Most of today's telecommunication systems are configured and controlled by central management systems. During the operation a permanent monitoring of the network takes place to detect breakdowns of nodes and links and to control necessary re-configuration tasks. Administrative procedures are done automatically by appropriate algorithms only in some cases. Communication networks are still increa...

This paper presents an overview of JAMES, a Java-based platform of mobile agents that is mainly oriented for the management of data and telecommunication networks. This platform has been developed on behalf of a Eureka Project ( !1921) and the project partners are Siemens SA, University of Coimbra and Siemens AG. We describe the main architecture of the platform giving more emphasis to the most...

Telecommunication companies generate a tremendous amount of data. These data include call detail data, which describes the calls that traverse the telecommunication networks, network data, which describes the state of the hardware and software components in the network, and customer data, which describes the telecommunication customers. This chapter describes how data mining can be used to unco...

We report on an experience in analyzing the security of the Trust and Security Management (TSM) protocol, an authentication procedure within the OSA/Parlay Application Program Interfaces (APIs) of the Open Service Access and Parlay Group. The experience has been conducted jointly by research institutes experienced in security and industry experts in telecommunication networking. OSA/Parlay APIs...

Technologies advanced in communication devices and wireless networks enable telecommunication network operators to provide rich personalized multimedia services. To attract potential customers and increase average revenue per customer, network operators will provide personalized services as differentiating factors in the near future. To accommodate the diversity and complexity of future network...

MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) has been coined by OMG (Object Management Group) as the next step in application integration. Being based on standards already embraced by a large segment of the software engineering industry, MDA promises fully automatic model transformation. MDA enables application developers to use formalisms such as UML to specify their applications in a totally platform-inde...