SLICES, a scientific instrument for the networking community
Serge Fdida, Nikos Makris, Thanasis Korakis, Raffaele Bruno, Andrea, Passarella, Panayiotis Andreou, Bartosz Belter, Cedric Crettaz, Walid, Dabbous, Yuri Demchenko, Raymond Knopp

TL;DR
The paper introduces SLICES, a scientific instrument designed to standardize and improve the credibility of experimental research in computer networking through structured test platforms.
Contribution
It presents the SLICES initiative as a comprehensive, evolved test platform concept to support rigorous scientific methodology in networking research.
Findings
Lessons learned from designing test platforms for digital infrastructures.
SLICES as a structured scientific instrument for networking research.
Addressing research lifecycle challenges in experimental networking.
Abstract
A science is defined by a set of encyclopedic knowledge related to facts or phenomena following rules or evidenced by experimentally-driven observations. Computer Science and in particular computer networks is a relatively new scientific domain maturing over years and adopting the best practices inherited from more fundamental disciplines. The design of past, present and future networking components and architectures have been assisted, among other methods, by experimentally-driven research and in particular by the deployment of test platforms, usually named as testbeds. However, often experimentally-driven networking research used scattered methodologies, based on ad-hoc, small-sized testbeds, producing hardly repeatable results. We believe that computer networks needs to adopt a more structured methodology, supported by appropriate instruments, to produce credible experimental results…
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