data in a beamforming mode with boosted reference signals user equipment device 14 may comprise a receiver 28 a dedicated channel estimator 30 a boost determiner 32 and a data demodulator 34 receiver 28 may be an antenna or any other device capable of receiving reference signal rs user and data signal s user dedicated channel estimator 30 may be any suitable channel estimator such as a weiner estimator described in chapter 14 of the book ofdm and mc cdma for broadband multi user communications wlans and broadcasting by l hanzo et al john wiley amp sons 2003 dedicated channel estimator 30 may receive the dedicated reference signal rs user and may generate an initial channel estimate h therefrom boost determiner 32 may determine the boost value as described hereinbelow base station 10 may signal the ue with the boost value in which case boost determiner 32 of ue 14 may process the signaling to determine the boost value in another embodiment described hereinbelow boost determiner 32 may blindly estimate the ratio between pilot to data power and may determine the boost from this estimate finally data demodulator 34 may utilize channel estimate h produced by channel estimator 30 and boost level g from boost determiner 32 to demodulate any incoming data signals s user in base station 10 boost selector 20 fig2 may select the dedicated boost value g user in any suitable way in order to optimize the overall network performance in one embodiment boost selector 20 may set the power for the dedicated reference signal known as the u201c dpich u201d in the lte standard so that some agreed upon fixed a priori data demodulation penalty may be encountered given an agreed upon channel estimator such as estimator 30 for example if the reference boost level.