5G-MAG (Media Action Group) Reference Tools: Putting 5G in Action for Media

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 132, No. 1, pp. 18–24
Abstract: Content providers are increasingly using the internet to deliver content to users. Users can also enjoy this content on a wide variety of devices anywhere and at any time. The increasing consumption of high-quality mobile video over 5G networks is set to demand sophisticated and robust streaming service architectures and implementations ready to cope with traffic loads and meet the requirements and expectations of content owners. The ongoing standardization of 5G is an opportunity to provide the media industry with the right tools to operate the 5G media platform. With this in mind, 5G-MAG (Media Action Group) has kickstarted the 5G-MAG reference tools project to develop common open-source reference tools to support the implementation and interoperability of 5G media technologies. In this paper, we present the current architecture of the 5G-MAG reference tools implementing client components in the context of 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) release 16 5G media streaming and 5G broadcast. Moreover, we provide detailed insights on the first two use cases “Long-Term Evolution (LTE)-based 5G Broadcast” and “broadband-broadcast seamless switching” and give an outlook on future work on use cases such as “targeted ad-insertion” and “regional content insertion.” We also show how the tools serve as a reference or integration platform for traditional broadcast networks and services including a DVB-I service layer or the alignment with the service layer of ATSC 3.0.
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2022.3220794
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2022.3220794
Author(s): Daniel Silhavy
bio
Daniel Silhavy is a scientist and project manager at the business unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) business unit of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, Germany. He is the lead developer of the dash.js project and the development coordinator for 5G-MAG reference tools. His main area of expertise includes adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming focusing on MPEG-DASH (Motion Picture Experts Group-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP [Hypertext Transfer Protocol]), digital rights management (DRM), 5G media streaming, and video-encoding.Silhavy Lectures At The Technical University Of Berlin, Berlin, And Is Supervising Bachelor And Master Theses. He Has Published Various Technical Articles Covering Topics Around Abr Media Delivery, Streaming Analytics, And 5G Broadcast.
Klaus Kühnhammer
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Klaus Kühnhammer writes embedded software at Bitstem GmbH for analog and digital radio communications, broadcast, and serial digital interface (SDR). He specializes in prototyping new communications techniques in SDR, hardware bring-up, and networking and streaming technologies. With ORS (Austrian Broadcasting Services), Vienna, Austria, he created the initial version of the 5G-MAG reference tools software stack for the 5G broadcast portion of which he acts as a lead developer.
Johann Mika
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Johann Mika is a chief innovation officer at ORS Group (Austrian Broadcasting Services), Vienna, Austria. He is experienced in setting up over-the-top (OTT) platforms for live and video-on-demand streaming, including content delivery networks (CDNs), and has been working on innovative projects and initiatives around 5G broadcast for several years. His current tasks include the lead of the 5G broadcast trial in Vienna, the initiation of the open source 5G broadcast receiver development, and the support of the 5G MAG Reference Tools Working Group since its formation.
Thomas Stockhammer
bio
Thomas Stockhammer joined Qualcomm in 2014 and currently acts as a senior director technical standards. In his different roles, he co-authored more than 200 research publications, more than 200 patents and thousands of standards contributions. Among others, he leads MPEG-I Scene Description efforts, the DASH-IF technical working group, 3GPP video and XR activities as well as DVB-5G activities. He has received several awards for his work on DASH and enTV, namely the INCITS Technical Excellence Award in 2013, the 3GPP Excellence Award in 2017, the CTA Technology and Standards Achievement Award in 2019, and the Emmy Inventor Award in 2022. He is a regular speaker and a program committee member at events such as IBC, DVB World, Mile High Video, MWS, or BroadThinking. In 2022, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to media delivery and video streaming standards.
Jordi J. Gimenez
bio
Jordi J. Gimenez is the head of technology at 5G-MAG (Media Action Group). During his career, he has been involved in standardization activities within 3GPP, DVB, or ATSC, in particular in the domain of next-generation media distribution. He has participated in several EU-funded projects and coordinated trials and technology demonstrators. He has authored several patents, international scientific articles and book chapters. Prior to 5G-MAG, he was a researcher at the iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, where he received a PhD degree in telecommunication in 2015. From 2018 to 2020, he was a project manager at the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT), Munich, Germany.
Keyword(s): 5G-MAG Reference Tools, 5G Media Streaming (5GMS), Broadband-broadcast Seamless Switching, LTE-based 5G Broadcast
Copyright: © 2023 SMPTE

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