NS+NDT: Smart integration of Network Simulation in Network Digital Twin, application to IoT networks

Samir Si-Mohammed, Anthony Bardou, Thomas Begin, Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Pascale Vicat-Blanc

Abstract: Highlights•Analysis of NS, NDT and their complementarity.•Study of NS-NDT in the context of IoT Networks for enhancing decision making and model reuse.•Proposal of a method to leverage field data for increasing NS credibility.•Proposal to accelerate simulation for large parametric space via ML-based surrogate modeling.•Proposal for making simulation available for online optimization via GP and Bayesian Optimization.