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Telecom networks scale with growing users and data-intensive applications, generating heavy traffic that causes congestion, reducing throughput, increasing delay, and raising computational costs. Traditional routing protocols act only after…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Umer Iqbal , Ashiq Anjum , Anthony S Conway , Mathias Kern , Anasol Pena Rios

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are available in a multitude of scenarios, and provide constant, contextual data which can be leveraged to automatically reconfigure and optimize smart environments. To realize this vision, Artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Luca Bedogni , Federico Chiariotti

Digital twin (DT) technologies have emerged as a solution for real-time data-driven modeling of cyber physical systems (CPS) using the vast amount of data available by Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this position paper, we elucidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jithin Jagannath , Keyvan Ramezanpour , Anu Jagannath

Network digital twins (NDTs) facilitate the estimation of key performance indicators (KPIs) before physically implementing a network, thereby enabling efficient optimization of the network configuration. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Boning Li , Timofey Efimov , Abhishek Kumar , Jose Cortes , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Danshi Wang , Zhiguo Zhang , Min Zhang , Meixia Fu , Jin Li , Shanyong Cai , Chunyu Zhang , Xue Chen

The emerging data-driven methods based on artificial intelligence (AI) have paved the way for intelligent, flexible, and adaptive network management in vehicular applications. To enhance network management towards network automation, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kaige Qu , Weihua Zhuang

Network Digital Twins (NDTs) enable safe what-if analysis for 6G cloud-edge infrastructures, but adoption is often limited by fragmented workflows from telemetry to validation. We present a data-driven NDT framework that extends 6G-TWIN…

In the upcoming 6G era, the communication networks are expected to face unprecedented challenges in terms of complexity and dynamics. Digital Twin (DT) technology, with its various digital capabilities, holds great potential to facilitate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Gaosheng Zhao , Dong In Kim

Emerging technologies and applications make the network unprecedentedly complex and heterogeneous, leading physical network practices to be costly and risky. The digital twin network (DTN) can ease these burdens by virtually enabling users…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Linbo Hui , Mowei Wang , Liang Zhang , Lu Lu , Yong Cui

Digital twin (DT) is revolutionizing the emerging video streaming services through tailored network management. By integrating diverse advanced communication technologies, DTs are promised to construct a holistic virtualized network for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xinyu Huang , Haojun Yang , Shisheng Hu , Xuemin Shen

Digital twin (DT) enables smart manufacturing by leveraging real-time data, AI models, and intelligent control systems. This paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis on the emerging field of DTs in the context of milling. The critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Wenyi Liu , R. Sharma , W. "Grace" Guo , J. Yi , Y. B. Guo

Digital twin networks (DTNs) serve as an emerging facilitator in the industrial networking sector, enabling the management of new classes of services, which require tailored support for improved resource utilization, low latencies and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Marco Becattini , Davide Borsatti , Armir Bujari , Laura Carnevali , Andrea Garbugli , Hrant Khachatrian , Theofanis P. Raptis , Daniele Tarchi

Digital twin (DT) is one of the most promising enabling technologies for realizing smart grids. Characterized by seamless and active---data-driven, real-time, and closed-loop---integration between digital and physical spaces, a DT is much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Xing He , Qian Ai , Robert C. Qiu , Dongxia Zhang

Digital twin networks (DTNs) are real-time replicas of physical networks. They are emerging as a powerful technology for design, diagnosis, simulation, what-if-analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xingqin Lin , Lopamudra Kundu , Chris Dick , Emeka Obiodu , Todd Mostak

A new network named the "Digital Twin Network" (DTN) uses the "Digital Twin" (DT) technology to produce virtual twins of real things. The network load and size continue to grow as a result of the development of 5G, the Internet of Things,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Abubakar Isah , Hyeju Shin , Ibrahim Aliyu , Sangwon Oh , Sangjoon Lee , Jaehyung Park , Minsoo Hahn , Jinsul Kim

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive critical overview on how entities and their interactions in Complex Networked Systems (CNS) are modelled across disciplines as they approach their ultimate goal of creating a Digital Twin (DT) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Jiaqi Wen , Bogdan Gabrys , Katarzyna Musial

The emergence of beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks underscores the critical role of advanced computer-aided tools, such as network digital twins (DTs), in fostering autonomous networks and ubiquitous intelligence. Existing solutions in the DT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Caglar Tunc , Kubra Duran , Buse Bilgin , Gokhan Kalem , Berk Canberk

Digital twin (DT) is the recurrent and common feature in discussions about future technologies, bringing together advanced communication, computation, and artificial intelligence, to name a few. In the context of Industry 4.0, industries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Kunlun Wang , Yongyi Tang , Trung Q. Duong , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Octavia A. Dobre , George K. Karagiannidis

This article presents a digital twin (DT)-enhanced reinforcement learning (RL) framework aimed at optimizing performance and reliability in network resource management, since the traditional RL methods face several unified challenges when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Zan Li , Zhisheng Yin , Tom Luan , Xuemin Shen

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and digital twin (DT) are advanced data processing and virtualization technologies to revolutionize communication networks. Thanks to the powerful data processing capabilities of GAI, integrating it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xinyu Huang , Haojun Yang , Conghao Zhou , Mingcheng He , Xuemin Shen , Weihua Zhuang