Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may receive a first downlink determining, based at least in part on an uplink transmission schedule for a user equipment (UE), one or more communications that are to be transmitted as a cross link interference reference signal (CLI-RS) during a time window. The BS may transmit, to the UE, an instruction to transmit the one or more communications as the CLI-RS during the time window. Numerous other aspects are provided.