An apparatus for User Equipment, UE, the apparatus comprising Transceiver circuitry and hardware processing circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry being adapted to configure the transceiver circuitry to: receive one or more access point reference signals, APRS, from one or more small-cell access points, AP; transmit, to a macro-cell base station, one or more AP signal quality measurements based on the reception of the APRSs; characterized in that the hardware processing circuitry is further adapted to configure the transceiver circuitry to: receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell control message that indicates one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520) for which the UE is to determine signal quality measurements, wherein the candidate pencil cells (510,520) are a subset of a plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs; receive, from the small-cell APs, beam reference signals, BRSs, of the subset of one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520), wherein the hardware processing circuitry is further adapted to configure the transceiver to refrain from reception of BRSs of the small-cell APs for pencil cells of the plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs that are not indicated in the pencil cell control message; transmit, to the macro-cell base station, pencil cell signal quality measurements based on the reception of the BRSs for the one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520); receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell configuration message that indicates one of the candidate pencil cells (510, 520) that is selected, by the macro-cell base station, for exchanging of data messages with the UE; and receive, according to the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520), a data message from a corresponding small-cell AP that supports the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520) receive one or more access point reference signals, APRS, from one or more small-cell access points, AP; transmit, to a macro-cell base station, one or more AP signal quality measurements based on the reception of the APRSs; characterized in that the hardware processing circuitry is further adapted to configure the transceiver circuitry to: receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell control message that indicates one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520) for which the UE is to determine signal quality measurements, wherein the candidate pencil cells (510,520) are a subset of a plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs; receive, from the small-cell APs, beam reference signals, BRSs, of the subset of one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520), wherein the hardware processing circuitry is further adapted to configure the transceiver to refrain from reception of BRSs of the small-cell APs for pencil cells of the plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs that are not indicated in the pencil cell control message; transmit, to the macro-cell base station, pencil cell signal quality measurements based on the reception of the BRSs for the one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520); receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell configuration message that indicates one of the candidate pencil cells (510, 520) that is selected, by the macro-cell base station, for exchanging of data messages with the UE; and receive, according to the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520), a data message from a corresponding small-cell AP that supports the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520) receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell control message that indicates one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520) for which the UE is to determine signal quality measurements, wherein the candidate pencil cells (510,520) are a subset of a plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs; receive, from the small-cell APs, beam reference signals, BRSs, of the subset of one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520), wherein the hardware processing circuitry is further adapted to configure the transceiver to refrain from reception of BRSs of the small-cell APs for pencil cells of the plurality of pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs that are not indicated in the pencil cell control message; transmit, to the macro-cell base station, pencil cell signal quality measurements based on the reception of the BRSs for the one or more candidate pencil cells (510, 520); receive, from the macro-cell base station, a pencil cell configuration message that indicates one of the candidate pencil cells (510, 520) that is selected, by the macro-cell base station, for exchanging of data messages with the UE; and receive, according to the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520), a data message from a corresponding small-cell AP that supports the selected candidate pencil cell (510, 520)