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5G-MAG REFERENCE TOOLS
DEVELOPING OPEN SOFTWARE

TOOLS FOR 5G MEDIA
By Jordi J. Gimenez - 5G-MAG,
Daniel Silhavy – Fraunhofer FOKUS,
Johann Mika – ORS Group

5G-MAG has undertaken the duty to bring the 5G Media QoS policies, event exposure, Multicast Broadcast Services,
platform closer to service providers, network operators, Edge applications, among others, with an eye on the future
developers and users. The 5G-MAG Reference Tools developments towards XR and The Metaverse.
development programme, started in September 2021, has Multiple software components are being made publicly
established an open community with the objective of providing available on Github: www.github.com/5G-MAG. An IPR-friendly
common open software reference tools to support the license model enables the use of the tools in academic, testing,
implementation and interoperability of 5G Media technologies.
and demo environments while encouraging contributions from
Developers are already implementing core parts of the Release relevant industry players. The initial steps of the project are
16 specifications and other related tools. Actually, a toolbox focused on the implementation of media players as part of a 5G
for 5G Broadcast (as defined in the 3GPP standards in Release client; service layers and the testing of applications developed
16 as LTE-based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast) is already available by other media-related organizations; hybrid broadcast/
including an open-source transmitter, receiver and client broadband scenarios and integration of third-party
components, openly available to the community. functions in the network. The initial Release 16 architecture
is depicted in the following figure and available at
With 3GPP Release 17, 5G Media specifications are expanded www.5g-mag.com/blueprints.
into the domains of 5G Media Streaming with dynamic

More recently, the 5G-MAG community has been provided with Based on the use cases, technology descriptions and
an overview of media-centric 5G technologies and features in implementation efforts these are the use cases prioritized
3GPP Rel-16 & Rel-17 by 3GPP experts under the Target 2023 for 2023:
(www.5g-mag.com/target2023) activities. The community • Reliable Video On-Demand over Mobile Networks using 5G
has collected market-oriented use cases and applications Media Streaming
that may benefit from 5G media functionalities and from a
common reference implementation. The proposed use cases • Reliable Personalized Live Radio over Mobile Networks using
are focused on a variety of subjects such as enhancements for 5MBS
media streaming, hybrid broadcast and streaming services or • 5G Broadcast On-Demand with 5G Media Streaming
immersive media and extended reality (XR).
• Premium and Targeted Content Insertion
These may trigger implementation of Release 17 5G Media • DVB-I over 5G Media Streaming
specifications such as 5G Media Streaming, Dynamic network • DVB-I Hybrid Service over 5G Broadcast and 5G Media
QoS policies, 5G Media Streaming over eMBMS, Edge Streaming
Applications for Streaming, 5G Multicast Broadcast Services,
Event exposure framework or first insights into XR and • Emergency Alerts and Media Services through 5G Broadcast
the Metaverse.
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