🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the challenge of automatically translating high-level service intents into effective Linux traffic control configurations, a task traditionally reliant on manual, low-level operations. The paper presents the first end-to-end framework that converts natural language or declarative intent specifications into standards-compliant Quality of Service (QoS) rules. The approach integrates queueing-theoretic semantic modeling, the LLaMA3 large language model, Active Queue Management (AQM)-guided prompting, and a rule-based validation mechanism to ensure correctness and compliance of the generated configurations. Experimental evaluation on 100 test intents demonstrates that LLaMA3 achieves a semantic similarity of 0.88 and a coverage of 0.87, outperforming baseline models by over 30%. Furthermore, AQM-guided prompting reduces output variability by a factor of three, significantly enhancing consistency and reliability.
📝 Abstract
Traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement are critical for managing bandwidth, latency, and fairness in networks. These tasks often rely on low-level traffic control settings, which require manual setup and technical expertise. This paper presents an automated framework that converts high-level traffic shaping intents in natural or declarative language into valid and correct traffic control rules. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first end-to-end pipeline that ties intent translation in a queuing-theoretic semantic model and, with a rule-based critic, yields deployable Linux traffic control configuration sets. The framework has three steps: (1) a queuing simulation with priority scheduling and Active Queue Management (AQM) builds a semantic model; (2) a language model, using this semantic model and a traffic profile, generates sub-intents and configuration rules; and (3) a rule-based critic checks and adjusts the rules for correctness and policy compliance. We evaluate multiple language models by generating traffic control commands from business intents that comply with relevant standards for traffic control protocols. Experimental results on 100 intents show significant gains, with LLaMA3 reaching 0.88 semantic similarity and 0.87 semantic coverage, outperforming other models by over 30\. A thorough sensitivity study demonstrates that AQM-guided prompting reduces variability threefold compared to zero-shot baselines.