The Fifth-Generation (5G) mobile networks leverage virtualisation and softwarisation to reduce both capital and operating expenditures whilst benefiting from network programmability and flexibility for various use cases. Meanwhile, virtualisation and softwarisation introduce unprecedented complexity to network infrastructure topologies, which poses substantial challenges to network topology management. This paper proposes a novel architecture to enable network administrators to achieve real-time network discovery and spatial representation of the software data path, containers, virtual machines, and geographically distributed edges to help network troubleshooting and management tasks. Another important innovation is the flexibility to support a significant number of business roles by means of a novel method to perform data model alignment between different business roles. The architecture has been designed, prototyped and validated, and experiment results have demonstrated promising scalability of the proposed solution.

第五代（5G）移动网络利用虚拟化和软化技术来减少资本和运营支出，同时受益于各种用例的网络可编程性和灵活性。同时，虚拟化和软件变迁给网络基础架构拓扑带来了前所未有的复杂性，这给网络拓扑管理带来了巨大的挑战。本文提出了一种新颖的体系结构，使网络管理员可以实现实时网络发现以及软件数据路径，容器，虚拟机和地理上分布的边缘的空间表示，以帮助网络故障排除和管理任务。另一个重要的创新是通过一种新颖的方法来执行不同业务角色之间的数据模型对齐，从而灵活地支持大量业务角色。该体系结构已经过设计，原型设计和验证，实验结果证明了该解决方案的可扩展性。