As part of the normative work carried out in Release 16, 3GPP approved the Study Item on architectural enhancements for 5G multicast-broadcast services (SP-190253) during the 3GPP SA plenary meeting held 20-22 March in Shenzhen, China. The goal of the study led by Huawei in 3GPP SA2 group is to identify and evaluate potential enhancements [...]
5G-Xcast and One5G 5G-PPP Phase-II projects organized a joint workshop at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2019 edition, held 15th to 19th April in Marrakech, Morocco. The workshop attracted around 17 high quality papers related to MIMO, Massive MIMO, Waveform design and Networking aspects. There were also two plenary talks on “Mobile [...]
Professor David Gomez-Barquero, Project Manager of 5G-Xcast, gave a keynote on 5G Challenges and Opportunities for Media Innovation at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Young Professionals workshop organized by Brunel University in Uxbridge, West London (UK). The theme of the workshop was “5G Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation in Broadband Multimedia and Broadcasting”. [...]
5G-Xcast conducted the first live demonstration of video delivery over 5G during the Mobile World Congress’ last edition, held 25-28 February in Barcelona. The demonstration, which was jointly performed by IRT, EBU and Enensys-Expway, showed the concept of large scale media delivery in 5G powered by MooD and free-to-air distribution of enhanced media services to [...]
5G-Xcast is proud to announce that deliverable D6.3 on Test-Beds Integration and Deployment is now released and can be downloaded from this link. This document concentrates on the planning and development process for testbeds and trials within 5G-Xcast project. The trials have been planned to experimentally demonstrate multicast and broadcast features developed for dynamically adaptable future [...]
5G-Xcast is proud to announce that deliverable D6.2 on Development of Showcases and Demonstrators is now released and can be downloaded from this link. This document presents the nine demonstrators and a showcase developed within WP6 of the 5G-Xcast project. The sections for each of the nine demonstrators first discuss the concept of the demonstrator [...]
By second time in the project´s life, Munich and IRT headquarters were the venue of a 5G-Xcast face-to-face meeting. From the 2nd to the 4th of April, 5G-Xcast partners met for the last time to define the final steps of the project. Among the topics discussed, the final tasks carried out in all the work [...]
