Summary of the Dissertation

As part of his doctoral dissertation, Jalal Mostafa proposed Data Acquisition Function Virtualization (DAFV), a new paradigm for data acquisition in scientific infrastructures and experiments.

DFV utilizes high-performance data transmission technologies and computer virtualization to eliminate the need for a dedicated computer cluster to run software-based data acquisition functions at a scientific infrastructure site.

The new paradigm was evaluated at the KATRIN scientific infrastructure and its new TRISTAN detector upgrade at the KIT Campus North, where it reduced the computational resources required to process a 200 Gbit/s stream by a factor of 2.67.