A method for receiving an uplink control signal, comprising: determining, by a network device, a plurality of time-frequency resources for transmitting the uplink control signal in a time-domain scheduling unit; and receiving, by the network device, the uplink control signal on the plurality of time-frequency resources, the uplink control signal being transmitted by use of a Cyclic Prefix-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, CP-OFDM, waveform; wherein the time-domain scheduling unit comprises different physical resource regions used to transmit uplink control signals of different types, and the plurality of time-frequency resources for transmitting the uplink control signal in the time-domain scheduling unit are arranged into one or more of the different physical resource regions; the one or more physical resource regions comprise a first physical resource region for transmitting uplink control signals of the type Acknowledgement, ACK/Negative Acknowledgement, NACK, and a second physical resource region for transmitting uplink control signals of the type Channel State Information, CSI, feedback; wherein time-frequency resources for transmitting uplink control signals of the type reference signal are configured into multiple resource groups, wherein the multiple resource group are allocated in one of the first physical resource region or the second physical resource region of the time-domain scheduling unit; wherein each resource group occupies one or more continuous time-frequency resources, the multiple resource groups are non-contiguously allocated in time domain of the time-domain scheduling unit, and the time-domain scheduling unit is a slot. determining, by a network device, a plurality of time-frequency resources for transmitting the uplink control signal in a time-domain scheduling unit; and receiving, by the network device, the uplink control signal on the plurality of time-frequency resources, the uplink control signal being transmitted by use of a Cyclic Prefix-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, CP-OFDM, waveform; wherein the time-domain scheduling unit comprises different physical resource regions used to transmit uplink control signals of different types, and the plurality of time-frequency resources for transmitting the uplink control signal in the time-domain scheduling unit are arranged into one or more of the different physical resource regions; the one or more physical resource regions comprise a first physical resource region for transmitting uplink control signals of the type Acknowledgement, ACK/Negative Acknowledgement, NACK, and a second physical resource region for transmitting uplink control signals of the type Channel State Information, CSI, feedback; wherein time-frequency resources for transmitting uplink control signals of the type reference signal are configured into multiple resource groups, wherein the multiple resource group are allocated in one of the first physical resource region or the second physical resource region of the time-domain scheduling unit; wherein each resource group occupies one or more continuous time-frequency resources, the multiple resource groups are non-contiguously allocated in time domain of the time-domain scheduling unit, and the time-domain scheduling unit is a slot.