Tactile Internet [Scanning the Issue]
Meryem Simsek, Gerhard Paul Fettweis, I Chih‐Lin · Proceedings of the IEEE · 2019
Mobile communication continues to play an important role in the modern economy, including consumer, health, education, logistics, and other major industries. At the same time, the current Internet has created a key infrastructure component for our modern world, having an impact on almost every aspect of our daily lives. The Internet democratized access to information and has enabled emerging economies to participate in the modern global economy. We are now approaching the next big wave of the Internet innovation: the Tactile Internet. The widely used term “Tactile Internet” was coined and defined by the IEEE P1918.1 as: “A network or network of networks for remotely accessing, perceiving, manipulating or controlling real or virtual objects or processes in perceived real time by humans or machines.”