Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century

A leading-edge reference, this collection of original chapters from prominent experts in the field brings you a superb presentation of the latest in telecommunications network management. Thorough and up-to date, Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century covers the timely application of forward-looking network management techniques, which is the key to fully realizing future industry capabilities. Topics covered include principles of network management, network management protocol standards, domestic and international OSI management standards, and more!

Introduction. Acknowledgments. List of Acronyms. Principles of Network Management (Salah Aidarous and Thomas Plevyak). A Critical Survey of Network Management Protocol Standards(Yechiam Yemini). Telecommunications Management Network: Principles, Models, and Applications (Veli Sahin). Domestic and International Open Systems InterconnectionManagement Standards (Philip A. Johnson). Applying Object-Oriented Analysis and Design to the Integrations of Network Management Systems (Raymond H. Pyle). Modeling and Simulation in Network Management (Victor S. Frost). Knowledge-based Network Management (Kurudi H. Muralidhar). Configuration Management (Gordon Rainey). Fault Management (Charles J. Byrne). Network Performance Management (Subhabrata Bapi Sen). Distributed Restoration of the Transport Network (Wayne Grover). Index.