TACNET 2016 - Workshop on The Tactile Internet: Enabling Technologies and Applications (TACNET) 2016

Future wireless communications will not only be used for content distribution, where typically throughput per area is the most relevant key performance indicator, but more and more for applications where the system capacity may not be the critical point, but rather stringent latency and/or reliability requirements. Especially, the human interaction with technical systems is highly sensitive to delays and interruptions. Thus, in order to enable completely new applications where tactile and haptic feedbacks are an integral part of the signal processing chain, the underlying wireless communication networks need to be adapted to our human reaction time and perception. This requires a complete paradigm change in the design of future wireless communications systems.
This workshop looks into ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability in communications from various angles, for instance
Fundamental trade-offs between latency, reliability and throughput, and reliability modeling
Obtaining reliability and availability through different techniques
Human interaction with technical systems which is highly sensitive to delays and interruptions.
Latency- and/or reliability improved solutions in the context of Tactile Internet applications, unmanned autonomous or remotely controlled systems
Beside technical paper presentations, we are proud to announce the following keynote speakers for the workshop:
Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone Chair Professor, 5G Lab Germany Coordinator, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
On behalf of the workshop chairs
Meryem Simsek, Mischa Dohler, Hans Schotten, Ronald Raulefs, Henk Wymeersch, Christian Wietfeld