Various approaches for allocating resources to an application having multiple application components, with at least one executing one or more functions, in a serverless service architecture include identifying multiple routing paths, each routing path being associated with a same function service provided by one or more containers or serverless execution entities; determining traffic information on each routing path and/or a cost, a response time and/or a capacity associated with the container or serverless execution entity on each routing path; selecting one of the routing paths and its associated container or serverless execution entity; and causing a computational user of the application to access the container or serverless execution entity on the selected routing path and executing the function(s) thereon.

Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for administering a distributed edge computing system utilizing an adaptive edge engine based on a finite state machine behavioral model are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: select a first workload from one or more workloads; access, for the selected workload, one or more location optimization strategies from a plurality of location optimization strategies; and optimize an objective function across a portion of the one or more endpoints; select one or more endpoints; deploy the workload on at least one selected endpoint; monitor the health of the endpoint-workload deployment; and direct network traffic to the appropriate endpoint.

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage subscription service is provided. The network slice usage subscription service may allow a network device to obtain network slice usage information and event notifications. The event notification may indicate when an end device is using a network slice and when the end device is no longer the network slice. The network device may include an application function (AF) device. The network device may use the event notification to perform an operation relating to the network slice and/or the end device.

This application provides a dynamic bandwidth allocation method and a related device. The method includes: receiving, by a dynamic bandwidth allocation device, bandwidth request messages from bandwidth request devices through at least two access ports of a convergence device, wherein the bandwidth request messages include requested bandwidth information; allocating bandwidth information to the bandwidth request device based on the requested bandwidth information and remaining bandwidth information of an upstream egress port of the convergence device, wherein the remaining bandwidth information is a difference between limited bandwidth information of the upstream egress port and bandwidth information already allocated; and sending a response message to the bandwidth request device through the access port.

Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network. For a received data message flow, the method has the HFE identify a network slice associated with the received data message flow. This network slice in some embodiments is associated with a set of operations to be performed on the data message by several network elements, including one or more machines executing on one or more computers in the network. Once the network slice is identified, the method has the HFE process the data message flow based on a rule that applies to data messages associated with the identified slice.

A method includes receiving a request from a client device to establish a first computing session for a first resource hosted on a virtual machine (VM). The method includes generating a session transfer key for accessing a second resource provided by a second resource provider. The method includes issuing instructions, to the VM that hosts the first resource, for establishing a second computing session to host the second resource, wherein the instructions include a mapping of the session transfer key to a session identifier. The method includes providing the instructions to the client device to establish the second computing session for the second resource without input for the second resource from the user of the client device. The establishment of the second computing session being between the VM and the second resource provider and based on the mapping of the session transfer key to the session identifier.

A resource allocation method includes: obtaining, by a first network device, target resource reservation information based on a plurality of transmitted packets, where all of the packets carry a same virtual network identifier, and the virtual network identifier is used to indicate that the packets are transmitted through a same virtual network; and allocating a resource to the virtual network based on the target resource reservation information.

Embodiments herein describe branch statements for a segment routing (SR) list that are inserted into a packet header for use when performing Service function chaining (SFC). For example, the branch statement may be embedded within a SR list and includes a serverless function ID and two different segment IDs (SIDs). When reaching a network node assigned to perform the serverless function, the node uses the function ID to determine the appropriate serverless function to use when evaluating the packet and then uses the results of that function to determine which segment to use when forwarding the packet. Thus, rather than forming a linear chain, the branch statement permits the SR list to form different routes (depending on the results of the serverless function) as part of SFC.

Provided is a radio access network slice construction method and apparatus applied to a master base station. The method includes: constructing, by each of the master base station and at least one neighboring secondary base station in the RAN, a network slice end-to-end correspondence with a core network, and determining RAN slices information in the master base station and the neighboring secondary base station; collecting statistics, by the master base station, on Slice IDs or MDD information reported by all UEs served by the master base station, and obtaining quantity of slice resources needed to be allocated to construct RAN slices by the master base station; transmitting, by the master base station, reconstruction request information of a RAN slice to the neighboring secondary base station; and performing, by the master base station, multi-connection data transmission reconfiguration on the UEs served by the master base station through an RRC message.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus and computer program product for scheduling dedicated processing resources. The method comprises: in response to receiving a scheduling request for a plurality of dedicated processing resources, obtaining a topology of the plurality of dedicated processing resources, the topology being determined based on connection attributes related to connections among the plurality of dedicated processing resources; and determining, based on the topology, a target dedicated processing resource satisfying the scheduling request from the plurality of dedicated processing resources. In this manner, the performance and the resource utilization rate of scheduling the dedicated processing resources are improved.