System and method for PUCCH transmission scheme

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter sharing a same spatial domain filter as the SRS;

define the SRS in one or more SRS groups comprising:

a first SRS group for SRS resources used for beam management; and

a second SRS group for SRS resources used for PUCCH transmission;

encode the SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter; and

receive an antenna port index (API) from a base station;

identify one or more antenna ports (APs) based on the API;

encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter; and

transmit the UCI in the PUCCH on the one or more antenna ports using the spatial received parameter; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the UCI.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:

receive the RRC signal indicating the SRS; and

transmit the SRS using the spatial received parameter.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to encode the SRS associated with the SRI for transmission using the spatial received parameter.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, an internal memory, or a non-volatile memory port.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more SRS groups further comprises

a third SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the SRS is defined in each of the second SRS group and the third SRS group.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more SRS groups are configured by RRC signaling.

9. An apparatus of a base station configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

identify one or more antenna ports (APs) for transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) by a user equipment (UE);

generate an antenna port index (API) based on the identified APs;

encode the API for transmission to the UE;

transmit, to the UE, higher layer signaling instructing the UE to define an SRS to transmit from the UE with the PUCCH in one or more SRS groups comprising:

a first SRS group for SRS resources used for beam management; and

a second SRS group for SRS resources used for PUCCH transmission;

encode a radio resource control (RRC) signal with a spatial received parameter indicating the SRS to transmit from the UE with the PUCCH, wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) at the UE based on the spatial received parameter, the spatial received parameter sharing a same spatial domain filter as the SRS;

decode the SRS received from the UE, using the spatial received parameter;

receive uplink control information (UCI) received from the UE in the PUCCH on the one or more antenna ports; and

decode the UCI using the spatial received parameter; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:

transmit the RRC signal indicating the SRS;

receive the SRS using the spatial received parameter.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to decode the SRS associated with the SRI received from the UE using the spatial received parameter.

13. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the instructions thereon when executed by one or more processors at the UE perform the following:

decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter sharing a same spatial domain filter as the SRS;

define the SRS in one or more SRS groups comprising:

a first SRS group for SRS resources used for beam management; and

a second SRS group for SRS resources used for PUCCH transmission;

encode the SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter;

receive an antenna port index (API) from a base station;

identify one or more antenna ports (APs) based on the API;

encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter; and

transmit the UCI in the PUCCH on the one or more antenna ports using the spatial received parameter;

wherein a memory interface is configured to send to a memory the UCI.

14. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 13 further comprising instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors at the UE, perform the following:

receive the RRC signal indicating the SRS; and

transmit the SRS using the spatial received parameter.

15. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 13 ,

wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS.

16. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 15 , further comprising instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors at the UE, perform the following: encode the SRS associated with the SRI for transmission using the spatial received parameter.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 13 , wherein the one or more SRS groups further comprises

a third SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 17 ,

wherein the SRS is defined in each of the second SRS group and the third SRS group.

19. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in claim 13 ,

wherein the one or more SRS groups are configured by RRC signaling.