US Patent 11356500 Disaggregated processing of radio-based applications

A determination is made, at a first server of an extension resource group of a provider network, that a network function of a radio-based application is to be executed. A request for the network function is transmitted from a first server to a second server of the extension resource group. The network function is executed at a network function accelerator card of the second server. A result of the execution is sent to a radio unit of the radio-based application from the second server.