METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONFIGURING AND SCHEDULING PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL

The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for configuring and scheduling a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). A method includes transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a PUCCH to a base station, the UE being configured with an uplink (UL) subband, by: receiving, by the UE, a configuration for at least one PUCCH resource; determining, by the UE, whether a PUCCH resource is valid for the UL subband based on the configuration; and in response to the determining that the PUCCH resource is valid for the UL subband, transmitting, by the UE, the PUCCH in the PUCCH resource to the base station.