A PROPOSAL FOR INTEGRATING INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT IN THE INTELLIGENT NETWORK CONCEPTUAL-MODEL

Over the past five years, the subject of Intelligent Network (IN) focu sed on architecture and introduction of new services. In parallel, TMN was introduced as a generic management-oriented architecture to be us ed for all kinds of management services. The integration of IN and TMN is a candidate to solve the problem of management of the IN. Unfortun ately, this concept of integration is not sufficient to bring a flexib le and adaptable management system. This paper describes a model based on Distributed Artificial Intelligence concepts able to manage the In telligent Network. This model can be integrated in the different layer s of the Intelligent Network architecture. We investigate four possibi lities: at the physical plane, at the distributed functional plane, at the global functional plane and at the service plane. We compare the advantages and drawbacks of implementing the management process at tho se levels.