Downlink control monitoring operations in wireless communication

A method, comprising:

• monitoring, by a user equipment (UE) of a network, at least one of a plurality of paging occasions within a discontinuous repetition cycle (DRX);
• determining not to monitor one or more of the plurality of paging occasions, wherein at least one of the plurality of paging occasions includes a transmission by a wireless network of downlink control information (DCI) for one or more paging messages;
• and
• using the DCI to decide whether to receive the one or more paging messages if the DCI includes an address associated with the UE.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a UE, a control resource set (CORESET) configuration defining a mapping of physical resources in bandwidth part (BWP), wherein the BWP comprises a plurality of sub-bands;
• configuring a base CORESET (B-CORESET) within a single sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands;
• replicating the B-CORESET in one or more virtual CORESETs (V-CORESET), at least one of the one or more V-CORESETs being replicated in a corresponding one or more of the other sub-bands of the BWP,
• wherein a plurality of search space sets (SS) associated with the B-CORESET, and
• wherein the at least one of the one or more V-CORESETs is configured for a plurality of monitoring locations in the frequency domain across multiple Listen Before Talk (LBT) sub-bands to increase transmission of downlink control information (DCI).