A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SUPPORT SYSTEM BASED ON X.500 AND X.700 STANDARDS

This paper presents a TMN-based Personal Communication Support System (PCSS) which supports personal mobility, personalized call management, service personalization, and service interoperability in distributed multimedia environments. The design of the PCSS is strongly influenced by recent research activities in the field of advanced telecommunicat ions and distributed computing technologies, such as Intelligent Netwo rks (INs), Universal Personal Telecommunications (UPT), Telecommunicat ions Management Network (TMN)/ X.700 OSI Management, X.500 Directory S tandards, and Electronic Location Technologies. In particular it takes into account the beginning paradigm shift in telecommunications towar ds object-based service modelling as indicated by the TINA-C activitie s. The concepts presented here have been developed within the BERKOM I I project ''IN/TMN Integration'' performed at the Technical University of Berlin on behalf of Deutsche Telekom Berkom (De Te Berkom). The re sults and experiences gained during the development of the PCSS are cu rrently being applied in the TINA-C auxiliary project ''Personal Commu nications Support in TINA'' which is jointly performed at GMD-FOKUS an d the Technical University of Berlin on behalf of Deutsche Telekom AG. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.