Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication at a user equipment, including receiving on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a first PDCCH monitoring occasion a first downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for each of at least two component carriers, wherein the DCI includes a counter downlink assignment index (DAI) that indicates a number of scheduled PDSCHs up to a point that the first DCI was received and a total DAI indicating a number of scheduled PDSCHs across the at least two component carriers. The implementations further include transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a position for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-Acknowledgement (ACK) bits corresponding to the PDSCH for each of the at least two component carriers. Also included is a corresponding a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication at a base station.