A base station indicates a resource allocation for a shared channel transmission to a user equipment, wherein the shared channel transmission includes mapping modulated symbols of a transport block with a single dedicated hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number across resource elements for N consecutive slots of the resource allocation, wherein N is at least two. The base station may also transmit, to the UE, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) triggering (DMRS-T) value indicating a DMRS pattern to be used for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission by a base station, wherein the PDSCH transmission includes mapping modulated symbols of a transport block with a single dedicated hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number across resource elements for N consecutive slots of a PDSCH resource allocation, wherein N is at least two and transmits the DMRS pattern corresponding to the DMRS-T value.