TWIST: Closed-Loop token Synchronization for Application-Aware Wireless Digital Twins

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27205v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 15:59:47 GMT
• Title: TWIST: Closed-Loop token Synchronization for Application-Aware Wireless Digital Twins
• Abstract summary: TWIST represents each physical observation as a token and synchronizes this state over a wireless link.<n>Experiments on a dynamic road-scene digital-twin scenario show that TWIST improves traffic-state inference and semantic twin-state synchronization.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Wireless digital twins require repeated synchronization between a time-evolving physical scene and its digital counterpart under limited and time-varying communication resources. For perception-centric twins, pixel-domain transmission or uniformly protected bitstreams can be mismatched to the semantic state consumed by twin-side applications. This paper proposes TWIST, a closed-loop token synchronization framework for application-aware wireless digital twins. TWIST represents each physical observation as a token and synchronizes this state over a wireless link, rather than optimizing visual reconstruction. Token positions are grouped by task relevance and protected through mode-conditioned unequal error protection under low-, medium-, and high-synchronization modes. At the twin side, decoding confidence converts unreliable hard token decisions into erasures, which are restored by a completion model before updating the semantic twin state. The recovered state supports traffic-state inference and generates compact feedback statistics, including channel quality, receiver uncertainty, semantic drift, and application priority, for subsequent mode adaptation. Experiments on a dynamic road-scene digital-twin scenario show that TWIST improves traffic-state inference and semantic twin-state synchronization compared with fixed-mode and channel-only adaptation strategies, while reducing the average synchronization cost relative to always-high transmission.

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