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oneTwin: Online Digital Network Twin via Neural Radio Radiance Field

Networking and Internet Architecture 2026-01-07 v1

Abstract

Digital network twin is a promising technology that replicates real-world networks in real-time and assists with the design, operation, and management of next-generation networks. However, existing approaches (e.g., simulator-based and neural-based) cannot effectively realize the digital network twin, in terms of fidelity, synchronicity, and tractability. In this paper, we propose oneTwin, the first online digital twin system, for the prediction of physical layer metrics. We architect the oneTwin system with two primary components: an enhanced simulator and a neural radio radiance field (NRRF). On the one hand, we achieve the enhanced simulator by designing a material tuning algorithm that incrementally optimizes the building materials to minimize the twin-to-real gap. On the other hand, we achieve the NRRF by designing a neural learning algorithm that continually updates its DNNs based on both online and simulated data from the enhanced simulator. We implement oneTwin system using Sionna RT as the simulator and developing new DNNs as the NRRF, under a public cellular network. Extensive experimental results show that, compared to state-of-the-art solutions, oneTwin achieves real-time updating (0.98s), with 36.39% and 57.50% reductions of twin-to-real gap under in-distribution and out-of-distribution test datasets, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03216,
  title  = {oneTwin: Online Digital Network Twin via Neural Radio Radiance Field},
  author = {Yuru Zhang and Ming Zhao and Qiang Liu and Nakjung Choi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03216},
  year   = {2026}
}

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This paper is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2026