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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2022
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 and methods are disclosed for parallelizing service function chains. A method comprises receiving a sequential service function chain comprising a plurality of network functions, receiving a plurality of operations, determining at least two network functions are capable of being parallelized, aggregating operations of the plurality of operations associated with the at least two network functions into a network function segment, determining whether another network function is capable of being parallelized with the network function segment, based on the determining: aggregating an operation associated with the another network function into the network function segment when the another network function is capable of being parallelized with the network function segment, or pushing the network function segment as a completed segment of a hybrid service function chain when the another network function is not capable of being parallelized with the network function segment, and implementing the hybrid service function chain.