| CPC H04W 72/51 (2023.01) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] | 30 Claims |
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1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting UE assistance information to a base station;
receiving an indication of a first zone identifier associated with a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring configuration for radio resource control (RRC) connected reduced-capability UEs and indication of a second zone identifier associated with a second PDCCH monitoring configuration for the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs,
wherein the first PDCCH monitoring configuration indicates a first set of PDCCH monitoring parameters for the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs and the second PDCCH monitoring configuration indicates a second set of PDCCH monitoring parameters for the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs,
wherein the first set of PDCCH monitoring parameters includes a first parameter that indicates a first search space type for one or more first search space sets associated with the first zone identifier and at least one of:
a parameter that indicates one or more control resource sets that the UE is to monitor,
a parameter that indicates a periodicity and an offset for one or more slots in which the UE is to perform PDCCH monitoring,
a parameter that indicates a duration in symbols of a PDCCH for which the UE is to perform the PDCCH monitoring, or
a parameter that indicates a quantity of symbols within each slot in which the UE is to perform the PDCCH monitoring,
wherein the second set of PDCCH monitoring parameters includes a second parameter that indicates a second search space type for one or more second search space sets associated with the second zone identifier, and
wherein the first set of PDCCH monitoring parameters for the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs and the second set of PDCCH monitoring parameters for the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs are reduced relative to a set of PDCCH monitoring parameters for non-reduced-capability UEs;
determining whether a group common PDCCH (GC-PDCCH) communication indicates that the first zone identifier or the second zone identifier is activated for an associated monitoring period,
wherein the GC-PDCCH indicates a first search space set configuration associated with the first zone identifier or a second search space set configuration associated with the second zone identifier,
wherein the first search space set configuration identifies the one or more first search space sets that are to be monitored by a group of the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs associated with the first zone identifier and the second search space set configuration identifies the one or more second search space sets that are to be monitored by a group of the RRC connected reduced-capability UEs associated with the second zone identifier; and
selectively performing one or more PDCCH blind decodes in the one or more first search space sets associated with the first zone identifier or the one or more second search space sets associated with the second zone identifier during the associated monitoring period based at least in part on determining whether the GC-PDCCH communication indicates that the first zone identifier or the second zone identifier is activated for the associated monitoring period.
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