Digital Twin Technology in Wireless Communication: A Comprehensive Engineering Survey

IF 8.9 1区计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

IEEE Internet of Things Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3565843

Munish Bhatia;Rohit Kumar

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Abstract

The Digital Twin (DT) technology is essential as it facilitates the creation of a virtual representation of physical objects. The evolution of wireless communication technologies (WCT) has been significantly influenced by the emergence of DT technology, resulting in transformative changes across various engineering fields. Therefore, it is essential to conduct an investigation and promote advancements through rigorous scientific analysis to address the global significance, relevance, and rapid growth of the technology. The current study employs the VOSviewer and CiteSpace visualization tools to illustrate the knowledge mapping of the rapidly advancing research in DT technology. The data which is used in the research is extracted from the Scopus database which covers the years 2017 to 2025. It offers insights through document co-citation analysis, country collaboration network analysis, and Institution Analysis to identify emerging research areas. The findings highlight the current state of DT technology in WCT in the various engineering fields and identify potential research areas.

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无线通信中的数字孪生技术：综合工程综述

数字孪生（DT）技术是必不可少的，因为它有助于创建物理对象的虚拟表示。无线通信技术（WCT）的发展受到了DT技术出现的重大影响，导致了各个工程领域的变革。因此，有必要进行调查，并通过严格的科学分析来促进进步，以解决该技术的全球意义、相关性和快速增长。目前的研究使用VOSviewer和CiteSpace可视化工具来说明快速发展的DT技术研究的知识图谱。研究中使用的数据摘自Scopus数据库，涵盖2017年至2025年。它通过文献共引分析、国家合作网络分析和机构分析提供见解，以确定新兴研究领域。研究结果突出了WCT中DT技术在各个工程领域的现状，并确定了潜在的研究领域。

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IEEE Internet of Things Journal Computer Science-Information Systems

CiteScore

17.60

自引率

13.20%

发文量

1982

期刊介绍： The EEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal publishes articles and review articles covering various aspects of IoT, including IoT system architecture, IoT enabling technologies, IoT communication and networking protocols such as network coding, and IoT services and applications. Topics encompass IoT's impacts on sensor technologies, big data management, and future internet design for applications like smart cities and smart homes. Fields of interest include IoT architecture such as things-centric, data-centric, service-oriented IoT architecture; IoT enabling technologies and systematic integration such as sensor technologies, big sensor data management, and future Internet design for IoT; IoT services, applications, and test-beds such as IoT service middleware, IoT application programming interface (API), IoT application design, and IoT trials/experiments; IoT standardization activities and technology development in different standard development organizations (SDO) such as IEEE, IETF, ITU, 3GPP, ETSI, etc.