Methods and apparatus for symbol-to-symbol multiplexing of control, data, and reference signals on a 5G uplink

An apparatus, comprising:

• a reserved location calculator that marks a reserved resource element of a symbol that is reserved for a reference symbol (RS), and where remaining resource elements of the symbol are available resource elements;
• a job engine that writes at least one data type selected from data, ACK, CSI1, and CSI2 data types into the available resource elements of the symbol according to predetermined parameters to produce a multiplexed bit sequence, wherein the reserved resource element is avoided;
• a scrambler that scrambles the multiplexed bit sequence to generate a scrambled bit sequence;
• and
• a downstream processor that modulates the scrambled bit sequence to produce modulated symbols, and inserts the reference symbol into the reserved resource element of the modulated symbols.

An apparatus, comprising:

• means for marking a reserved resource element of a symbol that is reserved for a reference symbol (RS), and where remaining resource elements of the symbol are available resource elements;
• means for writing at least one data type selected from data, ACK, CSI1, and CSI2 data types into the available resource elements of the symbol according to predetermined parameters to produce a multiplexed bit sequence, wherein the reserved resource element is avoided;
• means for scrambling the multiplexed bit sequence to generate a scrambled bit sequence;
• means for modulating the scrambled bit sequence to produce modulated symbols;
• and
• means for inserting the reference symbol into the reserved resource element of the modulated symbols.