用AI代理和数字孪生自动验证网络变更,提升准确性与效率。
Aether: Network Validation Using Agentic AI and Digital Twin

- 构建五个专精的AI代理协同完成变更验证全流程。
- 在真实网络场景中实现100%错误检测率,6-7分钟完成验证。
- 适合需要快速安全部署的运营商与云网络运维团队。
网络变更验证仍是现代网络运维中关键但主要依赖人工、耗时且易出错的过程。尽管形式化网络验证在离线预部署场景中取得进展,却难以应对持续变更及线上行为验证。现有操作手段分散,测试覆盖不全,问题常在部署后才暴露。本文提出Aether,将生成式智能体与多功能网络数字孪生结合,自动化网络变更验证流程。其采用五类专用网络运维智能体架构,协同完成从意图分析到验证测试的全生命周期任务。智能体依托统一的数字孪生平台(集成建模、仿真与仿真),保持网络状态一致性与实时性。通过在数字孪生上编排智能体协作,Aether实现快速、自动化的变更验证,显著降低人工成本与错误率,提升运维敏捷性与性价比。我们在合成网络变更场景及某大型ISP历史故障数据上评估Aether,结果表明其错误检测率达100%,诊断覆盖率92%-96%,验证耗时仅6-7分钟,远优于传统方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Network change validation remains a critical yet predominantly manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process in modern network operations. While formal network verification has made substantial progress in proving correctness properties, it is typically applied in offline, pre-deployment settings and faces challenges in accommodating continuous changes and validating live production behavior. Current operational approaches typically involve scattered testing tools, resulting in partial coverage and errors that surface only after deployment. In this paper, we present Aether, a novel approach that integrates Generative Agentic AI with a multi-functional Network Digital Twin to automate and streamline network change validation workflows. It features an agentic architecture with five specialized Network Operations AI agents that collaboratively handle the change validation lifecycle from intent analysis to network verification and testing. Aether agents use a unified Network Digital Twin integrating modeling, simulation, and emulation to maintain a consistent, up-to-date network view for verification and testing. By orchestrating agent collaboration atop this digital twin, Aether enables automated, rapid network change validation while reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and improving operational agility and cost-effectiveness. We evaluate Aether over synthetic network change scenarios covering main classes of network changes and on past incidents from a major ISP operational network, demonstrating promising results in error detection (100%), diagnostic coverage (92-96%), and speed (6-7 minutes) over traditional methods.
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