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Intent2Tc: Automated Intent-to-Traffic Control Translation with Language Models

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The method replaces manual translation of business-level QoS intents into Linux tc configurations, using a closed-loop LLM pipeline with an AQM digital twin, critique-driven refinement, and RAG-based knowledge reuse. Costs include building and maintaining the digital-twin semantic model, metadata extraction, and retrieval infrastructure, plus per-intent LLM inference, though RAG reduces token consumption and lets compact models such as Phi-4-mini run on constrained hardware. Failures can include semantically plausible but incorrect tc rules passing validation, digital-twin model mismatch with real link behavior, retrieval of stale or wrong prior configurations, and degradation on intents outside the evaluated traffic-shaping distribution.

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LLM-driven intent-to-tc translation with RAG and digital twin
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The pipeline runs with API models or small local models and shows a plausible path to automating tc generation, but the reader must validate correctness and safety of generated network configurations on their own intents and infrastructure before production use.

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    The method replaces manual translation of business-level QoS intents into Linux tc configurations, using a closed-loop LLM pipeline with an AQM digital twin, critique-driven refinement, and RAG-based knowledge reuse. Costs include building and maintaining the digital-twin semantic model, metadata extraction, and retrieval infrastructure, plus per-intent LLM inference, though RAG reduces token consumption and lets compact models such as Phi-4-mini run on constrained hardware. Failures can include semantically plausible but incorrect tc rules passing validation, digital-twin model mismatch with real link behavior, retrieval of stale or wrong prior configurations, and degradation on intents outside the evaluated traffic-shaping distribution.

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    On 100 RFC 9315 traffic-shaping intents, Claude Sonnet-4.6 reaches 0.98 semantic similarity, 1.0 semantic unit coverage, and 0.045 normalized edit distance; RAG reduces token consumption and latency and lets Phi-4-mini approach larger-model performance, with no multiplicative factor stated.

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