VIVoNet: Visually-represented, Intent-based, Voice-assisted Networking

TL;DR

VIVoNet introduces a voice-assisted intent-based networking system that simplifies network management by enabling administrators to control and diagnose networks through voice commands and real-time visualizations, leveraging SDN technology.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel voice-assisted intent-based networking system that abstracts network complexity and enhances management through voice commands and interactive visualization.

Findings

Enables network configuration via voice commands.

Provides real-time topology visualization with intent highlights.

Simplifies network management compared to traditional methods.

Abstract

Networks have become considerably large, complex and dynamic. The configuration, operation, monitoring, and troubleshooting of networks is a cumbersome and time-consuming task for the network administrators as they must deal with the physical layer, underlying protocols, addressing systems, control rules, and many other low-level details. This research paper proposes an Intent-based networking system (IBNS) coupled with voice-assistance that can abstract the underlying network infrastructure and allow administrators to alter its behavior by expressing intents via voice commands. The system also displays the real-time network topology along with the highlighted intents on an interactive web application that can be used for network diagnostics. Compared to traditional networks, the concepts of software-defined networking (SDN) make it easier to integrate a voice assistant that allows configuring the network based on intents.