Dell Products Inc.

Thais Vasconcelos Batista

Antonio Augusto De Aragão Rocha

Paulo De Figueiredo Pires

Ana Cristina Bernardo De Oliveira

Evandro Luiz Cardoso Macedo

Flávia Coimbra Delicato

Anselmo Luiz Éden Battisti

Thiago Pereira Da Silva

André Ricardo De Carvalho Saraiva

Ian Vilar Bastos

Rayan Gustavo Oliveira Jucá Lima

A service partitions a service function chain (SFC) into multiple virtualized network functions (VNFs). The services deploys the VNFs to a smart contract operating in a distributed ledger. The smart contract initiates a bid to service the SFC. Multiple infrastructure providers (InPs) are identified and included in a graph structure. The graph is organized to reflect the order by which the VNFs are to be serviced by the different InPs. The graph also lists the costs the InPs require to service the various different VNFs. The InPs included in a specific graph traversal having the smallest cost are selected, but the cost that is used is the cost for the graph traversal having the penultimate smallest cost. The service outputs the selected InPs as well as the penultimate smallest cost.

Distributed and DLT-based SFC partitioning over multiple providers in edge environments

A method for scaling a virtual network function (VNF) by analyzing VNF metrics data, the method that includes obtaining, by a computing device, a VNF metrics data, identifying a queue in the VNF metrics data, calculating a constraint violation probability based on the queue, making a first determination that the constraint violation probability is greater than an upper threshold, and based on the first determination, scaling up the VNF.

Systems and methods for predictive scaling of edge entities

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