Facilitation of reporting sub-band channel quality indicators for 5G or other next generation network

A network device, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
• based on a condition associated with channel quality data of a sub-band of a wireless network being determined to have been satisfied, selecting a differential offset value representative of a differential offset;
• sending the differential offset value to a mobile device of the wireless network, wherein the sending comprises sending an identification of the sub-band in response to a channel quality indicator value being determined to have traversed a threshold value;
• and
• in response to the sending the differential offset value to the mobile device, receiving data from the mobile device via a channel between the mobile device and the network device wherein the data comprises a defined radio resource control offset value.

A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a network device of a wireless network, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• based on a condition associated with periodic channel state data associated with a sub-band of the wireless network being determined to have been satisfied, selecting a differential offset value representative of a differential offset;
• sending, to a mobile device of the wireless network, the differential offset value, wherein the sending comprises sending an identification of the sub-band in response to a channel quality indicator value being determined to have traversed a threshold value associated with the channel quality indicator;
• and
• in response to the sending the differential offset value to the mobile device, receiving a differential sub-band channel quality indicator from the mobile device via a physical uplink control channel, in accordance with the differential offset, and wherein the differential sub-band channel quality indicator is based on a defined radio resource control offset value.