A MODEL-BASED APPROACH TO NETWORK, SERVICE AND CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT-SYSTEMS

In the development of telecommunications support systems of the near future, a model based management (MBM) approach is seen to benefit the experimental development of network, service and customer administration systems. The MBM embodies the common information model which is a single logical entity containing the shared management information and functionality of the system, and uses OBSIL which is a high-level object manipulation language. This work within the ADVANCE European collaborative project shows that MBM produces a powerful means of structuring and understanding the problems and solutions for building large and complex systems by enabling the designer of such systems to understand the problem through a model which closely represents information and knowledge of the actual telecommunications systems domain.