A scheduling entity can schedule regular or periodic control resources (CORESETs) that are relatively sparse in the time domain compared to dynamic CORESETS. Sparsely scheduled regular CORESETs can reduce the overhead incurred by a user equipment for monitoring the control channels in the CORESETs or search spaces. When the network has a burst of data to send, the scheduling entity can use downlink control information (DCI) piggybacked in physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resources to schedule dynamic CORESETs between the regular CORESETs. The dynamic CORESETs can provide resources for a PDSCH and/or physical downlink shared channel (PUSCH).