Service Parameters Identification for Adaptive Networked Music Performance

Networked Music Performance (NMP) aims at revolutionizing musical interaction. NMP services need straight QoS (quality of service) requirements. So far, in best effort network, musicians adopt solution that try to reduce as much as possible the delay and jitter contributions under their control (i.e., at the peripheral part outside of the network). In this paper we will present a brief overview on NMP and some of its specific requirements that should be mapped on future networks able to provide adequate QoS performances such as the promised 'deterministic Internet' or proper slicing parametrization provided by 5G cellular networks and beyond. The aim of the paper is to presents an in-depth-study of latency issue in this domain underlining the most significant blocks that contribute to the overall end-to-end latency. The proposal presented in the paper is to identify control parameters useful to more flexibly smooth the network requirements, discussing about some possible practical implementations. Lastly, a low-cost measurement set-up is described, and some preliminary experimental results are shown.