Abstract
Service management is one of the key functional areas in the future telecommunications management network (TMN) for the integrated broadband communication network (IBCN). We describe the objectives and functions of service management. An experimental service management system has been designed by NEMESYS, a project within the European RACE programme. This service management will be implemented as part of an experimental study of TMN requirements and techniques in a simulated ATM environment. The design of the experimental Service Manager is discussed using the novel viewpoint approach that has emerged from ISO's Open Distributed Processing (ODP) standardization activities. We briefly review the ODP viewpoint concepts. The design aspects of the Service Manager are analysed with respect to the different viewpoints. We also evaluate the usefulness of the ODP viewpoints for the analysis and design of a rather complex distributed system.
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