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，并促使人们对影响未来网络发展的趋势进行评估。高性能计算和先进的三维图形环境与新媒体技术相结合，提供了一个扩展的视觉领域来表示和研究复杂的网络拓扑和数据。该项目将组织、汇总、减少和调查大型网络数据库，同时考虑可应用于更多样化的信息流问题集的设计标准。本研究是网络数据档案开发、可视化和研究的重要一步，可以揭示nsfnet及其组成部分的通信趋势。该调查的存档和分发将提供宝贵的国家资源，并有可能成为网络分析的通用可视化工具。

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.