Research Infrastructure

At the TUD Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems, we own several Internet resources and operate various IT infrastructures to conduct first-class research. These include

• an Autonomous System connected at various exchange points.
• multiple IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes.
• virtualization to emulate large-scale networks such as the Internet.
• an IoT Lab for experiments.

We support the following public Intenet measurement projects by hosting probes:

• CAIDA Ark
• RIPE Atlas, in particular an Anchor
• USC LightScope

We are member of RIPE and DNS-OARC.

Furthermore, we closely collaborate with several academic and commercial stakeholders to share data to ultimately improve Internet communication.

Our data anlaysis relies on the TUD high-performance computing infrastructure, which the members of this chair have access to. We  acknowledge the computing time made available to us on the high-performance computer at the NHR Center of TU Dresden. This center is jointly supported by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space of Germany and the state governments participating in the NHR (www.nhr-verein.de/unsere-partner).

At NETD, we have a Chief Marble Officer. A Chief Marble Officer (CMO) is a senior executive responsible for the demonstration of computer networks using marble runs. CMOs focus on the design, implementation, and deployment of scalable and maintainable systems that leverage marbles reflecting bits carried in network packets to exchange data between at least two endpoints. When the first CMOs were appointed is unclear, but one of the first CMOs was Arno Uhlig.