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This paper describes an operational geographically distributed and heterogeneous cloud infrastructure with services and applications deployed in the Guifi community network. The presented cloud is a particular case of a community cloud, developed according to the specific needs and conditions of community networks. We describe the concept of this community cloud, explain our technical choices for...
This demo paper presents Cloudy, a Debian-based distribution to build and deploy clouds in community networks. The demonstration covers the following aspects: Installation of Cloudy, the Cloudy GUI for usage and administration by end users, demonstration of Cloudy nodes and services deployed in the Guifi community network.
Testbeds are a stage between the simulation and the production stages. To this end they must be as close as possible to production environments (i.e. real hardware, on the field deployments) while also keeping the traits of experimentation facilities (i.e. fault tolerance, ease of deployment, testing and data collection). This paper presents WiBed, a FOSS platform for WiFi testbeds based on OpenWRT...
Community-Lab is an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to carry out experiments within wireless community networks. Community networks are an emergent model of infrastructures built with off-the-shelf communication equipment that aims to satisfy a community's demand for Internet access and ICT services. Community-Lab consists of more than 100 nodes that are integrated in existing community...
Community networks is an emerging model in which communities of citizens build and own open shared networks. But currently, cloud computing infrastructures, common in today's Internet, hardy exist in community networks. We present in this paper our approach for bringing clouds into community networks. The main element of our strategy for achieving cloud uptake is the deployment of the Guifi-Community-Distribution...
Testbeds are a stage between the simulation and the production stages. To this end they must be as close as possible to production environments (i.e. real hardware, on the field deployments) while also keeping the traits of experimentation facilities (i.e. fault tolerance, ease of deployment, testing and data collection). This paper presents Wibed, a platform for facilitating the deployment and management...
Community networking is an emerging model of a shared communication infrastructure in which communities of citizens build and own open networks. Community networks offer successfully IP-based networking to the user. Cloud computing infrastructures however, while common in today's Internet, hardy exist in community networks. We explain our approach to bring clouds into the Guifi.net community network...
We present the community home gateway, a computer system attached to a wireless community network router, able to host platform and application services. Different to current home gateways and other low-end systems, the community home gateway offers resource virtualization, and can thus be used as a cloud resource. Furthermore, it removes the lack of a home gateway system that is open for service...
Community-Lab is a testbed for researchers to carry out experiments within wireless community networks. Community networks are an emergent model of infrastructures built with off-the-shelf communication equipment that aims to satisfy a community's demand for Internet access and ICT services.
Community wireless mesh networks are decentralized and cooperative structures with participation rules that define their freedom, openness and neutrality. The operation of these networks require routing algorithms that may impose additional unnecessary technical restrictions in the determination of routes that can restrict the freedom of community users. We propose a receiver-driven discretionary...
Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) infrastructures by establishing Community-Lab, a new facility for experimentally-driven research built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and...
Community-Lab is an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to experiment with Community Networks, that are large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks and services built and operated by citizens for citizens. The goal of Community-Lab is to advance research and empower society by understanding and removing obstacles for these networks and services. This article outlines Community-Lab's...
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