Marine-flexible Service Provision and Configuration in a Mat/dot-based B-in

The Intelligent Broadband Network [1] enables efficient provision of advanced multimedia services to users, exploiting the benefits given by ATM technology and hiding the limitations of current signalling systems to IN service designers. The availability of new technologies like DOT (Distributed Object Technology) and MAT (Mobile Agent Technology) opens new horizons within the framework of Intelligent Broadband Networks, providing the basis for a more flexible architecture, where network intelligence (i.e., IN services) can be dynamically relocated in network nodes where they are actually needed. These topics are analysed by ACTS project AC340-MARINE (Mobile Agent enviRonments in Intelligent NEtworks). This paper provides a highlight on the main research activities carried out within this framework