Toward Composable Network Digital Twins: A Subgraph-Based Latency Prediction Study

arXiv:2609.18704 · cs.NI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.NI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-18

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Digital Twin — 32× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Network Digital Twin — 15× in this paper
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• GNNs — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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• RMQFMU: Bridging the Real World with Co-simulation Technical Report
• Covariant Compositional Networks For Learning Graphs

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