ESSAGES STREAMS’ FORMALIZATION AT THE CONVERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK

Some results of messages streams’ research at the convergence of technologies in the telecommunication network are given in the paper. Object of study is the convergent telecommunication network in the process of interaction with external information metastructure. Network-forming process of convergent telecommunication network is the process of information transforming, implemented by a set of information technologies, including: computational process of information transforming in the space (input, output, storage, data processing) and information process of information transforming in time (collection, distribution, transmission, switching of the streams). Herewith streams, incoming and circulating in the convergent telecommunication network, are complex in nature and structure. In order to research quantitative aspects of information transformation’s network processes it seems appropriate to study a conception of the messages streams ? the aggregate of any information, transformed into electromagnetic signals, which is have to be transported within the convergent telecommunication network. At the study of the network during its functioning, it is assumed that it already existed for quite a long time before the study in order to reach the stationary functioning mode and it would function so after the finish of the study. A hypothesis about the stochastic nature of the messages streams in the convergent telecommunication network is formulated. Distribution function of the messages number (or the sequence of messages’ arrival times, or the sequence of intervals between these times, or the sequence of messages number, received during time intervals), the distribution function of the information content in the messages stream, the distribution function of the delivery time of the entire sequence of messages, forming the flow under the study, the function of the information value are researched at the formalization of messages streams.