A Glimpse of Emerging Networking and Distributed Computing Research via Experiments on the Fabric Testbed

Kuang Ching Wang; Paul Ruth; James Griffioen; Anita Nikolich; Inder Monga; Zongming Fei; Yongwook Song; Mami Hayashida; Pinyi Shi; Komal Thareja; Tom Lehman; Ezra Kissel; Yatish Kumar; Xi Yang; Ilya Baldin; Benjamin Formby; Acheme Acheme

doi:10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11133944

A Glimpse of Emerging Networking and Distributed Computing Research via Experiments on the Fabric Testbed

Kuang Ching Wang
, Paul Ruth
, James Griffioen
, Anita Nikolich
, Inder Monga
, Zongming Fei
, Yongwook Song
, Mami Hayashida
, Pinyi Shi
, Komal Thareja
, Tom Lehman
, Ezra Kissel
, Yatish Kumar
, Xi Yang
, Ilya Baldin
, Benjamin Formby
, Acheme Acheme

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1 Scopus citations

Abstract

FABRIC is a national and international scale research infrastructure built to enable cutting-edge research in a wide range of networking and computing areas and domain sciences that depend on advanced networking and computing capabilities. Since its full operation in October 2023, FABRIC has seen rapidly emerging experiments in different research topics. This paper provides a description of FABRIC's hardware resources, software services, and an analysis of the characteristics of the emerging experiments that are leveraging FABRIC's unique capabilities. The analysis showed a wide spectrum of topic areas, frequent emphasis on at-scale and high performance experiments that interact with real facilities and real people, and growing complexity and rigor in tools, data and measurement. Researchers are seen sharing well-developed artifacts with others to enable larger experiments and reproducible research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICCCN 2025 - 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
ISBN (Electronic)	9798331508982
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11133944
State	Published - 2025
Event	34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2025 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: Aug 4 2025 → Aug 7 2025

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
ISSN (Print)	1095-2055

Conference

Conference	34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2025
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	8/4/25 → 8/7/25

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.

Funding

FABRIC is supported by NSF grants #2330891, #1935966, #2029260, #2029200, #2122110, #2029261, #2029235, and #2029176.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	2029176, 1935966, 2029261, 2029235, 2330891, 2029200, 2029260, 2122110

Keywords

At-Scale Experiment
Data-Intensive
Distributed Computing
Future Networking
Internet
Testbed

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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Wang, K. C., Ruth, P., Griffioen, J., Nikolich, A., Monga, I., Fei, Z., Song, Y., Hayashida, M., Shi, P., Thareja, K., Lehman, T., Kissel, E., Kumar, Y., Yang, X., Baldin, I., Formby, B., & Acheme, A. (2025). A Glimpse of Emerging Networking and Distributed Computing Research via Experiments on the Fabric Testbed. In ICCCN 2025 - 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11133944

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A Glimpse of Emerging Networking and Distributed Computing Research via Experiments on the Fabric Testbed

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