Defining Intent-Based Service Management Automation for 6G Multi-Stakeholders Scenarios
This article aims to explore the requirements and challenges that Intent-Based Management (IBM) systems should look towards to deliver proper automation management in multi-stakeholder 6G scenarios. To do so, the evolution of the telecommunications actors is presented to identify how they will interact with the use of intents and what IBM systems must face to fulfil with the tenants expectations while interacting among other IBM domains (aggregation vs. federation models). In a second step, this article presents how the IBM systems functionalities should be organized (based on standards research and comparative) and a set of enablers using them to properly deliver the automation needed to accomplish the requests done by the tenants. On a third step, a set of End-to-End (E2E) intent-based services are described to illustrate how the different enablers (and the functionalities they use) may work to reach the E2E service goal. Finally, a set of experimental results related to how intent conflicts should be manage is presented, followed by the conclusions.
Authors
- Josué Castañeda Cisneros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7201-1559)
- José María Jorquera Valero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1365-7573)
- Sokratis Barmpounakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5326-2237)
- Behnam Ojaghi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5642-0974)
- Huy Q. Tran
- Mikko A. Uusitalo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3792-7681)
- Manuel Gil Pérez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7768-9665)
- Giada Landi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-164X)
- Pietro G. Giardina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1419-323X)
- Matthieu Boussard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5256-0462)
- Ioannis Tzanettis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8714-3909)
- Sylvaine Kerboeuf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5382-3989)
- Pol Alemany (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1170-9587)
- Ricard Vilalta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0391-9728)
- Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-8697)
- Diego López (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8326-2000)
- Patrik Rugeland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1227-3677)
- Raül Muñoz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-4499)
- Santiago Rodríguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6781-7838)
- Pawani Porambage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7396-8424)
- Xose R. Sousa
- Mehmet Karaca
Institutions
- Ericsson (Sweden) (SE)
- National Technical University of Athens (GR)
- Nokia (Finland) (FI)
- Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (ES)
- WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece) (GR)
- Maison de la Simulation (FR)
- Telefonica Research and Development (ES)
- Nextworks (Italy) (IT)
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (GR)
- Nokia (France) (FR)
- Universidade de Vigo (ES)
- Universidad de Murcia (ES)
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2025.3554250
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Software-Defined Networks and 5G
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 14.87
Funders
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Gobierno de España