Functional Structures in Networks: AMLn - A Language for Model Driven Development of Telecom Systems

The architecture of "The Worlds Biggest Machinesub" is of course expressed in the many underlying communications standards; however it is far from explicit nor readily accessible. While on one hand, marketing people are busy looking for their so called "Killer Applications" that will maintain the economic growth of this machine, the engineers are struggling to keep up with the myriad of networks, pro­ ols and standards that interconnect an ever growing number of network services across a ra...