A user equipment, UE, for use 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: control the at least one transceiver to receive, from a base station, a sounding reference signal, SRS, configuration via a radio resource control, RRC, signaling, the SRS configuration including: information for indicating a start symbol position for the SRS transmission within last six symbols of a slot, wherein the start symbol position is one of the last six symbols of the slot, information for indicating a number of at least one symbol of the SRS transmission within the slot, wherein the number of the at least one symbol is 1, 2, or 4, and information for indicating a repetition number, wherein the repetition number is smaller than or equal to the number of the at least one symbol; and control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to the base station, at least one SRS based on the SRS configuration and a numerology configuration indicating a subcarrier spacing, wherein the SRS configuration further includes information on a slot periodicity and a slot offset for the slot periodicity, and wherein at least one slot for the at least one SRS satisfies: n f N slot frame, μ + n s,f μ − T offset mod T SRS = 0, where n f denotes a frame index, N slot frame, μ denotes a total number of slots in one frame according to the subcarrier spacing u, n s,f μ denotes a slot index according to the subcarrier spacing u, T SRS denotes the slot periodicity, and T offset denotes the slot offset. at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver, and configured to: control the at least one transceiver to receive, from a base station, a sounding reference signal, SRS, configuration via a radio resource control, RRC, signaling, the SRS configuration including: information for indicating a start symbol position for the SRS transmission within last six symbols of a slot, wherein the start symbol position is one of the last six symbols of the slot, information for indicating a number of at least one symbol of the SRS transmission within the slot, wherein the number of the at least one symbol is 1, 2, or 4, and information for indicating a repetition number, wherein the repetition number is smaller than or equal to the number of the at least one symbol; and control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to the base station, at least one SRS based on the SRS configuration and a numerology configuration indicating a subcarrier spacing, wherein the SRS configuration further includes information on a slot periodicity and a slot offset for the slot periodicity, and wherein at least one slot for the at least one SRS satisfies: n f N slot frame, μ + n s,f μ − T offset mod T SRS = 0, where n f denotes a frame index, N slot frame, μ denotes a total number of slots in one frame according to the subcarrier spacing u, n s,f μ denotes a slot index according to the subcarrier spacing u, T SRS denotes the slot periodicity, and T offset denotes the slot offset. control the at least one transceiver to receive, from a base station, a sounding reference signal, SRS, configuration via a radio resource control, RRC, signaling, the SRS configuration including: information for indicating a start symbol position for the SRS transmission within last six symbols of a slot, wherein the start symbol position is one of the last six symbols of the slot, information for indicating a number of at least one symbol of the SRS transmission within the slot, wherein the number of the at least one symbol is 1, 2, or 4, and information for indicating a repetition number, wherein the repetition number is smaller than or equal to the number of the at least one symbol; and information for indicating a start symbol position for the SRS transmission within last six symbols of a slot, wherein the start symbol position is one of the last six symbols of the slot, information for indicating a number of at least one symbol of the SRS transmission within the slot, wherein the number of the at least one symbol is 1, 2, or 4, and information for indicating a repetition number, wherein the repetition number is smaller than or equal to the number of the at least one symbol; and control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to the base station, at least one SRS based on the SRS configuration and a numerology configuration indicating a subcarrier spacing, wherein the SRS configuration further includes information on a slot periodicity and a slot offset for the slot periodicity, and wherein at least one slot for the at least one SRS satisfies: n f N slot frame, μ + n s,f μ − T offset mod T SRS = 0, where n f denotes a frame index, N slot frame, μ denotes a total number of slots in one frame according to the subcarrier spacing u, n s,f μ denotes a slot index according to the subcarrier spacing u, T SRS denotes the slot periodicity, and T offset denotes the slot offset.