Facilitating selection of demodulation reference signal ports in advanced networks

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

• based on a capability of a user equipment, determining that a port combination selected from multiple port combinations increases a peak-to-average power ratio value;
• and
• removing the port combination as a candidate port combination for assignment to the user equipment, wherein the capability of the user equipment is a first capability based on the user equipment being capable of supporting a code division multiplexing function or a second capability based on the user equipment not being capable of supporting the code division multiplexing function.