Service and network management in the OAMS open service architecture

Abstract

New open service architectures are now emerging to ease service construction, management, testing, deployment, and operation, and to hide from the service designer the heterogeneity of the underlying technologies and the complexities introduced by distribution. These architectures should provide all the functionalities for call and connection management, and support management functional areas. To reach these objectives, information models must be defined which provide service and network representations by data. This paper presents the specification, design and implementation of the management architecture of OAMS which is an open service architecture. The proposed architecture is deployed over the distributed processing environment DCE 2 . It exhibits service, network and element management views by means of information models, in order to manage the end-to-end connectivity requested by telecommunication services.

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“…This paper paves the road for the overall management of multimedia resources. It is part of a larger project called OAMS (Open management Architecture for Multimedia Services) [27], which aims at designing and developing a management architecture for advanced telecommunication services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and multimedia services.…”