User equipment, base station and methods are provided for user equipment uplink data transmission to a base station. In one embodiment, the user equipment includes receiving circuitry configured to receive signaling information in an uplink data grant about unavailable resource elements in a uplink subframe for uplink data transmission over a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) indicated by the data grant and processing circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH on only available resource elements in the subframe.