A user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising: at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver, and configured to: receive, from a base station, a channel state information, CSI, configuration, wherein the CSI configuration includes: a first CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for more than one (K>1) beamformed CSI-reference signal, CSI-RS, resources; and a second CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for one (K=1) beamformed CSI-RS resource; identify a first subset (S 1) of CSI components, a second subset (S 2) of the CSI components, and a third subset (S 3) of the CSI components based on the CSI reporting configurations; transmit a first CSI report including the first subset (S 1) based on a first physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, format (x) in a first subframe; transmit a second CSI report including the second subset (S 2) based on a second PUCCH format (y) in a second subframe; and transmit a third CSI report including the third subset (S 3) based on a third PUCCH format (z) in a third subframe, wherein the first subframe, the second subframe, and the third subframe are different from each other, wherein the CSI components include at least one of a rank indicator, RI, a channel quality indicator, CQI, a precoding matrix indicator, PMI, or a CSI-reference signal, RS, resource indicator, CRI, wherein the first subset (S 1) only includes a CRI, wherein the second subset (S 2) only includes the RI, and wherein the third subset (S 3) only includes the PMI and the CQI. at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver, and configured to: receive, from a base station, a channel state information, CSI, configuration, wherein the CSI configuration includes: a first CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for more than one (K>1) beamformed CSI-reference signal, CSI-RS, resources; and a second CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for one (K=1) beamformed CSI-RS resource; identify a first subset (S 1) of CSI components, a second subset (S 2) of the CSI components, and a third subset (S 3) of the CSI components based on the CSI reporting configurations; transmit a first CSI report including the first subset (S 1) based on a first physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, format (x) in a first subframe; transmit a second CSI report including the second subset (S 2) based on a second PUCCH format (y) in a second subframe; and transmit a third CSI report including the third subset (S 3) based on a third PUCCH format (z) in a third subframe, receive, from a base station, a channel state information, CSI, configuration, wherein the CSI configuration includes: a first CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for more than one (K>1) beamformed CSI-reference signal, CSI-RS, resources; and a second CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for one (K=1) beamformed CSI-RS resource; a first CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for more than one (K>1) beamformed CSI-reference signal, CSI-RS, resources; and a second CSI reporting configuration associated with an eMIMO-Type for one (K=1) beamformed CSI-RS resource; identify a first subset (S 1) of CSI components, a second subset (S 2) of the CSI components, and a third subset (S 3) of the CSI components based on the CSI reporting configurations; transmit a first CSI report including the first subset (S 1) based on a first physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, format (x) in a first subframe; transmit a second CSI report including the second subset (S 2) based on a second PUCCH format (y) in a second subframe; and transmit a third CSI report including the third subset (S 3) based on a third PUCCH format (z) in a third subframe, wherein the first subframe, the second subframe, and the third subframe are different from each other, wherein the CSI components include at least one of a rank indicator, RI, a channel quality indicator, CQI, a precoding matrix indicator, PMI, or a CSI-reference signal, RS, resource indicator, CRI, wherein the first subset (S 1) only includes a CRI, wherein the second subset (S 2) only includes the RI, and wherein the third subset (S 3) only includes the PMI and the CQI.