A method to ease creation of telecommunications services based on a generic component model

This paper proposes a method to ease the creation of distributed telecommunications services. The method is based on a generic component model which is a common software architecture applicable to the design of every component of a telecommunications service. The concepts, architecture and specification of the generic component model are presented. The method based on the generic component model is then applied to the design of a connection management service on top of an ATM communication platform.