Digital-Twin-Enabled Intelligent Distributed Clock Synchronization in Industrial IoT Systems
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Abstract
Tight cooperation among distributively connected equipment and infrastructures of an Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) system hinges on low latency data exchange and accurate time synchronization within sophisticated networks. However, the temperature-induced clock drift in connected industry facilities constitutes a fundamental challenge for conventional synchronization techniques due to dynamic industrial environments. Furthermore, the variation of packet delivery latency in IIoT networks hinders the reliability of time information exchange, leading to deteriorated clock synchronization performance in terms of synchronization accuracy and network resource consumption. In this article, a digital-twin-enabled model-based scheme is proposed to achieve an intelligent clock synchronization for reducing resource consumption associated with distributed synchronization in fast-changing IIoT environments. By leveraging the digital-twin-enabled clock models at remote locations, required interactions among distributed IIoT facilities to achieve synchronization is dramatically reduced. The virtual clock modeling in advance of the clock calibrations helps to characterize each clock so that its behavior under dynamic operating environments is predictable, which is beneficial to avoiding excessive synchronization-related timestamp exchange. An edge-cloud collaborative architecture is also developed to enhance the overall system efficiency during the development of remote digital-twin models. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can create an accurate virtual model remotely for each local clock according to the information gathered. Meanwhile, a significant enhancement on the clock accuracy is accomplished with dramatically reduced communication resource consumption in networks with different packet delay variations.
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