An apparatus and method are provided for allocating an uplink resource for a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel corresponding to the downlink control channel from a base station; identifying a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) resource index for the downlink data channel based on a first Control Channel Element (CCE) of the downlink control channel; and transmitting a PUCCH in an uplink subframe based on the identified PUCCH resource index.