Concept, objectives, and approach.

The HyPer-5G project proposes to experiment and evaluate a prototype of Digital Twin (DT) network for achieving resilient 5G internet services by ensuring high availability, openness, and disruption tolerance. The proposed DT creates a virtual replica of the current IoT network state (aka, the twin) to simplify the deployment and management of new 5G IoT services. In our prototype, we interconnect two geographically distributed edge-cloud infrastructures, i.e., Grid5000 in Europe and Chameleon cloud in the US, to assess the feasibility of deploying new 5G services using the twin.

• In Europe, we interconnect Grid5000 cloud to Fit IoT-Lab, an open European platform for experiments with different IoT scenarios, ranging from smart agriculture to healthcare, connected cars, etc. .
• In the USA, we deploy the DT Hub inside the Chameleon cloud, which is connected to CHI@Edge IoT testbed, to enable emulating real-world IoT scenarios such as connected robots, smart cities, and smart grids..
• we will evaluate the performance of this large-scale platform's deployments and analyze their impact on already existing IoT services.