New Software! - 5MBS Core NFs and NG-RAN CU implementations

We are very happy to announce the availability of new software for 5G Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS).

The new developments encompass the 5G core - as an extension of Open5GS - and the Central Unit (CU) of the gNodeB, as an extension of the srsRAN_Project.

Both components implement functionalities for establishing MBS Broadcast Sessions. At this stage, Multicast Services support is not yet included, and the Distributed Unit (DU) and User Equipment (UE) components are not provided.

Therefore, this constitutes a first MVP that enables exploration and evaluation of MBS control and session management from the 5GC up to the early stages of the NG-RAN, with a stable and extensible foundation for future work to add the remaining components and multicast capability.

These contribution have been funded by the European Union -funded project 6G‑SANDBOX, and are made available to the industry and the wider community via the 5G-MAG Reference Tools Developer Community.

💬 The software is available under our forks of:

• open5gs / 5mbs - https://github.com/5G-MAG/open5gs/tree/5mbs

• srsRAN_Project / 5mbs - https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-srsRAN_Project/tree/5mbs

A big thank you to the main contributors of this release: Borja Iñesta Hernández and Jaime Sanchez Roldan, from the iTEAM Research Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).

Find more information about the project at https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/5g-multicast-broadcast-services/