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On the Performance of Clock Synchronization Algorithms for a Distributed Commodity Audio System

Authors: Muheim, Men; Blum, Philipp

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5782 · March 2003

Abstract

Today's commodity infrastructure (computer hardware, operating system and networking) does not provide the accurate synchronization needed for playback and recording of highly correlated audio, such as multi-channel sound. The presented work explores the performance of two synchronization algorithms that are applicable for the commodity infrastructure. We have implemented the algorithms and compared the achievable accuracy, scalability, processing requirements and communication bandwidth requirements in the context of 100baseT switched Ethernet and 802.11b Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5782
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Audio Networking
Affiliation
Electronics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z¨urich, Switzerland ; Computer Engineering and Communication Networks Lab., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper