Tactile Internet: with Human-in-the-Loop describes the change from the current Internet, which focuses on the democratization of information independent of location of time, to the Tactile Internet, which democratizes skills to promote equity that is independent of age, gender, socio-cultural background or physical limitations. The book introduces promotes the concept of the tactile Tactile Internet for remote closed-loop human-machine interaction and describes the main challenges and key technologies. Current standardization activities in the field for IEEE and IETF are described, making this text book an ideal resource for researchers, graduate students, and industry R&D engineers in communications engineering, electronic engineering computing, and computer engineering.
Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and head of the "Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks" at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence "Center for Tactile Internet" (CeTI).
He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Professor
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Shu-Chen Li obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, USA (1994) and completed her postdoctoral training at the McGill University in Montréal, Canada (1995), prior to her 17-year research career at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. After being a senior research scientist and the principal investigator of the Neuromodulation of Lifespan Cognition Project at the MPI, she took up a full professorship as the chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at TU Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden) in September 2012. She serves on the editorial boards of various journals (e.g., Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews) and grant review panels
Stefanie Speidel is a full professor for "Translational Surgical Oncology" at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden since 2017. She received her PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with distinction in 2009 in the context of the research training group "Intelligent Surgery" (KIT, University of Heidelberg, DKFZ) and had a junior research group "Computer-Assisted Surgery" from 2012 - 2016 at KIT. Her current research interests include image- and robotic-guided surgery in the context of the future operating room. She has been (co)-authoring more than 100 publications and regularly organizes workshops and challenges including the Endoscopic Vision Challenge@MICCAI as well as the Surgical Data Science workshop. She is member of several Program Committees of international conferences, such as MICCAI, CARS, SPIE Medical Imaging and has been general chair and program chair for a number of international events including IPCAI and MICCAI conference. She has been principal investigator on a number of research grants and received several best paper awards.
