NDLI: Applying distributed object technology to network planning

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wessels, T.D. Bishop, J.M.
Copyright Year	2000
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pretoria Univ., South Africa (Wessels, T.D.)
Abstract	Describes a generic interface through which a planning tool or design aid can be connected to a telecommunications network. In today's complex and ever-changing networks, network operators need to plan their networks very accurately and rapidly. Sacrificing accuracy generally has severe impacts on the scalability and maintainability of the network at a later stage. A proliferation of planning algorithms/tools exists in both the literature and industry today: these implement advanced algorithms and supply complex answers. It has been our experience that these calculations seldom have any direct use in reducing network costs through optimising network configuration in practice. The key to unlocking the benefits of these planning algorithms lies in making the network planning process a generic open standards-based and closed-loop process, through the implementation of generic interfaces which abstract the information required away from the physical network details. This paper describes the design of such an interface, which was then implemented in a conceptual evaluation environment in order to gauge the complexity and practicality of the interface concept. We use the capabilities of Java and CORBA to achieve the necessary scalability and portability. The Generic Network Planning Interface (GNPI) concept is shown to be powerful enough to abstract the network information into generic network objects and to provide standard method calls to access these objects in a distributed environment.
Starting Page	40
Ending Page	50
File Size	261293
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769506348
DOI	10.1109/PDSE.2000.847849
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2000-06-10
Publisher Place	Ireland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Communication system operations and management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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