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<reference anchor="I-D.irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch-04">
   <front>
      <title>Digital Twin Network: Concepts and Reference Architecture</title>
      <author initials="C." surname="Zhou" fullname="Cheng Zhou">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="H." surname="Yang" fullname="Hongwei Yang">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="X." surname="Duan" fullname="Xiaodong Duan">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="D." surname="Lopez" fullname="Diego Lopez">
         <organization>Telefonica I+D</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="A." surname="Pastor" fullname="Antonio Pastor">
         <organization>Telefonica I+D</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="Q." surname="Wu" fullname="Qin Wu">
         <organization>Huawei</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="M." surname="Boucadair" fullname="Mohamed Boucadair">
         <organization>Orange</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="C." surname="Jacquenet" fullname="Christian Jacquenet">
         <organization>Orange</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="October" day="23" year="2023" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   Digital Twin technology has been seen as a rapid adoption technology
   in Industry 4.0.  The application of Digital Twin technology in the
   networking field is meant to develop various rich network
   applications and realize efficient and cost effective data driven
   network management and accelerate network innovation.

   This document presents an overview of the concepts of Digital Twin
   Network, provides the basic definitions and a reference architecture,
   lists a set of application scenarios, and discusses the benefits and
   key challenges of such technology.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch-04" />
   
</reference>
