TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet
AU - van den Berg, Daniël
AU - Glans, Rebecca N.
AU - de Koning, Dorian
AU - Kuipers, Fernando A.
AU - Lugtenburg, A.J.C. (Jochem)
AU - Polachan, Kurian
AU - Venkata, Prabhakar T.
AU - Singh, Chandramani
AU - Turkovic, Belma
AU - van Wijk, Bryan
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The Tactile Internet presently constitutes a vision of an Internet over which, in addition to current communications modalities, a sense of touch can be transported. In that case, people would no longer need to be physically near the systems they operate, but could control them remotely. The main problem that needs to be solved to realize the Tactile Internet is summarized by the “1 ms challenge.” If the response time of a system is below 1 ms, the end-user will not be able to tell the difference between controlling a system locally or from another location. This paper offers a summary of the requirements for haptic communications, followed by an overview of challenges in realizing the Tactile Internet. In addition, possible solutions to these challenges are proposed and discussed. For example, the development of the fifth generation mobile communication networks will provide a good foundation upon which a Tactile Internet could be built. This paper also describes the design of a modular testbed needed for testing of a wide variety of haptic system applications.
AB - The Tactile Internet presently constitutes a vision of an Internet over which, in addition to current communications modalities, a sense of touch can be transported. In that case, people would no longer need to be physically near the systems they operate, but could control them remotely. The main problem that needs to be solved to realize the Tactile Internet is summarized by the “1 ms challenge.” If the response time of a system is below 1 ms, the end-user will not be able to tell the difference between controlling a system locally or from another location. This paper offers a summary of the requirements for haptic communications, followed by an overview of challenges in realizing the Tactile Internet. In addition, possible solutions to these challenges are proposed and discussed. For example, the development of the fifth generation mobile communication networks will provide a good foundation upon which a Tactile Internet could be built. This paper also describes the design of a modular testbed needed for testing of a wide variety of haptic system applications.
KW - Tactile Internet
KW - haptic communications
KW - 5G communications
KW - OA-Fund TU Delft
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:67781104-64be-418e-bcf0-364c0a46fe4a
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2764181
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2764181
M3 - Article
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 5
SP - 23502
EP - 23518
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -