A real-time database for future telecommunication services

Future telecommunication services will extensively exploit database technology. The persistent and temporal information needed in operations and management of the telecommunication networks and services will be in databases. The current Intelligent Network (IN) Recommendations of ITU-T imply that real-time transaction processing capabilities should be provided. Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) and Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) are object oriented. An ideal database system supporting various telecommunication applications should be a fault-tolerant distributed real-time object-oriented database system. The most challenging issue in designing a real-time transaction processing system for telecommunications is the handling of transactions in three categories having very different characteristics. A telecommunications database system should be able to support short but voluminous simple read transactions, long but voluminous simple updating transactions, and a few very long complex updating transactions in the same real-time database system.