Databases in Telecommunications: International Workshop, Co-located with VLDB-99 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 6th, 1999, Proceedings

Developments in network and switching technologies have made telecommu— cations systems and services far more data intensive. This can be observed in many telecommunications areas, such as network management, service mana— ment, and service provisioning. For example, in the area of network management the complexity of modern networks leads to large amounts of data on network topology, configuration, equipment settings, etc. In addition, switches generate large amounts of data on network tra...