MetaCom 2025 (International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications) is an academic conference held in Seoul, South Korea on 2025-08-27. The paper submission deadline is 2025-03-19. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2025-06-20.
IEEE MetaCom 2025 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progress, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for the Metaverse.
Scope and Objectives
The Metaverse, an immersive space supported by AR/VR/XR technologies that integrate pervasive computing, augmented reality, and virtualization, is one of the key enablers for the future society and an extension of today's Internet of Things. It is envisioned to bring a revolution to the digital world that spans areas from retail to defense, and from education to virtual tourism. In the Metaverse, the physical world will be seamlessly integrated with a cyber world through digitized physical objects (digital twins), posing numerous challenges in human-machine interface design, ultra-low latency communication, distributed synchronization, scalable real-time operation, reliability and trustworthiness. New multimodal content will be generated, calling for technologies for content authorship, capture, and multimodal search. Generative AI will be used to enhance virtual experiences that integrate physical and cyber components. The integration will endow objects with new virtual capabilities, allow virtual transformation in space and in time, and enable myriads of new services leveraging the combined affordances of pervasive computing and virtual environments. To realize this vision, a convergence of novel computing, networking, and application technologies is needed to support the development and use of Metaverse affordances in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture.
IEEE MetaCom 2025 solicits original submissions from academia, industry, and government on research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, and corresponding systems and applications. Topics of interest are covered by the following tracks.
Track 1: Metaverse Computing, Architectures, and Applications
Metaverse architectural and system design
Digital twin modeling and rendering
Animations and physical world simulations
Model evolution, composition and library
Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality
Holographic applications
Design and implementation of Metaverse applications
Measurement studies of real-world platforms
Metaverse scalability and interoperability
Computational offloading in the Metaverse
Metaverse data streaming and storage
Track 2: Networking and Communications
Network architectures and design principles for metaverse
Routing metrics and algorithms
Rendezvous services for metaverse
Resource control and allocation
Network management
Interactions between cyber and physical spaces
Data center communications for metaverse
Decentralized communications for metaverse
Ultra-low-time communications for metaverse
Green communications for metaverse
B5G/6G for metaverse applications
Track 3: AI for the Metaverse
Distributed AI/ML for Metaverse resource management and applications
Deep reinforcement learning for the Metaverse
Federated Learning for the Metaverse
Distributed model inference for the Metaverse
Large language models for the Metaverse
Stable diffusion models for the Metaverse
Graph neural networks for the Metaverse
Vision tasks in the Metaverse
Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0
Zero-trust architecture and protocol design for blockchain and web3.0
Incentive and consensus mechanisms for blockchain and web3.0
Identity Management System for blockchain and web3.0
Distributed storage, identifiers, and data verification in blockchain and web3.0
Fundamental limits and theoretical guidance for blockchain and web3.0
Emerging technologies for blockchain and web3.0
Hardware and infrastructure implementation for blockchain and web3.0
Smart contract and chain code
NFT applications and protocols
Semantic computing and services in blockchain and web3.0
Blockchain and web3.0 applications
Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust
Security, privacy, and/or trust frameworks for metaverse
Secure protocols for dynamic IoT networks and metaverse
Privacy mitigation techniques for IoT-enabled extended reality for metaverse
Secure data sharing and integration mechanisms across extended IoT networks for metaverse
Trust issues to address AI/ML techniques in metaverse
Security, privacy, and trust in the context of the metaverse
New cryptographic technologies for metaverse
Data security and governance
Privacy-preserving technologies
Policy and regulation compliance
Trust management framework
ID management, authentication, and authorization
Accountability for metaverse
Zero-knowledge proof for metaverse
Zero-trust architecture for metaverse
Track 6: Testbeds, Experiments, Use-Cases, and Evaluation
Theoretical investigations on metaverse
Optimization, game theory, incentive designs
AI (e.g., machine/deep learning) experiments for metaverse
Simulators, testbeds, prototypes
Implementations, and field experiments
Verification of the existing knowledge
Performance evaluation and modeling
Quality of service and quality of experience
Standardizations for metaverse