5G TACNET 2018 - 5G & BEYOND - ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS FOCUS ON THE TACTILE INTERNET (5G TACNET)

Mobile communications continues to play an important role in modern economy, including consumer, health, education, logistics, and other major industries. Mobile communications networks of today have successfully connected a vast majority of global population. After creating the Mobile Internet, connecting billions of smart phones and laptop, the focus of mobile communications is moving towards providing ubiquitous connectivity for machines and devices, thereby creating the Internet-of-Things (IoT). With the technological advancements of today, stage is being set for the emergence of the Tactile Internet in which ultra-reliable and ultra-responsive network connectivity will enable it to deliver real-time control and physical tactile experiences remotely.
The Tactile Internet will provide a true paradigm shift from content-delivery to skill-set delivery networks, and thereby revolutionize almost every segment of the society.
As per ITU, the Tactile Internet will add a new dimension to human-machine interaction by delivering a low latency enough to build real-time interactive systems. Further, the Tactile Internet has been described as a communication infrastructure combining low latency, very short transit time, high availability and high reliability with a high level of security. Associated with cloud computing proximity through e.g. mobile edge-clouds and combined with the virtual or augmented reality for sensory and haptic controls, the Tactile Internet addresses areas with reaction times in the order of a millisecond.
Because the Tactile Internet will be servicing really critical aspects of society, it will need to be ultra-reliable, with a second of outage per year, support very low latencies, and have sufficient capacity to allow large numbers of devices to communicate with each other simultaneously and autonomously. It will be able to interconnect with the traditional wired Internet, the mobile Internet and the IoT thereby forming an Internet of entirely new dimensions and capabilities. State-of-the-art fourth generation (4G) mobile communications systems do not largely fulfil the technical requirements for the Tactile Internet. Therefore, fifth generation (5G) mobile communications systems are expected to underpin the Tactile Internet at the wireless edge.
To this end, 5G TACNET workshop cordially invites researchers to share latest research insights and present key and emerging results on the Tactile Internet enablers, including novel networking protocols, wireless techniques, new hardware designs, and novel data processing. Technical papers describing recent research results and controversial but substantiated opinions that may influence the direction of future R&D work are solicited.
Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
Communication Networking for Ultra-low Latency (ULL)
Edge-computing & Edge-Intelligence
Network Virtualization
Lean protocol design
Fine-grained and dynamic QoS
Intelligent Data Processing
Multi-modal data compression & synchronization
AAA and Encryption techniques for ULL applications
Artificial Intelligence for Tactile
Tactile Internet Applications and Platforms
Wireless Robotics for medical, and industrial applications
Tactile sensors and actuators
Augmented reality interface with TACNET
Tactile Internet Demos
Demos that address a novel research problem will be admitted at this track