Current status and future directions of software architectures for telecommunications

✍ Scribed by A Patel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(01)00378-4

✦ Synopsis

Telecommunication software is notoriously complex and expensive. Developers of telecommunication applications have to satisfy numerous, often con¯icting, user requirements and cope with the universe of telecommunication protocols, hardware platforms, and network architectures. The only way to overcome these dif®culties, to deliver high quality services, and to keep up with the pace at which new telecommunication technologies are introduced, is to use ef®cient software architectures. What will software architectures for future telecommunication systems look like? What will be required from them? Do existing architectures ful®l these demands? This paper analyses general and speci®c requirements for telecommunication software and reviews several recent architectures for telecommunication systems. Subsequently, a view is put forward as to how these architectures should evolve to support the variety of technologies and applications of the future.