SLICES-PP
Scientific LargeScale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies – Preparatory Phase
| Scientists: | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Carle |
| Duration: | 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025 |
| Funding: | European Comission - Horizon 2020 |
Abstract
The digital infrastructures research community continues to face numerous new challenges towards the design of the Next Generation Internet. This is an extremely complex ecosystem encompassing communication, networking, data-management and data-intelligence issues, supported by established and emerging technologies such as IoT, 5/6G, cloud-to-edge computing. Coupled with the enormous amount of data generated and exchanged over the network, this calls for incremental as well as radically new design paradigms. Experimentally-driven research is becoming worldwide a de-facto standard, which has to be supported by large-scale research infrastructures to make results trusted, repeatable and accessible to the research communities.
SLICES-RI (Research Infrastructure), which was recently included in the 2021 ESFRI roadmap, aims to answer these problems by building a large infrastructure needed for the experimental research on various aspects of distributed computing, networking, IoT and 5/6G networks. It will provide the resources needed to continuously design, experiment, operate and automate the full lifecycle management of digital infrastructures, data, applications, and services.
Based on the two preceding projects within SLICES-RI, SLICES-DS (Design Study) and SLICES-SC (Starting Community), the SLICES-PP (Preparatory Phase) project will validate the requirements to engage into the implementation phase of the RI lifecycle. It will set the policies and decision processes for the governance of SLICES-RI: i.e., the legal and financial frameworks, the business model, the required human resource capacities and training programme. It will also settle the final technical architecture design for implementation. It will engage member states and stakeholders to secure commitment and funding needed for the platform to operate. It will position SLICES as an impactful instrument to support European advanced research, industrial competitiveness and societal impact in the digital era.
Partner
- Sorbonne University
- University of Thessaly
- National Research Council
- PSNC
- Imdea Networks
- Imec
- EURECOM
- Cosmote
- SZTAKI
- University of Oulu
- Inria
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101079774.
Related publications
| 2024-12-01 | Johannes Späth, Max Helm, Benedikt Jaeger, Georg Carle, “Sim2HW: Modeling Latency Offset Between Network Simulations and Hardware Measurements,” in Proceedings of the 3rd GNNet Workshop: Graph Neural Networking Workshop (GNNet ’24), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Dec. 2024. [Pdf] [Slides] [Homepage] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-10-01 | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “On-the-fly Table Insertions on Programmable Software Data Planes,” in 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. [Preprint] [Slides] [Bib] |
| 2024-10-01 | Alexander Daichendt, Florian Wiedner, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle, “Applicability of Hardware-Supported Containers in Low-Latency Networking,” in 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Bib] |
| 2024-09-01 | Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser, Dominik Scholz, Georg Carle, “Exploring data plane updates on P4 switches with P4Runtime,” Computer Communications, vol. 225, pp. 44–53, Sep. 2024. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-08-01 | Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Honey for the Ice Bear - Dynamic eBPF in P4,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Workshop on EBPF and Kernel Extensions, New York, NY, USA, Aug. 2024, pp. 44–50. [Url] [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [Sourcecode] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-08-01 | Florian Wiedner, Max Helm, Alexander Daichendt, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle, “Performance evaluation of containers for low-latency packet processing in virtualized network environments,” Performance Evaluation, vol. TBA, no. TBA, Aug. 2024. [Url] [Pdf] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-06-01 | Marcel Kempf, Nikolas Gauder, Benedikt Jaeger, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, “A Quantum of QUIC: Dissecting Cryptography with Post-Quantum Insights,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 2024. [Preprint] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-06-01 | Eric Hauser, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “RO-Crate for Testbeds: Automated Packaging of Experimental Results,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference 2024 - SLICES Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 2024. [Preprint] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-05-01 | Markus Sosnowski, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Tim Betzer, Georg Carle, “Propagating Threat Scores With a TLS Ecosystem Graph Model Derived by Active Measurements,” in Proc. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), May 2024. [Pdf] [Slides] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2024-05-01 | Lars Wüstrich, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stephan Günther, Georg Carle, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Shells Bells: Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Data Centers,” in 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024), Seoul, Korea, May 2024. [Pdf] [Bib] |
| 2024-01-01 | Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “The pos Experiment Controller: Reproducible & Portable Network Experiments,” in 2024 19th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), 2024, pp. 1–8. [Pdf] [Preprint] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-12-01 | Max Helm, Georg Carle, “Predicting Latency Quantiles using Network Calculus-assisted GNNs,” in Proceedings of the 2nd on Graph Neural Networking Workshop 2023, Paris, France, Dec. 2023, pp. 13–18. [Pdf] [Slides] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-12-01 | Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Mattijs Jonker, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz, “Packed to the Brim: Investigating the Impact of Highly Responsive Prefixes on Internet-wide Measurement Campaigns,” Proc. ACM Netw., vol. 1, no. CoNEXT3, Dec. 2023. [Url] [Pdf] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-12-01 | Markus Sosnowski, Florian Wiedner, Eric Hauser, Lion Steger, Dimitrios Schoinianakis, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “The Performance of Post-Quantum TLS 1.3,” in Proc. International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Paris, France, Dec. 2023. [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [Homepage] [Recording] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-11-01 | Florian Wiedner, Alexander Daichendt, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle, “Control Groups Added Latency in NFVs: An Update Needed?,” in 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Nov. 2023. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Bib] |
| 2023-10-01 | Max Helm, Georg Carle, “Synthesizing and Scaling WAN Topologies using Permutation-invariant Graph Generative Models,” in 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023), Niagara Falls, Canada, Oct. 2023, p. 6. [Pdf] [Slides] [Rawdata] [Bib] |
| 2023-10-01 | Florian Wiedner, Max Helm, Alexander Daichendt, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle, “Containing Low Tail-Latencies in Packet Processing Using Lightweight Virtualization,” in 2023 35rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-35), Oct. 2023. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Bib] |
| 2023-06-01 | Benedikt Jaeger, Johannes Zirngibl, Marcel Kempf, Kevin Ploch, Georg Carle, “QUIC on the Highway: Evaluating Performance on High-Rate Links,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2023 Conference (IFIP Networking 2023), Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2023. [Preprint] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-06-01 | Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser, Dominik Scholz, Georg Carle, “Keeping Up to Date With P4Runtime: An Analysis of Data Plane Updates on P4 Switches,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2023 Conference (IFIP Networking 2023), Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2023, p. 9. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-06-01 | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Never Miss Twice - Add-On-Miss Table Updates in Software Data Planes,” in KuVS Fachgespräch - Würzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS’23), Würzburg, Germany, Jun. 2023, p. 5. Best Workshop Contribution [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2023-05-01 | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Serge Fdida, Georg Carle, “SLICES-RI Plain Orchestrating System (pos)—Reproducible Experiment Workflows by Design,” in Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure Forum (MERIF), Boston, MA, USA, May 2023. [Poster] [Bib] |
| 2023-01-01 | Yuri Demchenko, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Serge Fdida, Panayiotis Andreou, Cedric Crettaz, Mathias Kirkeng, “Experimental Research Reproducibility and Experiment Workflow Management,” in 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, COMSNETS 2023, Bangalore, India, January 3-8, 2023, Jan. 2023, pp. 835–840. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2022-12-01 | Benedikt Jaeger, Max Helm, Lars Schwegmann, Georg Carle, “Modeling TCP Performance Using Graph Neural Networks,” in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Graph Neural Networking, New York, NY, USA, Dec. 2022, pp. 18–23. [Url] [Pdf] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib] |
| 2022-12-01 | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Florian Wiedner, Johannes Naab, Georg Carle, “How Low Can You Go? A Limbo Dance for Low-Latency Network Functions,” Journal of Network and Systems Management, vol. 31, no. 20, Dec. 2022. [Url] [Pdf] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib] |
Finished student theses
| Author | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
| Kilian Warmuth | Reproducible Experiment Workflows | MA | Eric Hauser, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2024 | |
| Kilian Warmuth | Implementation of a Testing Toolchain for a Scientific Measurement Tool | IDP | Stefan Lachnit, Eric Hauser, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2023 |
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| Ruben Bachmann | Comparison of DPDK-Enabled P4 Software Targets | MA | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stefan Lachnit | 2023 |
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Open and running student theses
| Author | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
| Désirée Rentz | Deployment of a 5G Network on the SLICES-TUM Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Experiments | IDP | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2024 | |
| Christoph Wen | A Live-Monitoring System for Low-Latency Network Traffic | MA | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Eric Hauser, Manuel Simon | 2024 |