CORBA based approach to the development of an advanced architecture in TINA service management system

In order to satisfy, the complex and various demands of the customers, telecommunication networks must provide their services rapidly and flexibly, with the support of efficient service and network management systems. To fulfill these requirements, TINA has appeared as a concept for the advanced telecommunication system using information technology such as distributed processing, object oriented modeling. We mention some problems of developing applications in the TINA service management layer. To solve the problems, we propose the advanced architecture called OMS (object management system), which consists of three managers (data manager, data access manager and metadata registry manager). OMS separates the application layer and the middleware such as ODBC and JDBC. And the application layer and OMS are connected by distributed object middleware based on CORBA. Also in order to manage efficiently managed objects stored in different repositories, we have implemented metadata registry by using the metadata concept