CORBA/CMIP Gateway Service Scheme for CORBA/TMN Integration

TMN is an infrastructure which provides interfaces for interconnection between various types of operations systems and/or telecommunications equipment to manage telecommunication network and service, and management information is exchanged through these interfaces. Up to now, a lot of efforts have been made for the management of telecommunication networks and equipments, but less effort has been made for the realization of higher-layer service and business management. CORBA provides the infrastructure for interoperability of various object-oriented management applications in a distributed environment, and being widely used to develop distributed systems in many areas of information processing technologies. There are recently worldwide growing interests for applying CORBA technology to the realization of higher layer TMN management functions for service and business management. In this paper, we describe issues for integration of CORBA technology within TMN framework. And then, we design and implement GDMO/ASN.1 to IDL translator for specification translation. We suggest an architecture for CORBA/CMIP gateway, and show an interaction scenario for CORBA-based management applications to interact with TMN-based management objects