This report presents the design and implementation of FooNet, an object-oriented application framework for telecommunication network design. The characteristics of FooNet in contrast to other planning environments are its consequent object-oriented design and the support of reuse techniques on different levels of abstraction. FooNet comes with a library of helpful algorithms used in network design problems. A further important feature of FooNet is its support of XML for data exchange. XML offers a new dimension of communication eliminating incompatibilities between various applications.

Abstract – We consider a network planning method that takes into consideration the uncertainties associated with offered traffics when dimensioning ATM networks for prescribed grades of service. Assuming that each reference traffic stream offered between a pair of nodes in a network can only be specified within a lower and upper bound, together with a best guess value, we demonstrate a method for transforming these 3 values into a single traffic figure that takes uncertainty into consideration for a specified confidence level. We show that by using these new traffic values in the dimensioning process, specified call-based grades of service can be achieved. I.