Design Issues in Database Systems for Telecommunication Services

Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen, and Juha Taina: Design Issues in Database Systems for Telecommunication Services. Report C-1995-16, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, April 1995. 13 pages. <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/TR/C-1995/16>

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Abstract

In future telecommunication services based on the Intelligent Network databases will have an important role. The persistent and temporal information needed in operations and management of the telecommunication networks and services will be in databases. The current IN Recommendations of ITU­T (Q.1200 Series) imply that real-time transaction processing capabilities should be provided. We examine the design issues of real-time transaction processing in database architectures that can be integrated with teleoperator's service provision architecture. The issues examined include integration of concurency control and real-time scheduling, main-memory databases, and correctness criteria of transactions. In addition, we briefly outline how real-time features can be incorporated into the industrial object database standard called ODMG­93 and how the OMG Object Request Broker (CORBA) can be exploited in the future IN architectures.

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C.2.1, H.2.4

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Additional Key Words and Phrases: Real-Time Databases, Concurrency Control, Relaxed Serializability, Main Memory Databases, Telecommunication Software