An apparatus of a new radio node B, gNB, operable for new radio, NR, physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, operation in NR-unlicensed, NR-U, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors configured to: decode, at the gNB, information located in M RB PUCCH, x physical resource blocks, PRBs, received on a PUCCH, wherein M RB PUCCH, x is a positive integer; and identify, at the gNB, a minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH based on a regulation of a regulatory body, wherein on one or more of n symbols in a time domain, the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs each include one or more sequences, the sequences including a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, and uplink control information, UCI, wherein the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are determined at the user equipment, UE, based on the minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH, wherein each PRB of the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs includes N SC RB subcarriers and the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are distributed in a frequency domain, and wherein n is a positive integer and N SC RB is a positive integer, wherein the DMRS and UCI is mapped M RB PUCCH, x times across the frequency domain, and wherein n i,DMRS is a cyclic shift applied on a DMRS sequence mapped on an i-th PRB and n i,UCI = ( n i,DMRS + ∇ i,offset) modM ZC, where ni,UCI is a cyclic shift applied to a UCI sequence mapped on the i-th PRB, ∇ i,offset is a fixed value, a function of system parameters, or is provided by higher layer signaling and M ZC is the length of said UCI sequence; and a memory interface configured to send the information to a memory. one or more processors configured to: decode, at the gNB, information located in M RB PUCCH, x physical resource blocks, PRBs, received on a PUCCH, wherein M RB PUCCH, x is a positive integer; and identify, at the gNB, a minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH based on a regulation of a regulatory body, wherein on one or more of n symbols in a time domain, the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs each include one or more sequences, the sequences including a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, and uplink control information, UCI, wherein the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are determined at the user equipment, UE, based on the minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH, wherein each PRB of the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs includes N SC RB subcarriers and the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are distributed in a frequency domain, and wherein n is a positive integer and N SC RB is a positive integer, wherein the DMRS and UCI is mapped M RB PUCCH, x times across the frequency domain, and wherein n i,DMRS is a cyclic shift applied on a DMRS sequence mapped on an i-th PRB and n i,UCI = ( n i,DMRS + ∇ i,offset) modM ZC, where ni,UCI is a cyclic shift applied to a UCI sequence mapped on the i-th PRB, ∇ i,offset is a fixed value, a function of system parameters, or is provided by higher layer signaling and M ZC is the length of said UCI sequence; and decode, at the gNB, information located in M RB PUCCH, x physical resource blocks, PRBs, received on a PUCCH, wherein M RB PUCCH, x is a positive integer; and identify, at the gNB, a minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH based on a regulation of a regulatory body, wherein on one or more of n symbols in a time domain, the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs each include one or more sequences, the sequences including a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, and uplink control information, UCI, wherein the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are determined at the user equipment, UE, based on the minimum occupied bandwidth of the PUCCH, wherein each PRB of the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs includes N SC RB subcarriers and the M RB PUCCH, x PRBs are distributed in a frequency domain, and wherein n is a positive integer and N SC RB is a positive integer, wherein the DMRS and UCI is mapped M RB PUCCH, x times across the frequency domain, and wherein n i,DMRS is a cyclic shift applied on a DMRS sequence mapped on an i-th PRB and n i,UCI = ( n i,DMRS + ∇ i,offset) modM ZC, where ni,UCI is a cyclic shift applied to a UCI sequence mapped on the i-th PRB, ∇ i,offset is a fixed value, a function of system parameters, or is provided by higher layer signaling and M ZC is the length of said UCI sequence; and a memory interface configured to send the information to a memory.