On-demand listen-before-talk

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• means for determining an interference status of each beam configuration of a plurality of active beam configurations for a shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• means for determining a beam-specific listen-before-talk (LBT) requirement for each beam configuration of the plurality of active beam configurations based at least in part on the determined interference status of each beam configuration;
• and
• means for selectively enabling an LBT procedure on a per-beam basis according to the determined beam-specific LBT requirement for each beam configuration.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• determine an interference status of each beam configuration of a plurality of active beam configurations for a shared radio frequency spectrum band,
• determine a beam-specific listen-before-talk (LBT) requirement for each beam configuration of the plurality of active beam configurations based at least in part on the determined interference status of each beam configuration, and
• selectively enable an LBT procedure on a per-beam basis according to the determined beam-specific LBT requirement for each beam configuration.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

• determine an interference status of each beam configuration of a plurality of active beam configurations for a shared radio frequency spectrum band;
• determine a beam-specific listen-before-talk (LBT) requirement for each beam configuration of the plurality of active beam configurations based at least in part on the determined interference status of each beam configuration;
• and
• selectively enable an LBT procedure on a per-beam basis according to the determined beam-specific LBT requirement for each beam configuration.