| Title | AI-driven Zero-touch Operations, Security and Trust in Multi-operator 5G Networks: a Conceptual Architecture |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Carrozzo, G., Siddiqui, M. S., Betzler, A., Bonnet, J., Perez, G. M., Ramos, A., Subramanya, T. |
| Conference Name | 2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) |
| Keywords | 5G, 5G initial visions, 5G mobile communication, 5G network solutions, AI-driven operations, artificial intelligence, automated end-to-end network operations, Automation, cognitive network orchestration, Computer architecture, conceptual architecture, cross-domain security, distributed Artificial Intelligence, distributed ledger technologies, distributed security, Europe, highly pervasive network, human factors, Metrics, minimal manual interventions, mobile computing, multioperator 5G networks, network services, Pervasive Computing Security, Pervasive networking, policy-based governance, pubcrawl, QoS profiles, quality of service, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, service lifecycle automation, Spectrum sharing, telecommunication network management, telecommunication security, truly production-level stage, trust architecture, trust orchestration mechanisms, ubiquitous computing, Zero Touch Automation, zero trust, zero-touch automation, zero-touch security |
| Abstract | The 5G network solutions currently standardised and deployed do not yet enable the full potential of pervasive networking and computing envisioned in 5G initial visions: network services and slices with different QoS profiles do not span multiple operators; security, trust and automation is limited. The evolution of 5G towards a truly production-level stage needs to heavily rely on automated end-to-end network operations, use of distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) for cognitive network orchestration and management and minimal manual interventions (zero-touch automation). All these elements are key to implement highly pervasive network infrastructures. Moreover, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) can be adopted to implement distributed security and trust through Smart Contracts among multiple non-trusted parties. In this paper, we propose an initial concept of a zero-touch security and trust architecture for ubiquitous computing and connectivity in 5G networks. Our architecture aims at cross-domain security & trust orchestration mechanisms by coupling DLTs with AI-driven operations and service lifecycle automation in multi-tenant and multi-stakeholder environments. Three representative use cases are identified through which we will validate the work which will be validated in the test facilities at 5GBarcelona and 5TONIC/Madrid. |
| DOI | 10.1109/EuCNC48522.2020.9200928 |
| Citation Key | carrozzo_ai-driven_2020 |
AI-driven Zero-touch Operations, Security and Trust in Multi-operator 5G Networks: a Conceptual Architecture