Dr. Athul Prasad from Nokia Bell Labs (technical manager of 5G-Xcast project) presented a lecture entitled “5G – A Key Enabler for New Verticals and Markets,” at the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference as part of the 2018 NAB Show. The talk provided an overview and current status of 5G in terms of key [...]
5G-Xcast partners have contributed to a DVB Blue Book reference for delivering Adaptive Bit Rate unicast content over a multicast network. In unicast HTTP delivery, ABR content is pulled by devices as individual streams at variable rates. Multicast by contrast is fixed-rate, and a single stream is pushed to multiple devices, offering increased efficiency when [...]
Athul Prasad from Nokia Bell Labs (technical manager of 5G-Xcast project) presented an introduction of 5G-Xcast project to the audience, and views on how the project is addressing the disruptive use cases related to new and immersive media delivery. The title of his talk was related to how 5G-Xcast project is enabling the mass media [...]
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has commissioned DotEcon Ltd (DotEcon) and Axon Partners Group Consulting SL (Axon) to produce a report following a study on the implications of the 5G deployment on future business models. This study will help BEREC improve its understanding of 5G in terms of the key technologies [...]
Fairspectrum and Turku University of Applied Sciences demonstrated Licensed Shared Access (LSA) on 2.3 GHz band in Turku, Finland on the 10th of January 2018. The spectrum was shared between Program Making and Special Events (PMSE), LTE Mobile Network Operator, (MNO) and a private LTE network. The demonstration illustrated that the Fairspectrum developed Licensed Shared [...]
Dr. Manuel Fuentes from Samsung participated at the IEEE 5G Summit in Trento, Italy, on March 6, 2018 and presented “the role of broadcast in 5G New Radio and beyond”. Dr. Fuentes focused on the use of broadcast as a key technology for 5G and explained in detail the different use cases defined within the [...]
5G-Xcast Project manager, Dr. David Gomez-Barquero, gave the inaugural keynote at the 24th international conference and exhibition on terrestrial and satellite broadcasting organized by the Indian Broadcast Engineering Society. The BES Expo is the most important broadcast event in India. The event took place in New Delhi from 26-28 February 2018, with the theme “Non-linear [...]
Point to Multipoint (PTM) will be one of the major items in the next phase of 3GPP work. After producing a first version of 5G Rel-15 in December 2017, 3GPP RAN group is setting the plan for additional items such as: Broadcast, NR V2X and MIMO. Qualcomm will be moderating the discussion on Broadcast (see RP-172795). [...]
Come snow storms and high winds, nothing stops the 5G-Xcast consortium! Last week marked our 3rd face to face meeting, hosted by Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in the beautiful city of Munich, Germany. There was once again a strong emphasis on joint, cross work package sessions. This refined a way forward, allowing each of the work [...]
We are proud to share WP3 deliverable D3.1 "LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast Radio Access Network Benchmark"; now available for download below (Also in our downloads section): Download Download [PDF ~6.5MB] Executive Summary This document evaluates the performance of the latest radio enhancements of eMBMS LTE-Advanced Pro as per 3GPP Relelease-14, within which 3GPP has [...]
