Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing the state of resources shared among a plurality of network nodes. in an embodiment, a transaction may first be received from a transaction provider. The transaction may target one or more data objects within a communications network. The transaction may be distributed to a first set of data store nodes and network nodes that subscribe to at least one of the targeted data objects. Each data store node may store a plurality of data objects within the network. The transaction may then be distributed hierarchically to a second set of data store nodes and network nodes by the first set of nodes. The transaction may include one or more subtransactions, and the transaction may not complete until each subtransaction completes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a network access service. An embodiment operates by receiving a request for a network access service of a collective, the request including one or more operations to be performed by the network access service, in which the collective comprises sectors and is a first level of a multi-tier hierarchy for distributing the network access service across a plurality of virtual machines; distributing the one or more operations to the sectors of the collective, in which each of the sectors comprises a set of configurable resources related to a physical topology of the sector; and transmitting results of the one or more operations performed by at least some of the configurable resources.

Abstract: System, method, and computer product embodiments for providing a distributed input/output (I/O) architecture for network functions virtualization. A first load balancer includes an I/O interface for receiving a packet from a network. The first load balancer constructs a flow key using portions of the packet. The flow key is hashed to generate a bucket value. Then, the first load balancer locates a second load balancer for processing the packet by looking up the bucket value from a lookup table stored on the first load balancer. Finally, the first load balancer forwards at least one of the packet, the flow key, or metadata associated with the packet to the second load balancer causing the second load balancer to perform a flow key lookup to determine an application server for processing the packet.

Abstract: Two network entities allocate the performance of encryption and compression algorithms amongst each other in a controlled and coordinated manner so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of encryption and compression at different protocol layers and an associated waste of CPU power. For example, a first network entity performs both encryption and compression at the IP layer, and instructs the second network entity to disable PPP-layer encryption and compression. In a wireless networking example of the invention, the first network entity is a home agent (e.g., a router) for a wireless communications device and the second network entity is a foreign agent (e.g., a network access server) providing network access for the communications device. The foreign agent terminates a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) session with the communications device, but implements (or does not implement) PPP-layer compression and encryption algorithms under the supervision and control of the home agent.