EU-US Cooperation on Advanced Research Platforms: Driving Innovation Across the Full Research Lifecycle
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 14:00 – 17:30, room 1.1
Organisers:
- Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Univ., FR)
- Abhimanyu Gosain (Northeastern Univ., US)
- Luís Pessoa (INESC TEC, PT)
- Dan Kilper (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
- Odysseas Pyrovolakisv (SNS-JU, BE)
Motivation and Background
As the development of advanced communication networks progresses, collaborative research infrastructures play a pivotal role in driving innovation, enabling large-scale experimentation, and fostering global knowledge exchange. Both the EU and US have invested significantly in platforms such as EU SLICES-RI and SNS experimental infrastructures, and US NSF PAWR, Colosseum, Fabric and Chameleon, providing cutting-edge tools to tackle critical challenges in wireless systems, edge computing, 6G technologies, and more.
However, as these platforms mature, there is an urgent need to address:
- The full research lifecycle, ensuring a seamless flow from hypothesis to experimentation, data collection, and analysis.
- Open research data practices, enabling global access to high-quality datasets for enhanced transparency, collaboration, and innovation.
- The reproducibility crisis, which affects credibility and limits the impact of research in both regions.
This workshop aims to foster collaboration between European and US research initiatives, to accelerate innovation in advanced research platforms for future communication networks. It will explore synergies in the full research lifecycle—encompassing experiment design, execution, data management, and dissemination results—while highlighting best practices for open research data, reproducibility, and scalability. It will also work as a platform to present the current results of ongoing EU-US collaboration activities. By bringing together key stakeholders from academia, industry, and research infrastructure, the workshop will identify opportunities to harmonize frameworks, align methodologies, and address shared challenges in advancing next-generation networks.
Structure
14:00- 14:05: Opening
Welcome and agenda overview by Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University).
14:05- 14:45: Session 1: Presentations of EU and US Programmes
- Presentation of US NSF programs by Deep Mehdi, NSF
- Presentation of the SNS JU on EU Platforms by Odysseas Pyrovolakis, SNS-JU
14:05- 14:45: Session 2: Presentation of the EU and US platforms (1)
- Presentation from SLICES-RI, by Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University
- Presentation from SNS Test, Measurement, and KPIs Validation (TMV) Working Group by Michael Dieudonne, Keysight
- Presentation from CONVERGE by Luis Pessoa, INESC TEC
Coffee break
16:00- 16:45: Session 3: Presentation of the EU and US platforms (2)
- Presentation from NSF Fabric (remote), by Paul Ruth, FABRIC
- Presentation of Colosseum – The Open RAN Digital Twin – by Manu Gosain, Northeastern University
- Presentation from 6G-XCEL by Dan Kilper, Trinity College Dublin
16:45- 17:30: Round Table
Round table of representatives of EC and US Platforms. Active discussion on the future of the Platforms, their expected technology evolution and global collaboration.
Moderator: Odysseas Pyrovolakis, SNS-JU
