The paper focuses on assessing the real-world quality of experience and investigates how this correlates with existing definitions of mobile coverage, which may be more general in nature.
Audio apps from broadcasters give access to the widest possible range of both live radio stations and on-demand content. Listening live and on the move, for example as a pedestrian or in a car, is almost certainly delivered by mobile networks.
In Project Timbre, data is being collected from around twenty standard, off the-shelf mobile phones to examine the performance of live audio streaming over today’s mobile networks. The project focusses on assessing the real-world quality of experience and investigates how this correlates with existing definitions of mobile coverage, which may be more general in nature.
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