Prof. Claudia Campolo, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria,
Italy
Title: Network Digital Twins for 6G systems: design and open challenges
Abstract
The Digital Twin (DT) technology holds promise in different application domains, ranging from smart manufacturing to e-health and automotive and aerospace. Being continuously synchronized with the paired physical asset, a DT can monitor, simulate, predict, optimize and configure its behaviour. For these peculiar features, it is gaining momentum as a key enabler of upcoming sixth generation (6G) systems. Nonetheless the potential benefits of network digital twins (NDTs) paired to network components, embedding them into the telco ecosystem raises several concerns encompassing, among others, their lifecycle management and the network burden due to the heavy and near-real time bidirectional interactions with physical network components. The keynote provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the emerging NDT concept. The recent literature as well as the specifications from standardization bodies will be scanned to identify the main achievements and potential open issues and to highlight future research directions in the NDT domain, with special focus on the role of simulations as core component of an NDT. The main lesson learnt about NDTs during the activities conducted within the COHERENT project (as part of the italian R&D program RESTART “RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smart”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU) will be also shared with the attendees.
Bio
Claudia Campolo is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications at University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy and an associated member of WiLab in CNIT. She received a Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering (2007) and a PhD degree (2011) from the same university. In 2008 she was a visiting PhD student at Politecnico di Torino and a DAAD fellow at University of Paderborn, Germany in 2015. Her main research interests are in the field of vehicular networking, 5G/6G systems, future Internet architectures and digital twins. She authored more than 160 publications in international journals, conferences and book chapters. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2015. She has been listed in the Stanford’s list of the top 2% of researchers (years 2020, 2021, 2022). She is involved in the organization of many international conferences as TPC/publicity/track chair, workshop/panel organizer and as tutorial and keynote speakers. She is currently editor for several IEEE/Elsevier journals. In 2015 she was co-editor of the book “Vehicular ad hoc network: standards, solutions and research”, Springer-Verlag.
