Absolute power control tolerance for NB-IoT/MTC

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or evolved NodeB (eNB) may process and assign narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) resources based on a comparison between a measured narrowband reference signal received power (NRSRP) in a narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) transmission and at least one threshold value. Embodiments describe how to configure the NPUSCH transmission utilizing NPRACH procedure at very low receiving Signal-to Noise ratio (SNR) to alleviate negative impacts caused by less accurate NRSRP measurements and/or increased absolute power tolerance at very low receiving SNR scenarios. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.