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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2023
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Bo Han, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Zhi-Li Zhang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Yang Zhang, Saint Paul, MN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P, Atlanta, GA (US);
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Systems, computer-readable media, and methods are disclosed for parallel data processing for service function chains with network functions spanning multiple servers. An example system includes a first server hosting a first network function of a service function chain, a second server hosting a second network function of the service function chain, a mirror function deployed in a first switch to replicate a plurality of packets received by the system and to send respective copies of the plurality of packets to the first network function and to at least one of the second network function and a third network function of the service function chain, and a merge function deployed in a second switch to merge respective outputs of the first network function and the at least one of the second network function and the third network function.