New Immersive Interface for Zero-Touch Management in 5G Networks

Abstract

Network management have posed ever-increasing complexity with the evolution of virtualized and softwarized mobile networking paradigm, demanding advanced network visualization and automation technologies to address this significant paradigm shift. This paper provides a novel holographic immersive network management interface that extends the standardized ETSI Zero-Touch Network and Service Management (ZSM) reference architecture to allow network administrators to understand real-time automated tasks in a 5G network without human intervention. This augmented reality based system has been validated and prototyped using Microsoft Hololens 2 in a realistic 5G infrastructure.