Telecommunications Signaling
Highlights the conventions of signalling systems and provides a detailed assessment of their architecture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Telecommunications Signaling
Glossary
- Access
Context: general - The link between a customer and a network node
- Access Significance
Context: DSS - Relevance of a message to the originating and terminating accesses
- Access Unit (AU)
Context: DSS - The point at which access is gained to a packet-switched public data network
- Acknowledged Operation
Context: DSS - A Layer 2 form of working in which each frame is numbered, thus permitting error control
- Active Connection
Context: IP (TCP) - A user requests the establishment of a TCP connection
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Context: IP - An IP Link Layer Protocol that translates IP addresses into physical addresses
- Application
Context: general - An activity or process that a user wishes to perform
- Application Context (AC)
Context: IN - A combination of Application Service Elements and their relationship
- Application Entity (AE)
Context: OSI - The functions that Applications use to communicate
- Application Management
Context: CCSS7 (OMAP) - The exchange of management information between signalling points
- Application Part (AP)
Context: OSI - A set of OSI Layer 7 functions
- Application Service Element (ASE)
Context: OSI - A function, or a group of functions, within an Application Entity
- Architecture
Context: general - The structured approach to the specification of signalling systems
- Associated Mode of Operation
Context: CCS - The transfer of messages between directly connected network nodes
- Association Control Service Element (ACSE)
Context: OSI - An Application Service Element used to establish an association between two Application Layers
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Context: general - A form of packet (or cell) switching
- B Channel
Context: DSS - An access traffic channel
- Backward Message
Context:...
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