IEEE Project Abstract

Fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks are currently being deployed, thus, making Tactile Internet possible. Tactile Internet is the future advancement of the current Internet of Things (IoT) vision wherein haptics, or touch and senses, can be communicated from one geographical place to another, enabling near real-time control and navigation ofremote objects. Tactile Internet will have its use-cases in several application domains, with the industrial sector being among the most prominent ones. With Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT), Tactile Internet will be used in healthcare, manufacturing,mining, education, autonomous driving, and so on. The acceptable delay in most of these tactile applications will be under one millisecond. Since Tactile Internet communicates haptics and gives visual feedback, quality of service (QoS) becomes an important issue. Similarly, user’s satisfaction on the service quality (often measured as quality of experience (QoE)) becomes equally important. To reap the true potential of Tactile Internet,sophisticated and intelligent mechanisms are required between the end-nodes. A middle ware such as fog computing can bevital in this context, since it can allocate resources based on the QoS/QoE requirements of each service. In this context, we present a QoE-aware model for dynamic resource allocation fortactile applications in IIoT. We implement the model using Java and discuss the empirical results to elaborate more on the impact of such a model for QoE-aware resource allocation which can bevery important in the context of Tactile Internet, especially IIoT. We also discuss some of the most prominent use-cases of Tactile IIoT.