Digital Twinning for 6G Teleoperated Driving: The 6G-TWIN Vision

Previous efforts focusing on 5G support for teleoperated driving mainly targeted communication challenges and goals, developing and evaluating key 5G enabling technologies such as network slicing, seamless cross-border roaming, Multi- access Edge Computing (MEC) enabled distributed computing, or predictive Quality of Service/Experience (QoS or QoE). However, these goals are at odds with energy conservation, with energy savings being a major goal of modern mobile broadband networks. This poses significant challenges, calling for new thinking and new system architectures that go beyond the current 5G Service- Based Architecture (SBA). In this paper, we present the vision of the European 6G-TWIN project for leveraging digital twins to provide a safe and efficient communication infrastructure for teleoperated driving, along with a demonstrator design to validate the project’s solutions.