Intent-based mobile backhauling for 5G networks

Intent-based networking is a major component that will transform the manner in which the SDN/NFV-enabled future network infrastructures are operated. In particular, Intent-based networking is expected to play a major role in the multi-technological and software-defined 5G systems development roadmap. In this paper, we present the design and prototype implementation of an Intent-based mobile backhauling interface for 5G networks. Finally, we report on the empirical evaluation of of the proposed Intent-based interface over a small Enterprise WLAN. We also release the entire software stack under a permissive license for academic use.