Platform techniques of TMN for large-scale communication systems development with distributed node systems

We describe software platform techniques of a distributed communication node system for establishing telecommunication management networks. This distributed communication node system can be used for various kinds of communications systems by choosing hardware and application software. Our techniques were realized as a software platform and reusable software environment for the distributed communication node system. This environment include tools which provide a way to achieve management networks. These tools produce methods implemented in operations systems (OSs) and network elements (NEs) to achieve totally automatic software creation for operational functions. These tools also produce specifications of reference points in OSs and NEs. These techniques satisfy the requirements for achieving efficient management of a large scale development project, such as quick operational function software development, concurrent development of a variety of systems, management of several software versions, and importing managed objects definitions.