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.

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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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News

Dr. Zhiming Zhao to discuss blockchain and sustainability challenges in KeNoMo workshop

Dr. Zhiming Zhao was invited to a panel discussion on blockchain and sustainability challenges in the context of KeNoMo workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Detailed report can be found on The Times website.

March 2023

UvA-led European project aims to lay foundations for 6G network architecture

UvA is leading a new three-year European project on the system architecture for future 6G mobile networks. Such a 6G network will support new applications with extreme performance requirements. The Informatics Institute of UvA is leading the DESIRE6G project and assistant professor Chrysa Papagianni of the Multiscale Networked Systems-group is the project coordinator.

March 2023

LTER-LIFE consortium receives 20 million euro grant

The Dutch research consortium LTER-LIFE, in which UvA-IvI researcher Zhiming Zhao and UvA-IBED researcher W. Daniel Kissling are involved, receives a 20 million euro grant from the National Roadmap funding for large-scale research infrastructure of NWO and the Ministry of Education.

February 2023

The Horizon Europe project Blue-Cloud2026 Kick-Off Meeting

The Horizon Europe project Blue-Cloud2026 had its Kick-Off Meeting from 13 to 15 February 2023 in Pisa, Italy. The project aims to develop a Federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR & Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, and coastal & inland waters.

February 2023

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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.