{"title":"IN service creation elements: variations on the meaning of a SIB","authors":"R. Willner, L. Lee","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.601168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.601168","url":null,"abstract":"The major thrust of the intelligent network is to move the intelligence behind call processing out of network switches and to empower network operators with tools that enable them to create this intelligence. In present day intelligent networks, call processing intelligence is typically placed on general purpose computing platforms, called service control points (SCP). Service creation environments (SCE) support the creation of IN call processing intelligence, service logic programs (SLP), that run on these computing platforms. Intelligent network solutions include an SCP component and an SCE component, as well as other network elements and operations systems. The service creation environment is a critical part of an IN solution. Today, telecommunications and information technology vendors offer a large variety of SCEs. This variety is largely characterized by the pre-defined service programming elements or commands, often called Service Independent Building Blocks (SIBs), that are provided by the SCE's service creation toolkit. These SIBs operate at various levels of granularity. A SCE may support the use of a general purpose programming language with a built-in API for access to INAP services. Or, an SCE may support a graphical service programming toolkit where the programming elements are represented by icons which again may operate at various levels from GNAP information flows to pre-defined service features. This paper describes three types or categories of IN service creation environments, where the categorization is based on the service programming elements and model supported by the SCE.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126020352","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":"Development of service creation and test environment","authors":"K. Takagi, T. Misu, Y. Matsuura, K. Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.601161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.601161","url":null,"abstract":"To implement a flexible service creation tool for Intelligent Network (IN), not only the environment where service can be created and modified (Service Creation Environment: SCE) but also the environment where operation of the created service may be validated (Service Test Environment: STE) are required in accordance with ITU-T/CSI (Capability Set I). The service creation process consists of two stages: in the first stage, SIBs (Service Independent Building Blocks) will be chained into a service feature and in the second, a combination of resultant service features will make up a service. According to the service creation procedure described above, operation of individual service features and the service itself will be verified while this level of validation does not guarantee the behavior in the real network, therefore, the higher level environment that enables operation of each network element to be simulated is required. In this report we describe the outline of our CSI-based SCE and STE, which are being developed considering the points mentioned above.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128598303","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":"Intelligent network security-how to secure user access and the communication between IN components","authors":"M. Gundlach","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.595281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.595281","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses an approach for an intelligent network security architecture. It considers issues such as: standardization activities; potential threats to IN; security requirements for IN; lawful interception; UPT strong one-pass authentication; IC cards and card reading terminals.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134535710","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":"Is there a future for global intelligent network standards?","authors":"L. Robart","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.603089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.603089","url":null,"abstract":"The ITU-T has defined the global Intelligent Network (IN) standard IN Capability Set 1 (refined) (CS-1R) which is now being deployed worldwide. Global IN standardization has progressed in the last several years to produce the ITU-T IN CS-2 Recommendations which includes enhanced capabilities from CS-1R. But is there a future for evolution of global LN standards such as IN CS-3? Concerns have been raised regarding the scope, timeliness, and value of global IN standards. The advent of the IN Forum and the role of national and regional standards bodies also poses threats to global IN standards, in terms of duplication of effort and misalignment of approaches. The telecommunications industry, and IN in particular, is moving towards global service delivery, inter-domain interworking, and deregulation and increased competition. Is there a need for global IN standards in this new environment? This paper highlights key capabilities defined in IN CS-2 and indicates its relevance to the deployment of intelligent networks worldwide. The paper describes steps taken by the ITU-T and the IN subworking group to address concerns related to international standards timeliness and relevance. Finally, the paper discusses a variety of approaches in which the ITU-T IN sub-working group can achieve harmonization of regional interworking requirements and meet the needs of a dynamic industry.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"178 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114004881","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":"Development of B-ISDN intelligent network service simulator","authors":"H. Otsuki, F. Kubota, K. Yoshimura, M. Arai","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.601169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.601169","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia telecommunication services will have a bright future for ATM networks. Many of them will need multipoint connections, and also will have to manipulate connections for a multimedia service. On the other hand, intelligent network architectures are being studied for providing more sophisticated telecommunication services. New standards for B-ISDN are being developed. Functionalities need to be extracted for controlling multipoint connections and efficient routing. We describe the newly developed service simulator for extracting such functionalities. We propose the call model for multipoint connection services. We also propose the trigger transfer function to call a set-up procedure for multipoint connection service provisioning. The service simulator has installed new functionalities and is able to set up multipoint connections and provide multicast services.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116427440","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":"Performance simulation investigation of TINA networks","authors":"M. Kihl, C. Nyberg","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.595264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.595264","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the performance of TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture). The TINA architecture allows both multiple service vendors and multiple network providers. It is developed by a consortium which includes network operators and telecommunication and computer equipment suppliers. The foundation of TINA is object orientation and distributed computing. A computational object (CO) is an abstraction that encapsulates data and processing. Applications in TINA consist of COs, that interwork with each other. The COs can reside on different physical nodes in the network. The distributed processing environment (DPE) hides the physical distribution of COs.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122218618","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":"Intelligent Networks: Evolving from Vision to Business","authors":"R. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.600985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.600985","url":null,"abstract":"A collection of slides from the author's conference presentation on Intelligent Networks (IN) is provided.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129324931","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, a global view","authors":"L. Gys","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.600994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.600994","url":null,"abstract":"A collection of slides from the author's conference presentation is given. It is reported that a total Service Creation Environment, based on graphical design and using Object Orientation implementing the Operational view, has proven to deliver competivie services.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123225214","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 design, deployment and control over integrated IN/B-ISDN platforms","authors":"C.D. Anagnostakis, G. Prezerakos, I. Venieris","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.603028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.603028","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a concrete methodology for the creation of IN based multimedia services over an integrated IN/B-ISDN platform. Two running service examples are used to demonstrate the flexibility of the proposed service creation methodology: a Video on Demand (VoD) service developed from scratch and a Broadband Video Conferencing Service (B-VC) service based on an existing development originally targeted for a TCP/IP network platform. Based on the service prose description, a definition of the functional architecture is carried out which -results in the specification of a Broadband Service Control Function (B-SCF) that accomodates the requirements of novel multimedia services, including the coordination of different calls in a session as well as the call/connection separation. The paper presents alternatives for the distribution of the service logic in the IN/B-ISDN network elements and proceeds with the specification of the messages flows across interfaces. A formal description of the service is produced in SDL which is transformed into Service Logic Code and simulated with a Service Creation and Simulation Environment.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"1 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115861864","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":"Global services: changes and extensions to the role of global service providers","authors":"T. Rychlý","doi":"10.1109/INW.1997.601127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INW.1997.601127","url":null,"abstract":"There is a large and still heavily increasing number of national service providers all over the world. Often a national service provider becomes a global service provider by founding an alliance with other national providers. The joint product of such an alliance determines the success in the global market place. Therefore global service providers need global strategies to strengthen their alliance for global competition. A strategy is to exploit upcoming synergy's and enable competition within such an alliance. One flavor of such a strategy is a distributed IN architecture and alliance wide standardization (de facto standards). This means using synergy's and gives equal opportunities to all alliance partners, which means competition as a driving force within the alliance. Global service providers could create a market place in their alliance with national alliance partners offering their services in other national markets of the alliance. Selling service logic as licensed software is a business opportunity in such an alliance.","PeriodicalId":395317,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop in '97. Proceedings. 'Meeting the Challenges of Converging Networks and Global Demand'","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124031455","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}