Realizing the Metaverse: A Communications and Networking Perspective

＂To date, tech giants have invested heavily towards realizing the Metaverse as ＂the successor to the mobile Internet＂. In 2021, Facebook was even rebranded as ＂Meta＂ as it reinvents itself to be a ＂Metaverse company＂ from a social media company. Furthermore, Government bodies around the world have announced their interests in establishing a presence in the Metaverse. However, the development of the Metaverse is still in its infancy. For the Metaverse to truly succeed as the next-generation Internet, it is of paramount importance that users can ubiquitously access the Metaverse, just as the Internet entertains billions of users daily＂--

WEI YANG BRYAN LIM is an Alibaba PhD Candidate under the Alibaba Talent Programme at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute (JRI), Singapore.

ZEHUI XIONG, PhD, is an Assistant Professor with the Pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

DUSIT NIYATO, PhD, is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and Professor School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a co-author of the Wiley title Radio Resource Management in Multi-Tier Cellular Wireless Networks (2013).

JUNSHAN ZHANG, PhD, is an Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University.

XUEMIN (SHERMAN) SHEN, PhD, is a Professor with the Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Royal Society of Canada. He is also President of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a co-author of the Wiley title Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis (2009) and a co-editor of Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications and Networks (2006).