Across
Automated zero-touch cross-layer provisioning framework for 5G and beyond vertical services
The RSTI group participates in the European project ACROSS (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-A-01-07) coordinated by NOVA TELECOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA SINGLE MEMBER SA with the target to develop an end-to-end service and management platform for next generation networks that will help achieve improved performance, adaptability, growth, energy efficiency and automation.
The ACROSS project designs and implements an end-to-end service deployment and management platform for next-generation networks and services, aiming at unprecedented levels of automation, performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. At its basis, the platform is built as a highly-distributed grid of domain-level orchestrators, spread across multiple geo-dispersed and potentially heterogeneous edge environments, overseen by a cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator. The platform is further enhanced with
- deep end-to-end telemetry to unlock visibility of the intertwined network and compute system states,
- AI-driven intelligence that leverages both the vast number of events originating from the dense IoT ecosystem and detailed monitoring data originating from the ACROSS telemetry sub-system, to generate new insights,
- full-stack cross-domain zero-touch provisioning via programmable “hooks” that exploit events originating from raw telemetry and AI processed events, and
- secure and trusted orchestration mechanisms for trusted computing technologies over large and heterogeneous cloud-edge deployments, as well as orchestration and monitoring of the security VNFs.
The ACROSS concept is developed over a federated heterogeneous validation and testing environment that hosts a number of test cases and scenarios for promoting all potential intelligent and trusted zero-touch provisioning processes with different event triggering origins. The test cases are carefully designed for being promoted as proof of concept (PoC) project submissions to standards and open-source initiatives (targeting but not limited to ETSI ZSM, ETSI NFV-OSM, TMF, ONF).
The RSTI group will contribute to the consortium by developing and validating network scenarios related with Anticipatory Detection, Analysis, & Prevention of Congestion Problems, Smart QoS-aware Zero-Touch and Intelligent Zero-Touch SLA Preservation in order to obtain datasets to train Machine Learning Models.
