Patent ID: 11888683
Assignee: UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method in a control system for controlling provisioning of a service in a network, the service comprising one or more network functions including a first network function, the method comprising:
receiving an allocation request for providing the service;
obtaining a predefined stored network function specification data structure identifying and specifying the first network function and defining at least a virtual implementation associated with a virtual machine identifier, for performing the first network function and a physical implementation, associated with a hardware identifier, for performing the first network function; and
after receiving the allocation request, controlling provisioning of the service in the network by the control system making a selection of one of the defined implementations in the predefined stored network function specification data structure, for performing the first network function.