WO2018141220A1

WO2018141220A1 - Network node, user device, and method for wireless communication system

Info

Publication number: WO2018141220A1
Application number: PCT/CN2018/073889
Authority: WO
Inventors: Hua Xu
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2017-02-06
Filing date: 2018-01-23
Publication date: 2018-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 2019-08-06
Also published as: CN109691204A; TWI698134B; TW201830990A; CN109691204B

Abstract

A network node, a user device, and a method for a wireless communication system are provided. The network node includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor is configured to allocate a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) having a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources are associated with a user device and include at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. The transceiver is configured to signal allocation information to the user device. The allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources.

Description

NETWORK NODE, USER DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

1. Field of the Disclosure

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication systems, and more particularly, to a network node, a user device, and a method for a wireless communication system.

2. Description of the Related Art

In long term evolution (LTE) , a physical channel of the LTE can be classified into a downlink channel, i.e., a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) , and an uplink channel, i.e., a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) .

The LTE provides a PUCCH used for transmission of uplink control information (UCI) . In order to maintain a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) property, simultaneous transmission of the PUCCH and the PUSCH is not allowed. Therefore, if transmission of the UCI is requested in a sub-frame in which the PUSCH is scheduled, the UCI is transmitted by multiplexing the UCI to the PUSCH, which thus increases the complexity of multiplexing the UCI on the PUSCH.

SUMMARY

An object of the present disclosure is to propose a network node, a user device, and a method for a wireless communication system to reduce the complexity of multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) while maintain consistent design and performance of the UCI on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and the PUSCH.

In a first aspect of the present disclosure, a network node for a wireless communication system includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor is configured to allocate a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) having a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources are associated with a user device and include at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. The transceiver is configured to signal allocation information to the user device. The allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one first PRB includes two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one first PRB includes a plurality of first PRBs, the at least one second PRB includes a plurality of second PRBs, and the first PRBs are distributed among the second PRBs.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the resources for a first UCI are allocated at a first edge of the at least one second PRB and within a first portion of a time slot.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the resources for a first UCI are allocated at a second edge of the at least one second PRB and within a second portion of a time slot.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of different types of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, a type of the at least one UCI includes positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, another type of the at least one UCI includes periodic channel state information (CSI) , the CSI is transmitted after the ACK/NACK signal in the time slot.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the resources for the at least one UCI include positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the resources for the at least one UCI include positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) .

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the processor is configured to use at least one of the same modulation manner and the same mapping manner for the at least one UCI on the PUSCH and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) .

According to an embodiment in conjunction to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the processor is configured to use the same waveform for the at least one UCI and the data on the PUSCH.

In a second aspect of the present disclosure, a user device for a wireless communication system includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor is configured to determine uplink control information (UCI) for at least one network node. The transceiver is configured to transmit the UCI in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to the at least one network node. A plurality of resources is allocated for the PUSCH having a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources include at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the transceiver is configured to receive allocation information from the at least one network node, the allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources, and the transceiver is configured to transmit the UCI in the PUSCH according to the allocation information.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one first PRB includes two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of different types of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI, a type of the at least one UCI includes positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.

In a third aspect of the present disclosure, a method for a wireless communication system includes allocating a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and signaling allocation information to the user device. The PUSCH has a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources are associated with a user device and include at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. The allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the third aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one first PRB includes two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the third aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of UCIs and the method further includes partitioning the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.

According to another embodiment in conjunction to the third aspect of the present disclosure, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality different type of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI, a type of the at least one UCI includes positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the at least one first PRB for the UCI is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB for the data to reduce the complexity of multiplexing the UCI on the PUSCH while maintain consistent design and performance of the UCI on the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present disclosure or related art, the following figures will be described in the embodiments are briefly introduced. It is obvious that the drawings are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, a person having ordinary skill in this field can obtain other figures according to these figures without paying the premise.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a network node for a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a user device for a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a diagram of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with the technical matters, structural features, achieved objects, and effects with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows. Specifically, the terminologies in the embodiments of the present disclosure are merely for describing the purpose of the certain embodiment, but not to limit the invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a network node 100 is in communication with a wireless communication system 500. The network node 100 includes a processor 102 and a transceiver 104. The processor 102 is in communication with the transceiver 104. The network node 100 may include one or more optional antennas 106 coupled to the transceiver 104. The processor 102 is configured to allocate a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) having a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources are associated with a user device 300 (see FIG. 3) of the wireless communication system 500 and include at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data.

The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. This means that the allocated at least one first PRB is intended to be used by the user device 300 for transmission of UCI. It should however be noted that the same first PRBs may be allocated to more than one user device 300 if code division multiplexing or other orthogonal multiplexing methods are used. The transceiver 104 is configured to signal allocation information to the user device 300. The allocation information includes a frequency location and a number of the resources for the PUSCH.

The network node 100 or base station, e.g. a radio base station (RBS) , in some networks may be referred to as transmitter such as eNB, eNodeB, NodeB, or B node, depending on the communication technology and terminology used. The radio network nodes may be of different classes such as e.g. macro eNodeB, home eNodeB or pico base station, based on transmission power and thereby also cell size. The radio network node can be a station (STA) , which is any device that contains an IEEE 802.11-conformant media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) interface to the wireless medium (WM) .

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a method 200 may be executed in the network node 100. The method 200 includes a block 202 of allocating a plurality of resources on a PUSCH and a block 204 of signaling allocation information to the user device 300. The PUSCH has a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources are associated with a user device 300 and include at least one first PRB for at least one UCI and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. The allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources.

Referring to FIG. 3, the user device 300 includes a processor 302 and a transceiver 304. The processor 302 is in communication with the transceiver 304. In the embodiment, the user device 300 may further includes one or more optional antennas 306 coupled to the transceiver 304. The processor 302 of the user device 300 is configured to determine UCI for at least one network nodes 100. The UCI relates to information about transmissions between the user device 300 and the network node 100, such as SR transmission, HARQ feedback and periodic channel state information (CSI) reporting.

The transceiver 304 of the user device 300 receives the UCI from the processor 302 and is further configured to transmit the UCI in the PUSCH to the network node 100. A plurality of resources is allocated for the PUSCH having a PUSCH format defined for the resources. The resources include at least one first PRB for the UCI and at least one second PRB for data. The at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB. The transceiver 304 is configured to receive allocation information from the at least one network node 100. The allocation information includes a frequency location of a number of the resources. The transceiver 304 is configured to transmit the UCI in the PUSCH according to the allocation information.

The user device 300 such as mobile station, wireless terminal and/or mobile terminal is in communication with the wireless communication system 500, sometimes also referred to as a cellular radio system. The user device 300 may further be referred to as mobile telephones, cellular telephones, computer tablets or laptops with wireless capability. The user device 300 may be, for example, portable, pocket-storable, hand-held, computer-comprised, or vehicle-mounted mobile devices, enabled to communicate voice and/or data, via the radio access network, with another entity, such as another receiver or a server. The user device 300 can be a STA, which is any device that contains an IEEE 802.11-conformant MAC and PHY interface to the WM.

In long term evolution (LTE) , the UCI including positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, CSI, rank (RI) could be piggybacked onto PUSCH when there are data scheduled in the same sub-frame. In other case, when there is aperiodic CSI feedback, due to large amount of payload, the aperiodic CSI feedback is transmitted on PUSCH even if there is no data transmission. As UCI require more lower coding rate as compared with data, an offset is applied to obtain a number of resource elements (REs) . REs are used to carry UCI. Different types of UCI can be placed at different positions depending on their importance; normally ACK/NACK and RI are more important than CSI (which may include precoding matrix index (PMI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) ) and therefore ACK/NACK and RI are placed around the reference signal (RS) symbols to benefit from more accurate channel estimation. The data are punctured by UCI to avoid rate matching variation due to the insertion of UCI. In general, UCI on PUSCH would require quite a lot additional efforts to make sure UCI is transmitted and received correctly. Even with such non-trivial efforts, the impact to both UCI and data may not be negligible. On one side, the UCI performance on PUSCH may not be the same as that on PUCCH. On another side, the data transmission could be impacted due to the puncturing of UCI.

To reduce such impact in both specifications and system performance, some design philosophy used in LTE could be modified. An embodiment is to separate the transmission of UCI and the data, for example, transmit UCI in separate PRBs than those for data, even the overall resources allocation for PUSCH can be done and signaled together in the same UCI. One way is to use the PRBs at both edges of allocated frequency resources for UCI.

Referring to FIG. 4, in an embodiment, the first PRBs on both sides of allocated resources could be used for UCI and the second PRB is used for data. The at least one first PRB includes two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.

Referring to FIG. 5, in another embodiment, depending on the payload of UCI, some distributed first PRBs could be allocated and are interleaved with second PRBs for data. The at least one first PRB includes a plurality of first PRBs, the at least one second PRB includes a plurality of second PRBs, and the first PRBs are distributed among the second PRBs.

To further increase frequency diversity for UCI portion, intra-slot hopping could also be supported. Referring to FIG. 6, as an embodiment, two portions of UCI, UCI #1 and UCI #2 (may contain different types of UCI) are transmitted on each side of frequency resource allocation of PUSCH, and in the middle of the slot, two portions of UCI hop to the other side to obtain the frequency diversity gain.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIGS. 6 to 8, in an embodiment, the at least one uplink control information (UCI) includes a plurality of UCIs and the processor 102 is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping. The resources for different UCIs are located at the same frequency and within different contiguous time slots. The resources for different UCIs are separately located in a frequency domain and within the same time slot. The resources for same UCIs are separately located in a frequency domain and within different contiguous time slots.

In another embodiment, the processor 102 is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs. The resources for the at least one UCI include positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor 102 is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot. The resources for the at least one UCI include positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor 102 is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) .

Among UCI, as ACK/NACK and RI information are more important and need more protection, ACK/NACK and RI information could be transmitted separately from other UCI. Also for low latency application, it is desired to decode ACK/NACK first, thus, it may be good to place ACK/NACK and RI information around the start of the slot so that ACK/NACK and RI information could be decoded first. An example of such partition is shown in FIG. 7 where ACK/NACK are transmitted around the beginning of the slot followed by other UCI such as PMI/CQI. It is to be understood, the example shown in FIG. 7 indicates that ACK/NACK may not require too many symbols. In the case that the user device is at cell edge and requires more symbols to carry ACK/NACK, all the symbols could be used for ACK/NACK. For example, resources allocated for UCI #1 shown in FIG. 6 could be used to carry ACK/NACK, while resource allocated for UCI #2 could be used for other UCI.

The ACK/NACK and maybe some other UCI could be transmitted on PUCCH as well, for example, on PUCCH with long duration, and/or PUCCH on short duration. For PUCCH with long duration, discrete fourier transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) will be used as the waveform due to peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) consideration and some orthogonal sequences such as Zadoff-Chu family could be used to modulate/spread UCI and map UCI along frequency on each symbol. For UCI on PUSCH, even though other ways of coding/modulation could be used for UCI such as ACK/NACK, it may be better to use the similar ways as that used on PUCCH to modulate and map them on symbols in PUSCH, thus making the performance more consistent and resource allocation more predictable. For example, ACK/NACK could still be modulated/spread by some orthogonal sequences and mapped along frequency on each symbol. Multiple UCI (ACK/NACK) could be multiplexed after spreading using different orthogonal sequences on each symbol as shown in FIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 9, the processor 102 is configured to use at least one of the same modulation manner and the same mapping manner for the at least one UCI on the PUSCH and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) . The processor 102 is configured to use the same waveform for the at least one UCI and the data on the PUSCH.

The other aspect that needs to be considered is the waveform (WF) of UCI part on PUSCH. It was agreed that two types of WF are supported in 5G NR uplink, namely, the DTS-S-OFDM and cyclic prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) . Each WF has its own advantages and drawbacks. In general, DFT-S-OFDM had lower PAPR, and thus can improve the coverage, while CP-OFDM has good spectrum efficiency and easier for MIMO implementation; however, it has larger PAPR and therefore may have less coverage. As the data part in PUSCH could use either of the WF for different scenarios, it may be more straightforward to use the same WF for UCI portion as well. This would guarantee the similar performance/coverage between data and control, and also make UCI easier for the overall design of PUSCH such as RS, MIMO schemes. FIG. 9 is an example that both UCI and data parts in PUSCH adopt CP-OFDM WF, and hence, some distributed RS could be multiplexed with either UCI part or data part. The same WF would allow the design of RS together and provide a more consistent and uniform RS pattern for good performance and reasonable overhead.

A person having ordinary skill in the art understands that each of the units, algorithm, and steps described and disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are realized using electronic hardware or combinations of software for computers and electronic hardware. Whether the functions run in hardware or software depends on the condition of application and design requirement for a technical plan. A person having ordinary skill in the art can use different ways to realize the function for each specific application while such realizations should not go beyond the scope of the present disclosure.

It is understood by a person having ordinary skill in the art that he/she can refer to the working processes of the system, device, and unit in the above-mentioned embodiment since the working processes of the above-mentioned system, device, and unit are basically the same. For easy description and simplicity, these working processes will not be detailed.

It is understood that the disclosed system, device, and method in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be realized with other ways. The above-mentioned embodiments are exemplary only. The division of the units is merely based on logical functions while other divisions exist in realization. It is possible that a plurality of units or components are combined or integrated in another system. It is also possible that some characteristics are omitted or skipped. On the other hand, the displayed or discussed mutual coupling, direct coupling, or communicative coupling operate through some ports, devices, or units whether indirectly or communicatively by ways of electrical, mechanical, or other kinds of forms.

The units as separating components for explanation are or are not physically separated. The units for display are or are not physical units, that is, located in one place or distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units are used according to the purposes of the embodiments.

Moreover, each of the functional units in each of the embodiments can be integrated in one processing unit, physically independent, or integrated in one processing unit with two or more than two units.

If the software function unit is realized and used and sold as a product, it can be stored in a readable storage medium in a computer. Based on this understanding, the technical plan proposed by the present disclosure can be essentially or partially realized as the form of a software product. Or, one part of the technical plan beneficial to the conventional technology can be realized as the form of a software product. The software product in the computer is stored in a storage medium, including a plurality of commands for a computational device (such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to run all or some of the steps disclosed by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The storage medium includes a USB disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM) , a random access memory (RAM) , a floppy disk, or other kinds of media capable of storing program codes.

While the present disclosure has been described in connection with what is considered the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the disclosed embodiments but is intended to cover various arrangements made without departing from the scope of the broadest interpretation of the appended claims.

Claims

A network node for a wireless communication system comprising:

a processor configured to allocate a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) having a PUSCH format defined for the resources, the resources being associated with a user device and comprising at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data, wherein the at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB; and

a transceiver configured to signal allocation information to the user device, wherein the allocation information comprises a frequency location of a number of the resources.
The network node of claim 1, wherein the at least one first PRB comprises two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.
The network node of claim 1, wherein the at least one first PRB comprises a plurality of first PRBs, the at least one second PRB comprises a plurality of second PRBs, and the first PRBs are distributed among the second PRBs.
The network node of claim 1, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.
The network node of claim 4, wherein the resources for a first UCI are allocated at a first edge of the at least one second PRB and within a first portion of a time slot.
The network node of claim 5, wherein the resources for a first UCI are allocated at a second edge of the at least one second PRB and within a second portion of a time slot.
The network node of claim 1, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality of different types of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI.
The network node of claim 7, wherein a type of the at least one UCI comprises positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.
The network node of claim 8, wherein another type of the at least one UCI comprises periodic channel state information (CSI) , the CSI is transmitted after the ACK/NACK signal in the time slot.
The network node of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to use at least one of the same modulation manner and the same mapping manner for the at least one UCI on the PUSCH and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) .
The network node of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to use the same waveform for the at least one UCI and the data on the PUSCH.
A user device for a wireless communication system, the user device comprising:

a processor configured to determine uplink control information (UCI) for at least one network node; and

a transceiver configured to transmit the UCI in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to the at least one network node, wherein a plurality of resources is allocated for the PUSCH having a PUSCH format defined for the resources, the resources comprise at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data, the at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB.
The user device of claim 12, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive allocation information from the at least one network node, the allocation information comprises a frequency location of a number of the resources, and the transceiver is configured to transmit the UCI in the PUSCH according to the allocation information.
The user device of claim 12, wherein the at least one first PRB comprises two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.
The user device of claim 12, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.
The user device of claim 12, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality different type of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI, a type of the at least one UCI comprises positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.
A method for a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

allocating a plurality of resources on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) having a PUSCH format defined for the resources, the resources being associated with a user device and comprising at least one first physical resource block (PRB) for at least one uplink control information (UCI) and at least one second PRB for data, wherein the at least one first PRB is located on an edge of the at least one second PRB; and

signaling allocation information to the user device, wherein the allocation information comprises a frequency location of a number of the resources.
The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one first PRB comprises two first PRBs, and the two first PRBs are separated from each other and are located on both edges of the at least one second PRB.
The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality of UCIs and the method further comprises partitioning the resources for different UCIs using intra-slot hopping.
The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one uplink control information (UCI) comprises a plurality different type of UCIs and the processor is configured to partition the resources in the at least one first PRB for the at least one UCI, a type of the at least one UCI comprises positive-acknowledgement (ACK) /negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the processor is configured to transmit the ACK/NACK signal at beginning of a time slot.