Mobile Agent Based Advanced Service Architecture

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Architecture
The Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium
(TINA-C) [22] is a multinational worldwide consortium, which aims at defining
and validating an “open” architecture for telecommunications services in the
emerging broadband, multimedia and “information super-highway” areas. The
architecture is based on distributed computing, object orientation, and other concepts
and standards from the telecommunications as well as the computer industry,
e.g. IN, TMN, and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)


Telecommunications Management Network
The Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) [23] standard was defined
by the ITU-T, to specify management of telecommunications networks. Its principles
aim at the operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAM&P)
of telecommunications networks and services in today's open, multivendor environment.
The TMN principles recommend the use of management networks for
the management of telecommunications networks and services.



Intelligent Networks
A primary objective for Intelligent Network (IN) [24, 25, 26, 27] is the control of
the definition and deployment of new services to satisfy customer needs. With the
existing network infrastructure, switch vendors define the implementation and
operation of new services and offer them via traditional software-generic release
cycles. These services emphasize availability and operation, resulting in additional
training, documentation, trouble identification, trouble reporting and repair costs.


Intelligent Networks and Service Independent Building Blocks
A key objective of the IN is to provide service-independent functions that can be
used as building blocks to construct a variety of services. This allows easy specification
and design of new services.