Level of Trust and Privacy Management in 6G Intent-based Networks for Vertical Scenarios

Abstract

Security is one of the main concerns when designing future 6G networks. Most of the components of service chains are software-based and their security must be ensured. In this work we propose a system that will check the level of trust of 6G services following 3 complementary approaches: attestation, generation of proofs of transit and usage of smart contracts whose execution will be published via Distributed Ledger Technology in order to enable their traceability. The service orchestration function will use reinforcement learning to formulate optimised service orchestration decisions. Services will be specified in a declarative model, following a privacy-aware flavour of intent-based networking. The proposed architecture will take into account privacy of every stakeholder: final users, service providers and infrastructure providers.