Role of Digital Twin in Optical Communication: Fault Management, Hardware Configuration, and Transmission Simulation

TL;DR

This paper explores how digital twin technology can enhance optical communication systems by improving fault management, hardware configuration, and transmission simulation through interdisciplinary models and deep learning.

Contribution

It introduces a digital twin framework tailored for optical communication, integrating models for fault management, hardware configuration, and transmission simulation.

Findings

Enhanced fault detection and management in optical networks.

Flexible hardware configuration models for dynamic systems.

High-efficiency transmission simulation using deep learning.

Abstract

Optical communication is developing rapidly in the directions of hardware resource diversification, transmission system flexibility, and network function virtualization. Its proliferation poses a significant challenge to traditional optical communication management and control systems. Digital twin (DT), a technology that utilizes data, models, and algorithms and integrates multiple disciplines, acts as a bridge between the real and virtual worlds for comprehensive connectivity. In the digital space, virtual models are stablished dynamically to simulate and describe the states, behaviors, and rules of physical objects in the physical space. DT has been significantly developed and widely applied in industrial and military fields. This study introduces the DT technology to optical communication through interdisciplinary crossing and proposes a DT framework suitable for optical communication. The intelligent fault management model, flexible hardware configuration model, and dynamic transmission simulation model are established in the digital space with the help of deep learning algorithms to ensure the highreliability operation and high-efficiency management of optical communication systems and networks.