Modularized design for inter-physical layer priority UCI multiplexing

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the UE to:
• encode one or more high priority (HP) hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits into a first portion of uplink control information (UCI) at a first code rate r1;
• encode one or more low priority (LP) HARQ-ACK bits into a second portion of the UCI at a second code rate r2;
• determine a first rate matching output sequence length for the first portion of the UCI based on a number of the HP HARQ-ACK bits and a number of HP scheduling request (SR) bits of the first portion of the UCI;
• and
• transmit the UCI to a base station in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:

• encode one or more high priority (HP) hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits into a first portion of uplink control information (UCI) at a first code rate r1;
• encode one or more low priority (LP) HARQ-ACK bits into a second portion of the UCI at a second code rate r2;
• determine a first rate matching output sequence length for the first portion of the UCI based on a number of the HP HARQ-ACK bits and a number of HP scheduling request (SR) bits of the first portion of the UCI;
• and
• transmit the UCI to a base station in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).