Ontology based framework for tactile internet applications

Abstract

In the past decade, auditory and visual multimedia have reached an advanced quality level which is characteristically referred to as high definition (HD) and beyond. On the contrary, technical solutions addressing the sense of touch, which are typically referred to as haptic technology, have not yet received the same level of attention and evolution. With the emergence of the 5G mobile networks and the Tactile Internet, the haptic modality will be part of our daily usage and thus both tactile and kinesthetic information and their deployment solutions will gain significantly in relevance to stakeholders from academic and industrial domains. In this context, we extended our previous Service Oriented Development of Haptics Ontology (SODHO) to address the relationship between 5G network applications and their main key performance indicators (KPIs). In addition, our fully unified and lightweight ontology was built using the SUMO model according to which the vocabulary and classes that describe human-haptic system interaction were formalized, providing a formal categorization of the haptics domain in regular multimedia Tactile Internet applications.