A Visualization Study of Network Growth and Traffic from 1986 to 1992

NSFNET基础设施以指数级速度扩展 并促使人们需要评估影响未来的趋势， 网络发展。 高性能计算和先进的3- 三维图形环境与新媒体相结合 技术提供了扩展的视觉域来表示和 研究复杂网络拓扑和数据。 这个项目将组织，聚合，减少，调查 大型网络数据库，同时考虑设计标准， 可以应用于更多样化的信息流问题。 这项研究是发展，可视化， 调查网络数据档案，可以揭示通信 国家森林基金网络及其组成部分的趋势。 存档和 这项调查的分布将提供一个宝贵的国家 资源，并有可能成为一个通用的 网络分析的可视化工具。

The NSFNET infrastructure has expanded at an exponential rate and has precipitated the need to evaluate trends that impact future network development. High performance computing and advanced 3- dimensional graphics environment coupled with new media technologies provides an expanded visual domain to represent and study complex network topology and data. This project will organize, aggregate, reduce, and investigate large network databases while considering a design criteria that can be applied to a more diverse set of information flow problems. This study is a major step in the development, visualization, and investigation of network data archives and can reveal communication trends in the nsfnet and its components. The archiving and distribution of this investigation will provide a valuable national resource and has the potential of becoming a general purpose visualization tool for network analysis.