Achieving global information networking (Artech House, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Role and Impact of Network Modeling -- - Telecommunications Network Vision -- - Linkages Between Transport Services, Networks, and Equipment -- - Linkages Between Transport and Management -- - Unification of Transport and Management Modeling Approaches -- - High-Level Description and General Principles -- - Applicability to Various Transport Technologies -- - Transport Network Infrastructure and Management--Specification Approaches -- - Requirements Capture Drivers and Criteria -- - Customer/Market Drivers and Implications -- - Technology Enablers -- - Requirements Criteria -- - Conventional Transport Specification Approaches -- - Conventional Management Specification Approaches -- - TMN/OSI Approach -- - SNMP--Principles and Specification Techniques -- - Example: GDMO Definition of Managed Objects -- - Example: SNMP Definition of Managed Objects -- - Model-Based Description of Transport Network Functionality -- - High-Level Description and General Principles -- - Connection-Related Dimension -- - Basic Concepts -- - Functionality -- - Connections and Points -- - Connection Domain Model -- - Sublayers and Function Decomposition -- - Equipment Packaging -- - Application Example -- - Application to Packet-Switched Networks -- - Control and Management Dimension -- - Equipment Supervisory Process -- - Transport Entities Considered as Management Resources -- - Relationship to TMN Equipment Information Models -- - Inventory-Related Dimension -- - ODP Architectural Framework Applied to Telecommunications Systems Design -- - Selection Rationale -- - Specification Framework, Architecture, and Modeling Constructs