Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet
Daniël van den Berg (External organisation)
Rebecca N. Glans (External organisation)
Dorian de Koning (External organisation)
Fernando A. Kuipers (TU Delft - Embedded Systems)
A.J.C. (Jochem) Lugtenburg (External organisation)
Kurian Polachan (Indian Institute of Science)
Prabhakar T. Venkata (Indian Institute of Science)
Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science)
Belma Turkovic (TU Delft - Embedded Systems)
Bryan van Wijk (External organisation)
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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.
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