Multilink Solution for 5G: Efficiency Experimental Studies

5G-Xcast is a project focused on Broadcast and Multicast Communication Enablers For the Fifth Generation of Wireless Systems. Within the project for the most number of defined use cases it is necessary to provide adequate throughput, delay, reliability, seamless handover etc. For this purpose, multilink approach can be used. This paper describes multilink benefits, its high-level description and implementation to the 5G core architecture for better user experience. Also was described the methodology of the experimental studies to estimate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions. The experiments were conducted in the IRT testbed (Munich) and have shown great increase of the overall QoE.