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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Seraphin Calo, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Douglas Freimuth, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Thai V. Le, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Christian Makaya, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Eric Nahum, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Dinesh Verma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0823 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 41/5019 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network function optimization method, system, and computer program product, include annotating network functions by providing constraints on a placement of different virtual network function chain components and optimizing the network function chain by modifying a structure of the network function chain based on the constraints in the annotating.