# History

* The NFV portal part of OpenSlice was initially developed in H2020 European Research project [5GinFIRE](https://5ginfire.eu) by University of Patras, Greece
* OpenSlice core services, APIs was further developed and maintained in H2020 European project [5G-VINNI](https://5g-vinni.eu/) by University of Patras, Greece
* OpenSlice has been a part of [OSM's OSS/BSS ecosystem](https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/OSS_BSS)
* OpenSlice has been a part of [ETZI ZSM PoC #2](https://zsmwiki.etsi.org/index.php?title=PoC_2_Automated_Network_Slice_Scaling_in_Multi-Site_Environments)
* OpenSlice is the first ETSI Software Development Group (SDG) since October 2023


## Citation

Please cite our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03290) if you use OpenSlice in your research

```
@misc{tranoris2021openslice,
      title={Openslice: An opensource OSS for Delivering Network Slice as a Service}, 
      author={Christos Tranoris},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2102.03290},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.NI}
}
```