A method of wireless communication, comprising: obtaining channel related information at a base station of a first coordinated multipoint, CoMP, network from one or more neighbor user equipments, UEs, served by a second CoMP network and one or more served UEs served by the first CoMP network, wherein the first CoMP network includes a plurality of base stations, and the second CoMP network includes a plurality of other base stations; determining channel estimates for the one or more neighbor UEs and the one or more served UEs using the channel related information; selecting beamforming vectors and scheduling downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs based on the channel estimates, wherein the selected beamforming vectors and scheduled downlink transmission by the base station of the first CoMP network minimize interference at the one or more neighbor UEs; the method further including: observing long term statistics associated with the one or more neighbor UEs served by the second CoMP network, wherein the selecting the beamforming vectors and scheduling downlink transmissions are further based on the observed long term statistics, wherein the observed long term statistics include one or more of path loss or sounding reference signal, SRS, strength; performing, by the base station, a listen before talk, LBT, operation on a contention-based shared spectrum prior to transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs; detecting a channel reservation signal on the contention-based shared spectrum; determining that the channel reservation signal includes an identifier indicating a transmitter of the channel reservation signal as a member of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; performing an additional LBT operation on received signal after canceling the detected channel reservation signal of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; and transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs when a channel is determined to be idle according to results of the additional LBT operation. obtaining channel related information at a base station of a first coordinated multipoint, CoMP, network from one or more neighbor user equipments, UEs, served by a second CoMP network and one or more served UEs served by the first CoMP network, wherein the first CoMP network includes a plurality of base stations, and the second CoMP network includes a plurality of other base stations; determining channel estimates for the one or more neighbor UEs and the one or more served UEs using the channel related information; selecting beamforming vectors and scheduling downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs based on the channel estimates, wherein the selected beamforming vectors and scheduled downlink transmission by the base station of the first CoMP network minimize interference at the one or more neighbor UEs; the method further including: observing long term statistics associated with the one or more neighbor UEs served by the second CoMP network, wherein the selecting the beamforming vectors and scheduling downlink transmissions are further based on the observed long term statistics, wherein the observed long term statistics include one or more of path loss or sounding reference signal, SRS, strength; performing, by the base station, a listen before talk, LBT, operation on a contention-based shared spectrum prior to transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs; detecting a channel reservation signal on the contention-based shared spectrum; determining that the channel reservation signal includes an identifier indicating a transmitter of the channel reservation signal as a member of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; performing an additional LBT operation on received signal after canceling the detected channel reservation signal of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; and transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs when a channel is determined to be idle according to results of the additional LBT operation. observing long term statistics associated with the one or more neighbor UEs served by the second CoMP network, wherein the selecting the beamforming vectors and scheduling downlink transmissions are further based on the observed long term statistics, wherein the observed long term statistics include one or more of path loss or sounding reference signal, SRS, strength; performing, by the base station, a listen before talk, LBT, operation on a contention-based shared spectrum prior to transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs; detecting a channel reservation signal on the contention-based shared spectrum; determining that the channel reservation signal includes an identifier indicating a transmitter of the channel reservation signal as a member of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; performing an additional LBT operation on received signal after canceling the detected channel reservation signal of the first CoMP network or the second CoMP network; and transmitting the scheduled downlink transmission to the one or more served UEs when a channel is determined to be idle according to results of the additional LBT operation.