The objectives of the paper is to review the conflicting requirements and needs of existing telecommunication network testing approaches, services and equipment, in order to provide a simple but powerful solution that allows automated and standardized testing activities. We present in the paper a progressive transition from the current proprietary practices, to a distributed and fully TMN compl...

As of late there has been an immense increase of data within modern society. This is evident within the field of telecommunications. The amount of mobile data is growing fast. For a telecommunication operator, this provides means of getting more information of specific subscribers. The applications of this are many, such as segmentation for marketing purposes or detection of churners, people ab...

Global telecommunication systems are built with extensive redundancy and complex management systems to ensure robustness. Fault identi cation and management of this complexity is an open research issue with which data mining can greatly assist. This paper proposes a hybrid data mining architecture and a parallel genetic algorithm (PGA) applied to the mining of Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) fro...

There is ongoing shift in the landscape of personal computation and telecommunication. Individuals are communicating with each other in increasingly complex ways. In the very near future, large number of software agents may be acting on behalf of any given individual. In the not-so-distant future, even relatively simple household appliances may interact in a massive, churning telecommunication ...

The convergence of the telecommunication and information technologies brings a real revolution to the communications world and hence in the way that people interact and communicate with each other. With the development of the World Wide Web technology for browsing and navigating through the Internet, complemented by the global telecommunication network, new, easyto-use tools are being developed...

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 Net...

—Simulation methodology has become popular among computer and telecommunication network researchers and developers worldwide. This popularity is due to the availability of various sophisticated and powerful simulation packages, and also because of the flexibility in model construction and validation offered by simulation. For selecting an appropriate network simulator for a simulation task, it ...

The computer and telecommunication industries rely heavily on knowledge-based expert systems to manage the performance of their networks. These expert systems are developed by knowledge engineers, who must first interview domain experts to extract the pertinent knowledge. This knowledge acquisition process is laborious and costly, and typically is better at capturing qualitative knowledge than ...