A processing device for interference-aware beam pair selection , wherein the processing device is configured to select a beam pair from a set of candidate beam pairs ( i,j ) , for setting up a communication link from a serving transmit device to a receive device via the selected beam pair , wherein each of the candidate beam pairs comprises a transmit beam j of the serving transmit device and a receive beam i of the receive device, wherein the selection is based on statistics of a usage of one or more interfering transmit beams ( m , k ) of one or more interfering transmit devices m, and characterized in that the processing device is configured to select the beam pair from the set of candidate beam pairs by: determining for each of the candidate beam pairs ( i,j ) a score SCR ( i,j) based on the statistics of the usage of the one or more interfering transmit beams ( m , k ); and selecting , from the set of candidate beam pairs , a beam pair that has obtained a highest score, and wherein the score is defined as: SCR i j = S i , j ∑ m ∈ M ∑ k = 1 N T , m p m , k I m , i , k + σ n 2 , where S i , j denotes a signal strength of the beam pair formed of the j-th transmit beam from the serving transmit device and the i-th receive beam of the receive device, p m , k represents a probability of a usage of a respective interfering transmit beam ( m , k ) of the one or more interfering transmit devices m , I m,i,k denotes an interfering signal strength of a beam pair formed of a k-th transmit beam from an m-th interfering transmit device and the i-th receive beam of the receive device, N T,m denotes the number of transmit beams at the m-th interfering transmit device, σ n 2 denotes a noise variance and M denotes a set of interfering transmit devices for the receive device. wherein the processing device is configured to select a beam pair from a set of candidate beam pairs ( i,j ) , for setting up a communication link from a serving transmit device to a receive device via the selected beam pair , wherein each of the candidate beam pairs comprises a transmit beam j of the serving transmit device and a receive beam i of the receive device, wherein the selection is based on statistics of a usage of one or more interfering transmit beams ( m , k ) of one or more interfering transmit devices m, and characterized in that the processing device is configured to select the beam pair from the set of candidate beam pairs by: determining for each of the candidate beam pairs ( i,j ) a score SCR ( i,j) based on the statistics of the usage of the one or more interfering transmit beams ( m , k ); and selecting , from the set of candidate beam pairs , a beam pair that has obtained a highest score, and wherein the score is defined as: SCR i j = S i , j ∑ m ∈ M ∑ k = 1 N T , m p m , k I m , i , k + σ n 2 , where S i , j denotes a signal strength of the beam pair formed of the j-th transmit beam from the serving transmit device and the i-th receive beam of the receive device, p m , k represents a probability of a usage of a respective interfering transmit beam ( m , k ) of the one or more interfering transmit devices m , I m,i,k denotes an interfering signal strength of a beam pair formed of a k-th transmit beam from an m-th interfering transmit device and the i-th receive beam of the receive device, N T,m denotes the number of transmit beams at the m-th interfering transmit device, σ n 2 denotes a noise variance and M denotes a set of interfering transmit devices for the receive device. <EOS>