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Blockchain interoperability is a prominent research field which aims to build bridges between otherwise isolated blockchains. With advances in cryptography, novel protocols are published by academia and applied in different applications and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Thomas Eizinger , Philipp Hoenisch , Lucas Soriano del Pino

The metaverse has awakened users' expectations of an immersive interaction that fuses the virtual digital world and the physical world across space and time. However, the metaverse is still in its infancy, typically expanding multi-player…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yakun Huang , Xiuquan Qiao , Haowen Wang , Xiang Su , Schahram Dustdar , Ping Zhang

Metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies. It has the characteristics of multi-technology, sociality, and hyper spatiotemporality. This paper introduces the development…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Huansheng Ning , Hang Wang , Yujia Lin , Wenxi Wang , Sahraoui Dhelim , Fadi Farha , Jianguo Ding , Mahmoud Daneshmand

Dubbed "the successor to the mobile Internet", the concept of the Metaverse has grown in popularity. While there exist lite versions of the Metaverse today, they are still far from realizing the full vision of an immersive, embodied, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Minrui Xu , Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Qiang Yang , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao

Since Facebook officially changed its name to Metaverse in Oct. 2021, the metaverse has become a new norm of social networks and three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds. The metaverse aims to bring 3D immersive and personalized experiences to…

Blockchain interoperability, which allows state transitions across different blockchain networks, is critical functionality to facilitate major blockchain adoption. Existing interoperability protocols mostly focus on atomic token exchange…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zhuotao Liu , Yangxi Xiang , Jian Shi , Peng Gao , Haoyu Wang , Xusheng Xiao , Bihan Wen , Yih-Chun Hu

With the advancement in computing power and speed, the Internet is being transformed from screen-based information to immersive and extremely low latency communication environments in web 3.0 and the Metaverse. With the emergence of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Siem Ghirmai , Daniel Mebrahtom , Moayad Aloqaily , Mohsen Guizani , Merouane Debbah

Despite the proliferation of Blockchain Metaverse projects, the inclusion of physically disabled individuals in the Metaverse remains distant, with limited standards and regulations in place. However, the article proposes a concept of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Petar Radanliev , David De Roure , Peter Novitzky , Ivo Sluganovic

Metaverse has rekindled human beings' desire to further break space-time barriers by fusing the virtual and real worlds. However, security and privacy threats hinder us from building a utopia. A metaverse embraces various techniques, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Minghui Xu , Yihao Guo , Qin Hu , Zehui Xiong , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

As an emerging concept, the Metaverse has the potential to revolutionize the social interaction in the post-pandemic era by establishing a digital world for online education, remote healthcare, immersive business, intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhen Meng , Changyang She , Guodong Zhao , Muhammad A. Imran , Mischa Dohler , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Metaverse as the latest buzzword has attracted great attention from both industry and academia. Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows avatars to carry out rich activities including creation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Qinglin Yang , Yetong Zhao , Huawei Huang , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Zibin Zheng

Traditional education has been updated with the development of information technology in human history. Within big data and cyber-physical systems, the Metaverse has generated strong interest in various applications (e.g., entertainment,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hong Lin , Shicheng Wan , Wensheng Gan , Jiahui Chen , Han-Chieh Chao

As an emerging technology that enables seamless integration between the physical and virtual worlds, the Metaverse has great potential to be deployed in the industrial production field with the development of extended reality (XR) and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shiying Zhang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Ming Ding , Dinh C. Nguyen , Wen Chen , Zhu Han

Establishing and sustaining Metaverse service necessitates an unprecedented scale of resources. This paper considers the deployment of Metaverse service in a cloud-edge resource architecture, which can satisfy the escalating demand for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yanwei Gong , Xiaolin Chang , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić , Yingying Yao

While the integration of IoT devices in virtual spaces is becoming increasingly common, technical barriers to controlling custom devices in multi-user Virtual Reality (VR) environments remain high, particularly limiting new applications in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ryutaro Kurai , Hikari Yanagawa , Yuichi Hiroi , Takefumi Hiraki

A metaverse breaks the boundaries of time and space between people, realizing a more realistic virtual experience, improving work efficiency, and creating a new business model. Blockchain, as one of the key supporting technologies for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ye Cheng , Yihao Guo , Minghui Xu , Qin Hu , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

The adoption of permissioned blockchain networks in enterprise settings has seen an increase in growth over the past few years. While encouraging, this is leading to the emergence of new data, asset and process silos limiting the potential…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Ermyas Abebe , Dushyant Behl , Chander Govindarajan , Yining Hu , Dileban Karunamoorthy , Petr Novotny , Vinayaka Pandit , Venkatraman Ramakrishna , Christian Vecchiola

Blockchain interoperability protocols enable cross-chain asset transfers or data retrievals between isolated chains, which are considered as the core infrastructure for Web 3.0 applications such as decentralized finance protocols. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yinfeng Cao , Jiannong Cao , Dongbin Bai , Long Wen , Yang Liu , Ruidong Li

Due to its security, transparency, and flexibility in verifying virtual assets, blockchain has been identified as one of the key technologies for Metaverse. Unfortunately, blockchain-based Metaverse faces serious challenges such as massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Cong T. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Yong Xiao , Dusit Niyato , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Metaverse is an emerging virtual universe where humans can have real-time interactions and solid social links like in the physical world, and it opens up a new era of Internet and interactions. In Metaverse, an immersive and photorealistic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yitong Wang , Jun Zhao