Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is a new technology that aims to automate the configuration of networks and facilitate the interaction of all-levels of users with the underlying infrastructure and network equipment. IBN, through the submission of high-level intents describing what the user wants instead of how to do it, is expected to create a flexible and vendor agnostic manner to manage the network, while reducing the complexity and the manually error-prone process to configure the network.

IBN is creating immense opportunities for any kind of network operator and infrastructure provider and reduces the knowledge gap between novice and expert users. However, IBN as a relatively new technology presents a multitude of open challenges that need to be addressed. For instance, how can an intent be expressed appropriately by network users of different experience and addressed to networks with different capabilities? Furthermore, how can intents be accurately translated into low-level configuration policies? Additionally, how can the intent activation be conducted efficiently and be assured throughout its lifetime to guarantee a high- performance configuration that will present the necessary self-properties of an autonomous network?

The above are just few of the many challenges that IBN has to tackle. Accordingly, this workshop is soliciting conceptual, theoretical and experimental contributions to a set of currently unresolved challenges in the area of IBN and autonomous networks, with the goal to create High Performance and self-managed networks.

Topics

• Intent expression through Natural Language Processing

• Intent modeling and policy extraction

• IBN specific languages

• Automated policy conflict detection and resolution

• Intent activation towards high performance networks

• Intent assurance for self-managed networks (Self-Healing, Self-Configuration, Self-
  Optimization, Self-Protection, etc.)

• Architectural considerations for management and orchestration of IBN Systems

• Performance analysis of IBN Systems

• Business and techno-economics opportunities for IBN applications and use cases.

Submission Instructions

Paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages with a font size of 10 using the IEEE conference template. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. All submitted papers will be subject to single blind peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are requested to first register their submissions and submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EDAS. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings.

EDAS Submission link: https://edas.info/N30492