Unleashing 5G & 6G with
AI-empowered Automation
The ZSM group is currently progressing with its report on intent (ETSI ZSM 011). Intents express declaratively all the operational expectations an autonomous management domain...
service-management domain level and can span multiple management domains. Multiple closed loops can run simultaneously.
ETSI ZSM 009-1 provides capabilities to support coordination, delegation
and escalation between closed loops while ensuring intelligent, consistent, and coherent service delivery.
Coordination between loops is essential when there is dependency between their operations or when they can adversely interfere with each other. It can also help to improve their operations and
fulfill their goals, for example by sharing information produced by the different closed-loop stages.
This specification also enables the delegation and escalation of respective goals between superior and subordinate closed loops. A superior closed loop can delegate respective goals to the
subordinate closed loop(s), for example by setting the policies and/or the intents that allow the subordinate closed loop to act autonomously. A subordinate closed loop can escalate goals to the
superior closed loop in a situation, for example, where it is not able to achieve the goal assigned to it. Escalation and delegation support the separation of management and automation into
different autonomous areas of concern (end-to-end cross-domain service operations, management domains), where each is responsible for assurance and intelligent automation within its scope.
Figure 4: AI enablers
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These enablers include capabilities to:
- Access the right data, at the right place and at the right time, while ensuring data integrity and trustworthiness.
- Support coordination between multiple, distributed AI applications, ensuring a consistent and holistic operational view and the means to act on it. AI applications can collaborate in learning different tasks or contribute collectively to solve a common problem.
