Abstract: Allocating resources to user devices in a base station includes transmitting, to a user device, indications of a first time-frequency resource including a first frequency sub-band within a bandwidth part allocated in an unlicensed spectrum and a second time-frequency resource including a second frequency sub-band within the bandwidth part, performing a channel access procedure on the first channel corresponding to the first frequency sub-band, and a second channel corresponding to the second frequency sub-band, to obtain channel occupancy time on at least one of the first channel or the second channel; and transmitting, within the obtained channel occupancy time on at least one of the first channel or the second channel, downlink control information to a user device over a first time-frequency resource that includes the first frequency sub-band or a second time-frequency resource that includes the second frequency sub-band.