Metaverse, Digital Twins, and Extended Reality

This page provides key resources on the research results developed by our group with respect to the metaverse, digital twins, and extended reality. 

Journals:

• 1. L. U. Khan, Z. Han, W. Saad, E. Hossain, M. Guizani, and C. S. Hong, "Digital Twin of Wireless Systems: Overview, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, to appear, 2022.

  2. C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Can Terahertz Provide High-Rate Reliable Low Latency Communications for Wireless VR?", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 9712 - 9729, June 2022.

  3. L. Khan, W. Saad, D. Niyato, Z. Han, and C. S. Hong, "Digital-Twin-Enabled 6G: Vision, Architectural Trends, and Future Directions", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 74 - 80, January 2022.

  4. X. Chen, A. T. Z. Kasgari, and W. Saad, "Deep Learning for Content-based Personalized Viewport Prediction of 360-Degree VR Videos", IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 81 - 84, June 2020.

  5. F. Hu, Y. Deng, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and H. Avghami, "Cellular-Connected Wireless Virtual Reality: Requirements, Challenges, and Solutions", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 105 - 111, May 2020.

  6. M. Chen, O. Semiari, W. Saad, X. Liu, and C. Yin, "Federated Echo State Learning for Minimizing Breaks in Presence in Wireless Virtual Reality Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 177-191, Jan. 2020.

  7. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Echo-Liquid State Deep Learning for 360∘ Content Transmission and Caching in Wireless VR Networks with Cellular-Connected UAVs", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 6386-6400, Sept. 2019.

  8. M. Chen, W. Saad, C. Yin, and M. Debbah, "Data Correlation-Aware Resource Management in Wireless Virtual Reality (VR): An Echo State Transfer Learning Approach", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 4267-4280, June 2019.

  9. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Virtual Reality over Wireless Networks: Quality-of-Service Model and Learning-Based Resource Management", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5621 - 5635, November 2018.

Conference Publications:

1. C. Kim, M. Chehimi, M. Jung, and W. Saad, "Real-time Task Scheduling for Digital Twin Edge Network"  in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), IoT and Sensor Networks, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2023.

2. M. Chehimi, O. Hashash, and W. Saad, "The Roadmap to a Quantum-Enabled Wireless Metaverse: Beyond the Classical Limits"  in Proc. of  the 2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA), Beirut, Lebanon, July 2023.

3. O. Hashash, C. Chaccour, W. Saad, K. Sakaguchi, and T. Yu, "Towards a Decentralized Metaverse: Synchronized Orchestration of Digital Twins and Sub-Metaverses", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Rome, Italy, May 2023. 

4. O. Hashash, C. Chaccour, and W. Saad, "Edge Continual Learning for Dynamic Digital Twins over Wireless Networks", in Proc. 23rd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Special Session on Intelligence and Processing at the Edge for Next Generation Networks, Oulu, Finland, June 2022.

5. Y. Wang, M. Chen, Z. Yang, W. Saad, T. Luo, H. V. Poor, and S. Cui, "Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Immersive Virtual Reality over THz/VLC Wireless Networks",  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 2021.

6. C. Chaccour and W. Saad, "On the Ruin of Age of Information in Augmented Reality over Wireless Terahertz (THz) Networks", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2020.

7. C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Risk-Based Optimization of Virtual Reality over Terahertz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.

8. M. Chen, O. Semiari, W. Saad, X. Liu, and C. Yin, "Federated Deep Learning for Immersive Virtual Reality over Wireless Networks",  in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.

9. C. Chaccour, R. Amer, B. Zhou, and W. Saad, "On the Reliability of Wireless Virtual Reality at Terahertz (THz) Frequencies", in Proc. of 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Mobility & Wireless Networks Track, Canary Islands, Spain, June 2019. Best Paper Award.

10. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Liquid State based Transfer Learning for 360 Image Transmission in Wireless VR Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, Shanghai, China, May 2019.

11. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Deep Learning for 360 Content Transmission in UAV-Enabled Virtual Reality", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Shanghai, China, May 2019.

12. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Echo State Learning for Wireless Virtual Reality Resource Allocation in UAV-enabled LTE-U Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cognitive Radio Networking Symposium, Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018.

13. M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Resource Management for Wireless Virtual Reality: Machine Learning Meets Multi-Attribute Utility", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Singapore, December 2017.

14. M. Chen, W. Saad, C. Yin, and M. Debbah, "Echo State Transfer Learning for Data Correlation Aware Resource Allocation in Wireless Virtual Reality", in Proc. of the 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 2017.