Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems V,
K. Kimbler and L.G. Bouma (Eds.), IOS Press, 1998
Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems V,
K. Kimbler and L.G. Bouma (Eds.), IOS Press, 1998
| A neglected aspect of feature interaction is the study of
appropriate architectures to avoid interactions. This paper considers TINA.
TINA is a networking architecture being developed by the TINA Consortium,
a group of major telecommunication companies, in order to provide a common
base for the provision of multimedia services. However, TINA explicitly
supports interworking of services and so unless TINA can avoid interactions
we jeopardise having fast, reliable service creation.
Following a short introduction into TINA, this paper looks at the effects this architecture has on the feature interaction problem. We identified three ways services can interwork within TINA. Namely, Composition, Federation, and by means of the Access Session. We then investigate the potential for interactions in TINA by reviewing the nature and causes of TINA based interactions with regard to the feature interaction benchmark by Cameron et al.
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