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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2015
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson, Stockholm, SE;
Wassim Haddad, San Jose, CA (US);
Heikki Mahkonen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Manghirmalani, Fremont, CA (US);
Joel Halpern, Leesburg, VA (US);
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A network device implements a method for providing a service chain in a network by instantiating services on demand using a lightning module. The lightning module provides the services as applications executed by a unikernel where the unikernel is supported by a hypervisor. The method further includes receiving authentication, administration and accounting (AAA) service authentication of a user by the lightning module, instantiating a special unikernel to monitor a session for packets from the user, and instantiating service chain unikernels identified in at least one unikernel configuration file, in response to receiving a packet from the user.