Advanced architectures integrating intelligent network (IN) signaling are proposed for the support of multimedia services. We present the main elements of an IN-based signaling configuration and introduce a set of models for representing their protocols and internal processes. An IN-based methodology is established to derive the workload for each network element, protocol and functional entity. We study the performance of an IN-based signaling network by applying this methodology to a typical broadband video on demand (B-VoD) service. The results of our study give useful guidelines for the design and implementation of IN signaling architectures
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Computers and Communications, 1997. Proceedings., Second IEEE Symposium on
Date of Conference: 1-3 Jul 1997