Systems and methods presented herein provide for an LTE wireless communication system operating in an RF band with a conflicting wireless system. The LTE system includes a first eNodeB operable to transmit downlink communications to UEs in the RF band and to receive uplink communications from the UEs in the RF band. The first eNodeB is also operable to transmit an LTE control channel across a portion of the RF band, to time divide the LTE control channel into a plurality of subchannels, and to occupy a first of the subchannels. A second eNodeB is operable to detect the LTE control channel and to occupy a second of the subchannels proximate in time to the first subchannel of the first eNodeB.