With CeTI, the Center for Tactile Internet, Dresden offers an outstanding research environment for intelligent communication networks and systems. The cooperation with King’s College in this field focuses on linking the established medical research networks with the Cluster of Excellence and on quantum communication. transCampus is hence involved in the latest developments for the technologies of the (near) future.
Since the beginning of 2024, four PhD students—two from King’s and two from TUD—are working together on two interdisciplinary projects in the emerging field of tactile internet in medicine. This initiative aims to foster collaboration between the International Research Training Group 2251, the excellence cluster CeTI and the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s. Supervised by Toktam Mahmoodi, Stephanie Speidel, Giang Nguyen as well as Barbara Ludwing and Charlotte Steenblock, the project groups work on 6G technologies used for operations. One project focuses on “6G RAN intelligent controller for teleoperation”; the other will develop mechanisms to scrap “communication latency for shared autonomy in remote metabolic surgical intervention”.
This collaboration re-started in 2023 with reciprocal visits and guest lecturers, initiated by Frank Fitzek, who has been active in the transCampus for several years, as he is a transCampus professor for Tactile Internet for Medical Applications since 2017. Toktam Mahmoodi, for example, gave a speech at the third Dresden Communication Festival & IEEE 6G Summit [https://transcampus.eu/ieee-6g-summit-in-dresden-with-a-special-guest-from-london/] in Dresden 2023. Riccardo Bassoli, CeTI, established solid connections with Osvaldo Simeone when he gave a lecture on the theory of quantum communication networks. Both organised a Summer School on “Quantum Communication Networks and Technologies” in London in 2024. Experts from academia and industry provided the 20 participants with a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge topics in information technology.