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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2021
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Alcorcon, ES;
Alain Mourad, Staines-Upon-Thames, GB;
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for performing local lifecycle management with distributed Service Function Chaining (SFC) control are disclosed. In an example, a method for wireless communications includes determining, in a Service Function Chain, that a first SFC controller of a set of SFC controllers is a primary SFC controller, determining whether at least one trigger condition is satisfied, and selecting, from the set of SFC controllers, a second SFC controller as the primary SFC controller to substitute the first SFC controller based on the at least one trigger condition being satisfied.