LAYER CONTROL BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY HARDWARE RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a base station and a user equipment (UE) to communicate using a number of layers that is preferred by the UE. The UE and the network may communicate using radio frequency (RF) resources according to a number of layers corresponding to a capability of the UE. The UE may detect a constraint on the RF resources. The UE may transmit information of a preferred number of layers that is preferred by the UE to the network in response to the detecting. The base station may schedule the UE to communicate based on the preferred number of layers that is preferred by the UE.