Edge-Enabled Metaverse:The Convergence of Metaverseand Mobile Edge Computing  

作　　者：Nyothiri Aung Sahraoui Dhelim Liming Chen Huansheng Ning Luigi Atzori Tahar Kechadi 

机构地区：[1]Information Engineering College,Xinjiang Institute of Engineering,Urumqi 830023,China,and also with School of Computer Science,University College Dublin,Dublin,D04 V1W8,Ireland [2]School of Computing,Ulster University,Belfast,BT151ED,UK [3]School of Computer and Communication Engineering,University of Science and Technology Beijing,Beijing 100083,China [4]Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,University of Cagliari,Sardinia 09124,Italy [5]School of Computer Science,University College Dublin,Dublin,D04 V1W8,Ireland

出　　处：《Tsinghua Science and Technology》2024年第3期795-805,共11页清华大学学报（自然科学版（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Insight Centre for DataAnalytics funded by Science Foundation Ireland(No.12/RC/2289 P2);in part by the National NaturalScience Foundation of China(No.61872038).

摘　　要：Metaverse is a virtual environment where users are represented by their avatars to navigate a virtual world having strong links with its physical counterpart.The state-of-the-art Metaverse architectures rely on a cloud-based approach for avatar physics emulation and graphics rendering computation.The current centralized architecture of such systems is unfavorable as it suffers from several drawbacks caused by the long latency of cloud access,such as low-quality visualization.To this end,we propose a Fog-Edge hybrid computing architecture for Metaverse applications that leverage an edge-enabled distributed computing paradigm.Metaverse applications leverage edge devices’computing power to perform the required computations for heavy tasks,such as collision detection in the virtual universe and high-computational 3D physics in virtual simulations.The computational costs of a Metaverse entity,such as collision detection or physics emulation,are performed at the device of the associated physical entity.To validate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture,we simulate a distributed social Metaverse application.The simulation results show that the proposed architecture can reduce the latency by 50%when compared with cloud-based Metaverse applications.

关 键 词：industrial Metaverse edge computing Blockchain virtual environment task offloading fog computing 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统]