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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Harish Bharti, Pune, IN;
Rajesh Kumar Saxena, Maharashtra, IN;
Sandeep Sukhija, Rajasthan, IN;
Deepak Bajaj, Leicester, GB;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A process for service chain instance pool sizing includes receiving service requests, communicated in a 5G network, into a buffer of a request handler of the 5G network. The service requests are for processing by a service function chain. The request handler is configured to relay received service requests to a pool of service chain instances of the service function chain. The process determines an average number of service requests to be processed by the service function chain, determines a number of service chain instances to exist in the pool as a composite of (i) service chain instances to process service requests making an initial relay through the service function chain and (ii) service chain instances to process service requests that were re-introduced into the buffer after having previously arrived, and indicates this composite number to a broker component that controls the number of service chain instances in the pool.