What is it about?
Computer music systems and interactive media systems in general often need to interconnect multiple computers, sensors, mobile devices, and digital musical instruments. O2 is a new protocol designed for these applications. O2 improves on previous work by supporting automated device (IP address) discovery, offering a choice of best-effort and reliable transmission, and clock synchronization which allows timestamped messages to be delivered ahead of time to achieve precisely timed control.
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Why is it important?
O2 is important because it solved problems in existing protocols, especially Open Sound Control. By offering a high-quality implementation, O2 gives developers a better foundation for building networked applications.
Perspectives
This article is the most complete published description of O2. It includes a detailed motivation for the features introduced in O2 as well as a number of performance measurements and qualitative comparisons to other systems.
Roger Dannenberg
Carnegie Mellon University
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This page is a summary of: O2: A Network Protocol for Music Systems, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, May 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2019/8424381.
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