A distributed software architecture for telecommunication networks

The authors present an overview of the major principles and concepts of the INA architecture, describe the requirements imposed by telecommunications applications on a software architecture for such applications, and outline the major principles of the INA architecture and how these principles meet the requirements of telecommunications applications. They also describe the services provided by the distributed processing environment (DPE), which provides the infrastructure for distributed applications, the use of the architecture concepts in a specific application, and the status of the INA laboratory experiments and field trials currently under way.<>