Techniques for interference-aware beam pair selection

A transmit-receive point, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having processor-executable instructions stored thereon which is to be executed by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to:
• receive statistics of a usage of one or more interfering transmit beams (m, k) of one or more interfering transmit devices m, wherein k represents one or more transmit beams, and m and k are positive integers,
• wherein the processor is configured to forward the statistics to a user equipment to enable the user equipment to select a beam pair based on the statistics, and further configured to communicate with the user equipment via the selected beam pair.

A method for interference-aware beam selection, applied to a processing device comprising a processor, the method comprising:

• selecting, a beam pair from a set of candidate beam pairs (i, j), for setting up a communication link from a serving transmit device to a receive device via the selected beam pair,
• wherein each of the candidate beam pairs comprises a transmit beam j of the serving transmit device and a receive beam i of the receive device,
• wherein the selection is based on statistics of a usage of one or more interfering transmit beams (m, k) of one or more interfering transmit devices m, wherein k represents one or more transmit beams, and i, j, m and k are positive integers,
• wherein selecting the beam pair from the set of candidate beam pairs comprises:
• determining for each of the candidate beam pairs (i, j) a score SCR(i, j) based on the statistics of the usage of the one or more interfering transmit beams (m, k);
• and
• selecting, from the set of candidate beam pairs, a beam pair that has obtained a highest score.