Collaborative Construction of Telecommunications Services

Collaborative Construction of
Telecommunications Services.
An Enterprise Architecture and
Model Driven Engineering Method

Vanea Chiprianov
Scholarship
Supervisors: Yvon Kermarrec
Siegfried Rouvrais
Affiliation
Journée Futur et ruptures 26th January 2012

Teaching
assistant
Work

Context: Telecom service stakeholders

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Context: Telecom service stakeholders

Stakeholders cf.
[Haalstrand, 1994]

Context: Telecom
service life-cycle

time

[Berndt, 1994]


Context: Our focus
on telecom service
life-cycle

time


Research question
 How to reduce telecommunications service
construction time while affecting non-negatively
other parameters (e.g. Cost, QoS, QoE) ?

RQ 1 Construction process

RQ 2 Software tools RQ 3 Tool building process


Agenda

 Challenges in telecom service life-cycle
 How to reduce telecom service construction time ?
 Solution/Contribution:
1.Telecom service construction process
2.Tool building process
3.Software tools for telecom service construction
 Conclusion and perspectives


Solution: Telecom
service construction
process

1.Model
2.Test
3.Collaborate
4.Interoperate


Solution: Telecom
service construction
process


Solution:
Tool building
process


Solution: Modeling
with DSMLs

Domain Specific Modeling
Language (DSML) = graphical 1.Model
language that offers
2.
●
expressive power focused 3.
on a particular domain, 4.
●
to visualize, specify,
construct and document the
artifacts of a software-
intensive system.

[Booch, 2005], [Deursen,
2000]


Solution:
Modeling
with DSMLs

Telecom Archi (GPL Type
licence) extension
[http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/]

●
Meta-models: 46 concepts
●
Code generation semantics: Iyass Alloush, masters internship, 6 months, 39.8 KB
●
Graphical editor: 395.8 KB


Solution: Testing
through leverage of COTS

Components Off The Shelf
(COTS) = ''a commercially 1.
available or open source 2.Test
piece of software that other
software projects can reuse
3.
and integrate into their own 4.
products''

[Torchiano, 2004]


Solution: Leveraging the COTS – Transform
to MM testing

Excerpt of Xpand template for OPNET input model generation

Excerpt from the model of a Xpand
The static configuration of
conferencing service at the Telecom (OpenArchitectureWare)
ArchiMate Technology layer the conferencing service
[Efftinge, 2006] excerpt model for OPNET


Solution: Collaborating by
capturing and retrieving
Decision Rationale
1.
Decision Rationale DSML 2.
3.Collaborate
Decision Rationale =
4.
the justification behind
decisions, the reasoning
that goes into
determining the design of
the artifact.

[Dutoit, 2006]


Solution: Defining a Decision Rationale
DSML

 Meta-model: 6
concepts
 Graphical editor : Adil
Meribaa and Mosbah
Lassoued, masters
internships, 2 weeks,
108.8 KB


Solution: Software tools

1.
2.
3.
4.Interoperate


Solution/Contribution: advantages
 Provides a method
Method = - a set of modeling conventions (Modeling Language - ML)
- a process: - provides guidance as to the order of the activities,
- specifies what artifacts should be developed using the ML.
[Ramsin, 2008]

 Reflects current practices in industry
(more easily) accepted by practitioners
 Relies
on models and offers high automation
degree
more rapid software tool building
 Contributes
towards fulfilling all Service Providers'
and Developers' requirements


Solution/Contribution to the research
question
 How to reduce telecommunications service
construction time while affecting non-negatively
other parameters (e.g. Cost, QoS, QoE) ?

RQ 1 Construction process RQ 2 Software tools RQ 3 Tool building process

O
EM
D


Solution/Contribution: perspectives
●
Introduce more flexibility
(e.g., iterative, agile) in the
construction process.
●
(Semi-)automatic integrating
of testing/simulation results
into models.

●
Construct Telecom
DSML MMs from e.g.
Frameworx ●
Implement the
●
Define alignment interoperability
measures to ensure process
viewpoint
interoperability (e.g.
[Simonin, 2011])


Personal publications
1.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Integrating DSLs into a Software Engineering Process: Application to Collaborative
Construction of Telecom Services. Ed. M. Mernik, Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent
Developments, IGI Global, 2012 (submitted).
2.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S., Simonin J.: Extending Enterprise Architecture Modeling Languages for Collaboration.
Application to Telecommunications Service Design. Software and Systems Modeling, 2012 (submitted).
3.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Extending Enterprise Architecture Modelling Languages: Application to
Telecommunications Service Creation. The 9th Enterprise Engineering track at the 27 th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC),
Trento, Italy, 6pp, accepted, (2011) – rank B [ERA].
4.Chiprianov V., Alloush I., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Telecommunications Service Creation: Towards Extensions for Enterprise
Architecture Modeling Languages. In: Proc. of the 6th Intl Conf. on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Seville, Spain, vol 1,
pp. 23-29, (2011) - rank B [ERA].
5.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Towards semantic interoperability of graphical domain specific modeling languages for
telecommunications service design. In: Proc. of the 2nd Intl Conf. on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures
and Services (MOPAS), Budapest, Hungary, pp.21-24, (2011).
6.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y. and Alff, P.: A Model-Driven Approach for Telecommunications Network Services Definition. In:
Proceedings of the 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6. 6 WS on The Internet of the Future, LNCS, pages 199–207,
Barcelona, Spain, (2009).
7.Rouvrais S., Chiprianov V.: Modeling and Architecting Educational Frameworks. In: Electronic Proc. of the 7th Intl CDIO Conf.,
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen (2011).
8.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y., Rouvrais, S.: Meta-tools for Software Language Engineering: A Flexible Collaborative Modeling
Language for Efficient Telecommunications Service Design. In: FlexiTools WS, 32nd ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Soft. Engineering
(ICSE), Cape Town, South Africa, 5 pp, (2010).
9.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y.: An Approach for Constructing a Domain Definition Metamodel with ATL. In: Model Transformation
with ATL, 1st Intl. WS,Nantes,France, pp 18-33, (2009).
10.Chiprianov V., Kermarec Y., Rouvrais S.: Practical Model Extension for Modeling Language Profiles. An Enterprise Architecture
Modeling Language Extension for Telecommunications Service Creation. 7émes Journées sur l’Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles,
Lille, France, pp. 85-91, 2011.
11.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y.: Model-based DSL Frameworks: A Simple Graphical Telecommunications Specific Modeling
Language. In: 5émes Journées sur l’Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles, Nancy, France, pages 179–186, (2009).

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