PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) carries a set of information called "UCI

(Uplink Control Information)". (This is similar to PDCCH which carries DCI (Down
link control information)". Depending on what kind of information the UCI in PDC
CH carries, PDCCH is classified into various formation as follows.
You may see a lot of different way of describing these formats depending on situ
ation. It may be confusing at the beginning, but it would be better for you to g
et familiar with those different way of expression. You may want a single big ta
ble which has every details, but you will notice that those big table would be e
ven more confusing.
So I will try to describe these formats in this page in various ways with a litt
le bit different focus. You will see all of these are saying the same thing.. bu
t in a little bit different perspective.
In 3GPP 36.213, section 10.1 UE procedure for determining physical uplink contro
l channel assignment. The PUCCH format is summarized as follows.
HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format 1a or 1b
HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format 1b with channel selection
Scheduling request (SR) using PUCCH format 1
HARQ-ACK and SR using PUCCH format 1a or 1b
CQI using PUCCH format 2
CQI and HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format
2a or 2b for normal cyclic prefix
2 for extended cyclic prefix
Overall logics about PUCCH was relatively simple at Rel 8, but as it gets evolve
d the rule gets complicated and a lot of confusions start arising. A couple of q
uestions you have to keep asking yourself about PUCCHs are
At a certain subframe, does UE has to transmit PUCCH or PUSCH ?
If UE has to transmit PUCCH, what kind of PUCCH format it has to transmit ? what
kind of information it should carry ?
Question is simple,but the answer would get different depending on situation. To
figure out the correct answer to these questions, you need to have clear unders
tanding not only on HARQ mechanism, but also on CSI mechanism.