A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a service function chain (SFC) orchestrator, a SFC request for a SFC, wherein the SFC comprises at least one virtual network function (VNF) and one service, in response to the SFC request: determining a set of candidate local data systems (LDSs) based on a resource availability mapping, performing a LDS analysis on the set of candidate LDSs, based on the LDS analysis: assigning the VNF to a candidate LDS of the set of candidate LDSs, assigning the service to a second LDS of the set of candidate LDSs, and based on the assigning of the VNF and the assigning of the service, initiating a deployment of the VNF and the service.

Methods and systems may be associated with application integration in a multi-cloud computing environment. A modeling platform may determine a pattern composition for an integration process associated with a business application. A cost-aware platform may transform a decomposed version of the pattern composition, including a plurality of integration pattern contract graphs, into a multi-cloud cost problem optimization representation. An initial solution to the cost problem representation may be calculated using a modified first fit decreasing bin packing or similar algorithm to determine a configuration of multi-cloud containers and integration pattern contract graph container assignments. The system may then iteratively and locally improve the solution to by applying feasible transformations to create variant container configurations and integration pattern contract graph container assignments that are evaluated based on multi-cloud costs (keeping the user in-the-loop). When a termination criteria is satisfied, an indication of the improved solution may be output.

The disclosure provides an approach for an overlay broadcast network for management traffic. Techniques are provided for updating an underlay network route for a virtual computing instance (VCI) on a new host. After activating the VCI on the new host, a routing table on the old host is reprogrammed to associate an Internet protocol (IP) address of the VCI to an overlay broadcast network IP address and a routing table on the new host is reprogramed to associate the first IP address to a local route on the new host. The VCI sends a message to an application programming interface (API) endpoint to initiate reprogramming of an underlay network route to associate the first IP address to the new host. When a response packet is received at the old host, via the underlay network, the old host broadcasts the packet to the overlay broadcast network.

Techniques are described for managing communications for a managed virtual computer network overlaid on a distinct substrate computer network, including for communications involving computing nodes of the managed virtual computer network that use an alternative addressing scheme to direct network packets and other network communications to intended destination locations by using textual network node monikers instead of numeric IP addresses to represent computing nodes at a layer 3 or “network layer” of a corresponding computer networking stack in use by the computing nodes. The techniques are provided without modifying or configuring the network devices of the substrate computer network, by using configured modules to manage and modify communications from the logical edge of the substrate network.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for receiving one or more models of network intents, comprising a plurality of contracts between providers and consumers, each contract containing entries with priority values. Each contract is flattened into a listing of rules and a new priority value is calculated. The listing of rules encodes the implementation of the contract between the providers and the consumers. Each entry is iterated over and added to a listing of entries if it is not already present. For each rule, the one or more entries associated with the contract from which the rule was flattened are identified, and for each given entry a flat rule comprising the combination of the rule and the entry is generated, wherein a flattened priority is calculated based at least in part on the priority value of the given one of given entry and the priority value of the rule.

Information reported by one or more gateway nodes in a Bluetooth mesh network regarding an unprovisioned Bluetooth device is received. Provisioning data for the unprovisioned Bluetooth device is generated. A destination Bluetooth gateway node to which to issue the generated provisioning data is determined from among the one or more gateway nodes reporting the received information. The generated provisioning data is issued to the destination Bluetooth gateway node so that the destination Bluetooth gateway node can perform a provisioning operation directed at the unprovisioned Bluetooth device.

A parser model may be used with software-defined applications or controllers. A network topology may be detected and based on the change in the network topology, a network device may filter certain network data traffic for processing by a software-defined network controller.

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an elastic platform virtualization service is provided in relation to a virtual device. The elastic platform virtualization service includes logic that provides for the management of a virtualized device during its life cycle. The creation or reconfiguration of the virtualized device is based on a tertiary choice between using dedicated hardware and dedicated kernel; common hardware and common kernel; or a combination of the dedicated hardware, dedicated kernel, common hardware, and common kernel.

The present invention relates to a container-based network function virtualization (NFV) platform, comprising at least one master node and at least one slave node, the master node is configured to, based on interference awareness, assign container-based network functions (NFs) in a master-slave-model-based, distributed computing system that has at least two slave nodes to each said slave node in a manner that relations among characteristics of the to-be-assigned NFs, info of load flows of the to-be-assigned NFs, communication overheads between the individual slave nodes, processing performance inside individual slave nodes, and load statuses inside individual said slave nodes are measured.

Techniques for tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation in network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI). In one example, an orchestration system is operated by a data center provider for a data center and that orchestration system comprises processing circuitry coupled to a memory; logic stored in the memory and configured for execution by the processing circuitry, wherein the logic is operative to: compute an aggregate bandwidth for a plurality of flows associated with a tenant of the data center provider and processed by a virtual network function, assigned to the tenant, executing on a server of the data center; and modify, based on the aggregate bandwidth, an allocation of compute resources of the server executing the virtual network function.