Accounting Management Based on TIMA Service and CORBA Architecture

Luis Marco Cáceres Alvarez, Wagner Tatsuya Watanabe, Carlos Becker Westphall, Abderrahim Sekkaki

DOI: 10.14209/sbrt.2001.21200209

Evento: XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT2001)

Keywords: TINA accounting management security of accounting CORBA

Abstract

"TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) concepts and principles are introduced with the objective to remedy problems of centralized service control and service data model existing in IN (Intelligent Network). Now, it is becoming clear that future sophisticated services breaking away from the simple telephony call model, e.g., multimedia, multiparty conferencing, etc., will need to be rapidly and efficiently introduced, deployed, shared, operated and managed. In this context, TINA developed a comprehensive architecture for multiservice networks that shall enable multimedia communications and give access to information for business and private consumers. On the other hand, the provisioning of all management context instrumentation for TINA services (i.e. FCAPS service management functions) is still an open research question. In this paper, we discuss accounting features and requirements, security of accounting management, and issues for their integration in a TINA-based service environment. A prototype has been implemented to validate the concept and the results are also presented."

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