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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Applicant:
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Inventor:
Gregory Mirsky, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 41/5035 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
Understanding the performance of a Service Function Chain (SFC) and how Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) contribute to the performance of the SFC can assist in the maintenance of services and quality of experience the VNFs are expected to provide. In an exemplary embodiment, a residence time of packets traversing a service function or virtual network function is measured. The residence time characterizes the processing delay a service function introduces into a network.