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D2EcoSys: Decentralized Digital Twin EcoSystem Empower Co-Creation City-Level Digital Twins

Kenji KANAI, Hidehiro KANEMITSU, Taku YAMAZAKI, Shintaro MORI, Aram MINE, Sumiko MIYATA, Hironobu IMAMURA, Hidenori NAKAZATO

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A city-level digital twin is a critical enabling technology to construct a smart city that helps improve citizens' living conditions and quality of life. Currently, research and development regarding the digital replica city are pursued worldwide. However, many research projects only focus on creating the 3D city model. A mechanism to involve key players, such as data providers, service providers, and application developers, is essential for constructing the digital replica city and producing various city applications. Based on this motivation, the authors of this paper are pursuing a research project, namely Decentralized Digital Twin EcoSystem (D2EcoSys), to create an ecosystem to advance (and self-grow) the digital replica city regarding time and space directions, city services, and values. This paper introduces an overview of the D2EcoSys project: vision, problem statement, and approach. In addition, the paper discusses the recent research results regarding networking technologies and demonstrates an early testbed built in the Kashiwa-no-ha smart city.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E107-B No.1 pp.50-62
Publication Date
2024/01/01
Publicized
2023/10/26
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2023WWI0001
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Wired-and-Wireless Network System Technologies in Beyond 5G/6G)
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Authors

Kenji KANAI
  The University of Tokyo,Waseda University
Hidehiro KANEMITSU
  Tokyo University of Technology
Taku YAMAZAKI
  Shibaura Institute of Technology
Shintaro MORI
  Fukuoka University
Aram MINE
  GaiaX Co., Ltd.
Sumiko MIYATA
  Shibaura Institute of Technology
Hironobu IMAMURA
  HAFT Inc.
Hidenori NAKAZATO
  Waseda University

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