D1.2: Requirements and needs of scientific communities from ICT-based Research Infrastructures

Digital Infrastructures and the Internet technologies lie at the heart of the digital transformation of our society. SLICES aspires to design, deploy and operate a heterogeneous fully programmable and virtualized, remotely accessible, European-wide research infrastructure, providing advanced computing, storage and network components, interconnected by dedicated high-speed links. It will be a flexible platform designed to support large-scale, experimental research focused on networking protocols, radio technologies, and services as well as data collection, distributed control and various edge-based computing architectures. As the research in the sector covers simultaneously different fields, the principles need to be identified and prioritized, based on the requirements that have been identified by the respective community. In this document we detail our analysis and requirements for the current need for experimentation from the ICT research community. Different tools have been employed for collecting the technical and operational requirements from the scientific community, gathering inputs from participants with diverse backgrounds but working on research in the ICT sector. The results denote that the need for the deployment of the RI is evident, with the involvement of the industry of paramount importance for the definition of target use cases that will be executed on top