ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Gateway Virtualization System based on VNF

Abstract

Network function virtualization (NFV) is well known as enabling flexible service operation and effectively reducing costs, and NFV-enabled network services will be deployed in future networks (a.k.a 5G, IoT). ATSC 3.0 broadcast has also evolved to meet next-generation IP platform network and is ready to connect with other telecommunication network industries. This paper proposes ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Gateway Virtualization System based on VNF, which can provide multiple instances to support one or more RF channels for various broadcast network environment. The proposed system enables broadcast gateways running on virtual machines to be numerically incremented and configured independently with expanding computing hardware (cpu/memory/storage) and network resources.