CONTROL IN AUTONOMOUS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING INTENT ONTOLOGY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description of management capabilities in autonomous telecommunication
systems using ontologies of intents. In modern telecommunication networks, there are trends towards
decentralization of systems and endowing their components with the ability to operate autonomously,
while the business logic of their operation is determined at the system level, which in many cases requires
interaction between several or many system components acting as service providers or consumers.
The article considers autonomous networks managed using the TMN model (from the English Telecommunication
Management Network - telecommunication management network), which is a multi-level model
that includes levels of business management, services, telecommunication network and its components.
To manage networks in the paradigm of service providers and consumers, the international association
uniting service providers and their consumers in the field of telecommunications TMForum has developed
a concept based on the use of ontologies of intents (Intent in Autonomous Networks), which allow formulating
management tasks in autonomous networks by defining criteria for managing networks and their
elements from the point of view of the intentions of the participants in the interaction to receive and provide
services. Due to the fact that the ontology of intentions is described in the OWL format, which represents
it as a semantic network of interconnected classes, the article proposes to use a telecommunication
network model in the form of a knowledge graph for managing telecommunication networks, which is
associated with both the domain ontology of telecommunication networks and the ontology of intentions,
which ensures the autonomy of network components due to management using intentions, and the use of a
domain ontology in the field of telecommunication networks facilitates integration with third-party suppliers
and consumers of the operator's services. The proposed approach to jointly using the ontology of intentions,
policies and a network model in the form of a knowledge graph for managing telecommunication
networks at the business level is new and its applicability is shown in the article using the example of implementing
the registration process and fulfilling an application for connecting a telecommunication service.
The considered example shows the possibility of jointly using a telecommunication network model in
the form of a knowledge graph built on the basis of a domain ontology and an ontology of intentions when
performing high-level business processes for managing an autonomous telecommunication network.