ZTMP: Zero Touch Management Provisioning Algorithm for the On-boarding of Cloud-native Virtual Network Functions

A Arulappan, G Raja, AK Bashir, A Mahanti… - Mobile Networks and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an approach to virtualizing network
services that traditionally run on proprietary hardware, such as firewalls, routers, and load …

Coordination-free multi-domain NFV orchestration for consistent VNF forwarding graph reconfiguration

JC Cisneros, SEP Hernández… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-domain federations support shared network services. Many orchestrators manage the
service's lifecycle. For the shared VNF Forwarding Graph (VNF-FG) reconfiguration …

Parallel service invocation in a network

V Fordos, CD Nasten - US Patent 11,757,733, 2023 - Google Patents
Techniques and mechanisms for managing a set of data network nodes in a Network
Management System (NMS). In some examples, a network orchestrator receives a first …