Physical downlink control channel (pdcch) monitoring with overlapping resources

An apparatus comprising:

• means for identifying a search space set including a plurality of physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidate search spaces for a downlink control channel;
• means for receiving a configuration indicating a preconfigured resource allocated for a transmission of a synchronization signal block, SSB, wherein the configuration is received via a radio resource control, RRC, message;
• means for determining that a first resource associated with a first PDCCH candidate search space of the plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces overlaps with the preconfigured resource allocated for a transmission of the SSB;
• and
• means for monitoring for a downlink control message over the downlink control channel by excluding monitoring the first PDCCH candidate search space based on the determination.

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor, coupled to the memory, and configured to:
• identify a search space set including a plurality of physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidate search spaces for a downlink control channel;
• receive a configuration indicating a preconfigured resource allocated for a transmission of a synchronization signal block, SSB, wherein the configuration is received via a radio resource control, RRC, message;
• determine that a first resource associated with a first PDCCH candidate search space of the plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces overlaps with the preconfigured resource allocated for a transmission of the SSB;
• and
• monitor for a downlink control message over the downlink control channel by excluding monitoring the first PDCCH candidate search space based on the determination.