Service-Oriented Modeling Methods of Network Management Mechanisms

While the current object oricented-based description of management operation mechanisms only focuses on operation-level details, the service-oriented methods are proposed, which can improve the description capability with contents involving business process characteristics, process flow and policy. At first, the relationships between network management functions, business process elements, and network management services are built, which provides network management services with meanings on both operation-level details and business process. Then, the description mechanisms of a service involving service interfaces, information, semantics, processes and policies, as well as a combined top-down and bottom-up network management service modeling process are proposed. At last, an example illustrating the above description aspects and analysis process is also provided. The proposed description methods support the business and customer oriented telecom operation strategy, and can effectively instruct the analysis, design, implementation and integration of network management or operation supporting systems.