Method and device for pdcch repetition in multi-trp system

A method comprising:

• determining, at a user equipment (UE), that two or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates are linked, wherein the two or more PDCCH candidates have common PDCCH candidate numbers across search space (SS) sets and comprises same downlink control information (DCI) scheduling reception of a same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);
• sorting the two or more PDCCH candidates in an ascending order of their start times;
• and
• determining a start time of a monitoring occasion for detection of PDCCHs corresponding to the two or more PDCCH candidates.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• determine that two or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates are linked, wherein the two or more PDCCH candidates have common PDCCH candidate numbers across search space (SS) sets and comprise same downlink control information (DCI) scheduling reception of a same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);
• sort the two or more PDCCH candidates in ascending order of their start times;
• and
• determine a start time of a monitoring occasion for detection of PDCCHs corresponding to the two or more PDCCH candidates.