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

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the system to carry out operations including:
receiving an allocation request for providing the service;
obtaining a predefined stored network function specification data structure (i) identifying a first network function of the service comprising one or more network functions including the first network function, and (ii) 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 making a selection of one of the defined implementations in the predefined stored network function specification data structure, for performing the first network function.