Techniques for rank-aware interference rejection based on neighbor cell layer notification

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment may transmit, to a serving network entity, a message requesting a quantity of transmission layers scheduled to be used by one or more neighbor network entities for communication within a communication resource. In response, the user equipment may receive, from the serving network entity, an indication of the quantity of transmission layers scheduled to be used by one or more neighbor network entities for communication within the communication resource. The user equipment may apply the quantity of transmission layers for the communication resource to a rank-aware interference rejection algorithm and may use the rank-aware interference rejection algorithm to improve a noise covariance matrix estimation. When receiving a downlink message, from the serving network entity via the communication resource, the improved noise covariance matrix estimation may be used to mitigate interference at the communication resource.