Why Explainers & Profiles
Understand it. Prove its value. Scale it. Resources produced by 5G-MAG members — covering the full cycle from reading a spec to shaping the next one.
Specification analysis for real-world applications
Breaking down specification text into what it actually means for a working deployment.
Making standards actionable
So implementers don’t each have to independently interpret dense specification text the same way — one clear reading, reused across the industry, instead of duplicated effort and divergent interpretations.
Lowering the barrier to entry
So engineers outside the standards process can get up to speed on what a specification actually enables without reading the spec text itself.
How This Fits Together
Four portals, one chain. A topic's specs, its analysis, the tools that implement it and the real scenarios built from those tools are deliberately kept separate and cross-linked, rather than repeated on every page.
Standards
The specification list for a topic: 3GPP, MPEG, DVB, ETSI and CAMARA numbers and titles, nothing else.
Analysis (this hub)
How it actually works, including step-by-step Implementation Blueprints for the procedures that have one.
Browse blueprints →Reference Tools & Testbeds
Working code implementing the specification, where one exists yet — some topics are analysis-only for now.
Browse Reference Tools →Applications
Real, assembled scenarios built from one or more Reference Tools, pointed at a concrete use case.
Browse Applications →What You'll Find Here
Every destination on this hub, in one place.
Categories & Topics
Every technology area, browsable by category and topic.
Technology Exchanges
Recorded workshop talks explaining specifications to industry.
Implementation Blueprints
Step-by-step procedures mapping build steps to protocol layers and 3GPP clauses.
Glossary
3GPP process terms and acronyms used across the documentation.
3GPP Work Items per Release
TR 21.9xx summary reports, Rel-15 to 19.
Categories & Topics
Profiles and blueprints that turn standards into implementation-ready analysis — organised by technology area.
Media Streaming, Multicast & Real-Time Communications
For service providers, streaming platforms and network operators delivering media at any scale — unicast, multicast, satellite or real-time — and measuring how well it performs.
5G Broadcast for TV, Radio and Emergency Alerts
LTE-based over-the-air broadcast reaching any device without a network subscription — for TV, radio and public warning services.
Immersive Media Experiences
For platforms and device vendors building next-generation viewing experiences — AR, VR, volumetric video and avatar-based communication — delivered over 5G networks.
Connected Media Production and Contribution
For production companies and network operators using 5G at studios, venues and remote locations where professional-grade reliability, timing accuracy and network quality are required.
Research Topics
Currently AI/ML and 6G research — early-stage work that will shape future releases rather than deployable technology today. The underlying AI-traffic-characterisation testbed lives on the Testbeds portal, not below, since it has no Standards or Analysis page of its own.
Implementation Blueprints
Step-by-step procedures that map a build step directly to a protocol layer and a clause reference — verified against a primary source, not asserted.
MBS Broadcast RAN acquisition
MIB, SIB1, SIB20, MCCH, MTCH, up to decoding the broadcast MRB.
5GMS session establishment
Service discovery to continuous playback, progressive download and DASH.
DVB-I service discovery bootstrap
Cold start to content-guide data, clause-cited against ETSI TS 103 770.
MBS Multicast mobility
The three handover cases for a multicast group in motion.
Technology Exchanges
Recorded workshop talks explaining 3GPP and MPEG media specifications to industry.
Introduction to 5G Media Streaming (3GPP Release 16) - Technology Exchange
Dynamic Policies for 5G Media Streaming (3GPP Release 16) - Technology Exchange
5G Media Streaming over eMBMS (3GPP Release 17) - Technology Exchange
Edge Media Processing in 5G Media Streaming (3GPP Release 17) - Technology Exchange
User Services for the 5G Multicast-Broadcast Service (3GPP Release 17) - Technology Exchange
UE Data Collection & Reporting framework for Event Exposure (3GPP Release 17) - Technology Exchange
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