User Equipment Assisted Inter-Sector Interference Avoidance

A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving, in a first sector, first beamformed transmissions transmitted via a first beam from a base station (BS);
• receiving, in the first sector, interfering beamformed transmissions transmitted via a second beam from the BS, the interfering beamformed transmissions being associated with the second beam and with a second sector, wherein the BS is configured to control a plurality of sectors comprising the first sector and the second sector;
• generating a feedback report indicating inter-sector interference encountered by the UE in the first sector due to the interfering beamformed transmissions;
• and
• reporting the feedback report to the BS.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a transmitter configured to transmit, in a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) mode, first beamformed transmissions using a first beam to a first user equipment (UE) in a first sector and second beamformed transmissions using a second beam to a second UE in a second sector, wherein the apparatus is configured to control a plurality of sectors comprising the first sector and the second sector;
• a receiver configured to receive, from the first UE, a feedback report indicating inter-sector interference encountered by the first UE in the first sector due to the second beamformed transmissions;
• and
• a processing system configured to take one or more actions based on the feedback report to reduce the inter-sector interference encountered by the first UE in the first sector.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a receiver configured to:
• receive, in a first sector, first beamformed transmissions transmitted via a first beam from a base station (BS), and
• receive, in the first sector, interfering beamformed transmissions transmitted via a second beam from the BS, the interfering beamformed transmissions being associated with the second beam and with a second sector, wherein the BS is configured to control a plurality of sectors comprising the first sector and the second sector;
• a processing system configured to generate a feedback report indicating inter-sector interference encountered by the apparatus in the first sector due to the interfering beamformed transmissions;
• and
• a transmitter configured to transmit the feedback report to the BS.