NoF 2019 Content Announcement Page
2019
The IRTF Network Management Research Group (NMRG) and the organizing committee of the 10th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF 2019) organized a joint demo session focused on Intent-based Networking (IBN).The demo session was part of the 56th NMRG meeting, held on October 3-4, 2019 in Rome, Italy and co-located with NoF 2019.The demo session was intended to provide a venue for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry actively involved in the field of IBN to discuss their work, share their experience, and stimulate collaboration, with an emphasis on prototypes, practical implementations and work-in-progress activities aimed at designing and developing IBN enablers and solutions.The event also aimed at consolidating the IBN community and promoting research and (pre-)standardization opportunities by contributing to the IBN roadmap currently being defined by the NMRG.The program and all materials presented during the meeting are publicly available at [1].The main feature of IBN systems is their ability to use high-level, human-friendly abstractions to define and declare service and network operation objectives (the "what") without actually specifying in detail the set of operations (the "how") needed to reach them.An IBN system provides the functionality required to manage the whole intent lifecycle covering two main phases: Fulfilment and Assurance.The Fulfilment phase encompasses means to express, parse, interpret, validate and operationalize intents towards low-level policies, while the Assurance phase encompasses means to measure, evaluate, verify, recommend and report on the actuation of the intents.