Reducing blind decoding in enhanced carrier aggregation

A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration comprising a plurality of component carriers (CCs), at least one of the CCs being associated with a reduced number of decoding candidates;
• determining a decoding candidate restriction to be applied by the UE in limiting a number of blind decoding attempts of a control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with a decoding candidate configuration of the UE;
• and
• receiving the control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with the decoding candidate configuration.

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor,
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• receive a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration comprising a plurality of component carriers (CCs), at least one of the CCs being associated with a reduced number of decoding candidates;
• determine a decoding candidate restriction to be applied by the UE in limiting a number of blind decoding attempts of a control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with a decoding candidate configuration of the UE;
• and
• receive the control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with the decoding candidate configuration.

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

• means for receiving a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration comprising a plurality of component carriers (CCs), at least one of the CCs being associated with a reduced number of decoding candidates;
• means for determining a decoding candidate restriction to be applied by the UE in limiting a number of blind decoding attempts of a control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with a decoding candidate configuration of the UE;
• and
• means for receiving the control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with the decoding candidate configuration.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

• receive a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration comprising a plurality of component carriers (CCs), at least one of the CCs being associated with a reduced number of decoding candidates;
• determine a decoding candidate restriction to be applied by the UE in limiting a number of blind decoding attempts of a control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with a decoding candidate configuration of the UE;
• and
• receive the control channel of the at least one CC in accordance with the decoding candidate configuration.