Methods and a wireless communication device for carrying out beam failure recovery include, according to various implementations, using a beam failure recovery request media access control-control element (BFRR MAC CE) to transfer beam failure recovery information (e.g., from one node of a wireless network to another—such as from a mobile wireless communication device to a base station (BS)). The BFRR MAC CE may include one or more of: the reference signal (RS) type (i.e., the type of RS resource), the identity of the RS resource, the identity of a frequency location (e.g., the identity of a bandwidth part in cases where bandwidth part (BWP) is used), and the identity of the serving cell.