The invention provides a system and a method for providing collision-avoided physical downlink control channel resource allocation. A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include ranking a plurality of downlink control information (DCI) messages according to a first rank criterion; ranking a plurality of allowable resource sets for each ranked DCI message according to a second rank criterion; and allocating resources for each ranked DCI message based, at least in part, on whether particular resources, which are to be allocated for a particular ranked DCI message, are collided, at least in part, with previously allocated resources for one or more other DCI messages.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLLISION-AVOIDED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE ALLOCATION