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Dynamic structuring services. Introduction to Service Function Chaining (SFC)

Authors: Mohamed BOUCADAIR, David BINET

Publication date: October 10, 2015

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4. SFC architecture

4.1 Functional elements

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4.1.1 SF node

An SF node is a node belonging to an SFC domain that embeds one or more SF functions.

The SFC architecture makes no assumptions about the nature of SF functions or the interdependence between them. Nevertheless, the SFC architecture provides mechanisms to ensure that only some of the SF functions supported by an SF node will be called upon to process a given packet. An SF node may or may not be compatible with...

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