3GPP – IRT Lab

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 & ...

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 ...