5G-RECORDS contributed to the development of the 5G ecosystem by implementing, testing and performing trials via three use cases that are relevant for the media industry sector. The project progressed beyond the state of the art in the following directions:
a) 5G network and media components:
The project designed and developed innovative components in both 5G and media production fields (refer to D3.2 and D3.3) such as UC1 media orchestration and control gateway and the SAS ; UC2 5G-enabled camera with the CIU, MG and MOCG; and UC3 with the enhanced FVV system, infrastructure (5G in mmWave band and MEC with GPU) and delivery network.
b) 5G end-to-end integration:
Extensive efforts were dedicated towards the integration of the network and media components into the main 5G infrastructures from EURECOM (UC1), Ericsson (UC2) and Nokia (UC3).
This goes beyond the SOTA, as the previous efforts made to carry out media production over 5G networks only utilized them as a transparent IP communication system. The project integrated the network and media components into 5G testbeds, creating highly specialized architectures. Examples of this aspects are: the integration and optimization of the UC1 5G components (RU, CU, DU, Core) to form a full Rel-15 compatible 5G disaggregated testbed, the integration of the audio application into the joint UC1+UC2 trial in Tivoli) in UC1, the media gateway integration in Ericsson´s network for UC2 and the integration of the components in two different 5G testbeds deployed in Segovia and Madrid for UC3.
c) Performance evaluation:
5G-RECORDS final trials aimed to boost and showcase the European Union efforts in the deployment of 5G for new verticals. The project demonstrated the use of 5G within various real-world environments. As an example, UC1 used high-precision latency and jitter measurements allowed to identify remaining gaps in the 5G ecosystem to support live audio productions, UC2 measured latency, bandwidth, jitter and several in-depth video transmission metrics and PTP precision and UC3 evaluated the components at different levels, including: individual tests and formal subjective assessment tests to evaluate the QoE of different conditions of the FVV production
d) Communication, dissemination and standardization:
The project published several scientific results and contributed to standardization organizations (e.g. 3GPP, ITU-T) and industry consortia (e.g. AMWA, VSF). For instance, the project contributed to 3GPP SA4 study item on media content production over NPNs (more details can be found in D6.4). Regarding dissemination, major outcomes are: 40 press releases; 14 public deliverables; 65 keynotes, presentations, panels and participation in conferences; 14 journal papers, whitepapers and conference paper; and several demonstrations and participation in dissemination events (e.g. EBU Network Technology Seminar, SMPTE TC meeting, IBC event, Ericsson Innovation Day event). The project also concentrated to promote the achievements in 5G-RECORDS social media through You Tube videos (+20) and LinkedIn/Twitter posts (+70). The efforts to disseminate and exploit the project results are presented in detail in D6.4.
