Integration of Internet and Telecommunications: An Architecture for Hybrid Services

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1563-1578

  Gbaguidi, Constant ^a   Hubaux, Jean Pierre ^a   Pacifici, Giovanni ^b   Tantawi, Asser N ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication system control; Communication system signaling; Communication system software; Information services; Intelligent networks; Internet; Internetworking; Java; JavaBeans; Network architecture; Network servers; Service integration; Service platform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000693592     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.790482     Document Type: Article

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