Distributed Network Digital Twins for Synchronisation Scalability
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- École de Technologie Supérieure
- 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest
- Montréal, Quebec
- Canada H3C 1K3
- Building: Pavillon A
- Room Number: A-1300
- Starts 03 May 2026 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 11 May 2026 04:00 AM UTC
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Lal Verda Cakir
Distributed Network Digital Twins for Synchronisation Scalability
Abstract: Network Digital Twins (NDTs) are increasingly considered an enabler for 6G systems. By continuously mirroring physical network state, NDTs will support forecasting, optimisation, and closed-loop control. However, the networks also become more heterogeneous, distributed, and latency-sensitive, which makes conventional centralised NDT architectures face synchronisation challenges. Here, large volumes of telemetry must be synchronised from geographically distributed network domains. This can lead to excessive bandwidth consumption, synchronisation delays, processing overhead, and stale representations. This talk will discuss the architectural principles of distributed NDTs and their data management. In this, it will highlight local versus global synchronisation, multi-level state representation, and the trade-offs among synchronisation accuracy, timeliness, and resource consumption.
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Lal Verda Cakir is a PhD Candidate at the School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Her research focuses on real-time data management and communication for deploying/integrating DTs into 5G and the upcoming 6G. She has authored 8 journal articles, 12 conference papers, 1 book chapter, 5 PCTs and 2 US patents on DTs. She was awarded third prize in the IEEE ComSoc 4 Minute Thesis (4MT) Competition 2025, first prize in the 3 Minute (3MT) Presentation Competition 2024 at Edinburgh Napier University, and an honorary award in the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition in 2023 and 2025. She also has over 5 years of industry experience in applied research on the Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS) platform at BTS Group from 2023 to 2025, and in software engineering and business intelligence at Jotun Paints from 2019 to 2023. She received her BSc in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
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Georges Kaddoum
Future of Networks and Communication
Introductory and Visionary Talk
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Georges Kaddoum is an associate Professor of electrical engineering with the Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS), University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada. Since 2010, he has been a Scientific Consultant in the field of space and wireless telecommunications for several US and Canadian companies. In 2014, he was awarded the ETS Research Chair in physical layer security for wireless networks. He has published over 100+ journal and conference papers and has two pending patents. His recent research activities cover mobile and vehicular communication systems, modulations, secure and cooperative transmissions, Internet of things networks, and space communications and navigation. Dr. Kaddoum received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking, and Communications, with three coauthors, and the 2015 IEEE Transactions on Communications Top Reviewer Award. Dr. Kaddoum is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS.
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Agenda
- Welcoming by IEEE YP Ottawa, IEEE YP Montreal, IEEE ETS SB
- Talk by Prof. George Kaddoum
- Talk by Lal Verda Cakir
- Lunch and networking