The Enhanced Service Manager: A service management system for next-generation networks

Lui, Anthony; Karunasekera, Shanika; Leangsuksun, Chokchai

doi:10.1002/bltj.2240

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“…The provisioning system defines a metadata model-or meta model for short-common to all services. This is different from the service data model, which is specific to a service [9]. The meta model provides a higher level of abstraction relative to the service data model.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…It supports minor service data model changes across versions of a service and provisioning of both versions simultaneously. The knowledge that local data are consistent with the network data implies that part of the network data can be verified against the corresponding part of local data to check and correct discrepancies [9]. In addition, the provisioning system can support sophisticated queries without burdening the network elements.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The structure (relational, hierarchical) and the kind (voice, video, text) of data depend on the service and technology, such as wireline or Voice over IP (VoIP). The diversity of data, services, technology, and vendors has caused the proliferation of provisioning systems, each catering to a technology domain [12] or a vendor [9] or a class of service [14]. These differences pose many challenges to unification.…”

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Provisioning in complex networks

Radhakrishnan¹

2007

Bell Labs Tech. J.

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IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions emphasize services including allInternet Protocol (IP) voice, data, video, multimedia, and other user-centric technologies-make possible such interactive multimedia services as multiparty video conference and user mobility (presence and location management) [15]. These services are the major contributors to data diversity in the network.Services operate on network and subscriber data in the network. Collectively, the network contains enormous amounts of service data. The structure (relational, hierarchical) and the kind (voice, video, text) of data depend on the service and technology, such as wireline or Voice over IP (VoIP). The diversity of data, services, technology, and vendors has caused the proliferation of provisioning systems, each catering to a technology domain [12] or a vendor [9] or a class of service [14]. These differences pose many challenges to unification. In literature,

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Provisioning in complex networks

Radhakrishnan¹

2007

Bell Labs Tech. J.

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“…However, the provisioning data model conforms to the service-independent architecture of the Enhanced Services Manager (eSM). 5 The eSM is a provisioning environment to provision next-generation services. The DMT generates database schema for both the simulation and call processing environments.…”

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eSAE: A rapid service creation environment for next-generation services

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Pattabhiraman²,

Subramanian

et al. 2002

Bell Labs Tech. J.

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focused on a packet-based environment for applications like unified messaging, which requires support for network APIs to accomplish converged service functionality. Such converged service offerings by Internet-IN focused service providers are changing the telephony landscape.Next-generation networks need an application hosting environment (AHE) to centrally host the services with the same reliability and scalability as traditional service control points (SCPs). These AHEs will require services that are scalable. Therefore, AHEs impose inherent operations, administration, IntroductionWhile existing intelligent network (IN) product offerings continue to have a role in the circuitswitched networks market, there is an opportunity to develop new products that align with the emerging converged network. These products can leverage increased computing power combined with the capability to distribute service functionality throughout the network. These new products have to be aligned with the emerging protocols in this converged network. Service creation environments (SCE) have to facilitate rapid creation and deployment of new services in these networks. Next-generation

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“…This transaction could be a one-time or a recurring event that results in revenue for the SP. SPs may have an untried set of services/applications that they want to offer to a particular market segment as a market trial or obtain the take rates for a particular existing portfolio of applications offered [6].…”

Section: Network Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%