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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

2026

Journal Papers

Y. Huang, Y. Gao, Y. Zhu, R. Sidhu, X. Qiao, Q. Zhang, and X. Su, “A Review of 6-DoF Volumetric Video Communication Systems: AI Empowered Perspectives”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2026.

Conference Papers

Y. Gao and Q. Zhang, “HINT: Hierarchical Inter-Frame Correlation for One-shot Point Cloud Sequence Compression”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14859
D. O. Rodriguez-Guevara, F. Hernandez-Gobertti, W. Wei, X. Xu, B. Gülecyüz, D. Gomez-Barquero, and E. Steinbach, “LSTM-Based Task Detection for Haptic Teleoperation using Kinaesthetic Data”, 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC), Cologne, Germany, 2026. https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/node?id=1841026
M. A. Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, “Discrete Mode Decomposition Meets Shapley Value: Robust Signal Prediction in Tactile Internet”, IEEE INFOCOM, Tokyo, Japan, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05323
M. A. Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, “Shapley Features for Robust Signal Prediction in Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21032
W. Wei, L. Nockenberg, D. Rodriguez-Guevara, X. Xu, and E. Steinbach, “Cross-Modal and Multi-Point Coding of Tactile Data”, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Cologne, Germany, 2026.

2025

Journal Papers

F. Hernandez-Gobertti, I. D. Kudyk, R. Lozano, G. T. Nguyen, and D. Gomez-Barquero, “Immersive Teleoperation via Collaborative Device-Agnostic Interfaces for Smart Haptics: A Study on Operational Efficiency and Cognitive Overflow for Industrial Assistive Applications”, Sensors, vol. 25, no. 13, p. 3993, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25133993

Conference Papers

Y. Gao, X. Xu, E. Steinbach, D. Lucani, and Q. Zhang, “Touch-Augmented Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced 3D Scene Reconstruction”, 27th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Beijing, China, Sep. 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07717
F. Hernandez-Gobertti, M. Attawna, Y. Yeh, G. T. Nguyen, D. Gomez-Barquero, F. H. P. Fitzek, and S. E. Elayoubi, “Performance Profiling of Diverse Tactile Internet Applications Over Different 5G Deployments”, IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Capri, Italy, July 2025. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11104428
F. Hernandez-Gobertti, D. O. Rodriguez-Guevara, W. Wei, X. Xu, E. Steinbach, and D. Gomez-Barquero, “Kinaesthetic Traffic Characterization and Performance Trade-Offs in Haptic Teleoperation Systems over 5G Standalone Private Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2025. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11275083
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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11027032
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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11027023
G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis, and Q. Zhang, “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Video-Haptic Radio Resource Slicing in Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2025, pp. 3821–3826. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11160869
G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis, and Q. Zhang, “Delay Bound Relaxation with Deep Learning-Based Haptic Estimation for Tactile Internet”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1–6. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00571
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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10890627
L. Nockenberg, W. Wei, and E. Steinbach, “Perceptual Compression of Vibrotactile Signals for the Tactile Internet”, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, 2025.
S. N. Özsert, D. Rodriguez-Guevara, L. Franco, W. Wei, E. Steinbach, and D. Prattichizzo, “A Forearm-Worn Haptic Device for Integrated Tactile and Kinaesthetic Feedback via Skin Stretch”, International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Naples, Italy, 2025, pp. 39–45. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11366768
D. Rodriguez-Guevara, F. Hernandez-Gobertti, W. Wei, X. Xu, B. Gülecyüz, D. Gomez-Barquero, and E. Steinbach, “Data-Driven Kinaesthetic Action Classification for Remote Teleoperation over the Tactile Internet”, European Wireless Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025. https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/node?id=1836597
M. A. Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, “Signal Prediction for Loss Mitigation in Tactile Internet: a Leader-Follower Game-Theoretic Approach”, IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 01–06. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11204284
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”, IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, 2025, pp. 147–153. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11123396
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 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025.
Y. Yeh, V. S. Varma, and S. E. Elayoubi, “Optimistic Constrained Online Convex Optimization for Resource Reservation in Tactile Internet”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05268651v1
Y. 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 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05269390v1

2024

Journal Papers

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. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16110431

Conference Papers

M. Attawna, T. V. Doan, F. H. P. Fitzek, and G. T. Nguyen, “StateProc: Empowering Network Functions with Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds”, International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Washington DC, USA, 2024, pp. 1–6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10759014
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”, IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Seoul, Korea, 2024, pp. 1–3. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10575011
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)”, International Electronics Symposium (IES), 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10665757
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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10942790
Y. Yeh, V. S. Varma, and S. E. Elayoubi, “AoI-based switching control for safe haptic teleoperation over a wireless network”, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10885873

2023

Conference Papers

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”, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Dresden, Germany, 2023, pp. 34–39. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10329588

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DISSEMINATION & COMMUNICATION

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

2026

Journal Papers

Y. Huang, Y. Gao, Y. Zhu, R. Sidhu, X. Qiao, Q. Zhang, and X. Su, “A Review of 6-DoF Volumetric Video Communication Systems: AI Empowered Perspectives”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2026.

Conference Papers

Y. Gao and Q. Zhang, “HINT: Hierarchical Inter-Frame Correlation for One-shot Point Cloud Sequence Compression”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14859

M. A. Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, “Discrete Mode Decomposition Meets Shapley Value: Robust Signal Prediction in Tactile Internet”, IEEE INFOCOM, Tokyo, Japan, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05323

M. A. Vahedifar and Q. Zhang, “Shapley Features for Robust Signal Prediction in Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21032

W. Wei, L. Nockenberg, D. Rodriguez-Guevara, X. Xu, and E. Steinbach, “Cross-Modal and Multi-Point Coding of Tactile Data”, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Cologne, Germany, 2026.

2025

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

Y. Gao, X. Xu, E. Steinbach, D. Lucani, and Q. Zhang, “Touch-Augmented Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced 3D Scene Reconstruction”, 27th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Beijing, China, Sep. 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07717

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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11027023

G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis, and Q. Zhang, “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Video-Haptic Radio Resource Slicing in Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2025, pp. 3821–3826. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11160869

G. Kokkinis, A. Iosifidis, and Q. Zhang, “Delay Bound Relaxation with Deep Learning-Based Haptic Estimation for Tactile Internet”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1–6. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00571

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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10890627

L. Nockenberg, W. Wei, and E. Steinbach, “Perceptual Compression of Vibrotactile Signals for the Tactile Internet”, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, 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 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025.

Y. Yeh, V. S. Varma, and S. E. Elayoubi, “Optimistic Constrained Online Convex Optimization for Resource Reservation in Tactile Internet”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05268651v1

Y. 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 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05269390v1

2024

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

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”, IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Seoul, Korea, 2024, pp. 1–3. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10575011

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)”, International Electronics Symposium (IES), 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10665757

Y. Yeh, V. S. Varma, and S. E. Elayoubi, “AoI-based switching control for safe haptic teleoperation over a wireless network”, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10885873

2023

Conference Papers

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