September 2017

CrownCom17 invited paper on “Designing a Testbed Infrastructure for Experimental Validation and Trialing of 5G Vertical Applications”

By |2017-09-22T12:34:12+00:00September 21st, 2017|Uncategorized|

Dr. Juha Kalliovaara from TUAS (Turku University of Applied Sciences), co-authored with partners Nokia and Fairspectrum,  presents a paper on “Designing a Testbed Infrastructure for Experimental Validation and Trialing of 5G Vertical Applications” at the 12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. http://crowncom.org/2017/show/home This paper describes the design of a testbed for [...]

5G-Xcast project presented at IEEE 5G Summit Helsinki

By |2017-09-18T12:36:43+00:00September 18th, 2017|News, Presentation|

Dr. Mikko A. Uusitalo from Nokia Bell Labs presented our 5G-Xcast project at the IEEE 5G-IoT Summit Helsinki, as part of his talk on 'Wireless for Verticals'. During the talk, he focused on the role of vertical industries such as media & entertainment (which is one of the main focus areas of 5G-Xcast), in the context of overall 5G networks.

5G-Xcast present at the FOBTV Session at IBC 2017

By |2017-09-18T13:23:22+00:00September 17th, 2017|Meetings, News|

5G-Xcast project manager David Gomez-Barquero presented an overview of 5G-Xcast at the technical module of FOBTV (Future Broadcast Television), www.fobtv.org. The presentation initiated a very intense and interesting discussion about the possibility of 5G to become the future worldwide standard for television broadcasting.

First advisory board meeting of 5G-Xcast at IBC 2017

By |2017-09-18T12:52:45+00:00September 17th, 2017|Meetings, News|

The first advisory board meeting of 5G-Xcast took place on September 17th at IBC 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The advisory board co-chairs Roland Beutler (SWR) and Matt Stagg (EE/BT) chaired the meeting. The meeting was attended by 5G-Xcast partners BT, Broadpeak, Expway, IRT and UPV, and by the advisory board members CRC (Canada), ETRI (South [...]

5G-Xcast presented at the 5G C-Tech Forum at IBC 2017

By |2017-09-22T12:34:46+00:00September 17th, 2017|News, Presentation|

Advisory Board Co-Chair Matt Stagg (EE/BT) presented his 5G vision for the media vertical and introduced the 5G-Xcast project in the session of the 5G C-Tech Forum: Will 5G Change the Broadcasting Value Chain and Value Proposition(s)? In his presentation Matt stressed the importance of considering all the requirements of the complete media chain in [...]

5GXcast 2nd Face to Face Project Meeting in Surrey University, Guildford UK

By |2017-09-20T10:58:59+00:00September 15th, 2017|Meetings, News|

It has been a busy week for the 5GXcast consortium. On Wednesday 13th we concluded our second face to face project meeting hosted at the University of Surrey 5GIC. Whilst some sessions were parallel, allowing work packages to focus in on internal tasks, there was emphasis on joint, cross work package sessions. This gave way [...]

Joint meeting with 5GPPP Sat-5G project at 5GIC

By |2017-09-13T17:07:35+00:00September 13th, 2017|News|

We are happy to report on our first joint meeting with the 5GPPP Sat-5G project at 5GIC in Guildford (UK). The two projects presented their use cases and their initial plans for the demonstrations. The possibility of making a joint demonstration between the two projects was identified as one outstanding cooperation topic. The two projects [...]

July 2017

5G-Xcast project presented at IEEE 5G Summit Thessaloniki

By |2017-07-13T14:21:10+00:00July 11th, 2017|News, Presentation|

Dr. Louis Christodoulou presented the 5G-Xcast project in the IEEE 5G Summit Thessaloniki (http://www.5gsummit.org/index.htm) with emphasis on how we could leverage broadcast in 5G to great benefit in key verticals. The very use cases and verticals the 5G-Xcast project will directly address resonated throughout the day, certainly with respect to the challenge and demand of multimedia [...]

June 2017

5GXcast Kick Off Meeting in Valencia (UPV)

By |2017-06-30T12:46:30+00:00June 29th, 2017|Meetings|

Members of the 5GXcast consortium, traveled from all corners of Europe (and in some cases beyond!) to gather together for our kick off meeting hosted by UPV in the beautiful city of Valencia. The kick off meeting was a great success with a clear way forward jointly defined for each work-package.  Identifying key inter work [...]

EUCNC 2017 5G-PPP Special Session

By |2017-06-19T15:38:11+00:00June 19th, 2017|News, Presentation|

Prof. David Gomez-Barquero presented the 5G-Xcast project in a special session to the 5G-PPP projects at the EUCNC 2017 conference. Bernard Barani asked about the project test beds and which spectrum bands will be considered. Prof Gomez-Barquero answered by giving a brief overview of the test beds. The session attracted a large audience interested in [...]