A Survey of Transport Protocols for Haptic Applications

The term Hap tic refers to the sense of touch. The feeling has the ability to increase the sense of reality, to excite the user and improve the quality of experience. To carry out this sense through the Internet was, until recently, impracticable due to processing inefficiencies and/or protocol performance in capabilities, such as throughput and jitter constraints. This paper describes a Hap tic system architecture. Moreover it presents a survey of transport protocols for hap tic applications. It also performs a classification of related protocol capabilities and outlines the flow requirements that should be met by protocols designed to carry such data.