An Optimization-as-a-Service platform for 6G exploiting network digital twins
O. Sallent, José Manuel Martínez, Javier Baliosián, Luis F. Diez, Luis M. Contreras, J. Pérez-Romero, Juan Luis Gorricho, Matías Richart, Ramón Agüero, Joan Serrat, Pablo Pavón‐Mariño, Irene Vilà · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 2024
The continuous evolution of the communications networks in the race to support 6G services will introduce important operational challenges for network operators, especially in terms of efficient usage of resources, near real-time performance, etc. Such advanced 6G services will necessarily leverage on existing brownfield networks complemented with novel technologies and supportive tools. In this context, the concept of network should be understood in a broad sense, including both networking and computing capabilities enabling the connectivity of the customers to service functions or applications in a very dynamic way.