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TY - GEN
T1 - To All Intents and Purposes
T2 - Towards Flexible Intent Expression
AU - Bezahaf, Mehdi
AU - Davies, Eleanor
AU - Rotsos, Charalampos
AU - Race, Nicholas
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PY - 2021/6/28
Y1 - 2021/6/28
N2 - Intent-based networking provides an efficient mechanism to manage complexity in network management. The paradigm allows users to express their network requirements, and an autonomic framework translates them into a networkconfiguration. Existing efforts focus primarily on modeling connectivity intents for end-users. Nonetheless, in order to deliver autonomic behavior in network management, an intent system must support a wider range of network management processes and model human-to-human interactions, essential for network operation. Furthermore, such interactions may involve nontechnicalusers and require the design of novel interfaces, supporting free-text and conversational intent expression. Towards this goal, we present an intent architecture that supports novel network management intents, such as network path rerouting and applying periods of ’service protection’. The paper includesdetails of our prototype implementation that is capable of deploying such intents in under five seconds in a large mininet topology.
AB - Intent-based networking provides an efficient mechanism to manage complexity in network management. The paradigm allows users to express their network requirements, and an autonomic framework translates them into a networkconfiguration. Existing efforts focus primarily on modeling connectivity intents for end-users. Nonetheless, in order to deliver autonomic behavior in network management, an intent system must support a wider range of network management processes and model human-to-human interactions, essential for network operation. Furthermore, such interactions may involve nontechnicalusers and require the design of novel interfaces, supporting free-text and conversational intent expression. Towards this goal, we present an intent architecture that supports novel network management intents, such as network path rerouting and applying periods of ’service protection’. The paper includesdetails of our prototype implementation that is capable of deploying such intents in under five seconds in a large mininet topology.
U2 - 10.1109/netsoft51509.2021.9492554
DO - 10.1109/netsoft51509.2021.9492554
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781665446358
BT - 1st International Workshop on Intent-based Networking
PB - IEEE
CY - Tokyo, Japan
ER -