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. This research is supported by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as a Hearly Award to fund a dedicated equipment for the project. Graduate students or upper level undergraduates are selected to participate in the project on experimenting network management systems.