Technical challenges in Internet of Sounds infrastructures

Investigate latency, jitter, synchronization across network communication layers, on-device and on-network privacy and security, and strategies for analysing and representing complex Internet of Sounds data.

Background

The paper situates its study within the broader Internet of Sounds (IoS), an interdisciplinary field involving the exchange and processing of sound-related data across networked devices. It identifies several unresolved technical areas that affect the reliability, security, and interpretability of IoS systems, including communication timing and synchronization, privacy and security, and the analysis and representation of complex IoS data. Although the paper focuses specifically on sonifying low-level I²S transport signals, these broader challenges provide the motivating context for improving the detection and interpretation of faults within audio-device signal chains.