A Transversal Alignment between Measurements and Enterprise Architecture for Early Verification of Telecom Service Design

Abstract

Abstract. Early verification of Telecom Services (TS) at the design time helps an enterprise to avoid wasting of implementation cost and time. Simulation provides the designer with helpful feedbacks on TS design leaving the implementation and installation costs behind. Our objective in this paper is to present our approach to obtain valuable feedbacks from network simulators and relate them to the information from high abstract scenario of a TS. Relying on Model Driven Engineering discipline and Enterprise Architecture standard, we propose to associate measurement elements with the design ones of different abstraction levels. We implement a model transformation to generate automatically the configurations for NS-3 simulator as a test-bed for our case studies. We illustrate our approach with a video conference example, presenting the different abstract levels and their relationship with measurements.

Alignment Verification in the Early Stage of Service Design

“…Then, they add the identified requirements and constraints in a service model that is seen as the service design specification. As indicated by [4], an early verification of the service design specification is needed to avoid costly consequences in the service lifecycle.…”