| CPC H04W 72/1273 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] | 15 Claims |

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10. A method of operating a base station (BS) in a wireless communication network for managing physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) data, the method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of network parameters;
predicting an aggregation level (AL) to be used for transmission of the PDCCH data to a user equipment (UE) in the wireless network based on the plurality of network parameters by at least:
providing the plurality of network parameters as an input to a trained machine learning (ML) model, and
obtaining the at least one predicted AL as output from the ML model;
encoding the PDCCH data based on the at least one predicted AL; and
transmitting the encoded PDCCH data to the UE.
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