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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2024
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Shailesh Prabhu, Manipal, IN;
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
In a computing-aware traffic steering (CATS) network, such as those conforming to an IETF proposal, a service contact instance for a requested service is selected based on at least cache metrics associated with data cached at one or more egress nodes of the CATS network. In some embodiments, the selection is also based on compute and network metrics. In one implementation, the selection is based only on cache metrics unless that selection is too costly in terms of compute and/or network load. In that case, the selection is based on the compute and network metrics. In this way, cache metrics are prioritized over compute and network metrics as long as the cache-based selection is not too costly.