Internet of skills, where robotics meets AI, 5G and the Tactile Internet

Dohler, Mischa; Mahmoodi, Toktam; Lema, María A.; Condoluci, Massimo; Sardis, Fragkiskos; Αντωνάκογλου, Κωνσταντίνος; Aghvami, Hamid

doi:10.1109/eucnc.2017.7980645

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“…Upcoming 5G era enables more diverse use cases and applications including Internet of Things, tactile internet, industry 4.0, etc. [3] [4]. Therefore, emerging systems will need to be agile and flexible enough in order to support the diversity of applications without increasing the network management complexity [5].…”

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Designing the new Backhaul for 5G Heterogeneous Network Based on Converged Optical Infrastructure

Maksymyuk¹,

Krasko²,

Kyryk³

et al. 2017

AEI

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In this paper, a new flexible backhaul design is proposed based on the time-frequency resource grid. The advantage of proposed approach is in the fine granularity bandwidth allocation. Proposed approach allows tunneling of Cloud-RAN modulated radio signals between baseband processing unit and remote radio head within the same resource blocks. In addition, new handover machanism has been introduced to reduce the handover overhead in the backhaul network. The main idea of the proposed handover mechanism is in multicast data transmission to both involved eNodeBs by joint assignment of the resource elements for multiple cells during handover that allows to decrease the amount of backhaul traffic over X2 interface by 20%.

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Designing the new Backhaul for 5G Heterogeneous Network Based on Converged Optical Infrastructure

Maksymyuk¹,

Krasko²,

Kyryk³

et al. 2017

AEI

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“…With the development of 5G in mobile and wireless networking, and the promises of higher data rate and closeto-zero latency (ultra-low latency) in communications, there are stronger motivations than in the past to complement the audio and video communication with other human senses and deliver a fully immersive experience remotely. Enabling such fully immersive remote experience is the first step in achieving the Internet of Skills [2], as desired by different industry sectors such as Healthcare and manufacturing.…”

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Challenges and opportunities for designing tactile codecs from audio codecs

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Dohler

Mahmoodi

et al. 2017

2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)

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Abstract-Haptic communications allow physical interaction over long distances and greatly complement conventional means of communications, such as audio and video. However, whilst standardized codecs for video and audio are well established, there is a lack of standardized codecs for haptics. This causes vendor lock-in and thereby greatly limits scalability, increases cost and prevents advanced usage scenarios with multi-sensors/actuators and multi-users. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new approach for understanding and encoding tactile signals, i.e. the sense of touch, among haptic interactions. Inspired by various audio codecs, we develop a similar methodology for tactile codecs. Notably, we demonstrate that tactile and audio signals are similar in both time and frequency domains, thereby allowing audio coding techniques to be adapted to tactile codecs with appropriate adjustments. We also present the differences between audio and tactile signals that should be considered in future designs. Moreover, in order to evaluate the performance of a tactile codec, we propose a potential direction of designing an objective quality metric which complements haptic mean opinion scores (h-MOS). This, we hope, will open the door for designing and assessing tactile codecs.

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“…The Internet of Skills requires ultra‐low latency 5G networking technologies and the capacity to process and adopt advanced robotic technology that can process and recreate the sense of touch with minimal delays between action and reaction. This will allow an entirely immersive experience from a distance, as many critical tasks will be executed remotely in telepresence surgery . A delay of up to 10 ms between action and reaction prevents system instability and has been touted as tolerable by previous telepresence operations; however, even with advanced 5G, this only translates to a range of ~1 500 km between the operator and patient .…”

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“…This will allow an entirely immersive experience from a distance, as many critical tasks will be executed remotely in telepresence surgery . A delay of up to 10 ms between action and reaction prevents system instability and has been touted as tolerable by previous telepresence operations; however, even with advanced 5G, this only translates to a range of ~1 500 km between the operator and patient . Artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation of the telepresence surgical experience would help overcome this barrier in giving a perception of a zero‐delay network across great distances.…”

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“…Artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation of the telepresence surgical experience would help overcome this barrier in giving a perception of a zero‐delay network across great distances. AI will be trained through machine learning and datasets of previous surgeries to predict surgical movements . This predictive model is necessary to give the surgeon‐console loop enough time for the signal to cover the long distances needed to reach the entire planet .…”

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