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.
The following paper analyses...
Exclusive Content
This article is available with a Technical Paper Pass
.jpg)
Dynamic power control for sustainable broadcast transmitter networks
Tech Papers 2026: This paper proposes an approach that uses predictive modelling in combination with real-time interference monitoring to optimise transmitter powers dynamically, with minimal impact on the consumer.
.jpg)
AI-driven anonymisation that preserves human performance
Tech Papers 2026: This paper presents two AI-driven workflows designed to preserve emotional nuance while ensuring anonymity.
.jpg)
Search first, inspect visually when needed: A multi-agent architecture for semantic video archival retrieval
Tech Papers 2026: This paper introduces Smart Chat, a multi-agent video question-answering system that searches indexed video moments, localizes candidate evidence, and inspects a short clip only when visual verification is needed.
.jpg)
A standardised framework for C2PA provenance in media workflows
Tech Papers 2026: This paper presents the first standardised framework for implementing C2PA for media provenance across newsrooms of varying sizes and operational contexts.
Dynamic streaming content packaging with C2PA
Tech Papers 2026: This paper presents an implementation of the approach adopted by C2PA for live video to dynamic packaging.
