However, many issues need to be resolved from both the applications' and the networks' viewpoints. The results are hoped to shed lights on the design for new network architectures that can support unforeseen real-time computer network applications. The research is expected to contribute, particularly, to operational protocols for high-speed network management. NY As part of traffic engineering, traffic-sensitivity analysis is an important task prior to integrating network management systems and network design tools. Network management and network design often work at opposite ends.
Network managers prefer low utilized configurations for easy control.
But, network designers would provide tight designs for less expense. The two ends can meet only when network management systems interoperate network design tools. Traffic-sensitivity analysis is an experimental determination of how much traffic information should be collected by a network management system and fed to a network design tool in order to obtain a reliable solution.