Multi-Stakeholder Intent-based Service Management Automation for 6G Networks
Pol Alemany, Raül Muñoz, José Ordoñez-Lucena, Ricard Vilalta, Diego R. Lopez, Matthieu Boussard, Huy Q. Tran, Pawani Porambage, Rafael Pereira Pires, Henry Blue, Jere Malinen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Mohammed S. Elbamby, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Patrik Rugeland, Josué Castañeda Cisneros, Flávio Brito, Elham Dehghan Biyar, Mehmet Karaca, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos · 2024
This article presents a detailed intent-based framework with the objective to assist on the management of services and network resources in the current convoluted telco scenario. First, it introduces the context and complexity of telco systems to justify why intents may be required within the multi-stakeholder scenario with multiple and different actors (e.g., operators, providers, etc.). By removing the technicalities from the tenants’ level and leaving them to the management system itself, the approach aims to improve the interactions among all the actors and make the whole E2E control infrastructure more efficient. This paper illustrates the architectural-based outcomes from the Hexa-X-II project on the intents management with the main aspects and components of the designed framework and how they interact to reach a model in which the use of Close-Loops is key to manage each intent request individually while being coordinated with the others.