SIGNALING WITH OBJECTS

Conventional signalling systems, such as Q.931 and Q.2931, have grown from simple techniques for creating a single connection between two pa rties. However, with B-ISDN, it will be desirable to be able to constr uct multiparty, multiconnection calls for multimedia services. This pa per highlights the work done by the RACE MAGIC project to develop a ne w object-based signalling protocol to meet these requirements, and des cribes how this new protocol overcomes the shortcomings of conventiona l signalling.