公开(公告)号：US20230067181A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17760380

申请日：2021-02-03

Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION

Inventor： RYOTA KIMURA ,  HIROAKI TAKANO ,  HIROFUMI KASAI ,  FUMIO TERAOKA ,  KAZUKI HAYASHI ,  HIROKI WATANABE ,  TOMONORI SATO

IPC: H04L47/80 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L47/83

Abstract: A communication device (100) that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device (100) including: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication executed by the communication unit (110), in which the control unit (130) operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit (130) acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.