Techniques for counting a scheduling request periodicity

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support reducing conflicts with between scheduling request opportunities and downlink resources. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a scheduling request periodicity and offset for identifying scheduling request opportunities. The UE and base station may apply the periodicity and the offset to a first subset of time periods of a set of multiple time periods, where the first subset of time periods may include scheduling request opportunities that do not overlap with resources allocated for downlink transmissions. Based on applying the offset and periodicity to the first subset of time periods, the UE may identify a scheduling request opportunity, in a first time period of the first subset, and may transmit a scheduling request to the base station via the scheduling request opportunity.