A Conflict Resolution Scheme in Intent-Driven Network

Intent-Driven Network (IDN) is a promising networking paradigm that makes network management autonomous, flexible, and scalable. IDN reduces the difficulty of network management by translating the declarative user intent to machine-executable policies. Although IDN brings considerable advantages to network management, there exist novel security policy management problems, such as security intent-aware policy conflict. Although there are already some conflict resolution schemes, they are less automated and more energy-consuming. We present a Quadruple-based Intent Conflict Resolution (QICR) engine to address the intent conflict in IDN in this paper. The QICR implements an intent conflict resolution scheme to convert potentially conflicting intents to conflict-free intents. We implement the QICR engine in a simulation platform and demonstrate the proposed conflict resolution scheme's effectiveness.