A study on a common service-providing architecture for future telecommunications

Abstract

The new trends in the service area cause a change on the service providing architecture and scheme. The most obvious differences are multimedia services and multiparty communications. The existing service providing schemes can hardly catch up with these new trends. A few years ago, multimedia service was not applicable to the public networks, because of the shortage of transmission bandwidth. Nowadays, the transmission capabilities of the public networks have been continuously changing. Moreover, developing ATM technology is the most powerful driving force towards a B-ISDN era. The essential components which constitute the traditional schemes have been defined in the characteristic categories of transmission, terminal and switching. We define an additional component for the new B-ISDN services on public networks. We proposed a service-providing architecture to be implemented on an ATM-based switching system as a uniform service platform called service node system (SNS) for public telecommunication networks. The SNS will provide a high degree of efficiency for providing a variety of new services on ATM based telecommunication networks. We define various functions of the architecture and describe interaction schemes among its function modules. Also, some performance issues, such as network grade of service, and signalling transfer delay are considered in an attempt to verify the usefulness and the adequacy of the proposed architecture.