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<b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;margin:0px">Call for Papers MetaNC Workshop 2023 in Conjunction with IEEE ICC</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">1<sup class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">st</sup> Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking and Computing (MetaNC 2023), May 28-June
01, 2023, Rome, Italy</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I have great pleasure in inviting you to submit your work to the IEEE ICC - Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking and Computing (MetaNC
2023) to be held at the Roma Convention Center La Nuvola in Rome, Italy, from 28 May – 1 June 2023. </span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">In the attempt to address networking and computing issues that contemporary, as well as futuristic Metaverse applications, may confront, the research contributions are welcome
in all areas pertinent to Metaverse-based networking and computing. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Workshop paper submission deadline: 20 January 2023</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Workshop paper decision date: 06 March 2023</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Camera-ready due: 15 April 2023</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Scope</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Metaverse, a reality-virtuality continuum, is blending physical and digital worlds, creating theoretically unlimited virtual environments
with geographically distributed end-users who interact using digital avatars and experience heterogenous activities in real-time. The immersive experience in Metaverse is revolutionizing various industries, paving the way for the realization of virtual remote
environments, in turn enabling real-time interactions amongst geographically distributed users around the globe. The realization of the Metaverse is facilitated by the convergence of various technologies, including image processing and computer vision to create
the virtual environment inside the Metaverse. The network protocols, and edge computing techniques, on the other hand, enable a real-time immersive experience using dedicated network paths and proximate computations from outside; thus, certainly signifying
the Metaverse reliance on pervasive network access and efficient computing technique. However, traditional networking solutions, and edge computing techniques—in the context of enabling dedicated network paths for seamless multimedia communication, computations
offloading and execution—are incapable of delivering the real-time experience owing to considerable latency incurred by the in-efficient network protocol design, and limited edge computing capabilities.</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">The “Metaverse-based Networking and Computing” (MetaNC) workshop aims at presenting the latest advances in networking for instance the
emergence of New-IP/future vertical communication networks (FVCN) in conjunction with information-centric networking (ICN), and edge and fog computing integration to enable distributed proximate computations offloading which have the potential to resolve the
Metaverse challenges presented above.</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Topics of Interest</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">We seek original completed and unpublished work not currently
under review by any other journal/ magazine/conference. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Collaborative content-sharing network protocols for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Metaverse-based customized network protocol design</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Proximate computation offloading techniques for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Latency reduction techniques for Metaverse applications</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Integration of edge and fog computing for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Information-centric Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-New IP / future vertical communication networks for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Protocol design for distributed edge and fog computing
for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Microservices architectural requirements & design implementation
for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Resource orchestration in Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Distributed resource allocation in Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Intelligent networking for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Distributed microservices deployment models for the heterogeneous
compute nodes in Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Secure and reliable communications for Metaverse</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Keynote Speaker</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">--Speaker: Professor Haris Gačanin (IEEE F’20) , RWTH
Aachen University </span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">--Title: Metaverse-ready wireless communications and computing
systems</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">**Workshop General Co-Chairs**</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Muhammad <span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Atif</span> Ur <span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Rehman</span> (</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="mailto:m.atif.ur.rehman@mmu.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">m.</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">atif</span></span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">.ur.<span style="margin:0px">rehman</span>@mmu.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> ),
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Pietro Manzoni (</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="mailto:pmanzoni@disca.upv.es" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">pmanzoni@disca.upv.es</span></a></span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> ), Universitat
Politècnica de València Camino de Vera, Valencia, Spain</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Spyridon Mastorakis (</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="mailto:smastorakis@unomaha.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">smastorakis@unomaha.edu</span></a></span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> ),
University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">TPC Co-Chairs</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Susmit Shannigrahi, Tennessee Tech, USA</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Rehmat Ullah, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Ali Kashif Bashir, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Publicity Co-Chairs</span></b><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Inam Ullah Khan, King's College London, UK</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Muhammad Salahuddin, Hongik University, South Korea</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">-Md Washik Al Azad, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;line-height:11.65pt"><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Workshop paper submission deadline: 20 January 2023</span><span lang="en-GB" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"> </span></p>
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