Design and implementation of performance management architecture based on TINA

In order to guarantee the user-requested quality-of-service (QoS) and keep the network utilization at maximum, it is required to manage the network performance continuously after the network installation. The performance management function should provide useful information for the network expansion and the capacity reallocation in the future. Currently, TINA provides the specification of the management functions of configuration management, connection management, and fault management; but the management functions of performance management and security management are not well-defined yet. In this paper, we propose a TINA-based performance management architecture for the efficient performance management of the heterogeneous networks or NEs with TMN and SNMP management functions. The proposed architecture is based on the distributed processing concept of TMN performance management. The proposed architecture have been designed and implemented in multiprocess and multithread structure.