Multiscale Networked Systems

The Multiscale Networked System (MNS) group researches the emerging architectures that can support the operations of multiscale systems across the Future Internet.

Programmable networks

We focus on the delivery of secure and sustainable ICT services across multiple domains. Device programmability and virtualization will play in this field an ever-increasing role in designing networks and ICT infrastructures. Our research tackles the new questions that emerge from studying the interplay of these novel capabilities.

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Data centric processing

Our research investigates an alternative to the current approach to model complex scientific experiments as workflow of dependent tasks, in this approach scientific data is interlinked though data processing transformations which can be discovered and used to create the data processing workflow and not the way around.

Quality critical distributed computing

We research the performance and service quality required by applications that have very high business value or social impact on advanced IT infrastructures. We focus on novel programming and control models for quality critical systems on programmable infrastructures such as Clouds, Edges, and SDNs using blockchain and AI.

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Quantum networks and quantum computing

Secure multiparty quantum computation, quantum position verification, and near-term applications of quantum algorithms.

News

Senior Teaching Qualification certificates awarded

On Thursday 14 March, the Senior Teaching Qualification certificates were awarded during a festive ceremony. Dr. Zhiming Zhao from MNS together with the other fifteen UvA lecturers received the certificate.

May 2024

UvA receives grant for OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society)

The EU Horizon Europe project OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society) has been successfully kicked off 13/March 2024 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Coordinated by CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), the project aims to bring together European Research Infrastructures (RIs) organized into five “Science Clusters” along the ESFRI thematic research domains1.

April 2024

UvA receives grant for EVERSE (European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence)

The project has 18 partners from 8 countries and will last three years; the consortium includes five clusters of European research infrastructures, including environmental earth science, life science, particle physics, Photon and neutron, and social science.

April 2024

Prof. Paola Grosso is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

From March 01st prof. Grosso (Paola) is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

March 2024

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Publications

Software

Software tools, infrastructures, and demonstrations are, just as scientific publications, considered to be important research output of the MNS group. Over the years, the researchers and PhD-students of the MNS group developed several research tools and infrastructures.

DRIP

The Dynamic Real-time Infrastructure Planner (DRIP) is a microservice suite for planning and provisioning networked virtual machines, for deploying application components and for managing runtime infrastructures based on time-critical constraints.

INDL-NML

The intuition our group had years ago was that we could leverage Semantic Web technologies to identify the exchangeable knowledge required to federate networks. We proved that we can manage the complexity and heterogeneity of the Internet with semantically rich models.

LOBCDER

Large OBject Cloud Data storagE fedeRation (LOBCDER) is a data management system that federates storage resources. It is a part of the Data and Compute Cloud Platform4 of the VPH-Share project.

Pumpkin

Pumpkin is a framework for distributed Data Transformation Network developed in the COMMIT Project. It implements a protocol for distributed data processing. A data packet is a self-contained processing unit, which incorporates data, state, code and routing information.

SARNET Demo SC16

This video shows a screencapture of the SARNET demonstration at SC16. The demo shows a virtual network that leverages Software Defined Networks and Network

WeevilScout

WeevilScout. Given the ubiquity of Web browsers and the performance gains being achieved by JavaScript virtual machines, a question arises: Could Internet browsers become yet another middleware for distributed computing?

OpenLab

Introduction

The OpenLab facility is managed by the MNS group and available to all researchers within the SNE cluster and the associated educational programs, e.g. Software Engineering (SE) and Security and Network Engineering (SNE) masters.

It is designed to support research and experimentation in software defined networking, embedded systems, distributed systems, Future Internet architectures and protocols, and secure data sharing platforms, and evaluate the applicability of Machine Learning in those research domains.

Learn more about the OpenLab here.