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This paper is based on the approach taken by the EU’s RACE II project EURSAF on formulating a feasible Engineering Platform, as viewed from the ODP engineering viewpoint perspective, which will support the development, implementation, execution and management of advanced telecommunication services. The paper outlines the concepts of the Engineering Platform’s Transaction Service, whose role is to provide support for transaction processing of telecommunication application services.
The key objective of the Transaction Service is to provide distribution transparency in terms of transaction transparency, thus contributing to the creation and operation of an open heterogeneous environment, which is suitable to all of the players involved. A brief description of the requirements of distributed transaction processing in a telecommunications environment is given and the related actions that need to be supported are presented. Transaction processing in the telecommunications environment has some unique requirements, such as scalability, multidomain, multiparty, real time, extensive heterogeneity, billing, etc. The types of transactions supported and the issues for constructing the Transaction Service are discussed. The resolution of these issues leads to the design of the Transaction Service in outline form. Elements of the design are presented.
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Smith, R., Maroulis, D. (1996). A Transaction Service of an ODP compliant Engineering Platform. In: Aagesen, F.A., Botnevik, H., Khakhar, D. (eds) Information Network and Data Communication. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34985-5_24
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