Intelligent Broadband Multimedia Networks: Generic Aspects and Architectures Wireless, ISDN, Current and Future Intelligent Networks

582 Pages·1997·34.799 MB·English

by  Syed V. Ahamed, Victor B. Lawrence (auth.)

INTELLIGETN BROADBAND
MULTIMEDAI NETWORSK
INTELLIGETN BROADBAND
MULTIMEDAI NETWORSK
Generic Aspects and Architectures
Wireless, ISDN, Current and Future Intelligent Networks
Syed V. Ahamed
Professo rof Computer Science
City University of New York
&
Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies
Holmdel, New Jersey
and
Victor B. Lawrence
Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies
Holmdel, New Jersey
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINSE SMEDIA, LLC
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INTELLIGENT BROADBAND
MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS
Syed V. Ahamed and Victor B. Lawrence
Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies
PREFACE xix
PART I GENERIC ASPECTS OF NETWORKS 1
1.0 NETWORKS AND COMPUTER SySTEMS 3
1-1 ANHISTORICPERSPECTIVE 4
1-2 TODAY'SENVIRONMENT 5
Control 6
Communication 7
Computation 7
Switching 8
1-3 WHATAREINTELLIGENTNETWORKS? 9
1-4 INsANDCONVENTIONALCOMMUNICATIONNETWORKS 16
1-5 INsANDCOMPUTERNETWORKS 21
1-6 RECENTSERVICESANDIMPLICATIONS OFINs 23
1-7 PARALLELISMOFMETHODOLOGIES 25
1-8 EVOLUTIONOFINTELLIGENTNETWORKSCONCEPTS 27
StoredProgramControl 27
CommonChannelSignaling 28
ServiceIndependence 29
1-9 REFERENCES-ADDITIONAL READING 30
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2.0 BASIC INTELLIGENT NETWORK CONCEPTS32
2-1 GLOBALPERSPECTIVE 33
2-2 OVERLAPOFINANDCOMPUTER 36
Functions 36
BasicHardware 36
DevicesandLogic 37
2-3 INFORMATIONPROCESSINGWITHININs 38
2-4 MONITORINGOFINs 41
2-5 SWITCHINGANDTRANSMISSIONININs 42
2-6 DATATRANSPARENCYANDINFORMATIONCONTENT 47
2-7 INFORMATIONRATEOFNETWORKS 48
2-8 INFORMATIONFLOWANDITSMANAGEMENT 51
2-9 INENVIRONMENT 55
INDesignConsiderations 57
VendorAccess 58
2-10 CONCLUSIONS 59
2-11 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 59
3.0 NETWORKS AND THE INFORMATION
SOCIETY 60
3-1 THESIGNALINGNETWORK 61
CCIS Network 62
TheCommonChannelSignaling System7Network 66
3-2 DATANETWORKINGANDCOMMUNICATIONNETWORKING 70
3-3 NETWORKTYPES 75
3-4 THEEVOLUTIONOFPHASEDINTELLIGENCEINAMERICAN 84
3-5 PUBLIC-SWITCHEDNETWORKS 84
AT&TView 84
BellOperatingCompanies' View 86
3-6 THENEAR-TERMPUBLIC DOMAININs 88
AT&TView 89
BellOperatingCompanies' View 89
3-7 TECHNOLOGICALFEASIBILITY 90
3-8 THEIMPACTOFTHE 1996(US)TELECOMDEREGULATION 91
3-9 ECONOMICANDSERVICESFEASIBILITY 92
3-10 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 93
Contents ix
4.0 THE ROLE OF THE OSI MODEL 94
4-1 OSIMODELANDINTELLIGENTNETWORKS 94
OverviewinContexttoCommunicationSystems 95
FeaturesoftheOSIModel withinCommunicationSystems 96
4-2 LAYERSOFTHEOSIMODEL.. 97
Signalingin theINEnvironment.. 102
SignalingintheConventionalCommunicationEnvironment 102
4-3 PROTOCOLAND INTERFACES 109
4-4 PROTOCOLOBJECTIVESANDIMPLEMENTATION 115
4-5 THEX.25 PACKET-SWITCHEDNETWORKSTANDARD 117
HDLCFeatures 118
DataTransparency 118
TransmissionStrategy 118
LinkControlandConnections 120
ErrorandFlowControl inX.25 121
4-6 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 123
PART II RECENT AND EVOLVING NETWORKS 124
5.0 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 127
5-1 CUSTOMERSANDTHETECHNOLOGy 128
5-2 MODES OFOPERATION 128
5-3 THEAMERICANPERSPECTIVE 132
5-4 THEEUROPEANPERSPECTIVE 135
5-5 OTHERPERSPECTIVES 139
5-6 TECHNOLOGICALOVERVIEW 139
TransmissionConsiderations 140
Techniquesand Models 142
Modulation 143
Interference 144
5-7 THENATUREOFIMPACTFROMWIRELESSTECHNOLOGIES 145
TraditionalLandlineApplications 145
ExistingWirelessTechnologies 146
5-8 PERSONALCOMMUNICATIONNETWORKS 148
5-9 WIRELESS ANDINTELLIGENTNETWORKS 150
5-10 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 151
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6.0 RECENT AMERICAN INTELLIGENT
NETWORKS 152
6-1 INTYPES 153
6-2 COMMONALITYANDCONSISTENCYOFINs 156
6-3 EVOLUTIONARYASPECTS OFAMERICANNETWORKS 157
TheMajorEventsintheTelephoneEnvironments 159
MajorDevelopmentstoward IntelligentNetworks 166
6-4 THEADVANCED800SERVICE 171
6-5 THEROLEOFISDNANDITSIMPACTONINs 176
FunctionalDifferences 177
ConsistencyandCommonality 178
CollaborationbetweenISDNandINs 178
6-6 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 183
7.0 ISDN ELEMENTS AND ARcmTECTURE 184
7-1 ISDNUSERS 185
7-2 ISDNARCHITECTURE 186
ISDNChannels 188
ISDNGeneralFramework 189
ConventionalandImprovedFeaturesinISDN 192
ISDNInterfaceatCustomerPremises 193
ISDNInterfaceatCentralOffice 195
7-3 ISDNSERVICECAPABILITIES 198
BasicRateAccess 199
PrimaryRateAccess 201
7-4 CLASSIANDCLASSIITERMINALSFORISDN 203
7-5 ISDNBEARERCAPABILITIES 204
7-6 ISDNLAYER3SIGNALSANDMESSAGES 206
ClassificationsoftheISDNSignaling 207
CallProcessinginISDNEnvironment... 208
7-7 BROADBANDISDN(BISDN) 210
7-8 ATMCONCEPTS ANDIMPACT 212
7-9 REFERENCES-ADDmONALREADING 216
Contents xi
8.0 THE AT&T VIEW OF INTELLIGENT
NETWORKS (INs) 217
8-1 THESWITCHEDNE1WORKANDNEWARCHITECTURES 218
8-2 THEADVANCED800SERVICES NE1WORK 219
8-3 THEDIGITALDERIVED SERVICESNE1WORK 220
8-4 THEUNIVERSALINFORMATIONSERVICESNE1WORK 221
8-5 UNIVERSALINFORMATIONSERVICESNE1WORK
COMPONENTS 222
ServiceSwitchingPointsin UISN 223
SignalTransferPointsin UISN 223
ServiceControl Pointsin UISN 224
Off-NetworkNodeortheIntelligentPeripheralin UISN 224
ServiceManagementSystemin theUISN 225
8-6 TWO-TIERSERVICES ARCHITECTUREINUISN 225
8-7 THEENRICHEDSERVICES TIEROFTHEUISN 226
8-8 THETRANSPORTTIEROFTHEUISN 226
8-9 CUSTOMERINTERFACEFORUISN 226
8-10 REFERENCES-ADDITIONAL READING 227
9.0 THE BCR VIEW OF INTELLIGENT NETWORKS
(INs) 229
9-1 INTELLIGENTNE1WORKS (IN!1,IN!1+,IN!2) 230
9-2 INIl ARCHITECTUREANDBUILDINGBLOCKS 231
9-3 SERVICESWITCHINGPOINTS 232
9-4 SERVICECONTROLPOINTS 233
HardwareAspects 234
SoftwareAspects 235
9-5 SERVICEMANAGEMENTSYSTEM 237
9-6 SIGNALTRANSFERPOINTS 238
9-7 THE800SERVICE 239
AlternateBillingService 240
PrivateVirtual Networks 242
AreaWideCentrex 245
ERSorEmergencyResponseSystems 245
9-8 REFERENCES-ADDmONALREADING 248
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10. INTELLIGENT NETWORKS/l+ (IN/l+) 250
10-1 IN/I+BUILDINGBLOCKSORNElWORKELEMENTS 251
10-2 SERVICESWITCHINGPOINTFACILITY 253
10-3 THEINTELLIGENTNElWORKACCESS POINT 257
10-4 SERVICECONTROLPOINTFORINIl+ 258
10-5 THESERVICELOGICINTERPRETER(SLI/l+) 258
10-6 INTELLIGENTPERIPHERALFORINIl+ (IP) 260
10-7 INTEGRATEDSERVICEMANAGEMENTSYSTEMFORIN/l+
(ISMS) 261
10-8 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 262
11. INTELLIGENT NETWORKS/2 (IN/2) 264
11-1 ELEMENTS OFIN/2 264
11-2 ARCHITECTUREOFINI2 267
11-3 IN/2ARCHITECTURALELEMENTS 272
11-4 SERVICESWITCHINGPOINT/2 272
SLI(ResidentatSSPI2and/orSCP/2and/orIP) 273
NID(ResidentatSSP/2and/orSCP/2and/orIP) 274
NRM(ResidentatSSPI2and/orSCPI2and/orIP) 275
11-5 SERVICECONTROLPOINTI2(SCPI2) 275
EvolutionoftheServiceLogicInterpreter(SLI) 275
EvolvingServiceLogicPrograms 276
SuggestedFunctionalComponents(PCs) 276
11-6 SIGNALTRANSFERPOINTS 278
11-7 INTELLIGENTPERIPHERAL(IP) 278
11-8 OPERATIONS SYSTEMS(SMSI2 ANDSCE) 278
11-9 VENDORFEATURENODES 279
11-10 SUMMARYANDOVERVIEWOFPUBLICDOMAININs 280
11-11 REFERENCES-ADDITIONALREADING 280
12. GLOBAL INTELLIGENT NETWORKS 282
12-1 THEINTELLIGENTNElWORKCONCEPTUALMODELAND
CAPABILITYSETS (INCM& CS) 283
INCMEvolution 284
FourPlanesofINCM 284