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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prof. David Gomez-Barquero presented the 5G-Xcast project in a poster session at the EUCNC 2017 conference. Other project presented in the poster sessions were: COHERENT, 5GCAR and 5G TANGO. The session allowed project leaders to give an overview of the projects and answer questions in a very interactive way.
Prof. David Gomez-Barquero, the 5G-Xcast Project Manager gave a keynote speech at IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB 2017) during which he gave an over view of the 5G-Xcast project scope, objectives and expected impact. IEEE BMSB, a major conference for the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, attracted a large audience interested [...]
