o resources with advantageous channel conditions in time and fre- quency domains, that is, channel-dependent scheduling [8]. The downlink channel-dependent scheduling is supported through periodic/aperiodic chan- nel state information reports sent by the devices to the gNB, which provide information on the instantaneous downlink channel quality in time and frequency domains, as well as infor- mation to determine an appropriate antenna/beam configuration. In the uplink, the channel state information required for channel-dependent scheduling can be obtained from the sounding reference signals transmitted by each device to the gNB. In order to assist the uplink scheduler, the device can further transmit BSR (measuring the data that is buffered in the logical channel queues in the UE) and PHR (measuring the difference between the nominal UE maximum transmit power and the estimated power for uplink transmission) to the gNB using MAC CEs. This information can only be transmitted, if the device has been given a valid scheduling grant. While dynamic scheduling is the default operation mode of many base station schedulers, there are cases where semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is pre- ferred due to reduced signaling overhead [17]. In the downlink, the gNB can dynamically allocate resources to the active UEs and identify them by their C-RNTIs on PDCCH(s). A UE always monitors the PDCCH(s) in order to find possible assignments according to its configured DRX cycles. When carrier aggregation is configured, the same C-RNTI applies to all serving cells. The gNB may preempt an ongo- ing PDSCH transmission to one UE with a delay-sensitive transmission to another UE. The gNB can configure the UEs to monitor interrupted transmission indications using INT-RNTI on a PDCCH. If a UE receives the interrupted transmission indication, it may assume that no useful information was intended for it by the resource elements included in the indication, even if some of those resource elements were already scheduled for that UE. Furthermore, the