prior to transmitting the SSBs, and transmissions of the SSBs may fail or succeed based on failure or success of the LBT procedure. If the transmissions fail, the network node may attempt to transmit the failed SSBs in second SSB positions. For example, the second SSB positions may be associated with the first positions, and may be reserved for retransmission of SSBs that fail in the corresponding first positions. If the network node transmits the SSBs, the UE may perform various operations described herein including, e.g., determining whether the SSBs were transmitted in the first positions or the second positions and/or an SSB index or timing.