Metaverse for wireless systems: Architecture, advances, standardization, and open challenges

The growing landscape of emerging wireless applications is a key driver towards the development of novel wireless system designs. Such a design can be based on a metaverse that uses a virtual model of the physical world system along with other schemes/technologies (e.g., optimization theory, machine learning, and blockchain). A metaverse using a virtual model performs proactive intelligent analytics prior to a user request for analysis and efficient management of the wireless system resources. A metaverse also enables self-sustainability in wireless systems that leads to the least possible intervention from network operators for its operation. Although the metaverse can offer many benefits, it faces some challenges as well. Therefore, in this tutorial, we discuss the role of a metaverse in enabling wireless applications. We present an overview, key enablers, design aspects (i.e., metaverse for wireless and wireless for metaverse), and high-level architecture of metaverse-based wireless systems. Then, we discuss network management, reliability, and security of the metaverse-based system. Finally, we outline open challenges and present possible solutions.