METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SERVICE CHAIN OF SERVICE FLOW Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC H04L29/06 H04L12/70 H04L12/715 H04L12/851 

FIELD: electrical communication equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to wireless communication technologies, namely, for controlling a service chain of a service flow. Method comprises: receiving a service processing customization request message sent by a content provider server/service provider server; generating service chain information of a service flow corresponding to the content provider server/service provider server, and constructing service chain control information corresponding to a service chain according to the service chain information, so that a controller obtains the service chain control information and sends, according to the service chain control information, flow forwarding policy information corresponding to the service chain to a switch, so that the switch processes the received service flow according to the flow forwarding policy information, corresponding to the content provider server/service provider server.

EFFECT: technical result is decrease in congestion in control of the service chain.

21 cl, 16 dwg