Using 5G Broadcasting for Content Delivery

5G Meets Media and Entertainment: Opportunities and Challenges - $15

It is forecast that video traffic is going to account for 74% of all mobile data traffic by 2024 when 5G ecosystem has been massively deployed around the world. This paper will discuss how 5G is going to shape media and entertainment consumption landscape in the next 10 years, as well as opportunities and challenges for the 5G network to serve the media and entertainment verticals.

The paper first reviews new business and service opportunities that could be enabled by 5G network with high throughput and low latency characteristics. We will then discuss the challenges from several aspects of 5G network and media technologies, including end-2-end wireless network optimization, enabling technologies in video encoding, packaging, and delivery. At last, a set of guiding principles is proposed to address these challenges.

Peng Tan | TELUS Communications Inc. | Toronto, ON, Canada
Jia Liu | TELUS Communications Inc. | Toronto, ON, Canada

Inbuilt Convergence: A Review of Emerging 3GPP and ATSC 3.x Terrestrial Broadcast Offerings - $15

** Winner of the 2020 BEIT Conference Best Paper Award **
The wireless industry is experiencing a rebirth in design methodology that places renewed emphasis on examination of the underlying service needs, in terms of the required throughput, coverage, mobility, band allocation, and addressable bandwidth, to dimension an eventual, increasingly parameterized system specification. In recent years, the?Advanced Television Systems Committee?(ATSC) approved ATSC 3.0 [1][2]. The ATSC 3.x physical layer specification represents a major step forward in terrestrial broadcast capability, given vastly improved efficiency, configurability to address a wide range of fixed and mobile reception needs, coupled with provisions for ongoing extensibility in an integrated PHY transport. With Rel-17, 3GPP is expected to revisit multicast-broadcast capabilities as an integral extension of the newly revised physical layer transport introduced with 5G-NR [3]. 5G multicast-broadcast (5MBS) is expected to depart in measured ways from the further evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (FeMBMS), intended as part of LTE-Advanced to improve transport efficiency, expand payload allocation for broadcast services, and address extended inter-site distances encountered in single-frequency network (SFN) deployments [4].

This paper aims to examine the extent to which the 3GPP offerings and ATSC 3.x are interrelated as shaped by the service capabilities each aims to deliver, and explore the ways in which the respective transport systems can be harmonized in pursuit of a common multicast-broadcast service objective.

Ahmed Hamza | Coherent Logix, Inc. | Waterloo, ON, CA
Mark Earnshaw | Coherent Logix, Inc. | Waterloo, ON, CA
David Starks | Coherent Logix, Inc. | Waterloo, ON, CA
Kevin Shelby | Coherent Logix, Inc. | Austin, TX, US

Public Demonstration on Future Television Using 5G FeMBMS-Enabled Transmission - $15

With 5G technologies emerging, broadcasters are re-thinking the ways to get quality content delivered to the consumer, targeting different types of connected devices. Besides, public demands on the new kinds of media such as High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 3D immersive audio are getting increasingly higher. In that matter, the need to get these concepts working together is highlighted. This work advances a report about the first 5G FeMBMS, MPEG-H and HDR enabled terrestrial transmission in Brazil, detailing the technologies used, comparison with current standards and discussion over this new broadcast scenario.

Leandro Pacheco | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bruno Martins | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carlos Cosme | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leonardo Chaves | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J?ssica Santana | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gabriel Melo | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pedro Leite | TV Globo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil