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Laura Finarelli

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arXiv2026

Modular Multi-Domain Digital Twin Architecture: Sustainable Intent-Driven 6G Management

Future 6G networks will operate across distributed and heterogeneous domain infrastructures, making conventional single-domain management insufficient for proactive, trustworthy automation. Network Digital Twins (NDTs) enable what-if analysis, AI-assisted optimization, and risk-free validation of control actions before deployment, yet monolithic end-to-end twins remain impractical due to scalability, fidelity, and cross-domain coordination challenges. Accordingly, this paper proposes a Digital Twin-enabled 6G architecture that exposes NDT capabilities as a specialized service domain within a multi-domain orchestration framework built on a state-of-the-art service-based 6G architecture. A DT Orchestrator interprets \textit{predictive} and \textit{prescriptive} what-if queries and composes domain-specific DT modules and simulators on demand, while decision authority remains with the requesting entity. Furthermore, a generalized workflow covers telemetry synchronization, simulation-based decision support, and closed-loop execution. The framework is demonstrated through a green-networking use case that couples a system-level O-RAN cellular digital twin component with a two-stage solar-allocation simulator, evaluated over a 105-base-station deployment in Poznan using simulative datasets. Joint coverage and renewable optimization reduces daily grid consumption by 28.5\% with 32 solar panels at the diminishing-returns threshold, with 17 base stations identified as both coverage-active and high-priority solar candidates as evidence that cross-domain NDT coordination enables sustainable, intent-driven 6G network management.

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arXiv2026

Communication Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems: From Railways to UAVs and Beyond

This white paper aims to comprehensively analyze and consolidate the state of the art in communication technologies supporting modern and future Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Its primary objective is to establish a common understanding of how communication solutions enable automation, safety, and efficiency across multiple transport domains, including railways, road vehicles, aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles. The document seeks to identify key communication requirements and technological enablers necessary for interoperable and reliable ITS operation. It also assesses the limitations of current systems and proposes pathways for integrating emerging technologies such as 5G, Sixth Generation (6G), and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven network control. The white paper also intends to support harmonization between different transport modes through a unified framework for communication modeling, testing, and standardization. It highlights the importance of accurate channel modeling and empirical validation to design efficient, robust, and scalable systems. Another objective is to explore the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication, and digital twin concepts within ITS. The document emphasizes the role of spectrum management and standardization efforts in ensuring interoperability among diverse communication systems. Finally, the paper seeks to stimulate collaboration among academia, industry, and standardization bodies to advance the design of resilient and adaptive communication infrastructures for future transportation systems.

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arXiv2025

Sharing is Caring: Analysis of Hybrid Network Sharing Strategies for Energy Efficient Multi-Operator Cellular Systems

This paper introduces a novel analytical framework for evaluating energy-efficient, QoS-aware network-sharing strategies in cellular networks. Leveraging stochastic geometry, our framework enables the systematic assessment of network performance across a range of sharing paradigms, including both conventional single-operator scenarios and advanced hybrid strategies that enable full integration and cooperation among multiple mobile network operators. Our framework incorporates diverse user densities, rate requirements, and energy consumption models to ensure comprehensive analysis. Applying our results to real-world datasets from French mobile network operators, we demonstrate that hybrid network sharing can yield substantial energy savings, up to $35\%$, while maintaining quality of service. Furthermore, our results allow us to characterizing how the benefits of network sharing vary as a function of the geographical and functional characteristics of the deployment area. These findings highlight the potential of collaborative sharing strategies to enhance operational efficiency and sustainability in next-generation cellular networks.

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arXiv2025

Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations

In the evolution towards 6G user-centric networking, the moving network (MN) paradigm can play an important role. In a MN, some small cell base stations (BS) are installed on top of vehicles, and enable a more dynamic, flexible and sustainable, network operation. By "following" the users movements and adapting dynamically to their requests, the MN paradigm enables a more efficient utilization of network resources, mitigating the need for dense small cell BS deployments at the cost of an increase in resource utilization due to wireless backhauling. This aspect is at least partly compensated by the shorter distance between users and BS, which allows for lower power and Line-of-Sight communications. While the MN paradigm has been investigated for some time, to date, it is still unclear in which conditions the advantages of MN outweigh the additional resource costs. In this paper, we propose a stochastic geometry framework for the characterization of the potential benefits of the MN paradigm as part of an HetNet in urban settings. Our approach allows the estimation of user-perceived performance, accounting for wireless backhaul connectivity as well as base station resource scheduling. We formulate an optimization problem for determining the resource-optimal network configurations and BS scheduling which minimize the overall amount of deployed BSs in a QoS-aware manner, and the minimum vehicular flow between different urban districts required to support them, and we propose an efficient stochastic heuristic to solve it. Our numerical assessment suggests that the MN paradigm, coupled with appropriate dynamic network management strategies, significantly reduces the amount of deployed network infrastructure while guaranteeing the target QoS perceived by users.

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arXiv2024

Mobile Networks on the Move: Optimizing Moving Base Stations Dynamics in Urban Scenarios

Base station densification is one of the key approaches for delivering high capacity in radio access networks. However, current static deployments are often impractical and financially unsustainable, as they increase both capital and operational expenditures of the network. An alternative paradigm is the moving base stations (MBSs) approach, by which part of base stations are installed on vehicles. However, to the best of our knowledge, it is still unclear if and up to which point MBSs allow decreasing the number of static base stations (BSs) deployed in urban settings. In this work, we start tackling this issue by proposing a modeling approach for a first-order evaluation of potential infrastructure savings enabled by the MBSs paradigm. Starting from a set of stochastic geometry results, and a traffic demand profile over time, we formulate an optimization problem for the derivation of the optimal combination of moving and static BSs which minimizes the overall amount of BSs deployed, while guaranteeing a target mean QoS for users. Initial results on a two-district scenario with measurement-based network traffic profiles suggest that substantial infrastructure savings are achievable. We show that these results are robust against different values of user density.

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