Objectif
This Project is an answer to the problem of fast and efficient service provisioning in the converging IT/TLC environment, providing potential ground for new appealing services. The Project aims at defining and implementing a prototype of a unified Internet/PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) service environment, where compact and extendable service objects are created, deployed, managed and provisioned. The Project is based on a distributed Intelligent Network (IN) infrastructure, where services are deployed to active network nodes by exploiting Distributed Object and Mobile Agent Technology (DOT/MAT) platforms. Service designers will be given an integrated view of the underlying networks and will rapidly prototype and inject into the network new services by exploiting a distributed environment. Expected results, achieved by means of experiments, are the validation of the architecture and the verification of the adopted service handling criteria.
Objectives:
The major objective of the Project is to define, implement and deploy a unified service framework, based on IN, Internet and using DOT/MAT, for creation, management, deployment and runtime provision of cross-network services, analysing MAT impacts on consolidated service creation procedures and achieving fast introduction of new services.
This includes:
To develop the necessary major building blocks of the service framework, i.e. the following software components which support cross network services: an SCE (Service Creation Environment), an enhanced SMS (Service Management System), an enhanced ISN (Internet Service Node) including an upgraded MGC (Media Gateway Controller), and an enhanced ACS (Advanced Call Service);
To develop services, including user mobility support, making use of the service chain provided by the project, and to achieve fast introduction of new services, exploiting the unified service framework.
Terms of comparison for this will be current IN SCE environments and related methodologies;
To allow the provision of value-added cross-network services (e.g. Web-based profile handling, IN-based Internet services, media conversions), derived from PSTN and Internet integration;
To provide solutions to user mobility issues within the unified framework;
To demonstrate cross-network services, exploiting VoIP (Voice over IP) with solutions like IETF MEGACO, and also user mobility, achieving experimental validation of the architecture and adopted approach;
To disseminate results obtained by the project in appropriate standardisation and research areas.
Work description:
Fast provisioning of new services to end users has rapidly become the key issue in the modern telecommunications environment, often being the most important element determining the success of operators and manufacturers. The convergence of IT (Information Technology) and TLC (Telecommunications) determines a framework for potential new and appealing services, as Intelligent Network (IN) capabilities offered to Internet (IP) users, which must be provided efficiently in order to be competitive in a highly populated market. The Project will implement an integrated IT/TLC environment based on a distributed IN, exploiting Distributed Object and Mobile Agent Technologies (DOT/MAT), on top of which cross-network services are designed and deployed. These services are derived from the integration between distinct network capabilities (PSTN/Internet) and are uniformly controlled from creation to provisioning. DOT/MAT are used as a unified framework addressing the service chain (creation, deployment, management, provisioning), allowing the design and implementation of compact and extendable service objects, used in order to program active network nodes according to time-varying needs.
Prototypes of advanced distributed IN systems are enhanced and developed, leveraging on the results obtained within the ACTS framework and on partner internal activities: a Service Creation Environment (SCE), an extended Service Management System (SMS), an enhanced Internet Service Node (ISN) including an upgraded Media Gateway Controller (MGC), an enhanced Advanced Call Server (ACS). Extensive experiments are performed in order to validate the adopted approach, on the basis of services selected and implemented by the project by means of an innovative SCE and supported by the IT/TLC integrated framework. Project work will be complemented by disseminating the results in appropriate standardisation and research areas.
Milestones:
M1: Services identified and described (month 4);L%M2: Functional architecture identified and described (month 7);
M3: Communication relationships specified (month 10);
M4: Implementation completed and experiments planned (month 16);
M5: Experimental platform integrated (month 21);
M6: Experiments completed (month 27);
M7: Project results evaluated (month 30)
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- sciences naturelles informatique et science de l'information logiciel
- sciences naturelles informatique et science de l'information internet
- ingénierie et technologie génie électrique, génie électronique, génie de l’information ingénierie de l’information télécommunication
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