Abstract: Low latency wireless communication applications require highly dynamic allocation of resources. Providing allocation information on a highly dynamic basis increases the overhead of control signaling for allocation. A technique known as blind decoding is used to reduce the control signaling overhead for allocation information. However, blind decoding may occasionally lead to invalid detection of allocation messages which in turn may lead to a number of problems such as wasted bandwidth, increased power consumption, reduced throughput, etc. A method and apparatus are disclosed that detect the invalid allocation messages by maintaining a record of previously received allocation messages and using it to check the validity of the newly received allocation messages.