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 …
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 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 …
