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Digital twins (DT) are often defined as a pairing of a physical entity and a corresponding virtual entity (VE), mimicking certain aspects of the former depending on the use-case. In recent years, this concept has facilitated numerous…

Future wireless services must be focused on improving the quality of life by enabling various applications, such as extended reality, brain-computer interaction, and healthcare. These applications have diverse performance requirements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Latif U. Khan , Zhu Han , Walid Saad , Ekram Hossain , Mohsen Guizani , Choong Seon Hong

Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly deployed across application domains, yet the treatment of trust-related issues remains unevenly addressed. To examine whether and how trust is discussed in the current landscape, we conducted a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chi Fai David Lam , Aad van Moorsel , Zoya Pourmirza

The Metaverse has emerged to extend our lifestyle beyond physical limitations. As essential components in the Metaverse, digital twins (DTs) are the real-time digital replicas of physical items. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) provides…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Jiadong Yu , Ahmad Alhilal , Pan Hui , Danny H. K. Tsang

Digital twin (DT) systems aim to create virtual replicas of physical objects that are updated in real time with their physical counterparts and evolve alongside the physical assets throughout its lifecycle. Transportation systems are poised…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Muhammad Sami Irfan , Sagar Dasgupta , Mizanur Rahman

Despite the Digital Twin (DT) concept being in the industry for a long time, it remains ambiguous, unable to differentiate itself from information models, general computing, and simulation technologies. Part of this confusion stems from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ashwin Agrawal , Vishal Singh , Martin Fischer

Digital twin (DT) is one of the most promising enabling technologies for realizing smart grids. Characterized by seamless and active---data-driven, real-time, and closed-loop---integration between digital and physical spaces, a DT is much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Xing He , Qian Ai , Robert C. Qiu , Dongxia Zhang

The metaverse, i.e., the collection of technologies that provide a virtual twin of the real world via mixed reality, internet of things, and others, is gaining prominence. However, the metaverse faces challenges as it grows toward…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jie Guan , Alexis Morris , Jay Irizawa

Digital network twins (DNTs), by representing a physical network using a virtual model, offer significant benefits such as streamlined network development, enhanced productivity, and cost reduction for next-generation (nextG) communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zifan Zhang , Zhiyuan Peng , Hanzhi Yu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

Background. Digital Twins (DTs) are dynamic virtual representations of physical systems, enabled by seamless, bidirectional communication between the physical and digital realms. Among the challenges impeding the widespread adoption of DTs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alessandra Somma , Domenico Amalfitano , Alessandra De Benedictis , Patrizio Pelliccione

The rise of the industrial metaverse has brought digital twins (DTs) to the forefront. Blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer a decentralized approach to creating and owning these cloneable DTs. However, the potential for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ravi Prakash , Tony Thomas

Digital Twin technology is being envisioned to be an integral part of the industrial evolution in modern generation. With the rapid advancement in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology and increasing trend of automation, integration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sabur Baidya , Sumit K. Das , Mohammad Helal Uddin , Chase Kosek , Chris Summers

Recently, the concept of digital twins (DTs) has received significant attention within the realm of 5G/6G. This demonstration shows an innovative DT design and implementation framework tailored toward integration within the 5G…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Peizheng Li , Adnan Aijaz , Tim Farnham , Sajida Gufran , Sita Chintalapati

Accommodating digital twins (DTs) in the metaverse is essential to achieving digital reality. This need for integrating DTs into the metaverse while operating them at the network edge has increased the demand for a decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Omar Hashash , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Optical communication is developing rapidly in the directions of hardware resource diversification, transmission system flexibility, and network function virtualization. Its proliferation poses a significant challenge to traditional optical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Danshi Wang , Zhiguo Zhang , Min Zhang , Meixia Fu , Jin Li , Shanyong Cai , Chunyu Zhang , Xue Chen

Urban traffic attributed to commercial and industrial transportation is observed to largely affect living standards in cities due to external effects pertaining to pollution and congestion. In order to counter this, smart cities deploy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Abdo Abouelrous , Laurens Bliek , Yingqian Zhang

A Digital Twin (DT) is a virtual replica of a physical object or system, created to monitor, analyze, and optimize its behavior and characteristics. A Spatial Digital Twin (SDT) is a specific type of digital twin that emphasizes the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mohammed Eunus Ali , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , Tanzima Hashem , Anwaar Ulhaq , Muhammad Ali Babar

The term "digital twin" (DT) has become a key theme of the cyber-physical systems (CPSs) area, while remaining vaguely defined as a virtual replica of an entity. This article identifies DT characteristics essential for enhancing CPS…

Human Digital Twins (HDTs) are a fast-emerging technology with significant potential in fields ranging from healthcare to sports. HDTs extend the traditional understanding of Digital Twins by representing humans as the underlying physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Martin Wolfgang Lauer-Schmaltz , Philip Cash , John Paulin Hansen , Anja Maier

Digital twin (DT) technologies have emerged as a solution for real-time data-driven modeling of cyber physical systems (CPS) using the vast amount of data available by Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this position paper, we elucidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jithin Jagannath , Keyvan Ramezanpour , Anu Jagannath