• SocialMeta 2022

    The 1st International Workshop on

    Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking

    ​In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS'22

    Bologna, Italy

    Jul 10, 2022

  • Call for papers

    While social network services and applications are unprecedentedly pervasive today (e.g., messaging, gaming, advertising, recommendation, and commerce), multiple recent technology advances have already started to shape the social networks, including “metaverse”. On one hand, Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Internet of Things (IoT), and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) are bringing new mobile computing and communication paradigms for provisioning and accessing social networks, digital spaces of social media, online gaming, etc. On the other hand, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), characterized by recent breakthroughs of deep learning and big data, are finding successful applications to social networks, including detecting/preventing spam, fraud, and misinformation and enhancing service experience via intelligent user interactions (e.g., recognition) with texts, images, and voices. Yet, how to exploit and synergize all such state-of-the-art technologies to revolutionize social networks is still in its infancy and requires comprehensive investigation and research.

     

    The goal of the 1st International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking (SocialMeta'22) is to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers, and practitioners to identify new problems and discuss the latest research ideas and results, especially those related to novel and emerging technologies, regarding social networks and the metaverse. SocialMeta focuses on all aspects of social networks and the metaverse, including architecture, design, implementation, measurement, modeling, algorithm, analysis, and theory. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

     

    • Mobile and location-based online social networks and the AR/VR-based metaverse
    • Reputation, incentives, and economics in social networks and the metaverse
    • Security and privacy in social networks and the metaverse
    • AR/VR, IoT, wearables, and crowdsourcing for social networks and the metaverse
    • Cloud, edge, SDN, and NFV for social networks and the metaverse
    • Non-terrestrial networks, UAV, and 5G/6G for social networks and the metaverse
    • AI/ML, data science, and blockchains for social networks and the metaverse
    • Measurement of social network and metaverse systems and applications
    • Modeling, algorithms, and theories for social networks and the metaverse

     

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  • Program

    （All times listed are in Central European Summer Time CEST）

    Zoom ID: 450 131 531

     

    2:00 - 2:05 PM: Opening session


    2:05 - 3:05 PM: Session I (Chair: Chao Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology)

    Hyperverse: A High Throughput Pattern Matching Engine for Metaverse

    Wenjun Zhu, Harry Chang, Yang Hong, Xiang Wang, Geoff Langdale, Kun Qiu, and Mingyi Zhang (Intel Corporation)

     

    Life, the Metaverse and Everything: An Overview of Privacy, Ethics, and Governance in Metaverse

    Carlos Bermejo Fernandez and Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

     

    Re-shaping Post-COVID-19 Teaching and Learning: A Blueprint of Virtual-Physical Blended Classrooms in the Metaverse Era

    Yuyang Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Lik-Hang Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)


    3:05 - 3:55 PM: Keynote
    Wireless Networking for Personalized and Collaborative Virtual Reality

    Bin Li（Pennsylvania State University）

     

    3:55 - 4:55 PM: Session II (Chair: Yuyang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

    Low Control Latency SD-WANs for Metaverse

    Li Qi, Songshi Dou, Zehua Guo, Changlin Li (Beijing Institute of Technology), Yang Li (China Academic of Electronics and Information Technology), and Tengteng Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology)

     

    FlyLISL: Traffic Balance Awared Routing for Large-scale Mixed-Reality Telepresence over Reconfigurable Mega-Constellation

    Ruoyi Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology), Jing Deng (Communication University of China), Qi Liu, Xinlei Xie (Beijing Institute of Technology), Qingyuan Gong (Fudan University), and Chao Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology)

     

    Towards Exploiting Stakeholder Resources for Data-Driven Resilient Hazard Management
    Xiaoming Fu, Tingting Yuan, Weijun Wang, Fabian Wölk (University of Göttingen), and Günter Strunz (German Aerospace Center)


    4:55 - 5:00 PM: Closing session

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Keynote

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    Bin Li

     

    Title: Wireless Networking for Personalized and Collaborative Virtual Reality

     

    Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) over wireless networks can provide an interactive and immersive experience for multiple users simultaneously and thus has many applications, especially in VR-based education/training. However, satisfactory personalized user experience in such wireless immersive services demands stringent performance requirements, including: (1) high-speed and high-resolution panoramic image rendering; (2) extremely low delay guarantees; and (3) seamless user experience. Besides the aforementioned requirements, collaborative user experience requires scalability of VR service. Existing VR systems heavily rely on various heuristic designs and do not efficiently exploit VR content commonality and its predictability, which impedes their large-scale deployment. In this talk, we will talk about our network algorithm design for providing both personalized and scalable collaborative VR experiences over wireless networks.

     

    Bio: Bin Li is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering and M.S. degree in Communication and Information Engineering from Xiamen University, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University (OSU). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Coordinated Science Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on the intersection of networking, machine learning, and system development, and their applications in networking for virtual/augmented reality, mobile edge computing, mobile crowd-learning, and Internet-of-Things (IoT). He received both the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Award in 2020.

     

    Submission

    Submission deadline: Mar 8, 2022 (extended)

    Notification due: Mar 31, 2022

    Final version due: May 6, 2022

    Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialmeta2022

     

     

    Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing original and unpublished research, not currently under review in other venues, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects of mobile computing, social networks, or the intersection of both. In particular, innovative, early-stage ideas and preliminary results are welcome. The length of the paper must be no more than 6 pages in the IEEE double-column format, including references. The first page must contain an abstract, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s). Each submission will receive at least three independent, blind peer reviews from the program committee. At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award. Outstanding papers will be recommended to IEEE/TUP Journal of Social Computing.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Organizers

    Steering Committee:

    Xiaoming Fu (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)

    Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 

    Vassilis Kostakos (University of Melbourne, Australia)

    Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

    Antonia Tulino (New York University, USA; University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

    Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

     

    TPC Co-chairs:

    Yang Chen (Fudan University, China)

    Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA)

     

    TPC Members(tentative):

    Felix Beierle (University of Würzburg, Germany)

    Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (University College Dublin, Ireland)

    Xiaonan Guo (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)

    Xiaowen Gong (Auburn University, USA)

    Sokol Kosta (Aalborg University, Denmark)

    Lik-Hang Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) 

    Bin Li (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

    Yupeng Li (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)

    Weixiong Rao (Tongji University, China)

    Xiang Su (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

    Chen Tian (Nanjing University, China)

    Shiqiang Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

    Xin Wu (Alibaba DAMO Academy, China)

    Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK)

    Xu Yuan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

    Huacheng Zeng (Michigan State University, USA)

    Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany) 

    Pengyuan Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

     

     

    Web Chair:​

    Min Gao (Fudan University, China)

     

     

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