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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Arun Rajagopal, Leawood, KS (US);
Marouane Balmakhtar, Alexandria, VA (US);
Carl Joseph Persson, Olathe, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A Network Function Virtualization (NFV) data system controls virtual Probe (vProbe) deployment in an NFV Infrastructure (NFVI). An NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) system receives Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the NFVI and processes the KPIs to generate NFV indices. The MANO system processes the NFV indices to trigger a vProbe deployment in the NFVI. Before vProbe deployment, the NFV MANO system compares the NFV indices that triggered the vProbe deployment to false-positive vProbe deployment criteria. The NFV MANO system blocks the vProbe deployment when the NFV indices that triggered the vProbe deployment correspond to the false-positive vProbe deployment criteria. The NFV MANO system initiates the vProbe deployment when the triggering NFV indices do not correspond to the false-positive vProbe deployment criteria. The NFVI may execute SDN applications and controllers that communicate over a virtual switch that hosts the vProbe.