Patent ID: 9705704
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: creating a virtual network that includes a plurality of mobile virtual routers deployed on a physical routing network including a plurality of physical routers; provisioning, by a dynamic virtual gateway, a control plane instance, a forwarding plane instance, and a management plane instance across physical resources of a first set of the plurality of physical routers, such that control plane resources, forwarding plane resources, and management plane resources that are shared across the plurality of physical routers hosting the plurality of mobile virtual routers, function as a single mobile virtual router of the virtual network, wherein the virtual network is overlaid onto at least a part of the physical routing network; determining whether the virtual network has sufficient network resources to satisfy a dynamic virtual network requirement associated with a network event; and adjusting, based on determining that the virtual network does not have the sufficient network resources, a configuration of the virtual network, wherein the configuration of the virtual network includes the number of mobile virtual routers, and wherein adjusting the configuration of the virtual network includes decentralizing the control plane resources, the forwarding plane resources, and the management plane resources to alter a topology of the virtual network without disruption to users of the network resources, the decentralizing including: