Elucidation of an ISDN Performance Management Model

In this paper, we present and elucidate a model for ISDN performance management. According to this model, the three most important elements of performance management, in the order of their importance, are : 1.) Autonomous receipt of failure and service degradation reports by the Automated Performance Management Environment (APME), 2.) Development of tools/aids to sectionalize problems in different layers of protocols, 3.) Incorporating correlation, analysis, and action functions usually performed manually by technicians, into the APME.