MANAGEMENT OF THE APPLICATION OF A POLICY IN AN SDN ENVIRONMENT OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

Management of the application of a policy in an SDN environment of a communication network. The present technique relates to a method for managing a policy for applying rules in a virtualized communication network comprising virtualized functions, called service functions (SF), the method comprising the following steps implemented by an SDN controller of said network: · generation (S1), on the basis of a set of rules describing said policy, referred to as model (M), of an encapsulation header comprising a context relating to said model (M) and of at least one local application policy context associated with at least one of said service functions (SFi); · transmission (S2) of said at least one local context to said at least one service function (SFi); · transmission (S3) of said encapsulation header to at least one packet router, called classifier (SCL).