The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show was presented to a collection of 15 authors from Strathclyde University, Neutral Wireless Ltd, and several divisions of the BBC for their paper “Using a Private 5G Network to Support the International Broadcast of the Coronation of HM King Charles III.”
The award was announced at the Opening Session of the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference on Saturday, April 13. The paper will be presented at the “Applications of 5G in Broadcasting” session in the BEIT Conference on Monday April 15 at 3:40 p.m. in Room W222-W223 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Samuel Yoffe, senior systems engineer, Neutral Wireless Ltd., receiving the 2024 NAB Best Paper Award from Lynn Claudy, senior vice president, Technology, NAB.
The Abstract from the paper is shown below:
“Wireless cameras for news contribution feeds regularly use “bonded-cellular” devices, which connect to and split the encoded video across multiple public mobile network SIMs. However, in high demand density environments with large crowds, the public networks can quickly become saturated and unable to sustain the necessary bitrates to support high-definition video. To overcome this and provide uncontested wireless connectivity, the largest pop-up 5G standalone non-public (private) network of its type was deployed outside Buckingham Palace and along The Mall to Admiralty Arch to support news contributions for domestic and foreign broadcasters at the Coronation of HM King Charles III, without changing the contribution workflow.”
The NAB Best Paper Award, established in 2010 and judged by the NAB Technology department, honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit published in the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference Proceedings. Previous winners of the Best Paper Award can be found here.
The 2024 NAB BEIT Conference Proceedings (including 52 technical papers from the 2024 NAB BEIT Conference) are now available for attendees and for general purchase.