Short physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) design for 5th generation (5G) new radio (NR)

A base station, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory in electronic communication with the processor, wherein instructions stored in the memory are executable to:
• send a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration corresponding to a PUCCH format among a plurality of PUCCH formats which have at least two types of lengths, wherein the PUCCH format consists of one or two symbol(s);
• send a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations;
• and
• receive uplink control information (UCI) on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within a set of PUCCH resource configurations selected from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of the UCI.

A method for a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

• acquiring a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration corresponding to a PUCCH format among a plurality of PUCCH formats which have at least two types of lengths, wherein the PUCCH format consists of one or two symbol(s);
• acquiring a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations;
• selecting a set of PUCCH resource configurations from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI);
• and
• transmitting the UCI on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within the selected set of PUCCH resource configurations.

A method for a base station, the method comprising:

• sending a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration corresponding to a PUCCH format among a plurality of PUCCH formats which have at least two types of lengths, wherein the PUCCH format consists of one or two symbol(s);
• sending a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations;
• and
• receiving uplink control information (UCI) on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within a set of PUCCH resource configurations selected from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of the UCI.