Ubiquitous extended reality environments such as the Metaverse will have a significant impact on the Internet, which will evolve to interconnect a large number of mixed reality spaces. Currently, Metaverse development is related to the creation of mixed reality environments, not tackling the required networking functionalities. This article analyzes suitable networking design choices to support the Metaverse, proposing a new service-centric networking approach capable of incorporating low-latency data fetching, distributed computing, and fusion of heterogeneous data types over the Cloud-to-Thing continuum.

翻译：无处不在的扩展现实环境（如元宇宙）将对互联网产生深远影响，使其演变为连接大量混合现实空间的网络。当前，元宇宙的发展侧重于混合现实环境的构建，而未涉及所需的网络功能。本文分析了支持元宇宙的合适网络设计选择，提出了一种以服务为中心的新型网络方案，该方案能够在云-物连续体中实现低延迟数据获取、分布式计算以及异构数据类型的融合。