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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
May. 03, 2018
Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Faqir Zarrar Yousaf, Leimen, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for operating a data communication network having a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) includes: by a Cloud Service Provider (CSP), providing a centralized Management and Orchestration (MANO) system that manages the NFVI and that orchestrates the allocation of resources needed by Network Services (NSs) and/or Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) configured in the network. The method further includes: by the centralized MANO system and upon request from a tenant, allocating resources of the NFVI to the tenant and providing the tenant its own MANO instance for being employed by the tenant to control and manage its own service and/or network slices and/or implement its own policies independently from the centralized MANO framework provided by the CSP. Management Level Agreements (MLAs) negotiated between the CSP and the tenant determine the scope of the tenant's autonomy over the tenant's MANO instance.