An system and a method are disclosed for sequence-based physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs). A method includes a UE determining an uplink control information (UCI) payload to be transmitted, determining, based on the UCI payload to be transmitted, a grouping of resource sets and sequences, each sequence corresponding to a resource set, selecting one or more resource sets and one or more sequences from among the determined grouping of resource sets and sequences, according to a mapping operation, for transmitting the UCI payload, and transmitting the selected one or more sequences as part of a UCI payload transmission.