I, Ian F. Akyildiz, have been Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the past 35 years. I have vast research experience in wireless communications and many research contributions, including IoT and wireless sensor networks. My h-index is 127 and the total number of citations is 122+K according to Google Scholar as of January 2021. Dr. Tara Ali-Yahiya, Associate Professor at the University of Paris Saclay, and Dr. Wrya Monnet, Assistant Professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, have been active in this research field for many years. They have introduced this book as an initiative to explain the Tactile Internet to a wide audience in a simple and clear manner.

The Tactile Internet is envisaged to change not only the landscape of network communication but also the lifestyle of society socially and economically. The huge number of use cases introduced by this concept would play a major role towards shaping our imagination for delivering not only data but also skills through the Internet from a source to a remote destination.

This book provides an introduction to the Tactile Internet and its case studies, with its impact on the democratization of haptic applications based on the IEEE 1918.1 standard through teleoperations. The case studies are based on cutting-edge technologies that enable the deployment of the Tactile Internet. 5G, and recently 6G, Software-Defined Networking, the different learning techniques in the artificial intelligence domain, edge computing for service proximity, etc. are all factors that will support the successful deployment of the Tactile Internet. This book is a solid contribution to this research area.

May 2021