5G-Xcast participation at EUCNC 2019

5G-Xcast was one of the 5G-PPP Phase-II projects present at the 28th edition of European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2019, held 18-21 June in Valencia (Spain). The conference, which gathered large amounts of experts from multiple industries, research centers, universities and business on telecommunications, was the ideal scenario to present our latest results [...]

By |2019-06-27T08:45:44+00:00June 26th, 2019|News, Panel, Workshop|0 Comments

3GPP status on LTE-based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast

The enhancement of the existing LTE technology to deliver linear TV and radio services to an infinite number of receivers was identified as one of the points to address in 3GPP after the definition of FeMBMS in the latest version of Release 14. As part of the Release 16 framework, 3GPP has started the normative [...]

By |2019-05-23T10:23:43+00:00May 22nd, 2019|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast lecture at the University of Cagliari

Professor David Gomez-Barquero, Project Manager of 5G-Xcast, gave a lecture on Broadcast and Multicast Communications Enablers for 5G at the University of Cagliari (Italy). The lecture was organized by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) as part of the IEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer program. In his lecture, Prof. Gomez-Barquero presented an [...]

By |2019-05-07T15:51:34+00:00May 7th, 2019|News, Presentation|0 Comments

3GPP to study the architecture enhancements needed to provide 5G multicast/broadcast services

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 [...]

By |2019-04-29T09:34:20+00:00April 29th, 2019|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast live demonstration of video delivery over 5G at Mobile World Congress 2019

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 [...]

By |2019-04-11T12:31:32+00:00April 11th, 2019|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast participation at CAP Implementation Workshop 2018

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 [...]

By |2018-12-03T09:37:38+00:00November 29th, 2018|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast attendance to the Workshop on 3GPP submission towards IMT-2020

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 [...]

By |2018-10-29T11:32:21+00:00October 29th, 2018|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast participation at IEEE BTS Broadcast Symposium 2018

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. [...]

By |2018-10-15T10:18:04+00:00October 15th, 2018|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast 6th Face to Face Meeting hosted by Nokia in Espoo

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 [...]

By |2018-10-01T10:38:32+00:00October 1st, 2018|News|0 Comments

5G-Xcast participation at FITCE Congress 2018

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 [...]

By |2018-09-27T07:14:31+00:00September 27th, 2018|News|0 Comments