MetaFed: Advancing Privacy, Performance, and Sustainability in Federated Metaverse Systems

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Main Authors: Yagiz, Muhammet Anil, Cengiz, Zeynep Sude, Goktas, Polat
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Published: 2025
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author Yagiz, Muhammet Anil
Cengiz, Zeynep Sude
Goktas, Polat
author_facet Yagiz, Muhammet Anil
Cengiz, Zeynep Sude
Goktas, Polat
contents The rapid expansion of immersive Metaverse applications introduces complex challenges at the intersection of performance, privacy, and environmental sustainability. Centralized architectures fall short in addressing these demands, often resulting in elevated energy consumption, latency, and privacy concerns. This paper proposes MetaFed, a decentralized federated learning (FL) framework that enables sustainable and intelligent resource orchestration for Metaverse environments. MetaFed integrates (i) multi-agent reinforcement learning for dynamic client selection, (ii) privacy-preserving FL using homomorphic encryption, and (iii) carbon-aware scheduling aligned with renewable energy availability. Evaluations on MNIST and CIFAR-10 using lightweight ResNet architectures demonstrate that MetaFed achieves up to 25% reduction in carbon emissions compared to conventional approaches, while maintaining high accuracy and minimal communication overhead. These results highlight MetaFed as a scalable solution for building environmentally responsible and privacy-compliant Metaverse infrastructures.
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spellingShingle MetaFed: Advancing Privacy, Performance, and Sustainability in Federated Metaverse Systems
Yagiz, Muhammet Anil
Cengiz, Zeynep Sude
Goktas, Polat
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Emerging Technologies
The rapid expansion of immersive Metaverse applications introduces complex challenges at the intersection of performance, privacy, and environmental sustainability. Centralized architectures fall short in addressing these demands, often resulting in elevated energy consumption, latency, and privacy concerns. This paper proposes MetaFed, a decentralized federated learning (FL) framework that enables sustainable and intelligent resource orchestration for Metaverse environments. MetaFed integrates (i) multi-agent reinforcement learning for dynamic client selection, (ii) privacy-preserving FL using homomorphic encryption, and (iii) carbon-aware scheduling aligned with renewable energy availability. Evaluations on MNIST and CIFAR-10 using lightweight ResNet architectures demonstrate that MetaFed achieves up to 25% reduction in carbon emissions compared to conventional approaches, while maintaining high accuracy and minimal communication overhead. These results highlight MetaFed as a scalable solution for building environmentally responsible and privacy-compliant Metaverse infrastructures.
title MetaFed: Advancing Privacy, Performance, and Sustainability in Federated Metaverse Systems
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17341