5G – IRT Lab

5G TODAY – Field Measurements

Aneta Baier — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:38:12 +0000

In the Bavarian research project 5G TODAY the project partners IRT, Rohde & Schwarz and Kathrein Broadcast have implemented the FeMBMS (Further Evolved Multicast Broadcast Mobile Service) specification and set up an “LTE-based 5G Broadcast” test field in the Bavarian Alpine region with the transmitters Wendelstein and Ismaning. This technology enables highly efficient live and ...

Streaming on Rails — Episode 01: Improving VoD for Train Passengers

Christoph Ziegler — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:14:01 +0000

In the EU-funded R&D project 5G-VICTORI we aim to improve the availability and quality of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming services (such as “Mediathek”) for train passengers. In a series of articles we want to keep you informed about our activities in this area. In this article we explain the technical approaches we are investigating. How can ...

5G-NR Broadcast: Preliminary studies and analysis

Jordi Gimenez — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:20:07 +0000

Terrestrial Broadcast features have been adopted by the standardisation organisation 3GPP, for the first time, under the so-called LTE eMBMS Release 14. New features such as the possibility of using 100% of the carrier resources to transmit broadcast services, the use of Extended Cyclic Prefix (known as Guard Intervals in terrestrial broadcast standards) that could ...

5G-Broadcast in 3GPP: Where are we?

Jordi Gimenez — Mon, 20 May 2019 13:35:25 +0000

IRT continues contributing to 3GPP to enhance 5G Broadcast together with the EBU, BBC and a growing number of supporters such as ABS, Bittium, BMWi, British Telecom, Cellnex, CHTTL, Dish, ESA, Enensys, Fraunhofer, Nomor, Nokia, One2Many, Qualcomm, Rohde & Schwarz, Samsung, SJTU, Telstra, UPV/EHU, among others. After our last report (see: https://lab.irt.de/irt-contributes-to-the-studies-in-3gpp-to-enhance-5g-broadcast/) it has rained ...

Transmitting station in Ismaning ready for operation for Bavarian research project “5G TODAY”

Hans Brand — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:39:10 +0000

As part of the Bavarian research project 5G TODAY, an LTE/5G test field with the aim to enable the efficient distribution of broadcast signals combined with attractive services in the network of the future is currently being set up in the Bavarian Oberland. Under the lead of IRT, the project partners Kathrein and Rohde & ...

5G-MEDIA – 5G Service Platform Architecture for the Media Industry

Madeleine Keltsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:08:46 +0000

Media applications are amongst the most demanding services in terms of resources, requiring huge network capacity for high bandwidth low latency streaming of audio-visual content. Recent technological advances in the 5G domain hold the promise to unlock the potential of the media industry by offering high quality media services through dynamic efficient resource allocation. Actual ...

IRT contributes to the studies in 3GPP to enhance 5G-Broadcast

Jordi Gimenez — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:00:35 +0000

IRT, in collaboration with the EBU and BBC, is engaged in the study to evaluate and potentially enhance LTE-based 5G Terrestrial Broadcasting. We are evaluating this technology so that it can meet requirement for terrestrial broadcasting in static and high-speed environments. The study item description is contained in document RP-181342. During Rel-14, the use cases ...

Towards 5G Broadcasting – A Showcase around European Championships 2018

Jordi Gimenez — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:01:02 +0000

The European Championships 2018 provided an opportunity for the IRT in collaboration with the EBU to show how audiovisual content produced in the state-of-the-art formats both live and on-demand can be distributed to large audiences in the 5G environment. As part of the 5G-Xcast project, several trials were conducted during the week of the event ...

5G-Xcast IRT testbed

Jordi Gimenez — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:49:15 +0000

5G-Xcast is the first 5G PPP project to focus on the holistic implementation of point-to-multipoint communication as a critical technology element in 5G systems in addition and as a complement to unicast. 5G-Xcast will devise, assess and demonstrate a conceptually novel and forward-looking 5G network architecture for large scale immersive media delivery. The project objectives ...