5G-PPP projects One5G and 5G-Xcast organised a joint workshop at the IEEE Globecom 2018 conference on the 13th of December 2018 in the sunny city of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The workshop programme consisted of a keynote speech, three paper sessions and one the local industry impact of 5G. The workshop extended for the full day and was the second joint workshop between [...]
5G-Xcast is proud to announce that deliverable D5.3 on Application Layer Intelligence is now released and can be downloaded from this link. A core principle of the 5G-Xcast approach to content delivery is to insert multicast into an otherwise unicast path. We treat multicast as an internal optimisation capability which should have minimal impact [...]
5G-Xcast is proud to announce that deliverable D4.3 on Session Control and Management is now released and can be downloaded from this link. This Deliverable describes the 5G-Xcast Sessions and the Session initiation call flows that the Multicast/Broadcast mechanisms use. The Session management described in this Deliverable enables the architectural alternatives described in the [...]
5G-Xcast is proud to announce that deliverable D3.2 on Air Interface is now released and can be downloaded from this link. This report investigates the 3GPP Release 15 (Rel’15) of 5G New Radio (NR), and extends the air interface to point-to-multipoint (PTM) communications. Two modes are proposed in order to fulfill the different 3GPP [...]
Menno Bot (one2many) represented 5G-Xcast project at the 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, held in Hong Kong, China, last November. At the event, Menno gave a talk about the 5G-Xcast project and its focus on providing broadcast in 5G for various use-cases and drilled down further to the Public Warning use-case. In addition, the [...]
5G-Xcast project attended the Workshop on 3GPP submission towards IMT-2020, held by the 3GPP in the European Commission, Brussels, during the last 24 and 25 October. The event, which was organised by the 3GPP, aimed to inform all the ITU Evaluation Groups and interested experts about the 3GPP contribution performed to analyse the existing radio [...]
Dr. Athul Prasad from 5G-Xcast project gave a talk at the IEEE BTS Broadcast Symposium 2018, held in Arlington, Virginia, USA. The talk mainly dealt with: 5G Facts, Fiction, & Impacts for the Future of Broadcasting, and importantly about the role of 5G-Xcast which is developing a unified framework for common content delivery in 5G. [...]
The modern Nokia’s headquarters complex was the venue of the 5G-Xcast 6th face-to-face project meeting, hosted by Nokia in Espoo, Finland. From the 25th to the 27th of September, 5G-Xcast partners gathered to track the progress of the different work packages and discuss the design of several trials and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) solutions. PoC designs are [...]
Jon Hart (BT) gave a presentation on “5G Network Slicing and Convergence: Key technologies in Next Generation Networks” which included an overview of the important work of the 5G-Xcast project. The ITP event, held at MediaCity Manchester was the 57th FITCE Congress 2018 which was focussed on ‘Delivery & Consumption of Digital Media’ and had [...]
During the last edition of the International Broadcasting Congress (IBC 2018), 5G-Xcast project was involved in different talks and practical demonstrations about the use of multicast and broadcast solutions for the new 5G system. Talks 5G-Xcast project manager, Dr. David Gomez Barquero (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia), and 5G-Xcast technical manager during the first half of [...]
