Network Music Performance Beyond 4G
Konstantinos Tsioutas, Yannis Thomas, Fotios Bistas, Ioannis Barous, George Xylomenos, George C. Polyzos · 2025
Network Music Performance (NMP), where musicians perform music together over the Internet, requires ultra-low delays. Achieving a sense of presence in NMP requires both aural and visual communication, preferably coupled with immersive telepresence technologies, such as holographic communication. Existing 4G networks offer neither the ultra-low latencies needed for audio and video, nor the ample bandwidth required for video and (especially) holographic communication. In the Telepresence-Enhanced Network Music Performance (TENeMP) project we are investigating and developing solutions for immersive NMP, to be tested in the 5G testbeds of the SPIRIT project. We provide an overview of the experimental testbeds of TENeMP as well as the software tools developed by the project. We then present baseline video and audio latency measurements over 4G and 5G-NSA networks, which demonstrate NMP’s need for the capabilities of 5G-SA and beyond networks.