Exploiting Forecasting for Automatic Network Service Operations in Digital Twin Applications

This demo highlights and experimentally proves the adoption of the Forecasting Functional Block (5Gr-FFB) in the orchestration and monitoring operations of the 5G Network Services (NS). In particular, the demo will show how to instantiate an NS with related monitoring functionalities and exploit the 5Gr-FFB for generating forecasting metrics. The interactions among 5Gr-FFB and the other orchestration functional blocks (i.e., the Service Orchestrator (5Gr-SO) and the Vertical oriented Monitoring System (5Gr-VoMS) will be highlighted. The demo considers a robotic Digital Twin use-case deployed at 5Tonic premises. This work represents a first step towards the evolution of advanced close loop operations, consuming hybrid metrics (i.e., retrieved from the monitoring components and the forecasting ones) to perform automatic NS operations with margin in time.