In some embodiments, physical resources in time and frequency domains may be configured by RRC signaling. Further, a bitmap in the DCI for an activation of Type 2 CG UL transmission may be used to indicate whether a subset or a full set of configured physical resources can be used for the CG UL transmission. Note that the physical resources may be located in the same or different slots, component carriers, or bandwidth portions (e.g., in different 20 MHz bandwidths that are located in different portions of a wide system bandwidth that is larger than 20 MHz).
In some embodiments, for Type 1 CG UL transmission, physical resources in time and frequency domains may be configured by RRC configurations. Depending on the outcome of an LBT, UE may select one of the configured multiple time/frequency resources for grant-free uplink transmission.
In some embodiments, the frequency-domain resources for grant-free UL transmission may be indicated via activation/deactivation DCI, and the time-domain resources may be configured via RRC.