The ENI#16 meeting on 7-10 December 2020 was "online only" due to travel restrictions or delegates not allowed to travel.

• 29 delegates were registered and 29 were present
• Operators were present from: China Telecom, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Telefonica and TIM
• Government Ministry Institutes being members from Germany, China, Japan and South Korea
• 163 documents were handled

The meeting was very productive and achieved significant progress. The work-items were progressed to stable output on the deliverables Draft GR ENI 008 on Intent Aware Network Autonomicity and Draft GR ENI 009 on Data Processing mechanisms both planned to be approved at the end of December. Approval as final draft on the evaluation of categories Draft GR ENI 010 describing measures of automation of the Classes published last year in GR ENI 007 v1.1.1.

Significant progress was made on the Policy Modelling for AI in ENI 005 work-item RGS/ENI-0016 aligned with MEF. An open area is approved for all stable drafts and previously published deliverables. The meeting approved and ratified the publication of the next versions on ENI use cases, and requirements version 3.1.1. Terminology for release 2 was progressed and a revised baseline approved. ENI 002 (ENI requirements) was published during the meeting as V3.1.1.

The meeting also worked on a Liaison with 3GPP SA5 and a separate Liaison with ISG NFV. These will be sent in January 2021. The Liaisons introduced ETSI ISG ENI’s work and asked for further collaboration highlighting ENI 001, ENI 005 and ENI 011. The meeting approved a new work-item on gap analysis for Intent policy management surveying the current and needed work.

In Progress work of ETSI ISG ENI in Release 2

The "Use Cases" ENI 001, "Requirements" ENI 002, "Terminology" ENI 004 and "System Architecture" ENI 005 are all open for the next release and work has started on each specification. A work-item on big data and its classification was approved to start ENI 009. The "AI Network Categorization" ENI 007 is published and a related report ENI 010 in the evaluation is progressing well.

Experiential Networked Intelligence (ENI) Release 2 specifications and reports are:

• ENI 001 (WI RGS/ENI-0014) Use Cases under publication
• ENI 002 (WI RGS/ENI-0015) Requirements published as V3.1.1
• ENI 004 (WI RGR/ENI-0018) Terminology
• ENI 005 (WI RGS/ENI-0016) System Architecture
• ENI 008 (WI DGR/ENI-0013) Intent Aware Network Autonomicity sent to stability review
• ENI 009 (WI DGR/ENI-0017) Data Mechanisms sent to stability review
• ENI 010 (WI DGR/ENI-0020) Evaluation of categories for AI application to Networks approved as final draft
• ENI 011 (WI DGS/ENI-0021) Mapping between ENI architecture and operational systems
• ENI 020 (WI DGR/ENI-0022) Reactive In-situ Flow Information Telemetry

(the links above point to the work programme and are publicly available)

Status of Proofs of Concepts:

The PoC description and presentations are available on the public ETSI ENI WiKi Pages.

PoC #1: Intelligent Network Slice Lifecycle Management

China Telecom, Huawei, Intel, CATT, DAHO Networks, China Electric Power Research Institute

Haining Wang                                                 Jun-2018              Completed

PoC #2: Elastic Network Slice Management

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Telecom Italia S.p.A., CEA-Leti, Samsung R&D Institute UK, Huawei

Marco Gramaglia                                           Nov-2018            Completed

PoC #3: SHIELD, security through NFV

Telefonica, Space Hellas, ORION, Demokritos (NCSR)

Diego R. Lopez / Antonio Pastor                Jan-2019              Completed

PoC #4: Predictive Fault management of E2E Multi-domain Network Slices

Portugal Telecom/Altice Labs, SliceNet Consortium

António Gamelas / Rui Calé                        Mar-2019            Completed

PoC #5: AI Enabled Network Traffic Classification

China Mobile, Huawei, Intel, Tsinghua University

Weiyuan Li                                                       Jun- 2019            Completed

PoC #6: Intelligent caching based on prediction of content popularity

China Unicom, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Samsung, Cambricon, Huawei

Bingming Huang                                             Sep-2019             Completed

PoC #7: Intelligent time synchronization of network

China Unicom, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Samsung, Cambricon, Huawei

Bingming Huang                                             Sep-2019             Completed

PoC #8: Intent-based user experience optimization

China Telecom, Huawei Technologies, AsiaInfo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Dong Li                                                             Jan-2020              Final Report

PoC #9: Autonomous Network Slice Management for 5G Vertical Services

TIM, Nextworks, Samsung, WINGS, UC3M

Gino Carrozzo                                       Jan-2020              Extension to March 2021

PoC #10: Intelligent Telecom Network Energy Optimization

China Mobile Research Institute, Intel, Quanta Cloud Technology, Hong Kong ASTRI (Applied Science and Technology Research Institute)

Yan Yang                                                          Jan-2020              Final Report

PoC#11: Intelligent Energy Management of DC

China Telecom, Intel, AsiaInfo, Samsung, Huawei

Yu Zeng                                                             April-2020           Ongoing

PoC #12: Intelligent Transmission Network Optimization

China Mobile Research Institute, China Mobile Group Zhejiang Co., Ltd., CEA, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Huawei, Intel

Chen Shaofan                                                  September-2020          Ongoing

PoC#13: Intelligent Coverage Optimization of 5G Massive MIMO BS

China Telecom, Intel, Inspur

Xueqi Yuan                                                       October-2020            Ongoing

Progress reports were accepted from PoCs 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13. PoCs 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 are completed. Final reports were received at this meeting from PoC#08 and PoC#10. These are public on the ENI Wiki page. New PoC proposals are invited according to the process outlined in ENI 006 V2.1.1.

A Drafting group is in the final review stage on a 2^nd ENI whitepaper for the future of the ENI work. This drafting group comprised many member organizations: China Telecom, Huawei, Intel, TIM, Samsung, Futurewei, AsiaInfo, Portugal Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, CEA, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, University of Carlos III in Madrid and CAICT.

The ISG will now focus on the next version of the work.

Let’s remind our readers that the ISG is open to ETSI members and non-ETSI members alike. The different players in the value chain are welcome to join the ISG effort, contribute to the development of these key specifications and demonstrate Proofs of Concepts (PoCs). To join, please contact: ISGsupport@etsi.org

The ETSI ENI Industry Specification Group was created in February 2017. Today members come from operators, vendors and research institutes all over the world.

The next ENI plenary meeting (ENI#17) will be online due to travel restrictions caused by the COVD-19 virus pandemic.