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Convention Paper

Performance Issues in Digital Audio Networks

Authors: Anderson, David P.; Moorer, James A.; Roth, James M.

AES Convention 95 · Paper 3734 · October 1993

Abstract

Ideally, a distributed system for digital audio should allow workstations to access audio data on remote file servers in real time; data streams should be free of dropouts regardless of concurrent access to the disk or network; the system should support general-purpose network traffic as well as audio; and it should handle the workload imposed by typical group activities (100 or so simultaneous CD-rate audio channels). It is possible to build a distributed digital audio system having these properties using current technology. To do so requires addressing a set of interrelated design issues: scheduling, transport protocol, file system design, etc. Described is SonicNet, a distributed digital audio system, and its approach to these design issues.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 95
AES Convention
95
Paper number
3734
Publication date
October 6, 1993
Session subject
Multimedia
Affiliation
Sonic Solutions, San Rafael, CA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper