Touch-enabled Tactile Internet Training Network and Open Source Testbed

Project Information

TOAST

Grant agreement ID: 101073465

DOI

10.3030/101073465

EC signature date 6 July 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2027

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 741 623,20

Coordinated by

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Annual training report, including network training events, e.g. training schools, PhD courses, etc.

Annual training report, including network training events,e.g. training schools, PhD courses, etc. M12

Report on use cases and requirements aligned to research competences in TOAST
Intermediate Technical report on kinaesthetic codec and tactile codec

Intermediate Technical report on kina esthetic codec and tactile codec

Other (1)

Initial agile Tactile Internet networking testbed

Initial/Final agile Tactile Internet networking testbed

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and learning platform.

Publications

Conference proceedings (21)

Shapley Features for Robust Signal Prediction in Tactile Internet

Author(s): Mohammad Ali Vahedifar, Qi Zhang
Published in: ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461994

Performance Profiling of Diverse Tactile Internet Applications Over Different 5G Deployments

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Mahdi Attawna, Yu Yeh, Giang T. Nguyen, David Gomez-Barquero, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Salah-Eddie Elayoubi
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MEDITCOM64437.2025.11104428

Leveraging Data Plane Acceleration for Network Coding Deployment: A Measurement Study

Author(s): Mahdi Attawna, Tung V. Doan, Vu Nguyen, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen
Published in: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329588

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Video-Haptic Radio Resource Slicing in Tactile Internet

Author(s): Georgios Kokkinis, Alexandros Iosifidis, Qi Zhang
Published in: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11160869

Motion sickness comparison of 2 XR approaches: camera+screen or hologram on transparent lens (Meta Quest 3 or Microsoft HoloLens 2)

Author(s): Volodymyr Bondarenko, Mahdi Attawna, Giang T. Nguyen, Frank H. P. Fitzek
Published in: 2024 International Electronics Symposium (IES), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IES63037.2024.10665757

Signal Prediction for Loss Mitigation in Tactile Internet: a Leader-Follower Game-Theoretic Approach

Author(s): Mohammad Ali Vahedifar, Qi Zhang
Published in: 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MLSP62443.2025.11204284

HINT: Hierarchical Inter-Frame Correlation for One-Shot Point Cloud Sequence Compression

Author(s): Yuchen Gao, Qi Zhang
Published in: ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464644

Perceptual Compression of Multimodal Tactile Signals with an Attention-Enhanced Autoencoder and Cross-Modal Psychohaptic Loss Function

Author(s): Wenxuan Wei, Xiao Xu, Lars Nockenberg, Daniel Rodriguez-Guevara, Eckehard Steinbach
Published in: 2025 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WHC64065.2025.11123396

Demo: Towards Reliable Cloud-native 5G and Beyond Networks using In-Network Computing

Author(s): Mahdi Attawna, Osel Lhamo, Tung V. Doan, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen
Published in: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575011

Design of a 6G Testbed Towards Cyber-Physical Convergence in Remote Driving Applications

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Raul Lozano, Nuria Molner, David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942790

Optimistic Constrained Online Convex Optimization for Resource Reservation in Tactile Internet

Author(s): Yu Yeh, Vineeth S. Varma, Salah. E. Elayoubi
Published in: GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432179

Deep Learning-Based Perceptual Vibrotactile Codec with Rate Scalability

Author(s): Lars Nockenberg, Wenxuan Wei, Mariam Navai, Eckehard Steinbach
Published in: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890627

Ph.D. Forum: Wireless Optimization Strategies for Real-Time Haptic Communications

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WOWMOM65615.2025.00034

Escalabilidad de múltiples teleoperaciones hápticas bilaterales sobre red 5G privada

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti
Published in: Simposios del Comité Español de Automática (CEA), Issue 2, 2026, ISSN 3081-5002
Publisher: Comité Español de Automática
DOI: 10.64117/SIMPOSIOSCEA.V2I2.147

Exploring Performance and User Experience in Haptic Teleoperation Systems: A Study on QoS/QoE Dynamics on Immersive Communications

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Raul Lozano, Konstantinos Kousias, Özgü Alay, Carsten Griwodz, David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WOWMOM65615.2025.00044

Kinaesthetic Traffic Characterization and Performance Trade-Offs in Haptic Teleoperation Systems over 5G Standalone Private Networks

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Daniel Rodriguez-Guevara, Wenxuan Wei, Xiao Xu, Eckehard Steinbach, David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11275083

Touch-Augmented Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced 3D Scene Reconstruction

Author(s): Yuchen Gao, Xiao Xu, Eckehard Steinbach, Daniel E. Lucani, Qi Zhang
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MMSP64401.2025.11324401

AoI-based switching control for safe haptic teleoperation over a wireless network

Author(s): Yu Yeh, Vineeth S. Varma, Salah. E. Elayoubi
Published in: 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10885873

A Forearm-Worn Haptic Device for Integrated Tactile and Kinaesthetic Feedback via Skin Stretch

Author(s): Selin Nur Özsert, Daniel Rodriguez-Guevara, Leonardo Franco, Wenxuan Wei, Eckehard Steinbach, Domenico Prattichizzo
Published in: 2025 International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISM66958.2025.00016

Improving Reliability for Cloud-Native 5G and Beyond Using Network Coding

Author(s): Osel Lhamo, Tung V. Doan, Elif Tasdemir, Mahdi Attawna, Stefan Senk, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen
Published in: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329609

StateProc: Empowering Network Functions with Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds

Author(s): Mahdi Attawna, Tung V. Doan, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen
Published in: 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISNCC62547.2024.10759014

Other (1)

Towards Lifelong Deep Learning: A Review of Continual Learning and Unlearning Methods

Author(s): Vahedifar, Mohammad Ali; Zhang, Qi; Iosifidis, Alexandros
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14631802

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Flexible Hyper-Distributed IoT–Edge–Cloud Platform for Real-Time Digital Twin Applications on 6G-Intended Testbeds for Logistics and Industry

Author(s): Maria Crespo-Aguado, Raul Lozano, Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Nuria Molner, David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: Future Internet, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FI16110431

Immersive Teleoperation via Collaborative Device-Agnostic Interfaces for Smart Haptics: A Study on Operational Efficiency and Cognitive Overflow for Industrial Assistive Applications

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti; Ivan D. Kudyk; Raul Lozano; Giang T. Nguyen; David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: Sensors, 2025
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/S25133993

FlexNC + RecNet: Flexible Network (Re)Coding in Cloud-Native 5G: Design and Testbed Measurements

Author(s): Osel Lhamo, Tung V. Doan, Elif Tasdemir, Mahdi Attawna, Giang T. Nguyen, Patrick Seeling, Martin Reisslein, Frank H. P. Fitzek
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Issue 22, 2025, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3596124

A Comparative Study on Reaction Times using Visual, Audio, and Haptic Stimuli with Direct, Encoded or Dynamic Deliveries

Author(s): Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti, Raul Lozano, Ignacio Benito-Frontelo, Jaime Ruiz-Alonso, David Gomez-Barquero
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2026, ISSN 1939-1412
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2026.3686665