NETWORK SERVICE APPLICATION AND CUSTOMER-AWARE VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTION PLACEMENT

摘要

In general, techniques are described for placing, for execution, virtualized network functions (VNFs) for network services to virtual hardware components of a network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) having a multi-layer switch hierarchy to locate VNFs that are adjacent, in an ordering within a network service or between network services, logically near to one another in the multi-layer switch hierarchy.