Internet Network Technologies Lab (Inetlab)

Exploring the frontiers of the Internet of Things and innovation

Inetlab offers a range of services and equipment designed to support experiments with emerging Internet technologies.

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The platform

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Inetlab operates the local equipment of the national research infrastructure SLICES-FR, which in Strasbourg currently includes the IoT-LAB and Grid'5000 services:

FIT IoT-LAB is a testbed of 1,500 connected objects distributed across six sites in France, including the ICube laboratory in Strasbourg, which hosts 280 connected devices.
Grid’5000 is a grid of 27 clusters totaling 503 CPU/GPU servers across ten sites, including the ICube laboratory in Strasbourg, which operates three clusters (10 servers and 9 programmable routers).

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Expertise and resources

Scientific expertise

Internet of Things (IoT)
Routing protocols
MAC layer
Wireless networks
Mobility
Security
Large-scale reproducible experimentation
Programmable networks
SDN (Software-Defined Networking)

Technical expertise

Embedded systems programming and network protocol development
Data processing and visualization
Design of connected objects / IoT device design
Mobile robotics
Long-range wireless networks
High-availability systems and networks

Core equipment

A reservable grid of connected objects (IoT devices)
Compute and storage servers
Programmable network equipment
Programmable mobile robots
LoRaWAN infrastructure
A reservable server grid
Automated experimentation infrastructure

Software and database resources

FIT IoT-LAB and Grid’5000 software suites
iBat database (building thermal performance)
LoRaWAN database (network traces)

Services

Support for the development of specific applications, protocols, or electronic hardware
Exclusive access to platform resources
Integration of new equipment into the platform
Design and execution of experiments on the platform
Technical guidance and assistance
Training on platform usage

Keywords: network protocols, Internet of Things, wireless networks, wore networks, digital twin, AI, reproducible experiments, large-scale experimentation

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