6G-TWIN is pleased to announce the publication of two scientific papers, marking significant progress in our research on integrating network digital twinning into future AI-based 6G systems.

Integrating Network Digital Twinning into Future AI-based 6G Systems: The 6G-TWIN Vision

Faye, S., Camelo, M., Sottet, J.-S., Sommer, C., Franke, M., Baudouin, J., Castellanos, G., Decorme, R., Fanti, M. P., Fuladi, R., Kesik, G., Mendes, B., Murphy, C., Parker, S., Pryor, S., Senouci, S. M., & Turcanu, I. (2024, July 3).

As we move closer to the 6G era, the complexity and dynamism of communication networks is set to increase significantly. This requires more sophisticated, automated management solutions, while retaining human oversight. To meet these new challenges, it is essential to build new architectures that provide a secure environment for closed-loop network automation and to enable optimal resource planning, management, and control. In this context, this paper presents the vision of the European 6G-TWIN consortium, which focuses on the creation of a cyber-physical continuum that seamlessly merges the physical world with its digital representation, through the concept of Network Digital Twin (NDT) and its integration into an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based 6G architecture. This initiative aims to bridge the gap between the increasing complexity of networks and their operational performance, potentially improving real-time user experiences across multiple domains. This paper specifically highlights the associated key challenges and the approach taken by 6G-TWIN to address them.

Digital Twinning for 6G Teleoperated Driving: The 6G-TWIN Vision

Turcanu, I., Faye, S., Fellner, H., Castellanos, G., Baudouin, J., Senouci, S. M., Franke, M., & Sommer, C. (2024).

Previous efforts focusing on 5G support for teleoperated driving mainly targeted communication challenges and goals, developing and evaluating key 5G enabling technologies such as network slicing, seamless cross-border roaming, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) enabled distributed computing, or predictive Quality of Service/Experience (QoS or QoE). However, these goals are at odds with energy conservation, with energy savings being a major goal of modern mobile broadband networks. This poses significant challenges, calling for new thinking and new system architectures that go beyond the current 5G Service-Based Architecture (SBA). In this paper, we present the vision of the European 6G-TWIN project for leveraging digital twins to provide a safe and efficient communication infrastructure for teleoperated driving, along with a demonstrator design to validate the project’s solutions.

The papers are all available on our resources page. Click to read our first three publications!