Real-Time Digital Twins: Vision and Research Directions for 6G and Beyond

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11283v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:16:14 GMT
• Title: Real-Time Digital Twins: Vision and Research Directions for 6G and Beyond
• Authors: Ahmed Alkhateeb, Shuaifeng Jiang, and Gouranga Charan
• Abstract summary: This article presents a vision where textitreal-time digital twins of the physical wireless environments are continuously updated using multi-modal sensing data. This vision is mainly enabled by the advances in precise 3D maps, multi-modal sensing, ray-tracing computations, and machine/deep learning.
• Score: 8.919072533905517
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This article presents a vision where \textit{real-time} digital twins of the physical wireless environments are continuously updated using multi-modal sensing data from the distributed infrastructure and user devices, and are used to make communication and sensing decisions. This vision is mainly enabled by the advances in precise 3D maps, multi-modal sensing, ray-tracing computations, and machine/deep learning. This article details this vision, explains the different approaches for constructing and utilizing these real-time digital twins, discusses the applications and open problems, and presents a research platform that can be used to investigate various digital twin research directions.

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