articleIEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsNov 3, 2022Closed access

A Survey on Intent-Based Networking

ALAris LeivadeasMFMatthias Falkner

Université du Québec à Montréal · Cisco Systems (Canada)

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Abstract

Current and future network services and applications are expected to revolutionize our society and lifestyle. At the same time, the abundant possibilities that new network technologies offer to end users, network operators and administrators have created a cumbersome network configuration process to accommodate all different stakeholders and applications. Thus, lately, there is a need to simplify the management and configuration of the network, through possibly an autonomic and automatic way. Intent Based Networking (IBN) is such a paradigm that envisions flexible, agile, and simplified network configuration with minimal external intervention. This paper provides a detailed survey of how the IBN concept works…

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  • Agile software development
  • Computer science
  • Automation
  • Process (computing)
  • Configuration Management (ITSM)
  • Process management
  • Engineering
  • Software engineering
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