Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting for MIMO operations. According to certain aspects, operations for performing periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting for MIMO generally includes configuring a user equipment (UE) that is capable of MIMO with different parameters for periodic and aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting, wherein the different parameters indicate at least one of what resources to measure or what information to report, and receiving periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting from the UE according to the configuration.