Context Aware network architectures for Sending Multiple Senses (CASMS)

未来的网络将有望传递与我们目前用于远程通信的两种感官（听觉和视觉）有关的信息。很明显，在网络中引入携带与其他感官相关的信息的能力，将为新的和显著改进的应用开辟巨大的潜力。利物浦大学和伦敦大学学院与相关的工业和学术合作伙伴合作开展了一项研究计划，旨在在英国建立一个独特的设施，该设施采用专用的高速网络链接，将联合收割机研究中心结合在虚拟和沉浸式现实中，以开辟研究分布式VR/AR系统的新能力，特别是研究我们如何将触觉和嗅觉等其他感官通道嵌入到这些应用程序中，并远程访问它们。主要的伙伴中心还将作为网关枢纽，允许从其他研究设施进入;这将通过扩大与达雷斯伯里虚拟工程中心的连接以及（通过伦敦大学学院的NDFIS连接）与布里斯托大学的连接来证明。虽然未来的VR/AR应用将需要相当高的数据速率来支持VR/AR环境的高清和立体视频流以及本地化服务器更新（实时），但关键方面将是确保网络可以在可接受的时间内提供不同的媒体流（视频，声音，触摸，嗅觉等），并保持它们之间的同步。为延迟敏感的HCI应用提供高度致动定时的能力将开辟一系列新的研究领域，例如，使用多传感通道的HCI，用于分发这种媒体丰富应用的高性能计算平台以及应用本身，例如汽车和航空电子行业的先进制造和设计，和辅助技术。可持续性和影响将通过实施一个由项目合作伙伴和主要利益攸关方的其他成员组成的指导委员会，他将与管理团队合作，确定新的研究合作和潜在的合作伙伴关系，并帮助传播和利用这一新设施产生的知识产权和其他知识。

Future networks will be expected to communicate information pertaining to more than the two senses (aural and visual) we currently use to communicate remotely. It is clear that introducing into networks the ability to carry information relating to other senses will open up an enormous potential for both new and dramatically improved applications. A collaboration involving the University of Liverpool and University College London with relevant industrial and academic partners has been created to engage in a programme of research that aims to establish a unique facility in the UK that employs dedicated high-speed network links to combine research centres in virtual and immersive reality in order to open up new capability for research into distributed VR/AR systems, and particularly to investigate how we can embed other sensory channels such as touch and smell into these applications and remotely access them. The main partner centres will also operate as gateways hubs to permit access from other research facilities; this will be demonstrated by extending the connectivity to the Virtual Engineering Centre at Daresbury, and (via NDFIS connection at UCL) to the University of Bristol. While future VR/AR applications will require reasonably high data rates to support high definition and stereoscopic video streams and localized server updates (in real-time) of VR/AR environments, the key aspect will be ensuring that the network can deliver the different media streams (video, sound, touch, olfactory etc) within acceptable times, and can maintain synchronization between them. The ability to provide highly actuate timing for delay-sensitive HCI applications will open up a range of new research areas involving for example, HCI using multi-sensory channels, high-performance compute platforms for distributing such media-rich applications as well as the applications themselves such as advanced manufacturing and design for the automotive and avionics industries, and in assistive technologies.The sustainability and impact (research and industrial) of CASMS will be ensured by implementing a steering committee consisting of the project partners and other members of key stakeholders, who will work with the management team to identify new research collaborations and potential partnerships, and to help disseminate and exploit the IP and other knowledge generated by this new facility.