The Tactile Internet

1Introduction to Tactile Internet

Tara ALI-YAHIYA

Department of Computer Science, University of Paris-Saclay, France

In broad terms, the Tactile Internet (TI) can be referred to as the interaction between humans and cyber-physical systems by dropping off the distance and ensuring a communication of the order of few milliseconds. Consequently, this would give the illusion that the remote system is too close, while ensuring that the interaction is occurring in a smooth manner. The TI envisions an extremely low latency along with high availability, reliability and +security that will not only revolutionize the technology market, but will also have a high impact on the lifestyle of people, society and business in terms of the vertical industry, according to the definition from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (ITU 2014).

However, the TI is viewed as a result of a sequence of cumulative cutting-edge technologies that witnessed great success. These technologies may be considered as the foundation upon which the TI is built. These technologies may include, but are not limited to, diver paradigms in mobile and wireless networks, cloud computing, smart computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics. As a result, the TI can be viewed as the fruit of a multi-disciplinary domain, which has contributed to its progress through various engineering approaches and computational methods to make it function properly.

As a matter of fact, the TI’s mode of functioning is tightly ...