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5G-Enabled Tactile Internet

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Simsek, Meryem, Aijaz, Adnan, Dohler, Mischa, Sachs, Joachim, Fettweis, Gerhard·2016·IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

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The long-term ambition of the Tactile Internet is to enable a democratization of skill, and how it is being delivered globally. An integral part of this is to be able to transmit touch in perceived real-time, which is enabled by suitable robotics and haptics equipment at the edges, along with an unprecedented communications network. The fifth generation (5G) mobile communications systems will underpin this emerging Internet at the wireless edge. This paper presents the most important technology concepts, which lay at the intersection of the larger Tactile Internet and the emerging 5G systems. The paper outlines the key technical requirements and architectural approaches for the Tactile Internet, pertaining to wireless access protocols, radio resource management aspects, next generation core networking capabilities, edge-cloud, and edge-AI capabilities. The paper also highlights the economic impact of the Tactile Internet as well as a major shift in business models for the traditional telecommunications ecosystem.

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  • Yang et al. show that the network latency for audio image transmission and real-time control should be less than 40 and 20 ms, respectively.

    “As for latency, Yang et al. [23] show that the network latency for audio image transmission and real-time control should be less than 40 and 20 ms, respectively.”

    From The IEEE 1918.1 “Tactile Internet” Standards Working Group and its Standards (2019) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Ultra-Responsive Connectivity section calls for approximately 1 ms end-to-end latency for tactile applications, including real-time control. That supports a need for latency below 20 ms, but our copy does not give a 20 ms control threshold or a 40 ms threshold for audio-image transmission. The cited paper is also by Simsek et al., not Yang et al. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • The Tactile Internet allows for real-time interaction of humans and machines that supports haptic input with audiovisual feedback to control machine operation in real-time.

    “The TI allows for a real-time interaction of humans and machines that supports haptic input with audiovisual feedback to control the machine operation in real-time.”
  • Edge AI becomes a key enabling technique for the Tactile Internet with human-in-the-loop to facilitate ultra-responsive and truly immersive tactile actuation in tele-operation systems.

    “Edge AI becomes a key enabling technique for the Tactile Internet with human-in-the loop to facilitate ultra-responsive and truly immersive tactile actuation in the tele-operation systems [320].”

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  9. [88]88. Meryem Simsek Dr. Meryem Simsek received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and In- formation Technology from University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany in 2008, holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation which is granted to the outstanding 0.5% of all students in Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. degree on reinforcement learning based inter-cell interference coordination in heterogeneous networks from the same university in 2013. In 2013, she was a post- doctoral visiting scientist at Florida International University. Since 2014, she is a group leader at the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communication Systems at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Her main research interests include radio resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks, 5G wireless systems, game theory, reinforcement learning, and the tactile internet. Meryem won the IEEE Communications Society
  10. [90]90. Adnan Aijaz Adnan Aijaz (M'14) received the M.Sc degree in Mobile and Personal Communica- tions and the Ph.D degree in Telecommunications Engineering from King's College London, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. After a post-doc year at King's College London, he moved to Toshiba Re- search Europe Ltd. where he currently works as a Research Engineer. His research interests include 5G cellular networks, machine-to-machine communica- tions, full-duplex communications, cognitive radio networks, smart grids, and molecular communica- tions. He has served as the symposium co-chair for IEEE SmartGridComm'15. He is serving or has served on the TPC of various IEEE Conferences and workshops including VTC Spring'15, ICC'16, CROWNCOM'16, WCNC'16, and VTC Spring'16. Prior to joining King's, he worked in cellular industry for nearly 2.5 years in the areas of network performance management, optimization, and quality assurance. He obtained the B.E. degree in Electrical (telecom) Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

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Authors
Simsek, M., Aijaz, A., Dohler, M., Sachs, J., & Fettweis, G.
Affiliations
  • Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • Ericsson (Sweden) (SE)
Venue
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Published
2016-03
Volume
34
Issue
3
Pages
460-473
ISSN
0733-8716 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2294511912
Cited by
753
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 107 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 131 · 2018: 118 · 2017: 71 · 2016: 14
FWCI
99.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • European Commission (H2020)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Keywords
tactile internet, 5G, haptics, teleoperation, wireless edge networks, radio resource management, edge-cloud computing, edge AI, telecommunications business models

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