Database technologies will, already in the near future, have a dominant role in telecommunication and data communication networks. The information and knowledge needed in network operations and management will be organized as a logical entity. Due to the world-wide nature of communication the only way to achieve the logical uniformity is the interoperability of autonomous databases.
The research project Darfin, Database ARchitecture For Intelligent Networks, 1993-95, examined database architectures that can fulfill the requirements of Intelligent Networks (IN) and Telecommunication Management Networks (TMN). The current ITU-T Recommendations for TMN are based on object-oriented modelling. In addition, the long-term architecture of IN heavily advocates OO-modelling. Therefore, the project focused on object-oriented real-time databases.
The research project RODAIN continues the work done in the Darfin project. The ultimate objective of the RODAIN project is to design and to specify a real-time object-oriented database architecture for Intelligent Networks and to implement a prototype based on that architecture. The design and specification take place in 1996 while the prototype will be implemented in 1997.
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The industrial partners and financial supporters of the project are Nokia Telecommunications, Solid Information Technology, Systems Software Partners and Telecom Finland. The RODAIN project is also funded by the Finnish Technology Development Centre (TEKES).
Current members of the research group are Doc. Kimmo Raatikainen (group leader), M.Sc. Tiina Niklander, M.Sc. Juha Taina, and Petri Elovaara.
Home page: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/research/rodain/