Substantial new breakthroughs are happening in telecommunications technology. This volume presents a state-of-the-art review of the current research activities in intelligent network technology. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on intelligent networks organized by the International Federation of Information Processsing and held as part of the Third Summer School on Telecommunications in Lappeenranta, Finland, August 1994.

Inhalt

Preface. Introduction to intelligent networks. Intelligent networks for personal communications. Service creation from IN to mobile and broadband. Nokia's IN solution for fixed and cellular networks. Service creation environment as a software development platform. IN service specification using the KANNEL language. Performance analyzer for Intelligent Network. Service prototyping in the OVOPS environment. The local management for a service control point. An advanced management architecture for IN. Secure IN networking. Charging generalized: a generic role model for charging and billing services in telecommunications. Database access in intelligent networks. Problem classes in intelligent network database design. Customer value creation in value added telecommunication services. Value creation for multimedia services on broadband networks. Use of Intelligent networks in the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). On location of service control. Comparison of broadband intelligent network signalling architecture. Broadband intelligent network project. Which intelligence for future networks? Index of contributors.