Vesa-Matti Puro, Petteri Koponen, Juhana Räsänen, Pasi Nummisalo, Olli Martikainen,
TOVE in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.
Otto Spaniol, Jan Slavik, Oswald Drobnik, Eds. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Personal Wireless Communications , Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Dec. 1996) pp. 103--111

Abstract

To support a wide range of multimedia services future mobile network capabilities should allow the distribution of service functions between the customer terminals and the network nodes. Intelligent networks (IN) can be considered the bridging technology between the customer-based service management and the service execution in the networks. Considering mobile and broadband technologies a natural question is how the concept of intelligence will develop. To satisfy broadband and multimedia service needs future mobile networks should support much more distributed operations. In this paper distributed TOVE (Transparent Object-oriented Virtual Exchange) architecture is developed and applied in UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System). The presented TOVE architecture applies the OVOPS++ (Object Virtual Operations System ++) software environment and distributes switching and different control functions using GSMP (General Switch Management Protocol) and INAP (Intelligent Network Application Part) protocols.

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