{"title":"Comments On The Q12xy Series From The Software Engineer's Perspective","authors":"W. Levelt, H. Zuidweg","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.729167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.729167","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation highlights some comments and recommendations on the Q12xy Series that we made in the course of building an executable SDL model of the Q12xy IN Planes. Our comments are strongly colored by our software engineering back ground. We focussed mainly on the description of the IN models itself, and on the suitability of the IN model for service design. We are aware that the Q12xy Series has to keep a balance between currently deployed switching systems technology, and the longer term objective of bringing state-of-the-art computing power into the network. It is our opinion that the Q12xy Series could be improved by giving more attention to the Software Engineering aspects of IN.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126067798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service Creation Environment For IN CS1","authors":"P. Carvalho, M. Mesquita, T. Mendes, L. Da Silva","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.729179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.729179","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of this paper is on IN service creation, test and validation aspects. It reflects the results of the design and development of a Service Creation Tool and a Service Test and Validation platform undertaken by CET/Telecom Portugal within the scope of RACE project R2076 - BOOST. The Service Creation Tool (SCT) is based upon a Meta-CASE tool, that is a generic CASE tool, which was specifically configured for the manipulation of the IN services entities at the IN Conceptual Model Global Functional Plane, that is, the SIBs (Service Independent Building Blocks), SSDs (Service Support Data) for each SIB and CID (Call Instance Data) which supports each execution instance of a service. The SCT supports the creation of new services using all the standard SIBs defined by CCITT in the IN-CS1 documents, plus the ETSI defined SlBs. Some of the standardised SIBs were modified in order to improve their functionality, which was considered very poor for the creation of useful services. An example of this is the SDM (Service Data Management) SIB. The logical and data aspects of the service developed using the SCT are syntactically validated. The final output of the SCT is a generic description of the service using a high-level intermediate language. Using compilation techniques, this mediation language is converted into the target service execution environment language, the so-called Service Logic Program (SLP), which consists of the SIB chains information and respective data templates. The SLID resulting from the service design process can be tested and validated through its execution on a Simulation Environment (SE), before it is passed to the Service Management System (SMS). The SMS is implemented in a TMN Operations System platform which comprises OS-S, OS-N and OS-NE functions. The SE is based on a distributed model of the IN Distributed Functional Plane and Global Functional Plane architectures. This model is implemented using the ANSAware distributed computing platform, and the IN entities (Functional Entity Actions, Information Flows and SIBs) are modelled in terms of ANSA computational objects (capsules) and operations. The resulting service creation tool and service simulation, test and validation platform are used as an SCE for the IN-CS1 experiment being developed by Telecom Portugal/CET and which will undertake the first field trials at the beginning of 1994.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"18 8 Spec No 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116552937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Points of Control It Can Be Done!","authors":"D. Shrader","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.723297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.723297","url":null,"abstract":"Current IN standards specify only single-ended, single point of control capabilities. This allows for many services and service features for initial deployment. It is clear, however, that IN service developers would like more complicated capabilities and multiple service features to operate on a single call. This requires a means for allowing multiple points of control for a given IN call. When a single call can be influenced by multiple control entities, several problems must be solved. The IN switching system must manage delivery of call events to the respective control entities and manage call processing related to the responses from each entity. This problem can be quite complex. An extension to the connection-view concept is proposed to handle multiple points of control. This concept proposes that a connection-view is localized for each control relationship. No attempt is made to provide a single view of the entire call or connection segment to each control entity. This method solves the multiple control entity problem while providing a model in which simple modular software segments can be implemented in the switching system and orthogonal service logic programs that minimize logic for specialized service feature interactions.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116493458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis Of SLP Interactions And Service Processing In A Distributed Slee","authors":"S. Esaki, S. Matsumoto, M. Tomioka","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.723284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.723284","url":null,"abstract":"Current service/service feature interaction is generally considered to handle two or more services or service features for a call to prevent them from interfering with each other because most interference cause conflicts between services. This presentation proposes service/service feature interaction handling for the above type of interaction and for interaction handling which is used to provide services by positively using interaction. The presentation discusses the interaction handling analysis which leads the classification of interaction handling, and it shows the necessity of interaction handling which is not included existing service/service feature interaction handling. Also, typical examples are given. The presentation also explains the interaction handling mechanisms for both conventional interaction and the newly proposed interaction, latter requires several communication interfaces between SLEEs.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126445959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Evolutionary Approach For TMN Management Of Pan-European IN-Based Services","authors":"T. Magedanz, N. Beires, M. Kockelmans","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.729168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.729168","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the work being performed in EURESCOM (a research institute jointly owned by the majority of PNOs in Europe) on the management of pan-European IN-based services using a TMN approach. This work is currently being realised by the EURESCOM Project P226 with the support of the following participating companies: Telecom Portugal, BT, DBP Telekom, France Telecom, STET Italy, TLP Portugal, PTT Netherlands, Telefonica de Espana, Telecom Finland, Telecom Ireland and Swedish Telecom. The focus of this research project is to elaborate an evolutionary path for the management of IN-based services in Europe. The evolution approach is based on the definition of a long term scenario and on the development of both medium term and long term solutions for the provision of a set of generic management services and respective information models. This paper presents an overview of the project and some initial project results for a long term scenario as well as some intermediate results for a medium-term solution for the management of pan-European IN (PEIN) services. The initial results accomplished in the first phase of the work related to the definition of a long term scenario for IN management include: feedback from a questionaire to PNOs; definition of the IN management roles in a long term IN environment; identification of organizational models suitable for joint/co-operative IN management arrangements between PNOs in Europe; and collection of an initial set of IN management requirements. Intermediate results of the second phase (status of March 1994) related to the definition of an inter-PNO IN service management framework comprise: overview of the expected medium term IN environment; and definition of a generic medium term TMN management framework, comprising a set of suitable inter-PNO IN service management services and related management information as well as possible organisational models for the joint/cooperative provision of the identified IN management services between co-operating PNOs.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132524406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EURESCOM and its Activities","authors":"K. Katzeff","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.729159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.729159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114129510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IN Dimensioning: A Key Point for Real Implementation","authors":"P. Lansard","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.723287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.723287","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays IN services are being implemented in real networks with great attention to the service logic and logic relationships with existing services no matter whether this is POTS or new value added services. But there is about no concern with the dimensioning aspects of the involved machines and networks. For the moment, dimensioning rule for each network element is let to the responsability of the different manufacturers and no general overview of the full-scale process is encompassed. There is no objection to this general approach as long as the total amount of IN traffic loads will stay rather small. This will no longer be the case when the traffic proportion will become higher than say 5% of the basic telephony traffic. Later on Operators will have to be sure that the machines are well sized, that they can handle a fair amount of unpredictable extra traffic, that there is a good and well located number of such machines. In addition they will need to ensure that all the involved network layers are able to handle IN services without disturbing existing services. This is another part of IN dimensioning which deal with network elements as well as PSTN or Signalling Network(s). Another difficulty may come with the Open Network World where one operator will have to protect his own services from the other operator one(s), by the mean of good dimensioning. On the contrary the same Operators will have to provide a good grade of service for both (or even more) Operators. In this case common dimensioning rules and criteria will be needed to insure the inter-Operator activities. Moreover since one of the main goals of IN is to speed up the service introduction, the normal planning processes will be affected and there may be needs to redimension quickly the existing networks by changing the routing patterns or by adding some new ressources. In order to cope with this kind of problems, the proposed presentation will depict the different efforts which are currently undertaken on that subject in the different standardization bodies as well as in a EURESCOM dedicated project.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121124529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed Control Architecture Based On In Benchmark","authors":"K. Wakayama, S. Tanabe, Y. Takeda","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.723290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.723290","url":null,"abstract":"A new benchmark is introduced to represent the processing power for advanced telecommunication services. Traffic estimation using this benchmark shows the necessity of a distributed control architecture that provides high throughput to satisfy rapid increase of processing power in telecommunication networks. Three software architectures are proposed for a distributed network environment. Model evaluation demonstrates the efficiency of these approaches.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121222489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Open Approach To Providing Multimedia Services","authors":"R. Mitra","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.729176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.729176","url":null,"abstract":"DGM&S is currently working with a number of major telephone and technology companies to combine voice and other multimedia technologies into a single multivendor AIIN platform. This is being achieved by \"standardizing\" the architecture of the Intelligent Peripheral (IP)/Service Node (SN), and ensuring that the interfaces between the SN/IP components are defined in a manner that conforms to industry standards. The implementation of such a multi-vendor, hardware independent, multimedia platform places emphasis on open interfaces, both internal and external, at the same time ensuring that the platform meets the functional, performance, and reliability aspects of a network element. This presentation shows how this may be achieved by using an IP Controller (IPC) equipped with the DGM&S OMNI soft platform.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126944341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative UPT Architectures","authors":"G. Lauer, L. Chong","doi":"10.1109/INW.1994.723293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1994.723293","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation will focus on architectures for providing UPT service mobility to wireline users. UPT differs from previous IN services in that it involves multiple IN components and requires cooperation between multiple networks. Since there are many ways to deploy the UPT functions across the different physical components, there are multiple architectures for implementing UPT. The alternative architectures result from different decisions about: 1) the types of services to be supported (standardized vs. customized), 2) the SCP(s) which control service delivery (the local SCP vs. the home SCP) and 3) the SSP(s) which are used to deliver the services (the local SSP vs. a home SSP vs. a transit/tandem SSP). This presentation compares these architectures with respect to various criteria: privacy, performance, ease of deploying new services, interworking between networks using different versions of IN, etc. We conclude with a description of the implementation of basic and advanced UPT features in the GTE Laboratories IN Testbed. The testbed switch implements a superset of the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) Release 0.1 architecture and call model capabilities and is being upgraded to implement a superset of the AIN 0.2 architecture (AIN 0.2+). The five basic UPT features (Access, Identification and Authentication; InCall Registration; InCall Delivery; Outgoing UPT Call; and Outcall. Registration) are being implemented using AIN Release 0.1 enhanced by an external IP that communicates directly with the SCP. Advanced UPT features such as Global Follow-On, Calling Name Delivery, Call Waiting, Three-Way Calling and Call Pick-Up will be implemented using the advanced features AIN 0.2+.","PeriodicalId":156912,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Intelligent Network","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114911571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}