Executable TMN-specifications in TIMS

Author

Eberhardt, R. ; Sidou, D. ; Festor, O. ; Mazziotta, S. ; Labetoulle, J.

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev., Swiss Telecom PTT, Bern, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

15-19 Apr 1996

Firstpage

266

Abstract

Current TMN-based information model standards take too long to specify, standardise, implement, test and introduce. The TMN-based Information Model Simulator-TIMS-explores the possibilities of reducing this development life cycle. The TIMS-vision foresees a formally executable specification of the behavior of object interfaces which should enable: (1) rapid-prototyping of TMN agent and manager functions and later allow for (2) the generation of function reference configurations as well as (3) the automatic derivation of test-suites based on the formal specifications

Keywords

formal specification; knowledge based systems; object-oriented methods; software agents; software prototyping; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication standards; TIMS; TMN agent functions; TMN manager functions; TMN-based Information Model Simulator; TMN-based information model standards; development life cycle; executable TMN-specifications; formal specifications; formally executable specification; function reference configurations; object interfaces; rapid-prototyping; test-suites; Access control; Automatic testing; Encoding; Formal specifications; Marine vehicles; Protection; Publishing; Runtime; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Operations and Management Symposium, 1996., IEEE

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2518-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOMS.1996.539466

Filename

539466