Advanced Routing Techniques Using Advanced Intelligent Network Functional Components and Data Base Controls

Abstract

In the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) architecture, network services are defined and implemented by “stringing together” “functional components” that comprise the basic building block capabilities of switches, network data bases, and other intelligent network elements. That is, a network service may be based on certain controls and operations, including translations, data base queries, and logical functions, that take advantage of essential properties of network elements and of the data resident in network data bases. In this paper, we show how these service control features of the AIN can be extended to traffic routing and network capacity management control using simple generalizations of the basic AIN functional components and data bases.