Network Management Needs for the Wireless Communication Environment
Virendra K. Janakiram
Wireless Software Development
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, New Jersey 07981 USA
Email: vkj_AT_whamt.att.com
Ramesh Chandra
Wireless Systems and Services Architecture Center
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, New Jersey 07981 USA
Anil T. Kripalani
Wireless Systems and Services Architecture Center
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, New Jersey 07981 USA
Ashok N. Rudrapatna
Wireless Systems and Services Architecture Center
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, New Jersey 07981 USA
Jesse E. Russell
Wireless Systems and Services Architecture Center
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, New Jersey 07981 USA
Abstract
As the wireless market matures and enters the personal communication
era, users will be presented with an exciting array of new, global voice,
data, video, and multimedia services. Providers of these services will be hard
pressed to utilize new and expensive technologies, and provide high quality
service at rates that are economical enough to attract the large customer base
that would make these services viable. This implies that many diverse network
resources must be optimally utilized and managed. Services providers would need to
manage their entire network in an integrated, end-to-end fashion, with minimal
technical starffing and expertise. Smart, real time, Network Management (NM), thus,
is becoming ever more important for the realization and viability of
Personal Communication Services. This paper will examine network management for
these emerging services, compared with current wired (i.e., nonwireless) and
cellular wireless NM. We will compare Nm in both the AMPS and GSM standards, and
examine the NM needs of future wireless technologies. We conclude with our view
of the directions that NM will take over the next few years.
Keywords: Network Management; wireless communications; cellular networks; TMN.
JNSM: Vol. 2, No. 1, 1994
Network Management Needs for the Wireless Communication Environment [Vol. 2, No. 1, 1994]
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