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Demo: A Policy-Reactive Digital Twin for RAN Carrier Switch-Off
Samuel Knight
Orlando E. Martínez-Durive
Ana Martínez-González
A. Diallo
Alexis Duque
Paul Patras
Marco Fiore
Oct 2026 · Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Digital Twins over NextG Wireless Networks · 0 citations
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Abstract
Reducing energy consumption is a primary goal for the mobile industry, with strong environmental and economic implications. Energy already accounts for a significant portion of a mobile operator's operational expenditure, with the Radio Access Network (RAN) alone responsible for 73% of the total energy an operator consumes [1]. Digital Twins (DTs) are appealing in this setting because they let operators anticipate load, test new configurations, and estimate their impact before changing the production network. In this work we focus on the configuration decision that matters most for RAN energy, i.e., which carriers to switch on or off, and when.