At the SLICES UC3M Conference, which will take place at the University's Leganés Campus, several UC3M researchers working in areas and platforms related to the Spanish SLICES node at different levels will present its main characteristics and the scope of several of the services provided by this infrastructure. The Spanish SLICES node (SLICES-ES) also includes the participation of IMDEA Networks and the University of the Basque Country, in addition to UC3M.
These sessions will showcase two advanced experimental services from the SLICES-Madrid node (slices-madrid.eu), hosted at UC3M. SLICES-Madrid will enable, among other services, large-scale experiments using a powerful satellite Internet of Things (IoT) service with coverage across Europe. Carmen Guerrero, from the Department of Telematics Engineering at UC3M, one of the researchers who spearheaded this project, emphasizes the usefulness of this infrastructure as a tool for the scientific community in the area of future networks. “They will have access to cutting-edge deployments to conduct experiments that are not currently readily available to scientists in general, or that don't even exist at present. In fact, there is currently a lack of access to experimental facilities, and SLICES will provide these services to the research community at a European level.”
“This is a very important milestone because it demonstrates that Europe is aware of the need for strategic autonomy in information technologies. We must join forces to improve our R&D capabilities in this area,” emphasizes Arturo Azcorra, director of IMDEA Networks and professor at UC3M. He adds: “This is therefore great news for the academic and business worlds, and for society as a whole. It's a milestone we can consider of global significance in the field of open satellite experimentation.”
We are currently experiencing a major technological revolution in the ICT sector. The scientific community is constantly researching new solutions to support this transformation and, in doing so, contribute to improving our lives. As a result, several scientific infrastructures have emerged, offering experimental services with cutting-edge resources that are otherwise only available in industrial R&D laboratories with limited functionality. It is precisely to address these challenges that the ESFRI SLICES research infrastructure has been launched, providing high-quality experimental services with emerging technologies in fields such as 5G/6G, the Internet of Things (IoT), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Cloud Computing, among others.
