Disclosed are techniques for handling an overlap between a higher priority channel and a lower priority channel. In an aspect, a transmitter node detects an overlap between an allocation of a first set of resources of a wireless communication link for transmission of the lower priority channel and an allocation of a second set of resources of the wireless communication link for transmission of the higher priority channel, removes a subset of resources from the first set of resources to generate a removed subset of resources of the first set of resources and a remaining subset of resources of the first set of resources, and transmits, to a receiver node, the lower priority channel on the remaining subset of resources, wherein the higher priority channel is transmitted on the removed subset of resources, wherein the higher priority channel or the lower priority channel is a positioning reference signal.