Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing fast cell selection in a user device wherein the user device can select a serving sector from a list of sectors in its virtual active set, while in communication with a wireless network. In a related embodiment, the surfactant is subsequently functionalized. Link quality on at least one of the plurality of beams is measured, and a beam having a greatest link quality is selected. On the receiver-side, the number of video cycles of the video data which are actually received are counted.