How to synchronize Digital Twins? A Communication Performance Analysis
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| author | Cakir, Lal Verda Al-Shareeda, Sarah Oktug, Sema F. Özdem, Mehmet Broadbent, Matthew Canberk, Berk |
| author_facet | Cakir, Lal Verda Al-Shareeda, Sarah Oktug, Sema F. Özdem, Mehmet Broadbent, Matthew Canberk, Berk |
| contents | Synchronization is fundamental for mirroring real-world entities in real-time and supporting effective operations of Digital Twins (DTs). Such synchronization is enabled by the communication between the physical and virtual realms, and it is mostly assumed to occur in real-time. However, this is not the case, as real-life scenarios witness performance degradation that may lead to synchronization problems. Hence, as such a problem has yet to be thoroughly analyzed in the literature, this work attempts to uncover potential challenges by emulating and analyzing the DT traffic flows in networks of different scales, for different communication protocols, and with various flow configurations. We propose a Twin Alignment Ratio metric to evaluate the synchronization performance to achieve this goal. Consequently, the findings reveal the interplay of network infrastructure, protocol selection, and twinning rate on synchronization and performance. |
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| spellingShingle | How to synchronize Digital Twins? A Communication Performance Analysis Cakir, Lal Verda Al-Shareeda, Sarah Oktug, Sema F. Özdem, Mehmet Broadbent, Matthew Canberk, Berk Networking and Internet Architecture Synchronization is fundamental for mirroring real-world entities in real-time and supporting effective operations of Digital Twins (DTs). Such synchronization is enabled by the communication between the physical and virtual realms, and it is mostly assumed to occur in real-time. However, this is not the case, as real-life scenarios witness performance degradation that may lead to synchronization problems. Hence, as such a problem has yet to be thoroughly analyzed in the literature, this work attempts to uncover potential challenges by emulating and analyzing the DT traffic flows in networks of different scales, for different communication protocols, and with various flow configurations. We propose a Twin Alignment Ratio metric to evaluate the synchronization performance to achieve this goal. Consequently, the findings reveal the interplay of network infrastructure, protocol selection, and twinning rate on synchronization and performance. |
| title | How to synchronize Digital Twins? A Communication Performance Analysis |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05587 |