Patent ID: 8320919

Claim:
A method for measuring channel quality with respect to a plurality of base stations and a plurality of beams in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising: switching a beam from an active beam to a non-active beam during a predetermined dwell time, the active beam is a beam currently used for communication with a serving base station, the non-active beam is a beam that has not yet been measured in a current measurement period or a beam for which measurements have not been completed for desired base stations in the current measurement period; receiving signals through the switched non-active beam from the plurality of base stations including the serving base station; generating samples of the received signals; storing the samples in a memory; measuring a channel quality with respect to each of said plurality of base stations using the stored samples; and switching the beam back to the active beam while the channel quality is measured for the non-active beam that was previously the active beam and at the end of the predetermined dwell time.