The Administration plans to propose adding DoE as a formal participant beginning in FY 1999. The highly automated services envisioned in this task lead to the goal of building strong security mechanisms into the components. Planning large network interconnections is now primarily a manual process that is not tied to any runtime tools or distributed efforts. Under this subtask, a network planning description language will be developed as a community standard facilitating not only the initial planning but also maintenance of requirements throughout the network life cycle. 2.1.1.2 Monitoring, Control, Analysis, and Display Monitoring, Control, Analysis, and Display Network engineering and management requires tools for gathering data and information, analyzing it, and issuing control commands based on the results of the analysis.
Current practice uses planned analysis based on protocol headers and aggregated statistics.
This subtask will take on the challenge of presenting runtime analysis based on distributed communication patterns and very high communication speeds that would overwhelm current tools. The management software will work in a tightly bound interlock with new strategies for managing and controlling data delivery in networks. Tools that permit network engineers to adjust the strategy trade-offs to best meet their requirements will be prototyped and tested in the high speed arena. The DoD, NASA, NSF, and other government agencies, as well as the research community at large, typically have lead user requirements for telecommunication facilities that require speed and complexity that are orders of magnitude beyond those of the typical users. This task will investigate architectural concepts, management strategies, and operational arrangements that will allow lead users to concurrently share the same infrastructure as conventional users at a variety of levels.