Transmitting control data and user data on a physical uplink channel

1. A method for transmission of control data and user data on a Physical Uplink Channel (PUC), comprising:

receiving an instruction from a base station to use an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to transmit uplink data;

mixed coding the control data with the user data, comprising:

removing bits in user data;

repeating bits in control data to increase a number of bits in the control data, wherein the repeating comprises copying bits in the control data k*m times, where k is a constant determined based on a type and size of the control data, a resource allocation offset, β-offset, and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), and m is a repetition scalar determined based on the resource allocation offset, β-offset;

copying a number of bits in the user data that is equal to the number of bits in the control data;

adding the copied user data bits to the control data; and

multiplexing the user data and the control data; and

transmitting control data and user data to the base station on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting is simultaneous on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink control channel is a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system and the uplink shared channel is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in an LTE system.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting a reference signal with a length of M=Φ*N, where Φ is a combined number of resource blocks in the uplink control channel and uplink shared channel and N is a size of the resource blocks in frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the control data comprises feedback data for a plurality of downlink carriers.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the control data is one or more of a channel quality information (CQI), acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment data (ACK/NACK), precoding matrix indication (PMI), scheduling request (SR) and a rank indicator (RI).

7. A method for transmission of control data and user data on a Physical Uplink Channel (PUC), comprising:

receiving an instruction from a base station to use an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to transmit uplink data;

mixed coding the control data with the user data, comprising:

removing bits in user data;

repeating bits in control data to increase a number of bits in the control data;

copying a number of bits in the user data that is equal to the number of bits in the control data;

adding the copied user data bits to the control data, wherein the adding comprises a bitwise exclusive or (XOR) operation; and

multiplexing the user data and the control data; and

transmitting control data and user data to the base station on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the multiplexing comprises time division multiplexing (TDM) and channel multiplexing.

9. A wireless device for transmission of control data and user data on a Physical Uplink Channel (PUC), comprising:

a processor;

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the processor to:

receive an instruction from a base station to use an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to transmit uplink data;

mixed code the control data with the user data, comprising instructions executable to:

remove bits in user data;

repeat bits in control data to increase a number of bits in the control data, wherein the instructions executable to repeat comprise instructions executable to copy bits in the control data k*m times, where k is a constant determined based on a type and size of the control data, a resource allocation offset, β-offset, and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), and m is a repetition scalar determined based on the resource allocation offset, β-offset;

copy a number of bits in the user data that is equal to the number of bits in the control data;

add the copied user data bits to the control data; and

multiplex the user data and the control data; and

transmit control data and user data to the base station on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

10. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the instructions executable to transmit comprise instructions executable to simultaneously transmit on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

11. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the uplink control channel is a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system and the uplink shared channel is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in an LTE system.

12. The wireless device of claim 9 , further comprising instructions executable to transmit a reference signal with a length of M=Φ*N, where Φ is a combined number of resource blocks in the uplink control channel and uplink shared channel and N is a size of the resource blocks in frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers.

13. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the control data comprises feedback data for a plurality of downlink carriers.

14. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the control data is one or more of a channel quality information (CQI), acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment data (ACK/NACK), precoding matrix indication (PMI), scheduling request (SR) and a rank indicator (RI).

15. A wireless device for transmission of control data and user data on a Physical Uplink Channel (PUC), comprising:

a processor;

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the processor to:

receive an instruction from a base station to use an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to transmit uplink data;

mixed code the control data with the user data, comprising instructions executable to:

remove bits in user data;

repeat bits in control data to increase a number of bits in the control data;

copy a number of bits in the user data that is equal to the number of bits in the control data;

add the copied user data bits to the control data, wherein the instructions executable to add comprise instructions executable to perform a bitwise exclusive or (XOR) operation; and

multiplex the user data and the control data; and

transmit control data and user data to the base station on the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel.

16. The wireless device of claim 15 , wherein the instructions executable to multiplex comprise instructions executable to perform time division multiplexing (TDM) and channel multiplexing.