Intent-driven network and service management: Definitions, modeling and implementation

Cognitive autonomous networks imply that will independently derive and execute intelligent decisions, thereby elevating the human operator's role to a higher level of abstraction. At level, operator only specifies desired outcomes, called intents, which must then be supported by corresponding intent-driven capabilities in network or its management functions. Although, Intent-Driven Management (IDM) has been published multiple works, there is still no globally agreed end-to-end view such IDM systems, let alone definition intents. This paper provides comprehensive discussion on core aspects systems combines them into an system with related example solutions. Contrasting against short review scientific standards literature, introduces flexible, generic intents architecture as well modeling support their standardization. The also implementation examples fitting discusses advanced features need provided, including ability detect resolve conflicts between