An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and system. The apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors coupled to the RF interface and configured to: decode a communication from a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB), the communication including information on configuration parameters of reserved physical resources confined within a bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless channel, the configuration parameters including time and frequency resources; based on the communication, determine the reserved physical resources as being allocated reserved physical resources; and process signals received on, or for communication on, only physical resources not overlapping the allocated reserved physical resources.