Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for interleaving control information for one or more nodes. For certain aspects, the control information may comprise one or more Relay Physical Downlink Control Channels (R-PDCCHs) for one or more relay nodes. The interleaving may comprise interleaving Common Reference Signal (CRS)-based R-PDCCH, wherein the resource elements (REs) for CRS and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) may be discounted in a physical resource block (PRB).