Patent attributes
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may report to a base station a beam switching capability of the UE. The beam switching capability may include a number of beam switches that the UE is capable of performing within a single transmission slot. In some cases, the beam switches may be performed by a UE by applying a particular spatial domain filter for uplink or downlink communications that is associated with a particular transmission and reception beam. In some cases, the base station may schedule transmissions or beam switches during a slot based on the UE capability. The number of beam switches, in some cases, may be determined based on a rule set that defines one or more actions that are to be considered to be a beam change.