SLICE-RI for Digital Infrastructure Technologies Experimentation:
Building Infrastructure and Starting Communities
Yuri Demchenko, Paola Grosso, Cees de Laat, Wouter Los (University of Amsterdam)

SLICES-RI is an ESFRI Roadmap 2021 Project and Initiative

SLICES-NL Research Topics• SLICES is a flexible platform designed to support large-scale, experimental research
focused on networking protocols, radio technologies, services, data collection,parallel and distributed computing and in particular cloud and edge-based computing
architectures and services.
• SLICES consortium gathers partners from 15 European countries• SLICES will provide advanced services via RI centres and nodes to enable experiments
on novel Digital Infrastructure (DI) solutions and applications• SLICES covers all ESFRI Digital Infrastructures domains: Computing, Digital, Data,Network• Cloud, IoT and Network Infrastructure research• Architecture and design patterns of the future RI Platform asa Service (PRIaaS) for Experimental Research Automation• Large scale experimentation on distributed hybrid cloudinfrastructure involving public cloud providers• Decentralised network/compute optimisation in multicloud/edge/fog environments• High performance and optical networking• 5G+ Radio Access and Mobile Networks• Long Term Research Infrastructure sustainability and energy
consumption monitoring and optimization• Data Infrastructure• Trusted data exchange with policy/rules enforcement,
preserving data sovereignty and protecting data privacy• Data management and quality assurance aspects in Industry
4.0 and Digital Twins applications• New security and compliance models for Complex CyberInfrastructures• Trustable and explainable Internet based on open networking
technologies• AI technologies exploitation, ethical awareness & use for good• Quantum networks and Quantum Computing• Support of education on key technologies of the future data
centric and cloud enabled infrastructures

Prioritisation of the SLICES Research Areas

SLICES-RI Development Timeline

SLICES Interoperability Framework

SLICES-NL Timeline
May 2023 (Date tbd): Technical SLICES-NL Workshop
Goal: Inventory NL experimental facilities, identification needs forcommon infrastructure for experimental research sharing, reproducibilityand FAIR compliance.
June-July 2023 - SLICES-RI Roadshow in Netherlands
Goal: Meeting SLICES-RI and SLICES-NL communities
August 2023 (preliminary) – NWO Large Infrastructure Call published
September 2023 – Launch event for SLICES-NL community initiative
Sept 2023 – Feb 2024 – SLICES-NL proposal preparation and consortium
building

Focus on Interoperability and Integration with EOSC
• Minimum viable infrastructure/service model for SLICES regional nodesand centers• Integration with the EOSC, external and domain specific RIs, and publicclouds• API design approach to effectively manage and publish SLICES-RI
resources and services• Data Management & Governance: Adoption and compliance with FAIR
data principle••••

Metadata for the resource and experimental facilities description
Metadata for sharing and publication of data produced by SLICESFAIR Digital Object and PID infrastructure
Semantic Research Object (RO)• Interoperability• Technical * Semantic (metadata) * Organisational * Legal

References
SLICES-RI, SLICES-PP - https://slices-ri.eu/
ESFRI Roadmap 2021 - https://www.esfri.eu/esfri-roadmap-2021
Serge Fdida, et al, SLICES, a scientific instrument for the networking community, Computer
Communications, 2022, ISSN 0140-3664, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.07.019
Yuri Demchenko, Sebastian Gallenmüller; Serge Fdida; et al. Experimental Research Reproducibility andExperiment Workflow Management, proc. 2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication
Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) [online] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10041378

Contact: Yuri Demchenko y.demchenko@uva.nl, Paola Grosso P.Grosso@uva.nl