At a recent industry event, Huawei released the framework and technical roadmap of Intelligent Defined Network (IDN), an SDN-based open enabler platform which can intelligently optimize network configuration and management.
With the core of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, IDN potentially plays an important role in network operation, such as automatic decision-making, resource scheduling and other various scenarios based on the deeply understanding of network and content, said Huawei.
In recent years, evolution towards SDN and NFV has become a predominant trend for networks. The centralized architecture and programmable devices have provided sufficient conditions for high-level automatic controlling and management. Along with the increase of data scale, network management requires more intelligent elements to replace the manual labor in data analysis and resource usage in order to automate the deployment of new policies.
Different to the programmable-oriented of SDN/NFV, the IDN focuses on the question of automatic decision in network management. Huawei plans to construct a “brain system” above the SDN architecture and then build the intelligent decision support mechanism for the entire network.
