Communications system using beamforming

A communications device comprising:

• circuitry configured to:
• receive at least one receive signal via a transmission channel, the at least one receive signal being beamformed before transmission on the basis of channel state information describing the transmission channel, the at least one receive signal including beamformed synchronization data;
• generate feedback information describing at least one of a minimum amount of the beamformed synchronization data and a minimum number of training symbols required for undisturbed reception of payload data and the beamformed synchronization data from the at least one receive signal, to compare a first distance metric between a current optimum beam forming matrix and a currently used beam forming matrix and a second distance metric between the current optimum beam forming matrix and one of a plurality of different predefined matrices that fits best with the current optimum beam forming matrix, and to generate selection information representing a result of the comparison;
• and
• output the feedback information and the selection information.