Abstract: Method and apparatus for an enhanced beam refinement procedure in a multi-cell scenario. The apparatus receives a beam refinement configuration indicating beam measurement is restricted to a serving cell and excluded for a neighbor cell. The apparatus measures an SSB of the serving cell by sweeping multiple beams restricted based on the beam refinement configuration. Measurement of a concurrent SSB of the neighbor cell is excluded in the sweeping of the multiple beams. The apparatus identifies a refined beam for the serving cell based on the sweeping of the multiple beams.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for measurement reporting in beamformed communications. A user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a serving cell using one or more refined beams, and may measure one or more quality metrics of the serving cell using a wider beam than the refined beam, which may provide a uniform comparison with measured quality metrics of other cells using wider beams. Further, the UE may apply a time threshold to one or more quality metric measurements to exclude older measurements from a measurement report. A base station or serving cell may configure the UE to perform quality metric measurements and apply time thresholds for reporting measurements, which may be enabled or disabled based on one or more parameters.