Orchestration Procedures for the Network Intelligence Stratum in 6G Networks

Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou; Marco Gramaglia; Miguel Camelo; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Evangelos Kosmatos; Michele Gucciardo; Paola Soto; George Iosifidis; Lidia Fuentes; null More Authors

doi:10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188297

Orchestration Procedures for the Network Intelligence Stratum in 6G Networks

Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou, Marco Gramaglia, Miguel Camelo, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Evangelos Kosmatos, Michele Gucciardo, Paola Soto, George Iosifidis, Lidia Fuentes, More Authors

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Abstract

The quest for autonomous mobile networks introdu-ces the need for fully native support for Network Intelligence (NI) algorithms, typically based on Artificial Intelligence tools like Machine Learning, which shall be gathered into a NI stratum. The NI stratum is responsible for the full automation of the NI operation in the network, including the management of the life-cycle of NI algorithms, in a way that is synergic with traditional network management and orchestration framework. In this regard, the NI stratum must accommodate the unique requirements of NI algorithms, which differ from the ones of, e.g., virtual network functions, and thus plays a critical role in the native integration of NI into current network architectures. In this paper, we leverage the recently proposed concept of Network Intelligence Orchestrator (NIO) to (i) define the specific requirements of NI algorithms, and (ii) discuss the procedures that shall be supported by an NIO sitting in the NI stratum to effectively manage NI algorithms. We then (iii) introduce a reference implementation of the NIO defined above using cloud-native open-source tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2023
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	347-352
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3503-1102-0
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3503-1103-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188297
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2023 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 6 Jun 2023 → 9 Jun 2023

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Conference	2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2023
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	6/06/23 → 9/06/23

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Intelligence Plane
Network Intelligence
Network Intelligence Or-chestration

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Chatzieleftheriou, L. E., Gramaglia, M., Camelo, M., Garcia-Saavedra, A., Kosmatos, E., Gucciardo, M., Soto, P., Iosifidis, G., Fuentes, L., & More Authors (2023). Orchestration Procedures for the Network Intelligence Stratum in 6G Networks. In Proceedings of the 2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2023 (pp. 347-352). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188297

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Orchestration Procedures for the Network Intelligence Stratum in 6G Networks. / Chatzieleftheriou, Livia Elena; Gramaglia, Marco; Camelo, Miguel et al.
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