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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2016
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
An optimum configuration of resources in a network function virtualisation data network is identified by assembling candidate configurations of resources (), each configuration being an arrangement of the resources into clusters selected such that each cluster provides one or more required services, () and assessing the candidate configurations (step) to identify an optimum configuration, the assessment of each configuration including measurement of latency () in physical links between the resources and, for each candidate configuration, determination of the total latency between the resources within each cluster of the configuration, for a predicted level and pattern of traffic associated with the required service to be operated by each cluster.