The ability to carry stream information over a range of network types in a managed way will become an essential requirement for telecommunication network operators as future services evolve to include the transmission of audio/video and bulk data streams. This paper details the architecture of a working pan-European demonstrator offering multimedia services through the integration of stream con...

As workflow management systems become more complex and critical to an organisation’s performance, there is an opportunity for a new generation of workflow management products. These products could greatly increase the scope of workflow management systems in target application areas. One of the key extensions to workflow management systems will be the use of transactional semantics to increase r...

This paper presents the characteristics of the TINA Architecture and the TINA Management Architecture, the main information concepts that appear in the Network Resource Information Model, and how the Management Architecture is applied in the definition of management services for the Free-Phone telecommunication service.

The rapid of growth in e-Commerce/e-Business provides new opportunities and challenges for next generation Internet and telecommunication service providers. The collective global e-Commerce activities are estimated to exceed $6 trillion dollars in 2004. However, a key element in successful e-Commerce/e-Business operation is the improved integration and management of the e-Business value chains ...

There have been growing research interests for the realization of CORBA-based network management system for telecommunication network, and several methods have been devised to apply CORBA technology to telecommunication management network. We concern about the pure CORBA-based network management system. In this system, there is no conventional CMIP agent in a managed system. Otherwise, a manage...

Key management plays fundamental role in research on security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, due to the resource constraints, establishing pairwise keys in WSNs is not a trivial tasks. Several exiting key management schemes have been proposed in literature to establish pairwise keys between sensor nodes, but they either can not offer strong resilience against node capture ...

ATM technology simplifies the application of logical connectivity and Virtual Private Network (VPN), which provide more flexibility for network management. This flexibility increases the complexity of management task, and requires special treatment. In this paper, we introduce a WWW-based threedimensional user interface, in which managers can collaborate with each other to efficiently manage di...

This paper describes a methodology for building telecommunication management agents. Its utilization greatly reduces the time needed for and, therefore, the cost of their development. The implementation eeort is focused on the communication between agents and managed objects, and in the mapping between the object's information model and the plat-form's. Also presented are the agent/manager inte...