@inproceedings{1e71c2f463104acab64f6df256b8123b,
title = "Digital Twins for Smart Cities: Benefits, Enabling Technologies, Applications, and Challenges",
abstract = "Digital twins have immense potential to enhance the planning, management, and optimization of smart cities across diverse domains. A digital twin represents a real-world physical component through an integrated multiphysics, multiscale, and probabilistic simulation. By leveraging digital twins, smart cities can visualize designs in 3D, conduct virtual tests and simulations, and facilitate configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics. Consequently, digital twins can contribute significantly to the development, sustainability, and maintenance of smart cities. In this paper, we explore the potential of digital twins in shaping smart cities to the next level. We highlight some key benefits associated with the adoption of digital twins in smart city contexts. We discuss the networking and communication technologies that provide connectivity support for digital twins. Furthermore, we provide insightful discussions on the role of digital twins in various domains of smart cities. Finally, we present some open challenges along with recommendations.",
keywords = "Communication, Digital twins, Internet of Things, Networking, Smart City",
author = "Ibrar Yaqoob and Khaled Salah and Khan, {Latif U.} and Raja Jayaraman and Ala Al-Fuqaha and Mohammed Omar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 6th IEEE Future Networks World Forum, FNWF 2023 ; Conference date: 13-11-2023 Through 15-11-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/FNWF58287.2023.10520349",
language = "British English",
series = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum: Future Networks: Imagining the Network of the Future, FNWF 2023",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum",
address = "United States",
}
