Technologies for managing exploration space

摘要

Methods, systems and devices are described for using a common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to indicate transmission beams to be used by a base station during a period or transmission opportunity for monitoring search spaces. A user equipment (UE) may monitor a search space (in some cases, using a period) for a common PDCCH to determine whether transmission beams associated with the UE will be used during a transmission opportunity. In such case, the UE may wake-up for at least a portion of the transmission opportunity to receive additional information. If the common PDCCH indicates that no transmission beams associated with the UE will be used during the transmission opportunity, the UE may enter or re-enter the sleep state. The UE may switch to a new period for monitoring the search space based on information transmitted in the common PDCCH.