DETERMINATION OF NUMBER OF PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL REPETITIONS FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) comprises baseband processing circuitry to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved Node B (eNB), and process a message from the eNB indicating a number of repetitions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions to be used over multiple uplink subframes after the radio resource control connection is established.