QUALCOMM Incorporated
Flexible search space configuration and overbooking handling

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit control information to a user equipment (UE) in search space candidates within a configured search space. To flexibly configure the search space, the base station may determine a reference aggregation level. The base station may add a number of pseudo search space candidates to the reference aggregation level such that the control channel element (CCE) footprint of the reference aggregation level can handle nesting all of the candidates for other aggregation levels. In some cases, the base station may overbook the search space past a CCE limit. The base station may implement an overbooking rule to determine search space candidates to drop from the configuration. The base station may transmit using the search space configuration, and the UE may monitor and decode information according to the configuration.