[agents] Cfp: 1st Workshop on Intent driven autonomous networks (NESTOR)

[Kostas Katsalis]

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Call for Papers

1st Workshop on Intent driven autonomous networks (NESTOR)

In conjunction with the 27th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet
and Networks (ICIN’2024)

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Description

The term “intent" in the autonomous network refers to the goal or the
objective from the external customers and internal Operation and Management
(O&M) personnel, which represents a set of business or operational
requirements in the declarative form or even using the natural language. The
intent facilitates the users to express their business objectives, business
logic, constraints, etc. towards the communication networks; however, it
does not specify the detailed implementation way.

Intent driven autonomous networks require an intent processing flow,
starting from “natural language” input refining to machine understandable
configurations with implementation agnostic “intent primitive”, and then to
implement¬ specific “executable policies” and “reliability configurations”.
As the system evolves, such intent processing flow should be adaptive to the
execution feedback and dynamically changing circumstances.

This releases the customers from the manual effort to manage all technical
aspects of network services and reduces the network O&M burden to address
potentially conflicting goals, which can provide the users with flexible and
reliable network services, realize efficient utilization of network
resources, and fully release the network potentials.

 

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from both academia and
industry to investigate challenging aspects in intent-driven management for
the 5G and the future 6G systems, as well as to identify future research
directions. Open issues and key innovations will be discussed for aspects
related to Intent-based network management. Authors are invited to submit
original unpublished papers to this workshop. 

 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

•                     Standardization of intent-based management for the
telco cloud

•                     Orchestration frameworks and intent-based management
methodologies

•                     Intent-driven management for the virtualised RAN

•                     Intent-based management approaches in 5G and towards
6G communications

•                     Application of intent-based management architectures
and frameworks in telecom networks

•                     Human-to-system intent interpretation through Natural
Language Processing (NLP)

•                     Machine-to-machine intent expression

•                     Automated intent translation and policy generation

•                     Automated intent/policy conflict detection and
resolution

•                     Automated intent monitoring and assurance

•                     Knowledge-driven intent/policy management

•                     AI-driven intent/policy management

•                     Intent test and verification before activation

•                     AI asset management for intent-driven autonomous
networks

•                     Emerging standards, technologies and advances on
intent-driven management

•                     Intent-driven management for real-time and
deterministic communications

•                     Coupling between Management Data Analytics (MDA) and
intent-based management

 

Paper Submission Guidelines

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions
must be done electronically through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N31731 

Technical papers can be up to 6 pages, including tables, figures and
references. All submissions must be written in English and must use a
standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. 

At least one author is required to register, at the full rate, to present
accepted papers at the workshop and for the paper to appear in the
conference proceedings.

 

Important Dates

*	Paper submission deadline: December 21, 2023
*	Acceptance notification: January 15, 2024
*	Camera-ready paper submission: January 22, 2024
*	Workshop: March 11, 2024

Organizers

•                     Lingli Deng, China Mobile, China
(denglingli at chinamobile.com <mailto:denglingli at chinamobile.com> )

•                     Bruno Chatras, Independent Expert, France
(brunochatras at gmail.com <mailto:brunochatras at gmail.com> )

•                     Kostas Katsalis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
(katsalis at docomolab-euro.com <mailto:katsalis at docomolab-euro.com> )

•                     Uwe Rauschenbach, NOKIA, Germany
(uwe.rauschenbach at nokia.com <mailto:uwe.rauschenbach at nokia.com> )

 

 

 

 

 

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