Support of flexible pdcch monitoring in new radio (nr)

A method for a base station configured to communicate on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the method comprising:

• determining one or a plurality of PDCCH search spaces (SS) to be monitored by a selected UE and their corresponding monitoring occasions;
• determining a number of control resource sets (CORESET) that may be used for each monitoring occasion of a set of one or plurality of search spaces;
• determining an aggregation level for each SS;
• identifying a number of PDCCH candidates, M(L), for each SS;
• and
• encoding the number of CORESETs, a number of SS in each CORESET, the aggregation level for each SS, and M(L), for transmission to a selected user equipment (UE).

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for a base station configured to communicate on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the instructions when executed by one or more processors at the base station perform a method comprising:

• determining one or a plurality of PDCCH search spaces (SS) to be monitored by a selected UE and their corresponding monitoring occasions;
• determining a number of control resource sets (CORESET) that may be used for each monitoring occasion of a set of one or plurality of search spaces;
• determining an aggregation level for each SS;
• identifying a number of PDCCH candidates, M(L), for each SS;
• and
• encoding the number of CORESETs, a number of SS in each CORESET, the aggregation level for each SS, and M(L), for transmission to a selected user equipment (UE).