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5G Tactile Internet Lab Experimentation @ King s Mischa

for Telecom Research Chair Professor, King's College London

1 5G Tactile Internet Lab King s Mischa Dohler Fellow, IEEE & Royal Society of Arts Director, Centre for Telecom Research Chair Professor, King's College London Cofounder, Worldsensing UK 5G Testbed Meeting, London 5 July 2016

2 Internet of Skills Human 4.0

3 Breaking Physics

4 Yesterday s Innovation & Standards: network technologies, audio & video codecs Proprietary Circuit-Switched Audio & Video Technologies Standardized Packet-Switched Internet, enabling Economy of Scale Today s Innovation & Standards: network, intelligence, tactile codec Proprietary (and expensive) Haptic-Edge Technologies Standardized Tactile Internet, enabling Economy of Scale Fundamental Shift

5 Haptics, i.e. the complete perception of form, position, surface texture, stiffness, friction, temperature, etc. = + Closed Loop Communications: 1,000-4,000 Hz sampling/packet rate very strict delay constraints (<10ms) lack of realism (can t feel) Open Loop Communications: Hz sampling per tactile point very relaxed delay constraints (ca 100ms) improved realism (but can t move) A Little Secret Prof Eckehard Steinbach, TU Munich

1) Ultra-Fast Networks (Tactile Internet) 2) Haptic Encoders

(to beat light-limit) Core Enablers of the Internet of Skills

force) Bi-Directional Haptic Control with perception of low

velocity) Base Station Haptic Codec Router Serving Gateway

with haptic human-system interface (possibly distributed)

Telecommunications Core and Radio Access Network, and an

6 1) Ultra-Fast Networks (Tactile Internet) 2) Haptic Encoders (both kinestaethic & tactile) 3) Edge Artificial Intelligence (to beat light-limit) Core Enablers of the Internet of Skills response (e.g. force) Bi-Directional Haptic Control with perception of low delay command (e.g. velocity) Base Station Haptic Codec Router Serving Gateway Haptic Codec Packet Gateway Haptic Support Engine Operator(s) with haptic human-system interface (possibly distributed) Internet, transmitting audiovisual and haptic information. Telecommunications Core and Radio Access Network, and an intelligent Haptic Support Engine. Haptic edge composed of e.g. remotely controlled robots. Master Domain Network Domain Controlled Domain Technology Components

Multi Service and Multi Tenancy based Network Slicing to cater for: service quality and performance

Tenant A Tenant B Tenant C Controller 5G NORMA interface Multi-service- and context-aware adaptation of

interface Mobile Network Multi-tenancy to support on-demand allocation of RAN and CN resources in a

7 Multi Service and Multi Tenancy based Network Slicing to cater for: service quality and performance service-specific functionality adaptation to available infrastructure Edge Cloud Vehicular Tactile Tenant A Tenant B Tenant C Controller 5G NORMA interface Multi-service- and context-aware adaptation of network functions to support a variety of services and corresponding QoE/QoS requirements 5G NORMA interface Mobile Network Multi-tenancy to support on-demand allocation of RAN and CN resources in a fully multi-tenant environment Network Cloud RAN c-plane CN c-plane RAN u-plane CN u-plane Internet access Ultra-Fast Network

8 Understanding (tactile) touch: Thrish, King s Haptic Encoders

9 Encoding (tactile) touch: Eckehard Steinbach, TUM Vibrotactile signals are similar to speech signals Perceptual model Codec performance: 2.3 kbps at full perceptual transparancy Haptic Encoders Prof Eckehard Steinbach, TU Munich

Encoding kinesthetic signals: Perceptual haptic data reduction approach: exploits limits of human haptic perception packet rate reduction of up to

10 Encoding kinesthetic signals: Perceptual haptic data reduction approach: exploits limits of human haptic perception packet rate reduction of up to 90% (no perceivable distortion) leads to a variable packet rate event-based sampling and communication Haptic Encoders Prof Eckehard Steinbach, TU Munich

11 Edge-AI

12 Model-Mediated Teleoperation Systems: Stable haptic interaction for delays 10ms 200ms Model errors / updates lead to reduced transparency Prof Eckehard Steinbach, TU Munich Edge-AI

13 Ericsson-King s 5G Tactile Internet Lab 5G Tactile Internet Lab

14 Transforming Industries Prokar Guy s Hospital NHS, UK Matt Transport for London, UK Ali Cinema Arts Network

15 Co-Design with Prof Prokar (5ms challenge) Prof Prokar, King s College WRSE 2015 Disrupting Health

16 THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY: - Lag 250ms - Hacking - ELS Implications - Cost - Lack of The Human Touch

17 Remote Haptic Diagnostics & Intervention SDN/VPN/tunnel 5G RAN/CN 5G RAN/CN King s College London Patient s Remote Location Doctor s Location

18 Haptic Service Testbed, step 5G Mobile Summit, London, June 2016

19 Co-Design with Ali Hossaini (Gbps challenge) Disrupting Arts

20 Co-Design with TFL/Heathrow/Tata/others (reliability challenge) Disrupting Transport

21 The Tactile Internet will be an enabler for remote skillset delivery and thereby democratize labour and wealth globally.

22 None of that would be possible without colleagues & PhD students as well as our collaborators: Gerhard Fettweis, TUD Eckehard Steinbach, TUM Toktam Mahmoodi, KCL Peter Marshall, Ericsson Maria Lema, KCL Oliver Holland, KCL Thrish Nanayakkara, KCL Frank Sardis, KCL Prof Prokar, KCL Ali Hossaini, artist Kostas Antonako glou, KCL Hamid Aghvami, KCL

23 We are grateful to our funders: Support of the Cultural Institute

Tactile Internet Standardisation IEEE ETC Tactile Internet Committee: founded by TUD, KCL & many others chaired by Meryem Simsek (TUD) IEEE 5G Tactile Internet WG: founded by KCL,

24 Tactile Internet Standardisation IEEE ETC Tactile Internet Committee: founded by TUD, KCL & many others chaired by Meryem Simsek (TUD) IEEE 5G Tactile Internet WG: founded by KCL, E///, TUD and others chaired & largely made possible thanks to Oliver Holland (KCL) IEEE standards portal opened, mailing list created first meeting in Kuala Lumpur this week --- JOIN IN!

25 Internet of Things --- MOOC Sign up on for free with my next course starting 6 June 2016:

26 Supporting References: [1] Tactile internet: 5G and the Cloud on steroids, Engineering & Technology Magazine, March [2] Changing the world with tech Part I & II televised globally on CNBC (showing our 5G and Tactile Internet developments), 4 May [3] G. Fettweis. The Opportunities of the Tactile Internet And A Challenge For Future Electronics. [Online]. Available: http: // [4] A. Aijaz, M. Dohler, et al, Realizing The Tactile Internet: Haptic Communications over Next Generation 5G Cellular Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications (Magazine), in press. [5] M. Simsek, A. Aijaz, M. Dohler, J. Sachs, G. Fettweis, 5G-Enabled Tactile Internet, IEEE JSAC, in press. [6] F. Boccardi, J. Andrews, H. Elshaer, M. Dohler, S. Parkvall, P. Popovski, S. Singh, Why to Decouple the Uplink and Downlink in Cellular Networks and How To Do It, IEEE Communications Magazine, in press. [7] X. Xu, B. Cizmeci, C. Schuwerk, E. Steinbach, Model-mediated Teleoperation: Toward Stable and Transparent Teleoperation Systems, IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp , January [8] R. Chaudhari, C. Schuwerk, M. Danaei, E. Steinbach, Perceptual and Bitrate-scalable Coding of Haptic Surface Texture Signals, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), vol. 9, no. 3, April [9] E. Steinbach, S. Hirche, M. Ernst, F. Brandi, R. Chaudhari, J. Kammerl, I. Vittorias, Haptic Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 100, no. 4, pp , April [10] E. Steinbach, S. Hirche, J. Kammerl, I. Vittorias, R. Chaudhari, Haptic Data Compression and Communication for Telepresence and Teleaction, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 28, no. 1, pp , January 2011.

Haptic Communication for the Tactile Internet

Haptic Communication for the Tactile Internet Technical University of Munich (TUM) Chair of Media Technology European Wireless, EW 17 Dresden, May 17, 2017 Telepresence Network audiovisual communication Although conversational services are bidirectional,