New radio (nr) short and long duration physical uplink control channel (pucch) design

An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission to a New Radio (NR) base station, the apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• identify, at the UE, uplink control information;
• identify, at the UE, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS);
• multiplex, using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) at the UE, the uplink control information and the DMRS onto a plurality of subcarriers in one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols;
• and
• encode, at the UE, the uplink control information that is multiplexed with the DMRS for transmission on the PUCCH to the NR base station;
• and
• a memory interface configured to retrieve from a memory the uplink control information and the DMRS.

At least one machine readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for encoding a New Radio (NR) short duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission from a user equipment (UE) to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB), the instructions when executed by one or more processors at the UE perform the following:

• identifying, at the UE, uplink control information (UCI) for the UE;
• multiplexing, using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) at the UE, the UCI and a pseudo-random sequence associated with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) onto a plurality of subcarriers in one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols;
• and
• encoding, at the UE, the UCI and the pseudo-random sequence associated with the DMRS for transmission on the NR short duration PUCCH to the gNB.

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for encoding a New Radio (NR) long duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission from a user equipment (UE) to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB), the instructions when executed by one or more processors at the UE perform the following:

• identifying, at the UE, uplink control information (UCI) for the UE;
• multiplexing, using time division multiplexing (TDM) at the UE, UCI symbols associated with the UCI and pseudo-random sequence symbols associated with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), wherein a number of pseudo-random sequence symbols that are multiplexed with the UCI symbols depends on a length of the NR long duration PUCCH;
• and
• encoding, at the UE, the UCI symbols and the pseudo-random sequence symbols associated with the DMRS for transmission to the gNB on the NR long duration PUCCH.