The Roadmap to a Quantum-Enabled Wireless Metaverse: Beyond the Classical Limits
The Roadmap to a Quantum-Enabled Wireless Metaverse: Beyond the Classical Limits
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10.1109/actea58025.2023.10194017
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2023-07
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Mahdi Chehimi;Omar Hashash;Walid Saad
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作者：
Mahdi Chehimi;Omar Hashash;Walid Saad
虚拟宇宙与现实世界相交，为下一代网络的无线应用建立了一个新时代。然而，这些应用程序面临着一系列挑战，可能会阻碍它们的出现。特别是，这些应用程序本质上受到经典网络和终端设备相关的深刻通信和计算限制。因此，为了获得完整的虚拟宇宙体验，需要实现重大飞跃，推动虚拟宇宙脱离通信、计算和人工智能（AI）的经典范式。在本文中，我们揭示了量子技术的潜力和最新进展，这些技术可以推动虚拟宇宙超越经典边界。特别是，随着多功能量子流的重大突破，我们利用量子通信、计算、传感和人工智能工具，为突破性版本的元宇宙应用程序的出现铺平道路。为此，我们从各个方面、组成部分和持续存在的挑战方面对元宇宙进行了概述。然后，我们进一步详细阐述了可以改变不同元宇宙操作级别（例如数字孪生、扩展现实等）的适用量子工具（例如量子联邦学习、量子密钥分发等）。最后，我们提出了一系列开放挑战和未来的研究方向，这些挑战和未来的研究方向是在未来元宇宙应用中采用量子技术时出现的。
The metaverse intersects with the real world to establish a new era for wireless applications over next generation networks. Nevertheless, these applications are accompanied with a spate of challenges that can hinder their anticipated emergence. In particular, these applications are essentially capped with the profound communication and computing limits pertained by classical networks and end devices. Hence, to reap the full metaverse experience, a major leap that propels the metaverse apart from the classical paradigm of communication, computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) is demanded. In this paper, we shed light on the potential and recent advancements of quantum technologies that can drive the metaverse beyond the classical boundaries. In particular, with the substantial breakthrough witnessed in the versatile quantum streams, we leverage the quantum communication, computing, sensing, and AI tools that can pave the way for a groundbreaking version of metaverse applications to emerge. Up to this end, we present an overview of the metaverse in terms of its aspects, components, and persisting challenges. Then, we elaborate further on the applicable quantum tools (e.g., quantum federated learning, quantum key distribution, etc.) that can transform the different metaverse operational levels (e.g., digital twins, extended reality, etc). Finally, we present a set of open challenges and future research directions that arise along the lines of adopting quantum technologies for future metaverse applications.