Model-based service discovery — prototyping experience of an OSS scenario

The practical success of the next generation operation support systems (OSS) relies largely on its flexibility in providing adaptive and cost-effective services. Service discovery is an essential mechanism to achieve this goal. Driven primarily by the OSS requirements, this paper proposes a new service discovery methodology for next generation OSS -- model-based service discovery (MBSD). MBSD takes advantage of the OMG MDA (model-driven architecture) technology. The system architecture of MBSD and its operation and implementation are presented. The proposed methodology is briefly validated through an OSS scenario. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]