Intent-Based Autonomous Optical Networking: Is the Optical Community Ready for the Human-free ...

Intent-Based Autonomous Optical Networking: Is the Optical Community Ready for the Human-free Service Management Era?

Co-organisers:  Raul Muñoz, CTTC, Ricard Vilalta, CTTC, Marco Ruffini, Trinity College Dublin, Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI Research

Intent-based autonomous networking will deliver services in agile, rapid, and scalable manner with less and less human intervention. However, notable research efforts are needed. For example, are the optical equipment ready for streaming real-time telemetry data of optical parameters? Is the control plane scalable enough to ingest these data explosion? Who owns these data in a disaggregated multi-provider environment, and how they can be shared? How can ML algorithms extract relevant data from the multiplicity of data sources? Can an intent be accurately and efficiently translated to cope with all required optical configuration parameters?  This workshop will discuss when and where Intent-based and autonomous optical networking is expected to be introduced first, including the vendors’ and operators’ strategies regarding the adoption of these technologies. Then, the workshop will discuss what are the implications for deploying Intent-based autonomous optical networking, including redesign of the end-to-end control and management architectures, beyond traditional approaches.

Session 1 - Use cases, requirements, and perspectives 

Main requirements and challenges for Transport Slicing, 

Juan-Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Telefónica

Challenges from optical equipment manufacturer, 

Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking

F5G perspective and work on optical network automation

Marcus Brunner, Huawei 

Integration of Configuration, Control and Telemetry in Disaggregated Optical Networks

Ramon Casellas, CTTC

Panel (30 minutes)

Coffee break

Session 2:  Control and service management architecture 

ML Workflows for Optical Systems

Daniel Kilper, Trinity college Dublin

Data Space Connectors for Regulated Telemetry Sharing in Open and Disaggregated Networks

Behnam Shariati, HH

High-speed Closed-loop Control Technique across Optical, Wireless, and Computing Domains for Ensuring End-to-End Low Latency

Kota Asaka, NTT

Intent-based optical transport networks in support of 6G

Anna Tzanakaki, University of Athens