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SLICES Research Infrastructure

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, 5G/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 infrastructure design paradigms. Experimentally driven research is more and more required worldwide to address these challenges, 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 has been 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 5G/6G networks. It will provide the necessary resources to continuously design, experiment, operate and automate the full lifecycle management of digital infrastructures, data, applications, and services. During this talk, you will discover SLICES-RI, the services it proposes and how you can use or contribute to it.

Bio

Nathalie Mitton received the MSc and PhD. degrees in Computer Science from INSA Lyon in 2003 and 2006 respectively. She received her Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in 2011 from Université Lille 1. She is currently an Inria full researcher since 2006 and from 2012, she is the scientific head of the Inria FUN team. Since 2024 she is head of science at Inria center of University of Lille. Her research interests focus on self-organization and communication in wireless constrained and dynamic networks. She has been nominated as one of the 10 women stars in computer Science in 2020 by the IEEE Communication Society. She has published her research in more than 45 international revues and more than 130 international conferences. With C. Perez, she co-coordinates the implementation of SLICES-RI and of its French node SLICES-FR. She coordinates the Horizon Europe SLICES-PP project, participates in different Horizon Europe projects (NEPHELE, etc) and in several program and organization committees such as Infocom (since 2019), PerCom (since 2018), DCOSS (since 2018), ICC (since 2015), Globecom (since 2017), etc.