Baranda, JorgeMangues-Bafalluy, JosepZeydan, EnginVettori, L.Martínez, RicardoLi, XiGarcia Saavedra, AndresChiasserini, C. F.Casetti, C.Tomakh, K.Kolodiazhnyi, O.Bernardos Cano, Carlos Jesús2021-01-212021-01-212020-11-09Baranda, J., Mangues-Bafalluy, J., Zeydan, E., Vettori, L., Martínez, R., X. Li, X., Garcia-Saavedra, A., ... C. J. Bernardos, C. J. (2020). On the Integration of AI/ML-based scaling operations in the 5Growth platform. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN).978-1-7281-8159-2https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31756This paper has been presented at 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined NetworksThe automated assurance of vertical service level agreements (SLA) is a challenge in 5G networks. The EU 5Growth project designs and develops a 5G End-to-End service platform that integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques for any decision-making process in the management and orchestration (MANO) stack. This paper presents the detailed architecture and first prototype of the 5Growth platform taking AI/ML-based network service auto-scaling decisions. This also includes the modification of the ETSI network service descriptors for requesting AI/ML-based decisions for orchestration problems and the integration of a data engineering pipeline for real-time data gathering and model execution. Our evaluation shows that AI/ML-related service handling operations (1&-2 s.) are well below instantiation/termination procedures (80/60 s., respectively). Furthermore, online classification can be performed in the order of hundreds of milliseconds (600 ms).5eng© 2020 IEEE.ScalingManagementEnd-To-End service orchestrationAI/MLNFV/SDNAutomated networkconference paperTelecomunicacioneshttps://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN50289.2020.9289863open accessProceedings of 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)CC/0000031414