Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A method performed by a user equipment, the method comprising;

• determining a coverage enhanced level to be used for transmitting a random access preamble;
• transmitting the random access preamble;
• receiving a random access response corresponding to the transmitted random access preamble, the random access response being allocated by Machine Type Communication (MTC) Physical Downlink Control Channel (MPDCCH), a repetition level of the MPDCCH is based on the coverage enhanced level;
• and
• transmitting a Msg3 carrying a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTION REQUEST message, the Msg3 including a quality report indicated by one or multiple bits,
• wherein the quality report provides at least one of the repetition level of the MPDCCH or an aggregation level of the MPDCCH to satisfy a hypothetical MPDCCH block error rate of 1%.

An infrastructure device comprising;

• one or more radio transceivers;
• and
• hardware circuitry configured to:
• control the one or more radio transceivers to receive a random access preamble from a user equipment which is in an idle mode;
• control the one or more radio transceivers to transmit a random access response corresponding to the received random access preamble, the random access response being allocated by Machine Type Communication (MTC) Physical Downlink Control Channel (MPDCCH), a repetition level of the MPDCCH being based on the coverage enhanced level;
• and
• control the one or more radio transceivers to receive a Msg3 carrying a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTION REQUEST message, the Msg3 including a quality report indicated by one or multiple bits,
• wherein the quality report provides at least one of the repetition level of the MPDCCH or an aggregation level of the MPDCCH to satisfy a hypothetical MPDCCH block error rate of 1%.

A method performed by an infrastructure device, the method comprising:

• receiving a random access preamble from a user equipment which is in an idle mode;
• transmitting a random access response corresponding to the received random access preamble, the random access response being allocated by Machine Type Communication (MTC) Physical Downlink Control Channel (MPDCCH), a repetition level of the MPDCCH is based on the coverage enhanced level;
• and
• receiving a Msg3 carrying a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTION REQUEST message, the Msg3 including a quality report indicated by one or multiple bits,
• wherein the quality report provides at least one of the repetition level of the MPDCCH or an aggregation level of the MPDCCH to satisfy a hypothetical MPDCCH block error rate of 1%.