FIG. 8 shows a table of an example node that includes sector beam forming settings, and received signal qualities, according to an embodiment. The first and second columns of the table list possible sector 1 beam settings and sector 2 beam settings. For an embodiment, during characterization of the node, the first sector (sector 1) is transmitting while the second sector (sector 2) is receiving. As shown, there are M possible transmit beam settings of the first sector. For a plurality of the M possible transmit beam settings of the first sector (sector 1) receive signal quality measurements are made for a plurality of the N possible receive beam settings of the second sector (sector 2). While there are N×M possible receive signal quality measurements, at least some embodiments include receive signal quality measurements at only a subset of the N×M possible measurements, which saves time and processing.
