2025 BEITC Proceedings

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  • JT-NM Tested August 2019, What Is In It For You? Results, Findings, and Methodologies - $15

    Date: April 26, 2020
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    The JT-NM Tested program continues offering documented insights into how vendors? equipment aligns with the SMPTE ST-2110, ST 2022-7 and SMPTE ST-2059 standards. It has already proven that the SMPTE ST 2110 is a go-to standard for media-over-IP transport. However, as described in the ?EBU Pyramid,??having just a media transport without an open control plane is not enough. Therefore, it had been decided that the next iteration of the program has to address that and greatly expand its scope.

    So?the second iteration of the program included 3 types of tests, as follows:
    – Data plane: Basic SMPTE ST 2110 performance and behavior (this time including UHD formats)
    – Control plane: AMWA NMOS and JT-NM TR-1001-1 performance and behavior
    – Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment

    In this paper, the authors of the JT-NM Tested program and the editors of the test plans explain in great detail the new and improved test plans, testing infrastructure, testing procedures, methodologies, results?and overall findings.

    Readers of the paper will be able to apply the knowledge, offered resources and methodologies for various testing scenarios, including self-assessment of open-source or commercial media-over-IP software and hardware by vendors and R&D labs, equipment performance assessment and validation by users and solution architects, tendering and qualification of the equipment by in-house broadcasters? labs, and infrastructure architecture and troubleshooting by system integrators.

    Andrew Bonney | BBC R&D | Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
    Ievgen Kostiukevych | European Broadcasting Union | Geneva, Switzerland
    Pedro Ferreira | Bisect | Porto, Portugal
    Willem Vermost | Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organisation | Brussels, Belgium



  • Leveraging traditional GNSS time servers for resiliency and interoperability in Broadcast Positioning System (BPS)  - $15

    Date: April 3, 2024
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    As a complement to existing Positioning, Navigation and Timing services, the Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) requires proper time synchronization in each of the base stations for proper operation. The shared time reference in the different stations combined with their known locations, allows the triangulation needed for positioning and provides a trusted time reference to users benefiting from this system. In order to maintain a traceable and accurate time synchronization, different features supported by traditional GNSS time servers can help, easing and expediting the deployment of these systems.

    Francisco Girela Lopez | Safran Electronics and Defense | Rochester, N.Y., United States
    Mark Corl | Triveni Digital, Inc. | Princeton, N.J., United States
    Alexander Babakhanov | Avateq Corp. | Markham, Ontario, Canada



  • Live Video Transport in the Cloud with JPEG XS and AWS CDI - $15

    Date: October 9, 2021
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    Describes use of JPEG XS compression to move low-latency, live video to/from the cloud, and the Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) SDK to move uncompressed video inside the cloud.

    Thomas Edwards | Amazon Web Services | Santa Monica, California, United States



  • Live-PSTR: Live Per-title Encoding for Ultra HD Adaptive Streaming - $15

    Date: April 23, 2022
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    A fast and efficient per-title encoding scheme is proposed for live Ultra High Definition (UHD) High Framerate (HFR) streaming which includes optimized resolution and framerate prediction.

    Vignesh V. Menon | Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität | Klagenfurt, Austria
    Hadi Amirpour | Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität | Klagenfurt, Austria
    Christian Feldmann | Bitmovin | Klagenfurt, Austria
    Adithyan Ilangovan | Bitmovin | Klagenfurt, Austria
    Martin Smole | Bitmovin | Klagenfurt, Austria
    Mohammad Ghanbari | School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex | United Kingdom
    Christian Timmerer | Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität



  • Living with Current Faults at End-of-Branch Broadcast Facilities - $15

    Date: October 9, 2021
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    Technical and business risks to an end-of-branch broadcast facility can be mitigated in part by acting on an improved understanding of the broadband nature of the energy in such faults.

    Thomas LaBarge | Groundlinx Technologies | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States
    John Broccoli | Groundlinx Technologies | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States
    Nancy Swartz | Groundlinx Technologies | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States
    John H. Belk | Groundlinx Technologies | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States



  • Low latency wireless broadcast production over 5G  - $15

    Date: March 21, 2025
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    Wireless camera feeds are an integral source of content for programme making, and typically utilize licensed point-to-point radio links or “bonded-cellular” devices. Cellular bonding using public 4G and 5G networks has become a mainstay for electronic newsgathering and remote contribution feeds. These contributions can tolerate latencies up to several seconds. However, such latencies are far too long for broadcast production, where wireless cameras are cut in with cabled systems, or where remote camera control, tally and return video are required. Since 5G is a native IP technology, it can support bi-directional connectivity and facilitate additional services alongside ultra-low latency video. This paper explores the use of (private) 5G to support full low-latency wireless production workflows, discusses how 5G connectivity can augment existing wireless systems, and gives practical advice for configuring camera control systems over 5G.

    Samuel Yoffe, Douglas G. Allan, Kenneth W. Barlee, Dani Anderson, Damien Muir, Malcolm R. Brew, Cameron Speirs, Robert W. Stewart | Neutral Wireless and University of Strathclyde | Glasgow, Scotland
    Mark B. Waddell, Jonas Kröger-Mayes | BBS R&D and BBC Scotland | United Kingdom
    Giulio Stante | RAI CRITS | Torino, Italy