Performance of 5G MIMO

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a base station comprising a processor, information indicating a first group of layers available for a downlink transmission to a user equipment;
• facilitating, by the base station, establishing a first data channel between the base station and the user equipment, wherein the first data channel only uses a layer of the first group of layers that has a highest signal to noise ratio of the first group of layers;
• and
• facilitating, by the base station, establishing, concurrent with the first data channel, a second data channel between the base station and the user equipment comprising:
• in response to determining that a first subgroup of the first group of layers that comprises the layer achieves a higher data rate between the base station and the user equipment for the first group of layers than a second subgroup of the first group of layers that does not comprise the layer, selecting the first subgroup for the second data channel, and
• in response to determining that the second subgroup achieves the higher data rate between the base station and the user equipment for the first group of layers than the first subgroup, selecting the second subgroup for the second data channel.

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

• identifying a first group of layers available for a downlink transmission to a user equipment;
• establishing a first data channel between the network equipment and the user equipment, wherein the first data channel only uses a layer of the first group of layers that has a highest signal to noise ratio of the first group of layers;
• and
• establishing, concurrent with the first data channel, a second data channel between the network equipment and the user equipment comprising:
• in response to determining that a first subset of the first group of layers that comprises the layer achieves a higher data rate between the network equipment and the user equipment for the first group of layers than a second subset of the first group of layers that does not comprise the layer, selecting the first subset for use with the second data channel, and
• in response to determining that the second subset achieves the higher data rate between the network equipment and the user equipment for the first group of layers than the first subset, selecting the second subset for with in the second data channel.