history.md

# 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
* OpenSlice is now an ETSI SDG Group since 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}
}
```