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 [...]
We are proud to share our first WP5 deliverable outlining our "Content Delivery Vision"; now available for download below (Also in our downloads section): Download Download [PDF ~800KB] Executive Summary There is a growing demand from operators to deploy converged video delivery solutions across all their networks (fixed and mobile) and across [...]
Several Members from the 5G-XCast consortium presented at the EBU Forecast 2017 seminar which took place at the EBU in Geneva (https://tech.ebu.ch/forecast17). The seminar looks forward, asking how media content will be delivered in five, ten or 15 years’ time; looking at the evolution of consumption patterns, media genres and distribution technologies. Steve Appleby (BT) - [...]
The 5G-Xcast project is organising a workshop during the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) in June 2018 (Valencia, Spain). The workshop is titled “Point-to-Multipoint as Key Technology Element for 5G Systems”. IEEE BMSB 2018 will be also organised by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), member of the 5G-Xcast consortium. [...]
The 5G-Xcast project is organising a special session during the IEEE 5G World Forum July 2018 in Santa Clara, California, USA. This is focused in the "Media and Entertainment" vertical and titled "Disrupting Media and Entertainment in the 5G Era" There is already a diverse and interesting lineup of Keynote Speakers with further updates on [...]
