Haptic Event Prioritization and Network Adaptation Scheme for Collaborative Virtual Environments

In this paper, a network adaptation scheme that involves a haptic event prioritization concept is presented. It classifies the haptic events and efficiently adapts the transmission and error rate according to the importance of the haptic events. According to the experimental results, the proposed scheme provides higher haptic interaction quality with a shorter playout delay and a lower transmission rate compared to existing networked haptic transport schemes.