Invited Talks and Tutorials

• Domenico Prattichizzo, keynote “Wearable Haptics: From Robotics to Potential Cancer Treatments”, at ICRA 40th anniversary of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Sept 24th, 2024.

• Domenico Prattichizzo, keynote "Robotics and Wearable Haptics in Virtual and Augmented Reality" at the ACM Multimedia Systems 2024 on April 16th, 2024. https://2024.acmmmsys.org/keynotes.

• Domenico Prattichizzo, webinar talk “Wearable Robotics and Haptics:  Human Augmentation and Studies on Cancer Therapy” January 17th, 2024, Tactile Internet Webinar.

• Frank Fitzek, tutorial “Tactile internet support for the Metaverse” at IEEE Globecom, Decemer 2023.

• Eckehard Steinbach, invited talk ”Haptic Communication for the Tactile Internet, Seminar on Challenges and Trends in Haptics: Sensing, Feedback and Communication”, University of Pisa, Italy, 28 September 2023.

• Qi Zhang, webinar talk “TOAST HE-MSCA-DN Project”, May 2nd, 2023, IEEE Tactile Internet TC meeting.

Special Issues

• Frank Fitzek and David Gomez-Barquero organized a special issue on “eXtended Reality” at IEEE communication magazine, 2023 https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-magazine/cfp/extended-reality.

Publications

2025

• Yu Yeh, V. S. Varma and S. E. Elayoubi, "Optimistic Constrained Online Convex Optimization for Resource Reservation in Tactile Internet," GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025.

• G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis and Q. Zhang, "Delay Bound Relaxation with Deep Learning-Based Haptic Estimation for Tactile Internet," GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1-6.

• W. Wei, X. Xu, L. Nockenberg, D. Rodriguez-Guevara and E. Steinbach, "Perceptual Compression of Multimodal Tactile Signals with an Attention-Enhanced Autoencoder and Cross-Modal Psychohaptic Loss Function," 2025 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, 2025, pp. 147-153.

• D. Rodriguez-Guevara, F. Hernandez-Gobertti, W. Wei, X. Xu, B. Gulecyuz, D. Gomez-Barquero and E. Steinbach, "Data-Driven Kinaesthetic Action Classification for Remote Teleoperation over the Tactile Internet," European Wireless 2025 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025.

• W. Wei, X. Xu, L. Nockenberg, D. Rodriguez-Guevara, S. N. Özsert, D. Prattichizzo and E. Steinbach, "Perceptual Coding of High-Resolution Fingertip Tactile Feedback," European Wireless 2025 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025.

• Yu Yeh, S. N. Özsert, D. Prattichizzo, V. S. Varma and S. E. Elayoubi, "Data-driven Context-Aware Traffic Prediction and Modeling for Tactile Internet," European Wireless 2025 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025.

• M. Ali Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, "Signal Prediction for Loss Mitigation in Tactile Internet: a Leader-Follower Game-Theoretic Approach," 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 01-06.

• G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis and Q. Zhang, "Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Video-Haptic Radio Resource Slicing in Tactile Internet," ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2025, pp. 3821-3826.

• F. Hernandez-Gobertti, R. Lozano, K. Kousias, Ö. Alay, C. Griwodz and D. Gomez-Barquero, "Exploring Performance and User Experience in Haptic Teleoperation Systems: A Study on QoS/QoE Dynamics on Immersive Communications," 26th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Fort Worth, USA, 2025.

• F. Hernandez-Gobertti, "Ph.D. Forum: Wireless Optimization Strategies for Real-Time Haptic Communications," 26th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Fort Worth, USA, 2025.

• L. Nockenberg, W. Wei, M. Navai and E. Steinbach, "Deep Learning-Based Perceptual Vibrotactile Codec with Rate Scalability," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp. 1-5.

2024

• Yu Yeh, V. S. Varma and S. E. Elayoubi, "AoI-based switching control for safe haptic teleoperation over a wireless network," 2024 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, 2024.

• M. Crespo-Aguado, R. Lozano, F. Hernandez-Gobertti, N. Molner and D. Gomez-Barquero, "Flexible Hyper-Distributed IoT–Edge–Cloud Platform for Real-Time Digital Twin Applications on 6G-Intended Testbeds for Logistics and Industry," Future Internet, vol. 16, no. 11, p. 431, 2024.

• M. Attawna, T. V. Doan, F. H. P. Fitzek and G. T. Nguyen, "StateProc: Empowering Network Functions with Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds," 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Washington DC, USA, 2024, pp. 1-6.

• F. Hernandez, R. Lozano, N. Molner and D. Gomez-Barquero, "Design of a 6G Testbed towards Cyber-Physical Convergence in Remote Driving Applications," IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Athens, Greece, 2024.

• V. Bondarenko, M. Attawna, G. T. Nguyen and F. H. P. Fitzek, "Motion sickness comparison of 2 XR approaches: camera+ screen or hologram on transparent lens (Meta Quest 3 or Microsoft HoloLens 2)," 2024 International Electronics Symposium (IES), IEEE, 2024.

• M. Attawna, O. Lhamo, T. V. Doan, F. H. P. Fitzek and G. T. Nguyen, "Demo: Towards Reliable Cloud-native 5G and Beyond Networks using In-Network Computing," NOMS 2024 - 2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, 2024, pp. 1-3.

2023

• M. Attawna, T. V. Doan, V. Nguyen, F. H. P. Fitzek and G. T. Nguyen, "Leveraging Data Plane Acceleration for Network Coding Deployment: A Measurement Study," 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Dresden, Germany, 2023, pp. 34-39.