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INTENTIONAL

Intelligent ai-driveN inTENT interpretatION for 6G operAtors and verticaLs

Intent definition, interpretation, fulfillment and assurance for B5G/6G vertical services.

INTENTIONAL facilitates the declaration and management of intents for B5G/6G vertical services, which can be used as baseline for the request of experiments in 6G-PATH. Intent-driven experiments will speed-up the experiment definition, setup, configuration, execution and validation for vertical application developers. Asking just for what they need from the mobile network, they will not have to specify complex configuration settings. Relying on advanced technologies, like LLMs, context recognition, experimenters’ profiling, slicing, service and network automation via closed loops, INTENTIONAL will translate and manage the verticals’ intent, guaranteeing accurate interpretation, immediate fulfilment and continuous assurance.

INTENTIONAL makes wide use of standard interfaces based on TMForum and 3GPP specifications. This allows to facilitate internal interoperability with multi-vendor or multi-platform management systems, and to offer common APIs and information models at the northbound interface for vertical users or third-party components.

In a nutshell, INTENTIONAL introduces three advancements to the 6G-PATH ORO testbed, as follows:

An Intent Interpreter, to allow user-friendly declaration of service intents through a generative AI prompt offering bidirectional interactions and mechanisms to enrich the intent with information from the surrounding context or experimenters’ profile.

An Intent Manager, embedding features for intent translation, preliminary assessment, fulfilment and assurance, and operating at the service, network and infrastructure layers.

Support of TMForum APIs for service intents, service catalogue, service ordering and activation, and 5G slice service activation management (TMF 921, 633, 640, 641, 924), as well as 3GPP modelling of network intents (3GPP TS 28.312).