Impact of Internet, CORBA, TINA and Mobile Agent Technologies

The main concern of this tutorial is the evolution of the "Intelligent Network (IN)" which is in principle designed as an evolvable telecommunications middleware solution. After a brief review of the IN principles, this tutorial looks at the main impacts on IN evolution derived from new bearer network environments / application domains (e.g., Voice over IP networks) and emerging middleware technologies (i.e., distributed object technologies and mobile agent technologies).

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