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==The IBN Networks for 6G technology to optimize investments in telecommunications infrastructure==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3126/paper42.pdf
The IBN Networks for 6G Technology to Optimize Investments in
Telecommunications Infrastructure
Andrzej Rychlik 1
1
Lodz University of Technology, Wólczańska str., 215, Łódź, 90-924, Poland
Abstract
The development of the telecommunications structure for digital data transmission is taking
place concurrently with the development of telecommunications services. New services
generate demand for transmission with higher quality parameters. Achieving them makes it
possible to create new services with a demand for transmission with even higher parameters.
The 2020-2030 decade is dominated by 5G networks and SDN. A decade after 2030, it is
predicted that these will be 6G networks and IBN. The 6G standard describes the equipment
used to build the network in line with geographic conditions, optimized for performance. The
IBN network will flexibly adapt to the needs of end users. In areas where a 5G network is being
built, after 2030 it is enough to adapt it to the 6G standard, and in other areas, 6G networks
should be built immediately. Obviously, this approach will not solve the interdependence of
infrastructure and service development in telecommunications, but will provide clear guidance
over a period of time to investors, end-users and market regulators.
Keywords 1
6G, IBN, investment, market, telecommunication infrastructure
1. Introduction On the one hand, a person deserves remuneration
for the work he has done, on the other hand, he
falls ill, goes on strike, and may even sabotage.
Optimizing investments in
Also in terms of security, man is the weakest
telecommunications infrastructure on the basis of
element. In terms of investment profitability, the
knowledge and data obtained before the start of
world is divided into 3 zones: white, gray and
the investment is not sufficient to gain a
black. The black zone brings income both in the
competitive advantage. The income for the
area of investment and operation. The gray area
investor is generated by satisfied end-users and
brings income only in the area of exploitation and
their satisfaction varies over time. Dissatisfied
loss in the area of investments. The white zone
end-users shift their services to a competing
generates losses both in the area of investment and
operator. Today's telecommunications systems
operation. The world is divided into zones by
cover land, air, oceans and space, and end-users
people working, teaching and living in these
are moving faster and longer. There is no
zones. If there is a low population density and
stabilization on the services market either.
people do not need access to digital data
Improving the capacity and quality of digital data
transmission, there is a white zone in this area. If
transmission generates new services, and their
there is a high population density and end-users
owners, in turn, report their needs for transmission
need high-quality digital data transmission, there
with even higher quality parameters. In military
is a black zone in this area. The division into zones
systems, the development of the enemy base
can be stationary, e.g. cities, forests, lakes or
forces the development of your own base. The
dynamically changing e.g. stadiums, districts:
most costly in all these processes turns out to be a
day-adults at work, children at school, night-
human, designer, technician, and administrator.
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everyone at home. All these parameters are also 2. The Role of 6G Technology in
influenced by changes in the ecosystem, e.g. wars,
pandemics, earthquakes, fires, floods. Optimize Investments
The development of network architectures and
methods of their design described by the author in To reach the goal of 6G and to overcome the
publications [1], [2], [3], [4] leads to the next constraints of 5G for supporting new challenges,
generation of telecommunications infrastructure B5G wireless systems will need to be developed
and intent-based networks. The author proposes with new attractive features. The 6G
using 6G technology to eliminate the division into communication networks will fulfill the laggings
white, gray and black zones. On the other hand, of 5G system by introducing new synthesis of
IBN technology to optimize the constructed future services such as ambient sensing
network in terms of increasing the efficiency of intelligence and new human-human and human-
funds already invested in building a digital data machine interaction, a pervasive introduction of
transmission network. Replacing humans with AI and the incorporation of new technologies such
elements of artificial intelligence in the design, as terahertz (THz), 3-dimensional (3D)
construction and operation process predicts that it networking, quantum communications,
will increase the competitiveness of these holographic beam forming, backscatter
investors in relation to the others who will use communication, intelligent reflecting surface
classical methods. (IRS), and proactive caching [10]. The key drivers
Resignation from Computer Aided Design of 6G will be the convergence of all the past
systems in favour of Artificial Intelligence Aided features, such as network densification, high
Design systems and from manual network throughput, high reliability, low energy
management in favour of Intent Based consumption, and massive connectivity. The 6G
Networking is proposed because we are heading system would also continue the trends of the
toward a society of fully automated remote previous generations, which included new
management systems. Autonomous systems are services with the addition of new technologies.
becoming popular in all areas of society, including The new services include AI, smart wearable,
industry, health, roads, oceans, and space. In this implants, autonomous vehicles, computing reality
regard, millions of sensors are integrated into devices, sensing, and 3D mapping. [4] The most
cities, vehicles, homes, industries, food, toys, and critical requirement for 6G wireless networks is
other environments to provide a smart life and the capability of handling massive volumes of
automated systems. Hence, a high-data-rate with data and very high-data-rate connectivity per
reliable connectivity will be required to support device [1].
these applications. It is proposed to implement the
6G paradigm, because 5G networks will not have
the capacity to deliver a completely automated
and intelligent network that provides everything
as a service and completely immersive
experiences. Although the 5G communication
systems will offer significant improvements over
the existing systems, they will not be able to fulfil
the demands of future emerging intelligent and
automation systems after ten years (2020-2030).
[3] New items that may require sixth-generation
(6G) system include: massive man-machine
interfaces, ubiquitous computing among local
devices and the cloud, multi-sensory data fusion
to create multi-verse maps and different mixed-
reality experiences, and precision in sensing and Figure 1: Possible 6G communication
actuation to control the physical world. [6] architecture scenario. [6]
It is proposed to optimize investments in
telecommunications infrastructure - the design
and construction should be based on the 6G
technology paradigm and the operation on the
IBN paradigm. Each stage along the way is characterized by
increasingly automated and simpler ways of
3. The Role of IBN Technology in deploying and managing network operations.
Manual – Operations staff imperatively
Optimize Investments manage data centre network devices using CLI,
SNMP, and basic and discrete tools.
Intent-based networking is a software-enabled Semi automated – Scripts and rules-based
automation process that uses high levels of management combine with traditional tools for
intelligence, analytics, and orchestration to basic automation, visibility into network data, and
improve network operations and uptime. When alerts that enable reaction to network events.
operators describe the business outcomes they Software-defined data centre – A software
wish to accomplish, the network converts those abstraction of the network infrastructure enables
objectives into the configuration necessary to faster, secure deployment of services and
achieve them, without individual tasks having to applications.
be coded and executed manually. Traditionally, Automation-centric data centre – Builds upon
networking has been driven by manual, the software-defined data centre by automating
command-line interface (CLI)-based operations, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and
basic element management systems (EMSs), or orchestration.
automation scripts. Most network outages result Intent-based data centre – Continually collects
from human errors that occur during these and converts all pertinent data needed to take the
network operations. Intent-based networking automated actions that keep the network aligned
slashes errors and risk while improving with dynamic business intent, data centre
operational efficiencies in a number of ways. conditions, and policies.[4]
Validates intent objects before applying them to Intent-based networking (IBN) has become a
the network. Intent objects are high-level hot buzzword in the networking industry, with
representations of the desired properties or marketing departments at all sorts of vendors
outcomes to be achieved with the network. waving the “intent flag.” Some have legitimate
Validation is syntactic and includes semantic products, some have cobbled together bits and
checks against network wide policy.[7] Operators pieces out of their product portfolios and called it
simply apply the appropriate versioned intent an IBN solution, and some supposed IBN
object to return to a known good state if products perform only a part of what a real IBN
something goes wrong during a deployment push. system (IBNS) does. [7]
Limits the impact and scope of failures during Intent-based networking is not only about
new intent rollout through well-defined policy. intent fulfilment; it’s also about intent assurance.
Intent-based fallback. As the system knows the With intent-based analytics, networks remain in
desired outcomes for a specific configuration, it compliance with the original business intent
can maintain those outcomes even in the face of throughout the service lifecycle. Intent-based
outages or device errors by reconfiguring other analytics provide insights into network services,
network elements or using different mechanisms enabling teams to think about their network as a
to achieve the same results. Modern network complete service.[9]
orchestration systems have made commercial, Using analytics, intent-based networking
intent-based network systems for mission-critical enables faster root-cause identification when
and scaled deployments possible. Intent-based things go awry. It informs operators of conditions
networks dramatically reduce the time to deliver and insights that need attention as with traditional
reliable services from days or weeks to minutes unified management approaches but filters out the
and help address operational challenges once the irrelevant “noise” so it’s easier to see what’s most
infrastructure has been deployed.[7] important quickly, as shown in fig. 3.
Correct implementation of IBN to help
manage a network that is made in 6G technology
requires understanding what IBN is not. IBN is,
unquestionably, a popular industry buzzword.
Your challenge is to see beyond the fluff and
Figure 2: The journey to intent-based data centre evaluate IBN solutions based not only on what
organization [5] they are, but also by what it is not. Interestingly,
all the functions discussed in this section can be one or a few of these functions and claims that
and probably are a part of an IBN solution. What that, alone, is IBN.
you have to be wary of is a solution that performs
Figure 3: Analytics keep network operations aligned with original business intent throughout the
service lifecycle. [5]
IBN is not automation. integrate with your orchestration system so that
Automation, from home-grown scripts to orchestration can become a source of declared
platforms like Ansible and Puppet, are essential to intent.
the fast, reliable operation of a network. It’s also IBN is not a policy engine.
an essential element of IBN. But automation Policy engines can both “push” policies to
software says nothing about expressed intent and network nodes and “pull” information from the
doesn’t by itself maintain a data store of network nodes to continually verify correct policy
information to act on. You can automate bad enforcement. But the translation of intent into an
decisions just as well as good ones. actionable “how” is missing. Policies just govern
IBN is not configuration management. aspects of the network, such as forwarding,
A Level 0 IBNS may look like just a fancy security, and prioritization. A policy engine can
configuration management platform that use control loops to enforce these policies, but it
translates intent into practical configurations. has no concept of desired outcomes. You have to
Such a system falls far short of significantly work those out yourself and specify in detail the
improving your operational effectiveness. rules to implement and enforce the policies.[5].
IBN is not SDN.
You may be thinking that IBN is just a form 4. Conclusions
of software-defined networking (SDN). But SDN,
in its usually understood role, performs only a part
In order to maximize the income from
of what an IBNS does. SDN maintains an
abstracted model of the physical network. It takes investments in telecommunications infrastructure,
generic configuration commands as input and it is necessary to take a holistic view of the process
pushes device-specific configuration as its output. by which this income is generated. We invest in
But that’s all. SDN contains no translational digital data transmission because the modern
world does not need autonomous systems. He
element to convert intent into generic
configuration and it has no capability for focused on remote control and remote
continued compliance verification and transmission of digital information. In the field of
adjustment. Like automation and configuration military systems, each 6th generation fighter will
management, SDN is an element of IBN, but is have a certain number of drones to cooperate with.
not itself IBN. In civil systems, there will be autonomous cars,
IBN is not orchestration. distance work, distance learning, the Internet of
Orchestration helps all of your IT systems — Things and augmented reality. In order to ensure
compute, storage, and network — act in sync to a collision-free exchange of data, in such an
accomplish your higher IT objectives. IBN, as organized society, a physical layer of the network
again the name implies, is concerned just with is needed that is adapted to the geography of the
your network. That said, a good IBNS should area it is to cover. This role is best fulfilled by a
network made in 6G technology. Higher layers are Wireless Communication Systems:
to be agile, reconfigurable to meet the needs of Applications, Requirements, Technologies,
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