Intent-Driven CoX Resource Management for Space-Terrestrial Networks

Abstract

While network resources are scarce and there are a variety of network mission demands in the space-terrestrial network, low utilization efficiency due to weak resource management makes multiple missions unachievable. The intentdriven networks present a possible way to guarantee autonomous and reliable services according to users' declarative intents, so that users no longer need to focus on how to implement the management and configuration details. In this article, we define coordination, collaboration, and cooperation as CoX, and propose an intent-driven CoX scheme to match resource agents and mission agents. It focuses on satisfying the requirements of complex missions and providing on-demand network services by exploring and exploiting the capabilities of intent-driven networks. To be specific, the intent-driven CoX scheme consists of the coordination intent decomposition, the collaboration intent management, and the cooperation resource management. To demonstrate the main features and performance, we also provide a proof of concept implementation of the intent-driven CoX scheme.