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Digital twins are now a staple of wireless networks design and evolution. Creating an accurate digital copy of a real system offers numerous opportunities to study and analyze its performance and issues. It also allows designing and testing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Pedram Johari , Tommaso Melodia

The next generation of Wi-Fi is meant to achieve ultra-high reliability for wireless communication. Several approaches are available to this extent, some of which are being considered for inclusion in standards specifications, including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Stefano Scanzio , Matteo Rosani , Gabriele Formis , Dave Cavalcanti , Valerio Frascolla , Guido Marchetto , Gianluca Cena

Urban railway systems increasingly rely on communication based train control (CBTC) systems, where optimal deployment of access points (APs) in tunnels is critical for robust wireless coverage. Traditional methods, such as empirical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Kunyu Wu , Qiushi Zhao , Zihan Feng , Yunxi Mu , Hao Qin , Xinyu Zhang , Xingqi Zhang

Digital Twins promise to deliver a step-change in distribution system operations and planning, but there are few real-world examples that explore the challenges of combining imperfect model and measurement data, and then use these as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Matthew Deakin , Marta Vanin , Zhong Fan , Dirk Van Hertem

Digital twinning enables real-time simulation and predictive modeling by maintaining a continuously updated virtual representation of a physical system. In mission-critical applications, such as mid-air collision avoidance, these models…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep K. S. Gupta

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks must support heterogeneous services: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) requiring 1 Tbps data rates, massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) supporting 10 million devices per km, and Ultra-Reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Daniel Benniah John

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

Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) offers a novel architecture that can be used to enhance store-carry-forward routing in satellite networks. Since these networks can take advantage of scheduled contact plans, distributed algorithms like the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Pablo G. Madoery , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Peng Hu , Khaled Ahmed , Stéphane Martel , Guillaume Lamontagne

The explosive growth in wireless service demand has prompted the evolution of integrated satellite-terrestrial networks (ISTNs) to overcome the limitations of traditional terrestrial networks (TNs) in terms of coverage, spectrum efficiency,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Hung Nguyen-Kha , Vu Nguyen Ha , Ti Nguyen , Eva Lagunas , Joel Grotz , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The integration of digital twinning technologies is driving next-generation networks toward new capabilities, allowing operators to thoroughly understand network conditions, efficiently analyze valuable radio data, and innovate applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

This paper introduces a novel dynamic optimization framework for video streaming that leverages Network Digital Twin (NDT) technology to address the challenges posed by fluctuating wireless network conditions. Traditional adaptive streaming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zurh Farus , Betty Searcy , Tina Nassisid , Kevin Muhammad

In this paper, we study a digital twin (DT)-empowered integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the users perform radar sensing and computation offloading on the same spectrum, while unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Bin Li , Wenshuai Liu , Wancheng Xie , Ning Zhang , Yan Zhang

A Fog radio access network is considered as a network architecture candidate to meet the soaring demand in terms of reliability, spectral efficiency, and latency in next generation wireless networks. This architecture combines the benefits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Jaber Kakar , Soheil Gherekhloo , Aydin Sezgin

Efficient digital twin (DT) synchronization relies on maintaining high-fidelity virtual representations with minimal age of information (AoI). However, the synergistic potential of cooperative sensing and autonomous mobility of the sensing…

Network planning seeks to determine base station parameters that maximize coverage and capacity in cellular networks. However, achieving optimal planning remains challenging due to the diversity of deployment scenarios and the significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaomeng Li , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Mehmet Can Vuran , Nathan Huynh , Li Zhao , Mizan Rahman , Eren Erman Ozguven

Terahertz (THz) wireless communication has emerged as a promising solution for future data center interconnects; however, accurate channel characterization and system-level performance evaluation in complex indoor environments remain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mingjie Zhu , Yejian Lyu , Ziming Yu , Chong Han

The growing demand for services and the rapid deployment of virtualized network functions (VNFs) pose significant challenges for achieving low-latency and energy-efficient orchestration in modern edge-core network infrastructures. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Faisal Ahmed , Suresh Subramaniam , Motoharu Matsuura , Hiroshi Hasegawa , Shih-Chun Lin

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

Predicting the throughput of WLAN deployments is a classic problem that occurs in the design of robust and high performance WLAN systems. However, due to the increasingly complex communication protocols and the increase in interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hongkuan Zhou , Rajgopal Kannan , Ananthram Swami , Viktor Prasanna

Low-altitude communication networks (LACNs) serve as the critical infrastructure of the emerging low-altitude economy (LAE), supporting services such as drone delivery and infrastructure inspection. However, LACNs operate in highly dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Boqun Huang , Yancheng Wang , Wei Guo , Zhaojie Guo , Di Wu , Ran Li , Dayang Liu , Wanshun Lan , Chuan Huang , Shuguang Cui