| title | Privacy-Preserving Intent Fulfilment and Assurance for 6G RAN |
|---|---|
| authors | Joss Armstrong |
| date | 2026-10-09 |
| venue | arXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed) |
| id | arXiv:2607.08809 |
| affiliation | Ericsson AB |
| upvotes | 1 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01) |
| links | abs pdf hf |
| abstract | Intent-based network management automates 6G service lifecycles, but existing fulfilment and assurance approaches require traffic inspection, per-flow tracking, or vendor-internal telemetry. These requirements conflict with privacy constraints in multi-tenant networks and vendor opacity in O-RAN deployments. We present an architecture that provisions resources from declared intent categories without traffic inspection and verifies fulfilment using only cell-level standardised PM counters at the O1 interface. A data-processing inequality bounds resource-allocation leakage about traffic content by log_2 K bits for K categories. Intent-traffic unlinkability and node-opaque verification hold by construction. If verification requires at least q cells per category among M cells, the ceiling becomes log_2 lfloor M/q rfloor bits. This bound covers the category/resource channel, not total inference from PM counters. When individual records add state-independent noise to the category aggregate, the category-mean verifier is at least as powerful as any per-agent verifier. We map the architecture to the 3GPP intent lifecycle and O-RAN Non-RT RIC. On production PM data from four operator networks, the category-mean score has higher AUC on three networks and comparable AUC on the fourth under category-wide replacement, while per-cell screening suits sparse faults. These injection-based experiments do not establish the theorem's observation premise. Within-period cell co-movement limits a category mean to the evidence of 6 to 14 independent cells, and category-level verifiers need per-category calibration. |
cite
@misc{armstrong2026privacy,
title={Privacy-Preserving Intent Fulfilment and Assurance for 6G RAN},
author={Joss Armstrong},
year={2026},
eprint={2607.08809},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08809}
}