National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR)

该协议规定，由首席研究员Hans-Werner Braun领导的应用网络研究国家实验室（NLANR）的测量和操作分析小组（MOAT）将继续UCSD自1995年以来一直在进行的NLANR研究活动。除了测量和分析vBNS流量数据外，NLANR/MOAT还将促进公共测量和分析工具和技术的持续开发、测试和部署。NLANR/MOAT将促进早期识别和分析性能（以网络为中心和以应用为中心）趋势和问题（与VBNS和互连的高性能网络和机构有关）。这将通过部署流量监视器和在HPC连接到vBNS、选定的vBNS伙伴节点和其他关键站点（特别是vBNS聚集点，如GigaPOPs和NGIXen）上进行性能测量来完成。有关互联网流量性能和流量的结果数据和分析将随后提供给研究界和公众。

The agreement provides for the National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR)s Measurement and Operations Analysis Team (MOAT), led by Principal Investigator Hans-Werner Braun, to continue the NLANR research activities that have been ongoing at UCSD since 1995. In addition to measuring and analyzing vBNS traffic data, NLANR/MOAT will promote the continued development, testing and deployment of publicly-available measurement and analysis tools and techniques. NLANR/MOAT will facilitate the early identification and analisis of performance (both network-centric and applications-centric) trends and problems (related to the VBNS and interconnected High Performance networks and institutions). This will be accomplished by deploying flow monitors and conducting performance measurements on HPC connections to the vBNS, on select vBNS partner nodes, and at other key sites (particularly vBNS aggregation points, such as GigaPOPs and NGIXen). Resulting data and analysis on Internet traffic performance and traffic flows will then be made available to the research community and the general public.