A wireless communication system is disclosed that includes forming one or more beam patterns by a transmitter at a first time, where the beam patterns are made up of a first set of beam patterns used to transmit data during the first time, and a second set of beam patterns used to transmit data during a subsequent time. A pilot signal is transmitted on each of the beam patterns and is detectable and decodable by one or more receivers. The receivers test the quality of the beam patterns and transmit an indicator to the transmitter that relates to one of the beam patterns that has a high channel quality. The transmitter determines channel estimation, transmission scheduling, and/or resource allocation based, at least in part, on the indicator.