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Adaptive computing resource allocation approach for virtual network functions

US11221880B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Inventors

Haibing Guan · Shanghai, CN
Ruhui Ma · Shanghai, CN
Jian Li · Shanghai, CN
Xiaokang HU · Zhejiang, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 30, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/5019
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides an adaptive computing resource allocation approach for virtual network functions, including the following two steps: Step 1: predicting VNFs' real-time computing resource requirements; Step 1.1: offline profiling different types of VNFs, to obtain a parameter relation between the required amount of computing resources and the ingress packet rate; Step 1.2: online monitoring the network traffic information of each VNF, and predicting VNFs' required amount of computing resources with combination of the parameters in Step 1.1; Step 2: reallocating computing resources based on VNFs' resource requirements. The computing resource allocation approach includes a direct allocation approach and an incremental approach. The adaptive computing resource allocation approach for virtual network functions of the present invention allocates computing resources based on VNFs' actual requirements, and remedies performance bottlenecks caused by fair allocation.

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