Intelligent Networks

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.

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1 Introduction to intelligent networks.- 2 Intelligent networks for personal communications.- 3 Service creation from IN to mobile and broadband.- 4 Nokia's IN solution for fixed and cellular networks.- 5 Service creation environment as a software development platform.- 6 IN service specification using the KANNEL language.- 7 Performance analyzer for Intelligent Network.- 8 Service prototyping in the OVOPS environment.- 9 The local management for a service control point.- 10 An advanced management architecture for IN.- 11 Secure IN intemetworking.- 12 Charging generalised: a generic role model for charging and billing services in telecommunications.- 13 Database access in intelligent networks.- 14 Problem classes in intelligent network database design.- 15 Customer value creation in value added telecommunication services.- 16 Value creation for multimedia services on broadband networks.- 17 Use of INtelligent networks in the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).- 18 On location of service control.- 19 Comparison of broadband intelligent network signalling architecture.- 20 Broadband intelligent network project.- 21 Which intelligence for future networks?.- Index of contributors.