Wireless Digital Twin Calibration:
Refining DFT-Domain Channel Information
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2026
Hao Luo1, Saeed R. Khosravirad2, and Ahmed Alkhateeb1
1Wireless Intelligence Lab, Arizona State University, USA
2Nokia Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Fig. 1. This figure illustrates the proposed digital twin calibration framework and its use case of codebook-based CSI feedback. The BS generates synthetic channel information for a user using a low-fidelity digital twin. The synthetic channel information is then refined using a lightweight deep learning model. The refined channel information is used to select the most relevant DFT codewords for that user. The user receives pilot signals corresponding to these selected codewords and estimates their coefficients, which are reported back to the BS for downlink precoder design.
Abstract
Simulation Results
Fig. 2. This figure presents the CDF of the cosine similarity between the ground-truth channel and the estimated CSI using the top-4 DFT beams selected by the proposed calibration approach and the benchmark scenarios. By integrating a lightweight calibration model (inference: 0.0018 s/sample), our approach nears the performance upper bound while maintaining a total cost of 0.0610 s/sample, which is significantly lower than the 1.2019 s/sample required by a high-fidelity digital twin
Citation
H. Luo, S. R. Khosravirad, and A. Alkhateeb, “Wireless digital twin calibration: Refining DFT-domain channel information,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16126, 2026.
title={Wireless digital twin calibration: Refining dft-domain channel information},
author={Luo, Hao and Khosravirad, Saeed R and Alkhateeb, Ahmed},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16126},
year={2026} }