A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving , by a wireless device , a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, from a base station ; identifying , by the wireless device , a PDSCH search space and a plurality of monitoring occasions for use by the wireless device in receiving data transmissions from the base station , wherein the PDSCH search space comprises a plurality of sets of decoding candidates , wherein the plurality of sets of decoding candidates comprises at least a first set of decoding candidates and a second set of decoding candidates , and wherein at least one of a frequency location, a resource size, a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, or a combination thereof, differs between the first set of decoding candidates and the second set of decoding candidates , and performing blind decoding on at least one set of decoding candidates in the PDSCH search space at least based on the plurality of monitoring occasions, wherein each of the at least one set of decoding candidates comprises a plurality of resource locations at which the wireless device attempts to decode a data transmission from the base station ; and sending a communication to the base station based on a result of the blind decoding; the method characterized in that the first set of decoding candidates is configured for use with a first retransmission of an initial data transmission from the base station , and the second set of decoding candidates is configured for use with a second retransmission of the initial data transmission, and wherein a larger resource size, a lower coding rate, or both, is used with the second set of decoding candidates than with the first set of decoding candidates . receiving , by a wireless device , a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, from a base station ; identifying , by the wireless device , a PDSCH search space and a plurality of monitoring occasions for use by the wireless device in receiving data transmissions from the base station , wherein the PDSCH search space comprises a plurality of sets of decoding candidates , wherein the plurality of sets of decoding candidates comprises at least a first set of decoding candidates and a second set of decoding candidates , and wherein at least one of a frequency location, a resource size, a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, or a combination thereof, differs between the first set of decoding candidates and the second set of decoding candidates , and performing blind decoding on at least one set of decoding candidates in the PDSCH search space at least based on the plurality of monitoring occasions, wherein each of the at least one set of decoding candidates comprises a plurality of resource locations at which the wireless device attempts to decode a data transmission from the base station ; and sending a communication to the base station based on a result of the blind decoding; the method characterized in that the first set of decoding candidates is configured for use with a first retransmission of an initial data transmission from the base station , and the second set of decoding candidates is configured for use with a second retransmission of the initial data transmission, and wherein a larger resource size, a lower coding rate, or both, is used with the second set of decoding candidates than with the first set of decoding candidates . <EOS>