METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUCCH TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION WITH MULTICAST HARQ INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Apparatuses and methods for transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with multicast hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information. A method includes receiving information for a set of PUCCH resources and first physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) that provide first transport blocks (TBs). The method further includes determining first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits associated with the first TBs and to provide the first HARQ-ACK information bits only when at least one PUCCH resource from the set of PUCCH resources overlaps in time with a transmission of a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A value for each of the first HARQ-ACK information bits corresponds to positive acknowledgement (ACK). The method further includes transmitting the first PUSCH. The first PUSCH includes the first HARQ-ACK information bits when the at least one PUCCH resource overlaps in time with the first PUSCH.