Towards 5G-Enabled Education: Remote Laboratory and Training Prototype

Abstract

Advanced technologies have significant impacts on every aspect of education, where digital connectivity is the foundation to support the way people learn. Current Internet and pre-5G cellular communication networks can deliver visual and auditory data, which enable distance/virtual learning. How- ever, remote physical interaction between students and learning facilities, which is an essential part of a new education paradigm is still missing. The 5G cellular network with impressive latency and reliability performance would be a game changer by enabling students to attend remote physical learning environment. In this paper, we introduce our prototype of real-time remote laboratory which enables students to attend remote physical environment and have interactive laboratory session with help of robotics.