Method and corresponding device for uplink transmission

A method performed by a base station in a communication system, the method comprising:

• transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the SPS configuration information including information associated with deferral of a transmission of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits for SPS physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs);
• and
• receiving, from the UE, third HARQ-ACK information bits on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a second slot,
• wherein, in case that a first PUCCH resource for a transmission of first HARQ-ACK information bits for SPS PDSCHs in a first slot overlaps with a symbol indicated as downlink, one or more HARQ-ACK information bits from the first HARQ-ACK information bits is received in the second slot,
• wherein the first PUCCH resource is configured by a parameter SPS-PUCCH-AN-List,
• wherein the first PUCCH resource is not cancelled by an overlapping PUCCH or PUSCH transmission, and
• wherein the third HARQ-ACK information bits are determined by appending the one or more HARQ-ACK information bits to second HARQ-ACK information bits.

A user equipment (UE) in a communication system, the UE comprising:

• a transceiver;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• receive, from a base station via the transceiver, semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the SPS configuration information including information associated with deferral of a transmission of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits for SPS physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs),
• identify a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a transmission of first HARQ-ACK information bits for SPS PDSCHs in a first slot, wherein the first PUCCH resource is configured by a parameter SPS-PUCCH-AN-List, and wherein the first PUCCH resource is not cancelled by an overlapping PUCCH or physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission,
• in case that the first PUCCH resource overlaps with a symbol indicated as downlink, determine a second slot associated with a transmission of one or more HARQ-ACK information bits from the first HARQ-ACK information bits,
• determine third HARQ-ACK information bits by appending the one or more HARQ-ACK information bits to second HARQ-ACK information bits, and
• transmit, to the base station via the transceiver, the third HARQ-ACK information bits on a PUCCH or a PUSCH in the second slot.

A base station in a communication system, the base station comprising:

• a transceiver;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• transmit, to a user equipment (UE), semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the SPS configuration information including information associated with deferral of a transmission of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits for SPS physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and
• receive, from the UE, third HARQ-ACK information bits on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a second slot,
• wherein, in case that a first PUCCH resource for a transmission of first HARQ-ACK information bits for SPS PDSCHs in a first slot overlaps with a symbol indicated as downlink, one or more HARQ-ACK information bits from the first HARQ-ACK information bits is received in the second slot,
• wherein the first PUCCH resource is configured by a parameter SPS-PUCCH-AN-List,
• wherein the first PUCCH resource is not cancelled by an overlapping PUCCH or PUSCH transmission, and
• wherein the third HARQ-ACK information bits are determined by appending the one or more HARQ-ACK information bits to second HARQ-ACK information bits.