A method for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising: receiving, from a network device, a reference signal associated with a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH,; identifying, for each of a set of time periods (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525) associated with the reference signal associated with the PDSCH,, a respective overlap between a first set of frequency resources allocated for the reference signal and a second set of frequency resources (220, 305, 320, 405, 430, 505, 530) that are scheduled to puncture the first set of frequency resources and that are unavailable for scheduling of the PDSCH, wherein at least one overlap is different in frequency resources from the rest of the overlaps in the respective overlaps (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525); determining a respective remaining set of frequency resources (335, 545, 540) from the first set of frequency resources for each time period of the set of time periods based at least in part on the respective overlap; determining a subset of frequency resources that is an intersection of the respective remaining sets of frequency resources for each time period of the set of time periods based at least in part on a reference signal processing configuration, wherein the reference signal processing configuration indicates that the subset of frequency resources comprises a largest common subset of frequency resources across all time periods of the set of time periods (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525); and processing the reference signal in the subset of frequency resources based at least in part on the reference signal processing configuration. receiving, from a network device, a reference signal associated with a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH,; identifying, for each of a set of time periods (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525) associated with the reference signal associated with the PDSCH,, a respective overlap between a first set of frequency resources allocated for the reference signal and a second set of frequency resources (220, 305, 320, 405, 430, 505, 530) that are scheduled to puncture the first set of frequency resources and that are unavailable for scheduling of the PDSCH, wherein at least one overlap is different in frequency resources from the rest of the overlaps in the respective overlaps (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525); determining a respective remaining set of frequency resources (335, 545, 540) from the first set of frequency resources for each time period of the set of time periods based at least in part on the respective overlap; determining a subset of frequency resources that is an intersection of the respective remaining sets of frequency resources for each time period of the set of time periods based at least in part on a reference signal processing configuration, wherein the reference signal processing configuration indicates that the subset of frequency resources comprises a largest common subset of frequency resources across all time periods of the set of time periods (210, 310, 325, 410, 425, 510, 525); and processing the reference signal in the subset of frequency resources based at least in part on the reference signal processing configuration.