Techniques for wireless communications networks employing beamforming

An apparatus, comprising:

• a channel strength determination module to determine a user channel strength corresponding to a user channel from a serving base station, and to determine one or more interfering channel strengths, each interfering channel strength corresponding to an interfering channel from a non-serving base station;
• a metric calculation module to generate a cell metric from the user channel strength and the one or more interfering channel strengths;
• a decision module to select cell edge status when one or more cell edge status conditions exist;
• and
• a processor arranged to execute one or more of the channel strength determination module, metric calculation module or decision module.

An article comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

• determine a user channel strength corresponding to a user channel from a serving base station, and to determine one or more interfering channel strengths, each interfering channel strength corresponding to an interfering channel from a non-serving base station;
• generate a cell metric from the user channel strength and the one or more interfering channel strengths;
• and
• select cell edge status when one or more cell edge status conditions exist.