Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet

Van den Berg, Daniel and Glans, Rebecca and De Koning, Dorian and Kuipers, Fernando A and Lugtenburg, Jochem and Polachan, Kurian and Venkata, Prabhakar T and Singh, Chandramani and Turkovic, Belma and Van Wijk, Bryan (2017) Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet. In: IEEE ACCESS, 5 . pp. 23502-23518.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE ACCESS
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology)
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2017 09:33
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2017 09:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/58405

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