Predictive network management and orchestration towards 6G

The vision of future 6G systems is a complete interconnection of human, physical, and digital worlds as different dimensions that seamlessly interact to support new services. An essential element to empower this 6G vision is the use of automation based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) within the network orchestration and management system in order to cope with the envisioned heterogeneity and distribution of infrastructures and services. The use of AI/ML needs to deal with huge amounts of data generated at all levels: infrastructure, platform, and service that need to be efficiently collected, filtered, analyzed and processed for better decision making, mainly through the enforcement of predictive actions for faster adaptation based on trained algorithms. Hexa-X is a European flagship project to build technical foundations for such a vision and is developing 6G technology enablers for new radio access technologies, connected intelligence with edge-to-network continuum and accurate network disaggregation for more dynamicity and flexibility. We provide an introductory framework for predictive management and orchestration in 6G networks as seen by Hexa-