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CCE's) even if the bits transmitted on PDCCH are less. This happens when channel
conditions are bad , so to provide more redundant information to UE such that i
t can decode the PDCCH.
So now we know that, higher the aggregation level used, better is the probabilit
y for the UE to successfully decode the DCI, then why at all lower the aggregati
on level? The answer is capacity. Higher the aggregation level, more number of s
ubcarriers are required for a given user, hence reducing the amount of space ava
ilable in the control channel for other UE DCIs, which in turn will control how
many users the scheduler will be able to schedule in the given subframe. So the
scheduler has to trade-off between efficiency and capacity. Also, higher aggrega
tion levels leads to more subcarriers per DCI, which can lead to higher CFI and
in turn this will decrease the number of OFDM symbols available for PDSCH, which
will again result in higher PDSCH coding rate compared to lower CFI and hence a
gain reducing the probability of PDSCH decoding