List of Acronyms

3GPP Third-Generation Partnership Project 4G Fourth Generation 5G Fifth Generation 6G Sixth Generation A2G Air-to-Ground AC Actor Critic ADMUX Adaptive Multiplexer for Haptic-Audio-Visual Data Communication ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AI Artificial Intelligence AirComp Air Computation ALPHAN Application Layer Protocol for Haptic Networking AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding AP Access Point AR Auto Regressive ARMA Auto Regressive Moving Average ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ATM Automated Teller Machine BBUs Baseband Units BCI Brain-Computer Interaction BS Base Station C-RANs Cloud Radio Access Networks CA Carrier Aggregation CDF Cumulative Distribution Function CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CFmMIMO Cell-Free massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output CI Communication Infrastructure CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CN Core Network CNN Convolutional Neural Network CoAP Constrained Application Protocol CPP Control Plane Protocol CPS Cyber-Physical Systems CPU Central Processing Unit CSI Channel State Information CSMA-CA Carrier-Sense-Multiple-Access with Collision Avoidance D2D Device-to-Device DCF Distributed Coordination Function DCT Discrete Cosine Transform DDoS Distributed Denial of Service DDS Data Distribution Service DNN Deep Neural Network DoF Degree of Freedom DoS Denial of Service DPCM Differential Pulse Code Modulation DT Decision Tree DTLS Datagram Transport Layer Security E2E End-to-End delay EC Edge Computing EH Energy Harvesting eMBB Enhanced Mobile Broadband eNodeB Evolved Node Base ESA European Space Agency ESS Energy Self-Sustainability ETP Efficient Transport Protocol FiWi Fiber-Wireless FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array FSM Finite State Machine Gbps Gigabit-per-second GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit GS Ground Station GSM Global System for Mobile communications GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol H2M Human-to-Machine HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeated Request HART Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork HEO High Earth Orbit HoIP Haptic over IP HPC High Performance Computing HW Hardware IAT Inter-Arrival Time IC Integrated Circuit ICT Information and Communication Technologies IDC International Data Corporation IDE Integrated Development Environment IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IoDs IoT Devices IoE Internet of Everything IoT Internet of Things IP Internet Protocol IPG Inter-Packet Gap IR Infrared IRTP Interactive Real-Time Protocol ISOMAP ISOmetric MAPping ITP Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol IVR Immersive Virtual Reality IW IndicationWeights JND Just Noticeable Difference KNN K-Nearest Neighbors KPI Key Performance Indicator KPPS K Packets Per Second LAN Local Area Network LEO Low Earth Orbit LNAs Low Noise Amplifiers LoS Line of Sight LSTM Long Short-Term Memory LTE Long-Term Evolution LTI Linear Time Invariant M2M Machine-to-Machine MA Moving Average MAC Medium Access Control MBSs Macro Base Stations MC-IoT Mission-Critical Internet of Things MDP Markov Decision Process MEC Mobile Edge Computing MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems MEO Medium Earth Orbit MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output mMTC massive Machine-Type Communications mmWave millimeter-Wave MQTT Message Queuing Telemetry Transport MRB Multi-aRmed Bandit MTU Maximum Transmission Unit NAS Non-Access Stratum NFV Network Function Virtualizing NLoS Non-Line of Sight NOMA Non-orthogonal Multiple Access NR New Radio NS2 Network Simulator-2 NS3 Network Simulator-3 OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OMA Orthogonal Multiple Access OMA-DM Open Mobile Alliance Device Management PA Power Amplifiers PAHCP Perception-based Adaptive Haptic Communication Protocol PCA Principal Component Analysis PD Perceptual Dead-band PDF Probability Density Function PDU Protocol Data Units PES Packetized Elementary Streams PF-PF Position-Force-Position-Force PGW Packet Gateway PHY Physical Layers PID Proportional-Integral-Derivative QoE Quality of...