Databases in Mobile Telecommunications: Architectures and Performance Analysis

Databases in mobile telecommunications have becomemore and more important due to growing data volumes. More efficient database solutions are needed tosupport temporal and logical consistency. This bookpresents a possible database architecture for thegrowing data dilemma. It presents a databasearchitecture for IN and GSM data, and a performanceanalysis toolbox for transaction-based software. Using the presented architecture as a test case, adetailed queue model analysis is presented. Theresult of the analysis is twofold. The mostimportant result is that even a complextransaction-based system may be analyzed accuratelyenough to get relevant and reasonable results withthe toolbox. Second, it appears that paralleldatabase architectures have a lot to offer inhigh-volume data environments.