Overview
An Application, on this site, is a real working scenario assembled from one or more Reference Tools, pointed at a concrete use case, rather than a single tool's own tutorial in isolation. This category covers three such scenarios built on 5G-MAG's streaming and multicast reference tools: media streamed over an actual 5G radio network rather than a local loopback, a native 5G multicast delivery chain, and a live quality-of-experience dashboard fed by real playback data. For acronyms used here, see the Glossary.
Live Streaming Over a Real 5G Network
5GMSd, the 5G-MAG Application Function (AF) and Application Server (AS) implementation for adaptive media delivery, deployed not over a local network but over an actual 5G Network: an Open5GS 5G Core and an srsRAN Radio Access Network (RAN), delivering an HLS/DASH stream (produced by ffmpeg and served from a local webserver acting as a CDN) to a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device. It is the same AF/AS pipeline used elsewhere on this site, but shows it running end-to-end across a real 5G radio link instead of a Docker-only setup, which is closer to what a field deployment looks like.
Built from: 5G Media Streaming (5GMS).
Follow the step-by-step guide to set up the 5G Network, deploy the AF/AS, and run this yourself.
MBS End-to-End Delivery Demo
5G Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS) deliver the same content to many devices at once natively over the 5G Core and New Radio (NR), rather than opening a separate unicast session per user. This demo operates the MBS chain together: the MBS-capable 5G Core, the MB-SMF, MBSF and MBSTF functions that manage MBS sessions and Temporary Mobile Group Identities (TMGIs), through to the NG-RAN and a receiving User Equipment (UE).
Built from: 5G Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS).
A full written walkthrough is still in progress. In the meantime, follow the demo video and component tutorials (5GC deployment, MBS session/TMGI management, MBSF/MBSTF) to reproduce each piece yourself.
QoE Analytics Dashboard
A 5GMSd deployment where the Application Server extracts Common Media Client Data (CMCD, per CTA-5004) from media requests during normal playback and forwards it to a collector, so session quality, bitrate, buffer level and other metrics show up live on a Grafana dashboard rather than only in local logs.
Built from: 5G Media Streaming (5GMS), together with the external cmcd-toolkit collector and dashboard.
Follow the step-by-step guide to enable CMCD on the Application Server and see it appear on the dashboard.
Related
- Reference Tools for the individual specification implementations.
- Applications for the other end-to-end service scenarios.
- Sample: Multi-Angle Replay Viewer (template), a structural sample for a future real showcase, not a working application yet.