Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a base station (BS). In some examples, the techniques include receiving, from a user equipment (UE), one or more indications of one or more actual beam strengths as measured at the UE at one or more time periods for one or more transmit beams of the BS. In some examples, the techniques include receiving, from the UE, assistance information regarding the one or more actual beam strengths.