Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques that may be used to discover transmission points in heterogeneous networks (HetNet) that involves coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission and reception. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving a configuration indicating distinct resources used by each of a plurality of different transmission points involved in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations with the UE for transmitting discovery reference signals (RSs), receiving distinct discovery RSs transmitted from the plurality of different transmission points, and calculating at least one of path loss or reference signal received power (RSRP) estimations for each of the transmission points based on the distinct discovery RSs.