Matthew Holey Undergraduate Dissertation 2017/18

3D Network Visualisation

Supervised by R.Taylor

Abstract

Modern networks are expanding and becoming harder to manage. Systems to manage networks rely on the understanding behind how the network is setup and laid out. The problem with this is that networks can change overtime, through upgrading and expanding, which means that the original network structure can change significantly.

Visualising the structure of a network would significantly help with this, but current tools are often based around 2-dimensional layouts, and do not focus on having network data visualised with it. This paper aims to create a system to help solve this problem and provide a way to visualise the network, with its data.

The project has create a system of visualising network data in a simple way, with protocols, devices and connections shown. With both live and recorded data being able to be processed and shown, in real-time.