26 February 2026, Mihail Balanici, PoC Lead and Contributor, Fraunhofer HHI
The two PoCs demonstrate:
- a Distributed Intelligence Framework with Privacy-Preserving Features for Fiber-To-The-Room (FTTR) Network Monitoring and Automation, optimizing the customer premises networks and adding intelligence functionality to the home networks, and
- an LLM-based On-Prem Conversational AI Assistant for Unified F5G-A Network Operations and Observability, using LLM technologies for optical networks’ management.
Description of the PoCs can be found in the ETSI ISG F5G Open Area.
Summaries of the two PoC Demonstrations:
- Paper Title: Distributed Intelligence Framework with Privacy-Preserving Features for FTTR Network Monitoring and Automation
- Authors: Massimiliano Sica, Mihail Balanici, Muhammad Rehan Raza, Behnam Shariati, Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund
- Summary: This PoC demonstrates a novel distributed intelligence framework for FTTR networks, designed to collect telemetry data locally (from the MFU and SFUs) and utilize them for autonomous network reconfiguration and management, while ensuring data confidentiality and compliance with privacy regulations. Each FTTR unit is equipped with a dedicated computing node used to run the entire telemetry and autonomous reconfiguration functionalities following an observe–analyze–act (OAA) control loop.
Figure 1. FTTR network testbed equipped with distributed computing nodes fordistributed intelligence deployment [1].
- Paper Title: Demonstration of an On-Prem Conversational AI Assistant for Unified Network Operations and Observability
- Authors: Hussein Zaid, Behnam Shariati, Pooyan Safari, Aydin Jafari, Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund
- Summary: This PoC demonstrate an on-prem LLM-based multi agent system exposing a friendly UI to empower network administrators to manage inventory, service provisioning, configurations and telemetry of IP/Optical infrastructures, and to generate observability dashboards for seamless reporting. The system allows for domain-specialized agents’ collaboration to configure network elements and services, visualize live metrics by generating dashboards on demand, manage inventory by translating questions into database and inventory-system operations, and access energy and power monitoring, while a central orchestrator injects up-to-date state and enforces safe-action previews.
Figure 2. Center: Multi-Agent Stack: Orchestration layer; Left: On-Premise resources;Right: Main UI Elements [2].
- Session Title: Demo Zone and ML Challenge
- Session Time and Dates: March 16, 2026 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM PDT
- Session Location: Room Concourse F
References:
[1] M. Sica, M. Balanici, M. R. Raza, B. Shariati, J. K. Fischer, R. Freund, “Distributed Intelligence Framework with Privacy-Preserving Features for FTTR Network Monitoring and Automation,” at Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference, March 2026.
[2] H. Zaid, B. Shariati, P. Safari, A. Jafari, J. K. Fischer, R. Freund, “Demonstration of an On-Prem Conversational AI Assistant for Unified Network Operations and Observability,” at Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference, March 2026.
