Patent ID: 9692575
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving uplink control signals in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a base station, a first uplink control channel in a mixed resource block from a first user equipment, the mixed resource block including a plurality of subcarriers; and receiving, by the base station, a second uplink control channel in the mixed resource block from a second user equipment, wherein the first uplink control channel is identified by a first cyclic shift value, wherein the second uplink control channel is identified by a second cyclic shift value that is different from the first cyclic shift value, wherein the first uplink control channel carries a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) of the first user equipment, and wherein the second uplink control channel carries a channel quality indicator (CQI) for the second user equipment and a HARQ ACK/NACK of the second user equipment.