Better Together: Leveraging Multiple Digital Twins for Deployment Optimization of Airborne Base Stations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15816v1
• Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:10:54 GMT
• Title: Better Together: Leveraging Multiple Digital Twins for Deployment Optimization of Airborne Base Stations
• Authors: Mauro Belgiovine, Chris Dick, Kaushik Chowdhury,
• Abstract summary: It is important to establish the best location for the Airborne Base Stations without exhaustive field trials.<n>This paper proposes a digital twin (DT)-guided approach to achieve this through the following key contributions.
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• Abstract: Airborne Base Stations (ABSs) allow for flexible geographical allocation of network resources with dynamically changing load as well as rapid deployment of alternate connectivity solutions during natural disasters. Since the radio infrastructure is carried by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited flight time, it is important to establish the best location for the ABS without exhaustive field trials. This paper proposes a digital twin (DT)-guided approach to achieve this through the following key contributions: (i) Implementation of an interactive software bridge between two open-source DTs such that the same scene is evaluated with high fidelity across NVIDIA's Sionna and Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin (AODT), highlighting the unique features of each of these platforms for this allocation problem, (ii) Design of a back-propagation-based algorithm in Sionna for rapidly converging on the physical location of the UAVs, orientation of the antennas and transmit power to ensure efficient coverage across the swarm of the UAVs, and (iii) numerical evaluation in AODT for large network scenarios (50 UEs, 10 ABS) that identifies the environmental conditions in which there is agreement or divergence of performance results between these twins. Finally, (iv) we propose a resilience mechanism to provide consistent coverage to mission-critical devices and demonstrate a use case for bi-directional flow of information between the two DTs.

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