28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks

Towards full life cycle automation in the IoT-edge-cloud continuum

March 11-14, 2025
Paris, France

2nd Workshop on iNtent drivEn autonomouS neTwORks (NESTOR)

Description

The term “intent” in autonomous networks refers to the goals or objectives set by external customers and internal Operation and Management (O&M) personnel, which represents a set of business or operational requirements in declarative form or even using natural language. Intent enables users to express their business objectives, business logic, constraints, etc. towards the communication networks without needing to specify the detailed implementation way.

Intent-driven autonomous networks rely upon a processing flow that transforms user input (sometimes in “natural language”) into implementation-agnostic “intent primitives”, which are then translated into implement­ation-specific “executable policies” and “configurations”. As the system evolves, this processing flow should be adaptive to feedback and dynamically changing conditions.

This alleviates the need for customers to understand the technical intricacies and detailed policies of managing network services and reduces the network O&M burden to achieve potentially conflicting goals, providing users with flexible and reliable network services, enabling efficient utilization of network resources, and fully exploiting the network potential.

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 Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers to this workshop.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

Organizers

Paper Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted to ICIN 2025 Workshops will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from the IEEE website:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Workshop papers can be up to 8 pages (Full papers) and 5 pages (Short papers), including tables, figures and references.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N32464

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2024  
  • Acceptance notification: January 14, 2025  
  • Camera-ready paper submission: January 21, 2025 

Technical Program Committee members

  • Bruno Chatras, Independent Expert
  • Anubhab Banerjee, Nokia
  • David Blaisonneau, Orange, France
  • Elham Dehghan Biyar, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Eric Debeau, Orange, France
  • Joan Triay, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
  • Konstantinos Kousias, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Kostas Katsalis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
  • Lingli Deng, China Mobile research Institute, China
  • Mirko D’Angelo, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Pedro Braconnot Velloso, CNAM, France
  • Refik Fatih Ustok, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
  • Uwe Rauschenbach, Nokia, Germany
  • Deng Hui, Huawei, China
  • Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany