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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventor:
Richard Donald Maes, II, Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods of scheduling for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) on processing resources include receiving multiple flows from different customers and different applications; classifying the multiple flows to provide classified flows; distributing the classified flows to a plurality of queues; and providing each of the classified flows in the plurality of queues to the processing resources, wherein each individual classified flow is distributed to a same processing resource thereby maintaining flow order of the individual classified flow.