5G Media Streaming (5GMS) is specified by 3GPP SA4. This page lists its specifications and what each covers.
The page covers Release 16 to Release 20. Release 20 work is in progress.
- Specified by: 3GPP SA4.
- 10 documents: 7 specifications (TS 26.501, TS 26.512, TS 26.510, TS 26.511, TS 26.117, TS 26.531 and TS 26.532) and 3 reports (TR 26.804, TR 26.802 and TR 26.941).
- By release:
- Release 16 creates TS 26.501, TS 26.512, TS 26.511 and TS 26.117.
- Release 17 creates TS 26.531, TS 26.532, TR 26.804 and TR 26.802; publishes new issues of TS 26.501, TS 26.512, TS 26.511 and TS 26.117.
- Release 18 creates TS 26.510 and TR 26.941; publishes new issues of TS 26.501, TS 26.512, TS 26.511, TS 26.117, TS 26.531, TS 26.532 and TR 26.804.
- Release 19 publishes new issues of TS 26.501, TS 26.512, TS 26.510, TS 26.511, TS 26.117, TS 26.531, TS 26.532, TR 26.804, TR 26.802 and TR 26.941.
- Release 20 (in progress) publishes new issues of TS 26.501, TR 26.804, TR 26.802 and TR 26.941.
Specifications
The Rel column is the release of each document's first version. Titles are each document's cover title; the notes summarise its Scope clause.
| Specification | Title | Layer | Rel |
|---|---|---|---|
| TS 26.501 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); General description and architectureThe present document specifies the 5G Media Streaming (5GMS) architecture. | 5GMS | 16 |
| TS 26.512 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); ProtocolsThe present document specifies the set of protocols and APIs for 5G Media Streaming (5GMS) services based on the 5G Media Streaming Architecture (5GMSA). | 5GMS | 16 |
| TS 26.510 | Media delivery; interactions and APIs for provisioning and media session handlingThe present document specifies: The operations and corresponding APIs used by a Media Application Provider to interact with a Media AF component to provision the delivery of media in a Media Delivery System. | 5GMS | 18 |
| TS 26.511 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); Profiles, Codecs and FormatsThe present document specifies the profiles, codecs and formats for 5G Media Streaming (5GMS) services based on the 5G Media Streaming Architecture (5GMSA) including both unicast downlink and unicast uplink. | 5GMS | 16 |
| TS 26.117 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); Speech and audio profilesThe present document specifies speech and audio media capabilities, operation points and media profiles for 5G Media Streaming in the context of 3GPP services and deployments. | 5GMS | 16 |
| TS 26.531 | Data Collection and Reporting; General Description and ArchitectureThe present document defines a generic architecture for collecting and reporting data in the 5G System as defined in TS 23.501 [2], TS 23.502 [3] , TS 23.288 [4] and TS 29.517 [5]. | Data collection | 17 |
| TS 26.532 | Data Collection and Reporting; Protocols and FormatsThe present document specifies the set of APIs and associated resource structures and data models pertaining to the collection and reporting of UE-related data (synonymously “UE data”) by the Data Collection Application Function (AF) in ... | Data collection | 17 |
| TR 26.804 | Study on 5G media streaming extensionsThis Technical Report identifies and evaluates a set of potential improvements and extensions, referred to as key topics. | Studies | 17 |
| TR 26.802 | Multicast Architecture Enhancement for 5G Media StreamingThe present document identifies and evaluates potential enhancements to the 5G Media Streaming (5GMS) [1] in order to provide multicast-broadcast media streaming services. | Studies | 17 |
| TR 26.941 | Network Slicing Extensions for 5G media servicesThe present document identifies standardization needs and potential standards gaps relevant to media streaming while using 5G network slicing. | Studies | 18 |
Release by release
Choose a release to see the issue of each specification in force, whether the release published a new issue, and the 3GPP work items behind it.
Release 20 (work in progress): the issue of each specification in force, and what Release 20 did to it.
| Specification | Issue in force | In this release |
|---|---|---|
| TS 26.501 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); General description and architectureV20.0.0 | New issue
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| TS 26.512 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); ProtocolsV19.3.0 | No new issue
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| TS 26.510 | Media delivery; interactions and APIs for provisioning and media session handlingV19.2.0 | No new issue
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| TS 26.511 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); Profiles, Codecs and FormatsV19.0.0 | No new issue |
| TS 26.117 | 5G Media Streaming (5GMS); Speech and audio profilesV19.2.0 | No new issue |
| TS 26.531 | Data Collection and Reporting; General Description and ArchitectureV19.0.0 | No new issue |
| TS 26.532 | Data Collection and Reporting; Protocols and FormatsV19.1.0 | No new issue |
| TR 26.804 | Study on 5G media streaming extensionsV20.1.0 | New issue
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| TR 26.802 | Multicast Architecture Enhancement for 5G Media StreamingV20.0.0 | New issue
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| TR 26.941 | Network Slicing Extensions for 5G media servicesV20.0.0 | New issue
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Issues from the 3GPP archive; work items from the 3GPP work plan (Work_plan_3gpp_2026_09_28.xlsx). A release with no new issue of a specification leaves the earlier issue in force.
In Release 17 the table shows no work item for TR 26.802: the work plan lists the output of FS_5GMS_Multicast only as "new". The study description (SP-200238, clause 5) names a new TR titled "Multicast Architecture Enhancement for 5G Media Streaming", the title of TR 26.802 (see the Release history).
Topics
The specifications cover the same topics as the Technology page of the project. This table shows where each specification's requirements fall.
| Specification | Main topics |
|---|---|
| TS 26.501 | Data collection, reporting and exposureDynamic policies |
| TS 26.512 | Content hostingMedia session handling APIs |
| TS 26.510 | Dynamic policiesContent hosting |
| TS 26.511 | Profiles, codecs and formats |
| TS 26.117 | Profiles, codecs and formats |
Topics are the Technology feature headings that the requirements of the Release 20issue in force fall under, the largest first; a topic with under 10% of a specification's requirements is not listed. Reports, and specifications that belong to another project, are not shown here.
Specifications from other bodies
5GMS reuses formats and protocols from other bodies. The table lists the documents of other bodies that the normative text of the 5GMS specifications cites.
65 documents of other bodies are cited in the normative text of TS 26.117, TS 26.501, TS 26.510, TS 26.511, TS 26.512. A tick means the document is cited, outside notes, definitions and informative clauses, in the issue in force in that release. Documents that clause 2 lists but the normative text never cites are left out.ISO/IEC (9)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 ISO/IEC 14496-12 Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 12: ISO base media file format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 14496-14 Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 14: MP4 file format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 14496-15 Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 15: Carriage of network abstraction layer (NAL) unit structured video in the ISO base media file format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 14496-30 Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 30: Timed text and other visual overlays in ISO base media file format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 23000-19 Information Technology Multimedia Application Format (MPEG-A) – Part 19: Common Media Application Format (CMAF) for segmented media ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 23001-7 MPEG systems technologies - Part 7: Common encryption in ISO base media file format files ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 23003-3 Information technology — MPEG audio technologies — Part 3: Unified speech and audio coding — — ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 23003-4 Information technology — MPEG audio technologies — Part 4: Dynamic range control — — ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO/IEC 23009-1 Information technology -- Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) -- Part 1: Media presentation description and segment formats ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO (2)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 ISO 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country codes ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 2: Country subdivision code ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ITU-T (3)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 ITU-T H.264 Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ITU-T H.265 High efficiency video coding ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ITU-T X.509 Information Technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ETSI (3)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 ETSI TS 103 799 Content Protection Information Exchange Format (CPIX) — — — ✓ ✓ ETSI TS 103 973 Coded Multisource Media Format (CMMF) for Content Distribution and Delivery — — — ✓ ✓ ETSI TS 103 998 Content Steering for DASH — — — ✓ ✓ IETF (34)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 IETF RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 3339 Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 3986 URI Generic Syntax ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 4122 A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 4648 The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 5246 The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 ✓ ✓ — — — IETF RFC 5280 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 6234 US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 6381 Bucket ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 6749 The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 7230 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing ✓ ✓ — — — IETF RFC 7231 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content ✓ ✓ — — — IETF RFC 7235 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication ✓ ✓ — — — IETF RFC 7468 Textual Encodings of PKIX, PKCS, and CMS Structures ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 7519 JSON Web Token (JWT) — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 7540 Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) ✓ ✓ — — — IETF RFC 8216 HTTP Live Streaming ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 8259 The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 8446 The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 8673 HTTP Random Access and Live Content — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 8684 TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses — — — ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9000 QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9001 Using TLS to Secure QUIC — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9111 HTTP Caching — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1 — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9113 HTTP/2 — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9114 HTTP/3 — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9293 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) — — — ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9330 Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: Architecture — — — ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9331 Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Very Low Queuing Delay (L4S) — — — ✓ ✓ IETF RFC 9332 Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) — — — ✓ ✓ IETF Internet-Draft draft-bhutton-json-schema-validation JSON Schema Validation: A Vocabulary for Structural Validation of JSON — — ✓ ✓ ✓ IETF Internet-Draft draft-ietf-quic-multipath Multipath Extension for QUIC — — — ✓ ✓ CTA (4)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 CTA-5000-B Web Application Video Ecosystem - Web Media API Snapshot 2019 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ CTA-5003 Web Application Video Ecosystem (WAVE): Device Playback Capabilities Specification ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ CTA-5004 Web Application Video Ecosystem: Common Media Client Data (CMCD) — — ✓ ✓ ✓ CTA-5005-A Web Application Video Ecosystem – DASH-HLS Interoperability Specification — — ✓ ✓ ✓ DASH-IF (3)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 DASH-IF Interoperability Points; Part 6: Content protection and security — — — ✓ ✓ Low-latency Modes for DASH — — ✓ ✓ ✓ Specification of Live Media Ingest ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ W3C (3)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 W3C IMSC1.1 TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ W3C Media Capabilities Media Capabilities ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ W3C TTML Media Type Definition and Profile Registry TTML Media Type Definition and Profile Registry ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ IEEE (1)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 The Open Group Base Specifications ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ OASIS (1)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 MQTT Version 5.0 — — ✓ ✓ ✓ Ecma (1)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 ECMAScript Language Specification ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ OpenAPI Initiative (1)
Document Title in the reference Rel-16 Rel-17 Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 OpenAPI 3.0.0 Specification ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Common Media Server Data (CTA-5006) is studied in TR 26.804 (V20.1.0 clauses 5.17.7 and 5.25.1.4) but not yet referenced by a 5GMS specification.