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Digital Twin (DT) technology revolutionizes industrial processes by enabling the representation of physical entities and their dynamics to enhance productivity and operational efficiency. It has emerged as a vital enabling technology in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eduardo Freitas , Assis T. de Oliveira Filho , Pedro R. X. do Carmo , Djamel Sadok , Judith Kelner

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-08 John Sengendo , Fabrizio Granelli

Digital Twin (DT) is a promising technology for the new immersive digital life with a variety of applications in areas such as Industry 4.0, aviation, and healthcare. Proliferation of this technology requires higher data rates, reliability,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Hamed Ahmadi , Avishek Nag , Zaheer Khan , Kamran Sayrafian , Susanto Rahadrja

Digital network twin (DNT) is a promising paradigm to replicate real-world cellular networks toward continual assessment, proactive management, and what-if analysis. Existing discussions have been focusing on using only deep learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuru Zhang , Ming Zhao , Qiang Liu

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

Network slicing in 5G/6G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is confronted with mobility and traffic variability. An artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital twin (DT) architecture with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) using Deep deterministic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Afan Ali , Huseyin Arslan

Network slicing enables industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks with multiservice and differentiated resource requirements to meet increasing demands through efficient use and management of network resources. Typically, the network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Daniel Ayepah-Mensah , Guolin Sun , Yu Pang , Wei Jiang

Digital Twins (DTs) are set to become a key enabling technology in future wireless networks, with their use in network management increasing significantly. We developed a DT framework that leverages the heterogeneity of network access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Roberto Morabito , Bivek Pandey , Paulius Daubaris , Yasith R Wanigarathna , Sasu Tarkoma

The maturity and commercial roll-out of 5G networks and its deployment for private networks makes 5G a key enabler for various vertical industries and applications, including robotics. Providing ultra-low latency, high data rates, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Luis Roda Sanchez , Lanfranco Zanzi , Xi Li , Guillem Gari , Xavier Costa Perez

Digital network twins (DNTs) are virtual representations of physical networks, designed to enable real-time monitoring, simulation, and optimization of network performance. When integrated with machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Dianwei Chen , Xianfeng Yang , Yuchen Liu

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

The growing complexity of next-generation networks exacerbates the modeling and algorithmic flaws of conventional network optimization methodology. In this paper, we propose a mobile network digital twin (MNDT) architecture for 6G networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Tong Li , Fenyu Jiang , Qiaohong Yu , Wenzhen Huang , Tao Jiang , Depeng Jin

Digital twins (DTs) enable smarter, self-optimizing mobile networks, but they rely on a steady supply of real world data. Collecting and transferring complete traces in real time is a significant challenge. We present a compact traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Enes Koktas , Peter Rost

The increased use of software in the operation and management of telecommunication networks has moved the industry one step closer to realizing autonomous network operation. One consequence of this shift is the significantly increased need…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shenjia Ding , David Flynn , Paul Harvey

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

Emerging safety-critical Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) applications require networks to proactively adapt to rapid environmental changes rather than merely reacting to them. While Network Digital Twins (NDTs) offer a pathway to such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Roberto Pegurri , Habu Shintaro , Francesco Linsalata , Wang Kui , Tao Yu , Eugenio Moro , Maiya Igarashi , Antonio Capone , Kei Sakaguchi

This article presents a vision where \textit{real-time} digital twins of the physical wireless environments are continuously updated using multi-modal sensing data from the distributed infrastructure and user devices, and are used to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Shuaifeng Jiang , Gouranga Charan

This paper investigates the transformative potential of digital twin (DT) technology for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). NTNs, comprising airborne and space-borne elements, face unique challenges in network control, management, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Hayder Al-Hraishawi , Madyan Alsenwi , Junaid ur Rehman , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Digital Twins (DT) have become crucial to achieve sustainable and effective smart urban solutions. However, current DT modelling techniques cannot support the dynamicity of these smart city environments. This is caused by the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Lal Verda Cakir , Kubra Duran , Craig Thomson , Matthew Broadbent , Berk Canberk

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…