Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully
immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to …

Envisioned to be the next-generation Internet, the metaverse has been attracting enormous
attention from both the academia and industry. The metaverse can be viewed as a 3D …

Blockchain is a technology that has desirable features of decentralization, autonomy,
integrity, immutability, verification, fault-tolerance, anonymity, auditability, and transparency …

Industry 4.0 focuses on the realization of smart manufacturing based on cyber-physical
systems (CPS). However, emerging Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 reaches beyond CPS and …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is an ever-expanding ecosystem that integrates software,
hardware, physical objects, and computing devices to communicate, collect, and exchange …

With the development of communication and networking technologies, the Internet of
Vehicles (IoV) has become the foundation of smart transportation. The development of …

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that is making a great impact on modern society
due to its transparency, decentralization, and security properties. Blockchain gained …

Nowadays, many disruptive Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications emerge, such as
augmented/virtual reality online games, autonomous driving, and smart everything, which …

Today's healthcare data management systems are facing key challenges in terms of data
transparency, traceability, immutability, audit, data provenance, flexible access, trust …

The next-generation blockchain ecosystem is expected to integrate both homogeneous and
heterogeneous distributed ledgers. These systems require operations across multiple …