5th International Workshop on Intent-Based Networking (WIN'2025)
June 23, 2025 // Budapest, Hungary
Program
Monday June 23, 2025
09:00 — Welcome and Workshop introduction
09:10 — Keynote talk
Intent in Realizing the Closed Loop Automation
Benoît Claise, Intelligent Operations & Management CTO (Huawei, Belgium)
Benoît Claise joined Huawei Ireland Research Center on Feb 2021 (ex-Cisco Fellow), as Data Communication Intelligent Operations Management CTO, focusing on realizing the ADN vision these days with his team in Ireland.
For the last couple of years, Benoit has been mainly focusing on configuration management, network automation, data-model driven management, YANG-based telemetry, and knowledge graph. Of specific interest for this workshop is the service assurance, with the model-driven telemetry for closed loop automation, on digital map, and intent ... as building blocks to reduce the cost of managing networks.
Served a 6 years term as IETF Operational and Management Area Director, Contributor to the IETF with 35 RFCs, exclusively focused on the YANG models standardization throughout the industry, a labor-intensive but necessary step for the automatic configuration (via NETCONF or RESTCONF) required in today Software Defined Network world.
Benoit also published the books, including "Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI" and "Network management: Accounting and Performance Strategies."
10:30 — Coffee Break
11:00 — Technical Session
GraphGPT: An Intent-based Management System for Next Generation Networks Varun Gowtham, Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Alqama Rao (Brandenburgische Technische Universität & Fokus Fraunhofer), Sindhura Shivaprasad (Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Chemnitz), Marius Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) and Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS & TU Berlin)
Extending intent-powered network management with LMs in B5G infrastructures Claudia Carballo González, Sergio Giménez-Antón, Miquel Tarzan-Lorente, Hatim Chergui and Carolina Fernández-Martínez (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Lightweight LLMs for 3GPP Specifications: Fine-Tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Quantization José de Arimatéa Passos Lopes Junior (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Jayr Pereira (Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil), Diedre Santos Do Carmo, Roberto Lotufo and Christian Esteve Rothenberg (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)