A method for enhanced physical downlink control channel monitoring (PDCCH) includes determining a monitoring span for monitoring a PDCCH within a slot, the monitoring span having a start symbol and a duration that spans one or more symbols within the slot. At least one of a maximum number of blind decoding (BD) attempts or a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) for channel estimation is determined based on the monitoring span. The PDCCH is monitored within the monitoring span up to the at least one of the maximum number of BD attempts or the maximum number of CCEs.