Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform a beam sweeping procedure that selects a communication beam for communicating in a wireless network, the beam sweeping procedure being based at least in part on a beam sweeping subset of beams that is dynamically selected from a plurality of beams based at least in part on a current UE operating state. The UE may communicate in the wireless network based at least in part on the communication beam that is selected based at least in part on the beam sweeping procedure. Numerous other aspects are described.