A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus determines a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth of a cell, wherein a reference signal is present in the second bandwidth and is not present outside the second bandwidth. The apparatus receives a physical channel with at least one resource block in a subframe from the cell, the subframe including one or more symbols. The apparatus determines at least one energy per resource element (EPRE) ratio for the received physical channel based at least in part on the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth. The apparatus processes the physical channel based on the determined EPRE ratio.