Stochastic Resource Optimization for Metaverse Data Marketplace by Leveraging Quantum Neural Networks
Mahzabeen Emu, Salimur Choudhury, Kai Salomaa · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 2024
Metaverse can unleash the potentials of Internet of Sense (IoS) communication by intertwining objects and environment between physical world and parallel virtual world. In order to digitally experience smell or taste and navigate effortlessly in virtual reality, optimal resource allocation to strengthen sensing data based infrastructure system is a critical research challenge. The Metaverse Infrastructure Service Providers (MISPs) tap into data marketplace and subscribe to resources in advance for fulfilling the needs of data consumers and users. The demand of the data based services being uncertain, non-optimal subscription schemes may lead to unwanted resource wastage or shortage. Thus, we propose a Stochastic Integer Programming (SIP) model with two phase reservation and on-demand plans for optimal resource allocation in data marketplace. Further along this line, we strive to predict the demand by leveraging Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) that is able to learn with fewer historical data in comparison to classical machine/deep learning paradigms. Extensive simulation results justify that QNN as a supporting model can significantly reduce the computational complexities of SIP formulation. This research can contribute to reduce Metaverse resource fabrication costs, upgrade the profit margin for MISPs by increasing data based service sales revenue, provide real-time resource management decisions, and overall make real impacts in the virtual world.