An apparatus of a base station (101, 102, 103) comprising: at least one transceiver (310a-310n); and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment, UE, by a higher layer signaling, information for configuring a set of sub-bands in which one or more machine type communication physical downlink control channel, MPDCCH, transmissions are to be received and information for configuring a number R of repetitions of the one or more MPDCCH transmissions over subframes for channel state information, CSI, derivation; and control the at least one transceiver to receive, from the UE, the CSI comprising a wideband channel quality indicator, CQI, value, wherein the wideband CQI value is calculated relative to UE common reference signal measurements corresponding to a number N of subframes used for MPDCCH reception in each subband of the set of sub-bands, wherein the number N of subframes used for MPDCCH reception in each subband of the set of sub-bands is configured based on a ratio of the number R of repetitions of the one or more MPDCCH transmissions to a number N SB of sub-bands in the set, wherein the number N SB of sub-bands in the set is configured with a frequency hopping for the one or more MPDCCH transmissions, and wherein each sub-band in the set of sub-bands correspond to six resource blocks, RBs. at least one transceiver (310a-310n); and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment, UE, by a higher layer signaling, information for configuring a set of sub-bands in which one or more machine type communication physical downlink control channel, MPDCCH, transmissions are to be received and information for configuring a number R of repetitions of the one or more MPDCCH transmissions over subframes for channel state information, CSI, derivation; and control the at least one transceiver to receive, from the UE, the CSI comprising a wideband channel quality indicator, CQI, value, control the at least one transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment, UE, by a higher layer signaling, information for configuring a set of sub-bands in which one or more machine type communication physical downlink control channel, MPDCCH, transmissions are to be received and information for configuring a number R of repetitions of the one or more MPDCCH transmissions over subframes for channel state information, CSI, derivation; and control the at least one transceiver to receive, from the UE, the CSI comprising a wideband channel quality indicator, CQI, value, wherein the wideband CQI value is calculated relative to UE common reference signal measurements corresponding to a number N of subframes used for MPDCCH reception in each subband of the set of sub-bands, wherein the number N of subframes used for MPDCCH reception in each subband of the set of sub-bands is configured based on a ratio of the number R of repetitions of the one or more MPDCCH transmissions to a number N SB of sub-bands in the set, wherein the number N SB of sub-bands in the set is configured with a frequency hopping for the one or more MPDCCH transmissions, and wherein each sub-band in the set of sub-bands correspond to six resource blocks, RBs.