AI-based Autonomous Control, Management, and Orchestration in 5G: from Standards to Algorithms

While the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to 5G networks has raised a strong interest, standard solutions
to bring AI into 5G systems are still in their infancy and have a
long way to go before they can be used to build an operational
system. In this paper, we contribute to bridging the gap between
standards and a working solution, by defining a framework
that brings together the relevant standards specifications and
complements them with the required missing building blocks. We
populate this framework with concrete AI-based algorithms that
serve different purposes towards developing a fully operational
system. We evaluate the performance resulting from applying our
framework to control, management and orchestration functions,
showing the benefits that AI can bring to 5G systems