A technique for converging 5th Generation (5G) communication and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is provided. The technique may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication and IoT technologies. Further, a method by a terminal in a communication system is provided that includes receiving configuration information including information on an uplink control channel format, receiving downlink data on at least one of a first subframe of a primary cell and a first subframe of a secondary cell, and transmitting a response corresponding to the downlink data on a second subframe of the primary cell based on the configuration information and the first subframe of a secondary cell. According to the method, data may be transmitted/received through the cells operating in the different duplex modes simultaneously and an uplink control format optimized for uplink control channel transmission may be used, resulting in improvement of uplink resource utilization efficiency.