[Ndn-interest] Reminder: Submission Deadline for DORM Workshop at Metacom 2023 is March 20

[David R. Oran]

https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/workshop-DORM.php

IEEE MetaCom Workshop on Decentralized, Data-Oriented Networking for the Metaverse (DORM)

Call for Papers
The Decentralized Data-Oriented Networking for the Metaverse (DORM) workshop is intended as a forum to explore new directions and early research results on the system architecture, protocols, and security to support Metaverse applications, focusing on data-oriented, decentralized system designs. We view Metaverse as a new phase of networking with multi-dimensional shared views in open realms.

Most Metaverse systems today replicate the social media platform model, i.e., they assume a cloud platform provider-based system architecture where identities and the trust among them is anchored via a centralized administrative structure and where communication is mediated through servers and an extensive CDN overlay infrastructure operated by that administration. The centralization that stems from this approach can be problematic both from a control and from a performance & efficiency perspective. Despite operating on named data principles conceptually, such systems typically exhibit traditional layering approaches that prohibit new ways of interacting (leveraging new data formats such as USD and gITF) and that are not conducive for flexible distributed computing in the edge-to-cloud continuum.

This workshop solicits work that takes a principled approach at key research topics in the areas of 1) Networking as the Platform, 2) Objects and Experiences, and 3) Trust and Transactions without being constrained by inherited platform designs.

Distributed Metaverse architectures
Computing in the network as an integral component for better communication and interaction support
Application-layer protocols for a rich set of interaction styles in open realms
Supporting Metaverse via data-oriented techniques
Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Metaverse systems
New concepts for improved network support for Metaverse systems, e.g., through facilitating ubiquitous multipath forwarding and multi-destination delivery
Cross-layer designs
Emerging scene description and media formats
Quality of Experience for Metaverse applications
Distributed consensus and state synchronization
Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Metaverse systems
Given the breadth and emerging nature of the field, all papers should include the articulation of a specific vision of Metaverse that provides clarifying assumptions for the technical content.

Submissions and Formatting
The workshop invites submission of manuscripts with early and original research results that have not been previously published or posted on public websites or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be no longer than 6 pages without references. Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors’ names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MetaCom 2023 Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.

Manuscript templates can be found here. All submissions to IEEE MetaCom 2023 must be uploaded to EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023.

Organization Committee
Jeff Burke, UCLA
Dirk Kutscher, HKUST(GZ)
Dave Oran, Network Systems Research & Design
Lixia Zhang, UCLA
Technical Program Committee
Alex Afanasyev, Florida International University
Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT
Ali Begen, Ozyegin University
Taejoong Chung, Virginia Tech
Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University Paris
Carlos Guimarães, ZettaScale Technology SARL
Peter Gusav, UCLA
Toru Hasagawa, Osaka University
Jungha Hong, ETRI
Kenji Kanai, Waseda University
Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University
Spyridon Mastorakis, University of Nebraska Omaha
Kazuhisa Matsuzono, NICT
Marie-Jose Montpetit, Concordia University Montreal
Jörg Ott, Technical University Munich
Yiannis Psarras, Protocol Labs
Eve Schooler, Intel
Tian Song, Beijing Institute of Technology
Kazuaki Ueda, KDDI Research
Cedric Westphal, Futurewei
Edmund Yeh, Northeastern University
Jiadong Yu, HKUST(GZ)
Yu Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology
Important Dates
March 20, 2023, Paper submission deadline
April 20, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance
May 10, 2023, Camera-ready paper submissions
Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023