IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023)

June 26-28, 2023 · Kyoto, Japan.

http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023

Workshop on Metaverse as a network problem: performance and enabling technologies

Metaverse can be seen as a network problem, since AR/VR applications need high throughput, high bandwidth demands with a high sensitivity to latency and dropped packets.

There are already solutions dealing with these issues but there are also limitations. Client-pull technologies are more flexible, firewall-friendly, and scalable than server-push technologies. However, there is less control given its decentralized nature, which introduces new challenges for the transport network to offer a consistent and possibly higher quality of service. Therefore, a close cooperation between client applications and network would be desirable. The Edge Cloud is also becoming a promising technique since it benefits from the intensive computational resources in order to enable users to obtain a real-time immersive experience without equipping high end devices.

Topics

There are elaborate solutions for dealing with bandwidth limitations, network congestion, lossy transport protocols, and the ever-growing size of video data. Existing systems have mechanisms that use aggressively the available network resources and cause a decrease of the QoE and rebuffering events. Different technologies have been discussed in IETF recently dealing with media applications:

• Information-centric networking (ICN)
• Media Delivery Protocol over QUIC (QuicR)
• Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S)
• Application-aware Networking (APN)
• Computing-Aware Networking (CAN)

The scope of this workshop is to discuss what are the requirements of Metaverse for the network and the enabling technologies among and beyond the different candidates.

Submission Guide

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed the six-page standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE MetaCom 2023. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE MetaCom 2023 proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Please follow the submission link on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023 to submit your paper.

Organization Chairs

• Giuseppe Fioccola, Huawei, giuseppe.fioccola@huawei.com
• Shuping Peng, Huawei, pengshuping@huawei.com

Technical Program Committee

• Carlos Guimarães, ZettaScale Technology SARL
• José Quevedo, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro
• Cedric Westphal, Futurewei
• Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli Federico II
• Paulo Jorge Milheiro Mendes, Airbus
• Zhenyu Li, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Yong Cui, Tsinghua University
• Huawei Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University
• Marcelo Bagnulo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Stefano Ferretti, University of Urbino
• Jiang Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Haisheng Yu, Macau University of Science and Technology
• Tao Sun, China Mobile
• Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo, Telefonica
• Amedeo Sapio, Intel
• Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento

Important dates (submission of papers, notifications)

• April 7, 2023, Paper submission deadline
• April 20, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance
• May 10, 2023, Camera-ready paper submissions

Submission Link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023