The Virtual Network (VN) concept has been studied as a useful mean in supporting rapid service creation and deployment. In this research paper, we propose a scheme for allocating resource to VNs with the objective of maximizing the number of VNs that can be accommodated into the network. In our scheme, a set of resource is pre-allocated for each pair of edge nodes, according to the solution of the multi-commodity flow problem. A VN creation request consists of a set of edge nodes and the

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... th requirement between each edge node pair. A VN creation request is satisfied by exercising the associated pre-allocated resource and the residual network resource. Simulation results show that our scheme offers better performance over traditional methods, in terms of request blocking ratio and network resource utilization.