Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for blind decoding and channel estimation (BD/CE) limitations and configuration of new radio (NR) physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, an indication of at least one blind detection limit for detecting a control channel from a set of blind detection limits and monitoring for the control channel based on the received indication of the at least one blind detection limit for detecting the control channel.

Provided is a method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network for managing physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) data. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of network parameters, predicting at least one aggregation level (AL) used by a base station (BS) associated with the UE to transmit the PDCCH data in the wireless network based on the plurality of received network parameters, and decoding the PDCCH data based on the at least one predicted AL.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a reduced capability user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating a set of repetition levels for receiving control information from a base station and a blind detection threshold for decoding the control information. Upon receiving the signaling, the reduced capability UE may monitor a control channel candidate for the control information based on the set of repetition levels. Once the reduced capability UE detects the control information from the monitoring, the reduced capability UE may perform at least one blind detection on the control channel candidate based on the set of repetition levels and the blind detection threshold and receive the control information from the base station.

A communication system is described in which system information is transmitted to communication devices, by a communication apparatus of the system, in system information blocks, in accordance with a system information block transmission scheme. The communication apparatus configures at least one system information block to include control information indicating how the system information blocks will be transmitted.

This application provides an information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a network device, first information; and sending, by the network device, the first information to a terminal device, where the first information is used to instruct the terminal device to detect at least one group common PDCCH on N component carriers CCs, N is a positive integer and is less than or equal to M, M is a quantity of CCs configured for the terminal device, and M is a positive integer. Based on this, after receiving the first information, the terminal device detects the at least one group common PDCCH on the N CCs according to the first information.

The present disclosure relates to methods for obtaining a quantity of blind detection times, and apparatus. One example method comprises receiving, by a terminal device, second information from a network device, where the second information comprises subcarrier spacing information, and determining, by the terminal device based on the subcarrier spacing information, a maximum quantity of blind detection times for the terminal device in a search space.

A UE performs first control channel monitoring according to a first CORESET and first search space set configuration(s), the first control channel monitoring performed on n subbands, n>1, able to be transmitted by a base station in an unlicensed band carrier. The UE determines, in response to a detection of a control channel in the monitoring and from the control channel, transmission bandwidth configuration to be used by the base station in the unlicensed band carrier for control channels. The UE performs second control channel monitoring according to a second CORESET and at least one second search space set configuration. The second control channel monitoring is performed on m subbands, m≤n, in the unlicensed band carrier, the m subbands being a subset of the n of subbands. A base station determines which subbands are available for use and transmits the transmission bandwidth configuration to the UE based thereon.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for downlink control information (DCI) detection are provided. In one aspect, a DCI detection method includes: receiving a configuration parameter that is used to configure at least one or more groups of candidate resources, each of the one or more groups of candidate resources carrying one piece of DCI, and in response to determining that one corresponding piece of DCI is blindly detected from one of the one or more groups of candidate resources, stopping the blind detection on the one of the one or more groups of candidate resources.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a modified physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configuration for low tier UEs; receive downlink control information (DCI) configured according to the modified PDCCH configuration; and process the DCI according to the modified PDCCH configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A method for configuring downlink control information includes configuring by a base station a uplink scheduling downlink control information (DCI) and a downlink scheduling DCI of multi-Transmission Block (TB) transmission to have the same number of bits. A method for receiving downlink control information includes based on a preset blind detection bit number, performing, by a user equipment (UE), blind detection on an uplink scheduling Downlink Control Information (DCI) and a downlink scheduling DCI of multi-Transmission Block (TB) transmission, where the uplink scheduling DCI and the downlink scheduling DCI have the same number of bits.