Starting July 2006, CAIDA, a well established networking research organization based at SDSC, took over operational stewardship for all NLANR machines and data. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Project has officially ended. The funding for the NLANR project expired June 30, 2006 and the National Science Foundation has no plans to continue support.

SDSC believes that a lot of the NLANR data and resources may still offer value to the network research and development community, and might help support other forms of research not envisioned in the original NLANR proposal. Since some of the equipment is too old to maintain, CAIDA will do a careful audit, gracefully decommission obsolete hardware and data, and attempt to apply the remaining resources to projects of similar intent and spirit. As we perform this audit in the next few weeks, we will keep the community informed of any changes planned to operations of the machines at the sites. Hosting sites will have the prerogative at any time to decline participation in the reincarnation of any NLANR equipment at their site, but we hope sites will find our proposed use of sufficient relevance and merit to continue hosting a measurement platform.

If sites have questions or comments on these changes, or input regarding future measurement experiments, please send them to nlanr-info@caida.org.
What follows is the original MOAT NLANR webpage.

Internet measurement, Internet analysis

Last updated: 24 Oct 2005

NLANR International AMP Mesh, as of October 20, 2005

International Collaborations
Our international collaborative efforts began cautiously a couple of years ago, but are now expanding quickly, with nearly 30 countries currently participating. The range of our world-wide infrastructure for gathering performance data from next-generation networks can be seen in the map above. The deep brown color denotes countries with AMPs and/or AMP mesh projects of their own. The NLANR International AMP mesh covers six continents. >>
IMC 2005
Matthew Luckie presented: Inferring and Debugging Path MTU Discovery Failures (Matthew Luckie, University of Waikato; Kenjiro Cho, Internet Initiative Japan; Bill Owens, NYSERNet). >>
Network Analysis Times (Vol. 6, No. 5)
The latest issue of the NATimes has articles on the work of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon and on our recent activities, including our planned collaboration with the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). >>
APAC05
Tony McGregor presented: Towards a World-Wide Grid Measurement Infrastructure (Tony McGregor, NLANR/MNA and Univ. Waikato, New Zealand and Ronn Ritke, NLANR/MNA). >>

ANR - Applied Network Research ~ We use our original name from the early 1990s - Applied Network Research (ANR) group - as an "umbrella" name to reflect our diverse research activities, which are primarily three separately funded research projects:

~ the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research, Measurement and Network Analysis Group(NLANR/MNA),

~ the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), and

~ the Real-time Observatories, Applications, and Data Management Network (ROADNet).

aka "MOAT" ~ The NLANR Measurement and Network Analysis Group was previously known as the NLANR Measurement and Operations Analysis Team (hence, MOAT). Therefore, you will find mention of MOAT throughout our Web pages.

NLANR/DAST ~ The Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) offers support for researchers working with high-performance network applications and assists in the development of distributed applications and tools.

Our goal is to characterize the behavior of high performance connection (HPC) networks. Network measurement and analysis, both passive and active, is the foundation of this research. more...

Highlights

10GigE Traces

10GigE Real-Time Analysis
("SMART" Graphs)

AMP IPv6

International Collaborations

International white paper

IPMP
(protocol 169)

IPv6 Scamper

Network Analysis Times
(newsletter)

OC48 Measurements

Special Traces
(long traces)

White paper on
International Efforts

Site Directory

AMP ~ Active Measurements

Citings: Data Users

International Collaborations

Network Analysis Infrastructure (NAI)

PMA ~ Passive Measurements

Publications & Resources

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under cooperative agreement nos. ANI-0129677 (2002) and ANI-9807479 (1998). NSF also supports the HPWREN and ROADNet projects (grant numbers and additional funding information are available on their respective sites, see links above).

Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this Web site are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The government has certain rights to the related material presented on this Web site.

The NLANR Measurement and Network Analysis Group (NLANR/MNA) is located at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) , University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

If you use NLANR/MNA data, images, and/or tools from this server for research, education, or commercial purposes, you must give credit reference to the National Science Foundation cooperative agreement nos. ANI-0129677 (2002) and ANI-9807479 (1998), and to the NLANR Measurement and Network Analysis Group (NLANR/MNA).

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