Broadcast and 5G technologies: the new paradigm of mobile communications (IV)
The possibilities offered by 5G technologies are practically endless, but it is necessary to know from the inside all the advantages that these technologies provide to companies. The work we are developing within the framework of the Open-VERSO National Network of Excellence allows us to specialize in 5G enabling technologies.
In this DVB-T (mainly in Europe) or ATSC (in the United States, Mexico, Canada, etc.), among others. Given that this type of technology is enabling a large number of new applications, little by little there has been a growing interest in how to bring this technology to mobile devices. For this reason, since Release 9 (published in 2009) the 3GPP, the body in charge of setting standards in mobile communications, has tried to incorporate a mode of operation that allows the transfer of broadcast services to user terminals, but it has not been until recent years that this technology is reaching its maturity.
After numerous modifications and improvements in successive releases, currently, 5G New Radio. In the upcoming Release 17, announced for the beginning of 2022, there are several items addressing a broadcast mode for 5G networks, which will use LTE FeMBMS profile as a reference for its design, adapting it to the new network architecture and taking into account the new possibilities 5G offers.
5G Development Business Center
Gradiant has launched XoIA-5G, a laboratory of advanced 5G mobile communications technologies -supported by artificial intelligence- that has a deployment of a communications network operating under the FeMBMS profile, in which a transmitter node acting as a base station can broadcast content to different receiving nodes that act as user terminals. This FeMBMS deployment offers end-to-end broadcast connectivity, which will allow us to develop and test applications and services that make use of this technology.
In the future, with the publication of Release 17 of 3GPP in early 2022, we will try to evolve the laboratory to also be able to deploy broadcast communications over 5G New Radio networks.
Author: Brais Ares Fernández, Ingeniero Senior del Área de Comunicaciones Avanzadas de Gradiant
XoIA-5G has the support of the Galician Innovation Agency and the co-financing of the ERDF 2014-2020 Operational Program of the European Union, with the aim of promoting research, technological development and innovation.
Open-VERSO is a network of excellence financed by the Cervera Program for Technological Centers, the national commitment to develop market-oriented research promoted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI).
