Multi-antenna transmission protocols for high doppler conditions

A method, comprising:

• determining, by network equipment comprising a processor, a metric representative of a Doppler shift related to frequencies of transmissions between the network equipment and a user equipment;
• in response to the metric being determined to exceed a threshold, facilitating, by the network equipment, transmitting a message instructing the user equipment to exclude, from a channel state information feedback, a rank indicator representative of a number of different data streams transmitted between the network equipment and the user equipment;
• facilitating, by the network equipment, receiving the channel state information feedback from the user equipment, wherein the channel state information feedback does not comprise the rank indicator;
• and
• based on the channel state information feedback, determining, by the network equipment, a transmission scheduling parameter related to a transmission protocol applicable to further transmissions between the user equipment and the network equipment.

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

• determining a metric representative of a Doppler shift related to frequencies of transmissions between the network node and a user equipment;
• in response to the metric exceeding a threshold, transmitting a message instructing the user equipment to exclude a rank indicator from channel state information feedback;
• receiving, from the user equipment, the channel state information feedback, wherein the channel state information feedback does not comprise the rank indicator;
• and
• based on the channel state information feedback, determining a transmission scheduling parameter related to a transmission protocol for further transmissions from the network node to the user equipment.