Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet

Berg, Daniël van den; Glans, Rebecca; Koning, Dorian De; Kuipers, Fernando A.; Lugtenburg, Jochem; Polachan, Kurian; Venkata, P.; Singh, Chandramani; Turkovic, Belma; Wijk, Bryan Van

doi:10.1109/access.2017.2764181

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“…To fully realize TI, the communication infrastructure (CI) has to meet strict design guidelines, as it is currently unable to address the stringent requirements of the use cases envisioned for TI. In particular, the CI has to support extremely low end-to-end latency with high-reliability [277]. Furthermore, it must ensure data security without jeopardizing the latency requirements imposed by the computationally demanding encryption techniques.…”

Section: F Tactile Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Prospective Look: Key Enabling Technologies, Applications and Open Research Topics in 6G Networks

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The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisaged to enable a plethora of breakthrough advancements in wireless technologies, providing support of a diverse set of services over a single platform. While the deployment of 5G systems is scaling up globally, it is time to look ahead for beyond 5G systems. This is mainly driven by the emerging societal trends, calling for fully automated systems and intelligent services supported by extended reality and haptics communications. To accommodate the stringent requirements of their prospective applications, which are data-driven and defined by extremely lowlatency, ultra-reliable, fast and seamless wireless connectivity, research initiatives are currently focusing on a progressive roadmap towards the sixth generation (6G) networks, which are expected to bring transformative changes to this premise. In this article, we shed light on some of the major enabling technologies for 6G, which are expected to revolutionize the fundamental architectures of cellular networks and provide multiple homogeneous artificial intelligence-empowered services, including distributed communications, control, computing, sensing, and energy, from its core to its end nodes. In particular, the present paper aims to answer several 6G framework related questions: What are the driving forces for the development of 6G? How will the enabling technologies of 6G differ from those in 5G? What kind of applications and interactions will they support which would not be supported by 5G? We address these questions by presenting a comprehensive study of the 6G vision and outlining seven of its disruptive technologies, i.e., mmWave communications, terahertz communications, optical wireless communications, programmable metasurfaces, drone-based communications, backscatter communications and tactile internet, as well as their potential applications. Then, by leveraging the state-of-the-art literature surveyed for each technology, we discuss the associated requirements, key challenges, and open research problems. These discussions are thereafter used to open up the horizon for future research directions. INDEX TERMS 6G, backscatter communications, drone-based communications, terahertz communications, metasurfaces, mmWave, optical wireless communications, tactile internet.

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Section: F Tactile Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Prospective Look: Key Enabling Technologies, Applications and Open Research Topics in 6G Networks

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“…In the context of haptic communications, there exist a few overview and survey papers in the literature [5], [41], [42], [53]. The authors in [41] provided a state-of-the-art review in haptic communications both from the technical and psychophysical perspectives, and also discussed the need of various objective quality metrics for haptic communications.…”

Section: B Review Of Related Overview/survey Articlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the overview article [42] discussed the state-of-the-art and challenges of haptic data compression and communication for teleaction and telepresence operations. In addition, the authors in [53] provided a summary of the requirements and challenges of haptic communications along with some possible solutions.…”

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Toward Tactile Internet in Beyond 5G Era: Recent Advances, Current Issues, and Future Directions

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Tactile Internet (TI) is envisioned to create a paradigm shift from the content-oriented communications to steer/control-based communications by enabling real-time transmission of haptic information (i.e., touch, actuation, motion, vibration, surface texture) over Internet in addition to the conventional audiovisual and data traffics. This emerging TI technology, also considered as the next evolution phase of Internet of Things (IoT), is expected to create numerous opportunities for technology markets in a wide variety of applications ranging from teleoperation systems and Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) to automotive safety and eHealthcare towards addressing the complex problems of human society. However, the realization of TI over wireless media in the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond networks creates various non-conventional communication challenges and stringent requirements in terms of ultra-low latency, ultra-high reliability, high data-rate connectivity, resource allocation, multiple access and qualitylatency-rate tradeoff. To this end, this paper aims to provide a holistic view on wireless TI along with a thorough review of the existing state-of-the-art, to identify and analyze the involved technical issues, to highlight potential solutions and to propose future research directions. First, starting with the vision of TI and recent advances and a review of related survey/overview articles, we present a generalized framework for wireless TI in the Beyond 5G Era including a TI architecture, the main technical requirements, the key application areas and potential enabling technologies. Subsequently, we provide a comprehensive review of the existing TI works by broadly categorizing them into three main paradigms; namely, haptic communications, wireless AR/VR, and autonomous, intelligent and cooperative mobility systems. Next, potential enabling technologies across physical/Medium Access Control (MAC) and network layers are identified and discussed in detail. Also, security and privacy issues of TI applications are discussed along with some promising enablers. Finally, we present some open research challenges and recommend promising future research directions. INDEX TERMS Tactile internet, IoT, 5G, beyond 5G, haptic communications, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC).

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“…• End-users may not have an electronic glove to wear and control the remote robot [3]. To cater to their needs, we developed ms-embsys-app-mouseController.…”

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“…Current ambitions for 5G communications stipulate similar network latency objectives. However, even if we assume the availability of an ultra-low latency network in the foreseeable future, for realizing TCPS applications, significant research is required in designing and building the hardware, algorithms, protocols, and communication components that accompany it [3]. Being able to measure and isolate the latency of different components, instead of solely end-toend as is mostly done, is imperative.…”

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Towards an Open Testbed for Tactile Cyber Physical Systems

Polachan

Prabhakar

Singh

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2019 11th International Conference on Communication Systems &Amp; Networks (COMSNETS)

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In this paper, we consider Tactile Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS), which differ from typical CPS in that haptic sensory feedback is included. In particular, we design and implement a TCPS testbed, called TCPSbed, using well-defined components and interfaces glued together using APIs. In addition to real connections, our testbed supports the interconnection of components over an NS3-emulated network. The testbed also supports the integration of applications that mimic the behaviour of real-world embedded objects. Since controlling latency and ensuring stability is crucial for TCPS applications, the testbed includes tools for fine-grained characterization of latency and control performance. Finally, through proof-of-concept experiments with our testbed, we demonstrate TCPSbed's capabilities to facilitate TCPS research and development.

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Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet

Cited by 107 publications

References 80 publications

A Prospective Look: Key Enabling Technologies, Applications and Open Research Topics in 6G Networks

A Prospective Look: Key Enabling Technologies, Applications and Open Research Topics in 6G Networks

Toward Tactile Internet in Beyond 5G Era: Recent Advances, Current Issues, and Future Directions

Towards an Open Testbed for Tactile Cyber Physical Systems

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