Tech Paper 2021: This paper reviews 5G media distribution, covering Release 16 advances in streaming and broadcast, and Release 17 work on new codecs, edge integration, and multicast–broadcast extensions.
Abstract
This paper provides a summary of media distribution in the 3GPP 5G System, including the Release 16 technologies on 5G Media Streaming and 5G Broadcast, and recent Release 17 activities to include new video codecs, to extend 5G Media Streaming, to integrate Edge Computing into 5G Media Streaming, and extensions around 5G Multicast–Broadcast Services.
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