In an access network, a base station may aggregate data packets for a user equipment (UE) into transport blocks and configure a control channel to allow the UE to sleep between control channel monitoring occasions to save power. Such data aggregation, however, may be subject to changes in traffic load and/or link quality that may result in a too low data rate or too frequent monitoring. A base station that receives data to transmit to the UE and aggregates the data according to configured control configuration parameters of the UE may determine that a link quality or a traffic load for the UE has changed. The base station may reconfigure the control channel configuration parameters of the UE based on at least one of the link quality or the traffic load in order to obtain a data rate that satisfy the traffic load for the UE.