Semantic-Aware Architecture Design for a Lifelong Swarm Metaverse

As the Metaverse evolves with developments in AI, semantic communication, edge computing, and blockchain, it encounters challenges in adapting to dynamic environments and meeting rising communication and computation needs. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware UAV-based architecture tailored to the dynamic Metaverse that leverages UAV swarms consisting of a collection UAV and edge UAV servers. By mapping different semantic features of Metaverse environments, such as amount of tasks, arrival rate, throughput, and latency requirements, we jointly optimize the mobility, task allocation, and resource allocation in a dynamic Metaverse system. First, a particle swarm optimization-based collection-edge mobility algorithm (PSO-CEMA) is designed to optimize the mobility of UAV servers. Second, to facilitate timely and stable task allocation with reduced complexity, we propose a dual-queue system and a Lyapunov drift function-based dynamic programming task allocation algorithm (LDF-DPTAA). Then, we adopt lifelong learning and design a collection-edge joint training and processing algorithm (LL-CJTPA) to optimize the dynamic allocation of computational resources in the swarm. Finally, we integrate our algorithms into a PSO-LDF-LL algorithm to serve the dynamic Metaverse system. Simulation results show that our approach effectively optimizes UAV servers’ positions and task allocation, significantly reduces the training time when facing new tasks, and enhances the stability and efficiency of the network in dynamic settings while reducing congestion.