survey

SLA Management in Intent-Driven Service Management Systems: A Taxonomy and Future Directions

Authors:

Nishanth Sastry,

Rajkumar BuyyaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 55, Issue 13s

Article No.: 292, Pages 1 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/3589339

Published: 13 July 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Traditional, slow and error-prone human-driven methods to configure and manage Internet service requests are proving unsatisfactory. This is due to an increase in Internet applications with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Which demands faster and fault-free service deployment with minimal or without human intervention. With this aim, intent-driven service management (IDSM) has emerged, where users express their service level agreement (SLA) requirements in a declarative manner as intents. With the help of closed control-loop operations, IDSM performs service configurations and deployments, autonomously to fulfill the intents. This results in a faster deployment of services and reduction in configuration errors caused by manual operations, which in turn reduces the SLA violations. This article is an attempt to provide a systematic review of How the IDSM systems manage and fulfill the SLA requirements specified as intents. As an outcome, the review identifies four intent management activities, which are performed in a closed-loop manner. For each activity, a taxonomy is proposed and used to compare the existing techniques for SLA management in IDSM systems. A critical analysis of all the considered research articles in the review and future research directions are presented in the conclusion.

References

[1]

Khizar Abbas, Talha Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Afaq, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2021. Network slice lifecycle management for 5g mobile networks: An intent-based networking approach. IEEE Access 9 (2021), 80128–80146.

[2]

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Joon-Myung Kang, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang, and Wenfei Wu. 2017. Supporting diverse dynamic intent-based policies using janus. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. 296–309.

Digital Library

[3]

Fred Aklamanu, Sabine Randriamasy, and Eric Renault. 2019. Intent-based 5G IoT application network slice deployment. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF). IEEE, 141–143.

[4]

Shiyam Alalmaei, Yehia Elkhatib, Mehdi Bezahaf, Matthew Broadbent, and Nicholas Race. 2020. SDN heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, 1–5.

[5]

Paul Alcock, Ben Simms, Will Fantom, Charalampos Rotsos, and Nicholas Race. 2022. Improving intent correctness with automated testing. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 61–66.

[6]

Azzam Alsudais and Eric Keller. 2017. Hey network, can you understand me? In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). IEEE, 193–198.

[7]

Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, and Alexander Clemm. 2022. NLP4: An architecture for intent-driven data plane programmability. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 25–30.

[8]

Ahmet Cihat Baktir, Amadeu Do Nascimento Junior, András Zahemszky, Ankita Likhyani, Dagnachew Azene Temesgene, Dinand Roeland, Elham Dehghan Biyar, Refik Fatih Ustok, Marin Orlić, and Mirko D’Angelo. 2022. Intent-based cognitive closed-loop management with built-in conflict handling. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 73–78.

[9]

Anubhab Banerjee, Stephen S. Mwanje, and Georg Carle. 2022. Contradiction management in intent-driven cognitive autonomous RAN. In Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking). IEEE, 1–6.

[10]

Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz, Jorge Baranda, Miquel Payaró, and Josep Mangues-Bafalluy. 2022. Intent-based orchestration for application relocation in a 5G cloud-native platform. In Proceedings of the Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). IEEE, 94–95.

[11]

Mounir Bensalem, Jasenka Dizdarević, Francisco Carpio, and Admela Jukan. 2021. The role of intent-based networking in ICT supply chains. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). IEEE, 1–6.

[12]

Mehdi Bezahaf, Eleanor Davies, Charalampos Rotsos, and Nicholas Race. 2021. To all intents and purposes: Towards flexible intent expression. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 31–37.

[13]

Flavio Bonomi, Rodolfo Milito, Jiang Zhu, and Sateesh Addepalli. 2012. Fog computing and its role in the internet of things. In Proceedings of the First Edition of the MCC Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing. ACM, 13–16.

Digital Library

[14]

Davide Borsatti, Walter Cerroni, and Stuart Clayman. 2022. From category theory to functional programming: A formal representation of intent. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 31–36.

[15]

Davide Borsatti, Walter Cerroni, Gianluca Davoli, and Franco Callegati. 2019. Intent-based service function chaining on ETSI NFV platforms. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF). IEEE, 144–146.

[16]

Karen Campbell, Liz Cruz, Bob Flanagan, Bill Morelli, O’Neil Brendan, Stephane Teral, and Julian Watson. 2019. The 5G Economy: How 5G will contribute to the global economy. (November2019). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vnyj6j9c.

[17]

Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker. 2007. Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 37, 4 (2007), 1–12.

Digital Library

[18]

Xiaotian Chang, Chungang Yang, Hao Wang, Ying Ouyang, Ru Dong, Junjie Guo, Zeyang Ji, and Xianglin Liu. 2022. KID: Knowledge graph-enabled intent-driven network with digital twin. In Proceedings of the 27th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC). IEEE, 272–277.

[19]

Wu Chao and Shingo Horiuchi. 2018. Intent-based cloud service management. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN). IEEE, 1–5.

[20]

Xi Chen, Hongfang Yu, Shizhong Xu, and Xiaojiang Du. 2020. CompRess: Composing overlay service resources for end-to-end network slices using semantic user intents. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 31, 1 (2020), 1–20.

Digital Library

[21]

Ankur Chowdhary, Abdulhakim Sabur, Neha Vadnere, and Dijiang Huang. 2022. Intent-driven security policy management for software-defined systems. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 19, 4 (2022), 5208–5223.

[22]

Filippos Christou. 2022. Decentralized intent-driven coordination of multi-domain IP-optical networks. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, 359–363.

[23]

Chaehong Chung and Jaehoon Paul Jeong. 2020. A design of IoT device configuration translator for intent-based IoT-cloud services. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT). IEEE, 52–56.

[24]

Joaquin Chung, Sean Donovan, Jeronimo Bezerra, Heidi Morgan, Julio Ibarra, Russ Clark, and Henry Owen. 2019. Novel network services for supporting big data science research. Future Generation Computer Systems 98 (2019), 512–521.

Digital Library

[25]

Alan Collet, Albert Banchs, and Marco Fiore. 2022. Lossleap: Learning to predict for intent-based networking. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE, 2138–2147.

Digital Library

[26]

Douglas Comer and Adib Rastegatnia. 2018. OSDF: An intent-based software defined network programming framework. In Proceedings of the 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). IEEE, 527–535.

[27]

IDG Communications. 2020. IDG Cloud Computing Survey 2020. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/7swkmspd.

[28]

Armin Cremers and Seymour Ginsburg. 1975. Context-free grammar forms. Computer and System Sciences 11, 1 (1975), 86–117.

Digital Library

[29]

Andrew Curtis-Black. 2021. Network Operator Intent a Basis for User-Friendly Network Configuration and Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Canterbury.

[30]

Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni, Slavica Tomovic, Chiara Buratti, Chiara Contoli, and Franco Callegati. 2019. Intent-based service management for heterogeneous software-defined infrastructure domains. International Journal of Network Management 29, 1 (2019), 1–22.

Digital Library

[31]

Nathan F Saraiva de Sousa, Danny Lachos Perez, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, and Pedro Henrique Gomes. 2021. End-to-end service monitoring for zero-touch networks. Journal of ICT Standardization 9, 2 (2021), 91–112.

[32]

Kristina Dzeparoska, Hadi Bannazadeh, and Alberto Leon-Garcia. 2018. SDX-based security collaboration: Extending the security reach beyond network domains. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, 63–71.

[33]

Kristina Dzeparoska, Nasim Beigi-Mohammadi, Ali Tizghadam, and Alberto Leon-Garcia. 2021. Towards a self-driving management system for the automated realization of intents. IEEE Access 9 (2021), 159882–159907.

[34]

Nour el houda Nouar, Sami Yangui, Noura Faci, Khalil Drira, and Saïd Tazi. 2021. A semantic virtualized network functions description and discovery model. Computer Networks 195 (2021), 1–20.

[35]

Abdessalam Elhabbash, Gordon S Blair, Gareth Tyson, and Yehia Elkhatib. 2018. Adaptive service deployment using in-network mediation. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, 170–176.

[36]

Vincenzo Eramo, Mostafa Ammar, and Francesco Giacinto Lavacca. 2017. Migration energy aware reconfigurations of virtual network function instances in NFV architectures. IEEE Access 5 (2017), 4927–4938.

[37]

Flavio Esposito, Jiayi Wang, Chiara Contoli, Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni, and Franco Callegati. 2018. A behavior-driven approach to intent specification for software-defined infrastructure management. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). IEEE, 1–6.

[38]

GSNFV ETSI. 2013. Network functions virtualisation (nfv): Architectural framework. ETsI Gs NFV 2, 2 (2013), V1.

[39]

Thomas Favale, Francesca Soro, Martino Trevisan, Idilio Drago, and Marco Mellia. 2020. Campus traffic and e-Learning during COVID-19 pandemic. Computer Networks 176 (2020), 1–9.

[40]

Carolina Fernández, Andrés Cárdenas, Sergio Giménez, Juncal Uriol, Mikel Serón, and Carlos Giraldo-Rodríguez. 2022. Application of multi-pronged monitoring and intent-based networking to verticals in self-organising networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet). IEEE, 1–10.

[41]

Kai Gao, Luis M Contreras, and Sabine Randriamasy. 2020. Bi-directional network and application interaction: Application intents upon abstracted network information. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Network Application Integration/CoDesign. 43–50.

Digital Library

[42]

Pedro Henrique Gomes, Magnus Buhrgard, János Harmatos, Swarup Kumar Mohalik, Dinand Roeland, and Jörg Niemöller. 2021. Intent-driven closed loops for autonomous networks. Journal of ICT Standardization 9, 2 (2021), 257–290.

[43]

Nour Gritli, Ferhat Khendek, and Maria Toeroe. 2021. Decomposition and propagation of intents for network slice design. In Proceedings of the 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF). IEEE, 165–170.

[44]

TianZhang He, Adel N Toosi, Negin Akbari, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, and Muhammad Aamir Cheema. 2022. An Intent-based Framework for Vehicular Edge Computing. (September2022). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/3kvt5yv4.

[45]

Othmane Hireche, Chafika Benzaïd, and Tarik Taleb. 2022. Deep data plane programming and AI for zero-trust self-driven networking in beyond 5G. Computer Networks 203 (2022), 1–11.

Digital Library

[46]

Michaela Iorga, Larry Feldman, Robert Barton, Michael J. Martin, Nedim S Goren, and Charif Mahmoudi. 2018. Fog computing conceptual model. NIST Special Publication 500-325 (2018), 1–14.

[47]

Arthur Selle Jacobs, Ricardo José Pfitscher, Ronaldo Alves Ferreira, and Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville. 2018. Refining network intents for self-driving networks. In Proceedings of the Afternoon Workshop on Self-Driving Networks. 15–21.

Digital Library

[48]

Arthur S. Jacobs, Ricardo J. Pfitscher, Rafael H. Ribeiro, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Lisandro Z. Granville, Walter Willinger, and Sanjay G. Rao. 2021. Hey, lumi! using natural language for \(\lbrace\)intent-based\(\rbrace\) network management. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 21). 625–639.

[49]

Christopher Janz, Nigel Davis, David Hood, Mathieu Lemay, David Lenrow, L Fengkai, Fabian Schneider, John Strassner, and Andrew Veitch. 2016. Intent NBI: Definition and principles. Technical Recommendation the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) (2016), 1–20.

[50]

Joon-Myung Kang, Jeongkeun Lee, Vasudevan Nagendra, and Sujata Banerjee. 2017. LMS: Label management service for intent-driven cloud management. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management. IEEE, 177–185.

Digital Library

[51]

Ouassim Karrakchou, Nancy Samaan, and Ahmed Karmouch. 2022. Mapping applications intents to programmable NDN Data-planes via event-b machines. IEEE Access 10 (2022), 29668–29686.

[52]

Talha Ahmed Khan, Khizar Abbass, Adeel Rafique, Afaq Muhammad, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2020. Generic intent-based networking platform for E2E network slice orchestration & lifecycle management. In Proceedings of the 21st Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). IEEE, 49–54.

[53]

Talha Ahmed Khan, Afaq Muhammad, Waleed Akbar, Asif Mehmood, Adeel Rafiq, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2021. Intent-based networking approach for service route and qos control on KOREN SDI. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 24–30.

[54]

Jinyong Tim Kim, Eunsoo Kim, Jinhyuk Yang, Jaehoon Paul Jeong, Hyoungshick Kim, Sangwon Hyun, Hyunsik Yang, Jaewook Oh, Younghan Kim, Susan Hares and Linda Dunbar. 2020. IBCS: Intent-based cloud services for security applications. IEEE Communications Magazine 58, 4 (2020), 45–51.

[55]

Mariam Kiran, Eric Pouyoul, Anu Mercian, Brian Tierney, Chin Guok, and Inder Monga. 2018. Enabling intent to configure scientific networks for high performance demands. Future Generation Computer Systems 79 (2018), 205–214.

[56]

Barbara Kitchenham and Stuart Charters. 2007. Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. EBSE Technical Report version 2.3 (2007), 1–65.

[57]

Bikas Koley. 2019. A Primer to Intent Driven Networking. (August2019). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/et5bydr7.

[58]

Diego Kreutz, Fernando M. V. Ramos, Paulo Esteves Verissimo, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Siamak Azodolmolky, and Steve Uhlig. 2014. Software-defined networking: A comprehensive survey. Proceedings of the IEEE 103, 1 (2014), 14–76.

[59]

Himal Kumar, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Craig Russell, and Vijay Sivaraman. 2019. Enhancing security management at software-defined exchange points. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 16, 4 (2019), 1479–1492.

[60]

Takayuki Kuroda, Yutaka Yakuwa, Takashi Maruyama, Takuya Kuwahara, and Kozo Satoda. 2022. Automation of intent-based service operation with models and AI/ML. In Proceedings of the Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE, 1–6.

Digital Library

[61]

Takuya Kuwahara, Takayuki Kuroda, Takao Osaki, and Kozo Satoda. 2021. An intent-based system configuration design for IT/NW services with functional and quantitative constraints. IEICE Transactions on Communications 104, 7 (2021), 791–804.

[62]

Aris Leivadeas and Matthias Falkner. 2022. A survey on intent based networking. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 25, 1 (2022), 625–655.

Digital Library

[63]

Tong Li, Chungang Yang, and Lingli Yang. 2022. Intent-driven QoS-aware routing management for flying ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC). IEEE, 1172–1177.

[64]

Guozhi Lin, Jingguo Ge, and Yulei Wu. 2022. Towards zero touch networks: From the perspective of hierarchical language systems. IEEE Network 36, 6 (2022), 1–10.

[65]

Tong Liu, Franco Callegati, Walter Cerroni, Chiara Contoli, Maurizio Gabbrielli, and Saverio Giallorenzo. 2018. Constraint programming for flexible service function chaining deployment. (2018), 1–10. arXiv:1812.05534. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05534.

[66]

Hocine Mahtout, Mariam Kiran, Anu Mercian, and Bashir Mohammed. 2020. Using machine learning for intent-based provisioning in high-speed science networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Systems and Network Telemetry and Analytics. 27–30.

Digital Library

[67]

Antonio Marsico, Marco Savi, Domenico Siracusa, and Elio Salvadori. 2020. An automated negotiation framework for application-aware transport network services. Optical Switching and Networking 38 (2020), 1–13.

[68]

B. Martini, M. Gharbaoui, and P. Castoldi. 2022. Intent-based zero-touch service chaining layer for software-defined edge cloud networks. Computer Networks 212 (2022), 1–15.

Digital Library

[69]

Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, and Jonathan Turner. 2008. OpenFlow: Enabling innovation in campus networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 38, 2 (2008), 69–74.

Digital Library

[70]

Joseph McNamara, Erik Aumayr, Liam Fallon, and Enda Fallon. 2022. A flexible interpreter for intent realisation. In Proceedings of the Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE, 1–6.

Digital Library

[71]

Asif Mehmood, Afaq Muhammad, Talha Ahmed Khan, Javier Jose Diaz Rivera, Javed Iqbal, Ihtesham Ul Islam, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2020. Energy-efficient auto-scaling of virtualized network function instances based on resource execution pattern. Computers & Electrical Engineering 88 (2020), 1–15.

[72]

Kashif Mehmood, Katina Kralevska, and David Palma. 2022. Intent-driven autonomous network and service management in future cellular networks: A structured literature review. Computer Networks (2022), 1–19.

[73]

Kashif Mehmood, H. V. Kalpanie Mendis, Katina Kralevska, and Poul E. Heegaard. 2021. Intent-based network management and orchestration for smart distribution grids. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT). IEEE, 1–6.

[74]

Kashif Mehmood, David Palma, and Katina Kralevska. 2022. Mission-critical public safety networking: An intent-driven service orchestration perspective. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization. IEEE, 37–42.

[75]

Anne-Ruth Meijer, Leonardo Boldrini, Ralph Koning, and Paola Grosso. 2022. User-driven path control through intent-based networking. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS). IEEE, 9–19.

[76]

Anu Mercian, Faraz Ahmed, Puneet Sharma, Shaun Wackerly, and Charles Clark. 2021. Mind the semantic gap: Policy intent inference from network metadata. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 312–320.

[77]

Xinru Mi, Yanbo Song, Chungang Yang, Jiaming Zhang, Ying Ouyang, and Jingwen Zhang. 2022. Intent-driven wireless 6G mobile communication systems with fundamentals, architecture, and use case. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC). IEEE, 1–6.

[78]

Inder Monga, Chin Guok, John MacAuley, Alex Sim, Harvey Newman, Justas Balcas, Phil DeMar, Linda Winkler, Tom Lehman, and Xi Yang. 2018. SDN for end-to-end networked science at the exascale (SENSE). In Proceedings of the Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS). IEEE, 33–44.

[79]

Ali Muhammad, Long Qu, and Chadi Assi. 2020. Delay-aware multi-source multicast resource optimization in NFV-enabled network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE, 1–7.

[80]

Vasudevan Nagendra, Arani Bhattacharya, Vinod Yegneswaran, Amir Rahmati, and Samir Das. 2020. An intent-based automation framework for securing dynamic consumer iot infrastructures. In Proceedings of the Web Conference. 1625–1636.

Digital Library

[81]

Navid Nazarzadeoghaz, Ferhat Khendek, and Maria Toeroe. 2020. Automated design of network services from network service requirements. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN). IEEE, 63–70.

[82]

Jörg Niemöller, Kevin McDonnell, James O’Sullivan, Dave Milham, Vinay Devadatta, Azahar Machwe, Wang Lei, Tayeb Meriem Ben, and Leonid Mokrushin. 2021. Intent Common Model Version 1.1.0. (Nov2021). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/2nm9t5z2.

[83]

Jörg Niemöller, Róbert Szabó, András Zahemszky, and Dinand Roeland. 2022. Creating Autonomous Networks with intent-based closed loops. (Apr2022). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/254aw248.

[84]

Sian En Ooi, Razvan Beuran, Takayuki Kuroda, Takuya Kuwahara, Ryosuke Hotchi, Norihito Fujita, and Yasuo Tan. 2023. Intent-driven secure system design: Methodology and implementation. Computers & Security 124 (2023), 1–20.

Digital Library

[85]

Ying Ouyang, Chungang Yang, Yanbo Song, Xinru Mi, and Mohsen Guizani. 2021. A brief survey and implementation on refinement for intent-driven networking. IEEE Network 35, 6 (2021), 75–83.

Digital Library

[86]

Lei Pang, Chungang Yang, Danyang Chen, Yanbo Song, and Mohsen Guizani. 2020. A survey on intent-driven networks. IEEE Access 8 (2020), 22862–22873.

[87]

Jrgen Quittek, P. Bauskar, T. BenMeriem, A. Bennett, and M. Besson. 2014. Network functions virtualisation (nfv)-management and orchestration. ETSI NFV ISG, White Paper (2014), 0733–8716.

[88]

Adeel Rafiq, Muhammad Afaq, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2020. Intent-based networking with proactive load distribution in data center using IBN manager and Smart Path manager. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 11, 11 (2020), 1–18.

[89]

Rafael Hengen Ribeiro, Arthur Selle Jacobs, Ricardo Parizotto, Luciano Zembruzki, Alberto Egon Schaeffer-Filho, and Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville. 2020. A bottom-up approach for extracting network intents. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. Springer, 858–870.

[90]

Rafael Hengen Ribeiro, Arthur Selle Jacobs, Luciano Zembruzki, Ricardo Parizotto, Eder John Scheid, Alberto Egon Schaeffer-Filho, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, and Burkhard Stiller. 2022. A deterministic approach for extracting network security intents. Computer Networks 214 (2022), 1–12.

[91]

Mohammad Riftadi and Fernando Kuipers. 2019. P4i/o: Intent-based networking with p4. In Proceedings of the Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 438–443.

[92]

Mohammad Riftadi, Jorik Oostenbrink, and Fernando Kuipers. 2019. GP4P4: Enabling self-programming networks. arXiv:1910.00967. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00967. (2019), 1–7.

[93]

Jose Diaz Rivera, Talha Ahmed Khan, Waleed Akbar, Afaq Muhammad, Asif Mehmood, and Wang-Cheol Song. 2022. Automation of network anomaly detection and mitigation with the use of IBN: A deployment case on KOREN. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM). IEEE, 294–299.

[94]

Barun Kumar Saha, Luca Haab, and Łukasz Podleski. 2022. Intent-based industrial network management using natural language instructions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT). IEEE, 1–6.

[95]

Davide Sanvito, Daniele Moro, Mattia Gulli, Ilario Filippini, Antonio Capone, and Andrea Campanella. 2018. ONOS intent monitor and reroute service: Enabling plug&play routing logic. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft). IEEE, 272–276.

[96]

Nathan Saraiva, Nazrul Islam, Danny Alex Lachos Perez, and Christian Esteve Rothenberg. 2019. Policy-driven network traffic rerouting through intent-based control loops. In Proceedings of the Anais do XXIV Workshop de Gerência e Operação de Redes e Serviços. SBC, 15–28.

[97]

Eder J. Scheid, Cristian C. Machado, Muriel F. Franco, Ricardo L. dos Santos, Ricardo P. Pfitscher, Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho, and Lisandro Z. Granville. 2017. Inspire: Integrated nfv-based intent refinement environment. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM). IEEE, 186–194.

Digital Library

[98]

Eder J. Scheid, Patrick Widmer, Bruno B. Rodrigues, Muriel F. Franco, and Burkhard Stiller. 2020. A controlled natural language to support intent-based blockchain selection. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). IEEE, 1–9.

[99]

Azimeh Sefidcon, Martin Julien, Róbert Szabó, Gemma Vall-llosera, and Per Persson. 2019. Cloud evolution: The era of intent-aware clouds. (May2019). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/cwnu3j9c.

[100]

Yogesh Sharma, Deval Bhamare, Andreas Kassler, and Javid Taheri. 2023. Intent negotiation framework for intent-driven service management. IEEE TechRxiv (2023), 1–7.

[101]

Yogesh Sharma, Bahman Javadi, Weisheng Si, and Daniel Sun. 2017. Reliable and energy efficient resource provisioning and allocation in cloud computing. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. 57–66.

Digital Library

[102]

Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, and Javid Taheri. 2020. Networking models and protocols for/on edge computing. Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications 33 (2020), 77–95.

[103]

Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, and Andreas Kassler. 2020. Performance benchmarking of virtualized network functions to correlate key performance metrics with system activity. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF). IEEE, 73–81.

[104]

Yogesh Sharma, Javid Taheri, Weisheng Si, Daniel Sun, and Bahman Javadi. 2020. Dynamic resource provisioning for sustainable cloud computing systems in the presence of correlated failures. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 6, 4 (2020), 641–654.

[105]

Zhan Shi, Ying Zeng, and Zanhong Wu. 2021. Service chain orchestration based on deep reinforcement learning in intent-based IoT. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks. Springer, 875–882.

[106]

Pontus Sköldström, Stéphane Junique, Abdul Ghafoor, Antonio Marsico, and Domenico Siracusa. 2017. DISMI-an intent interface for application-centric transport network services. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON). IEEE, 1–4.

[107]

Yanbo Song, Chungang Yang, Jiaming Zhang, Xinru Mi, and Dusit Niyato. 2022. Full-life cycle intent-driven network verification: Challenges and approaches. IEEE Network (2022), 1–8.

[108]

Manh-Tien-Anh Nguyen, Sondes Bannour Souihi, Hai-Anh Tran, and Sami Souihi. 2022. When NLP meets SDN: An application to global internet exchange network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications. IEEE, 2972–2977.

[109]

John F. Sowa. 1992. Semantic networks. Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence 2 (1992), 1493–1511.

[110]

Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Xiaozheng Tie, Starsky HY Wong, and Hongyi Zeng. 2016. Robotron: Top-down network management at facebook scale. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference. 426–439.

Digital Library

[111]

Stan Szpakowicz, Anna Feldman, and Anna Kazantseva. 2018. Computational linguistics and literature. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 5 (2018), 1–2.

[112]

Thomas Szyrkowiec, Michele Santuari, Mohit Chamania, Domenico Siracusa, Achim Autenrieth, Victor Lopez, Joo Cho, and Wolfgang Kellerer. 2018. Automatic intent-based secure service creation through a multilayer SDN network orchestration. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 10, 4 (2018), 289–297.

[113]

Yun Teng, Yuefeng Shen, Hui Yang, Bowen Bao, Qiuyan Yao, and Lvda Wang. 2022. Conflict-driven intention negotiation based on reinforcement learning in intent defined optical networks. In Proceedings of the 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC). IEEE, 1–3.

[114]

Bingchuan Tian, Xinyi Zhang, Ennan Zhai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Qiaobo Ye, Chunsheng Wang, Xin Wu, Zhiming Ji, Yihong Sang, Ming Zhang, Da Yu, Chen Tian, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Y. Zhao. 2019. Safely and automatically updating in-network ACL configurations with intent language. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication. 214–226.

Digital Library

[115]

TmForum. 2021. Autonomous Networks Technical Architecture. (July2021). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/mvfw9y5e.

[116]

Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya. 2014. Interconnected cloud computing environments: Challenges, taxonomy, and survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 47, 1 (2014), 1–47.

Digital Library

[117]

Yoshiharu Tsuzaki and Yasuo Okabe. 2017. Reactive configuration updating for intent-based networking. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN). IEEE, 97–102.

[118]

Daphne Tuncer, Marinos Charalambides, Gioacchino Tangari, and George Pavlou. 2018. A northbound interface for software-based networks. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management. IEEE, 99–107.

[119]

Benjamin E. Ujcich, Adam Bates, and William H. Sanders. 2020. Provenance for intent-based networking. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, 195–199.

[120]

Refik Fatih Ustok, Ahmet Cihat Baktir, and Elham Dehghan Biyar. 2022. Asset administration shell as an enabler of intent-based networks for industry 4.0 automation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). IEEE, 1–8.

Digital Library

[121]

Ricard Vilalta, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Raul Munoz, Young Lee, Haomian Zheng, Yi Lin, Victor López, and Luis Miguel Contreras. 2018. Fully automated peer service orchestration of cloud and network resources using ACTN and CSO. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM). IEEE, 124–129.

[122]

Huazhe Wang. 2019. Enhancing Automated Network Management. Ph.D. Dissertation. UC Santa Cruz.

[123]

Lin Wang, Lei Jiao, Ting He, Jun Li, and Max Mühlhäuser. 2018. Service entity placement for social virtual reality applications in edge computing. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2018-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE, 468–476.

Digital Library

[124]

Yuhang Wang, Zhihong Tian, Yanbin Sun, Xiaojiang Du, and Nadra Guizani. 2020. LocJury: An IBN-based location privacy preserving scheme for IoCV. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 22, 8 (2020), 5028–5037.

Digital Library

[125]

Yiming Wei, Mugen Peng, and Yaqiong Liu. 2020. Intent-based networks for 6G: Insights and challenges. Digital Communications and Networks 6, 3 (2020), 270–280.

[126]

Chao Wu, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenji Murase, Hiroaki Kikushima, and Kenichi Tayama. 2022. An intent-driven daas management framework to enhance user quality of experience. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 22, 4 (2022), 1–25.

Digital Library

[127]

Chao Wu, Shingo Horiuchi, and Kenichi Tayama. 2019. A resource design framework to realize intent-based cloud management. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). IEEE, 37–44.

[128]

Yuming Wu, Nishok Narasimha Mohanasamy, Lalita Jagadeesan, and Muntasir Raihan Rahman. 2021. Changes in intent: Behavioral predictions of distributed SDN controller reconfiguration. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW). IEEE, 433–438.

[129]

Yiran Xiao, Wei Quan, Huachun Zhou, Mingyuan Liu, and Kang Liu. 2022. Lightweight natural language driven intent translation mechanism for intent based networking. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS). IEEE, 46–51.

[130]

Min Xie, Pedro Henrique Gomes, Jörg Niemöller, and Jens Patrick Waldemar. 2022. Intent-driven management for multi-vertical end-to-end network slicing services. In Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). IEEE, 1285–1291.

[131]

Hui Yang, Kaixuan Zhan, Qiuyan Yao, Xudong Zhao, Jie Zhang, and Young Lee. 2020. Intent defined optical network with artificial intelligence-based automated operation and maintenance. Science China Information Sciences 63, 6 (2020), 1–12.

[132]

Jinhyuk Yang and Jaehoon Paul Jeong. 2018. An automata-based security policy translation for network security functions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence. IEEE, 268–272.

[133]

Engin Zeydan and Yekta Turk. 2020. Recent advances in intent-based networking: A survey. In Proceedings of the 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring). IEEE, 1–5.

[134]

Jiaming Zhang, Junjie Guo, Chungang Yang, Xinru Mi, Libin Jiao, Xiaoming Zhu, Lihui Cao, and Ruixing Li. 2021. A conflict resolution scheme in intent-driven network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). IEEE, 23–28.

[135]

Lulu Zhang, Chungang Yang, Ying Ouyang, Tong Li, and Alagan Anpalagan. 2022. ISFC: Intent-driven service function chaining for satellite networks. In Proceedings of the 27th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC). IEEE, 544–549.

[136]

Qinghua Zhang, Jia Chen, Deyun Gao, and Xiajing Wang. 2022. Intent-based service policy conflict management algorithm. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). IEEE, 19–24.

[137]

Xiaoang Zheng and Aris Leivadeas. 2021. Network assurance in intent-based networking data centers with machine learning techniques. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, 14–20.

[138]

Xiaoang Zheng, Aris Leivadeas, and Matthias Falkner. 2022. Intent based networking management with conflict detection and policy resolution in an enterprise network. Computer Networks 219 (2022), 1–14.

Digital Library

Cited By

Vaithianathan KPernabas JParthiban LRashid MAlshamrani S(2024)Normalized group activations based feature extraction technique using heterogeneous data for Alzheimer’s disease classificationPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.250210(e2502)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2024
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2502
Mendis HLange SHeegaard P(2024)Admission Control in Intent-based Network Slices for the Smart Grid Usecase2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)10.1109/SmartGridComm60555.2024.10738080(405-411)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm60555.2024.10738080
Gu WSun XLiu JHuo YChen ZZhang JGu JYang YLyu M(2024)KPIRoot: Efficient Monitoring Metric-based Root Cause Localization in Large-scale Cloud Systems2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00046(403-414)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00046
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

SLA Management in Intent-Driven Service Management Systems: A Taxonomy and Future Directions
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
      1. n-tier architectures
  2. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
    1. Availability
    2. Reliability
2. Networks
  1. Network services

Recommendations

Modeling Service Contracts Composition, Management and Visualization with tree graphs: Ma.Vi.C.
MEDES '14: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

The paper presents Ma.Vi.C, a tool to visualize and manage contracts, and in particular Service Level Agreements (SLAs), in Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), in order to manage and visualize their composition in IT services chains scenarios. The ...
Implementing the Service Catalogue Management
QUATIC '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Seventh International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

The Service Catalogue is a fundamental need of Information Technology (IT) organizations because it describes in a formal document the available services that these organizations have to provide. The catalogue contains the respective Service Level ...
Proactive SLA Negotiation for Service Based Systems: Initial Implementation and Evaluation Experience
SCC '11: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing

This paper describes a framework that we have developed to integrate proactive SLA negotiation with dynamic service discovery to provide cohesive runtime support for both these activities. The proactive negotiation of SLAs as part of service discovery ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Computing Surveys

ACM Computing Surveys Volume 55, Issue 13s

December 2023

1367 pages

ISSN:0360-0300

EISSN:1557-7341

DOI:10.1145/3606252

Editor:
Albert Zomaya
University of Sydney, Australia

Issue’s Table of Contents

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 13 July 2023

Online AM: 22 June 2023

Accepted: 23 March 2023

Revised: 13 March 2023

Received: 15 July 2022

Published in CSUR Volume 55, Issue 13s

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Survey

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

7
Total Citations
View Citations
820
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)379
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)32

Reflects downloads up to 02 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Vaithianathan KPernabas JParthiban LRashid MAlshamrani S(2024)Normalized group activations based feature extraction technique using heterogeneous data for Alzheimer’s disease classificationPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.250210(e2502)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2024
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2502
Mendis HLange SHeegaard P(2024)Admission Control in Intent-based Network Slices for the Smart Grid Usecase2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)10.1109/SmartGridComm60555.2024.10738080(405-411)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm60555.2024.10738080
Gu WSun XLiu JHuo YChen ZZhang JGu JYang YLyu M(2024)KPIRoot: Efficient Monitoring Metric-based Root Cause Localization in Large-scale Cloud Systems2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00046(403-414)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00046
Mekrache AKsentini AVerikoukis C(2024)Machine Learning in FCAPS: Toward Enhanced Beyond 5G Network ManagementIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials10.1109/COMST.2024.339541426:4(2769-2797)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/COMST.2024.3395414
Gill SWu HPatros POttaviani CArora PPujol VHaunschild DParlikad ACetinkaya OLutfiyya HStankovski VLi RDing YQadir JAbraham AGhosh SSong HSakellariou RRana ORodrigues JKanhere SDustdar SUhlig SRamamohanarao KBuyya R(2024)Modern computing: Vision and challengesTelematics and Informatics Reports10.1016/j.teler.2024.10011613(100116)Online publication date: Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2024.100116
Faisal TDi Francesco Maesa DSastry NMangiante S(2023)JITRA: Just-In-Time Resource Allocation Through the Distributed Ledgers for 5G and BeyondIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking10.1109/TNET.2023.331823932:2(1201-1211)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TNET.2023.3318239
Vitumbiko MKim Y(2023)Heterogeneous Wireless Device Management in Edge Computing Systems for IoT Services2023 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC)10.1109/ICTC58733.2023.10393081(616-618)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC58733.2023.10393081

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Article

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Full Text

View this article in Full Text.

Figures

Tables

Media

View full text|Download PDF

View Issue’s Table of Contents