Object Oriented Techniques in Telecommunications

Foreword. Research. Object orientation in telecommunications engineering. Templates, types and classes in open distributed processing. Object oriented knowledge representation. A model-based approach to network, service and customer management systems. Object orientation: evolving current commercial data processing practice. Encapsulation - an issue for legacy systems. Formal methods in object oriented analysis. Formal specification in managed objects - a case study. Configuration interworking between service and network level management systems. The verification, validation and testing of object oriented systems. Development. Object oriented software engineering - process and practice. A managed object model of generic switch services. A network routeing management system: a practical example of an object oriented development. Object oriented correlation. Index.