Facilitation of user equipment specific compression of beamforming coefficients for fronthaul links for 5G or other next generation network

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
• mapping a port for a channel state data reference signal to a co-polarized element of a precoder matrix equal to a unit vector;
• determining a channel coefficient associated with a channel utilized by a mobile device;
• in response to the determining the channel coefficient and the mapping of the port, estimating a signal attribute associated with an uplink reference signal associated with the channel;
• and
• based on a result of the estimating, compressing the channel coefficient, resulting in a compressed channel coefficient for a channel state data transmission.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• using a precoder matrix that is equal to a unit vector, determining a channel coefficient associated with a linear combination of a basis vector;
• in response to the determining, mapping a port of a channel state data reference signal to a co-polarized element of the precoder matrix;
• and
• based on an estimated signal attribute associated with an uplink reference signal, compressing the channel coefficient, resulting in a compressed channel coefficient for a channel state data transmission.