Nokia Technologies Oy

Hasanin Harkous

Laurent Thiebaut

Hannu Flinck

Pekka Juhani Korja

Padmavathi Sudarsan

Michael Jarschel

Hungkei Chow

To dynamically allow chaining of logical processing units comprising endpoints, at least a type of an endpoint, and address information whereto connect the endpoint is configured, wherein the type of the endpoint is either a host port type or a logical processing unit type. During offloading from a central processing unit one or more functions to be performed by at least one further processing unit, the central processing unit is interacting with the one or more logical processing units via endpoints of the host port type and logical processing units are interacting via endpoints of the logical processing unit port type, the interaction using the address information.

Processing chaining in virtualized networks

An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: send () a registration request comprising a range of addresses and/or ports managed by a network address and/or port translation service and an identifier of the network address and/or port translation service; and receive () an address and/or port translation information request comprising an address and/or port used by an application to communicate with a terminal, wherein the address and/or port used by the application to communicate with a terminal is within the range of addresses and/or ports managed by the network address and/or port translation service.

Apparatus and method to facilitate network address translation service

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Munich, Germany

Hasanin Harkous