Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a first set of transmit beams and an associated first set of receive beams having a channel characteristic that is below a first threshold. The UE may identify, for each receive beam in the first set of receive beams, a transmit beam in a second set of transmit beams having a channel characteristic above a second threshold. The UE may identify a relative channel characteristic value between each transmit beam in the first set of transmit beams and each transmit beam in the second set of transmit beams. The UE may transmit a message that identifies the beams in the first and second set of transmit beams, the identified receive beam from the first set of receive beams for each beam in the first set of transmit beams, and the relative channel characteristic value.