An evolved Node B, eNB , comprising: allocation circuitry configured to: allocate, in association with transmission to a user equipment, UE , one or more downlink regions associated with machine-type communication, MTC, wherein the one or more downlink regions is transmitted within a first system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a first subframe in the time domain; and allocate, in association with reception from the UE , one or more uplink regions associated with MTC, wherein the one or more uplink regions are transmitted within a second system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a second subframe in the time domain, and the number of the one or more uplink regions is fewer than the number of the plurality of downlink regions ; and signaling circuitry , coupled with the allocation circuitry , the signaling circuitry configured to: identify one or more parameters associated with one or more resources on which hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, acknowledgement, ACK, or negative acknowledgement, NACK, feedback is to be transmitted to the eNB from the UE , characterized in that the one or more parameters comprise a region index associated with a first region of the downlink MTC regions, and wherein a resource index for the HARQ ACK or NACK feedback is a function of the region index. allocation circuitry configured to: allocate, in association with transmission to a user equipment, UE , one or more downlink regions associated with machine-type communication, MTC, wherein the one or more downlink regions is transmitted within a first system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a first subframe in the time domain; and allocate, in association with reception from the UE , one or more uplink regions associated with MTC, wherein the one or more uplink regions are transmitted within a second system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a second subframe in the time domain, and the number of the one or more uplink regions is fewer than the number of the plurality of downlink regions ; and allocate, in association with transmission to a user equipment, UE , one or more downlink regions associated with machine-type communication, MTC, wherein the one or more downlink regions is transmitted within a first system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a first subframe in the time domain; and allocate, in association with reception from the UE , one or more uplink regions associated with MTC, wherein the one or more uplink regions are transmitted within a second system bandwidth in the frequency domain and a second subframe in the time domain, and the number of the one or more uplink regions is fewer than the number of the plurality of downlink regions ; and signaling circuitry , coupled with the allocation circuitry , the signaling circuitry configured to: identify one or more parameters associated with one or more resources on which hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, acknowledgement, ACK, or negative acknowledgement, NACK, feedback is to be transmitted to the eNB from the UE , characterized in that the one or more parameters comprise a region index associated with a first region of the downlink MTC regions, and wherein a resource index for the HARQ ACK or NACK feedback is a function of the region index. <EOS>