Interview with Hans Dieter Schotten from DFKI: Artificial Intelligence has become fashionable in all areas of technological development, including communication networks. How realistic are expectations that AI will significantly improve 5G and beyond networks? When will it happen? And what are the obstacles? Eurescom message editor-in-chief Milon Gupta asked someone about it who has been at the forefront of network development for a long time – professor Hans Dieter Schotten, head of the research department Intelligent Networks at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI.

One of the enablers of 5G and beyond networks is the provisioning of network slices with proper Quality of Experience (QoE) guarantees to meet the requirements of vertical use cases. It poses several challenges to the proper management of the network slices. This is particularly challenging when provisioning multi-domain 5G slices in which several network service providers are required to provision their end-to-end slices.