Aspects described herein relate to transmitting, by a device and to a base station, assistance information to facilitate configuring one or more parameters for communicating with the base station, detecting, by the device, that an assistance response signal including the one or more parameters based on the assistance information is not received from the base station within a threshold period of time, degrading, by the device and based on the detecting that the assistance response signal is not received within the threshold period of time, feedback to be communicated to the base station.