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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

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

The wireless spectrum's increasing complexity poses challenges and opportunities, highlighting the necessity for real-time solutions and robust data processing capabilities. Digital Twin (DT), virtual replicas of physical systems, integrate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Clifton Paul Robinson , Andrea Lacava , Pedram Johari , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

The rapid development of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires industrial production towards digitalization to improve network efficiency. Digital Twin is a promising technology to empower the digital transformation of IIoT by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yueyue Dai , Ke Zhang , Sabita Maharjan , Yan Zhang

Digital network twins (DNTs), by representing a physical network using a virtual model, offer significant benefits such as streamlined network development, enhanced productivity, and cost reduction for next-generation (nextG) communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zifan Zhang , Zhiyuan Peng , Hanzhi Yu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

In this work, we consider a mobile edge computing system with both ultra-reliable and low-latency communications services and delay tolerant services. We aim to minimize the normalized energy consumption, defined as the energy consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Rui Dong , Changyang She , Wibowo Hardjawana , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we focus on the problem of data sharing over a wireless computer network (i.e., a wireless grid). Given a set of available data, we present a distributed algorithm which operates over a dynamically changing network, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

The future of wireless network generations is revolving toward unlocking the opportunities offered by virtualization and digitization services, with the aim to realize improved quality-of-experience (QoE) and bring several advantages to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lina Bariah , Hikmet Sari , Merouane Debbah

The ability of the Network digital twin (NDT) to remain aware of changes in its physical counterpart, known as the physical twin (PTwin), is a fundamental condition to enable timely synchronization, also referred to as twinning. In this…

Network digital twin (NDT) models are virtual models that replicate the behavior of physical communication networks and are considered a key technology component to enable novel features and capabilities in future 6G networks. In this work,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Christos Mavridis , Fernando S. Barbosa , Hamed Farhadi , Karl H. Johansson

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing latency with partial computation offloading within Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems in in-network computing (COIN)-assisted Multiaccess Edge Computing (C-MEC) via ultra-reliable and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ibrahim Aliyu , Awwal Arigi , Seungmin Oh , Tai-Won Um , Jinsul Kim

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

Data transfer in opportunistic Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) must rely on unscheduled sporadic meetings between nodes. The main challenge in these networks is to develop a mechanism based on which nodes can learn to make nearly optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Shohreh Shaghaghian , Mark Coates

In federated learning (FL), devices contribute to the global training by uploading their local model updates via wireless channels. Due to limited computation and communication resources, device scheduling is crucial to the convergence rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wenqi Shi , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Miao Jiang , Lu Geng

The proliferation of emergent network applications (e.g., telesurgery, metaverse) is increasing the difficulty of managing modern communication networks. These applications entail stringent network requirements (e.g., ultra-low…

As an emerging technology, digital twin (DT) can provide real-time status and dynamic topology mapping for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, DT and its implementation within industrial IoT networks necessitates substantial,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shunfeng Chu , Jun Li , Jianxin Wang , Yiyang Ni , Kang Wei , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

A fundamental challenge in wireless heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is to effectively utilize the limited transmission and storage resources in the presence of increasing deployment density and backhaul capacity constraints. To alleviate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Derya Malak , Faruk V. Mutlu , Jinkun Zhang , Edmund M. Yeh

This paper studies a combined space partitioning and network flow optimization problem, with applications to large-scale power, transportation, or communication systems. In dense wireless networks, one may want to simultaneously optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Théo Laurentin , Patrick Coirault , Emmanuel Moulay , Antoine Lesage-Landry , Jerome Le Ny

Digital twins (DT) have emerged as a transformative technology, enabling real-time monitoring, simulations, and predictive maintenance across various domains, though their Application in the networking domain remains underexplored. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 D. Sree Yashaswinee , Gargie Tambe , Y. Raghu Reddy , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

As 5G and future 6G mobile networks become increasingly more sophisticated, the requirements for agility, scalability, resilience, and precision in real-time service provisioning cannot be met using traditional and heuristic-based resource…

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