Green Technologies for the Sustainable Metaverse and Web 3.0

• Published in: IEEE wireless communications Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 74 - 75
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiaofei, Bennis, Mehdi, Wang, Ping, Yu, Rong, Bryan Lim, Wei Yang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01-10-2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Augmented reality; Clean technology; Communications traffic; Densification; Green products; Internet; Metaverse; Network latency; Semantic Web; Special issues and sections; Sustainable development; User generated content; Virtual reality
• ISSN: 1536-1284; 1558-0687
• DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2023.10325448

The concepts of Metaverse and Web 3.0 have surged in popularity, heralded as the "successor to the mobile Internet." Web 3.0 represents a transformative shift in the Internet landscape, emphasizing user-centric decentralization. These core principles of Web 3.0 find their fullest realization in the Metaverse, which represents the next evolutionary stage of the Internet. The Metaverse envisions a seamless and interoperable fusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven virtual worlds, enriched by user-generated content (UGC), and accessible through virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies. However, the around-the-clock maintenance of the Metaverse will require intensive computation load and heavy data traffic. Therefore, network densification must continually increase while adhering to stringent data rate and latency constraints, as well as the extreme bandwidth demands imposed by Metaverse applications. Under these circumstances, it becomes imperative to explore green technologies as a means to realize the sustainable development of the Metaverse. In this Special Issue, we have received a large number of submissions, and after rounds of careful reviews, we chose 10 papers for publication after a thorough revision process by at least two independent referees.