A method for releasing a semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) includes: receiving, by a PDSCH manager of a user equipment, a SPS release physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a scheduling cell, the SPS release PDCCH identifying N SPS PDSCH configuration indices to be released; identifying a slot of a scheduled cell, where the slot of the scheduled cell overlaps with the end of an ending symbol of the SPS release PDCCH; identifying M SPS PDSCH configuration indices including all configuration indices from among the N SPS PDSCH configuration indices that are scheduled in the slot; and releasing L SPS PDSCH configuration indices among the M SPS PDSCH configuration indices based on determining that the ending symbol of the SPS release PDCCH is before a corresponding ending symbol associated with each of the L SPS PDSCH configuration indices of the slot.