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AI/ML for NFV Usecases

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6 is the number of Thoth, and Ibis/Beak-of-Ibis is one of the symbols  of Thoth - The above symbol captures both.

Introduction

AI has the potential in creating value in terms of enhanced workload availability and improved performance and efficiency for NFV usecasesuse cases. This work aims to build machine-Learning models and Tools that can be used by Telcos (typically by the operations team in Telcos). Each of these models aims to solve a single problem within a particular category. For example, the first category we have chosen is Failure prediction, and we aim to create 6 models - failure prediction of VMs. Containers, Nodes,  Network-Links, Applications, and middleware services. This project also aims to define a set of data models for each of the decision-making problems, that will help both provider providers and consumer consumers of the data to collaborate.

Name

 

Presentations



12-November-2021

Updated: 19-November

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Approach

Decision-Driven Data Analytics. 

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/decisions-not-data-should-drive-analytics-programs

PTL

Rohit Singh Rathaur 

Committers

Sridhar K. N. Rao (Sridhar Rao)

Intern

Rohit Singh Rathaur

 

Key-Info (info.yaml)

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Code Block

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language

Girish L

In discussion: 4 CS/Math Students.

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project_creation_date: '01 June 2021'
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    name: 'Rohit Singh Rathaur'
    email: 'rohitrathore.imh55@gmail.com'
    company: 'Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra'
    id: 'TeAmp0is0N' # Linux Foundation ID
    timezone: 'IST ((GMT+5:30)'
primary_contact: *anuket_PROJECTNAME_ptl
issue_tracking:
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    type: 'slack'
    server: 'anuketworkspace.slack.com'
    channel: '#thoth'
meetings: # Fields may be blank if no standing meetings
    - type: 'zoom'
      agenda: 'https://wiki.anuket.io/display/HOME/Thoth-Meeting+Minutes' # eg: 'https://wiki.anuket.io/display/HOME'
      url: 'https://zoom.us/j/96163911066' # eg: 'https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/819733085'
      repeats: 'bi-weekly' # ex: weekly, monthly, bi-weekly
      time: '13:00 UTC' # ex: '16:00 UTC'
repositories:
    - 'thoth' # ex: myproject
committers:
    - name: 'Sridhar K. N. Rao' # repeat all fields for each committer
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      company: 'The Linux Foundation'
      id: 'sridharkn'
tsc:
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    approval: 'https://wiki.anuket.io/display/HOME/2021-08-03+TSC+Agenda+and+Minutes' # ex: https://wiki.anuket.io/display/HOME/2021-01-12+TSC+Agenda+and+Minutes
    changes:
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Contributors

  1. Rohit Singh Rathaur
  2. Kanak Raj 
  3. Shubhank Saxena 
  4. Akanksha Singh
  5. Jahanvi Ojha


Meeting Details

Topic: AI/ML for NFV
Time: 13:00 Universal Time UTC

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Meeting ID: 961 6391 1066
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acEvZCMvjT

Weekly Meeting minutes

04-June-2021


Gerrit Details


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Contributions


Sl. No.ContributorContributionDurationCertificate of Appreciation OR Contribution
1Girish L


Survey of:

  1. Existing works on AI/ML in Networking - works related to NFV - problems, ML-Techniques, Data, etc.
  2. NFV Problems - Event Correlation, VNF Placement, Anomaly Detection, VNF Failure Prediction, and Synthetic Data Generation.
  3. OSS Projects for AI/ML that can be (re)used
1 Month

Timeline and Goals

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Phase-1 Goals 

  1. Running ML-Framework with at least 3 existing (enhanced) models for NFV.
  2. Generate Synthetic Data using ML.
  3. Identify 3 problems for which ML can be applied in NFV - For which no acceptable models exist.
    1. Identify the ML technique that can be used for these problems.

Phase-1 Bonus

  1. Build Two Tools
    1. AlgoSelector
    2. TVLVapp 

Phase-1 Weekly Activity

12 weeks, if the Intern is working Full-time.

Sl. No.Activity by Intern/Researcher(s)                                                              WeekComment / Support from Advisor (s)               Updates by Rohit Singh Rathaur1

Understand the state of art - Publications and OS projects

Analyze the Gaps.

Create a 1-Page report based on the analysis.

Identify the problems in NFV for which the techniques are still not good enough.

1.5

Share the State of the art survey.

Provide initial gap analysis.

Understand the art of publications and OS projects. Decided to go with LFN Acumos. Chose a problem domain: Failure Prediction to start working with. Completed the reading papers related to Failure Prediction and updated the implementation details till now whatever I have got.

Status: Completed

1-page report where mentioned failures and what type of failures. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N9LKZjx117zQHJSLcCFK8dwiOpswWyhZECaNNS6NKHo/edit?ts=60c3613c#gid=0 

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Deploy the ML Framework (Tentative: LFN Acumos).

  • Document the usage workflow
  • Try any existing model.
1.5

Provide access to the server(s).

Intel Pod?

Reading about RNNs to work with existing FP models. Agreed to work with Tensorflow and LF Acumos.  Got the Intel Pod 12 access and successfully connected. Now working on deploying Acumos. Completed the survey part and working on the installation of Acumos but still, it's failing. I was not able to run docker, so still figuring it out. But In the meantime, I am working on reproducing the failure prediction work using the local environment. Updated the sheet with implementation details but mostly codes are not open-source yet.

 

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Collect, analyze and document the implementation of 3 existing models for NFV.

Collect the data.

1Provide the 3 models to use.4

Deploy the models on the framework (2)

Collect the data (contd).

1None.5Test and optimize the models - If possible.2Suggestions for optimization approaches.6Study ML technique for Synthetic time-series data generation (STSDG)1Suggest the right technique7Implement the technique for STSDG28Test and optimize STSDG19Knowledge Transfer, Handoff (Buffer)1