Design and Implementation of TMN SMK Using CORBA ORB
Jong-Tae Park
School of Electronic and Electrical Enginnering
Kyungpook National University
1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-Gu
Taegu 702-701 Korea
Email: park_AT_ee.kyungpook.ac.kr
Su-Ho Ha
LG Electronics
299 Gongdan-Dong
Kumi, Kyungbuk 730-030 Korea
Email: shha_AT_nownuri.net
James Won-Ki Hong
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
POSTECH
San 31 Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu
Pohang 790-784 Korea
Email: jwkhong_AT_postech.ac.kr
Abstract
In Telecommunication Management Network (TMN), the interworking of manager
and agent requires the sharing of management information defined as
Shared Management Knowledge (SMK) in ITU-T Recommendation M.3010. SMK
includes information on the protocol knowledge, management functions,
managed object classes and their instances, and authorization capabilities.
We have developed a CORBA-based TMN SMK system in order to provide a dynamic
and efficient distributed processing environment for the exchange of management
information between managers and agents. In this paper, we discuss the design
issues and present the design of a CORBA-based SMK system including the access
protocol for obtaining the SMK information from MIB and for SMK context
negotiations. Also, our effort on the prototype implementation of an SMK system
using ORBeline and OSIMIS is presented. The preliminary performance results of
our prototype implementation show that ORB-based SMK information access
outperforms CMIS-based SMK information access, and that our approach is an
efficient way of exchanging SMK information.
Keywords: TMN, SMK, CORBA, Distributed Management
JNSM: Vol. 6, No. 2, 1998
Design and Implementation of TMN SMK Using CORBA ORB [Vol. 6, No. 2, 1998]
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