Video Broadcast Services over 5G networks

The emerging technologies in the field of telecommunications have evolved into the paradigm of 5G. 5G technology is aimed to become sufficiently flexible to handle a wide variety of network services from various domains. One of the aspects envisaged by 5G is the virtualization of small cells, which allows enhanced mobile edge computing capabilities, thus enabling network service deployment and management near the end user. This paper presents a cloud-enabled small cell architecture and its corresponding use case for multimedia delivery over 5G networks developed within the 5G- ESSENCE project. Furthermore, it examines the inclusion at the edge of a proactive telemetry framework, as well as of an edge enabled eMBMS service to support 360 multimedia broadcasting in 5G networks.