VIVoNet: Visually-Represented, Intent-Based, Voice-Assisted Networking
Amar. Chaudhari, Amrita Asthana, Atharva Kaluskar, Dewang Gedia, Lakshay Karani, Levi Perigo, Rahil Gandotra, Sapna Gangwar · International journal of Computer Networks & Communications · 2019
Networks have become considerably large, complex and dynamic.The configuration, operation, monitoring, and troubleshooting of networks is a cumbersome and time-consuming task for the network administrators as they must deal with the physical layer, underlying protocols, addressing systems, control rules, and many other low-level details.This research paper proposes an Intent-based networking system (IBNS) coupled with voice-assistance that can abstract the underlying network infrastructure and allow administrators to alter its behavior by expressing intents via voice commands.The system also displays the real-time network topology along with the highlighted intents on an interactive web application that can be used for network diagnostics.Compared to traditional networks, the concepts of software-defined networking (SDN) make it easier to integrate a voice assistant that allows configuring the network based on intents.