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Chat-Driven Optimal Management for Virtual Network Services
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DOI：10.1109/tnsm.2026.3726950.png)
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This paper proposes a chat-driven network management framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) with optimization-based virtual network allocation, enabling intuitive and reliable reconfiguration of virtual network services. Conventional intent-based networking (IBN) methods depend on statistical language models to interpret user intent, but cannot guarantee the feasibility of generated configurations. To overcome this, we develop a two-stage framework consisting of an Interpreter, which extracts intent from natural language prompts using NLP, and an Optimizer, which computes feasible virtual machine (VM) placement and routing via integer linear programming. In particular, the Interpreter translates user chats into update directions, i.e., whether to increase, decrease, or maintain parameters such as CPU demand and latency bounds, thereby enabling iterative refinement of the network configuration. In this paper, two distinct Interpreter implementations are introduced: a Sentence-BERT model with support vector machine (SVM) classifiers and a large language model (LLM). Experiments in single-user and multi-user settings show that the framework dynamically updates VM placement and routing while preserving feasibility. The LLM-based approach achieves higher accuracy with fewer labeled samples, whereas the Sentence-BERT with SVM classifiers provides significantly lower latency suitable for real-time operation. We also compare our cascade structure method with an end-to-end LLM approach, highlighting our proposed method’s high level of reliability.
Keywords:
Natural language processing
intent-based networking
virtual network allocation
optimization
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