Track Co-Chairs:
Bo Han, George Mason University, USA, bohan@gmu.edu
Dapeng Wu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China, wudp@cqupt.edu.cn
Description:
Metaverse merges physical reality with digital virtuality, constructing a 3D virtual network based on hardware equipment and interaction technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), which is collectively referred to as extended reality (XR). It is an interconnected web of social in an immersive Internet environment, which breaks the temporal and spatial limitations of traditional social media, providing a virtual platform for multi-user real-time interaction, such as meetings, games, and remote collaboration. Metaverse is regarded as an extension of traditional social media, and the combination of metaverse and social will be the new model for social networks in the future. This track focuses on original and unpublished research work in the field of social networks, extended reality, and metaverse. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following.
• 3D virtual social platforms
• Communications and networking support for social networks
• Contact tracing
• Crowdsourcing
• Edge computing, digital twins, and IoT for XR and metaverse
• Evolving social networks
• Generative AI for XR and metaverse
• Harassment detection and prevention in metaverse
• Machine learning, data science, and blockchains for XR and metaverse
• Mobile social networks
• Multi-user XR
• Network economics in social networks
• New social media
• Quality of service and quality of experience in social networks
• Public safety systems supported by social networks
• Security and privacy in XR and metaverse
• Sensing for metaverse
• Social network influence on wireless communications and networking design
• Social virtual reality
• XR and applications
TPC List:
• Dimitris Chatzopoulos, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Bo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Jiaxin Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
• Huber Flores, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Lik-Hang Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Xiaoli Liu, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Yitao Hu, Tianjin University, China
• Yakun Huang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
• Amit Sheoran, AT&T, USA
• Ding Zhang, Amazon, USA