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Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2014
Applicants:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Zu Qiang, Kirkland, Québec, CA;

Inventor:

Zu Qiang, Kirkland, CA;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/101 (2013.01); H04L 67/1031 (2013.01); H04L 69/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for managing a service set in network function virtualization (NVF) are provided. A service set can be defined as an ordered list of services to be applied to packet traffic and assigned to instances of the services in a distributed pool of virtual hosts. Responsive to determining that a first service in the service set is to be transferred from a first host to a second host, other services in the service set can also be identified to be transferred to the second host to maintain quality of service and latency as a packet is processed by the service set.


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