Search Space and DRX Cycle Linking and Modification

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory including computer program code,
• the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• link, by a network node in a wireless network, search spaces, used by a user equipment to monitor a control channel for control information for the user equipment, to an on-duration period of a discontinuous reception cycle, wherein resources of one or both of time-frequency resources or periodicity resources for the search spaces are modified via the linking over the on-duration period;
• and
• configure, by the network node, the user equipment so the user equipment implements the modified resources during the on-duration period as the user equipment searches the search spaces.

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory including computer program code,
• the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• receive configuration, at a user equipment and from a base station in a wireless network, defined so the user equipment implements modification of resources during an on-duration period of a discontinuous reception cycle as the user equipment searches search spaces during the on-duration period, wherein the resources are one or both of time-frequency resources or periodicity resources;
• and
• monitor by the user equipment the modified search spaces over the on-duration period, as the user equipment searches a control channel for control information.