Real time control of an electronically configurable deflector

An apparatus for wireless communications at a passive channel engineering device, comprising:

• one or more memories storing processor-executable code;
• and
• one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and operable to execute the code to cause the one or more processors to:
• receive, from a network entity, first control signaling that indicates a plurality of beam shaping configurations for the passive channel engineering device to perform beam shaping and deflection of signals transmitted from the network entity to a respective plurality of user equipment, wherein the first control signaling indicates a plurality of time periods associated with the passive channel engineering device deflecting and beam shaping the signals in a plurality of directions of the respective plurality of user equipment;
• and
• configure the passive channel engineering device to beam shape and deflect received signal energy in a first direction of a user equipment of the respective plurality of user equipment in accordance with a first beam shaping configuration of the plurality of beam shaping configurations during a first time period of the plurality of time periods.

An apparatus for wireless communications at a network entity, comprising:

• one or more memories storing processor-executable code;
• and
• one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and operable to execute the code to cause the one or more processors to:
• transmit first control signaling that indicates a plurality of beam shaping configurations for a passive channel engineering device to perform beam shaping and deflection of signals transmitted from the network entity to a respective plurality of user equipment, wherein the first control signaling indicates a plurality of time periods associated with the passive channel engineering device deflecting and beam shaping the signals in a plurality of directions of the respective plurality of user equipment;
• and
• transmit a signal to the passive channel engineering device during a first time period of the plurality of time periods, the first time period associated with a first beam shaping configuration of the plurality of beam shaping configurations, based at least in part on the first control signaling.