5G-Xcast will be present at the EUCNC 2018 conference that taking place from 19-th 21-st of June in Ljubljana, Slovenia with several activities including a workshop (with a keynote speech, a project presentation and a panel), a booth and a technical paper. Workshop on "Vertical Industries & Services for 5G (VIS5G)": 5G-Xcast will be organising [...]
Dr. Belkacem Mouhouche, innovation manager of 5G-Xcast project, gave a talk on the "Research and Standard Trends in Broadcast for Future 5G Cellular Systems" at the 5G-IOT summit in Hammamet, Tunisia. The summit was organised back to back with the Fourth International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (http://www.unet-conf.org/) from the 2nd to the 5th of May 2018. [...]
Prof. Narcis Cardona, director of the iTEAM Research Institute of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and 5G-Xcast WP1 leader, made an overview presentation of the 5G-Xcast project at the 5G FORUM in Malaga (Spain). The 5G FORUM is the first national multidisciplinary event about 5G technology and applications that takes place in Spain. Over two [...]
From snowy Munich to sunny Geneva, nothing stops the progress of the 5G-Xcast project. The fourth Face to Face meeting was hosted by EBU in the wonderful city of Geneva. The meeting brought together different work packages that provided an overview on their progress and discussed efficient ways to coordinate the 5G broadcast solution design. [...]
Athul Prasad from Nokia Bell Labs (Technical Mnager of the 5G-Xcast project) presented an introduction of the 5G-Xcast project to the audience at the IEEE WCNC Workshop on intelligent computing and caching network edge, and views on how the project is addressing the disruptive use cases related to new and immersive media delivery. The title [...]
5G-PPP projects One5G and 5G-Xcast organised a joint workshop at the IEEE WCNC 2018 conference on the 15th of April 2018 in the beautiful city of Barcelona. The workshop programme consisted of several keynote talks and paper presentations, in addition to a panel. Erik Guttman, the chairman of 3GPP TSG SA, provided a comprehensive overview of the current activities [...]
Dr. Gomez-Barquero, project manager of 5G-Xcast, participated at the IEEE Broadcast Technology (BTS) Society Young Professional Workshop 2018 on the theme “The Convergence of Broadcasting and 5G Enabling Technologies”. The Workshop was organised by the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) during 16th-17th of April 2018. The programme is attached here. IEEE BTS Young Professionals program [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
