| CPC H04W 72/1268 (2013.01) [H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |

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1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a first indication associated with available slots and a second indication associated with a number of slots and a number of repetitions; and
a processor operably coupled to the transceiver and configured to identify, based on the first indication, whether transmission of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with repetitions is based on the available slots,
wherein the transceiver is further configured to:
in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is based on the available slots, transmit, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in the available slots until the number of slots, and
in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is not based on the available slots, transmit, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in consecutive slots until the number of slots.
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